牛津英语8B期末检测试卷培优题 .pdfVIP

八年级英语培优试卷 班级______________ 姓名______________ 学号_____________ 一、短文首字母填空。 Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood and quite a few houses were w_____ away, but Elizabeth’s house was high enough to escape it . Elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost everything . She s______ her home until the family could build another house . Elizabeth ’s friends could not understand why she wanted to give so much when she already had so many children to s________ . “Well ,”Elizabeth explained(解释) to her friends, “at the e_______ of the World War I, there was a poor woman in a town in Germany (德国). Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just l_______ me now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, “We won ’t be a_______ to have much for Christmas. I ’m going to get just one p________ for us all. Now I ’ll go and get it. She came back with a little girl who had no parents. “Here’s our present ,”she said to her o_______ children . The children were more than excited to get s________ a present . They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she g________ up as their sister. I was that Christmas present .” 二、完型填空。 Superstitions (迷信) in the west Superstition is not the word only for some people in old China. In the west, it is still very popular today. It is _______as habit ( 习惯) in daily life. Many of us know that the number 13 is _______. But lighting cigarettes for three persons ______one match will also bring bad lunch. You must be joking ! Perhaps you will say this when you hear the words .________many people believe that. This superstition comes from World War I. It _______very popular among soldiers during that time . The reason is that if a match stayed lit long enough to light three cigarettes, it provided a targ