八年级上册专题11上英语期末复习5412上海个专题短文选词填空

专题11 短文选词填空15篇

Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once. (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次) 

A．looked like    B．Science    C．Found     D．received

E. Information     F. slowly      G. special

About five years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (大都会艺术博物馆) in the US changed the way we experience with exhibits forever: it stopped asking visitors not to use their cell-phones. The museum made the decision because it ____1____ that banning (禁止) cell-phones was useless because they were everywhere these days. 

    As museums ____2____ accept the presence (存在) of cell-phones, they also start to think about ways that they can work with ____3____ and technology. One way is to design apps that can provide visitors with more ____4____. The Brooklyn Museum, for example, has an app through which visitors can ask the staff questions about artworks in real time. 

    Virtual reality (虚拟现实), too, is becoming part of the experience of going to museums. The British Museum has experimented with virtual-reality headphones. These ____5____ headphones make it possible for visitors to explore a Bronze Age (铜器时代) at home, or see what the Parthenon Temple (帕特农神庙) ____6____ thousands of years ago. People all feel like they are just there.

compete       reduce     protect    various    science

recommend    annually    whale      value    creation

The definition of ___7___ in the dictionary is “the practice or industry of hunting and killing whales for their oil, meat, or whalebone.” This industry has greatly increased in the past century, making it a highly ___8___ business and slowly making the whales a dying species.People hunt whales because every part of the whale is useful. Meat, skin, blubber, and organs contain a ___9___ of nutrients, such as protein, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Whale oil and baleen (sometimes called whalebone, although it’s not bone at all) are also ___10___. Technological developments since the mid-nineteenth century have increased their kill. For example, the steamboat and floating factory ships are responsible for bringing about a dramatic ___11___ in whale population.

Countries all over the world have been paying more and more attention to the ___12___ of whale populations. Lots of efforts have been made to protect whales.The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was ___13___ in 1946 to protect these creatures. The IWC encourages, funds whale research and publishes the results of these and other ___14___ research. The IWC has three committees (委员会) to assist it in performing these functions. The Scientific Committee analyzes data on whales and makes its ___15___ to the Technical Committee. The Technical Committee drafts rules for consideration by the IWC at its ____16____ meetings. The Finance and Administration Committee oversees the entire IWC．

Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each can only be used once.(将下列单词填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次)

A．when    B．with    C．strong    D．stay    E. babies

People like travelling to Australia. There are many kangaroos in Australia. You can see them everywhere outside the cities and towns (镇). Kangaroos have very ____17____ legs, so they are very good at jumping. Their tails are very strong, too. So ____18____ they want to have a rest (休息), they rest on their tails. Kangaroos are very good at looking after their ____19____. Mother kangaroos make their babies ____20____ in their pockets because it is safe and warm.

A．well    B．why     C．what    D．countries   E. useful

English is spoken as a first language（语言）by most people in the USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. But it is also used in many other ____21____. If you go to France（法国）or India, you will use English. It is used by travelers and business（生意）people all over the world（世界）. That’s ____22____ we are learning English in China. It is one of the most ____23____ languages because it is used everywhere. If we learn English ____24____, we will find that it is both useful and interesting.

选择最恰当的选项填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次：

A．special

B．difficult

C．also

D．still

E. country

F. decided to

G. clearer

H. called

Walt Whitman is one of the world’s most famous poets. What is ____25____ about his writing is that he usually doesn’t rhyme, yet he can ____26____ make a poem just as well.

Walt Whitman once wrote a poem so strange that no publisher (出版商) would publish it, but that didn’t stop Walt. He ____27____ publish that poem and others himself. In 1885, he published his own volume of 12 poems. He ____28____ the book Leaves of Grass. As he revised (修订) and enlarged the book, Whitman’s goal as the nation’s poet became ____29____. Leaves of Grass is actually a poem in progress, with each representing (表现) an usual period in the poet’s life and his ____30____ as well.

As a poet who passionately sang of life and himself, Whitman is today called one of the few truly great American men of letters.

DO YOU KNOW anything about World Food Day? Every year on October 16, governments around the world hold events that focus on agriculture and the development of food production.  Many people are unaware of how precious food is and how ____31____ farmers have to work to make it. Food is ____32____ every day. World Food Day was set up to call on people all over the world to save food.I believe everyone has, at one time or another, actually been told to save food. But in recent decades, people’s living standards have improved greatly. Most of us in big cities have been living a wealthier and ____33____ life. Some people now pay less attention to saving food. The wasting of food can also be spotted here in my school. Most of my schoolmates care about food, but there are also some who rarely think ____34____ before throwing their food into the trash can.They never think of the people in many other parts of the world who are weak with hunger.

In my opinion, saving food is not a hard thing to do at all. In the school cafeteria, we should 

never order more food than we need. When we eat out in restaurants, we should take away the food that we would ____35____. There might not be a lot of food, but it may be enough to feed a child living in a poor area for a day.

I think we should treat every single day as World Food Day. Form a good habit of  ____36____ food, and we will all have a better world.

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