《2025年通城学典课时作业本八年级英语上册译林版宿迁专版》

三、阅读下面短文,在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
People are so busy these days 1. ______that many people have no time to cook. This becomes a problem because most 2. ______families (family) love home cooking! The food 3. ______tastes (taste) good and warm, and a family meal brings everyone together. In some families, meals are often 4. ______the only time when everyone sees one another at the same time.
Another reason why people enjoy home cooking is that it is often a way 5. ______of showing love. A parent who makes some cookies is not just satisfying a 6. ______child's (child) sweet tooth. He or she is sending a message. The message 7. ______says (say), “I care about you enough to spend an hour making the food that you will eat up in 15 minutes.”
There is also something about the smell of home cooking. The smell of home cooking pleases people of all ages. It makes most of us feel 8. ______good (good) and loved—even if we are the 9. ______ones (one) doing the cooking. Next time you smell a cake being made, stop for a moment and pay attention to 10. ______your (you) mood.

答案： 1. that 2. families 3. tastes 4. the 5. of 6. child's 7. says 8. good 9. ones 10. your

四、完形填空。〔人与自我——动手能力〕
My cousin Andrew is crazy D DIY. He loves to repair things and decorate his house. But when he finishes, the house always looks D!
He once C to put in a brighter light in his bedroom, but he made a mistake. Then his whole house had a power cut. B time, he wanted to A a picture on his bedroom wall, but he hit a pipe and filled the room B water.
Last month, he thought the living room in his house was C, so he painted it blue. His mum said, “A it.” But he kept on painting. Now the living room has not only blue walls but also a blue ceiling and floor. C his cat is blue now!
When I wanted a shelf D my bed, he said, “No problem!” He then spent five hours C up the shelf on the wall. Then I put my books on the shelf. Whoops! They couldn't stay there because one end of the shelf was much B than the other!
I bought some books about DIY for him and I also advised him A a course in DIY. But this just made him D—he says he already knows everything about it. So instead, I am reading all the books myself and D lessons every Saturday. Now I know much more about DIY than my cousin!
( ) 1. A. in
B. on
C. at
D. about
( ) 2. A. clean
B. organized
C. tidy
D. terrible
( ) 3. A. try
B. tries
C. tried
D. trying
( ) 4. A. Other
B. Another
C. The other
D. Others
( ) 5. A. put up
B. put off
C. put on
D. put down
( ) 6. A. of
B. with
C. about
D. from
( ) 7. A. bored
B. interesting
C. boring
D. interested
( ) 8. A. Stop
B. To stop
C. Stopping
D. Stopped
( ) 9. A. Or
B. But
C. Even
D. So
( ) 10. A. through
B. below
C. on
D. above
( ) 11. A. put
B. to put
C. putting
D. puts
( ) 12. A. high
B. higher
C. highly
D. more highly
( ) 13. A. to take
B. taking
C. take
D. takes
( ) 14. A. happily
B. angrily
C. happy
D. angry
( ) 15. A. attends
B. to attend
C. attended
D. attending

答案： 1. D 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. A 6. B 7. C 8. A 9. C 10. D 11. C 12. B 13. A 14. D 15. D