【期末考点突破】专题09 首字母填空20篇-人教版 2024-2025学年八年级英语下学期专项训练（含答案解析）

【期末考点突破】专题09 首字母填空20篇-人教版 2024-2025学年八年级英语下学期专项训练（含答案解析） When Emily Cummins was four years old, her grandfather gave her a hammer. She loved using it, and started to learn how to make toys from old things that nobody used any more. When she was a teenager, she was very c 1 and always thought a lot about making inventions to help other people. Emily’s grandfather had an illness. He had a lot of pain in his hands and fingers. One day, Emily saw that he had t 2 getting toothpaste (牙膏) out of the tube. She made an invention that helped him with this, and won the Young Engineer for Britain Award for her toothpaste dispenser. A few years later, Emily learnt about the serious water shortage in some African countries. The women and children there often walk many kilometres a day to get water for their villages. They usually put the buckets on their heads. Therefore, they have to walk c 3 so as not to spill (溅出) the water. Emily’s invention is a simple water carrier. It makes it possible for the women to transport up to five buckets each time.B 4 , it is easy for them to repair the water carrier when it is broken as it is made of wood. Her latest project is a simple fridge that runs without electricity, but only needs the e 5 that comes from the sun. There are now thousands of families in villages in Zambia, Namibia and South Africa who use it to keep milk, food and medicines cool. Emily is now a young woman. She is the winner of several p 6 for her inventions. She was named one of the world’s top ten young people. Emily frequently visits schools and talks to teenagers. She wants to e 7 them to come up with new ideas that make the world a better place. She wants to use her skills to make a difference. 阅读短文，根据首字母填空，使短文完整、正确。 Making friends is a skill. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be w 8 to do something. You must first go where there are people. You won’t make friends by staying home a 9 . Joining a club or a group and talking to those who like the same things as you is a much e 10 way. Many people are s 11 when talking to strangers. After all, meeting strangers means facing the unknown. And it’s human nature to feel uncomfortable about the unknown. We think other people are judging us—finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don’t forget that they must be feeling the s 12 way. Try to be brave when you e 13 a room full of strangers. Walk straight, look directly (直接地) at other people with a s 14 on your face. Your smiling face means friendship. If you see someone you’d like to speak to, say something. Don’t w 15 for the other person to start a conversation. Just meeting someone new does not mean that you’ll make f 16 with that person. Making friends is not so easy. It t 17 time to develop friendship. And there are things that stop a new friendship from growing. 阅读短文，根据首字母填空，使短文完整、正确。 It has been three years since I ... ...