八年级居家自测<一>
姓名: 班级: 时间:30 分钟 满分: 60 分
一、完形填空。阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。(共 20 小题,每小题 1 分。)
(A)
A group of boys gathered around a tree. “What a tall tree!” they said to each other. “It would be 1 to climb to the top!”
The group of boys then decided to play a game to see who could climb to the top of the tree first. Their__2__were sitting not far away, looking on at their children as they played. One of the climbers was an 8-year-old boy named David. He was the _3_ child in the group. Nobody thought he would win the competition.
Then the game started. All of the boys tried their best to __4__ as high as they could. Although they all made it halfway up the tree before David did, he reached the top of the tree fastest in the end. His mother was __5__ to see this. She asked him, “David, how did you manage to reach the top of the tree so 6 ?”
“It was easy,” David said. “The other children kept__7__as they climbed. When they realize how high they were, they got scared and were afraid of falling down. I, however, 8 looked up. When I saw how close I was, I kept going __9__ until I reached the top.”
It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without looking back, we are more likely to reach our goals toward 10 .
( )1. A. dangerous B. impossible