八年级英语下学期动词填空专项练习2

初三动词填空专项练习

1. Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how ________(become) cleverer because his m

other always called him “foolish boy”. “That is easy, ” answered the fisherman. “I k now one way to make you _____(be ) a clever boy.”“Really?”

“Of course. A fish head is good for brains. If you eat one a day, you ______(become) much cleverer. ________(pay) only three pounds for one fish head.” The boy paid him three pounds and the fisherman ______(cut) off a fish head and gave it to him.

A raw(生的)fish head is no good--- not even for a hungry boy ______eat)----but t

he boy ate it up in two gulps.

“Do you feel anything?” asked the fisherman after the boy ate the fish head.

“Not in my head,” said the boy.

The boy sat on the ground and ________(think), “One whol e fish _______(cost) only two pounds, but I _______(pay) him three pounds for the fish already. Why couldn?t

I have the whole fish for soup, a head for brain and one pound left over?” He jumpe

d up and shouted at th

e fisherman, “The fish head _______(work) now, you see?”

2. Tom is a boy of fifteen. His parents _____(die) two years ago, and he had to make a

living by himself. Now he ________(work) as a servant at Mr Jackson?s. He works hard and the Jackson is pleased with him.

Mr Jackson enjoys _________(plant) all kinds of trees. There are many kinds of prec ious(珍贵的)trees in his garden.

The week before last Mr Jackson _________(bring) a few trees home, planted them i n the garden himself and watered them every day. Some days later, he had to _____ __(leave) for another city. Before he started, he said to Tom, “________(take) good c are of the plants when I …I …m out. Some boys of our neighbors always want ______ _(steal) them.”

“________(not worry) about them , sir,” answered Tom. “I ________(try) my best to watch them.”

Six days passed and Mr Jack son came back. As soon as he saw Tom, he asked, “_ _______anyone _______(come) to steal the trees?” “No, sir,” said Tom. “I pulled the m six days ago. Now they have been hidden for nearly a week!”

3. Mr Smith was a cook. He worked in a restaurant. Once he decided to go to a villa

ge _______(spend) his holidays when it was very hot in the town.

One afternoon Mr Smith________(walk) in a forest, and found it was very cool. He went farther and farther. Suddenly he saw a bear __________(come) at him. He tried his best to run away. And soon the bear__________( disappear) but he lost his way.

He came out of the forest when the sun ____________(sink). He didn?t know how __ ______(get) to the village and was much hungry. Just then he saw an old man ____ _____(work) in the fields.

“Hi! Old man,” shouted Mr Smith. “Where does the road go?”

“I never notice it can move. It __________(lay) here for hundreds of years,” answered the old man.

“How far is the village from here?”

“I don?t know,” said the old man. “I haven?t measured(测量)it.”

Mr Smith became angry. He shouted . “What do you know? You are the most foolish in the world, I think.”

“Maybe I am,” said the old man with a smile on his face, “But I ____ never_____(lo se) my way at least.”

4. John and Jack were good friends. They were kind to each other. But sometimes the

y _________(quarrel) with each other.

One day they went ________(boat) in a park together. At noon , they were very hung ry and then went into a restaurant _________(have ) a dinner. As soon as they sat at

a table, a waiter _________(come) up to them and asked, “What would you like to

have?” “We want two apples first, ” said John. As soon as the two apples _________ (put) on the table, Jack took the bigger one in his h and. “You _________(be) too imp olite, Jack. Why ________(not take) the smaller one first?” John said angrily.

“But I did right.” Said Jack with a smile, “If I let you ________(take) first, which o ne will you choose?”

Of course I_________(choose) the smal ler one first?” said John.

“Yes,” Jack said, “if you take the smaller one first, the bigger one will___________(le ave) and it is still mine. Don?t you think so?”

“Ah……” John couldn?t answer.

5. Kate wants to be a nurse and _________(work) for the sick. She knows they need

her help. Whenever Kate goes to the hospital, she always sees many patients there.

Last summer Kate ________(break) her leg. The pain was very great and she could n ot even walk. She ________(take) to the hospital by car and the doctor said that she _______(have) to stay there for about two weeks.

One day a nurse came to Kate?s bed and said with a smile. “You _______(be) better soon. You can walk again, so ________(not think) only about the bad things. Try ___ ___(be) happy!” The nurse w as very kind and they became friends.

After Kate left the hospital, she thought a lot about the kind nurse. She now understa nds the work of nurses ________(be) very important, because they often give hope to the sick.

Now Kate?s thinking about her own futu re. She often talks with her parents about it.

She knows what she should do ________(become) a good nurse, and she__________(s tudy) very hard at school.

6. Peter went into a restaurant because he was very hungry. The weather was cold and

so he asked the waiter ________(bring) him a bowl of hot soup.

“What kind of soup, sir?” asked the waiter.

“Chicken,” said Peter. “I feel like _________(drink) some thick chicken soup.”

“No problem, sir.”

After a short time, the waiter came back with a bowl of hot soup. Peter looked at it and said, “The soup can?t ________(eat), I think.”

“Then, I?ll bring you some fish soup. I?m sure you__________(like) it. ”

Ten minutes later, the waiter brought Peter a bowl of fish soup. After __________(loo k) at it, Peter said again that he couldn?t eat the soup.

When the waiter was on his way to the kitchen, he met the head of the restaurant an

d told him that Peter was very hard __________(please).

When he _________(hear) this, the boss went up to Peter and asked him politely, “Sir,

I wonder if there ________(be) anything wrong with the soup .”

“Nothing at all, but I __________(not see) the spoon but a knife and fork on the tabl

e since I came in.” Peter answered with a smile. Can you show me how ________(ea

t) the hot soup without it?”

7. One day a lady saw a mouse ___________(run) across her kitchen floor when she _

______(cook). She was very afraid of mice, so she ran out of the house, got on a bu s and __________(go)down to the shops. There she spent 10 dollars _________(buy)

a mouse-trap. The shopkeeper said to her, “Put some cheese on it, then you ________

__(catch) that mouse soon.”

The lady went home with the mouse-trap, but when she looked in her cupboard, any cheese couldn?t ________ (find) in it. She didn?t want ______(go) b ack to the shop b ecause it was too late, so she cut a picture of some cheese out of a magazine and _ ______(put) that in the trap.

To her surprise, the picture of the cheese _________(be) quite successful! When the la dy came down the kitchen the next morning, she found there was a picture of a mou se which _________(put) in the trap beside the picture of the cheese!

8. Two men were traveling in a lonely part of America. For days they _________(not

see) even a house, only a few wood huts(木房子). Then one day they _________(mee t) an old Indian. They hoped that they could use their own language _________(talk) with him. One of them had a little conversation with him and asked him if he could tell them what the weather _______(be) like in the next two days.

“Oh, yes,” he said. “Rain ___________(come), and so is wind. Then there ________(b

e) a heavy snow for two days, but after that the sun will be shining brightly.”

“Isn?t that wonderful?” said the man to his friend.

“These old Indians _________(know) many of th e secrets of Nature than we do with all our science.” Then he _________(turn) to the old man.

“Tell me , ” he said, “how you ________(know) all that.”

“It _________(hear) over the radio this morning.” The Indian answered.

9. December 25 is Christmas Day. In many countries it is the most important festival i

n the year. All the people come back to their home _________(have) the day with their p arents or their children. On Christmas Day bells _________(ring) everywhere. New Ye ar is coming. People sing and dance day and night. They enjoy themselves.

Most families buy a Christmas tree for their children. And there are flowers ________ _(hang) from the tree here and there. People sometimes put presents in children?s shoe s. In many places Father Christmas himself __________(bring) presents to them. It __ _______(say) that Santa Claus is a kind man. He?s always _________(wear) red clothe s with a big bag which _________(fill) with presents.

Christmas is also a day when people enjoy all kinds of food. But some poor people have no homes to live in and no food ________(eat). They even die of cold and hun

ger on such an exciting day. ________you __________(read) the story called “A little Match Girl”? The little girl _________(die) on the morning of Christmas Day.

10. As we know, China ________(join) the WTO on Dec. 11, 2001. The Chinese hoped

_______ (be) a member of the WTO many years ago. Now the hope __________ (co me) true. China is both the largest and fastest __________(grow) country in the devel oping world. After ___________ (enter) the WTO, she _________ (become) much rich er, so will the world. However, the Chinese _________ (meet) more difficulties and c hallenges. As Chinese students, we should ________(work) hard at all our subjects, es pecially English. English is the most widely ________(use) in the world today. It?s a bridge to much knowledge. So it?s more important ______(learn) English well than be fore.

11. 1970 was World Conservation Year. The United Nation wanted everyone______(know)

that the world was in the danger. They hoped something could _______(do).Here is one example of the problem. At one time there ______(be) 1, 300 plants, trees and fl owers in Holland, but now only 866 plants_______(leave). The others have been destr oyed(毁灭) by modern man and his science. We _______(change) the earth, the air, th

e water and everything around us. Yet, we can?t live without these things.

What will happen in the future? Perhaps it is more important ______(ask) “What must we do?” More and more young people _____(know) this. Many of them are helping to save our world. For example, every year they plant trees everywhere. In a small t own in the United States a large group of girls cleaned the banks of 11 kilometers of their rivers. Young people may hear about conservation through a song ______(call) “No one is going to change our world.” It ______(make) by Cliff Richard and othe r singers. The money from it ______ (help) to protect tigers, elephants and pandas on the earth.

12. Jim likes playing football. And he also enjoys ________(watch) football matches. As

he hasn?t enough money _______(buy) tickets, he has to watch them on TV at home if he _______(have) time. But he always goes to school from Monday to Friday and ________(miss) a lot of important matches.

One afternoon there ______(be) the biggest match of the year in America. Jim hoped_ ________(watch) it on TV very much, but he couldn?t. They _____(have) a science te st the next morning and he had to get ready for it.

“Can we have a video, Mum?” Jim asked before he went to school. “Then you ____ _____(record) (录) the football matches for me.”“I?m afraid we can?t buy one.” said hi s mother.But the next afternoon in ______(come) Jim, with a new video in his arms.

“How did you pay for that , Jim?” his mother asked him in s urprise

“That?s easy, Mum,” answered the boy, “I _______(sell) our TV set.”

13. A man was sitting at his doctor?s. He was telling the doctor about his problem. “I li

ke football, you know, Doctor, ” he said. “And my wife _____(be) hard to me since

I became interested. She often ______(hear) me shouting in my dreams. Night after ni

ght, when I close my eyes, I?m out there on the field and ________(run) after a flyin

g ball. When I wake up, I always feel tired. Look! I _______(get) thinner and thinner.

So, tell me what ______(do).”

The doctor sat back, _______(say) , “First , you have to try your best _______(not dr eam) about football. When you close your eyes, ______(try) to think about something else. Try to think, for example, that you are at a party or someone __________(give) you several million dollars…….”

“Are you crazy(疯狂的), Doctor?” the man shouted, “I __________ (miss) my ball the n!”

14. It?s never easy to admit(承认)you are in the wrong. We all need __________(know) t

he art of apology(道歉). Think how oft en you?ve done wrong. Then ________(count) how many times you?ve expressed(陈述) clearly you were sad. You can?t go to bed w ith an easy mind if you do nothing about it.

A doctor friend of mine, Mr Libel, _________(tell) me about a man who came to hi

m with different kinds of signs: headache, heart trouble and insomnia(失眠). After so me careful exams, Mr Libel found nothing wrong with him and said, “If you don?t te ll me what __________(worry) you, I can?t help you.”

The man admitted he was cheating（骗取）his brother of his inheritance(遗产). Then and there the clever doctor made the man __________(write) to his brother and _____ ___(return) his money. As soon as the letter___________(put) into the post box, the man suddenly cried, “Thank you!” he said to the doctor, “I think I____________(get) well now.”

An apology can not only save a __________(break) relationship(关系), but also even

make it stronger. If you can think of someone who should __________(give) an apolo gy from you, do something about it right now.

15. As a human being, one can hardly _____(do) anything without a friend. Society ____

__(make) up of individuals(个人), and ______(make) friends is very important part in our life. Friends can give you a lot. First, if you have trouble in_______(solve) some problems, you can ask him for help. And you ________(feel)comfortable and encoura ged. Secondly, if you wish _______(do) some sports, such as ______(play) table tenni s, chess, you could play with them and have a good time. Then you relax yourself. I n short, we need friends.

Some people think friends _____(be) people whom they can play with. In my opinion,

a friend in need is a friend indeed. A true friend _______(share)(分享) with you not

only your happiness and joy but also your trouble and anxiety. When you are in tro uble, they encourage you _________(face) it, and help you to work it out.

16. Mr Holland wants _______(be)thinner. Last week he stopped ________(drive) his car

to work, and________(ride) a bike instead.

Sometimes when all the cars stop at a red light, he _______(go) past them to the fro nt, because his bike is small. He is often _________(please) with this.

Sometimes when the roads ______(be) too narrow for cars________(pass), he can still go easily. He likes to get away from the noise of the busy streets.

Yesterday, as he _______(stop) at a red light, a man came up behind him on another bike. He looked at Mr Holland, “________ the police _______(take) your driving lice nse away, too?” he asked him. Mr Holland answered, “No, they haven?t. Mine is in my poc ket. I think they _________(have) no chance.”

17. Most people _______(like) to eat sweets and ice-cream better than meat and rice. If

we eat them after a meal, sweets and ice-cream _______(be) not bad for us. But if w

e eat them before a meal, our appetite(食欲)may_______(take) away. It is important fo

r us ______(eat) our meal regularly(有规律的) each day. When we feel worried or _ ________(excite), we may not want to eat.

When a man ____(worry)about something, it is difficult for him ____(swallow) (吞)an ything dry because he has little appetite. Many years ago, in England dry bread ____ ___(use) to judge(判断) whether he ____________(tell) the truth. If the man couldn?t swallow the bread, they _________(think) he was telling a lie(说谎).

18. Roy went to see his docto r. “I am always tired when I wake up in the morning,” he

said. “Do you sleep well?” the doctor asked. “Well, not really. I dream so much. I _ __________(be) like this for a long time.” Roy answered.

“Well, sometimes __________(dream) is good for us, ”said the doctor.

“Maybe,” Roy said. “But my trouble _________(be)that I always dream about hard w ork! Last night, as soon as I ________(fall)asleep, I dreamt that I went to the garden _________(plant) trees all night long! Then several nights ago, I dreamt that I was on an old ship in a terrible storm at sea. We had to work for hours to stop the ship fr om_________(sink).It?s always like that, in my dreams I always have very difficult jo bs _________(do).”

“What about the sleeping pills that ________(give) you several days ago? Don?t they work?” the doctor asked.

“Yes, but not well. But if I don?t take one, I _______(be) awake all night.”

“Then _______(try) to relax before you go to sleep, for example, listen to light musi c” the doctor said.

19. As we know, Beethoven was one of the greatest musicians in the world. One evening

while he _________(walk) in a street, suddenly he heard someone ________(play) his Sonata in F.

He stopped ________(listen) for a while. Just then from the small house came a girl?s voice. “I can?t play any more; it?s too difficult for me. How I wish I could hear Be ethoven himself play it!”

“But we are so poor that we can?t afford _________(buy) the ticket to the concert,” s aid a woman. “Forget it, I just ________(say) it for fun, Dad,” the girl answered.

Beethoven knocked at the door and it opened. After_________(enter) the house, in the dim candle light he found a girl _________(sit) before a piano and a young man ma king shoes at a table. When he talked with the girl, he was surprised _________(find) the girl was blind. After he learned that nobody taught the girl to play music, and s he learned by ear. Beethoven ___________(move) deeply by all this. “I_______(play)

a Sonata to the Moonlight,” he said, sitting down before the piano, looking up to the

sky for a while. Both of the girl lost themselves in the beautiful music. Later the pi ece of music was named the Moonlight Sonata.

John and Alice are twins. They are only seven years old, but they try _______(do) ev erything themselves. John can make model planes and ships all by himself. Alice can draw beautiful pictures by herself. John likes to make and _____(repair) things. When his parents buy him a toy, often it________(break)into pieces, and then the pieces ar

e put together _______(make) it the same as it ________(be).

Alice likes to make things, too. When her mother or father gives her a doll, she usua lly makes clothes for it. Her mother taught her how ________(make) them, and now she can make them all by herself. So far the twins _________(make) a lot of things t hat they like.When the twins are at home alone, they often stay in their own room an

d do their own things. But they help each other when either of them ________(need)

help. John helps Alice _______(carry) her schoolbag when it is heavy. Alice helps Jo hn look after his clothes when he ________(play) football on the playground. They do n?t agree with each other sometimes, but are good friends.

21．The telephone rang while Mrs Hunt _______(cook) lunch. Her son Bruce went _____ _(answer) it. His aunt said she ________(come) to see them with her daughter that aftern oon. Mrs Hunt was happy because she _______(not see) her sister for several months. Sh e knew the girl liked bananas very much, but she was too busy in the kitchen _____( go) to buy s ome for her. She gave some money to Bruce and said, “_______(go)and buy tw o kilos of bananas in the shop.”

Bruce liked bananas, too. He went out happily. Thirty minutes later he _______(come) ba ck with a bag in his hand. Mrs Hunt weighed(称) the bananas and found they were half a kilo short. She took the bag to the shopkeeper, _______(say),“My little son _______(sen d) to buy for two kilos of bananas, but you gave him only one and a half kilos!”

“_____ you ______(weight) your little son yet, madam?” asked the shopkeeper, “My s cales（秤）are all right!”

22. Time spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a bad shop, no assistant __ ______(come) near to you and say," Can I help you ?' You can?t buy anything you don't want. You may try to find out which the book you want _______(be). But if you fail, th e assistant will lead（引导）you there and then he will go away. It seems that he is not i nterested in _______(sell) any books at all.

There is a story which_______(tell) us about a good shop. A medical（医学的）stude nt _______(find)a very useful book in the shop, but it was too expensive for him_____ (buy). He couldn' t get it from the library, either. So every afternoon, he went there to re ad it at a time .

One day, however, he couldn' t find the book from its usual place and _______(leave) when he saw an assistant _______(sign)（示意）to him. To his surprise, the assistant poi nted to the book in a corner , "I put it there so as not to be sold out." said the assistant. Then he _______(leave) the student to go on with his ______(read).

23. Mr. and Mrs. Bell are very forgetful（健忘的）. For example, Mr. Bell sometimes ___ ___(go) to his office for work on Sunday morning, for he thinks it ____(be) Monday. An d Mrs. Bell sometimes forgets ______(cook) supper for the family.

One summer they ______(plan) to fly to New York for their holidays. They got to th e airport only ten minutes before the plane ____(take) off. So time ___(be) short. But sud denly Mrs. Bell said she must tell Alice, their daughter, ______(not forget) to lock the fr ont door when she went to school. As Alice was then at school, they couldn?t tell her ab out it by telephone. So they ______(hurry) to the post office. Mrs. Bell wrote a short not e to Alice while Mr. Bell bought a stamp and an envelope（信封）. Soon the note was r eady. They _____(put) the stamp on the envelope in a hurry and dropped it in the letter box, but suddenly Mrs. Bell began to cry. The short note was still in her hand, the plane tickets _______(put) in the envelope by her.