八年级英语选词填空 French, same, words, Chinese, example, many, why, great, much, what, another, tell Languages change with time and the world. So does English. New __1__ are borrowed from other languages. About nine hundred years ago there were __2__ changes in England. A great __3__ words were borrowed into English from __4__. About five hundred years ago there was __5__ change. This time it was a change in pronunciation(发音), but the spelling was not __6__ changed. English words are spelled quite the __7__ as they were in those days. The spelling shows how words were spoken at that time. It does not __8__ us much about the pronunciation of words today. For __9__, the letters “gh” in the word “night” show us nothing about how it is spoken now. That’s __10__ students learning English find English spelling so confusing(容易弄混淆的). [答案简析] 通过阅读,我们知道这是一篇关于英语词汇和读音的演变。1. words。意思是“一些新的词汇是借用于其他语言”。 2. great。“巨大的变化”为 great change 。 3. many。words 为可数名词的复数形式,用 many 修饰。 4. French。从前文…were borrowed into English from…可知应填French(法语)。 5. another。大约 500 年前,英语又发生了变化。 6. much。英语发音虽然有了变化,但拼写没有太多的变化。 7. same。拼写还是和原来相同。 8. tell。前一句用 shows,很显然,此处应用 tell 表示“告诉”。 9. example。这里是在举例子。For example 意为“例如”。 10. why。由于英语在拼写方面没有太大的变化,而在读音上发生了变化。这就是学英语的学生拼写容易出错的原因。 Exercise:A.短文填空,从下面方框中选出 10 个单词,用它们的适当形式填入短文空格内,使短文意思正确、通顺。(注意:每词限用一次,其中有两词多余) (enjoy,live,quiet,tired,small,dinner,behind,interesting,not,walk,no,take) Do you know Sun Garden?Sun Garden in good place ( ) in.It's a very ( ) district.It's ( ) on...