新目标（Go for it）版初中英语2020年暑期七升八年级衔接训练——完形填空 2

    Have you ever seen (曾经见过) snow? Many people1the world have not. Some countries never have snow; some have only2on the tops of very high mountains.3the north of England4quite a lot of snow every winter,5in the south of England, there is usually little.

    When a student from a6country comes to England in autumn for the first time, he feels cold at first. There are often dark clouds, grey sky and cold rain in England in autumn, and most students from warm countries do not like this.

    But snow is7.Though (尽管) it is cold, it is also beautiful. Perhaps (也许), after a few dark mornings, the student wakes up (醒来) one day and there is8in his room. He thinks "Is it so9?" and jumps out of bed. But no, it is not very late. He looks out of the window and there is the snow on the ground and on the houses and everywhere. The light of his room comes10clean, beautiful snow.

    Folk music is a kind of popular music. It comes from the people of any country. Folk singers sing songs 1 centuries ago and they also write 2.They want to express their feelings about new things in the world today.

    The word folk 3 "people". Folk songs tell stories about people. For example, the songs tell about their jobs, their friends and their 4. They also express ideas such as(诸如) love and war. The words in the song are 5 the music.

    In the United States and Europe, folk music became very popular during 6. Singer fans watched folk singers perform(表演) at concerts. The singers told stories,  7 and played the guitar. Fans listened to the music and often sang along with the performers(表演者) .

    Later people 8 to play this kind of music themselves at schools, at parties and at home 9. Today fans can still hear folk music at concerts. They can also buy compact discs and cassettes(盒式录音带) recorded(录制) 10 new folk performers. They can listen to folk music on the radio or watch the folk singers perform on TV.

    Do you know the beautiful girl on the stage(舞台)？She is dancing. 1name is Jenny Green. Green is her father's2name. She was born on August 25th. Jenny's father3 in New York. She goes to visit him when she is 4 on weekends.

    Jenny is5 medium height and she6 long black hair. Her favorite7are tennis and baseball. She likes8 music and she likes P.E. classes, too. She is young but she is a famous9now. We can often see her in the movie or on TV. I love her10 movie very much and always ask my friends to watch it.

FAVORITE FOOD

    Every country has1favorite food. Italians（意大利人）like to eat2. Indians（印度人）like to eat hot food. 3like to eat fish. Often they don't cook it.

    In England, one of the most popular4food is fish and chips. People usually buy it in5shop. They put it in6, and take it home, or to their workplace.

    Sometimes they eat it in the park or on the road.

    But the7favorite food isn't English, Italian, Indian or Japanese. It seems that American fast food is the most popular in the world. In New York, Moscow. Paris, London, and even in some big cities in China, you can find people8hamburgers and chips.

    Chinese food is9very popular in the world. In many cities you can find Chinese restaurants. People10Chinese food because it has different tastes and is usually very delicious!

    It was Sunday yesterday. Steve had a 1 weekend. 2Sunday morning, he played computer games with his friends at home. 3 the afternoon, he went shopping with his mother. They 4 many kinds of food and vegetables. It was 5 interesting for him. In the evening, he enjoyed a talk show with his parents. The show was 6 funny. Steve thought the weekend was really great.

    But Ann had a busy weekend. She 7 stopped working. On Sunday, she went to visit her uncle. He is a 8 and has a farm. Ann helped him 9 the horse with grass(草). In the evening, she cooked dinner for her parents. After dinner, she did the dishes. Then she went out 10 a walk with her dog. That was really a busy weekend for Ann.

    Last night, I met my friends Victor and Annie. We 1 about their last weekend. For Victor, the 2 wasn't bad. On Saturday, he 3 history. On Sunday, he saw a(n) 4 talk show. "It was great!" he said. But Annie's weekend wasn't very good. She was really 5 because she had a busy weekend. She went 6 on Saturday morning and read a book 7 music on Saturday afternoon. She 8 her grandmother on Saturday evening. On Sunday, she 9 a new song for the school music festival. It was a little 10, so she asked her mother to help her.