新目标版初中英语八年级下册Unit 8 Section A 同步检测

—Yes, I've done it ___________.

—She ___________ Shanghai on business. She ___________ back in three days.

    As we all know, Charles Dickens is considered to be a great English writer. He's very famous not only in Britain, but also in many other 1 in the world. He was born in 1812 and he lived in London. He wrote lots of books, and he also liked2. He was an actor. Maybe it's interesting to hear that and that's 3 his books were so good. He gave public readings of his stories that were very popular. His stories first appeared in a magazine, in parts. People always wanted 4 part. He wrote a lot, and most of them are popular. There are films and plays of them 5: Oliver Twist became a famous musical play, and Great Expectations was a wonderful 6. Dickens's early life was very hard. His family was poor, and his mother sent him out to work in a factory when he was 12. He7 it, but he used his experiences in his writing. He married Catherine Hogarth and they had a big family. He continued to write 8 he died. When he died in 1870, he was 9 a story. But what a pity! We'll never know 10 it ended.

    A high school student Juliette Turner has been famous as a teen author since her three books came out.

    Turner finished Fourth Grade in New York City, but then she and her mom moved to a large farm in Texas and started working with horses and cattle. "My mother and I were the only workers there," Turner said.

    Life on the farm provided Turner with rich experience. By Sixth Grade, she began writing about her own stories.

    Turner loved learning about the US Constitution (宪法), and she wrote 90 stories about it. The stories became Turner's first book, Our Constitution Rocks, when she started Ninth Grade. Her second book, Our Presidents Rock! came out the summer after her second high school year. Finally, she went to work on That's Not Hay in My Hair.

    This story was different from the first two books and had a personal element (元素). "Everything that happened in the book actually happened in my life," said Turner. In the book, Juliette Turner became Jules O'Connor.

    Was Turner afraid to be hurt by snakes, just like O'Connor? Students in the book played trick on O'Connor when they found hay in her hair. At school, did Turner get laughed at like O'Connor? "I'll leave that as an open question," she said.