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2016-2017学年上学期八年级英语组合训练（9） 【完型填空】 While Tom and Mary were on holiday at the seaside, they enjoyed 1 seagulls. They learned a lot about these 2 birds. They will often come close to you on the beach when you are eating something. If you 3 a piece of bread to them they will take it away quickly. Seagulls swim well, but they do not often dive for fish. They are 4 good at flying with their wings. When a seagull is flying, he puts his legs 5 its body. Tom often watched them 6 close to the ground because he liked the way they 7 the air with wings and put 8 their feet before they touched the ground. Mary liked to see them flying over the 9 smoothly and quietly without their wings moving, 10 she said she didn’t like the noise they made. 1. A. seeing B. looking C. watching D. playing 2. A. happily B. lovely C. lonely D. alive 3. A. sell B. take C. send D. throw 4. A. also B. too C. much D. as well 5. A. under B. about C. on D. in 6. A. walking B. running C. coming D. came 7. A. helped B. beat C. put D. order 8. A. up B. off C. out D. down 9. A. clouds B. houses C. trees D. water 10. A. so B. and C. but D. because 【阅读理解】 Like many other animals, swallows will fly south when the days turn cold and the leaves from trees begin to fall. They travel many miles to find a warmer winter. This type of travel is called migration(迁徙). Birds are animals that like to migrate a lot when it is cold. About 600 out of 9,000 kinds of birds do it. They leave in autumn and come back during the warm spring months. Many birds don’t like the cold. They need food, but plants die and insects hide in winter. So, they’ll only come home the next year, when there will be lots of food for them to eat. But the trip is often hard and not safe. Many birds fly in groups and make noises. Cranes fly in groups like the letter V, or in a row. Ot