8. 选择合适的单词填入短文中。
It was January. The weather was very cold and the ground was hard (硬的) with cold. Jill and her brother were wearing their warm clothes and taking a (1) in the park near their home. Suddenly they saw two birds on the ground under a tree. The birds were looking for (2) .
“Poor little birds,” said Jill. “They must be hungry. The ground is so hard. I don't think they can find (3) to eat.”
“Let's do something for them!” her brother said.
“Let's make a house for them and give (4) some food.”
The two children ran back to their house. They found a wooden (木的) box and cut a hole (洞) in it. Then they put the box in the tree in the park. And they put some bread in the box.
The birds soon found the bread and (5) into the box. Jill and her brother were happy that they helped the birds.
() (1) A. walk B. walking C. walked
() (2) A. their parents B. food C. water
() (3) A. something B. anything C. nothing
() (4) A. they B. them C. their
() (5) A. come B. coming C. came

8. (1) A (2) B (3) B (4) B (5) C

【分析】
拿到这道题首先通读全文，先理清故事大意：Jill和弟弟在寒冷的一月去公园散步，发现找不到食物的小鸟，最后动手帮助小鸟的暖心小故事。接下来逐空结合三类线索推导答案：第一先看固定搭配的规则，第二结合上下文给出的提示信息，第三通过基础语法的词性、时态要求排除错误选项，一步步就能选出所有正确答案。
【解析】
我们逐空分析选项：
(1) 空前面有不定冠词a，需要接可数名词单数，固定搭配take a walk意为“散步”，是常用短语；B是现在分词、C是动词过去式，都不符合搭配要求，因此选A。
(2) 后文紧接着出现提示句“They must be hungry”，说明小鸟正在找食物，A选项“他们的父母”、C选项“水”都和后文“饥饿、找吃的”的提示不匹配，因此选B。
(3) 句子“I don't think they can find...to eat”是否定含义的句子，anything专门用于否定句、疑问句中；something多用于肯定句，nothing本身自带否定含义，和句中已有的否定语义冲突，因此选B。
(4) 空前面是及物动词give，动词后面需要接人称代词的宾格作宾语，指代前文的小鸟；A是主格只能作主语，C是形容词性物主代词后面必须接名词，只有B选项them是宾格形式，符合语法要求，因此选B。
(5) 整篇短文的叙事时态是一般过去时，and并列两个谓语动词，前面的found是find的过去式，并列的动词也要用过去式；A是动词原形，B是现在分词，只有C选项came是come的过去式，符合时态规则，因此选C。
【答案】
(1) A (2) B (3) B (4) B (5) C
【知识点】
固定短语搭配，不定代词用法，一般过去时
【点评】
本题是低年级基础类完形填空题，所有考点都是中小学英语入门级核心知识点，不需要复杂的推理，只要结合上下文的明确提示，熟练掌握基础的词性、时态规则就能顺利得分，适合用来巩固基础语法和语篇理解能力。
【难度系数】
0.8