初三上英语期末复习填空训练（外研版）：Module 2

My favourite great book is the adventures of tom sawyer by mark twain. Tom lives _____ his aunt Polly in the ______ streets of St Petersburg, Missouri. He’s a ______ and clever young boy, and he finds himself in many exciting _______. He runs away with his two friends, Huck Finn and Joe, to an ______ in the middle of the Mississippi River for days. With Huck he goes ______ for ______, with Becky he gets lost in a ______, and finally, they find a box of ______.

My favourite ______ in the book is when everyone thinks Tom is dead. He ______ to go to his own funeral. He ______ and watches for a time, and then suddenly he ______. Everyone is surprised to see him but they’re also ______ to see him ______.

Tom is the ______ of the story, but there are other important ______. Huck is an ______ and everyone is afraid of him. Becky is pretty with ______ hair, Joe is Tom’s best friend, and Injun Joe is the bad man of the story.

The ______ of the story are to do______ children ______ up and becoming more serious. It_______ how strangers are seen in small towns of America. Finally, it talks about ______, social rules and how people are ______ for bad behaviour.

Why do I think Tom Sawyer is a great book? Mark Twain wrote the story in 1876, but it’s ______ read and loved by people all over the world today. And ______ it’s only a story, Twain wrote it in the everyday English of the _______ states of America in the 19th century, so it sounds very ______. Today it’s thought to be one of the greatest books in American ______. Go on---read it! I know you’ll enjoy it, too.