上海牛津英语8B-Unit 4 Newspapers - Exercise 1 - 同步练习-附答案

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8B Unit 4 Exercise I
I. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案)：
( )1). This plan has been discussed_________.
A. some time B. some times C. for some times D. for sometime
( )2). I gave the baby some sweets and _______.
A. to make him quiet. B. make him silent
C. made him quiet D. keep him silence
( )3). I_______ to stop the thief, but failed.
A. managed B. succeeded C. tried D. want
( )4). Shanghai will be _______bigger than _______ in Asia in the near future.
A. far, any other city B. much, any city
C. even, anyone D. more, many cities
( )5)._________boy students are having a test in the playground.
A. The amount of B. An amount of
C. even, anyone D.A number of
( )6) I really don’t know ________ to do with the wasted paper.
A. where B. how C. what D. which
( )7) You can’t find him in the playground. He _______ his story at the moment.
A. is busy with writing B. is busy writing
C. was busy with D. is busy of
( )8).A:____________
B: He weighed 55 kilograms then.
A. What’s his weight B. How big is he
C. How much did he weigh D. How heavy was he
( )9).It’s ________that I’d like to take a walk.
A. such nice weather B. so nice weather
C. too nice weather D. nice weather so
( )10).Are the three answers correct
-----No, ___________ right.
A. none is B. all are C. neither is D. either is
( )11).If you are blind, you are highly sensitive to ___________.
A. colours B. hearing C. shapes D. taste
( )12).I don’t think what he said sounds_________.
A. well B. wonderful C. interested D. worried
( )13).We should _______sports from time to time.
A. take parts in B. take active part in
C. enter D. join in
( )14).Mrs. Smith teaches ______ maths. We are all interested in ______ classes.
A. our her B. our she
C. us she D. us her
II. Choose a word or an expression in the box which is the closest in meaning to the underlined part of each sentence (选择与划线部分意义最接近的单词或词组)
A.publish B.take charge of C.discuss D.experience E.conclude F.elect
( )1)We are going to talk over the problem with our class teacher soon.
( )2)Every four years, Americans choose a new president.
( )3)They will bring out a new book next month.
( )4)You’d better bring the meeting to an end immediately.
( )5).We should choose an experienced teacher to be responsible for the top class.
plete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms (用所给单词的适当形式填空)：
After discussion, they made a big _______.(decide)
It’s difficult for me to make a _______.(choose)
It’s fun to talk ________ when we work in groups in the class.(free)
_________books is Jack’s hobby.(read)
In __________,your idea sounds reasonable.(briefly)
IV. Rewrite the sentences as required. ( 按要求改写句子，每空格限填一词)：
1. He is so short that he can’t reach the top of the bookshelf.（保持原句意思）
He is _________ __________ __________ reach the top of the bookshelf.
2. John can run a marathon in two hours and thirty minutes(对划线部分提问)
__________ __________ can John run a marathon？
3. He could hardly read or write,___________ ___________ (改成反义疑问句)
4. My mother said to me ,“ Don’t go alone at night.”(改为简单句)
My mother told me _______　________ go alone at night.
5. My home is about twenty minutes by bike. (同义句)
It _______ me twenty minutes _______ ________there from my house by bike.
V. Reading
A.
There are many types of reports. A report simply describes something that has happened. The commonest are news reports. We get them in newspapers, over the radio and on television.
The main purpose of a ____1_____ is to provide news. If you examine a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, sports, books, etc. The ______2_______ covers everything that happens to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very amusing.
The big or bold (粗体) words _____3____ the news items are called headlines. Their purpose is to attract attention so that people will buy the newspaper ______4_____ t hey want to read the rest of the news.
A news report is usually very _____5______ , except when it is about something very important, ______6_____ it has a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in fact a summary （梗概）of the news item. It gives all the necessary information: what, when, where, how, why. The other paragraphs give full details of the subject. There may also be interviews with people. The words actually spoken by them are within quotation marks (引号).
Often _____7________ are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting.
( ) 1. A. program B. radio C. television D. newspaper
( ) 2. A. report B. paper C. news D. story
( ) 3. A. across B. behind C. like D. above
( ) 4. A. although B. before C. because D. unless
( ) 5. A. slow B. short C. serious D. special
( ) 6. A. and B. for C. but D. so
( ) 7. A. there B. here C. those D. they
参考答案
8B U4 Exercise I
I. 1-5 CCCAD 6-10 C B CAA 11-14 B B D DA
II. CFAEB
III. 1.decision 2. choice 3.freely 4. Reading 5.brief
IV .1. too short to 2. How soon 3. could he 4. not to 5. takes to get
V. DCDCBCA
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