Module 3 Journey to space 单元过关 2023-2024学年外研版八年级英语下册（无答案）

Practice for Module 3
Travel to Journey
Class：_________ Group：________ Name：__________ Evaluation:__________
I、用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空
1. Are there any other （行星) that go around the sun
2. Yang Liwei is one of China’s greatest （宇航员）.
3. When did your father （到达）Beijing yesterday
4. The （最新的）news shows scientists have sent a spaceship to Mars.
5. Scientists haven’t （发现）life on Mars yet.
6.We don’t know how large the （宇宙） is.
7. They usually （沟通；交流） with each other by QQ.
8. Our （环境） is getting worse and worse. The government is making plans to stop it becoming more serious.
9. It’s （不可能的） for us to finish the work in half an hour.
10. Our school has many students from foreign countries, but （没有一个）of them is from Japan.
11. there （be）visitors to our planet from others
12. Have they （find）any life in space
13.It’s impossible ____________________ (imagine).
14.No spaceship has travelled far enough ________________ (reach) other stars in our galaxy.
15. The Whites （find）the cat yet.
16. Mr Cao （be）to Beijing many times.
17. —I can’t see Ben in the classroom. —He （go）to the Music Club.
18.Mrs White just （leave）our classroom. She is not here now.
II、根据句意，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空
1. I ________________(not start) yet because I’m not sure how to make it.
2. Have you ________________ (hear) the latest news
3. Someone has already （discover） wild animals on Himalayas.
5.Mars is very far away, much _____________(far) than the moon.
6.Lots of scientists are working hard in order ________________(send) astronauts to Mars.
7.You can go online ________________ (search) for information.
8. I’m full because I （have）lunch.
9. The bus （go） already. It left half an hour ago.
10. Lucy _______(go) to America and she will be back next week. She __________(be) there three times.
III、翻译句子
1.他曾经去过美国吗 (ever)
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2.这就是他上班迟到的原因。(that’s why...)
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3.他已经去过太空两次了。(already)
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4.我去过北京两次了。(have been to)
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5.这本书很简单，你们可以看懂。(enough)
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6.要做的事情这么多，我们都没有时间玩了。(with)
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7.然而，我们还没有在任何其他行星上发现生命。(yet)
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IV、完形填空
NASA（美国国家航空航天局） said it could send astronauts to Mars as early as the 2030s. These astronauts will 1 on Mars for more than two years. So before 2 them to Mars, NASA needs to know how 3 will do things when they live in a small group, far away from the earth, for such a 4 time. It has decided to do a piece of research first. Three men and three women will take part in the research to 5 what it would be like to live on Mars—without ever leaving the 6 .
NASA will do the research in a special building on the side of a volcano（火山） in Hawaii. The volcano is called Mauna Loa. It is the second biggest volcano in the world. NASA chooses this place to do the research 7 it looks just like Mars. Three men and three women will live in this building for eight months.
During the eight months, the 8 people will only be able to communicate with NASA by email. To make it 9 like being on Mars, it will 10 them 40 minutes to get an answer to an email. That’s because the message needs 20 minutes to travel from Mars to the earth.
By doing this research, NASA hopes to learn how to choose the best people for the space travel to Mars.
（ ）1. A. watch B. wait C. stay D. keep
（ ）2. A. carrying B. sending C. moving D. taking
（ ）3. A. animals B. men C. women D. people
（ ）4. A. long B. wide C. high D. short
（ ）5. A. look for B. look out C. find out D. search for
（ ）6. A. moon B. building C. country D. earth
（ ）7. A. but B. so C. if D. because
（ ）8. A. four B. five C. six D. seven
（ ）9. A. less B. more C. further D. closer
（ ）10. A. take B. spend C. pay D. cost
V、阅读理解
A
Remembering the names of the planets in our solar system can be easy if we practise. Here are some ways to help you quickly remember the planets.
Sing a song
Setting the names of the planets to a song may help you remember them better. A number of songs can help you remember a basic fact about each planet. One example is “Planets Song”. You can easily get it from Amazon or iTunes.
Search online for other planet songs and their videos.
Listen to an audio recording（音频录音）
Many people can learn information better when they hear it spoken out loudly. Make an audio recording of yourself and say the names of the planets in it. Repeat（重复） it several times in the recording. Listen to this recording over and over again.
Teach the planet names to someone else
When you have to teach information to someone else, you need to know the information pretty well yourself. This can help you remember it better.
If you can’t get anyone to be your student, speak to yourself in a mirror（镜子）.
（ ）1. We can find ways to remember the planet names in this material.
A. two B. three C. four D. five
（ ）2. We can get other planet songs and their videos from .
A. teachers B. friends C. the Internet D. scientists
（ ）3. Which of the following may we need when practising giving a lesson
A. A pen. B. A book. C. A mirror. D. A model.
（ ）4. It is clear from the material that .
A. learning through audio recordings is better than through videos
B. practice is the key to remembering the planet names
C. “Planets Song” is the name of a video game
D. we can ask others to teach us the planet names
B
33-year-old spacewoman WangYaping made history-she is China's first teacher in space.
Wang Yaping taught Chinese primary and middle school students on earth physics problems in the zero-gravity environment(失重环). She prepared for the lecture for a long time.
Wang, born in January 1980, is from east China's Shandong Province. She was a pilot in the People＇s Liberation Army Air Force(空军)with experience of 1，600 hours of flying..
The world's first teacher in space was Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year-old middle school teacher from the United States, but the Space Shuttle Challenger(挑战者号) disintegrated(崩裂) after73 seconds into flight on Jan.28，1986. McAuliffe and other six members were killed. ＂Wang＇s lecture was a pleasant surprise，＂said Zhang Xiaoguang，an astronaut in the three members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft.＂She_____________
in whatever she does. Sometimes we'd like to give her a helping hand,but she just would not accept," said Nie Haisheng.
Like many young Chinese people,Wang likes photography,music and basketball. She said,"We are all students in facing the universe. We are looking forward to joining our young friends to learn and explore the mystical(神秘的)and beautiful universe.”
Who did Wang Yaping give the lecture to on physics problems in space (less than8 words)
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2.What was Christa McAuliffe (less than 12 words)___________________________________________
3.Fill in the blank with a proper phrase.____________________________________________________
4.Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese
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5.Please give a suitable title for the passage._______________________________________________
C
Global warming is a big problem that we have to stop. One of the the best things we do is to
plant more trees. Trees can take in CO2 and stop global warming.______1____
A team of scientists at Boston University has been working with NASA to study Earth's green
vegetation(植被).They used a special NASA camera and found that global leaf area had increased by 5percent since the early 2000s.______2_______That's about one quarter of the size of the entire Amazon rainforest. The growth mainly came from China's forest protection programs, NASA said. For example,since 1962,China has been planting trees in Saihanba, Hebei Province.It was once a desert._______3____
The Chinese public has also joined in these activities recently. Ant Forest，a feature(功能) in Alipay app，gives users points for doing eco-friendly(对生态环境友好的) things such as walking and going paperless in the office.Users can then use these points to water and grow their own virtual(虚拟的) trees，When the virtual trees are big enough，Ant Forest will plant real trees somewhere in the world.____4___
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A.More than 55 million trees have been planted in this way.
B.According to a news report
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China is doing a great job of “greening” the world.
C.And China was responsible for 25% of that gain, according to the study.
D.However, people there can produce vegetables without any difficulty now.
E.But now,China has turned the area into the country's largest man-made forest.
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D
UFO means Unidentified Flying Object._____1_____ you ever _____1_____ (see) the UFOs Today many people like reading stories about them. In many countries, people are ____2_____ (study) UFOs. But what are UFOs
There are some different ____3_____ (idea) about UFOs.Among those sayings,the ___4____(popular) one is that they carry visitors coming from other stars.They seem to fly much _____5____ (fast)than planes.
Some UFO scientists and many other people believe _____6____ (this) ideas.Some people said that they saw a few UFOs land on the earth.Some people said that they saw some strange visitors come out of the UFOs.Some even said they were carried away in the UFOs, and then were sent back by the strange visitors.
Some people _____7_____(make)mistakes when they said they had seen UFOs. Maybe they saw a weather balloon or an uncommon plane.Sometimes they saw the light from the moon.
But there are a lot of things we can’t understand. Now, people still can’t understand UFOs _____8____(clear). It may take many years_____9____(find)a clear answer and then people _____10______ (give)UFOs another name.
1.___________ 2. ___________ 3.___________ 4.___________ 5. ___________
6.___________ 7. ___________ 8. ___________ 9. ___________ 10.___________