Unit 8 Life in the future 课时1 Getting ready & Reading I 课时练习（含答案）2023-2024学年牛津深圳版（广州沈阳通用）八年级英语下册

Unit 8　Life in the future
课时1　Getting ready & Reading I
一、根据句意和汉语提示完成句子。
1. She wrote a____________(帖子)on the Internet， looking for a nice roommate.
2. Lisa was busy taking notes____________(当……时) Mark was giving a talk.
3. The heavy rain gave me an____________(理由) to drive the car.
4. The road was just____________(宽的)enough for four cars to pass side by side.
5. This kind of SmartWatch____________(满足)Mr Li’s daily needs. He wears it all the time.
二、用所给词的适当形式填空。
6. The island is____________(connect) to the mainland by a long bridge.
7. The shop mainly sells____________(electricity) products.
8. —Father’s Day is coming， but I don’t have money to buy a gift for my dad.
—Why not make a card by yourself？ He will____________ (certain) love it.
9. The news about education has attracted public attention____________(recent).
10. My mother always takes a cloth bag when she goes shopping， because she thinks it is more more
____________(environmental) friendly.
三、从方框中选词并用其适当形式填空。
apology, mix, recommend, relax, present
11. I want to buy something special for my mother and father as____________.
12. My teacher helped me a lot by____________good books to me.
13. Please be careful not to____________sugar with salt.
14. She made an____________to her mother for hurting her feelings.
15. The best way____________ is taking exercise. It’s good for the mind and the body.
四、根据汉语意思完成句子。
16. 我们应该学会活在当下。
We should learn to live____________.
17. 谁还问一件在网上很容易搜到的事情？
Who still asks for a fact easily found____________？
18. 瞧！有朵云的形状像一匹马。
Look！ A cloud is____________a horse.
19. 请不要在公共场所吸烟，因为那对你和他人的健康都有害。
Please don’t smoke in public， because it is bad for____________your health____________others’.
20.用这种方式我能更好地学会使用英语。
I can learn to use English better____________.
21.不要害怕错误。它们能使你成长。
Don’t be afraid of mistakes. They can make you 　grow up　 .
五、短文填空。
be, way, easy, bird, problem, develop, get, noise, high, offer
Nature is wonderful. It 22.____________our best teacher. It teaches us a lot and we are born to learn from it to solve 23.____________. For example， scientists used what they saw in nature to improve our way of travelling. In days of high-speed train research and 24.____________， scientists were once faced with a noise problem. The trains pushed air through tunnels at 25.____________ speed.
So， when a train came out of a tunnel， it could be very， very .26.____________. However， kingfisher birds hardly make a sound when they get into lakes or rivers. Engineers 27.____________a clever idea. They changed the front of the trains to match the shape of the kingfisher. Then the air could 28.____________pass over the trains. The problem was solved！
The kingfisher 29.____________example is just one that we learned from nature. Scientists study the smart models that nature can 30.____________. Then they use their wisdom(智慧)and imagination to design new products. Nature provides us with endless possibilities to find wonderful 31.____________to improve our lives. Learning from nature knows no bounds(永无止境)！
参考答案：
一、1.post　2.while　3.excuse　4.wide　5.satisfies
二、6.connected　7.electronic　8.certainly　9.recently10.environmentally
三、11.presents　12.recommending　13.mix　14.apology15.to relax
四、16.in the present　17.on the Internet18.in the shape of　19.both； and20.in this way　21.grow up
五、22.is　23.problems　24.development　25.high26.noisy　27.got　28.easily　29.bird’s/birds’
30.offer　31.ways