Unit 3 Online tours单元话题短文首字母填空练习-2023-2024学年八年级英语下册单元重难点易错题精练（牛津译林版）

Unit 3 Online tours

单元话题短文首字母填空练习

（2023下·江苏南京·八年级南京师范大学附属中学江宁分校校考阶段练习）阅读短文，根据首字母提示，在空格里填入适当的单词。

Students across China, studying in the fields of engineering, science and technology, are developing a range of inventions that they hope will one day be marketable（适合市场销售的；能卖的）. Here are three e   1    from the minds of China’s young inventors.

Foot-Controlled Mouse

This new kind of mouse is controlled by the feet i   2    of the hands, to help handicapped（残疾的）people when surfing the I   3   .

The new device is called a “surf mouse”, and looks like a pair of blue slippers（拖鞋）. When users p   4    the slippers with their forefeet, they are clicking the left mouse button; when people press with their heels（脚后跟）, they are clicking the right mouse button; when they roll their feet over the slippers, they can v   5    web pages.

Dirty Water Filter

The “pump（泵）of life”, a filter, can m   6    dirty water drinkable. The pump is over 30 centimeters long and has a diameter（直径）of four centimeters. It has an in-pipe at the t   7    and out-pipe at the end. There are two main p   8   : the drive zone to pump water and the material zone to eliminate harmful substances（排放有害物质）.

Transformer Vehicle（变压器多功能车）

The multi-functional vehicle is named Tranfus. By changing the s   9   of tires and the structure（结构）of a car, it can become a motorbike or a luggage carrier（行李架）. Traffic jams can make a d   10    go crazy. The Tranfus can change into luggage carrier, and users could walk with it.

 

（2022下·江苏扬州·八年级统考期末）

With the increasing population and cars, many countries w   11    their fuel or petrol (汽油) will run out soon, so fuel price has risen up to n   12    10 yuan per litre (升). As a result, the cost of running a petrol-based car becomes higher and higher.

    Have you ever thought of b   13    an electric (电) car? Now it’s clear that we all need to act on our empty wallet as well as s   14    climate (气候) change, however, will people really be ready to make changes in their lives? Can we really make our e   15    greener than it is now?

If you want to buy an electric car,which would you like? That is a question. It all d   16    on your personal taste. On May 28, 2022, so many Electronic smart cars made by Chinese auto companies s   17    at Greater Bay Area Auto Show in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, which caught lots of young people’s eyes.

However, Electric cars aren’t perfect just yet. It may t   18    eight hours or more to charge (充电) a car for only 300 km of driving. Many people think it a waste of time. Price is a problem, too. Electric cars cost much. The good news is that electric-car technology (技术) is getting better. As it does, the prices of this kind of cars are going down.

In order to charge the car more easily, our Chinese government is trying to build more charging stations around the country. And it will be a good c   19    to work out the problem of charging on a long-distance trip.

Because of better batteries (电池), last month (in May, 2022), 51.2% of all new car registrations (登记) were electric cars. Among them, Chinese auto companies made a great contribution (贡献). So the change is starting to happen. It is safe to say that Chinese auto industry is overtaking in the corner.

Now car-makers are looking for other ways to make the car cheaper. Then more people will use electric cars and we will have a clean and green world in the near f     20     . Maybe, you can give them an opportunity, especially those made in China.

 

（2021下·江苏·八年级统考期末）Have you ever counted the number of digits (数字) in your mobile phone number? Your number has 11 digits. You may sometimes find it hard to r    21     your number. That’s because China has the l    22     mobile phone number in the world. Why is that?

The 11 digits can be divided into three parts. Each part has a different m    23    . The first three numbers tell you which mobile phone service provider you are using. For example, 135 is for China Mobile Communications Corporation and 188 is for China Unicom. The f    24     to the seventh digits tell you where the number is registered (注册). And the last four digits are random (随机的).

The main r    25     for using 11 digits is that we have the largest population in the world. We once had 10 numbers. But as our population g    26    , there were not enough numbers for us to use. So we began to use 11 digits starting from 1999. Eleven digits can be used to make tens of billions of mobile phone numbers. That’s enough for each person to have seven or eight phone numbers to use in China.

And mobile phone numbers can be r    27    . Usually, the service provider will reuse a canceled (注销的) number after three to six months. If you call a number that you haven’t contacted for a long time, you may find

that its o    28     has changed.

Besides China, Britain and Japan also use 11-digit mobile phone numbers. B    29     their numbers always start with 0. So they cannot create as many numbers as we can. C    30     like the United States, Australia and India, use phone numbers with 10 digits. Canada’s mobile phone numbers are perhaps the shortest in the world: they use seven digits.

 

（2023上·江苏淮安·八年级淮安市浦东实验中学校联考期中）Millions of people love watching short videos online. Many people make and share short videos on popular video apps, s  31   as Douyin and Kuaishou. You can even add music and special effects (特效) to your videos. The videos are a few m  32   long. They show people doing activities like cooking, exercising and singing.

Teenagers especially enjoy these videos. M  33   than 50% of high school students say they e  34   watching these short videos. About 47% have posted (发布) their own videos, according to a report by the China National Youth Palace Association.

The videos let young people s  35   funny and exciting things they wouldn’t usually see. Many young people like to s  36   the fun things they do with others.

However, the videos can also cause (引起) p  37  . Some students spend too much time w  38   them and not enough time studying. Some videos have a bad effect (影响) on young people. So Douyin has a function (功能) to solve this. It locks the app if someone uses the app for over two h  39   a day. The government (政府) also did something to s  40   young people using this app too much.

 

（2022上·江苏南京·八年级统考期末）请根据短文内容和首字母提示, 在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。(每空一词)

With the popularity of video sharing apps, short videos have seemingly become part of our modern life. Short videos are a new way to spread different ideas and i    41     . Some of them are about five minutes long, while o    42     are just a few seconds. People not only enjoy watching short videos, but are also interested in making them b    43     it doesn’t take a lot of professional skills to do so.

Short videos have some benefits. For one thing, they can help people learn new things, e    44     and quickly. People can concentrate(专注) better on these videos because they are short and effective(有效的). The contents of short videos are so different that people of all a    45     can have fun watching them and learning.

Short videos can even help people make m    46     . For example, people in rural areas can sell their goods online by u    47     short videos to promote(宣传) them. Short videos can make a big difference this way.

However, this video is also come w    48     some flaw(缺陷). Many teenagers and even adults have