Unit1 趣味阅读练习2024-2025学年牛津译林版英语八年级上册

2024-2025学年上学期 8A Unit1 八年级英语趣味另类阅读（一） （内容趣味性+题型多样性+选材稀缺性） No.1 Jane gets a camping badge Jane is an 11 year old, American, girl scout. She is a member of the bee troop. She wears a bee badge to show that she is a hard worker like a bee. Jane has earned many badges by showing she is good at things. A year ago, she got a bird badge when she went bird watching. To earn that badge she had to see and name 10 types of birds.She watched some swallows in a nest near her house and wrote them on her list. She saw the other birds in a field in the countryside. Jane went into the field to use her binoculars. With the binoculars, she could see far away and she saw nine more types of birds. Jane earned her fishing badge a month ago. She had to put a worm on a fish hook. She had to use a fishing pole to catch a fish. After she caught the fish, she had to make a campfire and cook the fish. She cut the fish and put it into a pan. She put the pan on the campfire and cooked it for lunch. Then she and the other girl scouts had a picnic and ate the fish. Today, she is trying to earn her camping badge. She must put up a tent and sleep outside for one night. Jane loves camping so she is excited. Before Jane gets her camping badge she has to do some other things. She has to help someone who needs first aid. Jane chooses to help another girl scout who has been stung by a bee. She also has to paddle a canoe around the lake. It is quite an adventure for an 11 year old. Do you think Jane will get her camping badge? ( Now You Pr a ctice ) Down Across 1. Catching swimming food in the water. 4. Living outside. 2. Put food in this and make it hot to cook. 5. Put a worm on this metal that looks like the letter J. 3. Look through these to make things bigger. 6. A long piece of wood use to 6. Wood used to move a small boat. fish. 9. A small camping house made of cotton. 7. Bit by a bee. 8. Something exciting. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 No.2 What is erosion? Erosion is when some of the soil or rock breaks up and is carried away by water, wind or ice. When trees are cut down, there is no shade. Smaller plants get too much sun and they soon die. Erosion happens quickly on bare rock or soil. It happens quickly in places where there are no trees or plants to hold the soil in place. Think of a desert where there are no plants to keep the soil in place. Without rain, the soil does not stay together. The soil becomes sand and blows away in the wind. This is what happens when farmers cut down all the trees to grow food. The wind can easily pick up the soil and blow it away. When farmers put lots of animals on the land, they eat all the plants. Soon, only the soil is left. The wind blows the soil away and no new plants can grow. We can help to stop erosion by planting trees around farmland to protect the soil from wind. Farmers who grow food can plant in different places each year. That way, the soil is not moved much and it gets hard. Hard soil does not blow away like soft soil. Animal farmers can move their animals to eat in different places. That way the grass will grow back in one place and protect the soil from blowing away. When we cut down trees we can plant new ones in the same place to hold the soil together. ( Now You Pr a ctice ) Read the sentences. Find the ones that help to stop erosion. Put a check mark (√) on the line beside those ones. 1.____________________Cut down more trees. 2. ____________________Let fewer animals eat the grass in one place. 3. ____________________Plant grass on bare land. 4. ____________________Turn the soil over every year. 5. ____________________Let the water carry away the rocks 6. ____________________Give small plants shade from trees. 7____________________Plant food in different places each year. 8. ____________________Make soil soft. 9. ____________________Plant new trees after cutting down old ones. 10. ____________________Let the wind blow away the soil. No.3 What do Chinese people do at their festivals? Dragon Boat Festival Qu yuan was very much loved by Chinese people. Sadly, he died in the river in May one year. People came in their boats to throw rice to the fish in the river. They wanted the fish to eat the rice and not eat the body of Qu yuan. Many people in their boats hit the water to make a noise and scare away bad spirits. Each year after his death, the people remembered Qu yuan by getting throwing rice from their boats and making noise. Today, people eat rice dumplings and have dragon boat races to remember Qu yuan. Mid-Autumn Festival Many years ago, there were ten suns in the sky. It got very hot and people did not have enough water to drink. Houyi shot down nine of the ten suns. Then there was only one sun in the sky and people were happy. Houyi got a special pill as a thank you. This pill would make him live forever. He gave it to his wife to keep it safe. Houyi's wife swallowed the pill. She got light and began to fly to the moon. That is why there is a woman in the moon. Today, people eat moon cakes and look at the beautiful full moon during this festival in September. Double Ninth Festival Once a bad spirit lived in the Nu River and made people sick. Some people died. One young boy learned how to fight. He took all the people in his village up the mountain. Each of them had a flower in their hands. When the bad spirit smelled the flower it stopped moving. This helped the boy to kill it. Today, people get together with their families to climb mountains, eat rice cakes and hold flowers to remember. ( Now You Pr a ctice ) ( mountains boats moon May september October moon cakes rice dumplings rice cakes parents gandparents families ) Write the words in the box under the festival where you would see them. Dragon Boa tMid-Autumn Double Ninth ___________ _________________ ______________ ___________ _________________ ______________ ___________ _________________ ______________ ___________ _________________ ______________ ___________ _________________ ______________ No.4 How fit are you? Take the fitness quiz. Circle your answers. Add your score. See how fit you are. 1. How often do you exercise? A. Every day B. Every 2-3 days C. Once a week D. Never 2. How much water do you drink in a day? A. 8 or more glasses B. 5-7 glasses C. 2-4 glasses D. less than 2 3. How often do you eat junk food? A. Never B. Once a week C. Three times a week D. Once a day 4. What is your body shape? A. Normal B. Thin C. Overweight D. Very, very fat 5. How many vegetables and fruits do you eat in one day? (vegetable/fruit juice = 1) A. Five or more B. Four C. Three D.Two or less 6. How many times each day do you eat sugar? A. One or less B. 2-3 C. 4-5 D.Six or more 7. How much time every day do you use the computer, TV or phone? A. Less than 2 hoursI B. 2-3 hours C. 4-5 hours D. More than 5 hours 8. How many hours of sleep do you get every night? A. 8 or more B. 6-7 hours C. 4-5 hours D. Less than 4 hours ( Now You Pr a ctice ) What's your fitness score? 33-40: You are very fit. Your body works well, feels good and you can do all the physical things you want to do such as running around with our friends. Be sure to get enough sleep and listen to your body. It will tell you when you need to rest or exercise. Don't forget to drink plenty of water whenever you do exercise. 24-32: You are fit and healthy, but probably get a cold or the flu once a year. You eat enough vegetables and fruit to stay healthy. You should spend less time watching TV and using the computer. Then you will have more time to exercise or play sports with your friends. Get outside in the fresh air more to help stay a healthy weight. 16-24: You are not fit, but you are not yet sick. You may often feel tired and get colds or the flu every year. You do not need to sleep more, you need to eat less sugar and more vegetables. You shouldn't eat chocolate or junk foods because they make you feel tired. Is there a sport you like? You should join a team sport at school so you get exercise every week. 8-16: You are not fit. You will soon be sick unless you change how you live. You should not drink pop such as coke. Instead, you should drink plenty of water every day. You should stop eating junk food and eat more vegetables and fruit. Write down all the things that you like to do outside and then pick one to do every day. Ask your parents to exercise with you. You could all go for a walk or kick a ball. No.5 Shanghai fashion shows. The Shanghai fashion show brought buyers from all over the world, there to s：e the ways that Chinese fashion is different from fash? m other-s Of the world. While the people of each country wear similar clothes such as trousers, jeans, t-shirts and shorts, the clothes do not all look the same. Videos of the Shanghai fashion shows were shown all over the world so people in other countries could sec what Chinese people like to wear. Chinese culture is different than the culture in other countries and so their fashion is also different. For example, there is a lot of pollution in the air in China. One fashion designer created clothes with masks to help Chinese people breathe on days when the pollution is very bad. Some people thought the masks were more fashionable than the clothes. Another Chinese fashion designer made silk clothes that look similar to the clothes that religious men, like monks, wear. Although some of the Chinese, men's clothes were similar to those worn in other countries, Chinese men have not yet taken to wearing kilts. It seems that only Scottish men are still brave enough to wear a skirt! Women from western countries like to show skin. Their dresses often have little cloth syhat they can show lots of skin. Chinese people do not like to get the sun on their skin so they wear clothes that keep the sun off. There are other ways thatChinese fashion is different. For example, many Chinese purses are made from silk. Often purses made in other countries are made from leather. Young Chinese fashion designers are using clothes as a way to be artists. They use the problems in theie culture such as pollution as a way to find ideas to make new and interesting fashions. Choose one sentence from the story that... 1. tells what this story is about:_____________________________________________________ 2. is interesting: ________________________________________________________________ 3. you didn't understand:_________________________________________________________ 4. you did not like:______________________________________________________________ 5. you agree with:________________________________________________________________ 6. is beautiful:___________________________________________________________________ 7. is surprising:__________________________________________________________________ No.6 A beautiful heart is better than a beautiful body. You don’t have to be big, or an adult or have special skills to be useful. Just look at five year old Phoebe Russll. She needed to complete a community service project people get food to eat. Phoebe lives in San Francisco, USA. There are many homeless and hungry people who live on the streets there. They often hold up signs asking for food or money. Phoebe asked her teacher about these homeless people. When she understood that they did not have any food or any money to buy food she felt sad for them. Phoebe talked to her dad. She knew that her family collected cans at home and got money when they took them to the recycling centre. She asked if they could give this money to these homeless people. Her dad said she should write a letter asking people to give Phoebe their empty cans to recycle. Phoebe wrote a note to her family and friends. It said: I am going to graduate from With Care pre-school. My charity project is to raise lots of money for the San Francisco food bank. They need money. I am collecting soda cans. Would you please give me your soda cans and bring them to With Care? Phoebe wanted to raise si,000 by recycling cans, but she was so young that she she would need to collect more than 4,000 cans. Now you are going to finish the story. Before you read the ending to Phoebe s story, write your own story ending here: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ Keys: No1 1. fishing 2. pan 3 binoculars 4. camping 5. hook 6. down; paddle 7. across; pole 7. stung 8. adventure 9 tent No2 2 √3√ 6√ 7√9√ No3 Dragon Boat: boats,rice dumplings, May Mid-Autumn: moon, moon cake, fruit, Semtember, families, parents Double Ninth: parents, grandparents, mountains,rice cakes, October, families No4 Scoring: A=5; C=4;D=1 Add all your scores to get olne number. No5 Eg. It’s about Shanghai fashion shows. The masks are interesting I don’t understand the advantage of silk clothes I agree with the design of women’s clothes. I didn’t like the design of purses. Soottish men’s skirts are surprising. The silk clothes are beautiful. No6 This is how Phoebe's story ended: However, many people began to bring cans and money to Phoebe's school. Some days Phoebe would come to school to find money in envelopes in the letter box. Other days she would find cans sitting at the school door For each can Phoebe recycled, she got five cents. In just two months Phoebe had raised $3736.30. She gave that money to the food bank. That money will buy 17 800 hot meals for homeless people. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$