Unit 1 Past and present Reading 2课时练 2024-2025学年牛津译林版八年级英语下册

Unit 1 Past and present Reading 2 一、根据首字母、英文释义或中文提示写出单词。 1. Were there many ___________(工厂)in the city past? 2. The young man is new here and he has few friends. So sometimes he feels l _______ 3. — Wow, so many nice books! I don't know which one to read. —____________ (即使这样), you have to make a decision. 4. After winning the first prize, the young man received a lot of ___________ (采访). 5. — Could you tell me how he has____________ (改善) his English? — He speaks it as much as possible. 6. The beautiful lady m__________a rich man two years ago. They live happy life from then on. 7. With the teachers’help, we have greatly improved ourselves s_______ entered junior high schools three years ago. 8. Work hard, kids! Or you will have trouble_______________(实现) your dreams. 9. This seems to be a win-win_____________ (形势). Both sides are pleased with it. 二、用方框中所给单词或短语的适当形式填空。(有两项为多余项) in some ways, as often as, already, realize, begin, possible all one's life, north, improve, realize, wife, pollute 1. It's too noisy outside. It is__________ for us to sleep with that noise. 2. I have_________ the importance of learning a foreign language after reading this pass 3. — How brave he is! He saved all of us! — Exactly! He is my hero__________. 4. The way to learn a language is to practice speaking it ___________________you can. 5. It has been three months since he_____________ learning English. 6. Suqian, a city with rich cultures, is in the__________ part of Jiangsu Province. 7. The bags are those men's__________. They are happy to get them. 8. Mr Chen knows Sunshine Town very well because he has lives there ____________. 9. We need education because it helps us know how ______________our life. 10. The government has taken action to reduce water _____________. So Fuxi River becomes cleaner. 三、单项选择。 ( )1. I like playing chess but my brother likes playing piano. A. the; the B. the; / C. /; the D. /;/ ( )2. They moved to Zhenjiang 1990, because they found work here. A. in B. since C. for D. at ( )3. Actually, I________ him three years ago. We have a lovely baby now. A. married B. got married C. married to D. got married with ( )4. Now I am living far from my hometown. I feel good here but I miss my o friend . A. at a time B. from time to time C. at all times D. at any time ( )5. — The weather is cold today, so you might wear a jacket, Lily. — OK. But I have a headache, so I want to take some medicine first. A. a bit; a bit B. a bit of; a bit of C. a bit of; a bit D. a bit; a bit of ( )6. There was________ interview with Mr Lu yesterday. But it was a pity that missed_________ beginning. A. an; a B. a; the C. an; the D. the; a ( )7. The Monkey King is not a normal monkey. He can_______himself______different animals and objects. A. turn; off B. turn; up C. turn; into D. turn; out ( )8. There _________a lot of shops along the street, but now they all move out. A. used to be B. used to have C. was used to be D. was used to bein ( )9. You can find a(n) ________house and an old man lives there , but h doesn't feel__________ because he raises two dogs. A. alone; alone; lonely B. lonely; lonely; alone C. alone; lonely; lonely D. lonely; alone; lonely 四、根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。 If you want to feel the sense of real Beijing, walk off the main streets and visit a siheyuan. As a traditional building, people can see siheyuan in (1)n ______China. Atypical siheyuan has a big square courtyard (2)w______ four buildings on all four sides.Usually, one big family live there. The design of a siheyuan (3)f _____ Confucian(儒家的) ideas of respecting authority(权威) and the old. The northern main house gets the most sunshine,(4)s______ the eldest member of the family lives there. The east and west wing houses are for children and grandchildren. The southern building is closest to the doorway. It is usually for servants(仆人) or guests. Living under the same roof helps to form a(5)s_______ family bond(纽带). Every family member stays close by(6)s________ laughs and cries together. Later, siheyuan developed into neighbourhoods for many different families. Strangers became (7)n______ . Their children became friends. When one family had (8)p________ , all warm-hearted neighbours came to help. But nowadays, (9)_______ , tall buildings have replaced(取代) many of these traditional(传统的), beautiful buildings. The (10)n_______ of siheyuan in Beijing has dropped from about 40,000 in the Qing Dynasty to about 3,000 today. In order to protect siheyuan, the government will collect about a thousand valuable siheyuan in The Records ofBeijing Siheyuan. 五、完形填空。 Loni loved her town where she lived with her grandma. From their window, Loni and her grandma watched people walk and run along the 1 street. At the crosswalk, a guide dog was helping its 2 cross the street. “Grandma,I love living here. I hope our town will never 3 ,” said Loni. “We have a great town, Loni,” smiled Grandma. “But did you know that in the past,there were only 4 here? It looked very different when my great-grandmother was a little girl.” Grandma showed Lon i a picture of a young girl standing next to a barn. Grandma explained that her great-grandmother's family had cows, sheep and goats for milk. Even the way of 5 was different back then. There were only dusty roads in the town with a river flowing through, and people mainly went on trips by boat, by horse or on foot. “What happened to all the farms and the dusty roads?” asked Loni. “More people came.Over time, farmers sold their 6 to builders who built stores and schools and paved the roads. It 7 a town. People moved here to find jobs,” said Grandma. When Grandma's mother was born, cars and horses shared the road. Years later, whenGrandma was born, horses are 8 seen on the street any more. “Our town has changed a lot,” said Loni 9 “I believe it will keep growing and become more and more 10 , just like me.” ( )1. A. quiet B. busy C. old D. dusty ( )2. A. owner B. teacher C. designer D. scientist ( )3. A. fail B. rise C. change D. control ( )4. A. memories B. animals C. grasses D. farms ( )5. A. travelling B. trading C. planting D. hunting ( )6. A. cows B. land C. house D. town ( )7. A. built up B. break down C. let off D. turned into ( )8. A. often B. never C. always D. recently ( )9. A. proudly B. politely C. carefully D. silently ( )10. A. complete B. comfortable C. attractive D. special 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$