1.9 Unit 1（主题阅读）-2024-2025学年初二英语同步备课系列（人教版八下）

Passage 1

  According to a recent survey, about one in five of us don't sleep well at night. Many people feel stressed out and unhappy. If we don't’ get enough sleep, we may get tired and sick. What are the best ways to get a good sleep?

1.Have a short sleep between lunch and supper. This can make you feel relaxed at once.

2.Some parents may get too tired during the night after they have a baby. They can make their bedrooms warmer

than any other place, which can help their baby to sleep well. So they can get a good sleep, too.

3.The first day of the holiday may be the best for you. You don’t need to get up early and go to work, so you can

sleep till the noon.

4.If the weather is fine, sleep outside is a good way. You can breathe the fresh air and get the warm sunshine.

5.Finding a perfect pillow is very important. It can also help you to sleep well.

6.Before you go to bed, turn of all the lights around you. This kind of darkness may make you sleep quickly.

7.Some people think sleeping in the theatre is a good way. With the music they can sleep easily.

8.Before going to bed, turn on your CD player, listen to some night music. This is also a good way for you to sleep well.

9.Some fruits are helpful to sleep, for example, banana and strawberry are the proper fruit for your sleep.

10.When you finish your work on Friday, this night is the best to get a good sleep.

 

Read the passage, answer the following questions.

1.If we have a short sleep after lunch, how can we feel?

2.Why do we turn off the lights before going to bed?

3.Please tell two kinds of fruit that are good for sleep.

4.What’s the passage about?

5.What is the most helpful for you to get a good sleep? Why?

6.Which one will you choose for your own health and first-aid handout?

 

Answer:

1.We may feel relaxed at once.

2.Because this may make us sleep quickly.

3.Banana and strawberry.

4.It’s about the ways to get a good sleep in order to be happy and healthy.

Passage 2

  1.Read the passage and complete the passage with the given words, two choices are unnecessary.

 

 

  As I was doing something in my room, I heard a knock on the door. It was 10:30pm, and I wasn’t sure who it could be. I went downstairs and looked through, and 1._____ that it was our next-door neighbor, an 90-year-old woman.

  I quickly 2._______ the door, ad she seemed really scared and kept repeating, “please help me, I need your help. There is something 3.____ with the fire alarm. Please help me.” I said OK and followed her to her house to see 4.______  was wrong with the fire alarm.

  Se said that the 5.______ had been going on and off for the past two hours, and that she couldn’t ask anybody for 6.______ but me. So I took a chair from her dining room table, climbed it, looked at the fire alarm, and got the fire a.arm off.

  It was dirty. I blew into the fire alarm and cleared 7._______. She still seemed kind of scared. So I gave her a hug. I felt her8. _____  n my arms, and held her for a few minutes until she stopped shaking and get relaxed.

  It was a very special experience, and something that I felt very 9.______, but someone who thought it was difficult and felt 10.____. We then sat down and talked for ten minutes, until I felt that she was okay, and safe to sleep.

1. Think and answer “what would you do if you were the writer when you was by yourself at home at night? Why?”

 

Answer:

1.saw,  2.opened,  3.wrong,  4.what,  5.alarm,  6.help,  7.it,  8.shaking  9.easy,  10. scared

 

Passage 3

  Would you know what to do if you see a kid on a bicycle is hit by a car? You make the choice of helping or not. The followings are what you should do in the first few minutes.

  The first thing that needs to be done is thinking about what you should do in a few seconds by just looking around. Is the accident safe ofr ou to walk into?  Are there any dangers that could hurt you? If there is anything that could be dangerous then you stay back and cal for help. If the situation is safe for you then you need to make sure that the situation is safe for the patient.

  Unless there is a serious danger to the patient, it is best to leave them right where they are until doctors can arrive. Moving a hurt patient could make things worse to that patient. If the situation is dangerous and the patient needs to be