Unit 2 课时2 Section 1-3 Listening and Speaking（分层作业）英语沪教版2024八年级上册

Unit 2 Amaing numbers Section 1 Listening and Speaking分层练习 基础达标 01 能力提升 02 拓展培优 03 一、语音考查 A根据音标写单词 1. /ˈʃedʒuːl; / ___________ 2. /ˈtʃæləndʒ/ ___________ 3. /ˌhezɪˈteɪʃn/ ___________ 4. /pəˈsent/ ___________ 5. /ˈkʌrəntli/ ___________ 6. /ˈbɪljən/ ___________ 7. /ˈmɪljən/ ___________ 8. /ˌpɒpjuˈleɪʃn/ ___________ 9./ˈbʌdʒɪt/ __________ 10. /ɪɡˈzæktli/ ___________ B. 请选出与其他项重音不同的一项。 1. A. amount B. India C. chessboard D. prize 2. A. instructions B. however C. correctly D. double 3. A. artistic B. intelligence C. recent D. another 4. A. countryside B. perhaps C. nobody D. fossil 5. A. encyclopaedia B. ability C. instead D. instruction 二、根据首字母或括号单词提示用正确的形式填写单词 1. After _______ ( check ) my teeth, the doctor advised me not to eat too many sweets. 2. The number of visitors to Guizhou during the Spring Festival increased ________ (sharp ). 3.Hunan is one of the most amazing p________ in China. 4. At the beginning of the new year, I want to make a b______ for my lucky money. 5.With p__________ rising, cities should try to provide a more enjoyable, comfortable and convenient living environment. 6. She didn’t r_______ when I asked her a question. 7. We reached an___________ (agree) on how to solve the problem. 8. You can find people using mobile phones e_________ these days. 9. She is__________ (current) living with her grandparents. 10.He p_________ his mother that he would come back early. 三、补全对话 Betty: What are you doing? Tony: I’m preparing some notes for a report called “Our growing population”. Lingling: Well we’re in the right place to talk about that! Beijing is a huge city with a big population. 1 Betty: It’s not only Beijing. Population increase is a big problem in many countries. Do you know how many babies are born every minute in the world? Tony: No. 2 Betty: Over 250! That makes over 131.4 million births a year. Lingling: 3 Betty: The population of China is about 1.37 billion. That’s almost one fifth of the world’s population, that is, about 7 billion. Tony: 4 I’ll write that down too! Betty: But in the future, China’s population won’t grow so fast, because families are getting smaller. Lingling: How do you know all this? Betty: I wrote my report yesterday! Tony: 5 Now I can write my report! A. Can you tell me? B. Hang on a minute! C. It’s bad luck. D. Great, thanks! E. I don’t believe it! F. What can I do? G. That causes a lot of problems, such as too much traffic and noise. 四、完成句子 1.到2100年，世界上会有多少人？到那时世界人口将会上升到90亿。 How many people ____ ____ ______in the world by 2100? By then, the world population will ____ _____to 9 billion. 2.下楼时要注意，否则你可能会撞着别人。 Be careful when you _____ ______ the stairs, or you may walk into others. 3.对于学生来说，在日常 生活中保护视力非常重要。 It's very important for students _____ _____their eyesight_____ _____ ______. 4.我计划去上海旅行，我需要做一个预算. I ____ ____ _____to Shanghai and I need to ____ ____ _____ 5.数字在我们生活中起重要要作用，我们每天要用到数字做很多事情 Numbers _____ _____ ____ ______in our lives, and we use them to do many things every day 五、听选信息 听选信息1 1. Who is not feeling well? (Mike. / Peter. / Jones.) 2. What’s Dr Smith’s office number? (7330891. / 5268091. / 5263471.) 听选信息2 3. Where is Mina going? (To Guangzhou. / To Beijing. / To Shanghai.) 4. What’s the time now? (9:20. / 10:20. / 11:20.) 听选信息3 5. How will the speakers get to the shopping mall? (By bike. / By bus. / By subway.) 6. What does Ben need to buy? (A computer. / An earphone. / A mouse.) 六、回答问题  7. Which class is Paul in? 8. What subject is Paul best at? 9. When did the results of the maths exam come out? 10. How did Paul feel when he knew his score? 七、信息转述 你将听到一段有关加拿大的介绍。请根据所听到的内容和提示，在60秒钟内复述以上信息，包含全部要点。 现在你有15秒钟的时间阅读要点提示。 • It is over ... • So it has ... • English and French are ... • About 60 percent ... • More than... • Ottawa is the capital. Every year ... • Toronto is the largest ... 你可以这样开始：Canada is the second largest country in the world. …… 速记区域 八、短文填词 A 短文填词 Numbers are really important and used 1.e__________ in our daily life. When designing buildings, architects（建筑师）use numbers. They 2. e________ calculate lengths, widths and heights. They also use numbers to know how many bricks, cement and other building 3.m_______ are needed. For developing new medicine, scientists use numbers too. They measure the right 4.a________ of each chemical. When doing experiments, they write down numbers like time and reaction data. And for our personal money, making a monthly 5.b_______ needs numbers. We write down our income, like how much money we get from work. Then we count our expenses（花销）, such as food costs and rent. So, numbers are very 6.n_______ in many parts of our daily life. They are important and used a lot. B 语法填空 A crow (乌鸦) lived in a thick forest with many birds. He was very happy with a carefree (无忧无虑的) life until he saw a swan (天鹅) one day. The swan 1 (fly) over a lake. “This swan is so white,” he thought, “and I am so black. It must be the happiest bird in the world.” He shared his thoughts with the swan. The swan replied, “Actually I thought so, too, until I 2 (meet) a parrot. It had brilliant colours of red and blue. No other bird could be 3 (happy) than the parrot.” The crow went off in search of the parrot and saw it 4 (rest) on the top of an old tree. The parrot explained, “I, too, was very happy until I saw a peacock (孔雀). My colours paled in comparison to (相比于) the peacock’s.” The crow decided to look for the beautiful peacock. He 5 (final) found the peacock at a zoo. 6 (hundred) of people gathered around to watch the peacock and 7 (it) beautiful feathers. The crow said, “Dear peacock, you are so beautiful. Every day, people come just 8 (see) you. You must be the happiest bird on the planet.” The peacock replied, “My beauty made me 9 (stay) in this zoo. In the first few months, I often said to 10 (I) that if I were a crow, I could be enjoying a carefree life outside. Then, after many months, I realized that I should learn to be happy with what I have instead of expecting what I do not have. 九、完形填空 Bella arrived home late from school that day. When she walked past her mother’s room, she found her mum was still in bed, and seemed to be very weak. Bella 1 her room and heard the cries from her little sister. She knew her dad would expect her to 2 her sister. And she also had to prepare meals for the whole family as her mum did before. Bella thought it was not 3 because she also had schoolwork to do, just like everyone else in her class. Why did she have to be the grown-up? When she got out of the room, she saw her dad sitting at the kitchen table, lonely and tired. 4 , something happened inside Bella. She 5 that her father, as well as a husband, must be really worried. Then she heard a deep voice from her father, “Make the dinner, will you, Bella?” She was going to find a(n) 6 to meet her friends, but she stopped and said to herself, “It is a hard time for everyone in our family. I guess making 7 is just what I can do to help.” Then she went into the kitchen and began peeling potatoes. “OK, Daddy.” said Bella. “ 8 will be all right and we can manage.” At the moment, she saw a smile on her father’s face. She felt 9 —grown-up, somehow. It was really good to a bring smile to her father’s face, even for only a moment. “Daddy, whatever happens, we will be OK. Right?” “Yes, we will. If we 10 on each other, we’ll always be all right.” They both smiled at each other over the table. 1. A. entered B. left C. created D. moved 2. A. look for B. look after C. look over D. look at 3. A. clear B. ready C. practical D. fair 4. A. Unluckily B. Surprisingly C. Suddenly D. Luckily 5. A. expected B. realized C. agreed D. promised 6. A. excuse B. suggestion C. opinion D. way 7. A. tables B. orders C. beds D. meals 8. A. Nothing B. Something C. Everything D. Anything 9. A. happy B. different C. afraid D. worried 10. A. refuse B. introduce C. control D. depend 十、阅读理解 A How many people are there on Earth, or what is the world’s population? It was 8 billion (十亿) in November 2022, from the United Nations Population Division (U. N. P. D. 联合国人口司). That’s a super big number, isn’t it? But how did they arrive at it? Did they count all of us one by one? Well, that number is only an estimate (估算). We can’t know correctly how many people are alive at any given time. To make this estimate, the U. N. P. D. must collect information from many different places. However, not all the information is correct. For example, some countries haven’t done a census (人口普查) for ten years or more. And what about places where there’s war? It’s just impossible to count people there! Even with imperfect information, the U. N. P. D. can still work out how the world’s population changes over time. But the scientists don’t just work once and call it a day. Instead, they check their estimate every five years with new information. At www. worldometers. info/world-population, you can watch the world population clock. But the clock doesn’t really tick every time someone is born or dies. Instead, it uses all the information to estimate how much the population will grow next year. Because the population is always growing, and a clock that only changes once a year would be boring. So, the clock breaks the yearly growth into smaller parts for each second. This makes it tick all the time. 1. How does the writer introduce the topic? A. By telling a story. B. By using a saying. C. By asking questions. D. By giving examples. 2. What is the main idea of Paragraph 2? A. Reasons of doing population censuses. B. Ways of collecting population information. C. Challenges of getting a correct population number. D. Importance of counting people in different countries. 3. How often do scientists check their population estimate? A. Every day. B. Every month. C. Every five years. D. Every ten years. 4. Why does the world population clock tick all the time? A. To show the population is always changing. B. To break the monthly growth into smaller parts. C. To show how many people are alive right now. D. To correct mistakes in the population numbers. 5. In which part of a magazine can we read this passage? A. Health B. Fashion C. Travel D. Science B According to the United Nations, later this year, India’s population will surpass China’s. With 1, 428 billion people, it will be the most populous country in the world. What is driving India’s population growth? Well, one of the biggest reasons is its young people. Nearly half of the country’s population is under the age of 25. Because of this, scientists believe that India’s population will reach the top in 2065. They say that India has a lot to learn from China. Giving better education is actually one of the best ways to control population. Becoming the world’s most populous country means an important turning point in India’s development. Have you ever heard the term “demographic dividend (人口红利)”? It means that the more working people a country has, the more likely its economy (经济) is to grow. In 2021, the working-age population of India stood at 900 million. That was a surprising number. However, the U. S. working-age population is only 207 million. Nearly 40 years ago, many young, clever Indians started moving to the West. They were looking for better chances for their skills. At that time, many scientists were worried about this. Many of them have become CEOs of top companies in the world. They can help develop their home country. ▲ There are, for example, not as many new non-farming jobs as people expected. Millions of young Indians feel hopeless about the future of their jobs. They choose to continue their studies rather than look for jobs. India’s unemployment rate (失业率) climbed to 8. 11% this past April. India still has a long way to go before it starts to take full advantage of its population size. 1. What can we learn from the situation of Indian population? A. India has stepped into an aging society recently. B. India became the most populous country last year. C. It’s not necessary for India to control its population. D. The population of India will reach the top in 42 years. 2. Which of the following can be the best to fill in “ ▲ ” in Paragraph 4? A. India takes full advantage of its population size now. B. With those chances for growth also bring disadvantages. C. Young people in India should choose to continue their studies. D. The problem of India’s unemployment rate will be solved soon. 3. Which could be the best title for the passage? A. Problems of populous countries. B. Advantages of population growth. C. Will this be the “Indian Century”? D. What makes India’s population growth? 1 / 9 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ Unit 1 Look it up Section 1 Listening and Speaking分层练习 基础达标 01 能力提升 02 拓展培优 03 一、语音考查 A根据音标写单词 1. /ˈʃedʒuːl; / ___________ 2. /ˈtʃæləndʒ/ ___________ 3. /ˌhezɪˈteɪʃn/ ___________ 4. /pəˈsent/ ___________ 5. /ˈkʌrəntli/ ___________ 6. /ˈbɪljən/ ___________ 7. /ˈmɪljən/ ___________ 8. /ˌpɒpjuˈleɪʃn/ ___________ 9./ˈbʌdʒɪt/ __________ 10. /ɪɡˈzæktli/ ___________ 【答案】1.schedule 2.challenge 3.hesitation 4.percent 5.currently 6.billion 7.million 8.population 9.budget 10.exactly B. 请选出与其他项重音不同的一项。 1. A. amount B. India C. chessboard D. prize 2. A. instructions B. however C. correctly D. double 3. A. artistic B. intelligence C. recent D. another 4. A. countryside B. perhaps C. nobody D. fossil 5. A. encyclopaedia B. ability C. instead D. instruction 【答案】1. A 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. A 二、根据首字母或括号单词提示用正确的形式填写单词 1. After _______ ( check ) my teeth, the doctor advised me not to eat too many sweets. 2. The number of visitors to Guizhou during the Spring Festival increased ________ (sharp ). 3.Hunan is one of the most amazing p________ in China. 4. At the beginning of the new year, I want to make a b______ for my lucky money. 5.With p__________ rising, cities should try to provide a more enjoyable, comfortable and convenient living environment. 6. She didn’t r_______ when I asked her a question. 7. We reached an___________ (agree) on how to solve the problem. 8. You can find people using mobile phones e_________ these days. 9. She is__________ (current) living with her grandparents. 10.He p_________ his mother that he would come back early. 【答案】1.checking 2.sharply 3.provinces 4.budget 5.population 6.reply 7.agreement 8.everywhere 9.currently 10.promised 三、补全对话 Betty: What are you doing? Tony: I’m preparing some notes for a report called “Our growing population”. Lingling: Well we’re in the right place to talk about that! Beijing is a huge city with a big population. 1 Betty: It’s not only Beijing. Population increase is a big problem in many countries. Do you know how many babies are born every minute in the world? Tony: No. 2 Betty: Over 250! That makes over 131.4 million births a year. Lingling: 3 Betty: The population of China is about 1.37 billion. That’s almost one fifth of the world’s population, that is, about 7 billion. Tony: 4 I’ll write that down too! Betty: But in the future, China’s population won’t grow so fast, because families are getting smaller. Lingling: How do you know all this? Betty: I wrote my report yesterday! Tony: 5 Now I can write my report! A. Can you tell me? B. Hang on a minute! C. It’s bad luck. D. Great, thanks! E. I don’t believe it! F. What can I do? G. That causes a lot of problems, such as too much traffic and noise. 【答案】1. G 2. A 3. E 4. B 5. D 【导语】本文是Betty和Tony讨论有关“人口”这个话题的一则对话。 1. 根据“ Beijing is a huge city with a big population.”可推断，此处提到的是与人口有关的内容，G选项“这导致了很多问题，比如交通拥挤和噪音”符合，故选G。 2. 根据“Do you know how many babies are born every minute in the world?”及No可知，自己并不知道世界上每分钟有多少婴儿出生，所以希望对方能告诉自己，A选项“你可以告诉我吗”符合，故选A。 3. 根据“That makes over 131.4 million births a year.”可知，对这个数字应表示感叹，E选项“我简直难以相信”符合，故选E。 4. 根据“ I’ll write that down too!”可知，让对方等一下，自己要记录下来，B选项“等一会”符合，故选B。 5. 根据“Now I can write my report!”可知，Tony可以把Betty说的这些写在报告里，所以此处应向对方表示感谢，D选项“太棒了，谢谢”符合，故选D。 四、完成句子 1.到2100年，世界上会有多少人？到那时世界人口将会上升到90亿。 How many people ____ ____ ______in the world by 2100? By then, the world population will ____ _____to 9 billion. 2.下楼时要注意，否则你可能会撞着别人。 Be careful when you _____ ______ the stairs, or you may walk into others. 3.对于学生来说，在日常 生活中保护视力非常重要。 It's very important for students _____ _____their eyesight_____ _____ ______. 4.我计划去上海旅行，我需要做一个预算. I ____ ____ _____to Shanghai and I need to ____ ____ _____ 5.数字在我们生活中起重要要作用，我们每天要用到数字做很多事情 Numbers _____ _____ ____ ______in our lives, and we use them to do many things every day 【答案】1.will there be go up 2.go down 3.to protect in daily life 4.plan a journey/plan to travel make a budget 5.play an important role 五、听选信息 听选信息1 1. Who is not feeling well? (Mike. / Peter. / Jones.) 2. What’s Dr Smith’s office number? (7330891. / 5268091. / 5263471.) 听选信息2 3. Where is Mina going? (To Guangzhou. / To Beijing. / To Shanghai.) 4. What’s the time now? (9:20. / 10:20. / 11:20.) 听选信息3 5. How will the speakers get to the shopping mall? (By bike. / By bus. / By subway.) 6. What does Ben need to buy? (A computer. / An earphone. / A mouse.) 听力原文及答案 听选信息1 W: Hello, Bill. I am so glad to meet you at the airport. M: Oh, hi Mina. Where are you going? W: I’m flying to Shanghai. Are you going somewhere too? M: No. I’m here to pick up my grandparents. They come from Beijing to visit Guangzhou. W: That’s great! It’s the right time to visit Guangzhou. Oh, I have to go now. There is only one hour left. M: OK. When is your flight? W: At 10:20. M: Then you really need to go now. Have a nice journey! 【答案】 1.Peter is not feeling well./Peter. 2.His office number is 5268091./5268091. 听选信息2 W: Hello, Jones Clinic. How may I help you? M: Oh, hi. This is Mike speaking. Can I speak to Dr Smith? My son Peter is not feeling well. W: Sorry, Dr Smith is in another office. M: Could you tell me his office number? I need to call him now. W: Sure. It’s 5268091. M: OK. Thank you very much. 【答案】 3. She’s going to Shanghai./To Shanghai. 4. It’s 9:20./9:20./Twenty past nine. 听选信息3  W: Hello, Ben. Do you have any plan for the weekend? M: Yes, I have to take my football lesson on Saturday morning. Why? W: I want to buy a new computer. And could you go with me after having the lesson? M: Sure. My lesson ends at 11:00. Then I will go back home by bike. I think we can meet at 11:30. W: OK. Shall we meet at the bus stop near your home? Then we can take a bus there. M: Why don’t we take the subway? It’s faster. And the shopping mall is near the subway station. W: Good idea. By the way, do you need to buy anything? M: Ah, yes. I almost forgot. I need to buy a mouse. W: I also have to get an earphone. Then we can buy them all at a time. 【答案】5. They will get to the shopping mall by subway./They’ll get to the shopping mall by subway. They’ll take the subway to get to the shopping mall./By subway. 6. He needs to buy a mouse./A mouse. 六、回答问题  7. Which class is Paul in? 8. What subject is Paul best at? 9. When did the results of the maths exam come out? 10. How did Paul feel when he knew his score? 听力原文及答案 Paul is a student at Guangzhou No. 2 Middle School. He is in Class Six Grade Eight. He is very smart and he’s best at maths. He always gets the highest score in maths exams in his class. But he never gets the score of 100. Last Tuesday, he took another maths exam. He was sure that he would get one hundred points because he checked all the answers twice after he finished. However, when results came out two days later, he found he got 99 points. He was a bit sad until his maths teacher Miss Liu told him that he forgot to put the point after a number. “You should be more careful, Paul. A small mistake can even cause a big problem,” she said. “Thank you, Miss Liu. Now I know the reason. And I will be more careful in the future.” he said happily. 【参考答案】 7.He’s in Class Six./In Class Six. 8.He’s best at Maths./Maths. 9. The results of the maths exam came out last Thursday./Last Thursday, the results came out. Last Thursday./Two days later. 10. He felt sad./Paul felt a bit sad./Paul felt sad when he knew his score. 七、信息转述 你将听到一段有关加拿大的介绍。请根据所听到的内容和提示，在60秒钟内复述以上信息，包含全部要点。 现在你有15秒钟的时间阅读要点提示。 • It is over ... • So it has ... • English and French are ... • About 60 percent ... • More than... • Ottawa is the capital. Every year ... • Toronto is the largest ... 你可以这样开始：Canada is the second largest country in the world. …… 速记区域 【听力原文及答案】 About Canada Canada is the second largest country in the world. It is over 7,000 kilometres from the west coast to the east. So it has six time zones. English and French are the two main languages in Canada. About 60 percent of its people speak English, and about 25 percent speak French. More than 70 percent of its population live in cities near the US because it’s too cold in the north of Canada. Ottawa is the capital. Every year millions of tourists go there to visit museums and take part in the cultural activities. Toronto is the largest city of the country with about 2.5 million people. 【参考答案】 Canada is the second largest country in the world. It is over 7,000 kilometres from the west coast to the east. So it has six time zones. English and French are the two main languages in Canada. About 60 percent of its people speak English, and about 25 percent speak French. More than 70 percent of its population live in cities near the US. Ottawa is the capital. Every year millions of tourists go there to visit museums and take part in the cultural activities. Toronto is the largest city of the country with about 2.5 million people. 八、短文填词 A 短文填词 Numbers are really important and used 1.e__________ in our daily life. When designing buildings, architects（建筑师）use numbers. They 2. e________ calculate lengths, widths and heights. They also use numbers to know how many bricks, cement and other building 3.m_______ are needed. For developing new medicine, scientists use numbers too. They measure the right 4.a________ of each chemical. When doing experiments, they write down numbers like time and reaction data. And for our personal money, making a monthly 5.b_______ needs numbers. We write down our income, like how much money we get from work. Then we count our expenses（花销）, such as food costs and rent. So, numbers are very 6.n_______ in many parts of our daily life. They are important and used a lot. 【答案】1.everywhere 2.exactly 3.materials 4.amounts 5.budget 6.necessary B 语法填空 A crow (乌鸦) lived in a thick forest with many birds. He was very happy with a carefree (无忧无虑的) life until he saw a swan (天鹅) one day. The swan 1 (fly) over a lake. “This swan is so white,” he thought, “and I am so black. It must be the happiest bird in the world.” He shared his thoughts with the swan. The swan replied, “Actually I thought so, too, until I 2 (meet) a parrot. It had brilliant colours of red and blue. No other bird could be 3 (happy) than the parrot.” The crow went off in search of the parrot and saw it 4 (rest) on the top of an old tree. The parrot explained, “I, too, was very happy until I saw a peacock (孔雀). My colours paled in comparison to (相比于) the peacock’s.” The crow decided to look for the beautiful peacock. He 5 (final) found the peacock at a zoo. 6 (hundred) of people gathered around to watch the peacock and 7 (it) beautiful feathers. The crow said, “Dear peacock, you are so beautiful. Every day, people come just 8 (see) you. You must be the happiest bird on the planet.” The peacock replied, “My beauty made me 9 (stay) in this zoo. In the first few months, I often said to 10 (I) that if I were a crow, I could be enjoying a carefree life outside. Then, after many months, I realized that I should learn to be happy with what I have instead of expecting what I do not have. 【答案】1. was flying 2. met 3. happier 4. resting 5. finally 6. Hundreds 7. its 8. to see 9. stay 10. myself 九、完形填空 Bella arrived home late from school that day. When she walked past her mother’s room, she found her mum was still in bed, and seemed to be very weak. Bella 1 her room and heard the cries from her little sister. She knew her dad would expect her to 2 her sister. And she also had to prepare meals for the whole family as her mum did before. Bella thought it was not 3 because she also had schoolwork to do, just like everyone else in her class. Why did she have to be the grown-up? When she got out of the room, she saw her dad sitting at the kitchen table, lonely and tired. 4 , something happened inside Bella. She 5 that her father, as well as a husband, must be really worried. Then she heard a deep voice from her father, “Make the dinner, will you, Bella?” She was going to find a(n) 6 to meet her friends, but she stopped and said to herself, “It is a hard time for everyone in our family. I guess making 7 is just what I can do to help.” Then she went into the kitchen and began peeling potatoes. “OK, Daddy.” said Bella. “ 8 will be all right and we can manage.” At the moment, she saw a smile on her father’s face. She felt 9 —grown-up, somehow. It was really good to a bring smile to her father’s face, even for only a moment. “Daddy, whatever happens, we will be OK. Right?” “Yes, we will. If we 10 on each other, we’ll always be all right.” They both smiled at each other over the table. 1. A. entered B. left C. created D. moved 2. A. look for B. look after C. look over D. look at 3. A. clear B. ready C. practical D. fair 4. A. Unluckily B. Surprisingly C. Suddenly D. Luckily 5. A. expected B. realized C. agreed D. promised 6. A. excuse B. suggestion C. opinion D. way 7. A. tables B. orders C. beds D. meals 8. A. Nothing B. Something C. Everything D. Anything 9. A. happy B. different C. afraid D. worried 10. A. refuse B. introduce C. control D. depend 【答案】1. A 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. D 8. C 9. B 10. D 【解析】本文是一篇记叙文。讲述了Bella一开始觉得要做家照顾妹妹是不公平的，后来意识到家里的困境后主动帮忙做家务，并和家人彼此相互鼓励相互支持。 1. 句意：贝拉进入房间，听到了小妹妹的哭声。 entered进入；left离开；created创造；moved移动。根据“heard the cries from her little sister”可知她进入房间听到了哭声。故选A。 2. 句意：她知道她爸爸会希望她照顾她的妹妹。 look for寻找；look after照顾；look over查看；look at看。根据“She knew her dad would expect her to...her sister”可知Bella需要照顾妹妹。故选B。 3. 句意：贝拉认为这不公平，因为她和班上其他同学一样，也有功课要做。 clear清楚的；ready准备好的；practical实用的；fair公平的。根据“because she also had schoolwork to do, just like everyone else in her class. ”可知Bella也想像其他同学一样，她觉得照顾妹妹、给家人做饭是不公平的。故选D。 4. 句意：突然，贝拉的想法发生了变化。 Unluckily不幸地；Surprisingly惊喜地；Suddenly突然地；Luckily幸运地。根据“She...that her father, as well as a husband, must be really worried.”可知Bella突然体会到了父亲的的不易。故选C。 5. 句意：她意识到她的父亲，也是一个丈夫，一定很担心。 expected期待；realized意识到；agreed同意；promised承诺。根据“something happened inside Bella.”可知Bella意识到了父亲的的不易。故选B。 6. 句意：她要找个借口去见她的朋友。 excuse借口；suggestion建议；opinion观点；way方式。根据“but she stopped and said to herself”可知Bella本来是想找个借口去见朋友的。故选A。 7. 句意：我想做饭是我能帮忙做的。 tables桌子；orders顺序；beds床；meals饭。根据“Then she went into the kitchen and began peeling potatoes.”可知Bella觉得能帮家人做饭也可以，故选D。 8. 句意：一切都会好起来的，我们能应付的。 Nothing没有什么；Something某事；Everything一切事物；Anything任何事。根据“At the moment, she saw a smile on her father’s face. ”可知Bella说的是一切都会好起来的。故选C。 9. 句意：她感觉不一样了——不知怎的，她长大了。 happy开心的；different不同的；afraid害怕的；worried担心的。根据“grown-up, somehow”可知Bella长大了，感觉不一样了。故选B。 10. 句意：如果我们彼此依赖，我们就会一直很好。 refuse拒绝；introduce介绍；control控制；depend依靠。depend on“依靠，依赖”。故选D。 十、阅读理解 A How many people are there on Earth, or what is the world’s population? It was 8 billion (十亿) in November 2022, from the United Nations Population Division (U. N. P. D. 联合国人口司). That’s a super big number, isn’t it? But how did they arrive at it? Did they count all of us one by one? Well, that number is only an estimate (估算). We can’t know correctly how many people are alive at any given time. To make this estimate, the U. N. P. D. must collect information from many different places. However, not all the information is correct. For example, some countries haven’t done a census (人口普查) for ten years or more. And what about places where there’s war? It’s just impossible to count people there! Even with imperfect information, the U. N. P. D. can still work out how the world’s population changes over time. But the scientists don’t just work once and call it a day. Instead, they check their estimate every five years with new information. At www. worldometers. info/world-population, you can watch the world population clock. But the clock doesn’t really tick every time someone is born or dies. Instead, it uses all the information to estimate how much the population will grow next year. Because the population is always growing, and a clock that only changes once a year would be boring. So, the clock breaks the yearly growth into smaller parts for each second. This makes it tick all the time. 1. How does the writer introduce the topic? A. By telling a story. B. By using a saying. C. By asking questions. D. By giving examples. 2. What is the main idea of Paragraph 2? A. Reasons of doing population censuses. B. Ways of collecting population information. C. Challenges of getting a correct population number. D. Importance of counting people in different countries. 3. How often do scientists check their population estimate? A. Every day. B. Every month. C. Every five years. D. Every ten years. 4. Why does the world population clock tick all the time? A. To show the population is always changing. B. To break the monthly growth into smaller parts. C. To show how many people are alive right now. D. To correct mistakes in the population numbers. 5. In which part of a magazine can we read this passage? A. Health B. Fashion C. Travel D. Science 【答案】1. C 2. C 3. C 4. A 5. D 【导语】本文讨论了地球现有人口的估算方法以及这些数据的可靠性，提到了联合国人口司如何收集信息并定期更新估算。此外，还介绍了世界人口时钟是如何通过利用更新的信息来估计人大变化的。结合文章的多个方面，得出其主要是介绍世界人口估算和更新的信息方法与过程。 1. 细节理解题。根据“How many people are there on Earth, or what is the world’s population?”可知，本句是一个疑问句，作者通过问题来引入话题，这是通过提问的方式进行介绍。故选C。 2. 细节理解题。根据“Well, that number is only an estimate. We can’t know correctly how many people are alive at any given time.”以及“However, not all the information is correct. some countries haven’t done a census for ten years or more. And what about places where there’s war? It’s just impossible to count people there!”可知，第二段谈论的是统计世界人口面临的各种挑战，如信息不准确，有些国家长期未进行人口普查，以及战乱地区难以统计人口数据。因此说要得到准确的人口数字，是一个挑战。故选C。 3. 细节理解题。根据“Instead, they check their estimate every five years with new information.”可知，科学家每五年核实一次他们的人口估计数据。故选C。 4. 细节理解题。根据“Because the population is always growing, and a clock that only changes once a year would be boring. So, the clock breaks the yearly growth into smaller parts for each second. This makes it tick all the time.”可知，文中提到人口时钟一直在走，是因为全球人口在不断增长和变化，目的是展示这种持续的变化。故选A。 5. 推理判断题。根据全文内容可知，文中涉及到关于人口统计的科学方法和对人口估算的分析，因此适合刊登在科学类杂志上。故选D。 B According to the United Nations, later this year, India’s population will surpass China’s. With 1, 428 billion people, it will be the most populous country in the world. What is driving India’s population growth? Well, one of the biggest reasons is its young people. Nearly half of the country’s population is under the age of 25. Because of this, scientists believe that India’s population will reach the top in 2065. They say that India has a lot to learn from China. Giving better education is actually one of the best ways to control population. Becoming the world’s most populous country means an important turning point in India’s development. Have you ever heard the term “demographic dividend (人口红利)”? It means that the more working people a country has, the more likely its economy (经济) is to grow. In 2021, the working-age population of India stood at 900 million. That was a surprising number. However, the U. S. working-age population is only 207 million. Nearly 40 years ago, many young, clever Indians started moving to the West. They were looking for better chances for their skills. At that time, many scientists were worried about this. Many of them have become CEOs of top companies in the world. They can help develop their home country. ▲ There are, for example, not as many new non-farming jobs as people expected. Millions of young Indians feel hopeless about the future of their jobs. They choose to continue their studies rather than look for jobs. India’s unemployment rate (失业率) climbed to 8. 11% this past April. India still has a long way to go before it starts to take full advantage of its population size. 1. What can we learn from the situation of Indian population? A. India has stepped into an aging society recently. B. India became the most populous country last year. C. It’s not necessary for India to control its population. D. The population of India will reach the top in 42 years. 2. Which of the following can be the best to fill in “ ▲ ” in Paragraph 4? A. India takes full advantage of its population size now. B. With those chances for growth also bring disadvantages. C. Young people in India should choose to continue their studies. D. The problem of India’s unemployment rate will be solved soon. 3. Which could be the best title for the passage? A. Problems of populous countries. B. Advantages of population growth. C. Will this be the “Indian Century”? D. What makes India’s population growth? 【答案】1. D 2. B 3. D 【导语】本文主要介绍了印度的人口增长，及其带来的好处与坏处。 1. 细节理解题。根据“Nearly half of the country’s population is under the age of 25.”可知，该国近一半的人口年龄在25岁以下，因此选项A“印度最近步入了老龄化社会”表述错误；根据“According to the United Nations, later this year, India’s population will surpass China’s. With 1, 428 billion people, it will be the most populous country in the world.”可知，这一句提到了今年晚些时候，印度的人口将超过中国，将成为世界上人口最多的国家。选项B“印度去年成为人口最多的国家”描述错误；根据“Giving better education is actually one of the best ways to control population.”可知，提供更好的教育实际上是控制人口的最佳方法之一，因此选项C“印度没有必要控制人口”表述错误。故选D。 2. 推理判断题。根据“Many of them have become CEOs of top companies in the world. They can help develop their home country.”可知，设空处应该提到成长带来的好处同时也带来一些不利影响。故选B。 3. 标题归纳题。通读全文，文章主要讲述了印度的人口增长以及导致人口增长的因素，及其带来的好处与坏处。所以最佳标题是选项D“印度人口增长的原因是什么？”。故选D。 1 / 9 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$