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八年级 英语
上册 外研版
Understanding ideas
Unit 3 Make it happen!
第1课时 Reading
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inventions
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一、根据句意及首字母或汉语提示完成句子。
1.This b____of granite(花岗岩)is too heavy for one person to lift.
2.(安徽模拟预测)I plan to attend the school science f___ this weekend.
3.(重庆渝中期中)The a_________ intelligence dialogue system, ERNIE Bot(文心一言)is widely used in China.
4.The ancient Chinese i_______ the compass.
5.He suffers from a serious heart _________(长期疾病).
二、用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1.You can use the _______(print)to print your homework.
2.The elephant is huge and can _____(weight)many tons.
3.He is famous for his great __________(invention).
4.My father always _____(fix)his car by himself if it is possible.
5.(内江期末)I ____(lend)my bicycle to Sally, but she did not return it to me.
三、根据句意选用方框中所给单词并用适当形式填空。
1.They couldn't ___ my old computer, so I bought a new one.
2.The 5G network lets the users ________ movies much faster than 4G network.
3.He suggested I go travelling by plane. However, I thought it would ____ too much.
4.—They are trying to use ___ printers to print food that is both delicious and good for us.
—That's amazing.
5.This baby panda only weighs 0.2 _________. How cute it is!
四、根据汉语意思完成句子,每空一词。
1.这个城市的所有公园和博物馆都免费向公众开放。
All the parks and museums in the city are open to the public ___ ____.
2.更糟糕的是,当接听电话时,你却发现这是个错误号码!
______ _______, when you answer the call, you find that's a wrong number!
3.他不仅没有帮我们一把,反而嘲笑我们。
Instead of _______ _ ______, he laughed at us.
4.这部科幻片是真正的杰作。我被彻底震撼了。
This scifi film was a true masterpiece. It totally ____ me ____.
5.黄昏后,外面的人陆陆续续回来了。
The people outside began to come back ___ ____ _______ after dusk.
五、阅读理解。
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[机器狗亮相泰山](芜湖一模)With the development of technology, it continues to influence our lives. On Mount Taishan in Shandong Province, a robot dog has recently appeared to remind tourists to protect the environment.
Since July, the company has worked with a number of factories, finally choosing Hangzhoubased Unitree Robotics to do rubbish transport tests together in the Mount Taishan area. “By learning from the experience of other areas, we believe one of the most useful solutions is the robot dog transport,” a worker from the Taishan Cultural Tourism Group's company said.
Jin Da, marketing manager at Unitree Robotics, said that the robot dog, has excellent ability to keep balance even on wet or difficult ground, and shows great balance while climbing the mountain. It also has great abilities to cross obstacles(障碍), easily getting over obstacles as high as 40 centimeters. What's more, the robot dog can keep working for four to six hours and it can carry a weight of up to 120 kilograms, he said.
After three days of testing, the robot dog was able to get used to over 80 percent of the road conditions in the scenic area. The successful climb of the robot dog shows its usefulness under hard conditions, providing valuable experience and data support for future uses in different areas. “We are still in the testing stage, and we will further improve the design to start the next round of testing as soon as possible,” Jin said.
( )1.Why did the robot dog appear on Mount Tai?
A.To carry goods for tourists.
B.To guide tourists on their journey.
C.To amuse tourists with its fun acts.
D.To remind tourists to protect the environment.
( )2.How does the Taishan Cultural Tourism Group's worker feel about the robot dog transport?
A.Unsure. B.Hopeful.
C.Nervous. D.Surprised.
( )3.What is introduced in paragraph 3 about the robot dog?
A.The ability of the robot dog.
B.The working way of the robot dog.
C.The working time of the robot dog.
D.The challenges faced by the robot dog.
( )4.How does the writer develop his idea in the last paragraph?
A.By giving examples. B.By making a survey.
C.By explaining results. D.By introducing backgrounds.
B
阅读短文,从方框内所给的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,其中有一个多余的选项。
White Cane(拐杖)Safety Day falls on 15 October every year. The festival was set up for people with poor sight. Now, guide dogs also help those with poor sight. In China, there are more than 17 million poor sighted people, but only about 400 guide dogs. 1. __
The robot is named Xiaojiao. It was developed by a team of scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The robot is about the size of an English bulldog, but a little wider. It has six legs and walks very stably(稳定地).
2.__ It can remember routes once it learns them. The robot can walk up to three metres every second. A cane is connected to its body. Its owner can push the cane forward to make the robot go faster. When the owner pulls the cane back, the robot slows down.
Xiaojiao can recognize words, so it can listen and talk to its owner.3. __ Also it gets the words right 90 percent of the time.
Since Xiaojiao is a robot dog, it may be allowed into more places than real dogs. And unlike real dogs, Xiaojiao doesn't need to be raised or trained. 4. __ What's more, the scientists will produce this robot in large numbers, so the price will be lower, said Gao Feng. He is the head of the team. They will produce a number of trial robot dogs by the end of this year.
A.This saves users time and money.
B.It can reply to the person in one second.
C.More and more countries are developing AI apps.
D.Luckily, help will come soon from a robot guide dog.
E.Xiaojiao uses AI to plan routes and recognize traffic lights.
六、完形填空。
Have you ever made something that no one else has made before? People who make something new are called 1 .
Victor Ochoa was one of those people. He 2 many things and one of them was a flying machine. In 1908, he thought about 3 birds used their wings and went into the sky. He hoped to make a machine that 4 like a bird. Soon he took action and began to 5 birds carefully to learn how their wings worked.
Finally, he used what he had learned to build a plane. The body of the plane was made of two 6 side by side. The plane had a small motor(发动机)that sat between the two bikes. The back was shaped like a bird's tail. The wings were 7 from those of a common plane. They could even be folded down like a bird's wings. Amazing!
Victor wanted to help people with his ideas. His mind was like a motor that never shut off. He was always trying to make life better and 8 . He did not let any 9
stop him from making other things.
However, not all of his ideas worked. No one who tries something new is 10
every time. The most important is to keep trying and never give up.
( )1.A.dreamers B.inventors
C.players D.drivers
( )2.A.collected B.fixed
C.sold D.made
( )3.A.how B.when
C.where D.why
( )4.A.stood B.ate
C.flew D.sang
( )5.A.look for B.look at
C.look after D.look up
( )6.A.bikes B.chairs
C.boxes D.stages
( )7.A.absent B.free
C.safe D.different
( )8.A.easier B.easy
C.hard D.harder
( )9.A.habits B.difficulties
C.feelings D.choices
( )10.A.beautiful B.colourful
C.successful D.careful
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