Unit 2 Section A 1a-1d拓展阅读 2025-2026学年人教版（2024）八年级英语上册

Unit 2 Section A 1a-1d 拓展阅读 Lesson 1 How Can a Plant Kill? People kill. Animals kill. Animals and people kill for food, or they kill their enemies. People and animals can move around and find something to kill. They can run away from an enemy. They can kill it if it is necessary. Many kinds of animals eat plants. The plants cannot run away from their enemies. Some plants are poisonous. If an animal eats part of the plant, it gets sick or dies. Animals learn to stay away from these plants. There are many kinds of plants that make poison. Most of them grow in the desert or in the tropics. Farmers use many kinds of poison on their farms.Most of these poisons come from petroleum, but petroleum is expensive. Scientists collect poisonous plants and study them. Maybe farmers can use cheap poison from plants instead of expensive poison not expensive from petroleum. A.Vocabulary Put the right word in each blank. The sentences are from the text. expensive tropics poisonous instead of enemies if grow cheap kinds farmers collect farms 1.Many________of animals eat plants. 2. Animals and people kill for food, or they kill their_________. 3.__________use many kinds of poison on their__________. 4. Scientists ___________poisonous plants and study them. 5. Some plants are___________. 6. Maybe farmers can use_________poison from plants ____________expensive poison from petroleum. 7. Most of them __________in the desert or in the__________. 8. They can kill it ________it is necessary. 9. Most of these poisons come from petroleum, but petroleum is ___________. Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text. expensive instead of farmers farm if tropics 1.David's parents have a big _________.They are___________. 2.A Mercedes Benz is an ___________car. 3. Please come to the Student Union at 12:00________you can. 4. Malaysia, Togo, and Nigeria are in the __________. 5. Please write the answers on a piece of paper________ in the book. poisonous enemies grow cheap kind collect 6.Ali, please ________all the students' papers. 7. Some things we use in the garden are__________.We must keep these things away from children. 8. People are the only __________ of polar bears. 9. What ________ of car do you have? 10._____________clothes are not usually very good. 11. Children ____________very fast. They need new clothes every few months. B. Questions 1. Why do people and animals kill? _____________________________________________________________________ 2.Can plants run away from an enemy? _____________________________________________________________________ 1. What happens to an animal that eats a poisonous plant? _____________________________________________________________________ 2. What do animals learn about these plants? _____________________________________________________________________ 3. Where do most poisonous plants grow? _____________________________________________________________________ 4. Where do most poisons come from? _____________________________________________________________________ 5. Why do scientists collect and study poisonous plants? _____________________________________________________________________ C.Comprehension: Multiple Choice Put a circle around the letter of the best answer. 1. Animals and people kill their__________. a. poisons b. plants c. enemies d. farmers 2. _________cannot move around. a. Plants b. Farmers c. Animals d. Scientists 3. An animal ________ if it eats a poisonous plant. a. gets sick or dies b.moves around c. runs away d. studies the poison 4. Most poisonous plants grow in the desert or in the ___. a. farms b.Arctic Circle c. tropics d. laboratories 5. __________use many kinds of poisons. a. Scientists b. Farmers c. Workers d.Animals 6. Most of these poisons come from______. a. plants b. petroleum c. deserts d. the tropics 7. Scientists __________ poisonous plants. a. use b. buy c. run away from d. collect 8. Poison from plants is ________than poison from petroleum. a. cheaper b.more expensive c. more afraid d. cooler D.Main Idea Circle the number of the main idea of the text. 1. Some plants make poisons, and maybe farmers can use them. 2. Plants make poison because they cannot run away from their enemies. 3. Scientists study poisonous plants because farmers want to use them. Lesson 2 The Date Palm The date palm is a wonderful tree. People eat dates.They feed them to their animals. They use the leaves and the wood to build houses. They use the wood to build boats. They make baskets from the leaves. They burn the other parts of the tree to cook their food. The date palm came from the Middle East. Seven thousand (7,000) years ago, people in Syria ( 叙利亚) and Egypt (埃及) ate dates. They made pictures of date palms on their stone buildings. Today date palms grow in the Middle East, parts of Asia and Africa, southern Europe, and other warm parts of the world. There are more than 2,700 kinds of palm trees. Most of them cannot grow in the Middle East because it is too dry. The date palm grows there very well. Hundreds of years ago, people in southern Europe and some Arab countries made pictures of palm trees and palm flowers on some of their buildings. Today we can see these pictures in art museums. People think that the palm tree is beautiful. People thought the same thing a long time ago. A.Vocabulary Put the right word in each blank. The sentences are from the text. burn date palm southern wood baskets stone leaves feed art museums ago wonderful 1. Today we can see these pictures in ______ _______________. 2. They use the________ and the________ to build houses. 3. Today date palms grow in the Middle East, parts of Asia and Africa,_______Europe, and other warm parts of the world. 4.The ______ _________ is a____________ tree. 5.They _________ the other parts of the tree to cook their food. 6. Seven thousand years _________, people in Syria and Egypt ate dates. 7. They make________ from the leaves. 8. They ________them to their animals. 9.They made pictures of date palms on their _________ buildings. Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text. ago leaves wood burn southern 1. Some trees have very large green____________. 2. Argentina is in the____________part of South America. 3.Marie started to study English five years__________. 4. Stone cannot_________. Wood can. 5.We used dry ______ to start a fire in the fireplace. wonderful stone basket feed date palm museum 6. The farmer carried the vegetables back home in a big _________. 7. He found a pretty _________ on the beach and kept it as a gift. 8. The farmer has to ________ the chickens and ducks before going to work. 9.Our class visited the science__________ last Friday. 10.We had a ___________ time at the amusement park yesterday. 11.The ________ _________ can grow well in hot and dry places. B.Questions 1. How do people use the palm tree? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.Where did the date palm come from? _____________________________________________________________________ 3. When did Syrians and Egyptians start to eat dates? _____________________________________________________________________ 4. How many kinds of palm trees are there? _____________________________________________________________________ 5. Why can't most of them grow in the Middle East? _____________________________________________________________________ 6. Where can we see beautiful old pictures of palm trees? _____________________________________________________________________ C. Comprehension: Multiple Choice Put a circle around the letter of the best answer. 1. People make boats from the _______of palm trees. a. leaves b. dates c. wood d. flowers 2. They make baskets from the _______. a. leaves b. dates c. wood d. flowers 3.They_______ part of the tree to make a fire. a. enjoy b.burn c. dance d. grow 4.The date palm came from________. a. California b. southern Europe c. Africa d. the Middle East 5. People started to eat dates about _________ years ago. a, a few hundred b.5,000 c.100 d.7,000 6.Date palms grow_________. a. in the land of the polar bear b. where kiwis live c. in hot or warm places d. in cool places 7. There are more than ___________ kinds of palm trees. a. a few hundred b.2,000 c.100 d.7,000 8. People use palm tree. a. the whole b. almost all of the c. the leaves and wood of the d. the fruit and leaves of the D. Main Idea Circle the number of the main idea of the text. 1. The date palm grows in the Middle East. 2. The date palm is beautiful, and people use all of it. 3. People made pictures of the date palm, and these pictures are in art museums now. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $