Unit 8 Making a Differen单元语法过关练-2025-2026学年人教版英语八年级下册

Unit 8 Making a Difference.单元语法过关练

一、用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。

(Clare is a warm-hearted woman and she founds a charity club in her community. )

1. Clare _______________ (travel) to fourteen cities since two years ago to help people around.

2. I ____________ (not hear) from Clare since she moved to Shanghai for a charity project.

3. Her charity club _____________ (provide) money support to poor students in our community for ten years.

4. Clare’s friend Mike _______ (join) the community volunteer club last year. He ________ (be) a club member since then.

5. Clare _________________ (marry) to Bob for 15 years, and they are always willing to help people in the community.

二、单项填空

(      ) 6. The film Nezha II has been popular among people _______ it came out.

A. since    B. while    C. as     D. until

(      ) 7.Eric _______ three great Chinese works since he came to China three months ago.

A. read     B. reads    C. has read    D. was reading

(      ) 8. I must return my friend’s camera to her now because I _______ it for 2 months.

A. have borrowed  B. have bought   C. have lent   D. have kept

(      ) 9. —How long have you known your best friend?

—I’ve known him _______ seven years. I _______ to know him in 2018.

A. since; had begun  B. for; began   C. since; began   D. for; begin

(      ) 10. —My mother ______ Shanghai to attend a meeting for 2 days.

—Really? Have you started to miss her?

A. has been to   B. has gone to   C. has been in   D. has arrived in

三、阅读下面短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空 。

There are many activities in our school which make our school life colourful and interesting.

Last year, our school 11. _____________ a charity sale. On the day of the event, the playground was filled 12. _______ marketplaces. Standing alone in the bustling crowd, I was so nervous because it was my 13. _______ time to join in such an activity. Luckily, Lisa, a girl from another class, came to me and offered 14. __________ together. 15. _______ that day, we have been good friends.

16. _______ the charity sale, we worked hard together. Thanks to our teamwork, we had a big success.

Since the charity sale 17. _______, we have kept in touch ever y day. For over a year, we 18. _______________ English together after class, practiced singing for the school concert, and even started a small club to help other students. When I was sick last month, Lisa 19. _______ me every day for a week and helped me with missed lessons, making sure I didn’t fall behind.

Our friendship 20. ______________ an important part of my life. I believe our friendship will last forever, like a bright star guiding me through the journey of school life.

四、阅读理解。

A篇

Ever been hungry enough to eat a house? Now, you actually could.

Food waste is a big problem in Japan and all over the world. Japan produced around 5. 7 million tons of food waste in 2019. The government plans to reduce that by around 2. 7 million tons by 2030.

University of Tokyo researchers Kota Machida and Yuya Sakai have developed a way to change food waste into cement for building and other uses. This is the first-ever way created for making cement entirely from food waste. The researchers say their product is four times as strong as traditional concrete. This special cement can be used to make things like tea cups or chairs as well. However, there’s one additional feature—it’s also eatable.

Kota and Yuya are working for Fabula Inc. , a company with the purpose of reducing food waste and helping fight global warming.

As expected, something so special took years to develop. It took a few tries to find just the right process. Kota and Yuya created the special technology while researching possible environmentally-friendly materials to take the place of cement—concrete. Cement production accounts for 8% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions(二氧化碳排放).

After a few failures, they realized they could get the cement to bind by adjusting the temperatures. “The most challenging part was that each type of food waste requires different temperatures,” Yuya said. In the