Unit 6 When disaster strikes 课文活用进阶训练及拓展阅读2025-2026学年外研版八年级英语上册

Unit 6 When disaster strikes 课文活用进阶训练

Developing ideas

Step1根据句意及汉语提示用适当的单词填空

A 1.         (消失的) city

My mother and I were staying in a town near Pompei. The earth shook those days. That night, I was sleeping when the 2.         (地面) shook very hard. My mother rushed into my room to wake me up. We had to stay outside for the night. My mother was so 3.         (恐惧的). She didn't 4.         (合上) her eyes for even one second. By six o'clock the next morning, many buildings were still shaking. We decided to leave the town.

The road was crowded. We were at a place out of town. Just then 5.         (骇人的) things happened. Our coach couldn't go 6.         (笔直的) ahead. It began to move from side to side. The sea moved back suddenly, and many sea animals were left on the sand.

 We noticed a very dark cloud over Mount Vesuvius. Soon, the cloud moved down and covered the sea. My mother asked me to 7.         (继续) without her, but I refused to leave her behind. We moved on while the cloud was spreading over the land like a 8.         (洪水). It turned day into night. The air was thick with 9.         (烟) and ash began to fall in heavy

10.         (一大批) . All around us, women were calling, children were crying and men were shouting. People were trying to find their families in the dark.

Thankfully, after a while, the daylight returned! Everything was covered in ash, like the snow in winter. After a night of living between hope and fear, we had no thoughts of things to come.

Pliny the Younger

Step2在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空

A lost city

My mother and I were staying in a town near Pompei. The earth shook those days. That night, I was sleeping when the ground shook very hard. My mother rushed into my room to wake me up. We had to stay outside for the night. My mother was so scared. She didn't shut her eyes for even

one second. By six o'clock the next morning, many 1.         (build) were still shaking. We decided to leave the town.

The road was 2.         (crowd). We were at a place out of town. Just then 3.        

(shock) things happened. Our coach couldn't go straight ahead. It began to move from side to side. The sea moved back 4.         (sudden), and many sea animals were left on the sand.

 We noticed a very dark cloud 5.          Mount Vesuvius. Soon, the cloud moved down and covered the sea. My mother asked me to continue without her, but I refused to leave her behind. We moved on 6.           the cloud was spreading over the land like a flood. It turned day

7.          night. The air was thick with smoke and ash began to fall in heavy showers. All around us, 8.          were calling, children were crying and men were shouting. People were trying to find their families in the dark.

9.         , after a while, the daylight returned! Everything was covered in ash, like the snow in winter. After a night of living between hope and fear, we had no10.         (think) of things to come.

Pliny the Younger

Step3用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空

A lost city

My mother and I were staying in a town near Pompei. The earth shook those days. That night, I 1.         (sleep) when the ground shook very hard. My mother rushed into my room 2.        

(wake) me up. We had to stay outside for the night. My mother was so scared. She didn't shut her eyes for even one second. By six o'clock the next morning, many buildings were still 3.        

(shake). We decided 4.         (leave) the town.

The road was crowded. We were at a place out of town. Just then shocking things happened. Our coach couldn't go straight ahead. It began to move from side to side. The sea moved back suddenly, and many sea animals were left on the sand.

 We noticed a very dark cloud over Mount Vesuvius. Soon, the cloud moved down and

covered the sea. My mother asked me 5.         (continue) without her, but I refused 6.        

(leave) her behind. We moved on while the cloud 7.         (spread) over the land like a flood. It turned day into night. The air was thick with smoke and ash began to fall in heavy showers. All around us, women 8.         (call), children were crying and men were shouting. People were trying 9.         (find) their families in the dark.

Thankfully, after a while, the daylight returned! Everything was covered in ash, like the snow in winter. After a night of 10.         (live) between hope and fear, we had no thoughts of things to come.

Pliny the Younger

Step4阅读下列短文，根据汉语提示完成句子

A lost city

My mother and I were staying in a town near Pompei. The earth shook those days. That night, I was sleeping when the ground shook very hard. My mother 1.               (冲进) my room to 2.               (叫醒我). We had to stay outside for the night. My mother was so scared. She didn't shut her eyes for even one second. By six o'clock the next morning, many buildings were still shaking. We decided to leave the town.

The road was crowded. We were at a place 3.               (城外). Just then shocking things happened. Our coach couldn't go straight ahead. It began to move 4.               (左右摇晃). The sea moved back suddenly, and many sea animals were left 5.               (在沙滩上).

 We noticed a very dark cloud over Mount Vesuvius. Soon, the cloud moved down and covered the sea. My mother asked me to continue without her, but I refused to 6.              

(把她留下). We moved on while the cloud was spreading over the land like a flood. It turned day into night. The air 7.               (充满) smoke and ash began to fall in heavy showers. All around us, women were calling, children were crying and men were shouting. People were trying to find their families in the dark.

Thankfully, after a while, the daylight returned! Everything was covered in ash, like the snow in winter. After a night of living between hope and fear, we 8.               (无暇顾及) things to