Unit1 Time to Relax阅读能力提升练-2025-2026学年人教版英语八年级下册

八年级下册英语Unit1阅读能力提升练

一、完形填空。

My mom was the first person in our family to do yoga. Her best friend, Sissy, who lived next door to us, 1 yoga to her. She said if Mom was tired of the rush of modern life and wanted to feel 2 then yoga could help.Sissy was a very peaceful person so Mom 3 accepted.

I watched Mom every day do her breathing exercises and 4 her postures (姿势). After a few months, she said she felt much 5 .

Dad felt surprised. He wasn't going to be left out so he 6 yoga too. He goes to a class twice a week now.

Then Mom had the bright 7 that my sister and I should do yoga. She found the kind of yoga that is 8 for children and learned as much as she could about it. Then she became our 9 . To my surprise, it turned out really well.

At first, we mostly did breathing exercises but then we moved on to stretching(伸展)exercises. Mom told us to 10 we were enjoying ourselves in the sunshine. It was really fun! Our whole family does yoga now.

(    )1.A.took     B. introduced     C.expressed  D.returned

(    )2. A.stressed   B. excited    C. relaxed    D.scared

(    )3. A. easily    B. hardly     C. luckily     D. strictly

(    )4.A.test       B.raise       C.practise     D.chat

(    )5.A.healthier   B.luckier    C.heavier      D.cleverer

(    )6. A. gave up    B. made up   C. put up     D. took up

(    )7. A. object      B. idea     C. deal        D.dream

(    )8. A. noisy      B. difficult    C. secret     D. helpful

(    )9.A.friend      B.hostess    C.instructor    D.doctor

(    )10.A.imagine   B.show    C.learn       D.express

二、综合填空。

阅读短文，根据首字母或所给词的适当形式填空，使文章语义通顺。

A teenage boy named Tom often feels stressed. His father, an Italian 1.         (program), advises him to do yoga to reduce stress. Tom, however, prefers collecting old 2.         (object)like coins, stamps, and foreign postcards. 3.T         some say it's old-fashioned, he enjoys the 4. s         of achievement from the hobby. Once, he 5.

         (fail) to get a special stamp. His mom inspired him and said, "Failure is also a chance 6.         (learn)."Surprisingly,his hobby allows him to connect 7.w         foreign friends. Importantly, whether through yoga 8. o         collecting things, he learns to manage stress. "It is not about 9. w         you do,” he says,“but about how it makes you 10.         (feel)."

二、阅读理解。

Can you design a Lego model without any help? I'm afraid most people can't. But a team from Carnegie Mellon University has created a smart AI model called LegoGPT. It can produce Lego designs from text

alone.

The team trained LegoGPT with a data set(数据集)called StableText2Lego. To create it, the team first let the AI read a text prompt(提示符) and then turned it into a ShapeNetCore mesh(网状物). Then this appeared in a voxel grid(体素网格) to set up the basic form. The form was changed, and only stable designs were kept. Finally, those left were on show from 24 different angles and ChatGPT's GPT-40 briefly described the final output. The data set has over 47,000 Lego structures. All kinds of 3D objects, such as tables, cars and guitars, have gone through the process.

With the data set, LegoGPT can help people create new designs. It first turns the text into a Lego design. That design is then broken down into text tokens. Instructions are created to pair the structured Lego bricks   with notes explaining the design, so that the AI will understand the relationship between the text prompt and the bricks. From there, LegoGPT predicts the next brick needed to build the design. It also checks if the structure works. If there's a problem, the AI will go back to a safe point and start again. This goes on until the design is over.

LegoGPT is now free for everyone online.It can also be paired with other tools like image processing(图像处理)AI.For example,you can take a photo of your Lego bricks and let the AI suggest what you can build with them.