Unit 2 动名词专练 2025-2026学年沪教版英语八年级下册

Unit 2 动名词

一、基础应用：用所给词的适当形式填空

1.             She enjoys ______ (communicate) with others through body language.（动名词作宾语）

2.             ______ (shake) hands is a common way to greet people in many countries.（动名词作主语）

3.             Thank you for ______ (remind) me of the important meeting about non-verbal communication.（动名词作介词宾语）

4.             He is good at ______ (express) his ideas with gestures.（动名词作宾语）

5.             It’s no use ______ (argue) with him—he won’t change his mind about body language.（固定句型+动名词）

6.             Instead of ______ (stay) at home, she went to the library to borrow books about body language.（动名词作介词宾语）

7.             She spent two hours ______ (practise) the gestures for her speech.（spend...doing）

8.             I look forward to ______ (learn) more about different body languages around the world.（动名词作介词宾语）

9.             ______ (make) eye contact with the audience is the key to a successful speech.（动名词作主语）

10.        He finished ______ (write) the report on body language yesterday.（动名词作宾语）

二、句型转换（强化知识迁移，紧扣教材话题）

1.             He enjoys reading books about body language.（对划线部分提问）

What ______ he enjoy ______?

2.             She spent three days preparing for the body language workshop.（同义句改写，用It takes）

It ______ her three days ______ ______ for the body language workshop.

3.             He succeeded in communicating with the foreigner through gestures.（对划线部分提问）

How ______ he succeed in ______ with the foreigner?

4.             Instead of staying at home, she went to the museum.（同义句改写，用instead）

She didn’t stay at home. ______, she went to the museum to learn about body language.

5.             It’s meaningful to study different gestures.（用动名词作主语改写）

______ ______ different gestures is meaningful.

三、难点辨析：单项选择

1.             —Why do you keep ______?

—Because I want to improve my body language skills.（keep doing 固定搭配）

A. practise B. practising C. to practise D. practised

2.             He is interested in ______ the differences between Chinese and Western body languages.（be interested in + 动名词）

A. find B. finding C. to find D. found

3.             It’s no good ______ about the result—you should prepare for the next speech.（固定句型+动名词）

A. worry B. worrying C. to worry D. worried

4.             She stopped ______ when the teacher came in, and the teacher stopped ______ her about the gesture meaning.（stop