Unit4 Reading 学案-2025-2026学年沪教版英语八年级上册

沪教牛津新教材八上Unit4 Reading 学案 一、Match the headings to the paragraphs with the information from the article on P54. 二、Read each passage and answer the questions below. Para.1 Travelling before the invention of the wheel 1. How did people leave their home in search of new places 100, 000 years ago? __________________________________________________________________________ 2. How did people in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan travel about 6,000 years ago? __________________________________________________________________________ 3. What’s the problem when people transported goods at that time ? __________________________________________________________________________ 4. What happened a few hundred years later? __________________________________________________________________________ Para.2 Increasing trade and business used wheels to___________ First Later Suddenly Soon s could use wheels to____________________________ attached wheels to_____________________________ increased _______________________ transport goods to____________________________ The invention of the wheel Para. 2 Para.3 Improving roads 1. How did the wheel change society? __________________________________________________________________________ 2. Because the old paths were difficult to use, what new invention appeared ? __________________________________________________________________________ 3. What did the Romans invent?_______________________________________________ 4. What were these new roads like?______________________________________________ Para.4 Impact（影响） on modern society 1. Besides improving transport, what did the wheel allow people to do? __________________________________________________________________________ 2. What kinds of 21st century technology is the wheel used in? __________________________________________________________________________ 三、Complete the Mind map according to the text. 答案 一、段落与标题匹配 （教材经典标题匹配版，按原文段落逻辑排序）Para.1 → Travelling before the invention of the wheelPara.2 → Increasing trade and businessPara.3 → Improving roadsPara.4 → Impact on modern society 二、阅读回答问题 Para.1 Travelling before the invention of the wheel 1. They left their homes and walked to search for new places. 2. They rode horses to travel about 6,000 years ago. 3. It was still very difficult to transport large amounts of goods. 4. A few hundred years later, the wheel was invented. Para.3 Improving roads 1. It changed society by improving transport, increasing trade and business, and leading to better roads. 2. Smooth stone paths appeared because the old paths were difficult to use. 3. The Romans invented many new roads across Europe and Asia. 4. These new roads were straight, smooth and built with stones (they were also very durable and easy to travel on). Para.4 Impact（影响） on modern society 1. Besides improving transport, the wheel allowed people to invent all kinds of machines. 2. It is used in many 21st century technologies such as cars, trains, planes, computers and other digital devices. 三、思维导图填空（每空贴合原文，核心词汇填空） The wonder of the wheel Over 100,000 years ago,(1)to search for new places, the first humans left their homes and they walked to do it.About 6,000 years ago, a number of important changes (2)took place.·(3)In Kazakhstan,some people started to ride horses. However, it was still difficult (4)to transport large amounts of goods.Nobody knows who first invented the wheel. Maybe the inventors first (5)used wheels for pottery.People (6)invented horse-pulled wheeled vehicles to transport people and things further. The old walking paths were difficult to use in (7)bad weather.·After the wheel, the old (8)paths were replaced by smooth stone paths first appeared.We still use some of these roads today. The wheel not only changed the way humans move, but it also (9)allowed people to invent all kinds of machines.The Industrial Revolution (10)depended on the wheel and we still use wheels in many digital devices now.The wheel is one of the most important inventions. 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $