Unit 7 A Good Read同步练 2025-2026学年人教版英语八年级下册

Unit 7 A Good Read

一、根据句意及汉语注释完成单词（每小题1分，共5分）

1. The movie is a mix of reality (现实) and ________ (幻想).

2.  ________(侦探) are questioning a woman about the accident.

3. It is not easy for trees to fight back when insects ________ (攻击) them.

4. Our teacher asked us to use at least three different ________ (习语) in our stories.

5. Linda found that someone________  (偷) her new bike from her garden last night.

二、用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空（每小题1分，共5分）

1.  ________you ________ (choose) the book for the English class yet?

2. They are planning  ________(have) a picnic in the park this Saturday.

3. Bob likes two________  (type) of movie --- action movies and mystery movies.

4. The team was ________ (force) to change its plan because of the bad weather.

5. The teacher has________  (punish) him by asking him to clean the classroom after school.

三、根据下列表达，匹配相应的书籍类型（每小题1分，共5分）

A. historical fiction   B. mystery   C. science fiction   D. adventure   E. love fiction

(     )1. In these books, a strange event happens, and the characters must find the truth.

(     )2. These stories often talk about future worlds or space travel with high technology.

(     )3. You can see several couples live a happy life after some difficulties in these stories.

(     )4. These stories happened in the past and mixed real history with imagined characters and events.

(     )5. Characters in these stories explore new places, face dangers, and solve problems to achieve a goal.

四、语法填空（每小题1分，共10分）

The children's book, The Little Prince, is one of the most popular books in the world. French pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1. ______________ (write) it in 1943. It's so welcome that there are plays, 2. ______________ (movie), and even a theme (主题) park in France all about the story. In 2024, some characters from the story worked 3. ______________ "guides" in Hong Kong's Ocean Park. But 4. ______________ is the book so special?
    The book 5. ______________ (be) very meaningful and shows us what it means to be humans. In the story, a pilot crashes (碰撞) 6. ______________ (he) plane in the desert. There, he meets 7. ______________ clever little prince from a different planet. The planet is much 8. ______________ (small) than the earth. The prince tells the pilot how he meets a friendly fox 9. ______________ a scary snake on earth. The pilot learns some 10. ______________ (real) important lessons about life and love. He also sees how adults (成年人) forget what they knew as children --- like how to be kind.

五、阅读理解（每小题2分，共8分）

Charles Dickens was one of the greatest writers of his time.

Charles Dickens, the son of a worker at the Navy Pay Office, was born on 7th February, 1812. He lived in a poor street as a child. 12-year-old Dickens had to work at a factory. He tried to make a little money to help his family. This childhood (童年) poor life had a great influence on Dickens's books.

Dickens wrote more than 15 novels. Oliver Twist is his second novel. The story described an orphan (孤儿) called Oliver Twist, sold into apprenticeship (学徒工作). After running away from the apprenticeship, Oliver travelled to London, where he met some teen criminals (青少年罪犯). The novel told about the criminals and their terrible lives, and showed the hard lives of many orphans in London. It has been put into a Disney film.

Charles Dickens died at the age of 58 because of too much work and travel, on 9th June, 1870. He wished to be buried (埋葬) in a small place in Rochester, Kent, but the nation would not allow it. He was buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, one of the most famous places where many famous people were buried. The flowers from people all around filled his grave.

(     ) 1. What made Charles Dickens a great writer of his time according to the text?
[A] His friends' help.    [B] His father's job.    [C] His poor life experiences.    [D] His country.

(     ) 2. What can we learn from the text?
[A] Oliver Twist grew up with criminals in London.
[B] Disney has made a movie about Charles Dickens.
[C] Charles Dickens worked at a factory at the age of 15.
[D] The novel Oliver Twist described orphans' lives in London.

(     ) 3. What can we know from Paragraph 4?
[A] Charles Dickens had an easy and relaxing life.
[B] Charles Dickens is a popular writer in his country.
[C] Charles Dickens died in Rochester, Kent in 1870.
[D] Westminster Abbey is a small grave of the country.

(     ) 4. What's the best title for the text?
[A] Movies about Charles Dickens    [B] An Orphan's Poor Life   

[C] A Great Writer    [D] Novels of Charles Dickens

六、完形填空（每小题1分，共15分）

In Flanders, a small village in Belgium, lived a little boy called Nello. He became an orphan at the age of two. Then he lived with his grandpa in a small house. Life was 1_______ for them.