Unit 5 Nature’s Temper同步练-2025-2026学年人教版英语八年级下册

Unit 5 Nature’s Temper

一、根据句意及汉语注释完成单词（每小题1分，共5分）

1. A big blue _________(卡车) took new desks to our school this morning.
2. Please ________ (遮盖) the bowl that has hot soup so it won’t get cold quickly.
3. We won’t have any _________ (苦恼) finishing the project if we help each other.
4. After days of searching, the police found the lost children, who were all ________ (安全).
5. My favourite _________ (亲戚) is my aunt because she always tells me interesting stories.

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. We should make _________ (prepare) for our picnic.
2. My dad  _________(store) the tools that he used for fixing bikes in a black box.
3. We should stay away from the old bridge that looks _________ (danger) now.
4. After the earthquake was over, planes carried food and medical _________ (supply) for us.
5.  _________(lucky), the rain stopped when we were about to start our outdoor activities.

三、用合适的词完成句子，每空限填一词（每小题1分，共5分）

1. After the storm, workers came to move the fallen (倒下的) trees ________ the road.
2. Miss Smith was about to finish her science fiction ______ the reporter arrived.
3. All the fishing boats returned to the port (港口) ________ the tornado started.
4. Gina warned me not to use phones while riding, or I might get _________ an accident.
5.  _________the typhoon, the wind and rain were so heavy that we could hardly hear each other.

四、语法填空（每小题1分，共10分）

One night there was a terrible wind and it rained hard. A ship with sailors (水手) and 1. ________ (passenger) hit the rocks and broke down. The wind was much 2. ________ (strong) that the lighthouse keeper (灯塔守护员) couldn’t take his boat out to save those people. All night long it was raining 3. ________ (heavy) and waves were beating the ship hard.4. _________storm was so scary. It 5. _________ (seem) that nobody could be alive.

The next morning, Grace Darling, the lighthouse keeper’s daughter (女儿), could see a few people were still crying 6. ________ help loud on the ship. So she asked her father to help them.7._________ she was only a young girl, she went with her father and helped him to save the people. She didn’t think too much about 8. _________ (she). She only thought about 9. _________ (save) the people on the ship.

She and her father tried their best 10.  _________(reach) the people. It wasn’t easy to save them because they were so cold and could hardly move. But at last Grace and her father succeeded in taking them to the lighthouse. Because of Grace Darling’s kindness (善良), these people were safe.

五、阅读理解（每小题2分，共8分）

In 2025, Guangxi faced a serious drought. No one in Guangxi ever imagined facing such a terrible drought. It changed our green, rainy home into a dry and dead place. From the beginning of November 2024 to May 2025, there was hardly any heavy rain here. Only small rains fell on the ground sometimes. This was the lowest since 1961.

▲ A weather event called La Niña sent strong winds from the north over Guangxi. Also, the high-pressure system kept wet air away, so it was hotter and less rainy.

The unusual drought affected people’s drinking water and crops. Thousands of people didn’t have enough water to drink, and large areas of crops were dying. Many cities like Nanning and Guilin, along

with lots of counties (县), had drought problems. In Guigang, some small water pools even had no water left.

The government tried the best to help. They dug many new wells (井) for water and did cloud seeding (人工降雨) many times. The government used a large number of money to solve the problems, such as rebuilding farms, buying water tools and sending water. These made sure people had enough water until the rains (雨季) came. In June, it rained a lot, and the land turned green again.

Guangxi’s drought tells a truth: Nature is like a magic box full of surprises. Just when we think we understand it well enough, it suddenly shows us something we didn’t expect. It reminds us that no matter how much we study and prepare, nature always has its own rules and ways of working.

(     )1.How long did the drought in Guangxi last（持续）？

[A] For 3 months.

[B] For 6 months.

[C] For 7 months.

[D] For 9 months.

(     )2. Which sentence should we put in “ ▲ ” in Paragraph 2?

[A] Why did this happen?

[B] Where can we find more water?

[C] What can we do during the drought?

[D] Who had the biggest problems during the drought?

(     )3. Which way did the government NOT use to fight against the drought?

[A] Doing cloud seeding.

[B] Buying water tools.

[C] Building more houses.