Unit 7　Space exploration课件 2025-2026学年沪教版英语八年级下册

Writing(P108－P109) 英语　八年级下册 1 一、根据括号内所给的提示造句。 1. 地球周围的太空垃圾对人造卫星是一个大问题。(space junk) _________________________________________________ 2.中国航天团队在月球探索中取得了巨大进步。(make great progress) _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ China's space team made great progress in lunar/Moon exploration. Space junk around the Earth is a big problem for satellites. 英语　八年级下册 2 3. 未来，人们将能够在海底生活。(be able to do sth.) _________________________________________________ 4. 李明在电视上观看了火箭起飞，感到非常兴奋。(take off) _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ People will be able to live under the sea in the future. Li Ming watched the rocket take off on TV and felt very excited. 英语　八年级下册 3 5. 迈克承担不起再次丢失图书馆书籍的后果。(cannot afford to do sth.) _________________________________________________ Mike cannot afford to lose library books again. 英语　八年级下册 4 阅读短文及文后A～G选项，选出可以填入各题空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。 英语　八年级下册 5 A.They need to be healthy. B.It is about 4 metres tall and 3.5 metres wide. C.The company plans to do many tests in 2026. D.The answer is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. E.They can take clear photos of the moon from space. F.Those tickets were priced at 1.5 million yuan each. G.The rocket uses clean energy to protect the environment. 英语　八年级下册 6 In 2024, you could buy lots of things during a live stream(直播), such as food and clothes, and even a ticket(票) to space. Not long ago，Deep Blue Aerospace, a Chinese space company, sold two space travel tickets in a live stream. This was the first time that Chinese people had been able to buy space tickets. 英语　八年级下册 7 1.___________________________________________________ But during the livestreaming, they were sold only for 1 million yuan each. It was 500 thousand yuan cheaper than usual. So, what makes such a short trip so special and worth the price? 2.__________________________________________ The space trip will last about 12 minutes. Passengers will sit in a spaceship. F.Those tickets were priced at 1.5 million yuan each. D.The answer is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. 英语　八年级下册 8 3.___________________________________________________ It will go 100 kilometres above Earth. Travellers will experience weightlessness for at least five minutes and see Earth from above before coming back down safely. This amazing experience depends on the company's safe and advanced rocket. Passengers must be between 18 and 60 years old. B. It is about 4 metres tall and 3.5 metres wide. 英语　八年级下册 9 4._________________________ They also have to take some safety training before the trip. The company's Nebula-1 rocket will be used for the trip. It runs on liquid oxygen and kerosene(煤油) and can be reused. This makes the trip cheaper. “As this technology gets better, space tickets might become less expensive，” said Huo Liang, the CEO of Deep Blue Aerospace. A.They need to be healthy. 英语　八年级下册 10 5._____________________________________________ They want to make sure the space trip is safe. They hope to begin the trip in 2027. C. The company plans to do many tests in 2026. 英语　八年级下册 11 1.___________________________________________________　 2.___________________________________________________　 3.___________________________________________________ 　 4.___________________________________________________　 5.___________________________________________________ F. Those tickets were priced at 1.5 million yuan each. D. The answer is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. B. It is about 4 metres tall and 3.5 metres wide. A. They need to be healthy. C. The company plans to do many tests in 2026. 英语　八年级下册 12 $Unit 7　Space exploration Reading(P100－P103) 英语　八年级下册 1 一、根据句意提示，填写出单词的适当形式。 1. Mum made some delicious food, including ____/biːf/ fried rice. 2. The g___ is Tim's favourite place because he likes doing exercise a lot. beef ym 英语　八年级下册 2 3. The price of houses is too high. Mary can't _______ (affordable) it. 4. Don't be afraid of making ________(mistake). No one is perfect. 5. Last week, Grace and Emma _____(stick) a world map on their bedroom wall. afford mistakes stuck 英语　八年级下册 3 二、词形变换。 1. lucky(adj.); luckily(adv.) ①Most Chinese think “Six” and “Eight” are ______ numbers. ②________, Tom arrived at Guangzhou Library before it started to rain heavily. lucky Luckily 英语　八年级下册 4 2. shock(n.); shocked(adj.) ①The soldiers all felt very _________ when they heard the news. ②The height of the Canton Tower was a big ______ to Li Ming when he first visited. shocked shock 英语　八年级下册 5 3. joy(n.); joyful(adj.) ①Betty's eyes were full of ___ when she first saw a photo of Earth from space. ②Our football team won several victories this season, and all of us felt very ________． joy joyful 英语　八年级下册 6 4. proud(adj.); proudly(adv.) ①As students, we should be _______ of Chinese culture and show it to the world. ②The guide pointed ________ to the old buildings along Shamian Island in Guangzhou. proud proudly 英语　八年级下册 7 5. worry(v.); worried(adj.) ①Jack is ________ about losing the game, so he is training hard. ②If you get home too late, your parents will _____ about your safety. worried worry 英语　八年级下册 8 三、完成句子。 1. Unless you start right now, you will not get to the space station on time. (用if改写句子) If you ______ ______ right now, you will not get to the space station on time. don't start 英语　八年级下册 9 2. Learning about all the planets in our solar system takes a long time. (改为同义句) ___ _____ a long time ___ _____ about all the planets in our solar system. 3. The weather in space is not the same as the weather on Earth.(改为同义句) The weather in space _ _______ ____ the weather on Earth. It takes to learn is different from 英语　八年级下册 10 4. Li Lei chose the wrong answer by accident in the quiz about planet sizes.(改为同义句) Li Lei chose the wrong answer ___ ________ in the quiz about planet sizes. 5. The rocket will take off for Mars tomorrow morning. (对画 线部分提问) ______ _____ the rocket take off for Mars? by mistake When will 英语　八年级下册 11 一、语法巩固。 ( )1. Judy's father used ________ to his office by bus. A. to go B. gone C. to going D. go A 英语　八年级下册 12 ( )2.If everyone ________ a small change, our planet will become much greener. A．makes B．made C．will make D．has made ( )3. Space stations cannot afford ________ out of oxygen, because astronauts need it to survive. A. run B. to run C. running D. to running A B 英语　八年级下册 13 ( )4.Aunt Betty is looking at herself in the mirror. She seems to be satisfied ________ her new hairstyle. A．from B．at C．with D．on ( )5. On our school trip, we went to the Guangzhou Zoo, and to the Guangdong Museum ________． A．either B．neither C．also D．as well C D 英语　八年级下册 14 请从方框内选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使文章完整连贯。注意每空一词，每词仅用一次，有两词为多余项。 play　actual　inform　express　agreement　explore　importance　 英语　八年级下册 15 Humans have been interested in outer space for thousands of years. It has been over fifty years since humans first landed on the Moon. Now, some people believe that space exploration is a waste of time and money. It takes billions of dollars to do space research, but people just get a little 1._____________． information 英语　八年级下册 16 However, every coin has two sides. There are still a lot of other people who believe that space exploration has many advantages. And I 2.______ with them. Many new products, such as weather and communications satellites, are 3._______ products of space programmes, and they are good for people all over the world. What's more, people have already acquired some 4._________ scientific knowledge of outer space. agree actually important 英语　八年级下册 17 We believe one thing—it will bring more advantages in the future. We can't even imagine these advantages now, so some countries keep 5.________ space. They work hard at it all the time. Let's wait and see. exploring 英语　八年级下册 18 1. __________　 2. __________　 3. __________　 4. __________　 5. __________ information agree actually important exploring 英语　八年级下册 19 三、根据课文原句仿写句子。 1.(P101)It turns out that eating can be a pleasure in space too! 事实证明，在太空中吃饭也是一种乐趣！ 仿写：事实证明，那个问题的答案比我们想的要简单得多。 __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ It turns out that the answer to the question was much simpler/easier than we thought. 英语　八年级下册 20 2.(P101)However, it is an amazing experience to go outside the space station in a spacesuit. 然而，穿着宇航服走出空间站是一次奇妙的经历。 仿写：对外国人来说，用粤语(Cantonese)与广州本地朋友交流，是一个挑战。 __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ It's a challenge for foreigners to communicate with local friends in Guangzhou using Cantonese. 英语　八年级下册 21 3.(P101)This stops me from floating around the room and hitting something by mistake! 这能防止我在房间里四处漂浮，不小心撞到东西！ 仿写：宇航服能防止宇航员在飞船外感到过热或过冷。 __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Spacesuits can stop astronauts from feeling too hot or too cold outside the spaceship. 英语　八年级下册 22 4.(P101)Exercise is an important part of our daily routine in space. 锻炼是我们在太空中日常生活的重要组成部分。 仿写：做家务是每个学生日常生活的一部分。 __________________________________________________ Doing housework is a part of every student's daily routine. 英语　八年级下册 23 5.(P101)If we do not exercise, we will be very weak when we return to the Earth. 如果我们不运动，我们回到地球时就会非常虚弱。 仿写：如果你不知道这个单词，你可以在词典里查一下。 __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ If you don't know the word, you can look it up in the dictionary. 英语　八年级下册 24 After lunch, Ali, Bilal and Ahmed went to play in the park. Suddenly the wind started blowing strongly and a huge spaceship appeared. The kids were scared and hid behind some bushes. 英语　八年级下册 25 A tall creature came out. It looked like the alien they had seen in the movie. The alien noticed the boys and said, “Don't be scared, my friends. I come here in peace! There's something wrong with the engine of my spaceship. Could you help me fix it, please？” The boys slowly came out and met the alien. 英语　八年级下册 26 They were still scared, but the friendly alien soon brushed their fears away. They introduced themselves. Since they needed tools to help with the spaceship, they took the alien to their home. All the boys found that the alien was very nice and they had a good conversation with him. The kids turned on the TV and soon news of a terrorist attack(恐怖袭击) was shown on it. The alien asked, “What's all this？” 英语　八年级下册 27 Bilal told him that wars and fights were common problems in many countries. The alien was surprised to hear that. He told them that the people on his planet didn't need any money. They didn't fight with each other. They could fly freely in space. The boys became excited after hearing his words. 英语　八年级下册 28 After dark, they started to work on the engine. At midnight, it was fixed. The alien was ready to leave. Just then, Ahmed asked, “Can we visit your planet？” The alien replied，“Yes, but you need to end the wars and be friends with each other. If you start living peacefully on Earth, you will be able to visit my planet.” 英语　八年级下册 29 After saying this, he sat in his spaceship and left. The three friends enjoyed the amazing meeting with the alien, but they also started wondering how to stop humans from fighting for power and money. 英语　八年级下册 30 ( )1. According to the story, when did the spaceship probably land on the Earth? A. At midnight. B. In the morning. C. In the afternoon. D. After dark. C 英语　八年级下册 31 ( )2.Why was the alien surprised to hear about the news? A. He didn't like the terrorist attack. B. The aliens never fought with each other. C. The aliens only fought for money. D. It was his first time to watch TV news. B 英语　八年级下册 32 ( )3.In what order did the following happen in the story? a. The kids took the alien to their home. b. The alien asked the kids not to be afraid. c. The kids and the alien fixed the spaceship. d. The kids and the alien watched TV together. e. The kids said they wanted to visit the alien's planet. f. The kids saw a spaceship and hid behind some bushes. A 英语　八年级下册 33 A. f→b→a→d→c→e B. f→a→b→c→d→e C. b→f→a→d→e→c D. b→a→d→e→f→c 英语　八年级下册 34 ( )4. What is the main purpose of this story? A. To tell people how to fix a spaceship. B. To encourage the young to visit other planets. C. To ask people to stop fighting and live in peace. D. To teach children how to make friends with aliens. C 英语　八年级下册 35 $Grammar(P105－P106) 英语　八年级下册 1 一、语法巩固。 ( )1. While Jeff's mother ________ dinner, he was doing his homework. A．cooked B．is cooking C．cooks D．was cooking ( )2. Lisa ________ along the path by the lake at this time yesterday. A．is jogging B．jogs C．was jogging D．jogged D C 英语　八年级下册 2 ( )3. —What ________ you ________ at 9：00 last Saturday? —I was reading a book about youth. A．do; do B．did; do C．are; doing D．were; doing ( )4. The students ________ so happily that they didn't notice the teacher coming in. A．were talking B．are talking C．will talk D．talk D A 英语　八年级下册 3 5. Linda was having some fruit and vegetables at that moment. (改为一般疑问句) ___ Linda ______ any fruit and vegetables at that moment? 6. Mary and Jenny were preparing for the party when I got to their home. (改为一般疑问句) _____ Mary and Jenny __________ for the party when you got to their home? Was having Were preparing 英语　八年级下册 4 7. Jack and Jim swam in the pool yesterday. (用at 10：00 a．m. yesterday改写句子) _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ 8. Daniel sat on the grass to relax himself yesterday. (用at this time yesterday改写句子) __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Jack and Jim were swimming in the pool at 10：00 a．m. yesterday. Daniel was sitting on the grass to relax himself at this time yesterday. 英语　八年级下册 5 Edmund Halley was an astronomer. He was very interested in comets(彗星), because he thought they were beautiful. In 1682, Halley noticed a comet. He spent a long time 1._________ it. ( )1. A. study B. studied C. studying D. studies C studying 英语　八年级下册 6 However, it disappeared. Halley guessed that it would return in 1758 or 1759. This would be about 75 years after it 2.___________ by Halley. The same comet returned right on time. However, Halley died in 1742 3.____ he was unable to see it. ( )2. A. found B. has found C. was found D. is found ( )3. A. but B. or C. as D. and C D was found and 英语　八年级下册 7 So people named it “Halley's Comet” to remember 4.____. People thought Halley was a great astronomer. Other scientists kept studying it. One night in 1759, while they 5._____________ the returning comet through telescopes(望远镜), they recorded its exact position. ( )4. A. he B. him C. his D. himself ( )5. A. were watching B. are watching C. will watch D. watch B A him were watching 英语　八年级下册 8 The scientists studied the comet to find facts. But many people were afraid of it and thought it was 6.___ clear symbol of bad luck. It perhaps made people's lives terrible and even caused death. Now, scientists do lots of research 7._______ more about comets. ( )6. A. a B. an C. the D. / ( )7. A. learn B. learns C. learning D. to learn A D a to learn 英语　八年级下册 9 All comets have a head and a tail. Some comets have 8.______ tails than others. Comets move through the sky very quickly. However, their speed depends 9.____ how close they are to the Sun. When they are close to the Sun, they can move at a speed of 122，000 miles an hour. How fast they move! ( )8. A. long B. longest C. longer D. the longest ( )9.A.in B．on C．at D．of C B longer on 英语　八年级下册 10 Scientists are studying comets 10.__________. They hope to know more about them. ( )10. A. care B. caring C. careful D. carefully D carefully 英语　八年级下册 11 $Listening & Speaking(P104 & P107) 英语　八年级下册 1 一、按例子写出与宇航员的生活有关的词汇。 Daily activities do exercise；_________________; ____________________; _____________ Food fruit; ___; _______; ____; ________; _____ Items spaceship; _________; ________________; ______________________ do experiments perform a spacewalk float around nut chicken beef seafood soup spacesuit sleeping bag exercise equipment 英语　八年级下册 2 二、询问信息。 1. 针对宇航员选拔，你想了解申请者Andy的情况，请根据以下提示向他提问。 (1)你的身高和体重是多少？ _________________________________________________ (2)那些测试很难吗？ _________________________________________________ What is your height and weight? Are the tests very difficult? 英语　八年级下册 3 2. 你想了解前来参加宇航员选拔的Jackson，请根据以下提示向他提出两个问题。 (1)你为什么想成为一名宇航员？ _________________________________________________ (2)科学是你最喜欢的科目吗？ _________________________________________________ Why do you want to become an astronaut? Is science your favourite subject? 英语　八年级下册 4 3. 你想向去过太空的Mike了解太空生活的情况，请根据以下提示向他提出两个问题。 (1)太空中最有趣的事情是什么？ _________________________________________________ (2)从太空你能清楚地看到地球吗？ _________________________________________________ What was the most interesting thing in space? Did you see the Earth clearly from space? 英语　八年级下册 5 Ye Peijian is a great hero in space science. When he was a little kid, he 1.________ developing his country's science and technology. ( )1.A.took up B.worried about C.dreamt of D.took after C dreamt of 英语　八年级下册 6 When he grew up, he got a 2.______ to study in Switzerland(瑞士). He worked super hard there and got his doctorate. But he didn't choose to stay in the foreign country. He 3.______ his country, China, and wanted to do something great for it. So he came back to China. ( )2.A.book B.chance C.job D.wing ( )3.A.missed B.left C.visited D.forgot B A chance missed 英语　八年级下册 7 Then, Ye Peijian started working on 4.____ space projects. One of them was the Chang'e lunar exploration programme. He and his 5._____ didn't give up although there were so many problems when they worked on the Chang'e-1 project. ( )4.A.key B.old C.first D.safe ( )5.A.class B.club C.family D.team A D key team 英语　八年级下册 8 After a long time of hard work, they launched Chang'e-1 to the Moon 6.___________ in 2007. Later, for the Chang'e-4 project, Ye Peijian had a big idea. He wanted to send the spacecraft to the far side of the 7._______. No one had ever done this before. ( )6.A.regularly B.easily C.secretly D.successfully ( )7.A.Sun B.star C.Moon D.Earth D C successfully Moon 英语　八年级下册 9 Some people were worried because it was too hard. But Ye Peijian said, “We can do it if we try our best！” He and his colleagues worked even harder. They 8.______ new ways to send the spacecraft and make it land safely on the far side of the Moon. ( )8.A.needed B.found C.recorded D.improved B found 英语　八年级下册 10 In 2019, Chang'e-4 landed there, and the whole world was 9.__________！ Thanks to Ye Peijian and his team, China made a 10.____ step in space exploration. ( )9.A.surprised B.frightened C.hopeful D.interested ( )10.A.funny B.big C.final D.crazy A B surprised big 英语　八年级下册 11 His story shows us that we can make our dreams come true as long as we love our country, work hard, and never give up! 英语　八年级下册 12 $Focusing on culture & Cross-curricular connection(P110－P112) 英语　八年级下册 1 一、根据句意提示，填写出单词的适当形式。 1. The plane will have larger wings and burn less ____/'fjuːəl/. 2. Mr Smith is always busy with experiments in the l___． 3. You ___________(probable) don't remember me—we met at a meeting last year. 4. No matter what your address is, China Post can always __________(delivery) letters to you. fuel ab probably deliver 英语　八年级下册 2 5. This community centre _________(service) people of all ages, offering classes and activities. serves 英语　八年级下册 3 二、回答问题。 在浩瀚的科幻世界里，青少年的奇思妙想正绽放出耀眼的光芒。一个由学生自发组织的联盟为他们搭建了追逐星辰的舞台。 请阅读下面短文，根据所提供的信息，回答五个问题。要求所写答案语法正确、信息完整切题。 英语　八年级下册 4 Recently, a Youth Science Fiction Alliance(青少年科幻联盟) has appeared in China. It brings together clubs from about 20 schools across the country. It provides a place for young writers to share their sci-fi stories and ideas. The founder, Ouyang Ziyi, was an 11th-grade student at Shenzhen Middle School. 英语　八年级下册 5 He was so interested in science fiction that he even wrote his own novel Qidian at the age of 14. “I was really inspired by Liu Cixin's works, so I wrote about a future world and an energy supply problem，” Ouyang said. His work was published later and won prizes. In September, Ouyang used his income from Qidian to set up the alliance. 英语　八年级下册 6 The first thing the group did was to start the science fiction magazine Star Field. They chose 25 out of 1,000 works for their first issue(期). “I was really surprised by the imagination of people my age！” Ouyang said. “It was hard but exciting to choose from so many good stories. We feel proud to share these wonderful ideas.” 英语　八年级下册 7 That same month, an 8th-grade student, Xu Weixuan, also published his sci-fi novel Flying to the Moon. “The big, exciting science and the real, touching details in the story come from the author's careful research，” Ouyang told Shenzhen Special Zone Daily. 英语　八年级下册 8 “I have always believed that science fiction is ahead of its time and can even guide technological development. That's why we young fans may one day become a driving power in technology，” Ouyang said. 英语　八年级下册 9 About 20. / It/The alliance brings together clubs from about 20 schools. 1. How many schools' clubs does the alliance bring together? _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ 2.When did Ouyang write his own novel Qidian? _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ At the age of 14. / He/Ouyang wrote his own novel Qidian at the age of 14. 英语　八年级下册 10 3. What did Ouyang write about? _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ 4. How did Ouyang feel about choosing the stories? _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ A future world and an energy supply problem. / He/ Ouyang wrote about a future world and an energy supply problem. Hard but exciting. / He/Ouyang felt it/choosing the stories was hard but exciting. 英语　八年级下册 11 5. Who is the author of Flying to the Moon according to the passage? _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Xu Weixuan. / The author of Flying to the Moon is Xu Weixuan. 英语　八年级下册 12 $