Unit 4 The Wonders of Nature同步练-2025-2026学年人教版英语八年级下册

Unit 4 The Wonders of Nature 人立天地，奇观在目 The mountains are calling, and I must go. 群山在召唤，我必当前行。 In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks. 与自然同行，所得必超所求。 Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. 凝视自然深处，方能参透万物真谛。 一、词汇运用（每小题1分，共5分） 将选项中所给词语的适当形式填入短文中，每词仅用一次。 research prepare bit by bit curious appear Last night, I woke up at 11 p.m. because my friend called — he said the northern lights would 1. ___________! My dad and I were so 2.___________ that we decided to go. We quickly 3.___________ warm coats and hot drinks. On the way to the hill, my friend told us about his 4. ___________on this natural wonder. He said the lights come from the sun. When we got there, I walked very fast. 5. ___________, green lights started to dance in the sky! We stayed for an hour, feeling so lucky. It was the most amazing scenery I’d ever seen. 二、阅读理解（每小题2分，共8分） The greatest wonders of the ancient world art are usually hard to miss. For example, you can’t walk past Egypt’s pyramids without noticing them. They’re right in your face. But not the Nazca Lines in southern Peru. These ancient drawings don’t rise before you stand on huge stones. They’re geoglyphs (地画). You can see them in the desert sands. There are hundreds of them. Some are so large that the best way to see them is from the window of a plane. That’s how thousands of travellers see them each year. Yet no one noticed these wonders for nearly 1,500 years. A researcher first found some geoglyphs in Nazca (the Nazca Lines) in 1927. But people couldn’t find more geoglyphs until many years later. It took technology such as drones (无人机) to find them. Researchers still have many questions about the geoglyphs. And the answers are unclear. Here’s what we do know: The area’s pre-Inca Nazca people created the geoglyphs. This was between 500 BCE and 500 CE. How did they make them? By moving away some of the dark rocks that covered the ground. This showed the lighter-coloured desert sand below. Many of the Nazca Lines show the natural world, like animals and plants. And then there are some that aren’t from nature. One example was a geoglyph in 2019. It’s of a strange creature (生物) with many eyes and mouths. Researchers say this shows that the Nazca people may have a taste for the magical. So why did Nazca people create the geoglyphs in the first place? Researchers think they may have been part of rituals (仪式) for rain and crops. Certain geoglyphs may show where the Nazca people have the rituals. Others could bring travellers to those places. Then again, these are all guesses. Only one thing is clear: The Nazcas found a way to draw lasting lines in the always-changing sands of time. ( )1. According to the text, which wonder is easy to miss? [A] The Three Gorges Dam. [B] The Giant’s Causeway. [C] The Nazca Lines. [D] The Terracotta Army. ( )2. What’s the purpose of Paragraph 5? [A] To introduce the rituals of the Nazca people. [B] To say that finding the geoglyphs was not very easy. [C] To show what some of the Nazca Lines look like. [D] To explain the reason for making the strange lines. ( )3. Which is certainly TRUE according to the text? [A] The Nazca Lines have been part of rituals. [B] The Nazca people have had a taste for the magical. [C] All of the Nazca Lines show the natural world. [D] The Nazcas found a way to draw lasting lines in the sands. ( )4. What is the main idea of the text? [A] A researcher found the Nazca Lines in 1927. [B] The Nazca Lines are pictures made in the sands of Peru. [C] Nazca people made the Nazca Lines between 500 BCE and 500 CE. [D] The Nazca Lines show a creature with many mouths and eyes. 三、任务型阅读（每小题2分，共10分） 阅读下面材料，从选项中所给的A一E五个选项中选出正确选项（其中一项是多余选项），将其序号填入第 小题，并回答第5小题。 It’s hard to imagine a place that’s more extreme than Death Valley in California. Death Valley is the hottest and the driest place in North America. 1._________ Death Valley isn’t an easy place to live. 2._________ It’s hot too. In July, temperatures often climb to over . The ground is mostly sand and rocks. There is even a dried-up lake that turns into salt crystals (结晶). None of this stops plants and animals from making Death Valley their home. People find more than 1,000 types of plants there. It also has 51 types of mammals (哺乳动物), 36 kinds of reptiles (爬行动物), 6 types of fish, and more than 300 kinds of birds. 3._________There are big ones like bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and mule deer. 1. _________Some plants have roots that go deep under the ground to find water. Kangaroo rats get the water they need from the seeds (种子). Tiny pupfish can live in water that is and five times as salty as the ocean! 选项： A. Yet Death Valley is full of life. B. The animals aren’t all small either. C. There is a lot of water in Death Valley. D. It gets little rain a year, so there isn’t much water. E. Water is the biggest challenge for anything that lives in Death Valley. 5. Please write a title for this text. (不超过 10 词) ____________________________________________________________________________________ 真正的力量不在于征服高度，而在于包容风雨的侵蚀。 四、完形填空（每小题1分，共15分） Two years ago, on a flight to New Zealand, I watched the film Everest. In the film, a group of travellers get stuck on the mountain in a snowstorm and almost 1_________ dies. Maybe I just needed more adventures in my life, I thought. So I 2_________ my resolution to start climbing, which was not the reaction (反应) most people had after watching that film. I decided to climb the highest mountain in every European 3_________, about 50 mountains in total. I wanted to see if girls just like me could climb mountains. 4_________ I was just a normal teenager, I wished to be a role model for girls. There is no standard definition (标准定义) of a mountain. In Holland, the highest mountain is 5 _________just a small hill. You could even park your car at the top. It sounded a bit like cheating, but I still decided to climb the 6_________ mountain. Then, I chose to climb Mount Elbrus in Russia, Europe’s highest mountain. It was tiring, but I made it. And I started to make plans for climbing since my 7_________ to Switzerland, where I planned to climb Dufourspitze, but a heavy snow made it fall through. I realized that I should 8_________ myself for any change before going up a mountain. Climbing mountains is an experience that is hard to put 9_________ words. You are in a beautiful environment, and when you 10_________ the top, you feel extremely happy. But also you have to climb down, which is when most accidents happen — since people are tired and it gets dark, it’s 11_________ to keep safe. You have to 12_________ your weak side while climbing. I am afraid of things getting out of control, but I 13_________ I couldn’t control anything on a mountain. However, I successfully 14_________ the problem. If you’re_________ on a mountain, quietly with your thoughts for hours, later you will return home with a light heart. ( )1. [A] everybody [B] nobody [C] somebody [D] anybody ( )2. [A] gave up [B] wrote down [C] lay down [D] broke up ( )3. [A] park [B] garden [C] lake [D] country ( )4. [A] As [B] Unless [C] Although [D] If ( )5. [A] recently [B] usually [C] normally [D] actually ( )6. [A] first [B] second [C] third [D] last ( )7. [A] memory [B] lesson [C] journey [D] experience ( )8. [A] dress [B] introduce [C] invite [D] prepare ( )9. [A] over [B] off [C] into [D] with ( )10. [A] clean [B] reach [C] taste [D] hunt ( )11. [A] easier [B] harder [C] funnier [D] slower ( )12. [A] study [B] love [C] prefer [D] accept ( )13. [A] found [B] refused [C] left [D] promised ( )14. [A] solved [B] took [C] cared [D] heard ( )15. 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