Unit 6 Living with nature-Starting out & Understanding ideas同步练2025-2026学年外研版英语八年级下册

Unit 6 Living with nature

Starting out & Understanding ideas

一、圈出和nature相关的词，并填在横线上（每词1分，共8分）

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. Trees are________ (change) colours earlier this year than last.
2. Which song do you like ______ (good) among all these songs?
3. Thanks for the great evening last Sunday. I really________ (enjoy) it.
4. We should try hard to protect the _______ (nature) environment around us.
5. Every weekend, I will go to the bookshop to buy some books about________ (poem).

三、词汇运用（每小题1分，共5分）

将选项中所给单词的适当形式填入短文中，每词仅用一次。

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Do you know that we are using up the earth’s fresh water faster than we can replace it? We need water 1. ________ alive and if we don’t use water wisely, we will run out of it!

Water is needed for just 2.________everything we do. We need it to farm, to wash, to provide power, to control fires, and most importantly, to drink. Without water, we would all die. So we should all save water if we want to have enough for life. Using less water means 3.________ money and energy.

Here are some 4.________ tips（提示）：

• Have shorter showers and only half fill the bath.
• Turn off the tap while you soap your hands or brush your 5.________

• Fix any taps or hoses that drip — every drop counts!

四、任务型阅读（每小题1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，并完成第5小题（给短文补上恰当的结尾，不超过10词）。

We call the lion “the king of the forest” because it can run very fast and hunt the best. 1.________ It is the highest animal in the land food chain (食物链).

In the sea, the shark is one of the animals at the top of the food chain. It can swim faster than most other sea animals. 2.________

3. ________People are! We are not the biggest or fastest, but we are the cleverest. We couldn’t run

faster than tigers, so we invented cars and now we can move the fastest. We could not fight better than lions, so we invented guns. Now we can hunt the best.

People’s inventions are clever, but they can be dangerous, too. For example, people invented factories, and now they make the air and rivers dirty. 4.________

Dirty rivers kill fish. Then bears cannot eat the fish and die. If we kill one part of the food chain, other parts also die. Remember that we are a part of the food chain, so we are in danger, too!

So we should 5.________

选项：

A. This can make terrible changes.

B. And it can use its big teeth to eat them.

C. People are afraid of dangerous animals.

D. What is at the top of the world’s food chain?

E. It is stronger and more dangerous than other land animals.

一、根据句意及汉语注释完成单词（每小题1分，共5分）

6. Guangdong is a southern ________ (省) of China.
7. I like all kinds of fruits,________ (尤其) apples and strawberries.
8. We are all looking forward to the ________(到来）of the summer holiday.
9. Everyone has a happy________(童年) filled with sweet memories.

5.My grandparents prefer to live in the quiet ________（乡下） rather than in the noisy city.