Unit 4 Amazing Plants and Animals 课时练习 2026-2027学年人教版英语八年级上册
Unit 4 Amazing Plants and Animals
第一课时 Section A(1a—1d+Pronunciation)
一、读单词,找出画线部分发音不同的一项
( )1.A.train B.play C.plate D.air
( )2.A.sky B.light C.city D.kite
( )3.A.coincide B.noise C.point D.enjoy
( )4.A.brave B.blood C.brand D.brush
( )5.A.create B.crowd C.ground D.cross
二、根据括号内所给汉语注释或首字母提示写出单词的正确形式(每空一词)
1.The old tree is covered with soft (苔藓).
2.The (红杉) tree is a very tall type of tree.
3.A (猎豹) can run at a very high speed.
4.The elephant is one of the (重) land animals.
5.The Pacific Ocean is the l ocean on the earth.
三、用所给单词的适当形式填空
1.The fifth orange is (big) of all.Give it to the young boy, please.
2.The sunset at the beach is (beautiful) scene I’ve ever seen.
3.Among all the students, Tom runs (fast).
4.The Sahara is (large)desert in the world.
5.The ant is one of (small) insects.
6.This is (short) pencil in the box.
7.Mount Qomolangma is (tall) mountain in the world.
四、完形填空
Dear Nature Lover,
You asked about the world’s most amazing plants and animals.Let me tell you some really cool ones!
The blue whale is the 1 animal on the earth. It’s super big! It can be 2 longer than a very long ship.
In the Amazon rainforest, there are so many different 3 of plants and animals.You can see pretty birds with bright 4 and small but interesting frogs there.
The golden poison frog is one of 5 animals.A little bit of its poison(毒) can 6 many people.But its bright colour makes other animals 7 .
For plants, the Rafflesia flower(大王花) is really special.It has the 8 flower in the world, and it smells 9 bad, just like rotten meat.This smell helps it 10 flies.
In the ocean, the jellyfish is very 11 .It can go back to its young form, just like getting “younger” again!
12 land, the polar bear in the Arctic is the largest land animal that eats meat.It has thick fur to keep 13 in the cold snow.
Don’t miss the African savanna(热带草原). There plants have to live with 14 water, but the baobab tree there can store a lot of water in its big trunk.Its fruits are big and funny, and people even call them “monkey bread”!
Nature is full of 15 .Come and see these amazing things soon!
Yours,
Alex
( )1.A.smallest B.largest C.fastest D.slowest
( )2.A.still B.even C.also D.never
( )3.A.kinds B.sizes C.colours D.names
( )4.A.eggs B.arms C.feathers D.legs
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( )5.A.the most beautiful B.the most dangerous C.the biggest D.the smallest
( )6.A.help B.save C.kill D.feed
( )7.A.make friends B.go close C.stay away D.run after
( )8.A.smallest B.largest C.prettiest D.ugliest
( )9.A.very B.little C.few D.much
( )10.A.see B.catch C.find D.bite
( )11.A.normal B.special C.boring D.common
( )12.A.In B.On C.Of D.At
( )13.A.cold B.cool C.warm D.hot
( )14.A.much B.many C.little D.few
( )15.A.stories B.hope C.joys D.surprises
五、阅读理解
Length: 4,132 miles (about 6,650 km) Location: Sudan, Egypt ... The Nile River is the longest river in the world.It’s known for being the lifeblood of Ancient Egypt and is still very important to Egypt today.This river is famous because it was a useful body of water in Ancient Egypt.Also, the Nile River is important for farming, transportation and drinking water. | Length: 1,569 miles (about 2,525 km) Location: India Although it is not the longest river in Asia, the Ganges River is still well⁃known.This river has cultural importance to Indians. Also, the river provides millions of people with water for farming.There are nearly 150 species of fish living there today.Other animals also live in and around it, like snakes and other reptiles(爬行动物). |
Length: 404 miles (about 650 km) Location: Australia You may not have ever heard of the Finke River in Australia.It’s not very long and it doesn’t even flow all the time.However, geologists(地质学家) have considered it as the oldest river in the world.That’s the reason why this river is well⁃known! | Length: 3,976 miles (about 6,400 km) Location: Peru, Colombia, Brazil ... The Amazon River is the second⁃longest river in the world.But it has the largest discharge(流量) in the world, up to 219,000 m3/second! The Congo River, with the second largest discharge, has only one fifth discharge of it! The Amazon River is also well⁃known for having no bridges crossing it. |
( )1.Which is the longest river in the world?
A.The Amazon River. B.The Nile River.
C.The Finke River. D.The Ganges River.
( )2.What can we learn from the passage?
A.The Ganges River is not important for Indians.
B.The Finke River is famous for its history.
C.There are two bridges crossing the Amazon River.
D.All the rivers are long and flow all the time.
( )3.In which column(专栏) can you read this passage?
A.Physics. B.Language. C.Music. D.Geography.
猜出画波浪线单词的词性和中文意思,并收入自己的小词典。
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第二课时 Section A(2a—2e)
一、根据括号内所给汉语注释或首字母提示写出单词的正确形式(每空一词)
1.My mum bought a (可折叠) table for our camping trip last week.
2.Grandma gave me a beautiful silk (扇子) made in Suzhou.
3.The new science teacher is (广受欢迎) because of his funny experiments.
4.Green (嫩芽) start appearing after spring rain.
5.Pandas eat a lot of b every day.
6.A dictionary is an important t for language learners.
7.A rainbow (出现) after the rain stopped.
二、用所给单词的适当形式填空
1.The (good) in fresh fruit helps keep us healthy.
2.I thought maths was hard, but (actual) it's interesting.
3.The photographer (shoot) amazing pictures of the sunset just now.
4.In our class, Jenny is (funny).She always makes everybody laugh.
5.The teacher said we could feel free (choose) partners for the project.
6.Harry Potter is one of (popular)books among middle school students.
7.—What do you think of the movie?
—It can't be (bad).I don't like it at all.
三、将方框中所给词语的适当形式填入句中,每词仅用一次
feel free to, tool, bamboo shoot, popular, appear
1.Fried chicken is the snack at our school cafeteria.
2. ask questions anytime during class.
3.Stars brighter in the countryside at night.
4. grow very fast after the rain.
5.A hammer(锤子) is a useful for fixing things at home.
四、完形填空
How much do you know about whales, a kind of fantastic sea animals? Now we are 1 an ocean park and learning much about them.
We know whales 2 in the sea.Are they fish? A worker in the ocean park gives us the 3 , “Whales live in the sea and look like fish, but they aren't fish.”
We all get a 4 when we see such big whales.However, how big are they really? Another worker 5 us, “ Blue whales are the biggest of all kinds of whales.They are 6 one of the biggest animals on the earth. Most of them are more than 30 metres long and each of them is 7 enough to be about 130 tons(吨).”
We also learn about some interesting facts about whales.Whales 8 on sea life.Some eat seals and fish and some eat sea plants.Some whales like the blue whales don't have 9 and just swallow(吞下) food, but some can eat food with their teeth.And whales can't take in air under the sea 10 , so they need to jump out of water often.
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