Unit 4 Amazing Plants and Animals 第4课时（Section B 1a-1f）课时习题巩固训练2026-2027学年人教版八年级英语上册

Unit 4 Amazing Plants and Animals 第4课时（Section B 1a-1f） 基础知识巩固 一、从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空 方框词：without honey percent important action 1. They finally realized the ________ of protecting the ecosystem. 2. They travelled to the forest ________ a map and got lost. 3. It’s necessary for everyone to take ________ to save the earth. 4. This cake tastes better because it uses natural ________ instead of sugar. 5. Only twenty ________ of the students in our school take the bus to school. 二、用括号内所给词的正确形式填空 1. The students were quite ________ (disappoint) when they heard the bad news. 2. We should spend time doing something ________ (protect) animals and plants in the world. 3. Dogs are different from ________ (human), but they can still understand our feelings. 4. The Internet makes it possible for people ________ (communicate) and share ideas in seconds. 5. In the forest, you can often see ________ (ant) carrying food back home. 6. The earth is one of the eight ________ (planet) in the solar system. 7. It’s ________ (importance) for us to develop good reading habits. 8. Red is usually ________ (connect) with happiness in Chinese culture. 9. Look! The animals are ________ (store) food to prepare for the winter. 10. Children usually have rich ________ (imagine), and it helps them create wonderful stories in their minds. 三、从方框中选择适当的短语并用其正确形式填空 短语：in fact in order to be home to play an important part in for this reason 1. Animals ________________ the ecosystem of our planet. 2. Many students thought the test was difficult, but ________, they all passed it. 3. The grassland of Africa ________________ lots of lions, zebras and giraffes. 4. Bees create honeycombs ________ store honey. 5. Many animals lost their homes. ________________, we should plant more trees. 四、根据汉语意思翻译下列句子，每空一词 1. 想象你正走在森林里。你可能会意识到人、植物和动物都是相互联系的。 ________ you are walking in the forest. You may ________ that people, plants and animals are all ________. 2. 大熊猫的数量正在下降，因此科学家们很担心。 ________ ________ ________ pandas is dropping, so scientists are worried. 3. 你知道人类和其他昆虫之间有什么联系吗？ What do you know about the ________ between humans and other ________? 4. 想想你能做些什么来保护地球上最神奇的动物之一。 Think about ________ you can do to protect ________ ________ ________ amazing animals on earth. 5. 你还知道关于蜜蜂的其他有趣的事实吗？ ________ ________ interesting ________ do you know about bees? 综合能力提升 五、根据课本第36页Section B 1b的语篇内容，完成下面的表格 Topic Question Answer Importance of bees How many flowers do bees visit on one trip? 1.________________________ What does bees’ pollination help? 2.________________________ Without bees’ work, about what percentage of the plants in the world cannot grow? 3.________________________ Interesting facts about bees Why do bees create honeycombs? 4.________________________ How does a bee tell the others where and how far away the food is? 5.________________________ Problems of bees What is happening to the number of bees? 6.________________________ How do scientists feel about the problem? 7.________________________ What does the writer ask us to think about? 8.________________________ 六、阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的句子填入文中空缺处，使文章意思通顺、内容完整 Have you ever heard an echo (回声)? Do you find it interesting? 1.____ Some animals use echoes to help themselves find their ways. Bats (蝙蝠), for example, use echoes to do what other animals do with their eyes. 2.____ When the cries hit an object (物体), echoes appear. The bats listen to the echoes to find exactly where the object is. Humans can do something similar. Blind people may become sensitive (敏感的) to sounds. 3.____ The blind can feel these differences, and then they use the information to locate (定位) walls and other objects. Scientists use echoes to explore our planet. 4.____ Different objects send back different echoes. By studying the echoes, scientists can tell what lies below. This can help them find oil and coal. 5.____ The ultrasonic waves (超声波) can easily get into the human body. The waves are used to create pictures of bones and organs (器官). These pictures can help doctors find problems. A. Echoes have medical uses as well. B. Sounds arrive at each ear at different times. C. They send sound waves deep into the earth. D. Bats send out loud cries as they fly in the dark. E. In fact, besides being interesting, it is very useful. 七、阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。 方框词：store quiet without communicate connect action they share amazing importance Can plants talk? You may think the plants in your garden are 1.____. But in fact, they are “talking” a lot under the ground! To find out whether plants can talk, scientists did an experiment with pea plants. On one side, they 2.____ the roots of some pea plants together. When the scientists dried the central plant’s soil, it used its leaf pores（气孔）to 3.____ water. 4.____, within 15 minutes, nearly all of its connected neighbours did the same! On the other side, plants with unconnected roots stayed unchanged. Plants do this kind of 5.____ to help their “family”. Many plants in a garden come from the same parent. By sharing messages, they can stay alive 6.____ losing too much water. Besides pea plants, poplar trees, corn plants and cotton plants can also 7.____ with each other. They send warning messages to protect 8.____ and their neighbours. This shows the 9.____ of plants working together. Our planet’s ecosystem depends on（依赖于）these plants’ conversations. Next time you see a plant, remember it is part of a big “talking” family! They are always busy 10.____ their stories. 八、阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词 How will you feel if you see a fish walking along the road? Will you feel amazed if you see a fish climbing a tree? 1.____ fact, a kind of fish can do both. It is called the climbing perch (攀鲈). It was said that 2.____ tourist to India first found this kind of fish. One day, he saw a fish was high up in a tree by accident. What was the fish doing there? How did it get 3.____ the tree? He thought that maybe a bird put it there. The next day, the tourist saw another fish come out of water. It was hard to believe, 4.____ it was true. The fish used its fins (鳍) and tail to pull itself along the road. After it got high up in the tree, it took a rest. He was very surprised to see the scene (情景) and told others about 5.____ he saw. Now, people can find this kind of fish mainly in some Asian countries, such as India, Thailand, Pakistan and the Philippines. 参考答案 一、词形填空 1. importance 2. without 3. action 4. honey 5. percent 二、词形填空 1. disappointed 2. to protect 3. humans 4. to communicate 5. ants 6. planets 7. important 8. connected 9. storing 10. imagination 三、短语填空 1. play an important part in 2. in fact 3. is home to 4. in order to 5. For this reason 四、句子填空 1. Imagine; realize; connected 2. The number of 3. connection; insects 4. what; one of the most 5. What other; facts 五、表格题 1. They often visit 50 to 100 flowers. 2. It helps plants grow. 3. About 80 percent. 4. To store honey. 5. It uses a dance. 6. Their number is dropping. 7. They are worried. 8. How important bees are to our planet. 六、还原句子 1.E 2.D 3.B 4.C 5.A 七、选词填空 1. quiet 2. connected 3. store 4. Amazingly 5. action 6. without 7. communicate 8. themselves 9. importance 10. sharing 八、短文填空 1. In 2. a 3. to 4. but 5. what 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $