Unit1-Unit6【六选五】专项练习2026-2027学年北师大版英语八年级下册

北师大版八年级下册英语【六选五】 专项练习 Unit 1 Lifestyles Passage 1 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 I used to get up at seven thirty and rushed to school without breakfast. Last September, however, my new school started twenty minutes earlier and the bus was always crowded. 1. ______ My mother was surprised to see me in the kitchen so early, and she cooked an extra egg for me. At first it was really hard. My eyes were still closed while I washed my face, and the cold air made me want to go back to bed. 2. ______ I even wrote a short note on my desk to remind myself every morning, and I set three alarms as well. Slowly, things began to change. I now wake up at six fifteen, run for twenty minutes and then take a shower before breakfast. 3. ______ The fresh morning air makes me feel wide awake, and the streets are still quiet at that time. My eating habits have changed too. I used to buy fried chicken on my way to school, but now I sit down at the table and enjoy a bowl of porridge. 4. ______ My mother says my face looks much healthier than before, and I seldom feel tired in class now. Good habits are not built in one day. Even so, this new morning routine has already changed my life a lot over the last two months. 5. ______ I feel more energetic in class and I seldom get sick these days, which makes my parents very happy. A. An egg and some fruit give me enough energy for the morning. B. Our school also offers a basketball club on Friday afternoons. C. Small changes in daily life can bring big surprises. D. So I decided to change my morning habits. E. In the first week I almost gave up twice. F. I enjoy the quiet streets before the city wakes up. Passage 2 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Different families enjoy their evenings in different ways. In my home, my father reads the newspaper on the sofa while my mother waters her plants on the balcony. 1. ______ Nobody shouts or hurries during this short period of peace, and even the television stays silent. I usually finish my homework at about half past eight and put my books away carefully. Then I do not turn on the television at once, because I have something else to do first. 2. ______ I have kept this habit for nearly six months, and it has become my favourite time. Reading aloud has helped me a lot with both pronunciation and confidence. My English teacher once said that the mouth needs training just like the legs do. 3. ______ Even my little sister now repeats some funny sentences after me while she plays with her toys. The best moment of the day comes at about nine thirty in the evening. We sit together in the living room and share something interesting about our day. 4. ______ My sister's stories about her classmates often make us laugh loudly, and my father tells us old jokes. Of course, we sometimes break our own rules when we are busy or tired. 5. ______ When that happens, I put the phone back in the living room and pick up a paper book instead, and the whole house becomes quiet again. A. Our neighbours often visit us with home-made cakes on Sundays. B. I spend twenty minutes reading an English novel aloud. C. This quiet hour is my favourite part of the day. D. This simple habit keeps our family close to each other. E. My pronunciation is much better than it was last term. F. On some evenings I still reach for my phone first. Passage 3 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Last Sunday was a perfect example of a completely wasted day. I stayed in bed until eleven, watched short videos and ate a whole bag of chips for lunch. 1. ______ My legs felt heavy and my head felt empty, as if I had done nothing at all. The following weekend, my friend Lin Tao called me early in the morning. He asked me to go cycling along the river with him and sent me a photo of the path. 2. ______ To my surprise, that small yes changed the whole shape of my weekends. We met at the school gate at seven, and the air was cool and fresh. The streets were almost empty, so we could ride side by side and talk freely. 3. ______ I found a small park full of flowers that I had never noticed before, though I had passed it many times. Now I cycle every Saturday morning, rain or shine, and I never feel bored. 4. ______ I have even joined the school cycling club and made several new friends there, and we plan longer rides together. Looking back, I understand one simple but useful thing. 5. ______ Staying busy outdoors is far better than staying bored indoors, and the tiredness after exercise feels much sweeter than a long sleep in bed. A. Free time becomes valuable when you plan it well. B. The new sports centre in our town opens at six every morning. C. We rode about fifteen kilometres and talked all the way. D. By nine in the evening I felt tired but unhappy. E. I did not feel like moving, but I agreed. F. Cycling is not only good for my body but also for my mind. Passage 4 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 My grandpa is seventy-two, but he still lives a simple and active life in the countryside. He gets up at five every morning and walks straight into his vegetable garden. 1. ______ He says the morning light is the best medicine for old people, and the soil smells wonderful after rain. He grows almost everything his family needs for daily meals. Tomatoes, beans and Chinese cabbage all come from that small piece of land behind the house. 2. ______ Neighbours often knock at his door to ask for some fresh vegetables, and he never refuses them. Unlike many old people in the city, Grandpa seldom sits still for long. He walks to the market instead of taking a bus, and he carries his own basket. 3. ______ When it rains, he repairs old baskets or makes a new wooden chair for the kitchen. Last summer I stayed with him for two weeks and followed his daily routine. At first I found it boring without my phone and my computer games. 4. ______ I slept better at night than I had in months, and I even learned to cook over a wood fire. Now I understand why he is still so strong and cheerful at his age. 5. ______ I also started to grow two tomato plants on my balcony at home, and I water them every evening after school. A. He believes walking keeps his heart young. B. A simple life close to nature keeps people healthy. C. But after a few days I began to enjoy the quiet life. D. The first thing he does is to check every plant carefully. E. There is always more than his family can eat. F. He once sold all his vegetables at the market for a good price. Passage 5 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Many students think that healthy eating is boring, but I do not agree with them at all. Our school opened a new food corner near the dining hall last month. 1. ______ Now more and more students line up there at noon, and the queue is sometimes very long. There are fresh vegetables, rice, eggs and fruit soup on the menu every day. Everything is cooked with less oil and salt than the food sold outside. 2. ______ Some of my friends still prefer fried chicken, but they are becoming fewer and fewer now. I made a small change as well after talking with our PE teacher. I used to drink cola with every meal and thought water was tasteless. 3. ______ My mother was glad to see this change and bought me a nice bottle to carry to school. Our teacher also tells us that breakfast matters most for a school day. 4. ______ I no longer feel sleepy during the first lesson, and I can even run faster in the morning exercises. Three months have passed since I made these changes, and I feel the difference clearly. 5. ______ Better food truly brings better school days, and my grades have improved a little as well. A. It offers several light and healthy meals every day. B. Now I drink water or milk instead. C. Fresh food tastes light but it keeps us full for hours. D. The food corner closes at six in the afternoon. E. I tell myself that it gives my brain the fuel it needs. F. I can focus longer and I seldom get a headache in the afternoon. Unit 2 Helping Hands Passage 1 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Volunteer work has become an important part of my life since last year. Every Saturday morning I put on a red vest and meet my teammates at the school library. 1. ______ Most of them are students from my own grade, but a few come from other schools. We put returned books back on the correct shelves and help younger students find what they need. 2. ______ Young children often feel lost among so many tall shelves, and some of them are too shy to ask. Last month a little girl came to me with tears in her eyes. She could not find the story book her teacher had recommended to the whole class. 3. ______ She thanked me three times before she ran back to her classroom with a bright smile. These small tasks may look boring to some people, but they make a real difference. 4. ______ A tidy library saves everyone a lot of time, and the librarians can then help readers with more difficult questions. Volunteering has also changed me in ways I did not expect. I used to be shy and quiet in front of strangers, and I seldom offered help. 5. ______ I have learned that giving help can be as happy as receiving it from someone else. A. It is not easy for them to read the numbers on the shelves. B. The library also lends umbrellas to students on rainy days. C. Librarians are always busy and they need our hands. D. Now I can talk with strangers without feeling nervous. E. I searched the computer for ten minutes and finally found it. F. About twenty of us work together for two hours. Passage 2 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Technology has made life easier for most of us, but not for many old people. Last month our class visited the community centre near our school. 1. ______ Most of them were over seventy years old, and their phones were very simple ones. My job was to teach Mrs Wang how to make a video call on her phone. Her daughter works in another city and her grandson lives even farther away. 2. ______ She wrote every step on a piece of paper and read it again and again. She was slow and often forgot the order of the steps. 3. ______ By the end of the morning she could call her grandson by herself, and she clapped her hands like a child. Her hands shook a little when she finally saw his face on the screen. She cried and laughed at the same time, and she kept saying his name aloud. 4. ______ I suddenly understood the value of my small help on that cold morning. Before we left, she held my hand and invited us to come again soon. 5. ______ I have decided to visit the centre once a month from now on, and several classmates want to join me. A. She kept saying that the screen was too small for her eyes. B. So I showed her the same steps again and again. C. She told me she had not seen the boy for almost a year. D. We offered to help some elderly neighbours use their phones. E. Her smile stayed in my mind for the whole week. F. The community centre also runs a chess club for teenagers. Passage 3 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Everyone in our class was sad when we heard the bad news. Li Ming's father was badly ill and the family needed a lot of money for the operation. 1. ______ Our head teacher agreed at once and helped us make a careful plan after school. We decided to hold a bake sale after school on Friday afternoon. Some students baked cakes at home, and others made cookies with their parents. 2. ______ Everything was home-made and freshly packed in small paper boxes. We set up three tables near the school gate and put up a colourful poster drawn by hand. 3. ______ Some teachers paid for a cake and then gave it back to us to sell again to other people. By five o'clock we had collected more than one thousand two hundred yuan in the box. 4. ______ Nobody had expected such a result, and some of the girls jumped up and down with joy. Now the class wants to do more for people in need in our city. 5. ______ The joy of giving is much stronger than the joy of keeping, and we hope more students will join us. A. We are already planning a book sale for next month. B. So we discussed how we could help the family. C. My mother helped me make forty small cupcakes. D. The cake shop near our school usually closes at nine o'clock. E. Many students and teachers came to buy our food. F. We counted the money twice to make sure it was right. Passage 4 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Last Saturday I joined a volunteer group called Green Team for the first time. Our task was to clean the river bank near the old bridge in the east of town. 1. ______ They were hidden in the tall grass and behind the stones along the water. At first I thought we would finish in an hour and go home early. In fact, we worked for almost four hours and still found more waste in the grass. 2. ______ It was shocking to see how much we throw away without a second thought. A member of the team told us something important while we were resting. 3. ______ They stay in the soil and water for many years, and fish often mistake small pieces for food. More people joined us as the morning went on and the sun grew warmer. Two shop owners brought gloves and bags, and a family with a little boy stayed until noon. 4. ______ Even the boy was busy picking up bottle tops and putting them into his small bag. I went home tired but satisfied, with dirty shoes and a happy heart. 5. ______ Next time I will bring my classmates with me, and we can clean a longer part of the bank. A. Plastic things do not disappear quickly in nature. B. The bridge was built more than fifty years ago. C. In the end we filled more than thirty large black bags. D. Kindness seems to spread faster than any poster. E. We collected plastic bags, bottles and even old shoes. F. One morning of work is not enough for a dirty river. Passage 5 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 It was a cold evening and I was walking home from the school library. Near the gate of our community, I saw a black wallet lying on the wet ground. 1. ______ Nobody else was around at that moment, and the street lamps were very dim. I opened it and found over two hundred yuan, an ID card and several bank cards inside. 2. ______ Then I took it to the police station not far away and explained everything to the officer. The police officer called the owner at once and asked him to come over. Twenty minutes later, a young man arrived, breathless and worried, with his coat half open. 3. ______ He told us he needed the ID card for an important interview the next morning. He thanked me again and again and tried to give me some money from his wallet. I refused with a smile and said that anyone would do the same thing. 4. ______ Seeing his relief was already the best reward I could ever receive. On my way home I felt calm and light inside, and the cold wind seemed much warmer. 5. ______ I am glad I made that choice, and I would make exactly the same one again. A. I put up a notice in the neighbourhood group chat at once. B. Helping someone in trouble needs no payment at all. C. I waited there for about half an hour in the cold wind. D. Choosing honesty always brings peace of mind. E. I picked it up and looked around for its owner. F. He said he had searched every corner of the street. Unit 3 Making Choices Passage 1 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 At the beginning of this term, our school offered many interesting clubs to everyone. I wanted to join two of them, but both met on Friday afternoon. 1. ______ It was the first real choice I had to make completely by myself. The basketball coach is very kind and the team won the city match last year. 2. ______ I have loved drawing since I was a small child, and my notebooks are already full of pictures. I asked my parents for advice after dinner one evening. They did not give me an answer straight away, which surprised me a little. 3. ______ They wanted me to listen to my own heart and to accept the result. In the end, I handed in the form for the art club without telling my friends. 4. ______ My teacher says my pictures have improved a lot this term, and two of them are on the wall. My best friend chose the basketball team and he is now more confident than before. 5. ______ Both of our choices turned out to be good ones, and we still cheer for each other at every match. A. The school also has a chess club that meets on Wednesday. B. So I had to choose between basketball and art. C. As for me, I have found my own progress in drawing. D. They just asked me two simple questions instead. E. But the art teacher is the one I admire most. F. Now I spend every Friday drawing in the quiet art room. Passage 2 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 I had saved three hundred yuan by doing housework and selling my old books. Many of my classmates wear the latest sports shoes these days. 1. ______ They look cool and everybody seems to want a pair just like them. Then I read a notice on the school board one cold morning. A student in another school could not afford his school things for the new term. 2. ______ My savings could pay for his books and his bus tickets for a whole year. For two days I could not decide what to do with the money. I even walked past the shoe shop three times and looked at the window. 3. ______ In the end I sent the money to the boy through our teacher. Two of my classmates heard about it and joined me at once. A month later we received a short thank-you letter with a small photo inside. 4. ______ It felt warmer than any new pair of shoes I had ever dreamed of. Now I understand something important about money and about myself. 5. ______ It depends on what you finally buy with it, who you buy it for, and how long the happy feeling stays with you. A. I read the letter twice and put it in my school bag. B. I kept telling myself that shoes wear out quickly. C. The shoe shop is having a big sale this weekend. D. I really wanted to buy a pair of those shoes. E. His family had met with a serious accident. F. Money itself cannot bring happiness or pride. Passage 3 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 My grandma's seventieth birthday was coming, and I wanted to give her a surprise. I had only eighty yuan in my saving box after counting the coins twice. 1. ______ I kept thinking about it for days and even asked my friends for ideas. On Saturday I walked around the shopping centre for two whole hours. The gifts there were beautiful, but most of them cost far more than I had. 2. ______ Some of them did not even look useful to her in daily life. When I got home, Grandma was sitting by the window and mending my old school bag. Her hands moved slowly and her eyes were not as good as before. 3. ______ This picture stayed in my mind all evening and I could not forget it. So I changed my plan completely and sat down at my desk after dinner. I stayed up late that night and made a photo album with my own hands. 4. ______ I also wrote a short sentence under each picture to explain that moment. On her birthday she opened the album carefully and cried a little. She said it was the best gift she had ever received in her whole life. 5. ______ Love, not money, makes a gift valuable and unforgettable for the person who receives it. A. I bought a box of imported chocolates from the supermarket. B. She did that for me without saying one word. C. The cheap ones looked plain and ordinary. D. I learned that a warm gift does not have to be expensive. E. I put in our family photos of the last ten years. F. That was not enough for a big present from a shop. Passage 4 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Next term we must choose several elective courses, and everyone is talking about it. Our teacher gave us a long list last Friday afternoon before we went home. 1. ______ My classmates started to discuss it loudly at once in the classroom. Most of my friends chose the science course because they want to be engineers in the future. 2. ______ I have always liked stories about the past, the old buildings and the people who lived long ago in this town. My parents had a different opinion when I told them my idea. They thought science would help me find a better job later in life. 3. ______ They just wanted me to think about the future and my own interests. I spent the weekend reading the introduction of each course very carefully at home. 4. ______ Finally I understood what I truly wanted, which teachers I liked most and how much time I could give. On Monday morning I handed in my form with history and geography on it. 5. ______ I am ready to work hard for my own choice, even when the reading becomes difficult and long. A. My hands were a little cold, but I felt calm inside. B. There were eight subjects on it and we could pick two. C. But my heart was with the history course. D. The art room on the third floor is open after school. E. They did not force me to follow their idea. F. I even asked two older students for their advice. Passage 5 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 It happened on a rainy afternoon last November. I was running home from the bus stop when I saw a black wallet near the gate. 1. ______ The street was empty and nobody was looking at me at that moment. Inside it there was a lot of money, an ID card and a train ticket to Beijing. My heart beat fast and I looked around once more. 2. ______ Nobody would know if I took it and walked away quickly. Then I thought of my grandfather, who lives in the countryside with my uncle. He always told me that a person's name is worth more than gold. 3. ______ I knew exactly what I had to do at that moment in the rain. I waited under the tree for almost forty minutes in the heavy rain. At last a young woman came back, looking worried and completely wet. 4. ______ She said the money in it was for her mother's operation in hospital. She wanted to give me two hundred yuan as a reward, but I shook my head firmly and stepped back. 5. ______ Walking home in the rain with my wet shoes, I felt strangely warm and proud of myself. A. I sent a message to my classmates about the lost wallet. B. When I handed her the wallet, she almost cried. C. Doing the right thing was the best reward for me. D. I had never seen so much money in my life. E. His words came into my mind as clearly as a bell. F. At first I planned to pick it up and leave quickly. Unit 4 Language and Communication Passage 1 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Last month our English teacher told us something really surprising in class. The same hand movement can mean different things in different countries. 1. ______ We all listened with great interest and took notes in our books. In China, people move their fingers to ask someone to come over here. 2. ______ It would surely cause trouble and bad feelings between the two people who meet for the first time, and it may even end a friendly talk. She also spoke about nodding and shaking the head in class. In most places nodding means yes, but in some countries it means no. 3. ______ Imagine agreeing with someone while actually refusing him without knowing it. The results can be surprisingly serious. Eye contact is another interesting example from her long talk. In some cultures, looking straight into a teacher's eyes shows respect and honesty. 4. ______ Neither way is wrong or rude, and both come from long traditions. Her talk made me think deeply about the way I communicate with people every day. 5. ______ Words are only a part of the story, and the rest is written on our faces and hands. A. Learning a language also means learning its culture. B. In others, children are taught to look down instead. C. She showed us several examples on the screen. D. In another country, however, this action is impolite. E. This can easily lead to a serious misunderstanding. F. Our school will hold an English speech contest in May. Passage 2 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 My spoken English was poor, so I found a language partner online last spring. Her name is Anna and she comes from a country far away. 1. ______ I was nervous before our first talk and prepared a list of words. We chat about simple things: school, food and weekend plans. She types quickly, and sometimes I cannot catch her meaning at all. 2. ______ She never laughs at my grammar mistakes and always answers with great patience. Every week we have a video call twice, on Tuesday and on Sunday. She shows me her cat, and I show her pictures of my town. 3. ______ It feels like talking with an old friend across a very long table. Little by little I have changed, and my classmates have noticed it too. My English teacher says I answer questions more often in class now. 4. ______ I no longer worry about being perfect, and I just try to make myself understood. This experience taught me a useful lesson about language learning and about courage. 5. ______ Just open your mouth and speak, and the world will answer you more kindly in the end. A. Good communication is about being understood. B. Language learning needs a good memory above all else. C. I am not afraid of making mistakes any more. D. She wants to learn Chinese, so we help each other. E. She simply writes the sentence again in a slower way. F. Half an hour passes before we even notice the time. Passage 3 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Li Ming and I have been best friends for three years, but last week we had a big fight. We disagreed about passing the ball during a basketball game after school. 1. ______ Both of us went home angrily and did not say goodbye. For the next two days we did not speak at all, not even one word. We sat in the same classroom and looked away from each other quickly. 2. ______ The silence between us felt heavier than any shout in the playground. On Wednesday evening I decided to write him a letter instead of waiting. I explained my true feelings instead of blaming him for everything. 3. ______ Then I put it into his desk before class the next morning. The next morning he smiled at me and said he was sorry too. We talked for twenty minutes after school near the playground. 4. ______ I realized how much I had missed him during those two long days. This experience taught me a real lesson about friendship, about pride and about courage. 5. ______ Hiding behind anger and pride only builds a higher and thicker wall between two close friends. A. Real communication means showing your true feelings. B. He told me he had felt lonely during those two days. C. Everyone around us noticed that something was wrong. D. We said some words that we both regretted later. E. I wrote slowly and read it twice before sealing it. F. I sent him a voice message after midnight that night. Passage 4 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 My five-year-old cousin cannot read a single word, yet he understands me perfectly. When I smile and open my arms wide, he runs to me at once. 1. ______ Communication is far more than language, and small children seem to know this best of all. Our English teacher often says that the way you say something matters as much as the words. 2. ______ His gentle smile makes even shy students feel safe and ready to try again. In Mr Chen's history class, no student feels afraid to answer a difficult question. 3. ______ He walks around the room and listens with real patience even when our answer is wrong. I have started to watch people more carefully in our group discussions. During the work, I look at my classmates' eyes and faces very closely. 4. ______ This helps me reply in a kinder and more patient way, and my friends say they feel respected. Good communication is a skill that can be trained like a muscle in the arm. 5. ______ I practise it every day, at school with my teachers, on the playground with my friends and at home with my family. A. It grows when you truly care about others. B. He never stands still in front of the blackboard. C. My cousin will go to primary school next autumn. D. He does not need a single sentence to know I am happy. E. Their expressions often tell me more than their words. F. A gentle voice can make the same words sound warm. Passage 5 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Yesterday in Mr Wang's maths class, he explained a new rule on the blackboard. I got lost halfway through the explanation and looked at the clock. 1. ______ I thought asking would make me look silly in front of my friends. When he asked if everything was clear, I nodded like everyone else in the room. 2. ______ In fact, my mind was full of fog and my hands felt cold against the desk. That night the homework took me two hours instead of thirty minutes at home. I just stared at the page and grew more and more angry with myself. 3. ______ I should have asked in class instead of hiding my confusion. The next morning I went to his office, my heart beating very fast. He drew a simple picture and explained the rule again in a soft voice. 4. ______ I felt silly for waiting so long and wasting a whole evening. Asking a question is never a waste of time for anyone. 5. ______ Ask early in class and you save hours of guessing alone at your desk. That is a lesson I will not forget. A. Good students are not those who never get lost. B. I pretended that I understood everything. C. But I did not raise my hand to ask. D. I suddenly understood how foolish my silence was. E. It took him only two minutes to clear my mind. F. Mr Wang always answers with a smile and says good teachers are glad to help. Unit 5 Be Green Passage 1 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 In last Monday's science class, our teacher asked us a simple question. What happens when you brush your teeth with the tap running all the time? 1. ______ The answer turned out to be shocking for everyone in the room. We worked together and did the maths on the blackboard with chalk. An open tap wastes about six litres of water in only one minute. 2. ______ That is enough drinking water for one person for three whole days. That night I decided to change my own habits straight away. I now turn off the tap while I soap my hands and brush my teeth. 3. ______ My father laughed at first and then quietly joined me the next day. My family also started to reuse water at home last month. After washing vegetables, we keep the water for the plants in the garden on the balcony. 4. ______ My mother even fills a large bucket when it rains heavily. Our teacher often says one sentence that I have written in my notebook. 5. ______ If millions of people save a little water every single day, the river stays alive and clean. A. Water covers more than seventy percent of the earth. B. Brushing your teeth for three minutes wastes eighteen litres. C. Small drops make a big river. D. Nobody in the class had ever thought about it. E. In this way we save at least twenty litres every day. F. I also take shorter showers and time myself. Passage 2 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Our school started a green project at the beginning of this term. The head teacher said we waste paper and electricity every day without noticing it. 1. ______ He asked us to cut the waste in half in just two weeks. He was right, and we soon saw the proof with our own eyes. Lights stay on in empty classrooms, and half the paper in the bin has only been written on one side. 2. ______ It was hard to believe at first, so we counted once again. I became the student in charge of the lights in my own class. During every break and after school I switch off the lights and the fans. 3. ______ My classmates have slowly picked up the same habit without being reminded. For paper, our class keeps a special box next to the window at the back. 4. ______ The blank sides are perfect for doing maths problems in pencil and for making small drafts. Two weeks later, our bin was only half as full as it had been. 5. ______ We plan to continue the project for the whole year and to tell other classes about it. A. Everyone felt proud of what we had done together. B. The school dining hall was built only two years ago. C. Our school throws away nearly two hundred kilos of paper each term. D. We collect one-sided paper and use the back again. E. This small job takes me only one minute each time. F. He showed us several photos as proof. Passage 3 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Our school held a small exhibition in the hall last Friday afternoon. Each class had to show one useful thing made from old objects. 1. ______ We all thought it would be a difficult task at first, because nobody in our group could draw well. My group chose plastic bottles for our work. We collected them from the recycling bin for a whole week. 2. ______ They were dirty and smelled unpleasant, and some of my friends stepped back at once. First we washed and dried them carefully in the sun. Then we painted them and turned them into colourful pen holders for our desks. 3. ______ Several teachers stopped to take photos and asked us how we made them. At the exhibition, our teacher praised our work in front of everyone in the hall. Other students came up with even better and stranger ideas. 4. ______ We agreed to try those ideas next time with our own hands. The following weekend, I made a bag out of an old pair of trousers for my mother. 5. ______ Now I keep looking around my room for more old things to save from the bin. A. At first my classmates did not want to touch them. B. Someone suggested pencil cases from old jeans and shopping bags from T-shirts. C. Buying new things is usually cheaper than making them. D. She loved it and carried it to the market at once. E. The rule was simple but the work was not easy. F. They looked like little animals sitting on the desk. Passage 4 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 There is a small river running through our town, and it used to be very clean. Old photos show people swimming and washing clothes in it happily. 1. ______ Nobody wants to open the window near it in summer now, because the smell is terrible. What happened to it over those years? Many factories were built along the upper part of the river. 2. ______ People also threw their litter into the water without thinking twice about tomorrow. Then something changed last spring, and I saw it with my own eyes. A few volunteers began to clean the bank every weekend with gloves and bags. 3. ______ Soon students, shop owners and even whole families joined them. I go there once a month with my classmates now. We pick up plastic bags and bottles and sort them for recycling carefully. 4. ______ The work is dirty but never boring, and we always talk and laugh. The water is clearer than it was a year ago, and birds are slowly coming back to the banks. 5. ______ If people stop caring, no law can save a river from becoming a dirty bin. A. The town plans to build a new park along the river. B. Some of them let waste water flow straight into it. C. We usually fill five or six large bags in a morning. D. Their photos spread quickly online. E. Today the water is dark and smells terrible. F. Protecting a river is everyone's job. Passage 5 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Do you know how much a single tree can do for us? Our teacher told us that one tree takes in about twenty kilograms of carbon dioxide from the air every year. 1. ______ I found this fact hard to believe at all until she showed us a photo. Last spring our class planted twenty young trees behind the school. We dug holes, put the trees in and watered them well together. 2. ______ Everyone was tired but cheerful, and our shoes were covered with mud. Most of the trees lived through the hot summer. This spring they are already taller than I am, and their leaves are thick. 3. ______ It is wonderful to see them standing there when I run past every morning. I water them after school and it has become something I do without thinking about it. 4. ______ I have learned that growing takes time, just like learning a new language slowly. Trees are quiet friends of human beings, and they ask for almost nothing in return. 5. ______ Every small green act helps the earth breathe a little more easily in the hot summer months. A. The new library behind our school has large glass windows. B. Their slow change teaches me patience. C. They clean the air, hold the soil and cool the ground. D. Birds have already built several nests in their branches. E. The whole work took us two afternoons. F. It also produces enough oxygen for two people to breathe. Unit 6 Learning Passage 1 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 My English was poor last year and I almost hated the subject. I was afraid to speak in class and my face always turned red. 1. ______ I even wanted to give up the subject completely and never open that book again. Then my English teacher said something that changed me completely. She advised me to keep a diary in English every single night. 2. ______ It sounded boring, but I promised myself to try for one month. So I began to write four or five lines each evening before bed. I only described small things: my dinner, a football match or a rainy street. 3. ______ Nobody was going to mark my mistakes or laugh at me. Four months later I could see the change very clearly in my writing. Last month my composition got the highest mark in my class. 4. ______ She said she could feel real life in my words. Now writing in English is no longer a task or a duty for me. My teacher often asks me to read my diary to the class. 5. ______ This simple habit changed both my English and the way I see myself. A. She said a short diary is better than a long copy. B. I once won a prize in a school writing competition. C. I did not worry too much about grammar at all. D. I could not answer even the easiest question. E. My teacher read it aloud to the whole class. F. It is like talking quietly to a close friend. Passage 2 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 I used to learn new words by repeating them again and again. It felt like hard work, and the words left my mind in a week. 1. ______ I thought my memory was simply bad, and I was born that way, which made me quite sad. My deskmate laughed when he saw my long word list. He told me that words alone are like fish out of water. 2. ______ A word needs a sentence to live in and a picture to stay. From that day on, I put every new word into a short sentence. For example, I wrote that my brother was brave enough to save a cat. 3. ______ The word brave has stayed with me since then. I also review five words by heart every morning on the bus to school. 4. ______ My English teacher says my vocabulary is growing faster than anyone else's in my group this term. This small change has saved me a lot of time and a lot of trouble since September. 5. ______ Hard work alone is not enough for a language learner, and the right method always wins in the end. A. There are about fifty new words in each unit of our book. B. I failed almost every dictation last term. C. In this way the words return to my mind often. D. He advised me to learn words in sentences instead. E. I could almost see the scene while writing it. F. A good method helps more than long hours of work. Passage 3 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 I have watched my mother cook tomato and egg noodles hundreds of times. Last week I finally asked her to teach me step by step. 1. ______ I believed it was the easiest dish in the world, but I was completely wrong. She smiled and handed me two cold eggs from the fridge. My hands shook when I broke them and pieces of shell fell into the bowl. 2. ______ Oil even jumped out of the pan onto my arm. My mother did not laugh at me, which surprised me a lot at that moment. She turned down the fire and told me to breathe slowly. 3. ______ Then she showed me how to keep the tomatoes soft and juicy. The third time I tried, everything went much better than ever before. My mother stood beside me and only watched my hands. 4. ______ I felt proud when my father finished the whole bowl and asked for more. Now I understand something important about learning any new skill in life. 5. ______ Every mistake teaches me something useful for the next try, and that is how we slowly grow up in the kitchen. A. It looked so simple when she did it. B. She said that cooking needs patience more than skill. C. Making mistakes is a natural part of learning. D. The kitchen became a mess in just two minutes. E. My mother once worked in a restaurant for three years. F. This time the eggs were golden and the soup tasted right. Passage 4 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 This term I joined the school science club with two of my friends. Every Wednesday afternoon we do small experiments in the lab to test different ideas from our textbooks. 1. ______ Sometimes our results surprise even our teacher, and we laugh together. Last week we measured how the temperature of water changed in different colours of light over forty minutes. 2. ______ We wrote every number down carefully in our notebooks and compared them twice in the end. Our results were not the same as the numbers in the textbook. At first we thought we had failed the whole experiment completely and felt rather sad. 3. ______ He told us that experiments sometimes fail, and that is perfectly fine. So we checked our tools and tried the experiment again the next day. This time we understood why the difference appeared at last, and we all smiled. 4. ______ Asking why is far more important than being right. I have fallen in love with this way of studying science in our club. 5. ______ Doing things with our own hands teaches us quietly what books cannot teach us in class at all. A. Our teacher just smiled when he saw our faces. B. It makes me curious and happy at the same time. C. We felt as excited as real scientists at that moment. D. We work in pairs and everyone has a small job. E. The experiment lasted nearly forty minutes. F. The club also watches science films once a month. Passage 5 请阅读下面语篇，根据其内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使其意思通顺，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Some subjects need a lot of practice, and maths is certainly one of them. I used to think it was far too difficult for me. 1. ______ I gave up as soon as I saw a long problem on the paper. My maths teacher noticed this and had a long talk with me. He said good learners do not rush to the answer immediately. 2. ______ They first study the structure of the problem calmly. I decided to follow his advice and slow down at once, even in exams. I read every problem twice before I write anything on my paper. 3. ______ Then I look for the method step by step with a calm heart. One month later, my marks improved by fifteen points in the monthly test. My teacher wrote a short encouraging note on my paper. 4. ______ I even began to enjoy the feeling of solving a hard problem. This experience changed my idea about learning in a lasting way, and I often share it with my classmates. 5. ______ A clear method makes even hard work feel light, and good marks soon follow naturally in exams. A. Our school library has many maths books for beginners. B. Now I write down what I already know before anything else. C. My parents could hardly believe the change in my marks. D. They read the problem slowly and more than once. E. I often left the last two questions blank in exams. F. Patience and steps matter more than quick answers. 参考答案 Unit 1 Lifestyles Passage 1：D E F A C Passage 2：C B E D F Passage 3：D E C F A Passage 4：D E A C B Passage 5：A C B E F Unit 2 Helping Hands Passage 1：F A E C D Passage 2：D A B C E Passage 3：B C E F A Passage 4：E C A D F Passage 5：E C F B D Unit 3 Making Choices Passage 1：B E D F C Passage 2：D E B A F Passage 3：F C B E D Passage 4：B C E F A Passage 5：F D E B C Unit 4 Language and Communication Passage 1：C D E B A Passage 2：D E F C A Passage 3：D C E B A Passage 4：D F B E A Passage 5：C B D E A Unit 5 Be Green Passage 1：D B F E C Passage 2：F C E D A Passage 3：E A F B D Passage 4：E B D C F Passage 5：F E D B C Unit 6 Learning Passage 1：D A C E F Passage 2：B D E C F Passage 3：A D B F C Passage 4：D E A C B Passage 5：E D B C F 第 页 共 页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $