Unit 4 Language and Communication Reading Club 同步分层作业 2026-2027学年北师大版英语八年级下册

Unit 4 Language and Communication Reading Club 分层作业 建议用时：30分钟 一、单词汉译英（Reading Club：文字里的千年沟通） 1. 骨头 ____________ 2. 雕刻 ____________ 3. 文字 ____________ 4. 朝代 ____________ 5. 记录 ____________ 6. 发现 ____________ 7. 失明的 ____________ 8. 发明 ____________ 9. 点 ____________ 10. 系统 ____________ 11. 发表 ____________ 12. 博物馆 ____________ 二、短语汉译英（教材原短语） 1. 数以千计的 ____________ 2. 超过 ____________ 3. 推进 ____________ 4. 被用来 ____________ 5. 想出 ____________ 6. 在……岁时 ____________ 7. 全世界 ____________ 8. 多亏了 ____________ 三、词形变换（写出下列动词的过去式） 1. carve → ____________ 2. find → ____________ 3. invent → ____________ 4. write → ____________ 5. become → ____________ 一、单句填空（用括号内单词的正确形式填空） 1. Wang Yirong didn't know the marks were characters ____________ (直到) he studied them carefully. 2. People ____________ (carve) characters on bones over three thousand years ago. 3. Braille's system made blind people ____________ (read) with their fingers. 4. Visit the museum and learn history, ____________ (否则) you will know little about the past. 5. Louis Braille was blind, ____________ (但是) he never gave up his idea. 二、根据汉语意思完成句子（每空一词） 1. 三千多年前，商代的人在骨头上刻字。 Over three thousand years ago, people in the Shang Dynasty ____________ characters ____________ bones. 2. 王懿荣在药里发现了这些刻痕。 Wang Yirong ____________ these marks ____________ the medicine. 3. 这一发现把中国有文字记载的历史向前推进。 The discovery ____________ China's written history ____________. 4. 布莱叶15岁时发明了六点盲文。 Braille invented the six-dot system ____________ the ____________ of fifteen. 5. 如今盲文用于世界上几乎所有语言。 Today braille is used for ____________ ____________ the languages in the world. 三、句型转换 1. In 1899 Wang Yirong found the oracle bone characters.（对画线部分提问） ____________ ____________ Wang Yirong find the oracle bone characters? 2. Louis Braille invented the six-dot system.（改为一般疑问句） ____________ Louis Braille ____________ the six-dot system? 3. The oracle bone characters are very old.（改为感叹句） ____________ ____________ the oracle bone characters are! 4. The doctor didn't stop studying the bones until midnight.（改为同义句） The doctor ____________ studying the bones ____________ midnight. 5. We can read braille with our fingers.（改为否定句） We ____________ read braille with our fingers. 四、选词填空（文字里的千年） 【bone, carve, dynasty, blind, system】 1. Wang Yirong noticed strange marks on a dragon ____________. 2. Not many people could ____________ characters on shells in ancient times. 3. The Shang ____________ was over three thousand years ago. 4. Louis Braille was ____________ from childhood, but he created a writing system. 5. His six-dot ____________ is now used in almost all languages. 五、情景补全对话（5个空，6个选项，1项多余） A. Who found the oracle bone characters? B. How old are they? C. What did people use them for? D. Can blind people read braille easily? E. Where can we see oracle bones today? F. Did you finish your history homework? Tim: Grace, I read about oracle bones today. 1.____________ Grace: A Qing Dynasty scholar named Wang Yirong, in 1899. Tim: 2.____________ Grace: Over three thousand years — from the Shang Dynasty. Tim: 3.____________ Grace: Kings used them to record questions and important events. Tim: I see. And I also read about braille. 4.____________ Grace: Yes. Six raised dots stand for each letter, and fingers can read them quickly. Tim: 5.____________ Grace: In museums, such as the National Museum in Beijing. You should visit one. 拓展提高（课内同源 + 课外同源） Passage1（课内同源：龙骨上的惊天发现） 　　In 1899, a Qing Dynasty scholar named Wang Yirong fell ill and got his medicine from a shop. While checking the medicine, he noticed strange marks carved on pieces of old bone, called “dragon bones”. They were not natural lines — they looked like a writing system. / Wang Yirong was a careful student of ancient bronze and stone inscriptions. He bought up the “dragon bones” and studied the marks one by one. Slowly, he realized that these were characters from the Shang Dynasty, more than three thousand years ago. Kings of Shang had carved questions on the bones — about weather, harvests, wars and dreams — and used them to record important events. / The discovery excited the whole country. People hurried to the medicine shops and the fields where the bones had been dug out, and thousands of oracle bones were collected and studied. The marks, now called oracle bone inscriptions, are the earliest known Chinese writing. They pushed China's recorded history much further back and became the ancestor of the characters we write today. / Today, you can see oracle bones in museums, and in 2017 they were listed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. A sick man's careful eyes turned medicine into history — and gave us a three-thousand-year-old conversation with our ancestors. 任务一：单项选择 1.Where did Wang Yirong first notice the marks? A.In a museum. B.On his medicine. C.In a library. D.In a school. 2.What did Shang kings carve on the bones? A.Poems and songs. B.Questions and important events. C.Medicine recipes. D.Letters to friends. 任务二：判断正误(T/F) 3.Wang Yirong had studied ancient inscriptions before the discovery. (　　) 4.The oracle bones were all destroyed after 1899. (　　) 任务三：简答 5.What are the marks called today? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Passage2（课外同源：点亮黑暗的六个点） 　　Louis Braille was born in France in 1809. As a little boy, he hurt his eyes in an accident and became blind. At that time, books for the blind were rare, and the letters were huge and hard to read by touch. / In 1824, when he was only fifteen, Braille improved on a soldier's idea called “night writing”, which used raised dots for reading in the dark. He simplified the design into a six-dot system: sixty-three combinations of raised dots, each standing for a letter or a sign. With fingertips, blind people could read page after page like everyone else. / In 1829, Braille published his method, but for many years few schools accepted it. Braille kept teaching, playing music and improving his system until he died in 1852. Slowly the six dots proved themselves: easy to touch, quick to write, and perfect for music and maths as well. / Today, braille is used for almost all the languages in the world, from street signs to exam papers. The six dots, like six little stars, light up the dark for millions of readers. Helen Keller once said that access to communication means access to knowledge — and Braille's six dots have opened that door for generations of blind readers. 任务一：单项选择 1.When did Braille invent the six-dot system? A.In 1809. B.In 1824. C.In 1829. D.In 1852. 2.What was “night writing”? A.A soldier's raised-dot idea for reading in the dark. B.A kind of music. C.A kind of medicine. D.A French book. 任务二：判断正误(T/F) 3.Braille published his method in 1829. (　　) 4.Braille's system was accepted by schools at once. (　　) 任务三：简答 5.How do blind people read braille? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 任务四：单元微写作 班级举行“Story of Writing”主题分享。请写一段短文介绍甲骨文或盲文的故事，不少于6句话。请写清时间、人物和意义，并用上 thousands of 和 come up with。 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 参考答案 夯实基础 一、单词汉译英 1.bone 2.carve 3.character 4.dynasty 5.record 6.discover 7.blind 8.invent 9.dot 10.system 11.publish 12.museum 二、短语汉译英 1.thousands of 2.more than 3.push forward 4.be used for 5.come up with 6.at the age of 7.all over the world 8.thanks to 三、词形变换 1.carved 2.found 3.invented 4.wrote 5.became 能力进阶 一、单句填空 1.until 2.carved 3.read 4.or 5.but 二、根据汉语意思完成句子 1.carved; on 2.found; in 3.pushed; forward 4.at; age 5.almost; all 三、句型转换 1.When; did 2.Did; invent 3.How; old 4.kept; until 5.can't 四、选词填空 1.bone 2.carve 3.dynasty 4.blind 5.system 五、情景补全对话 答案：1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D 5.E；多余项：F 拓展提高 Passage1 任务一：1.B 2.B 任务二：3.T 4.F 任务三简答：5.They are called oracle bone inscriptions. Passage2 任务一：1.B 2.A 任务二：3.T 4.F 任务三简答：5.They read it with their fingertips. 任务四范文：Writing has wonderful stories behind it. More than three thousand years ago, people in the Shang Dynasty carved characters on bones, and thousands of these oracle bones tell us about their life and questions. In 1899, the scholar Wang Yirong came up with the idea that the marks on “dragon bones” were ancient characters, and his discovery pushed China's written history further back. Another moving story is about Louis Braille, who was blind from childhood. At the age of fifteen, he came up with the six-dot system, so blind people could read with their fingers. Today braille is used in almost all languages, and oracle bone characters live on in the words we write. These stories remind us that writing is one of humanity's greatest inventions. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $