Unit 1 Past and present Grammar 课时作业 译林牛津英语八年级下册.docx

Unit 1 Past and presentGrammar课时作业一、 根据中文提示完成单词。1. (最近), citizens in Luhe have got the chance to experience a self-service store.2. Shared bikes can help us travel around freely in cities without (污染) the air.3. Now Li Lei has decided to work harder to (提高) his English.4. Oh, my god! You havent finished your homework (还，仍).5. No country has made such great progress as China in the (过去的) thirty years.二、用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。1. The story happened (century) ago, so few people know about it.2. It is (possible) to build another museum in such a short time.3. Have you ever (write) a letter to your parents?4. Life is much (easy) for us now, but we still have to work hard.5. The hunters (catch) a bear in the forest five days ago.三、根据中文提示完成句子。1. 这本有趣的书你读了多少遍了？ this interesting book?2. 你曾经和他谈过这件事吗？ to him about this?3. 到现在为止还没有人知道她发生了什么事？No one what happened till now?4. 自上午九点起，我就没吃过任何东西。I 9 a.m.5. 我们老师已经教了我们许多关于中国历史的知识。Our teacher about .四、阅读理解As a kid, I was always chubby(圆胖的). In college I started blowing up. It got out of control when I went to law school. I'd made a decision a thousand times：I'm going to lose weight now. But what motivated me to get serious about it was turning 30. I weighed 414 pounds. I was always tired. Some of my family members have suffered from heart disease, and I was scared. I also wanted to look better. So after my birthday, I walked into the office of a weight-loss doctor. She was very understanding. Her focus was on balanced meals and she wanted me to exercise. Walking was all I could do at first. I started by walking a few blocks and gradually increased the distance, until one weekend, I found myself saying, “Wow, this seems pretty easy. ” So I started to run. I was losing nine or ten pounds a month, and I had more energy. I started to think about the New York City Marathon. For years, I watched the runners and thought, “This looks like fun, but I could never do that. ” But now I realized that maybe I could. I joined the New York Road Runners. I ran a 10 K, then a half-marathon. I still wasn't confident I could run a full 26 miles. But I told myself I was going to do it, no matter what. By my 33rd birthday, I was down to 180 pounds. I started formally training for the marathon. And on the morning of November 1, I stood on the Verrazano Bridge in Staten Island with more than 40,000 other runners, waiting for the event to start. It was unbelievable to have the audience cheering me on, handing me cups of water. And I crossed the finish line. My friends sprayed(喷射)me with beer, as if I'd won the Super Bowl. And at that moment, I knew：If I set my mind to something, nothing is impossible. (1)The underlined phrase “blowing up” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _. A. going weakerB. becoming fatterC. becoming healthierD. growing higher(2)It can be learned from the passage that the author _. A. controlled his weight at collegeB. was satisfied with his figure as a kidC. may have a family history of heart diseaseD. began to consider losing weight at 30(3)What do we know from the passage?A. The marathon the author ran started on the Verrazano Bridge. B. The author formally trained for the marathon for three years. C. The author started by running when losing weight. D. The author has won the Super Bowl. (4)Which of the following proverbs can best summarize the passage?A. Practice makes perfect. B. Pride comes before a fall. C. A good beginning is half done. D. Where there is a will, there is a way. 五、首字母填空Some people like to c 1 stamps. Others prefer posters or coins. But Pinky Bhutia is d 2 . She collects children. In her mountain village, in Sikkim, she is known as the wonderful young woman who adopts(领养) all the children she can.Pinky was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose parents passed away. Pinkys parents did not m 3 . Pinky left school and started working fulltime because she had a baby to feed. Today, she has twelve adopted children, and two sons from her marriage.Pinky is about 30 years old and she comes from a common family. If you passed her on the street, you wouldnt give her a s 4 look. She lives in a brown mud-washed(泥刷的) house. There is a vegetable garden outside. Red hens with noisy chicks run all over the garden looking for food.If you ask her why she p 5 a home to so many kids, she smiles shyly. But her eyes are serious. “I know what it is to be poor and hungry.” As a child, her only d 6 was to eat a full meal, and her favourite amusement was watching people with shoes and imagining what it felt like. By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they n 7 feel that hopeless.Pinky feels very p 8 when she sees her children happy and bright. Her oldest baby, Sarita Rai, is now 20 years old. Then, there is 19-year-old Nimbhe who came to Pinky because her mother was u 9 to look after her. She started to work in a government office two years ago. Ten-year-old Bhim and 14-year-old Kumar came to Pinky five years ago, after their fathers death. They started living on a patch of land given by Pinky and g 10 vegetables for sale.1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司