2020春人教版八年級英語下冊Unit10 拓展閱讀訓(xùn)練

1、2020年新目標(biāo)八年級下冊Unit10 拓展閱讀訓(xùn)練 擴(kuò)寬視野，啟迪心智 韓老師A.Almost every child likes sweet things，such as candies，chocolate，ice cream and dessertsBut do you know there is a holiday called Sweetest Day in the USA? Does it mean people can eat lots of sweets on that day? Sweetest Day is a popular holiday for AmericansPe

2、ople celebrate it on the third Saturday in OctoberOn that day，people show their love to the elderly，children，their good friends or anyone else they want to helpOrphans（孤兒）and patients can also enjoy peoples greetingsIn fact，anyone may get a gift on that dayIt is just a day that offers people a chanc

3、e to show their love and care to others How did the holiday originate（起源）?Here is a storyIn 1922，a very kind man in Cleveland，a city in Ohio of America，thought that many poor people in the city needed care from othersHe wanted them to be happy and he hoped they would find people always remembered th

4、em and cared about themSo he gave them boxes of sweets or small gifts to show his loveHe also asked his friends and neighbours to help him do these thingsMany people thought it was a great ideaAfter that more and more people in Cleveland began to do things like him every yearGradually it became a po

5、pular holiday for lots of Americans1The underlined（畫線的）word “desserts”in Paragraph 1probably means _Aeggs Bsalty food Cbeef Dsweet food2Oct.4 is the first Saturday in October this year,so Sweetest Day will be celebrated on _AOct4 BOct11 COct18 DOct253Paragraph 2 mainly talks about _Awhat the America

6、ns do to make friendsBhow Americans celebrate Sweetest DayCwhy the elderly and children are helpedDwhere orphans and patients are greeted4Sweetest Day has a history of about _ years A82 B98 C102 D1125More and more people did things like the kind man because _Athey agreed with the kind man and follow

7、ed his exampleBthey thought they would also be cared about if they did soCthey thought they could be remembered by the poor peopleDthey were asked by the kind man to try their best to help others BYou may have heard of the famous saying,“East or West, home is the best.”What does the word“home”mean t

8、o you? How do you say the word in French, in Chinese, in your language? Although people usually know what the word means, it sometimes has no exact translation. Its not surprising, because the idea of home is different from country to country, and from person to person. A home is more than a roof an

9、d four walls. Its the cooking, eating, talking, playing and sleeping that go on inside. And at home you usually feel safe and relaxed.Homes look different in different countries. They also have different things inside. For example, in cold northern Europe, theres a fire in the living room or kitchen

10、 and all the chairs face it. In the south, where the sun shines a lot and its more important to keep the heat out, there are small windows and cool stone floors.We asked some people about their homes.How often do people move house in your country?“In my country many people dont stay in one place for

11、 a very long time. They often move every ten years or so.” - Chery, Boston, USAWhat are features (特征) of homes in your country?“In Britain, even in town, theres always a garden. We have separate bedrooms and living rooms. But we don't often have balconies (陽臺). The weather isnt warm enough!” -Pa

12、t, Exeter, England6. The word“home”sometimes has no exact translation because _.A. no one knows what it isB. people cant understand each other very wellC. people cant find this word in the dictionaryD. it has different meanings in different countries7. According to the passage, at home, you can do e

13、verything EXCEPT _. A. making friends B. cooking and eating C. playing and talking D. sleeping and relaxing8. Why is it important to keep the heat out of the houses in southern Europe?A. Because the sun there shines a lot.B. Because theres a fire in the living room. C. Because they wear heavy clothe

14、s all day long.D. Because they want to breathe fresh air outside.9. From the second paragraph, what kind of homes people have depends on _.A. how old they areB. the climate(氣候) they haveC. whether they are rich or not D. whether they live in the city or countryside10. What can we learn from the pass

15、age？ A. Homes look the same in different countries. B. Some Americans move house several times during their lifetime.C. People in Britain seldom have balconies because it's so hot outside.D. Houses in northern Europe have big windows and cool stone floors. CDo American children still learn handw

16、riting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One of this years studies found that about three o

17、ut of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for 10 to 15 minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for 60 to 70 minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much.Many adults reme

18、mber learning that way by copying letters over and over again. Todays thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts (專家) also think handwriting should not be taught by itself. Instead, they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why

19、we write. Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility, which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency (流暢) writing without having to think about it. Fluency continues to develop up until high school.But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report tha

20、t about one fourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is seldom done in primary school, especially in the early years. American chil

21、dren traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive(手寫體), which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board (大學(xué)委員會). More than 75 percent of students choose to print their essay (article) on the test rather than write in cursive.11. From

22、 Paragraph 1, we can learn _.A. most teachers prefer to teach handwritingB. teachers spend little time in teaching handwritingC. a keyboard has taken the place of the handwriting D. teaching handwriting is a basic requirement in the teaching job12. Which of the following is WRONG for traditional han

23、dwriting in the USA?A. Handwriting includes two skills.B. To write in cursive is taught first.C. The letters are repeated many times.D. The students are taught by practicing a long period.13. Many experts think handwriting should be used to get students to _. A. express ideasB. keep away from comput

24、ersC. learn to write lettersD. practice more14. The underlined word “l(fā)egibility” in Paragraph 3 means _. A. easy to read B. easy to write C. unexpected D. unreadable15. The best title for the passage is _.A. Handwriting Involves Two Skills B. How to Improve Handwriting in SchoolC. Right or Wrong: th

25、e Death of HandwritingD. Handwriting Lessons Are on the Way Out DFew people can stop themselves from looking at pictures of cute animals. Take the Internet sensation(引起轟動的人或物) Sally chicken as an example. The chicken with a yellow body and flat mouth always looks lovely. Seeing her cute picture chee

26、rs people up. But theres another benefit to cuteness.New research has found that looking at cute pictures of animals can also help us concentrate (專注)better. The study comes from researchers at Hiroshima University in Japan. They invited 132 university students to take part in some experiments. In o

27、ne experiment, students were asked to find a given number from a list of numbers within a time limit. They performed the given tasks twice-before and after looking at seven pictures of either baby cats and baby dogs, or cats and dogs. Researchers were surprised to find that students who were shown c

28、ute baby animal pictures made fewer mistakes.However, baby animals look both "cuter and more pleasant" than adult animals. What if the test difference came from their being pleasant"? To find the answer, the researchers chose some food pictures which looked pleasant but not cute and g

29、ave them to another group of students. But seeing the foods did not make the students perform any better in the number test. This finding suggests that seeing cute pictures makes students behave more deliberately and perform tasks with greater time and care.The "power of cuteness" could be

30、 of great use. Think about situations in which people need to act carefully: driving, office work and exams. " In my first year of high school, I brought small plastic toys to school during tests. I would set them up in a row on my desk, facing me, and then get busy answering exam questions.”Su

31、sana Martinez-Conde wrote in Scientific American.16. Why is Sally chicken mentioned in the first paragraph?A. She is the main character.B. She is a lovely Internet sensation.C. She is used to introduce the topic of the passage.D. She is popular to cheer people up on the Internet.17.What's the ma

32、in finding of the study at Hiroshima University?A. Seeing cute animals could cheer people up.B. Seeing pleasant things helps people concentrate better.C. Seeing pictures of cats and dogs helps people perform better.D. Seeing cute things could help people focus on something better.18. The underlined

33、word“deliberately”in the third paragraph has the closest meaning to“_”.A. happily B. correctly C. actively D. carefully19. What do Martinez-Conde's words tell us?A. It is popular for students to have toys.B. It is powerful for students to face toys.C. It is useful to look at cute things in daily

34、 life.D. It is good for students to look at toys after an exam.20. In which situation could the findings of the experiment be useful for you?A. Working in the lab. B. Relaxing in a roomC. Eating in a restaurant D. Shopping in a supermarketE.LONG before Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica 大英百科全書, th

35、ere was Pliny the Elder. He was a first-century Roman researcher. His assistants (助理) read to him while he ate dinner and while he bathed. All the while, Pliny took notes. He even considered walking a waste of time. His assistants carried him around Rome in a chair while he read.All of this was prep

36、aration for his Historia Naturalis (博物志). The book was published in A.D. 77. It is considered the oldest surviving encyclopedia(百科全書）on Earth. There are 2,500 chapters. They cover everything from mice to Mars.“No Roman author has completed such a project,” Pliny proudly announced. Unluckily, two yea

37、rs after publishing (出版) the encyclopedia, he died in a natural disaster.Accidents can hardly be avoided (避免). However, they can be recorded. Editors of encyclope dias, like Pliny, organize the knowledge of our world. Like a valuable gift, the books pass through the ages. They begin their lives as a

38、 tool and end them as a historical record.Therefore, in my opinion, an encyclopedia is not just a record of what its editors know. Its also a record of what they dont know.Pliny was wrong when he said there were seven planets, including the Sun and the Moon. He was wrong, too, when he said Africans

39、were black from being burnt by the Sun. After all, Historia Naturalis is a book edited by a Roman thousands of years ago. These were all he truly knew.Similarly, both Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica have some incorrect information. Even the biggest encyclopedias only represent what their editors know.“The task of editing an encyclopedia can never be completed,” said Roger Lewinter, an American researcher. Encyclopedias cant record all of the h