牛津译林版8B英语期中复习--任务型阅读+首字母填空（一）Each summer, you hear news that some sports players are sent to hospitals because it is too hot. Our bodies can’t be outside in the sun for a long time. So in hot summers, be careful about playing sports outside.Firstly, to play sports safely in hot weather, you must drink water. Sports drinks are great for athletes, but they have so much sugar that they’ll dehydrate(使脱水) you more. However, drinking a few bottles of sports drinks will be good for you.Secondly, be sure to ta ke enough rest to let your body rest. If your coach doesn’t let you do so in the heat, don’t wait until you feel uncomfortable. Just be honest with your coach when you need rest.Thirdly, when you have a rest, don’t sit in the sun. With the sun beating dow n on you, you’ll only heat up and sweat(冒汗) more. Take a seat under a tree, or even better, go indoors for a little while. Cooling yourself down can help you stay active longer.Fourthly, remember that the earlier in the day you start your exercise, the cooler it will be. If you can start practice before the sun comes up, you have a few good hours to practice in the cool hours of the morning. Also, the earlier you practice, the earlier you can finish the exercise. If you need more practice time, come back to the field later in the evening when the sun is setting.Last but not least, you should watch your food. Eat food which is high in water, starch(淀粉) and carbohydrate(糖类), but be sure to get a good balance in your diet.As long as you pay attention to the above, playing sports safely in the heat isn’t a（二）Everyone has worries. But what can you do when you have worries? Whether your worries are big or small, you can take these three steps to deal with your worries:1. Try to find out what you're worried aboutSometimes, you can know what you're worrying about. Other times, you might not. Try to find it out first. if you can't, you can ask others for help.2. Think of ways to make it betterThere is always something you can do to help you feel less worried. Sitting thereworrying can't solve your problem.Grades at school are often top worries for kids. If you're worried about grades, ask yourself these questions:✧Why are grades important? What do grades mean to me?✧How do I get ready for class? Do I go over my notes (复习课堂笔记) evenwhen there isn't a test?✧Do I have a good place to do my homework?✧Have I tried different ways of studying?If your worry is about a fight you had with a friend, you might write down all the things you can do: write a note to him or her, invite him or her to a basketball game, say sorry to him or her and so on. If you know the things you can do, you can do one of them to get your friend back.3. Ask for helpWhen you're worried, it can help to find someone to talk to. You can ask your（三）Sometimes it may seem difficult to improve our health. If so, the following health habits may help you.Eat breakfast every morningResearch(研究) shows that if you eat a meal in the morning, you may not become too fat or eat too much during lunch. Eating breakfast can help people feel better through the day.Get enough sleepPoor sleep can influence(影响) our memory and learning. It can also cause traffic accidents! Studies show that people who don’t get enough sleep seem to get into more accidents. So stay safe and get enough sleep!Take a walk every dayWalking is an easy way of exercising. You’d better meet friends for a walk, not for a meal. As you walk, you will see the beautiful world around you. Once you try, you’ll find that adding a walk into your daily life is very easy.Join social groupsSocial groups can provide support. They might include sport teams, art or musicgroups. The people in the group can offer advice and can help each other in difficulttimes. Also, being in a group keeps your mind busy. And active mind is a healthymind.Have a hobbyA hobby could be running, reading or making something with your hands. ◆It may ___4____ traffic accidentsevery ◆Walking is an easy way of ___5____. You’d better meet friends for a walk __6___ of a meal. ◆Enj oy the ___7____ world around you while walking.◆You can get much support, ___8____ and help from socialHas anyone ever told you that eating carrots will help you see in the dark? Thisis just one of many incorrect thoughts you may have heard. Below, TEENS haspicked out scientific explanations for three mistakes that people make about their eyes.Let’s take a look.Can eating more carrots help you see better?Carrots are rich in vitamin A, which helps the eyes to turn light into informationfor your brain.This allows people to see in darker places.However, eating more carrots won’t help you see better. A certain minimumamount will help, but a large number of carrots will not give you superhuman vision.If your parents have bad eyesight, will you have bad eyesight, too?Parents can pass myopia(近视）onto children.A study by the American Optometric Association found that if both parents aremyopic, there’s a 33 to 60 percent chance that their child will be. For children whohave one parent with myo pia, the chance is 23 to 40 percent, and it’s down to 6 to 15percent for kids with non-myopic parents. So though your eyesight is bad, yourchildren might still have good vision.Do color blind people see the world in black and white?Color blindness doesn’t usually mean that people see the world in black andwhite.They usually can’t tell certain colors apart, especially green and red. Anothercommonly confused pair of colors is yellow and blue.Our eyes have cone cells(视锥细胞), they can sense different wavelengths(波长) oflight. Color blindness will appear if people’s cone cells don’t work in a proper way.There are different levels of color blindness. Some people are only color blind inlow light. However, in the most serious form of color blindness, everything is shadesof gray.（五）Typing(打字) is one of the most important and basic work skills of the 21st century. Because mobile phones are now so popular, there is a new kind of typing-thumbing. Thumbing means people use one or more thumbs(拇指) to touch the keys.Most people can type between 20 and 35 words a minute. Some typists, however, can work very quickly, at more than 110 words a minute. And people’s left hand usually does 56 percent of the typing.The most common international English keyboard is QWERTY. People name it after the first letters on the top left side of the keyboard. It is more than 140 years old. Other keyboards include QWERTY (in Central Europe) and AZERTY (used by most French speakers in Europe). Countries with non-Roman alphabets(字母系统), such as, Arabia, Russia or Japan, have their own keyboards.People practise the sentence ”The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” to make their typing better. That’s because it uses every letter o f the English alphabet.Thumbing and typing can hurt you. RSI (repetitive strain injury) is the name of a medical condition you get if you type too much. However, most people do not understand what RSI is or how serious it can be. Anyone who uses a computer a lot is（六）If you want to know which social media platforms Chinese youths like now, you better not miss short videos. On popular short video apps, including Douyin and Kuaishou, users can upload(上传) short videos, the content of which are from cooking and physical exercise to dancing and gatherings, and share them with other users.A 12-year-old user named Xiaoqianyu has up to 2.6 million followers on Douyin.The girl, who has enjoyed dancing since she was inkindergarten（幼儿园）, has uploaded videos showingher learning jazz dance and finger dance since lastJuly. One of the videos won her about one million fans,and she has become famous as a result. "whilerecording the movements, I add music to the video, soit is easy and fun to shoot the videos," said Xiaoqianyu.Another user, named Xiaozhou, she likes Kuaishou best. "Most people think the life showed on Kuaishou is low. Instead, I think those videos give those people a voice. The short videos in different types bring happiness to their daily life." Xiaozhou said.However, some young Chinese feel bored with some short videos."Killing time is the only reason for me to watch the short videos, but I really don't like the content of the videos. Moreover, many dances in the videos are almost the same, which are boring ." said Houyu, a 21-year-old student at Anhui Foreign Language University.The main reason behind the fast development（发展）of short videos is to attract （吸引）others’ attention. Short videos encourage users to show themselves and funny things. So the youths make short videos to share with others and invite them to understand what they think is funny.Popular social media platforms-- short videosPeople who like short videos Xiaoqianyu The girl __1__to enjoy dancing when she was in kindergarten.She became famous _2__one of her videos won herabout one million fans.She _3___ it easy and fun to shoot the videos. Xiaozhou Kuaishou is her __4__ short video app.She doesn’t _5__ with people who think the lifeshowed on Kuaishou is low.She thinks the short videos can make people __6__.People who _7___ short videos Houyu He watches the the short videos in _8_ to kill time.However, he thinks the content of the videos is _9___.The __10__ for the development of short videos The users want to attract people’s attention.They want to show themselves and funny things through short videos.（七）You have probably heard it before, most likely from your English teacher. If you want to become a good writer, read good writing. Unfortunately, you may not have understood what did good to you and even whatyou were supposed to get from that experience.As you start reading a book, poem, or story, do so with no thought at all and the参考答案：任务型阅读（一）1 playing/ doing2 high3 ways4 bad5 plenty6 Avoid7 early8 setting9 careful10 safer(二)1.three/32. worry3. improve4. less5. unable/useless/helpless6. meaning7. prepare8. with9. invite 10. helpful(三）1. improve2. through3. enough4.cause5. exercising6. instead7. beautiful8. advice9. mind 10. as(四)1. eyes2. Facts/Reasons/ Explanations3. improve4. in/from5.parents/ parents’6. passed7. but8. like9. able 10. properly（五）1.touch /press2.importance3.with /using4.speed5.mored7.improve8.speakers9.harmful 10.Few（六）1. started/began2. because3. thinks4. favourite5. agree6. happy7. dislike8. order9. boring 10. reason（七）1，helps 2. advantages 3. pleasure 4. interest 5. mistakes6. Time7. devoted8. bored/tired9. favorite10. progress首字母填空(一)In recent years, mobile phones and e-readers have become more common. Some people worry that the days of paper books will be gone. So we did a survey(调查) about paper books. Here is what we have got.In the UK, s___1____ of e-books are dropping, to our surprise, the number of people who buy paper books is r____2_____. More surprisingly, it's young people who are buying the most paper books. A___3______ survey of university students from the United States, Japan and Germany also showed that 92 percent of them liked paper books better.The most popular reason was: "I like to hold the product." It's true that paper books bring a very different reading e____4_____. Some students said that they liked the smell of paper books. Other students said that they got a sense of accomplishment(成就感) when they c___5_____ reading a paper book and they enjoyed seeing it on the bookshelf.Paper books can also be very personal objects to readers. Many people like to sign their names on the inside cover. I___6_____ the cover gets bent(弯曲) or there's a mark made from coffee or food, it will make the book even more personal. It's more like the readers' old friends.This "friendship" b___7___ people and book isn't just sentimental(情感的). Studies have shown that readers remember more information from paper books. People also more e___8_____have sore(酸痛的) eyes while reading e-books.It seems that there is no reason to r____9______ paper books. So why not p___10_____ up a book and start reading?（二）White Fang had made an enemy of Lip-Lip. The dog attacked him whenever he could. He was bigger and stronger than White Fang and always w 1 their fights. White Fang knew that he could never win a fight against Lip-Lip. He knew that he had to do something else to teach the dog a l 2 .Most of the time, however, White Fang was h 3 . His mother was trapped because the men did not want her to run away again, but he was able to be with her w 4 he wanted. There was always meat to eat, and the women were kind to him. Only Lip-Lip made him unhappy. He decided to do something about thisbad-tempered dog.One day, he pretended(假装) to be h 5 and unable to run fast. Lip-Lip ran after him. White Fang stayed just in front of him. White Fang l 6 Lip-Lip to the place where Kiche was. Although she was tied up by her master, she was able to bite Lip-Lip. She turned him over and b 7 it him many times. Lip-Lip ran away when Kiche let him go , but White Fa ng’s problem with him was not over.Lip-Lip was the l 8 of the other dogs. They followed him and obeyed him. N 9 of them would make friends with White Fang. Whenever he came near them, they attacked him. They knew that he was not a real dog.White Fang was always alone. He was never a 10 to play with the other dogs. This made him angry. He often forgot how to behave well. ---from White Fang（三）On the fourth day of the lunar new year, my parents and I went to the t 1 to watch《Hi, Mom》Watching the movie, I have some insights( 感悟). Perhaps everyone has h 2 the old saying: "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop. The son wants to perform his duty but there are no elders a 3 . " Jia Xiaoling was found by her mother pretending(假装) to be admitted( 录取)to a famous university, because she wanted to make herself a promising daughter.U 4 , her mother died in a car accident, which brought all this to nothing. Jia's most simple w 5 was to let herself get the envy( 嫉妒) of the people around. But mom has passed away. If everything was back in 1981, she would have done anything to m 6 up for these mistakes and make her mother gain face at all costs!The director Jia Ling made this film just to remember her late mother LiHuanying, who encouraged Jia Ling to r 7 her artistic dreams.What should we do when we grow up? We can often go back home to take care of our parents, and spend more time with them. Life is only o 8 , but the heart of our lovely family has countless times. When the spring wind b 9 all over China, take your family out for a walk to relax, stay with your family, blow away the sadness of the past year, and w 10 the brand new 2021.首字母（四）White Fang had made an enemy of Lip-Lip. The dog attacked him whenever he could. He was bigger and stronger than White Fang and always w 1 their fights. White Fang knew that he could never win a fight against Lip-Lip. He knew that he had to do something else to teach the dog a l 2 .Most of the time, however, White Fang was h 3 . His mother was trapped because the men did not want her to run away again, but he was able to be with her w 4 he wanted. There was always meat to eat, and the women were kind to him. Only Lip-Lip made him unhappy. He decided to do something about this bad-tempered dog.One day, he pretended(假装) to be h 5 and unable to run fast. Lip-Lip ran after him. White Fang stayed just in front of him. White Fang l 6 Lip-Lip to the place where Kiche was. Although she was tied up by her master, she was able to bite Lip-Lip. She turned him over and b 7 it him many times. Lip-Lip ran away when Kiche let him go , but White Fang’s problem with him w as not over.Lip-Lip was the l 8 of the other dogs. They followed him and obeyed him. N 9 of them would make friends with White Fang. Whenever he camenear them, they attacked him. They knew that he was not a real dog.White Fang was always alone. He was never a 10 to play with the other dogs. This made him angry. He often forgot how to behave well. ---from White Fang（五）A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his f 1 . He held a sign which s 2 , "I am blind. Please help me."There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and d 3 them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that e 4 who walked by could see the new words.Soon the hat b 5 to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who c 6 the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized(认出) his footsteps and asked, "Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?"The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a d 7 way." What he had written was, "Today is a beautiful day, but I cannot see it." Do you t 8 the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing? Of course b 9 signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the b 10 of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.（六）O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen n 1 . His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long b 2 of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach h 3 everything he needed to know.When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry w 4 to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He f 5 worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some t 6 . Some money went missing from the bank. People believed that O.Henry had stolen(偷）it, so he was sent to prison(监狱). D 7 the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.He w 8 mostly(主要）about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his s 9 , because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers s 10 .Do you like reading his stories?（七）Many years ago in 1971, the US table tennis team was at the World Championship in Japan. The team from the People’s Republic of China was also there. This championship took place d 1 the days of the Cold War. Because of this, the American and the Chinese players didn’t e 2 talk to each other.Glen Cowan, from the US team, d 3 that. One day, he saw a Chinese player and invited him to play. They played together for 15 minutes, and Cowan m 4 the US bus back to the hotel.Then, something 5 happened. One of the Chinese players waved to Cowan from the Chinese bus. He thought for a moment and then he got on the bus. But the Chinese players didn’t talk to him. S 6 Zhuang Zedong, three times world champion, came up to Cowan. “What are you doing?” said the other Chineseplayers. “Don’t talk to him! Don’t make t 7 !” Zedong gave Cowan a silk scarf. “I give you this to s 8 the friendship of the Chinese people to the American people,” he said through a translator. Cowan wanted to give something b 9 , but he didn’t have anything with him.Then the bus arrived at the hotel. There were lots of r 10 waiting there —it was big news to see an American and a Chinese player together.（八）The computer and the Internet have become part of teens’ life. The number of teen Internet users in China is (1) g bigger, up to 253 million. The number shows a great increase(增长) in Internet users in China over the last (2) f years, especially among teenagers. And China becomes a large market for Internet (3 b.A new survey (调查) shows that Chinese teens show (4) i_______ in online activities. They seem not to know that （5）s too much time before a computer screen(显示屏) is bad for their health. According to the survey, 42.6% of teens have built their (6) o web blogs. More than half enjoy (7) c online with friends and 10.6% of teens play Internet games. It is a (8) p that only 6% use the Internet to get information for their learning projects! Also, the survey finds that the teens have different favourite (9) p to use the Internet. For teens in towns, 35% choose Internet bars as a mai n place to go online. For those living in large cities, 76% use home computers.Too much time online certainly (10) l to problems for their young life. Should teens think more about what role (角色) a computer plays?（九）Do you want to be successful in everything you do? If so, then how ? Here is an example.There was a farmer who grew corn(玉米) all his life. Each year he took his corn to the market.Then each time his corn was chosen as the b 1 and won the first prize.One year a newspaper reporter i2him and learned something surprising about how he grew it. The farmer o3his seed（种子) corn to his neighbors."How can you share your best seed corn with your neighbors?" the reporter asked. "You know they are taking part in the competition with you each year. ""Why, sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen (花粉)from the corn and moves it quickly from field to field. If my neighbors grow b 4 corn , cross-pollination ( 异花传粉) will be not good for my corn. S 5 if I want to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors to grow good corn. "The farmer knows much about the connection of life. His corn cannot improve I 6 his neighbors’ corn cannot improve.As a great man says, "We make a living by w 7 we get ; we make a life by what we give to others. " We can't live w 8 food, clothes, and many other things.H 9 , a meaningful life is not decided by how much we can get, but by how much we can give others. Giving, instead of taking, makes us different from other animals. So those who choose to live well must help others to live well, and those who choose to be happy must help others to find h 10 in their life.首字母填空(一)1 sales2 rising3 Another4 experience5 completed6 If7 between8 easily9 refuse 10 pick（二）1. won2. lesson3. happy4. when/whenever5. hurt6. led7. bit8. leader9. None 10. allowed （三）1-5 theatre heard around Unluckily/Unfortunately wish6-10 make realize once blows welcome（四）1. won2. lesson3. happy4. when/whenever5. hurt6. led7. bit8. leader9. None 10. allowed （五）1. feet2. said3. dropped4. everyone5. began6. changed7. different8. think9. both 10. beauty（六）1. name2.because3.himself4.went5.first6.trouble7.During8.wrote9.stories 10.surprised(七)1. during2. even3. disliked4. missed5. surprising /strange6. Suddenly7. trouble8. show9. back 10. reporters(八)1. growing/getting2. few3. business4. interest5. screen6. own7. chatting8. pity9. places 10. leads（九）1 . best 2. interviewed 3. offered 4. bad 5. So6. if7. what8. without9. However10. happiness。
