初中英语人教新目标 (Go for it) 版八年级下册Section A优秀同步练习题

Unit 5 What were you doing when the rainstorm came？

 课时1 Section A（1a-2d）

Learning aims:

1.To learn new words and phrases: alarm, begin, heavily, suddenly, strange, pick up.

2.To learn to talk about past events.

3.To learn to tell a story.

重点词汇和短语

1. _________________ n. 暴风雨

2. _________________ n. 闹钟

3. _________________ v. 开始

4. _________________ adv. 在很大程度上，大量地

5. _________________ adv. 突然，忽然

6. _________________ adj. 奇怪的，奇特的

1. ___________________________ （闹钟）发出响声

2. ___________________________ 淋浴

3. ___________________________ 接电话

1. My alarm didn’t go off so I woke up late. 我的闹钟没有响，因此我醒晚了。

go off为不及物动词短语，在此意为＂发出响声＂，可指闹钟或警报器等突然发出声响。

☞ You’d better get up as soon as the alarm clock goes off.最好闹钟一叫你就起床。

☞ A car alarm went off in the middle of the night. 半夜里一辆汽车的警报器响了。

☞Listen! The bell is going off. 听！铃响了。

【知识拓展】

例：Miss Yi bought ______________ alarm, but ______________ alarm didn’t ______________ this morning.

A. a；a；ring B. the；a；ring  

C. an；the；go off D. a；the；go out

2. I was waiting for the bus when it began to rain heavily. 我正在等公共汽车，这时天开始下起了大雨。

（1）wait是不及物动词，须加上介词for再跟宾语。

☞ I’m waiting for a bus. 我正在等公共汽车。

（2）rain heavily下大雨，表示＂下大雨/雪＂用heavily修饰，相当于hard,修饰动词用副词。

☞ Though it was raining heavily/hard, they were still working hard.

   虽然雨下得很大，他们还在努力地工作。 

注意：形容风刮得大时常用strongly。 

☞ The wind is blowing strongly with lots of sand. 风猛烈地刮着，带起了许多沙子。

【知识拓展】

rain作名词意为＂雨＂，作动词意为＂下雨＂，表示雨的大小用hard/heavy/light，不可以用large/small来修饰。

☞ There was a heavy rain last night. 昨晚下了一场大雨。

☞ It is raining heavily/hard. 天在下大雨。

例：Sometimes it often rains ______________ in my hometown in summer.

A. heavy     B. hardly　  C. heavily    D. strongly

3. I got to the bus stop but I still missed the bus. 我到了车站但我仍然错过了公交车。

（1）get意为＂到达＂时，是不及物动词，后面直接跟地点名词时，要加介词to。

☞ How can I get to the nearest supermarket? 我怎样才能到最近的超市？

【知识拓展】

【温馨提示】

后接地点副词，如here，there，home等时，去掉介词，即arrive/get/reach+地点副词。

例：Please tell us how we can ______________ Shanghai form here.

A. arrive    B. arrive at    C. arrive in   D. Get

（2）miss意为 “错过(机会),未赶上(车),未抓住(事物),遗漏”,后跟名词/代词/动名词,不接不定式。

 ☞ She missed seeing her son in the crowd.她在人群中未能看到她的儿子。

【知识拓展】　

 miss还可意为“想念,思念”,后跟名词/代词。

   ☞ I do miss the children. The house seems as silent as the tomb without them.

      我真想念孩子们。他们不在家里显得太沉静了。

4. So,when the rainstorm suddenly came,what were you doing? 那么，当暴风雨突然来临时，你正在做什么？

suddenly副词，意为“突然”，可在句首或句中作状语，但在句首时，通常要用逗号隔开。

☞ Suddenly, I have a good idea. 突然，我有了一个好主意。

【知识拓展】

例：Earthquakes always happen ________，so it is difficult to know when they come？

 A. hopefully       B. suddenly        C. usually                  D. luckily

5. I called at seven and you didn’t pick up. 我七点(给你)打电话, 但你没有接。

pick up意为＂接电话＂，是动副结构。当宾语是代词时，放在pick up中间，当宾语是名词时，放在pick up中间或后面。

☞ The phone is ringing. Could you please pick it up for me? 电话响了。请你帮我接一下好吗？

【知识拓展】

例：

—Look! What’s on the ground?

—Oh, it’s my sweater. Please ______________.

A. pick it up    B. put it on   C. give it out    D. take it off

6. I called again at eight and you didn’t answer then either. 我8点又给你打电话，你那时也没接。

either此处用作副词，意为“也（不）”，用于否定句句末。

☞If you do not go, I shall not go either. 你不去，我也不去。

【易混辨析】either,also, too与as well

either“也（不）”，用于否定句，一般放在句末

also“也”，一般用于肯定句，常放在句中

too“也”，一般用于肯定句或疑问句，常放在句末

as well“也”，用于肯定句或疑问句，位于句末

☞I didn’t come to school yesterday either. 我昨天也没来学校。

☞She speaks English and she also writes English. 她说英语，也写英语。

☞Are you going to work too? 你也要去上班吗？

☞I can swim as well. 我也会游泳。学@科网

7. That’s strange. 那很奇怪。

strange形容词，意为＂奇特的；奇怪的＂。作表语或定语。其副词形式为strangely，意为＂奇怪地＂。

☞ It’s strange that he’s failed in the exam. 他考试不及格，真是想不到。

☞ It feels strange to be visiting the place again after all these years. 时隔这么多年，旧地重访使人感到很新奇。

【知识拓展】

例：The dog is very ______________ because it has three ears.

A. noisy    B. strange C. lovely    D. serious

8. So while you were sleeping, I called Jenny and she helped me. 因此当你在睡觉时, 我给珍妮打了电话, 是她帮助了我。

while 为连词，表示＂在……期间；当……的时候＂。while引导的时间状语从句的谓语动词通常是延续性动词。while用于表示一段较长的时间或一个过程，强调主句的动词和从句的动词表示的动作或状态是同时发生的，常对同类的两个动作进行对比。

☞ I was writing a letter while Mom was watching TV. 妈妈在看电视的时候我在写信。

☞ Please write while I read. 我读的时候请写下来。

【知识拓展】

例：My mother ______________ my aunt called her.

A. was cooking while B. cooked when  C. cooked while  D. was cooking when

一、单项选择

1．— I hear all the old man’s three sons were on MU5735 and they were all killed.

— Yes, how sad he is! His neighbors are doing their best to _______.

A．give him up B．cheer him up C．pick him up D．call him up

2．I ________ my sister with her English when my father came in. He smiled to us.

A．help B．helped C．is helping D．was helping

3．Mary is ________ in dancing and dreams of being a dancer.

A．full B．clever C．strange D．interested

4．I didn’t have a good sleep last night because the rain beat heavily ________ the window.

A．over B．against C．in D．through

5．—Can you tell the differences between these two pictures?

—Differences? Oh, no. They look quite ________.

A．similar B．different C．strange D．same

二、用所给单词适当形式填空

6．It ________ (rain) heavily outside when we heard a loud knock at the door.

7．They were too tired and fell ________. (sleep)

8．When the rainstorm came, it ________ (begin) to rain hard and the wind blew strongly.

9．It is reported that a wild tiger ________（sudden）went into a village and hurt a villager in Heilongjiang Province.

10．When he saw the thief stealing things in the office, he closed the door and ________ (call) the police.

三、完形填空

Evening came. It was time for Mr. Bell to close his shop. He was checking his money. His son Tom, who was 15, had just gone outside to buy a newspaper. Just then, a big man walked ___11___ the shop. He had a gun (枪) in his hand.

When Tom came back, he could hear the man asking his father for ___12___. Tom could see the gun in the man’s hand, but the man didn’t ___13___ or hear Tom.

Tom hurried up to the street. He looked for the police, ___14___ he didn’t find any. Then Tom saw an old baseball bat ___15___ on the street. “Maybe this will help,” he thought. He ran ___16___ with it.

His father was just giving some of the money to the man. The man was watching Tom’s father. Tom knew he could not ___17___ long. “Now is the time. I must do it now.” Tom walked up to the man and knocked him down ___18___ the bat.

Tom and his father then ran outside. This time they found the ___19___ and told them what had happened. The police _____20_____ went to the shop and caught the man.

11．A．out of B．around C．into D．down

12．A．paper B．water C．money D．food

13．A．know B．catch C．meet D．see

14．A．but B．so C．for D．or

15．A．lies B．to lie C．lying D．is lying

16．A．back B．over C．away D．past

17．A．hold B．wait C．rest D．watch

18．A．by B．from C．without D．with

19．A．neighbors B．police C．friends D．children

20．A．quick B．slow C．quickly D．slowly

四、阅读理解

A

One day, I was with my friends. We were having a picnic in the field and I saw something strange. A white cat with a pink nose was sitting in a tree. There was nothing strange about that, of course, but it was eating the leaves in the tree!

That was strange! Cats don’t usually eat leaves. “Probably it’s very hungry,” I thought.

While I was looking at it, the cat got out of the tree, jumped down to the ground, walked across the field and sat next to us. It was possible that it wanted some of our picnic to eat, but there was nothing for the cat. The cat got up and came close to me. I talked to it and it smiled at me.

Was it a Cheshire cat (笑脸猫)? I found some biscuits in my pocket and gave them to the cat. Soon, it was eating biscuits and smiling at us. Then, after a while, the cat got up and walked across the field. I thought it wasn’t hungry anymore.

21．I was ________ in a field when I saw something strange.

A．playing football B．having a picnic C．watching a game D．flying a kite

22．What was strange about the cat?

A．The cat was in a tree. B．The cat was white.

C．The cat was eating leaves. D．The cat had a pink nose.

23．I gave the cat some _________ to eat.

A．biscuits B．picnic C．fish D．meat

24．Why did the cat come close to us?

A．Because it was tired. B．Because it lost its way.

C．Because it was hungry. D．Because no leaves were left for it.

25．What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Close to nature B．A field trip C．A strange cat D．Goodbye to biscuits

B

Ade was a farmer. His farmland was so poor that he hadn’t had good harvests (收获)for years.

“ If God lets me control the weather, then everything will get better, ” he said angrily.

“I’m a farmer. I know what’s the best for crops (庄稼) to grow more than God does.”

God heard him.“ Well, I give you one year,” God said, “You will control all kinds of weather. Let’s see what your crops will grow like.”

After hearing this, Ade was excited and shouted at once, “Sunny! ” Suddenly the clouds went away.

He was pleased and shouted again, “Rain! ” The sky was covered with dark clouds right away, and then after a while, heavy rain poured down.

Watching the crops growing better and better, Ade felt pretty satisfied. Then, the harvest season come.

He went to the field to get his crops. But his heart suddenly went down when he found he couldn’t get even a grain （谷粒）. He couldn’t understand it and started to cry. Once again, God heard him.

“ Do you want to know why you still don’t get the good harvest?  ”God asked.“ That’s because you never asked for wind, rainstorm, snow and ice, or anything that could make the air fresher and the roots (根系) stronger. With no strong roots, the crops won’t grow any fruit.”

After he realized this, Ade asked God to take back the power. It showed that only through life’s challenges we would get the fruit of life.

26．Ade hadn’t had good harvests for years because

A．the weather was bad B．he couldn’t control the weather

C．his farmland was poor D．he knows crops more than God

27．God gave Ade the power to control the weather for________.

A．one year B．one month C．one week D．one day

28．When he went to get his crops in the harvest season, Ade was    ________.

A．relaxed B．satisfied C．pleased D．upset

29．At the end of the story, God ________.

A．took back the power B．made the air fresher for Ade

C．gave Ade the power again D．asked for snow for Ade’s crops

30．The story mainly tells us ________.

A．God can give us good harvest B．good weather can bring good harvest

C．God can control the weather D．life’s challenges gives us a good harvest

五、补全对话

从下面选项中选择恰当的句子补全下面对话。（其中有两项是多余的选项）

Helen: Hi, Lucy. ____31____ I called you at six but no one answered the phone.

Lucy: Oh, I was washing the clothes in the bathroom.

Helen: I see. I called you at seven but you didn’t answer then, either.

Lucy: Oh, I was in the bathroom. ____32____

Helen: But I called you again at eight. You didn’t pick up, either.

Lucy: ____33____

Helen: Why didn’t you hear the phone?

Lucy: ____34____By the way, why did you call me so many times?

Helen: Because I wanted to borrow your bike.

Lucy: ____35____

Helen: Yes, I do. But my bike was broken.

Lucy: I’m sorry.

Helen: It doesn’t matter. I have borrowed a bike from Jim.

A．When you called, I was taking a shower.

B．I was watching TV at that time.

C．What were you doing last night?

D．Because the TV was so noisy, I didn’t hear the phone ringing.

E．I have gone to sleep.

F．Don’t you have a bike?

G．Sorry, I went out with my parents last night.