《2025年课堂作业武汉出版社八年级英语下册人教版》

“Dear me, what a terrible trouble it is to me to learn lessons! Here I have one, two — no, not two — but thirty words with meanings to learn. I wish words had no meanings!”

“Well, I 36 I must begin to learn them. P-r-i-s-o-n, prison, that means ‘a place where people are confined(监禁)’. Why don't they say school? That's a prison, I'm sure. P-u-n-i-s-h. I know the meaning of that word 37 the book.”

“Oh, this 38 lesson! I shall never get it. P-l-e-a-s-u-r-e, pleasure, that means ‘that which pleases’. Yes, I know that pleasure means playing ball.”

“I dare say if John Grant, who is 39 boy in my class heard me, he would say pleasure means having a new 40 . Read, read, read ... I hate reading! When I become a man, I'll never 41 a book. Oh, how I wish I were a grown-up now!”

Fifteen years later, the lazy boy becomes a man.

“Yes, I am a man. And now how I wish that I had not been so 42 when I was a boy! I hated my books and took 43 pains to forget my lessons than I ever did to learn them.”

“My father used to say to me, ‘James, do learn your lessons. If you do not, you will be fit for 44 when you become a man.’”

“My 45 said, ‘James, do read your books, or I will be sorry to have you for a son.’”

“Now, there was John Grant: he liked playing well enough, 46 he liked reading better. He learned more out of school hours than I did in them. John Grant is now, like myself, a man, but a very 47 man.”

“I see my mistake now, but it is too 48 . I have no time to read, or for pleasure, for I must work hard with my 49 for my daily bread.”

See the 50 result of laziness in childhood!

That's what “idle young, needy old” means.

36. A. hope
B. suppose
C. wish
D. see

37. A. with
B. in
C. without
D. of

38. A. difficult
B. boring
C. easy
D. interesting

39. A. one
B. some
C. other
D. another

40. A. book
B. picture
C. magazine
D. map

41. A. like
B. hate
C. open
D. close

42. A. painful
B. foolish
C. busy
D. free

43. A. much
B. little
C. less
D. more

44. A. nothing
B. something
C. anything
D. everything

45. A. teacher
B. friend
C. mother
D. father

46. A. and
B. but
C. so
D. or

47. A. cool
B. special
C. excited
D. different

48. A. good
B. bad
C. early
D. late

49. A. hands
B. head
C. body
D. mind

50. A. hard
B. sad
C. lucky
D. important

答案： 36—40 BCADA
41—45 CBDAC
46—50 BDDAB