《2025年暑假作业与生活陕西师范大学出版总社有限公司八年级英语冀教版》

1. What's the population of China?
2. Antarctica is covered with snow and ice all year round.
3. Two thirds of the students are girls in this class.
4. My mother can cook potatoes in different ways.
5. Please ring me up when you arrive in Beijing.

答案： 1. population 2. is covered with
3. Two thirds 4. in different ways 5. ring me up

Ⅴ. 短文填空
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空,使短文完整正确。(每个单词限用一次。每空限填一个单词。)
last, culture, quick, two, England, popular, other, China, communicate, language
About one hundred years ago, many educated people spoke French when they met people from other countries. Today most people speak 1. English when they meet foreigners. It has become the new international language. There are more people who speak English as a 2. second language than people who speak English as a first language. Why?
There are many reasons why English has become so 3. popular. One of them is that English has become the language of business. Another important reason is that popular American 4. culture, like movies and music has quickly spread throughout the world. It has brought its language with it.
Is it good that English has spread to all parts of the world so 5. quickly? I don't know. It's important to have a language that everyone has in common. Our world has become global and we need to 6. communicate with one another. On the 7. other hand, English is a rather hard language to learn and it brings its culture with it. Do we really need that?
Scientists have already tried to make a 8. language that isn't too difficult and isn't from any group's culture. It is called Esperanto. But it hasn't become popular. Maybe the popularity of English won't 9. last that long, either. Who knows? There are more people in the world who speak Chinese than any other language. Maybe someday 10. Chinese will be the new international language.

答案： 1. English 2. second 3. popular
4. culture 5. quickly 6. communicate
7. other 8. language 9. last 10. Chinese