《2025年新课程新教材导航学八年级英语上册外研版》

一、用所给词的适当形式填空
1. I think the internet is one of the most useful ______ (inventions) in our life.
2. We ran to the bus station ______ (quickly) because we didn’t have enough time.
3. It ______ (completely) changed the way he saw life’s challenges.
4. What an ______ (unexpected) thing it is! We can’t believe that it is true.
5. Yesterday, Mary spent two hours ______ (doing) her DIY homework.
6. I have no special talents. I am ______ (passionately) curious.
7. ______ (Curiosity) is the key to opening one door after another for us to discover a new world.
8. The strong curiosity ______ (drove) Thomas Edison to do thousands of experiments.
9. The book tells the story of a teenager’s ______ (exploration) of an island.
10. The Chinese saying goes “______ (Failure) is the mother of success”, which means failure often teaches us important lessons for future success.

答案： 1. inventions 2. quickly 3. completely 4. unexpected 5. doing 6. passionately 7. Curiosity 8. drove 9. exploration 10. Failure

二、选词填空
| qualities | glue | pioneer | exploration | risk | talent |
1. Confucius was a pioneer in the field of education.
2. —Could you please pass me the glue, Grace? I want to stick something.
—Sure. Here you are.
3. The man has a few good qualities. For example, he is honest and never tells lies.
4. Swimming in the river alone is a big risk. You might get into danger.
5. Space exploration means sending rockets and astronauts to study planets, stars and galaxies.
6. My sister has a real talent for drawing. Her pictures look so beautiful.

答案： 1. pioneer 2. glue 3. qualities 4. risk 5. exploration 6. talent

三、用方框中所给词的适当形式填空
| spend | drive | trouble | test | warn |
1. Lily spends two hours practising the piano every weekend.
2. Don’t trouble yourself to improve that old machine; we’ll buy a new one.
3. The doctor will test your eyesight to check if you need glasses tomorrow.
4. Our teacher usually warns us not to copy others’ answers during an exam.
5. Curiosity always drives people towards certain goals. For example, Zhang Heng was curious about the world, and spent years studying the sky and the earth.

答案： 1. spends 2. trouble 3. will test 4. warns 5. drives