《2025年中学生世界八年级英语上册沪教版五四制》

Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks with proper words according to the given sounds.
1. Some robots can walk, run, climb and ______ /kə'mju:nɪkeɪt/ with people.
2. While the robots move around, they send video information to the ______ /kən'trəʊl/ unit.
3. With the help of the robots, fire fighters can see the fire environment ______ /'klɪəli/ and make a safe plan.
4. According to a 2022 ______ /rɪ'pɔ:t/, over 22% of the Indian population cannot read or write.

答案： 1. communicate 2. control 3. clearly 4. report

( )1.Lin Dong asked the children to be careful ______ wires on the robot.

A.on
B.at
C.for
D.of

答案： D

( )2.Can you think of ______ example to explain the digital technology?

A.a
B.an
C./
D.the

答案： B

( )3.Yiming promised not to do ______ harmful to water.

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

答案： C

( )4.We should do something ______ the teaching situation.

A.change
B.to change
C.changed
D.changing

答案： B

( )5.It is believed that this type of technology ______ an important part in our daily life.

A.play
B.played
C.will play
D.has played

答案： C

( )6.After reading the novel a second time, Tom found it a bit ______.

A.interesting
B.interested
C.more interesting
D.more interested

答案： C

Ⅲ. Choose the best answer and complete the passage.
What do you need for an invention to be a success? To begin with, good timing is very 1. You may have a good idea which the public doesn't want yet. Take Giovanni Caselli as an example. He invented the first fax machine in the 1860s. Though the quality was excellent, his invention quickly 2. The fax machine did not become a necessary piece of equipment in every office until the 1980s.
Money also helps. The Frenchman Denis Papin had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before James Watt was born. Denis never had enough money to 3 one.
You also need to be patient. It took scientists nearly eighty years to invent a light bulb. 4, you shouldn't be too slow. In the 1870s, Elisha Gray developed plans for a telephone. Gray saw it only as "a beautiful toy". When he finally sent details of his invention to the Patent Office(专利局) on February 14th, 1876, it was too 5. Almost the same designs had arrived just two hours earlier. The young man who sent them was Alexander Graham Bell. He is remembered as the inventor of the telephone.
Of course what you really need is a wonderful idea. If you haven't got one, a walk in the countryside and a careful look at 6 can help. The Swiss scientist, George de Mestral, had the idea for Velcro (粘扣) when he found his clothes covered in sticky seed pods after a walk in the countryside.
( )1. A. interesting
B. important
C. personal
D. satisfying
( )2. A. died
B. improved
C. spread
D. appeared
( )3. A. deliver
B. repair
C. use
D. build
( )4. A. However
B. Instead
C. So far
D. At last
( )5. A. modern
B. difficult
C. late
D. old
( )6. A. society
B. nature
C. pictures
D. advertisements

答案： 1. B 2. A 3. D 4. A 5. C 6. B