《2025年通城学典课时作业本八年级英语上册外研版》

三、(2025·北京海淀区期末)配对阅读。
人与社会——发明与创造
1. B Adam works in an IT company. He is busy every day. He often needs to check his emails on a bus or a train.
2. D Bruce likes travelling around the world, but he finds it difficult to understand foreign languages.
3. E Carl cleans the walls of tall buildings. His job is often dangerous.
4. C Gina’s office is far from her home and the traffic in her city is very heavy.
5. A Sara likes drawing. She has a problem. She has to change her pens when she needs different colours for her drawing.
A. A smart colour picking pen: It lets you draw in any colour on the earth just by scanning things around it. For example, when you want to draw in the colour of an orange, you just need to scan an orange and draw on the paper.
B. Special glasses: When you wear them and use them with your phone, you can see the screen of your phone clearly, but other people can’t.
C. An electric bicycle: It looks like a small car. It has more advantages than a common bicycle. Riders can ride the bicycle even in rainy or snowy weather.
D. A special T - shirt: There are small pictures of things on the special T - shirt, such as clocks and bathrooms. Point at the things, and people will understand you. It’s a good friend for you to travel around the world.
E. A special backpack: It looks like an everyday bag, but it can save your life. The backpack connects to hooks(铁钩)inside windows and helps you stay away from danger.

答案： 1.B 2.D 3.E 4.C 5.A

四、阅读短文,根据短文内容完成表格。
人与社会——发明与创造
Just as email has changed the way we write to each other, e - books are changing the way we read. An e - book is known as an electronic book, and it is simply a print book in an electronic way.
There are many advantages of e - books. As we all know, we can easily download new e - books from the Internet. It is much easier and quicker to search for passages now, and we can also write notes on the e - book pages. What is more, they save a lot of paper.
Every coin has two sides. E - books have some disadvantages as well. For example, e - books are still more expensive than paper books, so not all people can afford them. Furthermore, e - book screens may cause eye strain if you keep reading for a long time.
However, with the rapid development of electronic technology, reading e - books will become cheaper. A lot of people think there will be more e - books in the near future.
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| Advantages of e - books | * It is easy for us to 1. download e - books from the Internet. * It is more convenient and quicker to 2. search for passages. * People can 3. save a lot of paper. |
| Disadvantages of e - books | * They are much more 4. expensive than paper books. * If we keep 5. reading on the screen for a long time, it may cause eye strain. |

答案： 1.download 2.search 3.save 4.expensive 5.reading