《2025年阳光学业评价八年级英语上册沪教版》

一、联系上下文,在空白处填入适当的短语或句子
Lily: Max! Do you know any interesting story about numbers?
Max: Yes! A story about Archimedes counting sand.
Lily: How is it?
Max: The king said that his treasure was like stars and beyond measure (不胜其数). Archimedes proved him wrong.
Lily: How? With stars?
Max: He thought about the king's word 1. ____ (一会儿), and then 2. ____ (毫不犹豫地答道), "Stars are too far. Let's 3. ____ (用沙子替代)!"
Lily: Sand? Like on a beach?
Max: Exactly! He drew a giant chessboard pattern. "Start with one grain," he said. "4. ____ (数量翻倍) for each of the rest of the squares."
Lily: And the king promised to provide the sand?
Max: Yes, but by square 20, he was worried! 5. ____ (即使用上所有的银子) in his country, he still couldn't buy enough sand.
Lily: So numbers beat real wealth?
Max: Totally! Now I challenge you: At which square would we have enough sand to cover our whole city?

答案： 1. for a moment 2. replied without hesitation 3. use sand instead 4. Double the amount 5. Even with all the silver

二、根据课文内容及所给首字母完成下面短文
Long, long ago, a king in India loved to play chess very much. One day, a 1. w____ old man came to the palace and the king 2. c____ him to a game of chess. The king 3. p____ to give him any 4. p____ if the old man won the game. The old man wanted one grain of rice for the first square of the chessboard, two for the second, four for the third, and to 5. d____ the amount for each of the rest of the squares. The king 6. w____ how many grains of rice he would need but still 7. a____. Finally, the king lost the game and soon realized that he would not have enough rice to put on all the squares.

答案： 1. wise 2. challenged 3. promised 4. prize 5. double 6. wondered 7. agreed