《2025年新课程能力培养八年级英语上册人教版》

一、完形填空
What kind of monkey lives longer, the thin or the fat?
Scientists found that monkeys 1. ____ less may live longer and are not easy to get 2. ____.
Richard Weindruch of the University of Wisconsin in Madison and his team studied about it. They 3. ____ seventy - six monkeys over twenty 4. ____. They let half of the monkeys eat as 5. ____ as they wanted and made the other half eat less food. And they gave them vitamins and minerals (矿物质) to have 6. ____ nutrient (营养). Twenty years later they found that 37% of the monkeys who ate as much as they wanted 7. ____, while only 13% of the monkeys that ate less died.
When monkeys live with people and don’t live in the wild, they can 8. ____ about twenty - seven years. Misteer Weindruch says scientists do not know why fewer calories (卡路里) can make 9. ____ longer. But they believe it is helpful to their body. 10. ____ of the monkeys that ate less had heart disease. The thin monkeys can remember things easily. They also look younger and healthier than the fatter ones who ate too much.
(B) 1. A. moving
B. eating
C. sleeping
D. drinking
(C) 2. A. sad
B. tall
C. sick
D. strong
(A) 3. A. studied
B. asked
C. checked
D. looked
(D) 4. A. hours
B. days
C. months
D. years
(B) 5. A. quickly
B. much
C. good
D. little
(C) 6. A. a lot
B. small
C. enough
D. no
(A) 7. A. died
B. went
C. left
D. won
(D) 8. A. run
B. climb
C. hide
D. live
(B) 9. A. hair
B. life
C. legs
D. tails
(A) 10. A. Fewer
B. More
C. Less
D. Further

答案： 1.B 2.C 3.A 4.D 5.B 6.C 7.A 8.D 9.B 10.A

二、语篇填空
Do you think only humans are crazy about electronic products? You are wrong. 12 zoos in the United States and Canada have carried out (实施) a programme 1. called (call) Apps for Apes (大猩猩). It has found that the apes are also 2. interested (interest) in playing iPads.
“We find that, similar to people, the apes like touching the screen and watching short videos,” said Richard Zimmerman, a manager of the programme.
The apes in these zoos can play iPads 3. twice (two) a week. Every time, they spend 4. from 15 minutes to half an hour using different apps in iPads. They are most interested in apps for children, such as 5. drawing (draw), music and memory games.
Zimmerman said, “It’s like when we’re showing pop - up books (立体书) to children. The apes are among the most intelligent animals. They are as clever as young children.”
The 6. workers (work) in the zoo are also studying how communication apps can help the apes better. “We find that 7. an ape has a toothache. He would be able 8. to touch (touch) a picture of a tooth on the iPad and communicate in that way,” said Zimmerman.
The programme wants to make people 9. pay (pay) attention to the living problems of apes in the wild. The apes are in danger 10. because people cut down too many forests.

答案： 1. called 2. interested 3. twice 4. from 5. drawing 6. workers 7. an 8. to touch 9. pay 10. because