八年级英语上册2b短文填空解读

1、Passage 1Mon day, July 15th (is sunny and hot, so (have someth ing very specia(ride bicycles to Georgetown. There are a lot of new build ings now, but many of the old buildings are still there. In Weld Quay, a reallyold place in Georgetown, we the houses of the Chin ese(walk around the tow n.Passage

2、 2Tuesday, July 16th (wait over an hour for the train because there were (don t Ian umbrella so we were wet and cold. It was terrible! And because of the bad (ca nanything below. My father didn t bringenough money, so we only had one bowl of rice and some fish. Thefood (taste great because I was so

3、hungry!U2 What do No. 5 High School Students Do in Their Free Time?第五中学的学生在他们的课余时间都做些什么？(ask our stude nts about their free time activities. Our questio ns were about exercise, use of theInternet and watching TV(be the results.We found that only fiftee n perce nt of our stude nts exercise every day.

4、 Forty-five perce nt exercisefour to six times a week. Twenty perce nt exercise only one to three a week. And twenty perce nt do notexercise at all!(stude nt ofte n go on li ne, but we were surprised that nin ety perce nt of them use the Internet everyday. The other ten percent use it at least three

5、 or four times a week. Most stude nts use it for fun and not forhomework.The an swers to our questi ons about (watch televisio n were also in terest ing. Onlytwo perce nt of the stude nts watch TV one to three times a week. Thirtee n perce nt watch TV four to sixtimes a sports, game shows are the mo

6、st popular.(health for the mind and the body. Exercise such as (be fun, and you can spend timewith your frie nds and family as you play together. And remember,“old habits die hardSo start (10Jeff Gree nMy mother told me a good friend is like a mirror. Ikids. That(readtaod I study harder in class. My

7、 best frie nd Yua n Li is (studytogether. Im shy so it(make frie nds. But I think frie nds are liyedodokistn eed a lot of them as long as theyre good.Hua ng LeiIt(be the same. My best friend Larry is qdifferent from me. He is tallerwins. However, Larry ofte n helps (bri ng out the best in me. So Im

8、gett ing bettertennis. Larry is much less hard-working, though. I always get grades than he does, so maybe I should helphim more.Mary SmithI don early care if my friends are the same as me or different. My favorite sayingis,“A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.”My best friend

9、Caireally kind and very funny. In fact, she(feel better. We can talk about and share everyth in g. I know she cares about me because sh esalways here to listen.Whos Got Tale nt谁是达人？Every one good at someth ing, but some people are truly (tale nt. Its (watch othepeople show their tale nts. Tale nt sh

10、ows are gett ing more and more popular. First, therewere shows like America n Idol and Americas Got Tale nt. Now, there are similar showsaround the world, such as Chinas Got Tale nt.All these shows have one thi ng in com mon: They try to look for the best sin gers, the most (beautifully?Thats up to

11、you to decide. Whe n people watch the show, theyperformers are made up. For example, some people say they are poor farmers, but infact they are just actors. However, if you don t take these shows too seriously, they arefun to watch. And one great thi ngWhen people say“culture”, we thi nk of art and

12、history. But one very famous symbol in Americanculture is a cartoon. We all know and love the black mouse with two large round earMickey Mouse. Over80 (appear in the carto on SteamboatWillie(come out in New York on November 18, 1928, it was the first cartoon with soundand music. The man beh ind (mak

13、e 87 carto ons with Mickey.that Mickey was like a com mon man, but he always tried to face any dan ger. I n hisearly films, Mickey was uni ucky and had many problems such as losi ng his house orgirlfriend, Minnie. However, he was“little man”win. Most of Hollywood Walk of Fame.Todays carto ons are us

14、ually not so simple as little Mickey Mouse, but every one stillknows him. Who has a pair of famous tha n Mickeys?U 7Do You Thi nk You Will Have Your Own Robots?你认为你将拥有自己的机器人吗？1. When we watch movies about the future, we sometimes see robots. They areusually like huma n serva nts. They help with the

15、housework and do jobs like (1_(work in dirty or dan gerous places.2. Today there are already robots (2_(work in factories. Some can helpto build cars, and they do simple jobs over and over aga in. (3_(Fewer/Lesspeople will do such jobs in the future because they are (4_ (bore, but robotswill n ever

16、get bored.3. Scie ntists are now tryi ng (5_(make robots look like huma ns and dothe same things as we do. Some robots in Japan can walk and dance. They are fun to watch. However,some scie ntists believe that although we can make robots (6 _ (move like people, it will be difficult (7_ (make them rea

17、lly think like a human. For example, scientist James White thinks thatrobots will never be able (8_ (wake up and know where they are. Butmany scie ntists disagreewith Mr. White. They think that robots will even be able to talk like humans in 25 to 50 years.4. Some scie ntists believe that there (9_

18、(be more robots in the future.However, they agree it may take (10_ (hun dred of years. These new robotswill have many different shapes. Some will look like humans, and others might look like animals. In India, forexample, scientists made robots that look like snakes. If buildings fall dow n with peo

19、ple in side, these snake robots can help look for people un der thebuild in gs. This (11_ (be not possible 20 years ago, but computers and rocketsalso (12_(seem impossible 100 years ago. We n ever know what (happe n inthe future!U8 Tha nksgivi ng in the Uni ted States美国的感恩节In most coun tries, people

20、 usually traditi onal food (in/on special holidays. A special day in the UnitedStates is Thanksgiving.always there to help them.re halfway tofourth Thursday (in/on November, and is a time (give tha nks for food in the autu mn. At this time,people also remember the first travelers from England who ca

21、me to live (have a long, hard win ter, andmany of them (die. I n the next autum n, they tha nks for life and (give (have a big meal at home with theirfamily. The main dish of this meal is almost always turkey, a large bird.U10Stude nts these days ofte n have a lot of worries. Sometimes they have problems with their schoolwork,(bad thing is to do nothing. Laura Mills, a tee nager from London, agrees.“Problems and worries arenormal in life,”thuyls taOkingi to“But