【外研版】八年级英语上册Module11reading

1、（ 1）In China, there is a 12-year cycle for every year. There is an animal for every year. Here are the animals:Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. Everyone has an animalsign. 2006 is the year of Dog.Do you know? Michael Jackson (迈克尔 -杰克逊 ) and Madonna

2、(麦当娜 ) were both born in the year of Dog. Dogs are very honest and friendly. They protect people they love. So some say people born in the year ofDog are very hard-working, brave, responsible (负责任的 ), friendly, and honest. They lovejustice ( 正义 ), andpeople respect them. In love relationships (亲戚 ),

3、 they do not change easily. They are willing to suffer. They donot want to make other people suffer. They do not like to do something bad.Dogs are sometimes narrow-minded or stubborn ( 顽固的 ). At these times they are not easy to be calm.Of course, we all know some of these things are not true. We hop

4、e the good ones are true about us. We hopethe bad ones are not true.You can buy many things with these signs. For example, you can get cups, cards, notebooks, or otherdecorations. These things have a picture of your animal. What is your animal year? Do you own something with a picture of your animal

5、? Or do you want to create something with your animal sign?根据短文内容，在空白处填上合适的单词，使句意完整。1. If a baby is born this year, his animal sign will be _.2. Dogs are very _ and _ to people and they protect people they love.3. Sometimes dogs are _ and _. They are not easy to be calm.4. There are all kinds of thi

6、ngs with _ _.5. We all have our own _ _. We can create something with your animal sign.(2)We use energy to do everything. Energy lights our cities and powers our cars, trains, planes and rockets. Itwarms our homes, cooks our food, plays our music and makes the pictures on our televisions. It powers

7、themachines in factories and the tractors ( 拖拉机 ) on farms.And energy comes from many places. For example, energy from the sunlight dries our clothess. That energyalso helps plants to grow. Plants keep some of that energy inside of them. When a deer eats a plant, it gets thatenergy. It uses that ene

8、rgy to live. If a tiger eats that deer, the tiger will get some of that same energy.Many different kinds of energy come from different places, but there are two main groups we can put energyinto: renewable ( 可再生的 ) and nonrenewable.Renewable energy can be used over and over again. It comes from thin

9、gs like sunlight, wind, plants, movingwater and the Earth s heat. We can use these things to make electricity, and we donout of them. There will always be sunlight, there will always be wind, and the Earth will always be hot inside. If t have to worwe use those sources for energy, we ll never run ou

10、t.But we have energy problems now because we get most of our energy from nonrenewable sources. We say they are nonrenewable because we are using them more quickly than they can be made. Most of these are fossilfuels ( 化石燃料 ) like oil, natural gas and coal. It has taken the earth millions of years to

11、 make fossil fuels from dead plants and animals as old as dinosaurs. There is no fast way to make fossil fuels, but we are using them very quickly.Anotherkind ofenergy fromnonrenewable sources is atomicenergy (原子能 ). Scientists can break apartatoms of uranium ( 铀 ) or plutonium ( 钚) to get energy. B

12、ut there is not much uranium or plutonium on earth.() 1.Which of the followings is renewable?A. moving waterB. coalC. oilD. natural gas() 2. The underlined word“ power ” has the closest meaning to“ _ ”.A.breakB.turnC.driveD.repair() 3. According to the story, the energy problem we are facing now is

13、that _.A. there is not much uranium on the earthB. we are using our nonrenewable energy sources too quicklyC. there is too little sunlightD. the earth is not hot enough inside()4.Whichofthefollowingstatementsistrue according to thestory?A.Wecanmakeenergybybreakingupanything.B.Tigerseatdeertogetnaturalgas.C. Nonrenewable energy is used more quickly than it is made.D. Sunlight can only be used to dry up clothes.() 5. This passage mainly talks