新疆克拉玛依市第十中学八年级英语上册 Unit 9 When was he born Period 3 Section B(1a-2c)学案

Unit 9 When was he born Period 3 Section B(1a-2c)

【学习目标】：

掌握描述人物的有关形容词，如：talented, loving, creative, outstanding, kind, unusual等。

掌握动词spend的用法。

一、我预习

(一) 跟磁带读单词3遍，并测测你的预习结果：找出划线部分发音不同的单词。

（）1、A. talented B. creative C . champion D .nati onal （）2、A. hiccup B. kind C . ice D. violinist (二) 用形容词来描述一下你身边的人吧。

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二、我练习

根据释义，完成单词

1. u not usual

2. f very well-kno wn

3. c like to create

4. o noticeable, well-known, prominent

5. t natural ab ility to do sth

6. t make a lo ng journey

7. p a reward for good work

8. l________ kind to others

三、我巩固

(一) 用适当的介词填空

1. She was born ___________ Hongk ong _________ July 2, 2008

2. Hangzhou is the capital __________ Zhejiang Province, and it’s fa mous ___________ the West Lake.

3. He played __________ his national team when he was very young.

4. My teacher began working in this school ________ the age of 21, and she worked _________9 years.

5. John spends all his free time _________ his grandson after he retired. （二）单项选择

( ) 1. --___________ is your favorite movie star?-- I like Nicolas Cage best. He is so cool in his movies.

A. Which

B. Whose

C. Whom

D. Who

( ) 2. Margaret Mitchell’s famous novel was a long story _________ Gone with the Wind.

A. call

B. calls

C. calling

D. called

( ) 3. My brother can play _________ piano very well but he can’t pl ay ________ golf.

A. / , the

B. the, the

C. the, /

D. the , a

( ) 4. Liu Yang _________ much time on his physics last week.

A. cost

B. spent

C. took

D. paid

( ) 5. It will ________ you about half an hour to get to the airport.

A. cost

B. take

C. spend

D. use

( ) 6. We didn’t go out to play __________ the bad weather.

A. for

B. with

C. because of

D. at

( ) 7. Bill Gates is an _____________ person.

A. famous

B. talented

C. outstanding

D. kind

( ) 8. Today is Ton y’s b irthday. It’s a(n) _________ day for him, so he got up much earlier than ______.

A. unusual ; usual

B. usual ; usual

C. unusual ; unusual

D. usual ; unusual

( )9.He spends as much time as he can __________ English every day.

A. read

B. reads

C. reading

D. to read

My headteacher is a math teacher. He is __________ to us.

My old grandpa is really a ___________ man. He spends lots of time with us after retiring.

Edison was so ____________ that he had about 2000 inventions in his life.

Zhou Enlai is a(n) ___________ person in Chinese his tory.

Today is ____________ because it’s Christmas Day.

I think Tiger Woods is ___________ because he started golfing when he was only ten months old.

（四）完型填空

Who designed (设计)the first helicopter (直升飞机)? Who __1__ some of the most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about the human body than most __2__of his time? There is an answer __3__ all these questions—Leonardo de Vinci (达·芬奇). Leonardo may have been the greatest genius (天才)who __4__ have never known. He lived in Italy about the year 1500, but many of his inventions seem modern to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. Of course, he couldn’t __5__ a helicopter with the things he had. But scientists say his idea would have worked.

But Leonardo wasn’t just an inventor. He was one of the greatest ___6___ of his day. By the time he was twenty years old, he was called a master (大师) painter, and as he got older he became __7__ more famous. Sometimes he drew a hand in ten different ways __8__ he was ready to paint.

Many of Leonardo’s wonderf ul paintings are still with __9__ today. You may know one of his most famous works—the __10__ woman known as Mona Lisa.

( ) 1. A. took B. made C. painted D. invented

( ) 2. A. artists B. doctors C. painters D. people ( ) 3. A. to B. of C. for D. from

( ) 4. A. scientists B. artists C. inventors D. people ( ) 5. A. draw B. paint C. work D. make ( ) 6. A. doctors B. artists C. inventors D. designers ( ) 7. A. less B. no C. even D. very

( ) 8. A. before B. after C. until D. when

( ) 9. A. him B. us C. them D. you

( ) 10. A. interesting B. crying C. smiling D. surprising