1、义 务 教 育 教 科 书五四学制义务教育教科书八年级下册八年级下册定价：7.90元五四学制英语英语（五四学制）7-9年级下册.indd 22015.2.6 3:58:28 PM8Unit 19Not Too Short1.Read an English newspaper every day so that you can improve your reading skills.2.3.4.1.This newspaper also said that table tennis was invented by soldiers from England.2.Most mountain cli
2、mbers need to use their eyes to climb mountains.3.We should never give up our dreams!4.While he was growing up,he always dreamed of flying through the air.34Before ReadingPut a check next to the words you can use with each verb.Add one more to the list.Reading-It Smells Goodtastelook sound smell fee
3、lgoodsoftsmartbittertireddeliciousbiglovelysaltybeautifulsournoisysweethappyterribleA baby learns about the world through the five senses:his eyes,ears,fingers,nose,and tongue.He sees his parents.They look big to him.He hears a song.It sounds beautiful.He touches a pillow.It feels soft.He smells foo
4、d.It smells good.He eats food.It tastes good.Wait!Food smells good,and food tastes good,too.Do our noses and tongues do the same thing?Not really.Lets look more closely at noses and tongues.A persons nose can smell many different things.Try this test.Close your eyes and tell your friend to put somet
5、hing right under your nose.Now smell it.Can you tell what it is?Mostly,yes.Our noses are very smart.Most people can smell thousands of different things.For example,when you smell a rose,you know it smells different from other flowers.What about our tongues?A persons tongue is not as smart as his nos
6、e.In the past,we thought we could only taste four different flavors such as sweet,sour,salty,and bitter.Some food tastes like sugar or lemons.Other food can taste like salt or bitter medicine.Recently,however,scientists found out about a fifth taste.The fifth taste is hard to describe.Its the taste
7、in meat.A food like cheese also has this taste.Why do foods have different flavors?All candy tastes sweet,but not all candy tastes the same.We use our noses and tongues at the same time.Thus,grape candy tastes different from orange candy.Unit 5tastelooksoundsmellfeel20190510-初中英语 8年级-上册11-7.indd 342
8、019/5/12 11:24:2664Before ReadingLook at the pictures below.What did the people in the pictures do whenthey were alive?Talk about them with your partner.Reading-A VolunteerMom,youve been a volunteer,havent you?I think I want to volunteer somewhere,too.Im old enough to do it,dont you think so?Sure yo
9、u are,Susan.Its a great idea.I used to be a volunteer in our hometown in America for many years.I have also done this in other countries,too.Which other countries have you been a volunteer in?Well,I have been a volunteer in several countries in Africa.Because we live in China now,I also do volunteer
10、 work here.Since last year,I have helped at both the local hospital and an elementary school.What kind of volunteer work did you do in America?I worked in schools and nursing homes.Also,I helped any of our neighbors who needed help.There are so many things which you can do to help people.Do they pay
11、 you for volunteer work?No,Susan.A volunteer is a person who does work without being paid for it.We help people in order to show them our love and kindness.We feel good when we are showing kindness to others.What can I do?I have already seen some jobs which are suitable for you at the local hospital
12、.Let me talk to some of the nurses right now.Thank you,Mom.I cant wait to start.Albert SchweitzerHenry Norman BethuneFlorence NightingaleSusan:Susans mother:Susan:Susans mother:Susan:Susans mother:Susan:Susans mother:Susan:Susans mother:Susan:Unit 9Wang DandanYour own What do you enjoy doing?drawing
13、 What do you want to be in the future?artist What will you do for your dream?draw every day/study art in Paris80Before ReadingLook at the pictures.Find out which items you can recycle and how.Share your ideas with your partner.Reading-Reduce,Reuse,RecycleMany years ago,people never thought about buy
14、ing drinking water.But today,millions of people must buy drinking water because clean water is getting hard to find.This is just one example of a huge problem.There arent enough resources left trees,water,oil,fish,animals,or clean air for our future.If we continue to waste these natural resources,ou
15、r life will get much more difficult.One day,we may even have to pay for the air that we breathe!But it is still not too late.There are things that we can do to make things better.We can remember the“3Rs”:Reduce,Reuse,and Recycle.Lets think about what these three words mean.To reduce means to use les
16、s.Here are some simple things that you can do to reduce waste.Turn off the water while you brush your teeth.Take a cloth bag when you go shopping so you wont need to use plastic bags.To reuse means to use something again.How can you reuse things?Here are some examples.Buy things that you can fill again and again,like refillable pens and refillable shampoo bottles.Use both sides of a sheet of paper before you use a new one.To recycle means to make something new from used things.Fortunately,recycl