初中英语牛津八年级上学期05

[08:39.60]Exercise A2
[08:44.04]1 one syllable:dog wing brain solve
[08:55.90]2 two syllables:harmful ancient famous chicken
[09:08.65]3 three syllables:finally character newspaper skeleton
[09:21.92]4 four syllables:education experiment responsible uncountable
[09:34.17]Exercise A3
[09:40.34]1 abacus  2 Greece
[09:48.38]3 gentle  4 amusement
[09:57.03]5 footprint
[10:01.60]6 apologize  7 kneel
[10:10.43]8 encyclopaedia
[10:15.47]9 calculator
[10:20.23]Exercise A4
[10:24.59]1  use -- uses
[10:31.35]2  mix -- mixes
[10:37.00]3 wash -- washes
[10:43.16]4   catch -- catches
[10:49.33]5   cross -- crosses
[10:55.07]6  change -- changes
[11:02.15]7 enclose -- encloses
[11:09.31]Exercise A5
[11:13.57]1 arrive -- arrives
[11:19.81]2 wish   -- wishes
[11:25.98]3 brush  -- brushes
[11:31.25]4 choose -- chooses
[11:37.10]5 watch  -- watches
[11:42.67]6  live  -- lives
[11:48.00]7    fix -- fixes
[11:53.25]8 practice -- practices
[12:00.01]9    teach -- teaches
[12:06.49]10    die  -- dies
[12:12.84]Page 76 MORE PRACTICE
[12:17.20]Panda is the name of an Asian animal.
[12:21.25]A panda is a large,black and white bear-like animal.
[12:26.71]It lives in bamboo forests on upper mountain slopes of south-western China
[12:34.36]The giant panda has a white chubby body
[12:38.91]with black legs and a broad band across the shoulders.
[12:44.47]It has a large round head,small black ears
[12:50.22]and a white face with a black patch around each eye.
[12:55.68]The panda grows from 1 metre to 1,5 metres tall and has a short tail.
[13:03.93]Most weigh from 90 to 136 kilos.
[13:09.50]Giant pandas are like bears in shape and size
[13:14.25]and in the slow clumsy way they walk.
[13:18.62]Like bears they can stand up on their hind legs.
[13:23.16]The female gives birth to one or two cubs once a year.
[13:29.09]A giant panda eats mainly bamboo shoots,
[13:33.95]though it eats other plants as well.
[13:37.61]A giant panda may eat as much as 9 kilos of food a day.