山东省滕州市2017-2018学年鲍沟中学八年级下学期英语周周清Unit7——unit8练习题(2018-05-11)(无答案)-

2019-2019学年山东省滕州市鲍沟中学八年级下学期英语周周清

Unit7——unit8练习题（2019-05-11）

一、单选题

1．—Can I ask you some questions about today's class? —________．

A. Of course not B. Yes, feel free C. It's not a big deal 2．—Why are the rare animals becoming fewer and fewer?

—Because of terrible living __________．People cut down too many forests. A. conditions B. ways C. styles

3．—Some of the animals ________ the pollution.

—Right. The government will find ways to solve the problem. A. die to B. die in C. die from 4．Mike's room is ________ than mine.

A. three time big B. three times big C. three times bigger

5．Lake Qinghai is larger than ________ salt lake in China with an area of 4，583 km. A. another B. any other C. the other

6．—Dale, you have read OliverTwist, right？________？ —It's fantastic.

A. How do you know that B. What is it like C. What is it about

7．In our school library there ________ a number of books on science，and in these years the number of them ________ growing larger and larger. A. are；is B. is；are C. has；is

8．—Jim, there is ________ island near here, yes?

— Yes.________ island is not big but beautiful so you can visit it in your free time. A. a; The B. an; The C. an; An

9．—HarryPotter is very interesting and it is one of the most popular books in the world. —________．And I don't know why so many people are interested in it. A. That sounds great B. I can believe that C. I just don't like it

10．When I got to my house，I saw my daughter running ________ me happily. A. about B. towards C. with

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二、完形填空

Many people think the more time is spent, the more work will be done. So students have to spend the whole_____doing school work except the three meals.

It is ______ to see students struggling in a sea of school work except work both at school and at home. Modern students usually have many_____They love music and sports. They like reading and watching TV. A two-day weekend can get them _____ from too much school work. And they can do what they like. But still teachers don’t think about it _____ they have too much school work, they have no time to enjoy themselves. Students are really tired of their weekend homework .So they usually don’t do their weekend homework_____Sunday night And there is not enough time but much work; students have to finish it carelessly. The____weekend homework makes teachers angry Things always get_____without right ideas. Too much school work makes students lose interest in learning It’s also bad for their health.

A horse runs faster after a _____. But for students only rest is not enough. So such a condition should be ______ to give students both pleasure and knowledge. Please give students less homework but leave them more free time. 11． A．day B．morning C．afternoon D．week

12． A．never

B．common B．interests B．pleased B．with B．when B．poor B．afraid B．moment B．changed

C．glad C．sports C．away C．though C．at C．careful C．worse C．meal C．same

D．hardly D．friends D．tired D．because D．on D．happy D．wonderful D．rest D．different

13． A．books

14． A．busy

15． A．for

16． A．until

17． A．good

18． A．better

19． A．minute

20．A．kept 三、阅读单选

Many musicians meet and form (组成) a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high school students and practice their music in someone’s house. Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can get some money for themselves or pay for their instruments (乐器).

However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and was formed in 1965. It began as a TV show. The TV show had planned to find four rock musicians who could act as well as sing. But they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band. Since some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to ask for help from other musicians. So at first, the band just pretended (假装) to sing. Anyway, their performances were excellent and they got lots of fans. Each week on TV, the Monkees would pretend to play and sing songs written by other musicians. After a year or so,

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they became more serious about their work. They started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced (制作) their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more influential and popular than the Beatles and sold even more records. However, the band broke up around 1970, but happily they reunited (重聚) in the 1980s. They produced a new record in 2019 to celebrate their time as a band. It was very successful. Today the Monkees are still making music for their millions of fans. 根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

21．From the second paragraph, we can know that the Monkees _______. A．was started by some students B．began as a TV show

C．was started by fans of the Beatles D．began as a radio program

22．At the beginning, the Monkees _______. A．had five members B．wrote songs for the Beatles C．had other musicians sing for them D．was not very interested in country music

23．What does the underlined word “influential” in Paragraph 3 mean in Chinese? A．有权势的 C．有争议的

24．The Monkees has a history of about _______ years. A．thirty C．fifty

25．The writer writes this passage mainly to _______. A．show his love for the Monkees B．introduce the history of the Monkees C．ask more people to buy the Monkees’ records D．tell how the Monkees is different from the Beatles

In the past month，we’ve been holding our breath for news about a Boeing 777 plane,MH 370．

It took off from Kuala Lumpur(吉隆坡)，Malaysia．On March 8．It was heading to Beijing．But about two hours into the flight, the plane went missing．

There were 239 people on the flight，including 154 Chinese．

A total of 12 countries including China and the US have joined the search for the plane．

Did it crash? We know that the weather was clear that day．The pilots didn’t make any distress calls(求救信号)．And as of March l3，experts have not found any broken parts of the plane。

B．forty D．sixty B．有野心的 D．有影响的

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Was it hijacked(劫机)? Two Iranians(伊朗人)used stolen passports to get into the flight．But now they do not appear to be linked to any possible hijacking of the plane，international police agency Interpol(国际刑警组织)official said on March 11．

The search is still going on．It could take months or even years to find out what happened to the flight．

26．When did MH370 go missing? A．March 8

B．March 9

C．March ll

D．April 8

27．How many Chinese are there on the flight? A．239

B．1 54

C．1 45

D．85

28．What was the weather like that day? A．cloudy

B．rainy

C．fine

D．windy

29．Did the pilots make any distress calls before the plane went missing? A．Yes，they did．

B．No，they didn’t．

C．We don’t know．

D．Maybe

30．How long could it take to find out what happened to the flight? A．several months

B．several years

C．months or years

D．3 months

Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez passes away at 87.

Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away on April 17 in his home in Mexico City at the age of 87, local media reported.

Colombian Ambassador(大使)to Mexico Jose Gabriel Ortiz confirmed(确认) the news.

The author of the famous novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude(孤独),” an outstanding work of literature(文学) that introduced the world to magic realism(魔幻现实主义), had been checked into a hospital on April 3 to be treated for the serious disease.

Garcia Marquez, who worked as a reporter for many years before dedicating himself to writing fictions, had been living in Mexico City since the 1960s.

A master(大师) of magic realism, along with Latin American writers Julio Cortazar, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, Garcia Marquez, wrote many well-known novels, such as “No One Writes to the Colonel” and “Autumn of the Patriarch.”

“One Hundred Years of Solitude,” his masterpiece(杰作) published in 1967, has been translated into 35 languages

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