1、学优中考网 Unit 8 Have you packed yet？一、单项填空（ ）1. Spaceman Yang Liwei visited Hong Kong and the people there gave _ a warm welcome. A. he B. she C. him D. her（ ）2. Could you help me put up the signs on the wall? _. A. No problem B. I hope so C. Thats all right D. Thats a good idea （ ）3. Spring Festival i
2、s coming. Ill _ up my room. I dont want to live in a dirty place. A. cheer B. cleanC. set D. turn（ ）4. I dont like stories _ have unhappy endings. A. who B. that C. where D. those（ ）5. I hope to go to France some day _ there are many famous art museums. A. when B. if C. because D. whose（ ）6. I think
3、 the car was invented _ 1885. A. on B. of C. at D. in（ ）7. By the time she got outside, the bus _. A. went B. gone C. has gone D. had gone（ ）8. Can you come and play football with me? _. I have a lot of homework to do. A. Excuse me B. Id like to C. Im afraid not D. Its a pleasure（ ）9. I like these p
4、hotos and they can _ me _ the life living in the country. A. thinkof B. remindof C. letdown D. wake up（ ）10. I dont think the movie is well-made. No, its the _ Ive ever seen. A. same B. differentC. best D. worst二、完型填空完形填空：AMost people were asleep at night, but Frank was 1 . Frank was a night watchma
5、n. His work was to guard （保卫） a large factory. He had to keep everything 2 . He felt lonely （寂寞）because there was 3 there to talk with. Frank liked his work. If he heard a noise, he went 4 to see what it was. Most of time he walked around inside the big building but he also walked around outside 5 .
6、 When he was 6 , he could sit on a chair by the door. In the winter it was very cold. He 7 a warm coat when he left the factory. Last night when Frank went outside, he heard a noise near the gate of the factory. He went 学优中考网 very quietly to the noise to see 8 somebody was there, but he saw only a s
7、mall dog. It looked cold and sad. He took the dog inside the factory and the happy dog 9 him around. The dog was a good friend for the night watchman. Frank was no longer 10 . He could talk to the dog. （ ）1. A. at home B. at work C. in bed D. away（ ）2. A. clean B. healthy C. sure D. safe（ ）3. A. som
8、ebody B. anybody C. nobody D. everybody（ ）4. A. quickly B. slowly C. early D. easily（ ）5. A. at last B. at once C. at times D. later on （ ）6. A. hungry B. tired C. ill D. pleased（ ）7. A. wore B. bought C. put D. dressed（ ）8. A. who B. where C. when D. if（ ）9. A. looked after B. waited for C. laughed
9、 at D. ran after （ ）10. A. busy B. worried C. lonely D. afraidBSuppose （假定）every person on Earth ate only one kind of food. And maybe one year that food couldnt 1 . If that happened, man would soon 2 . Luckily, man doesnt 3 that problem. But another animal may. The animal is the giant （巨大的）panda, on
10、e of the worlds most-loved animals. Dr Thomas Soderstrom, a scientist, has 4 for the first time that the bamboo（竹子）the giant pandas eat is dying. As a result, many of the pandas are also dying of being 5 . Scientists estimate （估计）that so far more than 140 giant pandas have died. This number may be 6
11、 one-quarter of the worlds giant panda population. Between 400 and 1000 giant pandas are 7 to live in mountains. Giant pandas were once more 8 all over many parts of Asia（亚洲）. Now they are only in small parts of China. Can the wild pandas be 9 ? The scientists want to find out more about the animals
12、 food. They want to see whether the pandas are able to 10 their food while the bamboo is dying. Chinese scientists are trying to raise（饲养）more pandas in zoos. The first baby panda was born in the Beijing Zoo in the fall of 1978. （ ）1. A. found B. be found C. founded D. be founded（ ）2. A. break B. li
13、ve C. die D. lose（ ）3. A. want B. work C. answer D. face（ ）4. A. found B. invented C. known D. studied（ ）5. A. cold B. tired C. hungry D. ill（ ）6. A. almost B. already C. hardly D. really（ ）7. A. thought B. believed C. seen D. said（ ）8. A. big B. liked C. interesting D. common（ ）9. A. kept B. saved
14、C. made D. taken（ ）10. A. have B. catch C. change D. get学优中考网 CTommy hated school and was always 1 excuses not to go. If he felt a little tired, he asked his mother to 2 him to the doctor 3 school hours. He 4 more time at home than he did at school. One day he came home from school in the middle of
15、the morning. His father 5 . “Youre home early, ”he said. “Is the school 6 today? ”“No, Dad, ”Tommy said. “Its open. I came home early. ”“ 7 did you do that? ”his father asked him. “What did you say to the teacher? ”“I told her that I had a new baby brother and that I had to come home and help you. ”
16、“But your mother 8 twins, ”his father said, “a boy and a girl. Youve got a baby brother and a baby sister. ”“Yes, I know, Dad, ”Tommy said. “Im 9 up my baby sister 10 next week. ”（ ）1. A. finding B. looking for C. looking up D. finding out （ ）2. A. take B. bring C. send D. carry（ ）3. A. in B. on C.
17、during D. at（ ）4. A. used B. gave C. paid D. spent（ ）5. A. was angry B. was ill C. was surprised D. was happy（ ）6. A. busy B. free C. close D. closed（ ）7. A. How B. What C. When D. Why（ ）8. A. was born B. has taken C. has had D. has lived（ ）9. A. keeping B. leaving C. saving D. getting（ ）10. A. with
18、 B. to C. in D. for三、阅读理解：AThe Worlds Water ShortageThe world is not only hungry, but it is also thirsty for water. This may seem strange to you, since nearly 70 percent（百分比）of the earths surface is covered with water. But about 97 percent of this huge amount is sea water, or salt water. Man can onl
19、y drink and use the other 3 percentthe fresh water from rivers, lakes, underground, and other sources（资源）. And we cannot even use all of that, because some of it is in the form of icebergs and glaciers（冰川）. Even worse, some of it has been polluted. However, as things stand today, this small amount o
20、f fresh water is still enough for us. But our need for water is increasing（增加）rapidlyalmost day by day. Only if we take steps to deal with this problem now can we avoid（避免）a severe（严重的）worldwide water shortage later on. We all have to learn how to stop wasting our valuable water. One of the first st
21、eps is to develop ways of reusing it. Today in most large cities, water is used only once and then sent out into a sewer system（下水道）. From there it returns to the sea or runs into underground storage tanks. But it is possible to pipe used water to a purifying（净化）plant. There it can be treated with c
22、hemicals so that it can be used again, just as if it were fresh from a spring. But even if every large city purified and reused its water, we still would not have enough. All 学优中考网 wed have to do to make use of the vast reserves（贮备）of sea water in the world is to remove the salt. If we take these st
23、eps well be in no danger of drying up. 1. The world is thirsty for water because we can only use _ percent of the water covering the surface of the earth. A. 3 B. more than 3 C. less than 3 D. 972. Which of the following statements is Not true? A. As things remain unchanging, this small amount of fr
24、esh water is still enough for us. B. Our need for water is becoming larger and larger. C. There will be no water shortage in the future. D. We should take steps to deal with the water shortage problem. 3. To reuse water, we should _. A. treat it with chemicals B. use it only once C. send it out into
25、 a sewer system D. make it flow into underground tanks 4. In order to have enough water, we should also make use of _. A. icebergs and glaciers B. sea water C. rivers and lake D. underground water 5. In the passage, the writer tells us _. A. to make enough water B. to pay more attention to the water
26、 shortage problem C. to pipe used water to a purifying plant D. to reuse the water BThe United States has many different kinds of climates（气候）. On the northwest coast（海岸） , the temperature changes very little between summer and winter, but the north central（中部的）states have a very different kind of c
27、limate. In those states, people wear light clothes in summer, and they need heavy woolen clothes in winter. In the southwest coast, the climate is rainy and warm during the winter, but the summer is dry and hot. In the northeast of the United States, summer temperatures are very different from winte
28、r temperatures. Summer is usually hot, and winter is usually cold. Spring temperatures are warm, and fall temperatures are cool. Years ago, people in the cold parts of the United States didnt often get fresh （新鲜的）vegetables and fresh fruits during the summer. Today, however（然而） ，trucks and trains ca
29、rry fruits and vegetables very quickly to all parts of the United States. In this way, Americans “send their climates”to people in other states. 1. The summer and winter temperatures are almost the same _. A. in the northeastern states B. on the north central states 学优中考网 C. in the western states D.
30、 on the northwest coast 2. The word“fall”in this passage means _. A. drop B. down C. autumn D. spring3. Today people _ can get fresh vegetables and fruits. A. in the north central states B. in every part of the U.S.A.C. in the cold parts of the U.S.A. D. in the southwest part of the U.S.A. 4. From t
31、his passage we know that the climate of the United States _. A. is always very cold B. is warm in winter C. is widely different D. changes very little between summer and winter 5. From Paragraph 2 we know that the climate of the southwest coast is _. A. Maritime（海洋性）climateB. Savanna（热带草原）climateC.
32、Mediterranean（地中海）climateD. Tropical rainforest（热带雨林）climateCThe InventionsPaper was first made in the year 105. It was made by a Chinese named Cai Lun. For over 500 years paper was made only in China. People in Japan learned of paper around the year 600. As years went by, people in other places beg
33、an to make paper. The lead（铅）pencil is not made of lead. It is made of graphite（石墨）. People found graphite in 1564. They thought it was a kind of lead. Today we still call pencils “lead pencils”. The first pencils were made by putting strings（线）around sticks of graphite. The first wooden pencils wer
34、e made by Kasper Faber in Germany in 1761. Erasers（橡皮）like those we use today were first made in France by a man named Magellan in 1752. It was Hyman L. Lipman who first put eraser on the ends of pencils. And that is how the pencils came to be. 1. How many years earlier was paper made in China than
35、in Japan? A. About 100 years. B. About 400 years. C. More than 500 years. D. 495 years 2. Germans made paper _. A. earlier than Japan B. later than Japan C. as early as Japan D. as late as Japan 3. At first pencils were made of _. A. wood B. lead C. sticks D. string and graphite4. Kasper Faber was _
36、. A. an Englishman B. a Frenchman C. a German D. an American 5. Which of the following statements is NOT true? 学优中考网 A. Paper was first made in China. B. Graphite isnt a kind of lead. C. The first wooden pencils were made in Germany. D. Hyman L. Lipman made the first erasers.答案：一、1. C 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. C 6. D 7. D 8. C 9. B 10. D二、A. BDCAC，BADDCB. BCDAC，ABDBCC. BACDC，DACCD三、A CCABBB DCBCCC CBDCD
