八年级英语下Unit 7检测试题有答案(2)

　　B

　　A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maiyuwa, a small village. They lived with the man’s big family-his parents, his brothers, their wives and children. The family kept an elephant, in which the woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.

　　Three months later, having quarreled with her husband, the woman went back to her parents’ home. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heartbroken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.

　　It went to the woman’s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved by the act of the animal .So she went back to her husband’s home.

　　( )36. The woman left her new home ______.

　　A. to visit her own parents in Maiyuwa

　　B. to see if the elephant would follow her

　　C. because she was angry with her husband

　　D. because she was tired of the large family

　　( )37. The word “disappeared” in the reading means “______”.

　　A. ran away B. lost C. hid D.died

　　( )38. After the young woman left her husband’s home, the elephant______.

　　A. returned to the forest B. was sad because it missed her

　　C. went to look for a new home D. was sick because nobody fed it

　　( )39. How did the elephant express its feeling when it saw the young woman?

　　A. It waved its trunk and smiled. B. It touched her with its trunk.

　　C. It touched her and cried. D. It waved its trunk and ran around her.

　　( )40. The writer wrote the story in order to______.

　　A. show that elephants are very clever

　　B. tell how a woman trained a wild animal

　　C. show that women care more for animals than me n do

　　D. tell how an animal got a husband and a wife together again

　　五.单词拼写(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

　　A)根据首字母及汉语提示，完成下列单词的拼写，使句意明确，语言通顺。

　　41. Thursday is the f (第五) day of a week.

　　42.The Himalayas run along the s______________ (西南方的) part of China.

　　43.When the baby pandas see the keepers,they run over with e_____________(激动).

　　44.The main reason to build the Great Wall was to p _ (保护) China.

　　45. The zoo keeper says that those cute m _ (猴子) come from Africa.

　　B) 根据句意，用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。

　　46.The Caspian Sea is 1,025 meters deep, and it is the _( deep) of all the salt lakes..

　　47.Even more serious difficulties include freezing weather _(condition) and heavy storms.

　　48. I like Chinese food better than _(Japan) food.

　　49. The baby pandas often die from _(ill) and do not live very long.

　　50. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas living in the _ (remain) forests.

　　六.书面表达 (共1小题;满分20分)

　　请以“My dream”为题写一篇英语作文，供英语课上交流。

　　Dream I want to….

　　Reasons be interested in

　　…

　　Ways to achieve my dream work hard at school

　　find out how successful people did it

　　…

　　注意：1、短文必须包括三部分内容，需要陈述理由(2条)和方式(3条)

　　2、表中右栏信息仅供参考，也可自由发挥;词数80个左右

　　My dream

　　参考答案

　　一.单项填空

　　1-5CBBAD 6-10ACDBC 11-15DBADC

　　二.完形填空

　　16-20 BDBAC 21-25 DCBCA

　　三.补全对话

　　26-30 DEAFC

　　四.阅读理解

　　31-35 ACDBA 36-40 CABBD

　　五.单词拼写

　　41.fifth 42.southwestern 43.excitement 44. protect 45. monkeys

　　46. deepest 47. conditions 48. Japanese 49. illnesses 50. remaining

　　六.书面表达

　　One possible version:

　　My dream

　　I want to be a mountain climber when I grow up.I have been interested in mountain climbing since I was young. Mountain climbing has been part of my life.Though mountain climbing I will be able to challenge myself in the face of difficulties .

　　I can achieve my dream by taking more exercise and by working hard at school to learn as much as possble.It’s also important to find out how successful people did it so that I can learn from them.I ’ll never give up trying to achieve my dream till one day it comes true.