8AUnits1-3测试卷(A)

8A Units1---3 测试卷（A）一、选择正确答案(20分)( )1, I think I can sing as_____ as my classmates.A good B. well C. better D. best( )2,Some students think Maths is ____ than English .A. importantB. most importantC. more importantD. the most important ( )3,Amy spends half an hour ____ the piano every day .A. to practice playingB. practicing playingC. practicing to playD. to practice to play( )4,The children always have a great time____ each other at recess.A. talking toB. talking ofC. to talk toD. to talk( )5,Mr Wu hopes _____ the World Park in Beijing soon.A. visitingB. to visitC. for visitD. visits( )6,The movies wasn’t interesting at all, ___the boy still watched it carefully.A. butB. soC. andD. or( )7,We have two cats. ___ is black and ___ is white.A. One, oneB. One, otherC. One, the otherD. One, another( )8,The foreigners are playing games ____. They feel very _____.A. happy,happilyB. happy, happyC. happily,happyD. happily,happily( )9.I don’t like learning English grammer, it’s very _____.A. boredB. boringC. boreD. interesting( )10._____honest boy Tim is !A.What aB. How aC. What anD. How an( )11,Tom’s hair is too long. He needs ____ it short.A. cutB. to cutC. cuttingD. cuts( )12.Hold on to your dreams, ____they come true one day.A. soB. orC. butD. and( )13,Don’t forget _____off the lights when you leave the room.A. to turnB. turningC. turnD. turned( )14.There are some tall trees _____our classroom.A. in the front ofB. in front ofC. in the frontD. at the back( )15.Students usually ______ home at 5,30 p.m.A. get toB. reach toC. arrive atD.arrive( )16.------How many students are there in your school?------ ________the students in our school ____ over 2,000.A. The number of , isB. The number of, areC. A number of , isD. A number of, are ( )17.The city will have ____trees and ____pollution.A. more, lotB. less, fewerC. more , lessD. less , less( )18,When did you finish ___ the book ?A．reading B.to read C.read D. reads( )19.Sandy is ____ I , so she sits in front of me.A.taller thanB. as tall asC. not as tall asD. the tallest( )20. ____ is another way of saying “fall”.A. WinterB. SummerC. SpringD. Autumn二、完型填空(10分)In 1608, an Englishman named Thomas Coryate traveled in Italy. He liked the country and1 down everything interesting .But he found one thing 2 interesting than the others. In his diary he wrote” 3 t he Italias eat meat, they use small forks.They don’t eat with their hands because , as they say, people do not always have 4 hands. Before he went back to England , Thomas bought a few 5 .At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the forks to his friends. When the steak(牛排) was brought out, he took out a fork and wanted to 6 the steak as the Italians did in Italy. His friends were 7 when they saw this. He told them what the fork was. They all said that Italianswere very strange people because the fork was not easy to use at all. Thomas tried to prove（证实）that his friends were 8 , so he began to show that it was easy to use the fork. But the first 9 of meat he took with the fork fell onto the floor. His friends began to 10 at him and he hadto take the fork away. People in England began to use forks only fifty years later.( )1A. broke B. wrote C. went D. calmed( )2.A, less B. mush C. even D. more( )3.A.Why B. When C.Which D. Where( )4.A.clean B. big C. dirty D. safe( )5.A.knives B.dishes C. forks D. plates( )6. A. use B. eat C.make D. cut( )7.A.worried B. bored C. tired D.surprised( )8.A.honest B.correct C. wrong D.clever( )9.A. piece B. kilo C. pound D. packet( )10.A.scream B. look C. shout ugh三、阅读理解(20分)ARound eyes, round head, round ears, round body. What is this lovely little animal? He lookslike a bear. But he is not a bear. He is a Koala.People in Australia love koalas and take care of them. They have set up places for them tolive safely. No one can kill them for their pretty fur. When a koala is born, he has no fur. And he isnot as big as your little toe. The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her body. The baby goes into the warm pocket. There he stays for six months.When the baby leaves the pocket, he has much fur.And he is about as big as your shoe. He climbs to his mother’s back. He rides there while she teaches him how to find food. Mrs Koala is a loving mother. She takes good care of her baby. But when he is bad, she beats(揍) him.The baby cries just as a small child does. If he keeps on crying, his mother beats him again. When he stops crying, she takes him in her arms. And then they both go to sleep for a while.The koala could not live without a special kind of tree. The tree gives him both his home andhis food. For most of the day the koala sleeps in the tree.At night the koala looks for food. He may go miles to find it. He likes only the bark（树皮，茎）and the leaves of the tree. He eats nothing else. And he eats more than two pounds each night.How lovely the koalas really are !( ) 1. People in Australia______.A. keep koalas in their homesB. put koalas in the treeC.set up places for koalas to live safelyD. raise baby koalas in their pockets( )2.After he is born, the baby koala lives in his mother’s pocket______.A.for six daysB. for six monthsC. for a nightD. all his life( )3.What does the mother koala usually do when her baby is bad?A.She takes him in her pocketB. She keeps her on her back.C.She makes him cry.D. She beats him.( )4.Koalas cannot live without a special kind of tree because______.A.they have to keep cool under the treeB. they eat the fruit on the treeC.they stay in the tree all the timeD. they live in the tree and get food from it ( )5.What is the passage mainly about?A.How people in Australia protect koalas.B. Lovely koalas in Australia.C. Koalas cannot live without a special kind of tree.D. The way mother koalas take care of their babies.BRobert is sixteen now. He’ll finish middle school in two years. His father has a shop and makes much money. He hopes his son can go to college and makes him study hard. But the young man likes to play cards. He has to go out when his parents fall aseelp.One night,when Robert came back home ,his father happened to see him . The old man was very angry and told his son to live upstairs. Robert has to go up and down quietly. Of course it troubles him . He thought and thought but didn’t find a way.Last evening, Robert listened carefully. And he was sure that his parents went to sleep. Thenhe went out to play cards with his friends. He won some money and was happy. After he got back,he took off his shoes and was going upstairs. Suddenly he heard a noise in his father’s bedroom. He stood behind the door and saw a man come out. He understood that the man was a thief. He stopped him at once. The man was very afraid and brought out all the things he stole in the room.“Tell me how you didn’t wake my parents up,”said Robert.” or I will take you to the police station.”( )6. Robert’s father makes him work hard at his lessons to _______.A. catch up with his calssamatesB. be a good helper when he finishes middle schoolC. study in a collegeD. work in his shop( )7. Robert has to go out at night because________.A.his friends are busy in the dayB. he can play cards when his parents fall asleepC. he can’t win and money in the daytimeD. his parents let him do so after they go to sleep ( )8. Robert’s parents live downstairs because_______.A.they are oldB.their son doesn’t like any noiseC.the young man likes to live in the quiet roomD.they can hear if their son goes out ( )9.Robert listened carefully because he wanted to know______.A. if his parents went to sleepB.if he woke his parents upC.if it was raining outsideD.if someone came in( )10.Robert wanted_______.A.to stop playing cardsB. to know how to win more moneyC.to learn how the thief couldn’t wake his parents upD.the thief to teach him how to steal四、词汇（15分）A.根据首字母或汉语提示完成下列各句。