初中八年级英语上册外研Module 9 Population 测试卷

Module 9 达标测试卷
时间：100分钟满分：120分
第一卷听力部分(20分)
一、关键词语选择。

(每小题1分，满分5分)
()1. A. solves B. serves C. services
()2. A. rubbish B. rubber C. rush
()3. A. raise B. rise C. praise
()4. A. because B. cause C. excuse
()5. A. set off B. set up C. set in
二、短对话理解。

(每小题1分，满分5分)
()6. What time will the plane arrive?
()7. How will the woman go to New York?
()8. What may the girl do this Sunday?
()9. Where will the boy go?
()10. What does the boy want to be in the future?
三、长对话理解。

(每小题1分，满分5分)
听第一段对话，回答11～12小题。

()11. What are the speakers talking about?
A. Beaches.
B. Pollution.
C. Travelling. ()12. What's the environment of Australia like?
A. Clean.
B. Dirty.
C. Wet.
听第二段对话，回答13～15小题。

()13. What does Nancy want to do this afternoon?
A. Go boating.
B. Go swimming.
C. Go fishing. ()14. When did David go to the river?
A. Last weekend.
B. Last month.
C. The day before yesterday.
()15. What's the river like now?
A. Very dirty.
B. Very clear.
C. Very deep.
四、短文理解。

(每小题1分，满分5分)
()16. China has a population of about ____ .
A. 1. 37 million
B. 13. 7 billion
C. 1. 37 billion ()17. About half of the people in China live ____ .
A. in the countryside
B. in the island
C. out of the country
()18. ____ the families can offer their children a good education.
A. All
B. None of
C. Not all
()19. ____ problem is still very serious in China according to the letter.
A. Less developed education
B. Comfortable life
C. The large population
()20. Maria wants to know ____ of Dick's country.
A. the population
B. the life
C. the education
第二卷笔试部分(100分)
五、单项填空。

(每小题1分，满分15分)
()21. Jack, ____ American teacher, is arriving at our school by ____ car.
A. a; the
B. an; 不填
C. an; the
D. a; 不填
()22. Lucy's on the other phone. Would you like to hang ____ ?
A. out
B. on
C. about
D. up
()23. There isn't much traffic near his house. He lives in a ____ neighborhood.
A. quiet
B. noisy
C. dirty
D. clean
()24. All the stores in this city don't ____ on Sundays，so we can buy what we want from the stores.
A. close down
B. cut down
C. look down
D. write down ()25. The street is dirty and there is too much ____ on it.
A. traffic
B. cars
C. noise
D. rubbish
()26. Five million five hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and fifty­one is ____.
A. 5，515，151
B. 5，151，151
C. 5，151，515
D. 5，551，155
()27. His school is ____ his home, so he walks to school every day.
A. close to
B. close from
C. far from
D. far to
()28. —What do you think of the environment here?
—Wonderful! ____ of the land ____ covered with trees and grass.
A. Two fifths；is
B. Two fifth；is
C. Two fifths；are
D. Two fifth；are
()29. My mother asked me to pay attention to ____ to her.
A. listen
B. listens
C. listened
D. listening
()30. —What do you think of your school，Linda?
—It's a good place for us to____ ourselves for the future.
A. promise
B. prove
C. prepare
D. present
()31. —What is the population of Beijing?
—Sorry, I don't know. But I think it is ____than that of Ji'nan.
A. larger
B. fewer
C. more
D. less
()32. —____the population of the USA in 2005?
—It ____about 296 million.
A. What is; is
B. What was; was
C. How many is; was
D. How many was; is
()33. You can see ____ snow everywhere. It's ____ cold.
A. too many；much too
B. too much；too many
C. too much；much too
D. much too；too much
()34. It is reported that people throw ____ plastic bags along this street every week.
A. hundred
B. hundreds
C. hundreds of
D. hundred of
()35. —Will you carry the box for me, please?
—Sure, ____.
A. no good
B. no problem
C. no idea
D. no way
六、完形填空。

(每小题1. 5分，满分15分)
The population problem may be the __36__ one of the world today. The world's population is growing __37__. Two thousand years ago，there were only 250 million people __38__ the earth. Four hundred years ago, the number was __39__ 500 million. But at the beginning of the __40__ century, the world's population was about 1，700 million. In 1970, the number was 3，600 million. In 1990, the number was five billion.
A __41__ report said that the world's population __42__ six billion by the end of the 20th century. This is just ten __43__ after it __44__ five billion. The UN estimated(估计)the world's population will grow by more than __45__ by the year 2050.
()36. A. great B. greater C. greatest D. greatly
()37. A. faster and faster B. fast and fast
C. fastest and fastest
D. faster and fast
()38. A. in B. on C. at D. for
()39. A. little B. more C. most D. over
()40. A. twenty B. twelve C. twentieth D. twelfth
()41. A. USA B. UN C. PRC D. PLA
()42. A. past B. had passed C. passed D. passes
()43. A. weeks B. months C. seasons D. years
()44. A. get B. gets C. reached D. reach
()45. A. a three B. one thirds C. one of three D. a third
七、补全对话。

(有两项多余)(每小题1分，满分5分)
A：Hi, Wang Tian. Would you like to go shopping with me this Sunday?
B：Sorry, Li Xiang. (46)________
A：Yes. It's a problem.
B：(47)________
A：Oh, the population is growing faster and faster.
B：If the population is growing like this, there will be standing room only.
A：(48)________
B：Everyone in the world should care about the population problem.
A：(49)________
B：Can you give me an example?
A：Robert Wyman, a professor from Yale University. He is famous for “Open Yale Course：Global Problems of Population Growth(耶鲁大学开放课程：全球人口增长问题)”. (50)________
B：That's great! We should learn from him. He has done a useful thing for our world.
八、阅读理解。

(每小题2分，满分30分)
A
Life in the future will be very different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place，but what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful，and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the most important subjects in school then.
People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports，watching TV and travelling. Travelling will be much easier and cheaper. And more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food，too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day. Instead they will eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be different，too. Dangerous and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this，many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.
()51. Most people will ____ than people now.
A. live longer
B. live shorter
C. get taller
D. get shorter
()52. In the future the computer will be ____.
A. much bigger and few people will use it
B. much smaller and not many people will use it
C. smaller and more people will use it
D. bigger and a lot of people will use it
()53. People will ____in the future.
A. prefer fruit and vegetables to meat
B. prefer meat to fruit and vegetables
C. prefer fruit and meat to vegetables
D. prefer meat and vegetables to fruit
()54. What's the best title for the passage?
A. Life in the past
B. Life in the future
C. Robots in the future
D. Changes of computers
B
According to the data from the sixth census(人口普查)，China's population has increased to about 1. 37 billion，including 30. 3 million in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
With over 1. 3 billion people，China has the largest population in the world. It is about 20% of the world's population，so one in every five people on the planet is a Chinese resident.
In 1950, China's population was only 563 million. The population grew quickly through the following decades(十年) to about one billion in the early 1980s. To solve population problems，the family planning policy was introduced in 1979. Thanks to the policy, China's population growth has been slowed.
But China's population is expected to grow over the next few decades. By the late 2010s，China's population was expected to reach 1. 4 billion. Around 2030，it may peak(达到最高峰) and then slowly start dropping.
In the next few decades，India，the world's second most populous country is expected to surpass(超过) China in population. By 2040，India's population is expected to be 1. 52 billion；the same year，China's will be 1. 45 billion and India will become the world's most populous country.
()55. We can work out that the population of the Chinese mainland(大陆) is about ____ now.
A. 1. 37 billion
B. 30. 3 million
C. 1. 34 billion
D. 1. 4 billion
()56. The underlined word “resident”means ____ in Chinese.
A. 居民
B. 游客
C. 华侨
D. 公民
()57. What was China's population in the early 1980s?
A. About 1 billion.
B. Only 563 million.
C. Over 1. 37 billion.
D. Over two billion.
()58. We can infer(推断) that ____from 2030 to 2040.
A. China's population will be 25% of the world's population
B. the family planning policy will be stopped in China
C. India's population will grow faster than China's
D. China's population will grow faster than India's
C
India has a population of about 1. 28 billion. Its population is the second largest in the world. China has the largest population of over 1. 36 billion. One out of six people on this planet lives in India. Although the crown(王冠) of the world's most populous(人口稠密的) country is on China's head for ten years, India will take the position by 2030. With the population growth rate(率) at 1. 58%, India will have more than 1. 53 billion people by the end of 2030.
Now more than 50% of India's population is below the age of 25 and over 65% below the age of 35. About 72. 2% of the population lives in some 638, 000 villages.
Some of the reasons for India's quickly growing population are poverty, illiteracy(无知), decrease in death rates and immigration(移民) from Bangladesh and Nepal. India started taking measures to stop the growth rate quite early. India had the “National Family Planning Program”in 1952. It became the first country in the world to have a population policy. However, it failed to reach the final goal(目标). ()59. The population of India is about ____ now.
A. 1. 58 billion
B. 1. 53 billion
C. 1. 36 billion
D. 1. 28 billion
()60. The underlined word “position”means “____ ”in Chinese.
A. 麻烦
B. 现象
C. 位置
D. 考验
()61. ____ is not the reason for India's quickly growing population.
A. Poverty
B. Illiteracy
C. Increase in death rates
D. Immigration
()62. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. India's population growth rate is 1. 58%.
B. One out of seven people on the earth lives in India.
C. About 72. 2% of India's population lives in the city.
D. In 1953, India started the “National Family Planning Program”.
阅读下面的短文，并用英语回答问题(请注意每小题后面的词数要求)。

D
You may have noticed that the world's population is not evenly distributed(分布) around our planet. There are some countries where people seem to be living on top of each other because conditions are overcrowded. Then there are others where it seems that hardly anybody lives. What influences(影响) this unequal distribution(不平衡的分布) of people? There are some advantages and disadvantages of living in a certain area.
The first reason is climate and resources. Climate is the usual weather conditions in an area. Areas that have bad weather are not good places to live in. The north and south poles at the top and bottom of the world may be beautiful in their rugged, natural way, but the disadvantage of the cold and windy conditions usually keeps people away. When it comes to climate, warm conditions and a normal amount of rainfall are advantages that attract people.
Natural resources are things that we get from nature to help us live. Each area has different resources. People who enjoy the beach can make their living by catching and selling the ocean's many fishes and other sea creatures. Those who like farming can use rich soil in valleys near rivers. Some people are willing to accept the terrible conditions of deserts or mountains in order to use the resources like oil or woods.。