Unit 1 Encyclopaedias 基础知识练习题牛津深圳版(广州沈阳通用)八年级

牛津深圳版八年级上册Unit 1 基础知识练习题
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( ) 1. The list includes many British guests.
A. gives
B. gets
C. contains
( ) 2. ---Do not write more than 200 words.---OK, I won’t.
A. less than
B. over
C. under
( ) 3. ---Do you know about Snow White?---Yeah, it is a(n) famous fairy tale.
A. well-known
B. good
C. interesting
( ) 4. --- I called last night, but nobody answered.---All the people went out and try again now.
A. somebody
B. anybody
C. no one
( ) 5. ---What will you do this weekend? ---Perhaps I will take part in the sports meeting.
A. Maybe
B. Soon
C. Later
( ) 6. An encyclopaedia often consists of a number of books.
A. is made up of
B. is made from
C. is made of
( ) 7. ---Then, suddenly, they all died out---That’s a pity.
A. discovered
B. disagreed
C. disappeared
( ) 8. However, we can learn about them from their fossils.
A. know about
B. talk about
C. think about
单项选择
( ) 9. If something happens_____, it happens quickly and unexpectedly (意料之外的)
A. immediately
B. quickly
C. suddenly
( ) 10. He is the last of the family, after his death the name will die______.
A. out
B. in
C. away
( ) 11. ---How many students are there in your class?
---There are twenty students in our class, ___ five Americans.
A. including
B. improving
C. discussing
( ) 12. ---Why do you want to be a ____? ---Because I’m very interested in science.
A. inventor
B. musician
C. scientist
( ) 13. ---The ___ of modern xerography(复印) has made our work much
easier.---I agree with you.
A. invention
B. discovery
C. experiment
( ) 14. ---Who____ the 400-metre race yesterday?---David.
A. won
B. beated
C. missed
( ) 15. ---It’s raining hard.____, I still want to go there. ---You’d better take an umbrella.
A. So
B. Perhaps
C. However
完形填空
Some people think that all wild animals are dangerous. But in fact, very few of them will __1____ a man if he leaves them alone. If you meet a lion or an elephant, I guess you will _2___ away; but even a lion will avoid(躲避) a man if it is not very ___3__. Lions and tigers only kill and eat men when they have grown too __4__ and too weak to catch their usual ___5, such as deer and other small animals. If you see a wild elephant, perhaps you will be __6___. However, elephants usually run away at once if you don’t attack them. Some animals get very frightened if they only smell a man, some __7___and look at him for a moment before they run away, some take no notice at all but walk away __8__ in another direction. Wild animals only attack __9___when they are afraid that people want to harm(伤害) their __10___, or when the hunters shoot at them and make them angry.
( ) 1. A. hide B. attack C. protect
( ) 2. A. take B. put C. run
( ) 3. A. thirsty B. hungry C. tired
( ) 4. A. full B. friendly C. old
( ) 5. A. food B. fish C. plants
( ) 6. A. excited B. angry C. frightened
( ) 7. A. stand B. eat C. kill
( ) 8. A. luckily B. loudly C. quietly
( ) 9. A. dogs B. people C. children
( ) 10. A. neighbors B. friends C. young babies
阅读理解
Beethoven, a famous musician in the world, was born in Germany in 1770.
In his childhood Beethoven didn't have a happy life. His father was a singer. When he was only four, his father began to make him practise hour after hour on different
musical instruments. If he did not put his heart into it, his father would beat him or make it hard on him.
Beethoven loved music and he learned so fast that he was able to go around to give concerts, when he was only a boy of eleven. At the age of seventeen, he won high praise from Mozart, the great musician at that time.
Beethoven was often poor and ill during his life. After one illness, he suddenly found he couldn’t hear. At that time he was only thirty-one. It was a blow (打击) to him indeed.
But he still went on working and writing music pieces. To people's surprise, some of his best pieces were written after he lost his hearing.
In 1827, the great musician died. He left more than 300 pieces. But people still remember his name today.
( ) 1. Beethoven was a _____ musician.
A. America
B. French
C. German
D. British
( ) 2. What happened when he was thirty-one?
A.He couldn’t see.
B. He couldn’t hear.
C. He gave concerts
D. He won high praise
( ) 3. Why didn't Beethoven have a happy life in his childhood?
A.Because his family was poor
B. Because he had to practise a lot of musical instruments
C. Because his father was strict with him
D. Both B and C
( ) 4. The great musician lived in the world for only _____ years.
A. 43
B. 70
C. 57
D. 60
( ) 5. When were some of his best pieces written?
A.At the age of 11
B. At the age of 17
C. Before he was deaf
D. After he became deaf
We know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 kinds of them.
No one likes the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide that she loves you. She? Yes, she. It's true that male mosquito doesn't bite (咬) and only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay eggs. She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn't
like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you, just remember you are chosen. You're different from the others!
If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body without letting you know. She bites you so quickly and quietly that you may not feel anything different. After she bites, you will have an itch (痒) on your body because she puts something from her mouth together with your blood. By the time the itching begins, and she has flown away.
And then what happens? Well, after her delicious dinner, the mosquito feels tired. She just wants to find a place to have a good rest. There, on a leaf or a wall, she begins to lay eggs, hundreds of eggs.
( ) 1. "Mosquito" means _______ in Chinese.
A. 苍蝇
B. 蜻蜓
C. 跳蚤
D. 蚊子
( ) 2. We know mosquitoes very well because _______.
A. they can be found easily
B. they fly here and there
C. there are many kinds of them
D. they can fly
( ) 3. If the mosquito doesn't bite you, it will _______.
A.get angry with you
B. be afraid of you
C. make a lot of noise
D. choose another one
( ) 4. The mosquito bites you _______.
A. when you're asleep
B. because you have choose it
C. too quickly to let you know
D. but doesn't like you
( ) 5. Which of the following sentences is wrong?
A. The itching begins after the mosquito bites you.
B. You feel terrible when the mosquito bites you.
C. Mosquitoes use blood to lay eggs.
D. All the mosquitoes don't like to bite people for blood.
Harvard University is the oldest of all the many colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.
In the early years, these schools were much similar. Only young men went to colleges. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated,
most of them became ministers or teachers.
In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard's law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began teaching modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began teaching American history.
As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were all owed to choose the subjects that interested them.
Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities . Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with (涉及) special fields of learning . There's so much to learn that one kind of school can't offer it all .
( )1. The oldest university in the US is .
A. Columbia
B. Harvard
C. Princeton
D. Yale
( ) 2. What did most students do when they graduated from Harvard before 1782?
A. Engineers
B. Teachers
C. Scientists
D. Doctors
( ) 3. What languages couldn’t students in Harvard learn in1825?
A. Japanese
B. Latin and Greek
C. French
D. German
( ) 4.What does the underline word “graduated” mean?
A.Found a job
B. Got a degree at a university
C. Got married
D. Took an exam
( ) 5.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. The Development of University
B. Subjects in Universities
C. Universities in the USA
D. Harvard University
Why do plants grow in some places but not in others? Why does some land have so much growing on it, while other land has almost no plants growing on it at all?
To grow, plants need several things. One is warmth. In very cold places almost nothing grows. Plants also need water. In very dry parts of the Earth only a few unusual plants can grow. That's why dry deserts everywhere are almost not covered by trees or grass.
Plants must also have a place in which to put down their roots and grow. They find it difficult to grow on hard land. The town is built on hard land. The plants here can only grow in the soil between the cracks of the stones.
Another thing plants must have before they can grow is food. What will happen if we try to make things grow on the sandy beach? A few plants, such as beach grass,
will grow in sand, but most plants won't. Even if the weather is warm enough and we water the plants each day, many of them will die because the sand on this beach has almost no food for plants.
( ) 1. According to the passage, plants need ___ things to grow well.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five
( ) 2. The underline word “cracks” means”___”.
A. long narrow openings
B. the surface of something
C. small plants on something
D. the bottom of something
( ) 3. From the passage, we can know it is ___ for plants to grow in dry places. A. easy B. difficult C. impossible D. important
( ) 4. The reason why most plants can’t grow on the sandy beach is that ____.
A. there isn’t enough sunlight
B. there is too much water
C. it is too crowded there
D. it has little food for plants.
( )The passage can most probably be found in a _____ book.
A. travel
B. History
C. Physics
D. science
语法填空
The polar bear is a very big white bear. We call it the polar bear _______ it lives in the Artic Circle near the North Pole.
The polar bear lives in snow and ice. At the North Pole there ___(be) only snow, ice and water. There is not any land. The polar bear has a very _______(warmly) coat because the weather is cold in the Arctic Circle.
You can’t find the polar bear easily in the snow because _______(it) coat is white.
A grown-up polar bear is usually about three meter long and weighs 450 kilos. It can stand up on its back legs because it has very wide ___________( foot). It can use its front legs like arms. The polar can swim very ________ (good). It catches fish and sea animals for food. It goes into the sea when it is afraid. People like to kill the polar bear _______its beautiful white coat. The government of Canada and _____United States call on that people should stop_______(kill) polar bears. They don’t want these beautiful animals to ______(death) out.
书面表达
请根据下列提示内容，写一篇80词左右的短文，介绍法国短篇小说作家居伊·德·莫泊桑（Guy de Maupassant）。

内容如下：
1.于1850年出生于法国诺曼底（Normandy）。

2.学生时开始写诗；1870年在巴黎学习法律（Law）,不久后参军(join the army)
3.1872-1880，他遇到作家Gustave Flaubert.在他的帮助下，莫泊桑学会如何更
好地写文章。

4.莫泊桑写了大约300个短篇故事和6本小说（novel），《项链》（The Necklace）
是最有名的作品。

5.与1893年去世。