外研版英语八上试题Module 9 模块自测

初中英语学习材料madeofjingetiejiModule 9Population模块自测一、单项填空(10分)(A)1.Beijing is really ________ huge city.A. aB. anC. theD. /(A)2.More natural resources should be made use of to meet the ________ need of energy.A. increasingB. increasedC. increaseD. are increased(C)3.—What do you think of a war, Li Ming?—I’ve no idea. But it’s a fact that ________people had to leave their home town during the war.A. three thousandsB. thousand ofC. thousands ofD. several thousands(B)4.Alice got the watch on her ________ birthday. She likes it very much.A. tenB. tenthC. the tenthD. the ten(B)5.Don’t stand so ________ to me. It’s very hot.A. closelyB. closeC. nearlyD. closer(A)6.Don’t eat ________ sugar because it is bad for your teeth.A. too muchB. too manyC. much tooD. a little(D)7.People have to put on more clothes to protect themselves ________ the cold.A. betweenB. withC. exceptD. from(A)8.—Mr Green has ________ one­year­old son, doesn’t he?—Yes, and he also has ________ eight-year-old daughter.A. a; anB. an; anC. a; aD. an; a(D)9.The air pollution in the town is getting even ________ than before. Something must be done to stop it.A. goodB. betterC. badD. worse(C)10.There are ________ parks in our city and we often visit them.A. littleB. fewC. manyD. much二、完形填空(10分)The earth is our home and we must take care of it. Life today is __1__ than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought some new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. We can see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.Man has polluted the earth. The more __2__，the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was __3__ because there were not so many people. When the land was used up(用完) or __4__ was not clean in a place, man went to another place. Now man is slowly polluting the whole world.__5__ pollution is still the most serious; it’s bad for __6__ things in the world.Many countries don’t let people __7__ something bad for air in houses or factories in the city. Pollution by SO2is now the most dangerous kind of air pollution. It’s caused by heavy traffic. People say it’s best to __8__. When you are riding, there is no pollution. But even in developed countries, most people don’t go to work by bike. It’s not be cause bikes are expensive or people are tired if they ride to work. It’s because the number of cars on the roads becomes larger. So more people __9__ their bikes and go to work by car, then things are getting worse and worse. We should have special roads only for bikes and make it so __10__ for drivers to take their cars into the city that they would go back to use their bikes.(A)1.A.easier B．harderC．worse D．more fun(C)2.A.factories B．animalsC．people D．cars(B)3.A.so serious B．not so seriousC．so big D．not so important(D)4.A.mountain B．villageC．city D．river(A)5.A.Air B．FoodC．Water D．Noise(C)6.A.life B．liveC．living D．lives(A)7.A.burn B．eatC．buy D．use(B)8.A.drive cars B．ride bikesC．walk D．take planes(C)9.A.put on B．look atC．put away D．look up(A)10.A.hard B．easyC．quick D．slowly三、阅读理解(20分)AIs the world too crowded? Well, that’s a hard question to answer. It’s all a matter of perspective(视角). In Montana, you might drive for a mile in any direction(方向) and not see another human being. In Macao, 60，000 people live in every square mile!What is true is that the world’s population doesn’t stay the same. It has been increasing at a very fast rate(比率). That’s in part because in each generation(代) there are more people who then have children than in the last generation.Five hundred years ago, the population of the world was about 460 million. In 1900, the world’s population was under 2 billion. Right now it is doubling every 40 years. That means, if this rate of growth continues, when you are a parent, there will be twice as many people on earth as there are now. Wow! Now that’s a whole lot of people! The world’s population has already reached 7 billion. Some people worry about that! But there is a lot of disagreement(争论) about just how many people on earth equals(相当于) too many people. But everyone agrees that the more people there are, the more resources the world needs to feed, house and take care of all of them, and the more need there is to think carefully about how we live and u se the earth’s resources.(B)1.From the first paragraph we can know that ________．A. Montana is too crowdedB. Macao is too crowdedC. the world is too crowdedD. the world is not too crowded(D)2.The population is increasing fast partly because ________．A. people live longer than beforeB. there are less wars than beforeC. medicine is developing faster than beforeD. more couples now would like to have children than before(B)3.What was the world’s population 100 years ago?A. 450 million.B. About 2 billion.C. 40 billion.D. 7 billion.(C)4.The writer thinks that with the population increasing, we should ________．A. find more resourcesB. use more resourcesC. think about our ways of livingD. move to other places(D)5.From the passage we can learn that the writer ________．A. thinks the world already has too many peopleB. thinks the world can feed no more than 7 billion peopleC. is not sure when the world’s population will reach 7 billionD. is not sure what the largest population that the world can feed isBShenzhen is a city in South China.It is not very big，but it has attracted(吸引) people of the whole country and the whole world as well.Just about thirty years ago，it was only a small fishing village.There were not many people there. Most of them lived on fishing.Things have greatly changed since the 1980s.It became the first special economic zone(经济特区) in China.Because of the opening policy(政策)，economic changes between China and the outside world have increased greatly.People can come and go easily between Shenzhen and Hong Kong.Both foreigners and Chinese have built a lot of factories, companies and tourists’ attractions there.People all over the country have come to find jobs.Many of them have settled down in this new booming(兴起的) city.Shenzhen is developing so fast that it has become a well-known metropolis(大都市) in China.(A)6.Shenzhen lies ________ China.A. in the south ofB. to the south ofC. in the north ofD. on the south of(C)7.About thirty years ago most of the people in Shenzhen ________．A. worked in the factoriesB. did houseworkC. caught fish for a livingD. lived a happy life(B)8.When did Shenzhen become a special economic zone?A. In the 1880s.B. In the 1980s.C. In the early 1880s.D. In the 1890s.(B)9.What have foreigners done in Shenzhen?A. They have come to visit their friends.B. They have built a lot of factories and companies.C. They have got plenty of money from China.D. They have come to buy things.(D)10.What do the underlined words “settled down” mean?A. Made down.B. Sat down.C. Began to work.D. Stayed there.四、任务型阅读(10分)The Ladies’ Club(女子俱乐部) always had a meeting every Friday afternoon and someone came to talk to them about important things. After that, they had tea and asked questions.One Friday, a man came and talked to the club about the food problem. “①There__is__not__enough__food__in__the__world__for__everybody.”he said, “More than half of the people in the world are hungry and when they get more food, they have more babies, so they never stop ②______(be) hungry. Somewhere in the world, a woman is having a baby every minute, day and night. What are we going to do about it？”He waited for a few seconds. Then one of the ladies said, “Well, ③我们何不找到那个女人，阻止她？”1．What did people often do in the Ladies’ Club?They__had__a__meeting,__had__a__talk,__had__tea__and__asked__questions.2．What did the man come to talk about one Friday?He__talked__about__the__food__problem.3．将句①翻译成汉语。