新目标人教版八年级英语下册第十单元检测题及答案

一、单项选择(每小题1分，共15分)( ) 1. When a tiger is trapped, he will be very _____ and can do nothing but wait for help.A. helpfulB. unhelpfulC. helplessD. useless( ) 2. —Shall we go to the _____ this weekend—Good idea. I haven’t enjoyed a movie for months.A. restaurantB. museumC. theme parkD. cinema( ) 3. —Don’t worry about money. I can _____ you some.—Thanks. I’ll give it back as soon as we are back.A. lendB. giveC. returnD. borrow( ) 4. —How _____ the meat smells! Why not dump it—OK. I will.A. niceB. wonderfulC. terribleD. harmless( ) 5. I am looking forward to going to Qingdao on holiday this summer. I hope I can go _____ on the sea and enjoy a sunbath on the beach.A. skiingB. skatingC. divingD. sailing( ) 6. —Did you catch what he said—No. He didn’t speak _____ enough.A. especiallyB. incorrectlyC. clearlyD. widely( ) 7. —It _____ that he has heard about the accident.—Yes. He watched the local news on TV.A. seemsB. listensC. seesD. says( ) 8. — How will you feel when you get to a city _____for the first time —I will feel rather _____.A. lonely; aloneB. lonely; lonelyC. alone; lonelyD. alone; alone ( ) 9. Look at the clock. It’s lunchtime _____. But Jim hasn’t returned from school _____.A. already; alreadyB. already; yetC. yet; alreadyD. yet; yet( )10. — _____, do you live with your parents or have a house of your own —I live with my parents.A. In factB. In some waysC. In my opinionD. By the way ( )11. —Hello, this is Jane. May I speak to Tom—Sorry. He _____ the library. Please call him later.A. went toB. has been toC. has gone toD. has been in( )12. — My family are going to Hong Kong Disneyland on holiday next week!—_____. How I wish I could go with you.A. Don’t play too longB. You are welcomeC. Have a nice tripD. I’d love to ( )13. —Is there an underground in the city—Yes. It _____ in 2005.A . has built B. was built C. built D. has been built( )14. Han Han, a young writer in China, has been successful since his first book The Three successive Doors _____ in 2000.A. came onB. came backC. came outD. came from( )15. —Do you mind my turning on the TV—_____. It’s time for me to do my homework.A. No, please don’tB. Sorry, but you’d better notC. No, not at allD. Of course you can( )16. Jim was watching TV_________ his mother was washing clothes.A. whileB. sinceC. yetD. what time( )17. This is a big class, and _____________ of the students are girls.A. two thirdB. three quartersC. second threeD. two three( )18. Father will buy you a new computer____________ you pass the English exam.A. althoughB. as long asC. becauseD. though( )19. I won’t go to the cinema. Please ask Mary to go_______ .A. instead ofB. insteadC. alsoD. for( )20. The car is running_________ a top speed of 150 kilometers per hour.A. atB. inC. onD. to二、完形填空(每小题1分, 计10分)One of the most famous writers from England until now is Agatha Christie. Her books and plays can___21____in many foreign languages. Agatha Christie’s real name was Agatha Miller. She was__22_____in England in 1890. She married Archibald Christie____23____she was 24 years old, and she changed her ___24_____ name to Christie.She sold her first book in 1920. This book was the first ___25____ that the world met Mrs. C hristie’s famous detective(侦探), Hercule Poirot. Ten years after that, Mrs. Christie wrote her another book with her __26______ famous detective, Miss Marple. In 1928, Mrs. Christie’s first marriag e broke up. She ___27_____ M. E. L. Mallowun in 1930, but she continued to write her books under the ___28____ of Agatha Christie.Over her____29____, Agatha Christie wrote 60 books, 16 plays, and more than 100 shorts stories. She ___30______ in 1976 when she was 85 years old. Now her books can still be found for sale in bookstores all around the world.( )21. A. find B. be found C. read D. write( )22. A. interested B. busy C. read D. born( )23. A. when B. until C. though D. since( )24. A. full B. real C. family D. given( )25. A. work B. time C. chance D. experience( )26. A. very B. more C. less D. second( )27. A. knew B. showed C. married D. lost( )28. A. name B. help C. way D. choice( )29. A. study B. life C. idea D. plan( )30. A. passed B. disappeared C. left D. died三、阅读理解。

（共20分，每小题2分）AIn Spain there once lived a king and he liked playing jokes. “I will give a bag of gold t o the person who can tell me the best story,” he said. “But there is one rule: It must be a story which I can’t believe true. If I can believe it, then I won’t give away the bag of gold.”People came to the king from all parts of the country. They brought strange and wonderful stories. The king sat in his palace and listened to all the stories. He enjoyed them very much but to each person he said, “I can believe it. It could happen and it may be true. So I won’t give you any gold.”At last a poor old man came to the palace. He was carrying a huge stone jar. The old man began his story，“Oh, my king. Your good father was once a very poor man, and my father was very rich. They were very good friends. My father gave your father a large jar, like this one, and it was full of gold. Your father promised(答应) to give back the gold when he became rich. But he didn’t give it back. When my father died he told me not to forget to get our gold back. Now you are rich and I am poor. It’s time to return my gold.”The king sa id, “I can’t believe your story. It’s impossible. My father never told me anything about the jar full of gold. Besides there isn’t enough gold to fill that jar.”“All right,” said the old man. “If you don’t believe my story, give me the bag of gold. Keep your promise(诺言), please.” The king remembered the rule and gave the man the bag of gold.( )31. At the beginning of the story the king wanted to .A. make a joke about othersB. give his people some goldC. find a good story tellerD. set up a new rule for people( )32. The king would give a bag of gold to the person who told .A. a strange storyB. an unbelievable storyC. the best story of the worldD. a story which was true.( )33. Why did the old man came to the palaceA. He tried to get his father’s gold back.B. He wanted to get the bag full of gold.C. He thought the king would like his story.D. His father had been the king’sfather’s friend.( )34. Why didn’t the king believe the old man’s storyA. The jar was so big.B. There wasn’t much gold in the country.C. The jar couldn’t have been used for holding gold.D. His father didn’t tell him about the jar full of gold.( )35. Which word can describe the old man bestA. Clever.B. Poor.C. Interesting.D. Strange.BWhen we do not understand each other's language，we can talk with the help of signs.A Frenchman was once travelling in England. He could not speak English at all. One day he went into a restaurant(饭店) and sat down at a table. When the waiter came，he opened his mouth，put his fingers in it and took them out again. He wanted to say. “Bring me something to eat.”The waiter soon brought him a cup of tea. The man moved his head from side to side. The waiter understood him and took the tea away. In a moment he came with a cup of coffee. But the man again refused(拒绝) it. He shook(摇) his head whenever the waiter brought him something to drink，for drinks are not food.When the man was going away，another man came in. This man saw the waiter，and he put his hand on his stomach(胃). That was enough. In a few minutes there was a large plate of meat and vegetables on the table in front of him.So，you see，we cannot understand the language of signs as well as we can understand the language of words.( )36. According to the passage(根据短文)，when people do not understand each other's language，they can talk with the help of ___________.A. a waiterB. a teacherC. an EnglishmanD. their hands，heads，and other parts of their bodies( )37. A Frenchman signed to the waiter _________.A. to give him some medicineB. to bring him a cup of coffeeC. to ask him for foodD. to tell him what he said( )38. The waiter brought the Frenchman _________.A. a cup of tea，a cup of coffee and a lot of other drinksB. a large plate of meat and vegetablesC. a lot of drinks and a large plate of meatD. a lot of food and drinks( )39. Another man saw the waiter，and put his hands on his stomach. He meant ________.A. he had a stomach-acheB. he was hungryC. he was very thirstyD. he was full( )40. From this story，we know ________.A. people can only understand the language of wordsB. people know the language of signs as well as the language of wordsC. people can make a waiter understand what they wantD. people can only understand their languagesCPeople all over the world eat rice. Millions of people in Asia, Africa, and South America live on it. Some people eat almost nothing but rice. Rice is a kind of grass. There are more than 7,000 kinds of rice. Most kinds are water plants. Farmers grow rice in many coun-tries, even in the south of the United States and in eastern Australia.China is the world’s largest rice-growing country. In 2003, China grew 166 million tons of rice. But it is not easy to feed the world’s largest population. In the 1960s, thousands of Chinese died beca use they didn’t have enough food to eat. In the 1970s, Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist, grew a new kind of rice called hybrid rice. It makes 20% more rice than any other kind. Hybrid rice is stronger plant, unlike ordinary rice. It can grow in lots of w ater or in not much water. It doesn’t easily get diseases or worms（虫子）.Today, half of China’s rice plants are Yuan’s special hybrid rice. China uses Yuan’s hybrid rice to grow much more rice than before. Yuan is known as the Father of Hybrid Rice. He won the World Food Prize for his work to help feed so many people. ( )41. Rice is grown___________in the world.A. in lots of countriesB. for humans and animalsC. only on wet landD. by Chinese farmers( )42. China _____________ in the world.A. offers the best rice to peopleB. harvests the most riceC. has the largest farmlandD. is short of rice( )43. Yuan Long ping’s hybrid rice .A. gets sick more oftenB. is ordinary riceC. can grow without waterD. can make more rice than the others( )44. The Chinese scientist, Yuan Longping, is famous for .A. the Father of RiceB. his rice to feed all ChineseC. his hybrid riceD. growing different kinds of rice( )45. What did Yuan Longping winA. The World Food Prize.B. A game of growing rice.C. China’s Population Prize.D. The Farming Prize.DMr Robinson worked in Africa(非洲). His son was born there. His name was John. One winter Mr and Mrs Robinson went to England, and they took John there. John was seven years old then. One day it snowed. The boy went into the garden, and he played in the snow. He said, "Snow is very beautiful, but it is very cold. "Then he said, "What is this It is a big, round piece of glass. It is beautiful, but it is very cold, too." But it was not glass. It was ice. It was on a bucket(桶) of water. John said, "Who put this glass here I am going to take it into the house." He took the ice to his father and said, "This is a beautiful piece of glass, but it is very cold and wet. It was on a bucket of water in the garden.” Mr Robinson smiled and said, "Take it to the kitchen, put it in front of the stove there, and dry it. "The boy took the ice to the kitchen and put it in front of the stove. He dried(弄干) his hands, because they were very cold and wet, and then he went to the ice again .He looked at it, and then he took it to his father again. He said, "I put this glass in front of the stove, but it does not get drier. It becomes wetter and smaller." （）46. John didn't know what the ice was, because ____.A. he was very foolishB. he was youngC. he was born in AfricaD. he didn't go to school（）47. One winter Mr and Mrs Robinson went England with ____.A. their sonB. a boy of their friendsC. their daughterD. one of their friend's son（）48. One day John found ____ on a bucket of water.A. a piece of glassB. a piece of iceC. some snowD. some water（）49. What did Mr Robinson ask John to do？A. He asked John to take the ice out.B. He asked John to put the ice in front of the stove.C. He asked John not to play with ice.D. He asked John to dry his hands at once.（）50. After John put the ice in front of the stove, he found that it became ____.A. dryB. wetterC. biggerD. colder四、任务型阅读(每小题1分，共5分)Have you ever heard of any fables A fable is a very short story which explains to us a point of view or teaches us a lesson. Usually, fables are stories about animals that talk like people. Frogs are often the main characters. And of course, there are also many other animals playing a very important role in fables. (1)From these short stories, people may find a better way todeal with their problems, or a positive(积极的) attitude towards their lives. Many common sayings come from Aesop’s Fables(《伊索寓言》), such as “Don’t count your chickens until theyare hatched”, “Honesty is the best policy”, “Look before you leap” and so on. These are familiar examples. Aesop is believed to have been a Greek slave who made up these stories to make his life easier. (2)Nobody is really sure that Aesop made up these fables himself. What is certain, however, is that the stories called Aesop’s Fables are so wonderful that they have been told overand over again for thousands of years.根据短文内容回答下列问题。