2020年第二学期复学学情检测八年级英语 unit 1

2020学年度第二学期复学学情检测

八年级英语：unit 1

一、单选题

1．The doctor advised my father to________smoking.

A．get up B．stay up C．put up D．give up

A．help；do B．to help；doing C．helping；doing D．to help；do

3．He is happy that he _____in a tall apartment next year.

A．live B．lives C．will live D．will living

4．.----I’d like a cup of black coffee. What about you, Maggie?

--- I prefer coffee______ sugar.

A．than B．for C．with D．to

5．-Your uncle is very good at cooking! How did he learn it?

-He learned it by _______ .

A．him B．himself C．her D．herself

6．I predict he will be an engineer _____ten years because he is so interested in making things. A．in B．after C．later D．for

7．I ___ get up late, but now I ____ getting up early.

A．used to; used to B．used to; am used to

C．am used to; am used to D．am used to; used to

8．Nobody could solve this difficult problem alone ________ others' help.

A．with B．for C．without D．from

9．I used to ____ newspapers and watch TV after dinner. But now I’m used to ____ a walk. A．read; take B．read; taking C．reading; taking D．reading; take

10．Annie has a ___________,and she is going to see her dentist today.

A．cold B．fever C．cough D．toothache

二、完型填空

Since my mother moved to live with us in the city, she has been much heavier than before. As time went by, her health got________. So I had to take her to see a________. My mother was told to lose weight by doing exercise every day. She had no choice but to follow________the doctor said. I told her that I would exercise with her every morning.

On the first morning, she got up very early________ran with me in our neighborhood. I tried to run slowly so that she could follow me. After________for some minutes, I told her the proper ways of exercise and the importance of eating healthy food. She listened to me carefully. It made

me________that she told me everything very patiently when I was a kid. On the second morning, I

praised her for keeping running with me.

But after two weeks, she wanted to________running because she thought the two-week exercise didn't work at all. To encourage her, I taught her how to use the facilities (设施) for exercise in our________. She began to exercise again.

With my help, it________her one month to develop a good habit of daily exercise. "Thank you, my dear daughter. Exercise brings health and happiness to me. I will_______worry about my health."

Her words touched my heart deeply. I felt happy to make a big difference to my mother's life. 11．A．better B．stronger C．worse D．thinner

12．A．teacher B．waiter C．nurse D．doctor

13．A．that B．what C．which D．where

14．A．and B．but C．so D．or

15．A．swimming B．running C．playing D．eating

16．A．act B．eat up C．set up D．remember

17．A．give up B．hospital C．neighborhood D．put up

18．A．school B．hospital C．neighborhood D．cinema

19．A．cost B．spent C．took D．paid

20．A．never B．ever C．sometimes D．always

三、阅读单选

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, he was surprised to see that these huge elephants were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. It was clear that the elephants could easily break away from their ropes but for some reason, they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and didn’t run away. “Well,”the trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”The man was surprised. These animals could at any time break free from their ropes but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck(困在) right where they were.

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?

In December 1903, New York Times questioned the intelligence of the Wright brothers efforts to invent a machine that would fly. But one week later, at Kitty Hawk, the Wright Brothers took their famous flight.

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven. His teachers