牛津版八年级英语上册Unit8-Natural提高练习含答案

提高练习Unit Eight of 8A

Class _____________ Name _____________

一、单项选择

( ) 1. The flood in 1998 washed lots of houses _______ and lots of people _______.

A. on; died

B. off; die

C. away; die

D. away; died

( ) 2. The floor is so wet. Let’s _______.

A. stop mopping it up

B. stop to mop up it

C. stop mopping up it

D. stop to mop it up

( ) 3. Someone is knocking at the door. It _______ my mother. It’s time for her to be back.

A. can be

B. may not be

C. must be

D. mustn’t be

( ) 4. I don’t know if I _______ free tomorrow. If I _______, I will go to the bookstore.

A. am; am

B. will be; will be

C. will be; am

D. am; will be

( ) 5. All the _______ things need air and water. Without air or water, nothing can stay _______.

A. living; living

B. living; alive

C. alive; alive

D. alive; living

( ) 6. The big flood last week affected (影响) _______ people’s lives, and _______ them died.

A. millions of; two hundred

B. millions of; two hundred of

C. two million; two hundred

D. two millions; two hundreds

( ) 7. It _______ hard _______ he got to the cinema yesterday evening.

A. rained; while

B. was raining; when

C. was raining; while

D. is raining; when

( ) 8. We should practise speaking English _______ to improve our spoken English.

A. as many as possible

B. as much as possible

C. as possible as we can

D. as possible as we could

( ) 9. If the earthquake happens, you should run _______ the empty ground.

A. out to

B. out of

C. out from

D. out at

( ) 10. I spent _______ awful holiday this summer because _______ big flood on July 30th made lots of people lose lives.

A. a; the

B. an; a

C. an; the

D. the; the

( ) 11. At first, Luke felt a sense of cold _______ his body.

A. cross

B. across

C. through

D. by

( ) 12. We should do everything we can _______ the birds _______ danger.

A. to protect; away

B. protected; from

C. protecting; in

D. to protect; in

( ) 13. —I didn’t hear you come in at noon.

—That’s good. We tried _______ any noise. We wanted you to have a good sleep.

A. not make

B. not making

C. to make not

D. not to make

( ) 14. Last night, I _______ along the street when I met my English teacher.

A. walk

B. walked

C. was walking

D. am walking

( ) 15. While she _______ TV in the sitting room, the bell _______.

A. watches; rings

B. was watching; rang

C. is watching; rang

D. was watching; was ringing

( ) 16. I went to the classroom to close the door yesterday. But as soon as I was _______ to the classroom, I found it already _______.

A. closed; closely

B. closely; closed

C. close; closed

D. close; close

( ) 17. —Ouch! You hurt me!

—I’m sorry. But I _______ any harm. I _______ to drive a mouse out.

A. didn’t mean; was trying

B. didn’t mean; try

C. don’t mean; am trying

D. haven’t meant; tried

( ) 18. He saw the bad man _______ into his neighbour’s house and _______ 110 for help in a hurry.