八年级英语下册 第十一周 阅读周周练(A、B卷) 人教新目标版

阅读周周练

A卷

一、完形填空。

通读下面短文，从A、B、C三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的正确答案。

The United States covers a large part of the North American

continent (洲). When this land first became a nation, after 1 its

freedom from England, it has thirteen states. Each of these 2 has

a star on the American flag. As the nation 3 , new stars were formed

and there 4 new stars on the flag. 5 a long time, there were

forty-eight states. In 1959 two 6 stars were added to the flag, standing for the new states of Alaska and Hawaii.

7 were the first people of the land and great number of people came from England. It is for that reason that the 8 of the US is English and 9 its culture and custom are more 10 those of England than any other country in the world.

( ) 1. A. win B won C. winning

( ) 2. A. states B. nation C. nations

( ) 3. A. grew B. grows C. growing

( ) 4. A. are B. were C. have been

( ) 5. A. In B. From C. For

( ) 6. A. another B. many C. more

( ) 7. A. India B. Indian C. Indians

( ) 8. A. life B. language C. people

( ) 9. A. that B. why C. many

( ) 10.A. as B. like C. same

二、阅读理解。

阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容选择正确答案。

A

The Antarctica (南极洲) is actually a desert. It is the only continent on the earth without a river or a lake.

The Antarctica is all ice all year round. The warmest temperature

ever recorded there is zero, at the South Pole. Explorers used to think

that a place so cold would have a heavy snowfall. But less than ten

inches of snow falls each year. That is less than half an inch of water.

Ten times that much moisture (水份) falls in parts of the Sahara (撒

哈拉沙漠).

The little snow that falls in Antarctica never melts. It continues to pile up (堆积) deeper and deeper year after year and century after century. When the snow gets to be about eighty feet deep it turns to ice by the weight of snow above it.

( ) 1. Antarctica is called a desert because it ______.

A. is sandy

B. has the same temperature as a desert

C. has little moisture and no lakes or rivers

( ) 2. Antarctica has ______

A. ten times as much moisture as the Sahara

B. the same amount of moisture as the Sahara

C. about one-tenth of the moisture of the Sahara

( ) 3. Which is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The snow in Antarctica is very deep because it never stops falling.

B. The snow in Antarctica is very deep because it piles up year after year.

C. The snow in Antarctica is very deep because it never melts.

( ) 4. The snow turns to ice when ______.

A. the snow above it is heavy enough

B. the next snowfall comes

C. the temperature gets colder

( ) 5. The best title (题目) for the passage is ______.

A. A Strange Continent

B. An Ice Continent

C. Snowfall at the South Pole

B

Why do plants grow in some places and 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 e arth 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 have only the soil found between the cracks of the stones to grow in.

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.

( ) 6. According to the passage, plants need ______ things to grow well.

A. two

B. three

C. four

( ) 7. What does the underlined word “cracks” mean in the text?

A. 缝隙

B. 表面

C. 夹层

( ) 8. From the passage, we can know it is ______ for plants to grow in dry places.

A. easy

B. difficult

C. impossible

( ) 9. 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 has little food for plants

( ) 10. The passage can most probably be found in a ______book.

A. science

B. history

C. travel

三、完形填空。

通读下面短文，从A、B、C三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的正确答案。

How many times do you think Europe would fit into Africa? Three, maybe? How many times would Spain fit into India? Five or six times? The answer 1 these questions depends (依靠) on your map. One 2 shows India six times as big as Spain. But a 3 kind of map, using the Peters’ projection (投影图), shows India about eight times as big as Spain. Maps using the Peters’projection show that Africa is 4 like four times as big as Europe—not three. The maps we usually 5 are not in fact correct. After 1492, when Columbus went to the Americas, Europe 6 to control (控制) more and more of the world. The Europeans who made maps showed European countries 7 than they really are. Today many of our maps still show Europe too big. There is another 8 why our maps are often not 100% correct: it’s impossible to show the round world on a flat (扁平的) piece of paper. 9 it is possible to correct the European view of the world. This is what Arno Peters 10 in 1973 when he published his world map.

( ) 1. A. of B. to C. on

( ) 2. A. picture B. drawing C. map

( ) 3. A. different B. same C. good

( ) 4. A. fewer B. less C. more

( ) 5. A. borrow B. use C. keep

( ) 6. A. stopped B. started C. asked

( ) 7. A. bigger B. smaller C. wider

( ) 8. A. fact B. result C. reason

( ) 9. A. And B. But C. Or

( ) 10. A. made B. did C. left

四、阅读判断正误。

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容判断句子的正误。正确的涂“A”,错误的涂“B”。

Some popular places to visit are built by people. Other

famous places are created by nature. For example, in the

northeast of the United States, there was a famous rock on a high

mountain that looked just like an old man. He had lots of hair,

a big nose, and a beard. People called him “The Old Man of the

Mountain” and every year more than a million people came to look

at him. Scientists think that the stone face ha d been there for about 17,000 years.

In May 2003, there was very bad weather near the Old Man of the Mountain. There were very high winds and the temperature was very cold. The sky was so cloudy that people couldn’t see the stone face for many days. As soon as the storm was over, people looked for the Old Man and they couldn’t see him. They discovered that he had fallen apart. The stones that made his face sank down the mountain. A number of scientists climbed up to see if they could repair the stone face, but they had to give up. They figured out that the damage from the weather was just too bad.

( ) 1. The Old Man of the Mountain was built by people.

( ) 2. The stone face had a large collar around its neck.

( ) 3. About 17,000 visitors a year saw the Old Man of the Mountain.

( ) 4. During the storm and after it ended, people couldn’t see the stone face.

( ) 5. Scientists think high winds and cold caused the Old Man to fall apart.

B卷

五、完成对话。

在对话空格中填上适当的单词，使对话完整正确。一空一词（含缩写词）。

A: I plan to go to Taiwan for my summer holidays. Liu Hua, you come from Taiwan. Can you 1 me something about it?

B: No problem. Taiwan is the largest 2 in China.

A: What’s the 3 like there?

B: It’s nearly the 4 as that in Fuzhou, sometimes very hot in summer. But you can taste all kinds 5 delicious fruits.

A: What 6 of interest should I visit?

B: Taiwan is 7 for Mount Ali and Riyuetan. And you shouldn’t miss the hot springs (温泉) there.

A: It 8 really interesting and exciting. I can’t 9 to fly there.

B: I hope you’ll have a great time.

A: Sure. 10 a lot.

六、短文填空。

用下面方框中单词的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺（每词限用一次）。

travel snowman while happy cover all China friendly there like big

with

I still remember visiting Moscow. It is the capital of Russia, the 1 country in the world.

I went ther e 2 my parents when I was eight years old. I lived and studied there for one year, and I had some happy memories.

One of the most interesting things of that city was that 3 were many dogs. Perhaps Russians 4 dogs very much. You can see dogs here and there. Almost each of the families had a dog. I made friends with many Russian children 5 I was living and studying there. They were all very nice. They had fair hair and fair skin. I played with them 6 though I could only speak a little Russian at first. They were 7 to me. The weather in Moscow was very cold. It snowed almost every day in winter. The ground was always 8 with a lot of snow. We often made 9 together.

Now I am back in 10 , but I miss them so much. I think I will never forget my happy memories of this visit to Moscow.

1.________

2. ________

3. ________

4. ________

5. ________

6.________

7. ________

8. ________

9. ________ 10. ________

七、完成表格。

阅读下面短文，根据其内容，完成表格中所缺的信息。

30 years ago, this was a small to wn of pleasant houses and shops. There weren’t many cars and we all walked to work or school, saying hello to each other. We met in the local shops and chatted in the chemist’s, butcher’s or greengrocer’s where we bought local products. The buildings were low-rise, children played in the streets and the park was full of flowers. Those days were peaceful and we thought we were lucky to live here.

Since then, there have been big changes. New factories have opened and manual workers have come to the town to get employment in them. New apartment blocks have been built for them and this is now a high-rise town. Fewer people go to the small shops; they prefer the larger and cheaper supermarkets. There are cars everywhere, parked or moving. People no longer have time to say “Good morning” to thei r neighbours. Our peaceful, quiet town has become a noisy place with a huge population.

Now it is the right time for us to try to improve our town. It has grown very fast and it is not as attractive as it was. Let us work together to make it a better place. Let us have no

more high-rise buildi ngs. Let us spend more money on the park so that it is once again a lovely place to walk in. Let us make our streets cleaner. Let us make car drivers obey the law so that we are safer. When a new building is planned, let us take care of its architecture.

In addition to these ideas, this paper believes that we should all try to improve our attitude to people in our neighbourhood. Most people are not interested in their neighbours. They do not speak to them or help them. 30 years ago if someone was ill, people visited them. Now, we do not smile when w e pass our neighbours in the street. Small towns and big towns are different, but we can try to make our big town a friendly town.

Let us all work hard to make this town our real hometown, a community of friends.

Then Now

Small Big

Not many people 1

2 By car

3 Supermarket

Low-rise 4

5 Noisy

八、短文排序。

阅读下列句子，根据其内容重新排列所有句子的顺序，使其构成意义完整正确、逻辑顺序合理的语篇，并将代表句子的字母填写在答题卡上相应的位置。

Tom was three years old.

A. He liked to watch TV with his parents after supper, but his parents never let him stay long.

B. “And adults go to bed late.”

C. “The apples are already asleep.”

D. “The baby apples are perhaps asleep, but their parents are surely awake.”

E. “But it’s too late,” his mother didn’t want to give him anything to eat at bedtime.

F. One evening Tom asked his mother for an apple.

G. “But why don’t you go to bed, too?” Tom always asked.

H. “We are adults (成年人),” mother would say,

I. “But not all of them, Mom.” Tom said,

J. Mother would say, “It’s eight o’clock now. It’s time for you to go to bed, Tom.”

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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