八年级下册英语Unit2能力提升测试卷(含答案)

八年级下册英语Unit2能力提升测试卷

一、短文填空。

A

Alice likes cats better than any other animal. Although she 1________ (be) still young, she 2________ (have) the experience of 3________ (look) after cats.

When she was a child, she lived with her grandparents. At that time her grandparents had already 4________ (have) an old cat about 11 years old, but she was only 4 years old. It was a good friend for her in her childhood. It was very friendly to her and never 5________ (hurt) her. One day, however, it 6________ (leave) home and never came back again. It 7________ (must be) dead. She was so sad that she cried for a long time.

Now Alice has four cats. She takes good care of them and makes them 8________ (live) comfortably. But she is afraid 9________ ( take) her cats out of the house. She says it is too dangerous for animals to go outside because she thinks that they may 10________ (hurt).

B

阅读短文，从方框中选择恰当的词并用其适当形式填空，使短文通顺，意思完整。每词限用一次，其中有两个词是多余的。

Long time ago, a king (国王) got a gift of two fantastic falcons (猎鹰). They were very beautiful, and the king (1) ________ them very much. He asked his head falconer (训练猎鹰者) to train them.

A few (2) ________ later, the head falconer told the king that one falcon could fly very high in the sky, (3) ________ the other one didn’t move from its branch (树枝).

The king asked all falconers to train the falcon, but no one could make it fly.

After trying everything, the king thought to (4) ________, “Maybe I need someone (5) ________ knows more about the countryside to solve the problem.” So he asked the head falconer to invite a(n) (6) ________.

One morning, the king was (7) ________ to see the falcon flying high in the sky. He asked his servant to (8) ________ the person who made the falcon fly.

The servant (9) ________ found the farmer, and he came and stood before the king. The king asked him, “How did you make the falcon fly?”

(10) ________ his head down, the farmer said, “It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch that the bird was sitting on.”

二、完形填空。

A

A few months ago, I learned that the city food bank needed some volunteers. I used to be the 1 in my group of friends. So, I sent letters to 10 friends. I’d like to 2 a group that would volunteer to make and serve dinner for the disabled people. I wanted

to 3 my friends to be part of the group. Almost all of my friends 4 .

One day, several of my friends brought some food and helped prepare the 5 . “I got such a strong feeling of satisfaction when I saw the 6 people get the food!” said one friend. Later, another friend made a list (清单) about serving, 7 we could do quickly