2026外研新版八年下册英语 Unit 5 随堂小测试卷（有答案）

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Unit 5 Looking into nature第一课时根据句意及首字母或汉语提示完成单词She asked me w___________ I had finished the report.The _________ (北部的) part of the country is very cold in winter.The city comes a________ at night with colourful lights.Scientists discovered a new _________ (行星) orbiting a distant star.Please c_________ the table after dinner.用所给词的适当形式填空An _________ (know) person donated a large sum to the charity.The project was __________ (full) completed ahead of schedule.The team published their _________ (find) in a prestigious journal.She always wins __________ (argue) because she’s good at debating.She enjoys creative __________ (write) in her free time.单项选择( )1. The doctors worked hard to keep the patient ________,alive B. living C. lovely D. lively( )2. We can’t see anything _______ a light in the dark room.with B. without C. in D. on( )3. Twenty people died and over ________ were hurt in the earthquake.two hundred B. hundred of C. hundred D. hundreds of( )4. I’m thirsty. Please give me ________.a cup of teas B. a glass of waterC. four pieces of bread D. a bottle of juices( )5. This town is __________ what it was ten years ago.not long B. no longer C. not more D. no many( )6. She used to ______ with her parents, but now she is used to ______ with her classmates at school.live; living B. live; live C. living; living D. living; live( )7. Without protection, these folk arts will _________ in 20 years.die for B. die from C. die of D. die out( )8. Financial difficulties drove him ________ three jobs.work B. to work C. working D. to working翻译句子科学家正致力于揭示量子计算的奥秘。 Scientists are working to ________ ______ _______ ______ quantum computing.他们唯一的共同点是对爵士乐的热爱。 The only thing they _______ _______ _______ is their love for jazz.多亏你的帮助，我按时完成了项目。 _______ ______ your help, I finished the project on time.博物馆获得了一件文艺复兴时期艺术品。 The museum acquired ______ _______ ______ Renaissance art.通过努力，你可以实现目标。 With hard work, you can ________ ______ _______.补全对话A: Hi, Lingling! The film Nature Is Speaking is on. Let’s go and see it this weekend!B: That’s a good idea! 1.________ What is nature?A: Let’s find out on the Internet. Look! Nature is plants, animals, air, sun, flowers and stars.B: Oh, I see. 2.___________ We can’t live without it.A: Yes! After the film, let’s go to the big park to get close to nature.B: Great! 3._______ What do you do in the park?A: I see the green grass and beautiful flowers. I smell the flowers. Sometimes, I hear the birds and feel the wind. 4.______B: I love the park too. But look outside now! 5.________ I can see your red nose.A: Haha, yes! But I love snow. Let’s go out and have fun after class! 阅读理解Let’s Explore The Nature!Are you interested in animal and nature? Want to enjoy your summer holiday and learn something interesting and useful?Here comes your CHANCE! Youth Explore has prepared you with a THREE - DAY SUMMER PROGRAM! You can take part in many hands - on activities and meet with live animals - giraffes, pandas, tigers, and so on!More information about the program is as follows:Age: Students aged 8 -- 16.Group: There are 2 programs for you to choose from. Each program needs at most 15 students.Program cost: 230 for members; 250 for non - membersHow to do: Simply come to our center to get an application form (申请表).Send your completed form on or before 11th July, 2014 (Friday).Notes:NO FREE LUNCHES ARE PROVIDED because of personal food differences. You may either bring a lunch - box or pay for lunch at our restaurants.Both programs will start 1 DAY later if there is a warming of rainstorms.COME AND JOIN US NOW! DON’T MISS THE CHANCE!( )1. _______ can join the three - day summer program.A kid of 7 B. A boy of 14 C. A girl of 17 D. A man of 26( )2. If there is a rainstorm on 14th July, program A will start on _______.Sunday B. Monday C. Tuesday D. Wednesday( )3. Two members and one non - member should pay _______ for the program.$ 690 B. $ 710 C. $ 730 D. $ 750( )4. Free lunches aren’t provided because ________.the lunches cost too muchpeople have different tastesthere are many restaurantsthey may bring lunch - boxes 第二课时按要求填写单词完成句子He spent years investing wisely to accumulate ________ (财富).If a________ calls, tell them I’ll be back soon.The ________ (end) sea stretched to the horizon.There was _________ (几乎不) any water left in the bottle .She won first p________ in the science competition.During the experiment, maintain the liquid at __________ (boil) temperature.The factory stores dangerous ___________ (chemistry) in a secure facility.The breeze blew __________ (soft) through the autumn leaves.单项选择( )1. His passion drove him ________ a new technology.invent B. inventing C. to invent D. to inventing( )2. My grandma could ________ see the words on the screen.hard B. difficult C. hardly D. difficulty( )3. -- Whose dictionary is it? -- It __________ our school library.belongs to B. is belonged to C. is belonging D. belongs( )4. I’m still thinking about what to _______ my summer vacation.deal with B. do with C. dealing with D. doing with( )5. If you have an _______ in something, you want to learn or hear more about it.talent B. style C. interest D. taste( )6. -- They go to school early in the morning. -- __________So do Tom. B. So Tom do. C. So does Tom. D. So Tom does.从方框中选择相应词语的适当形式填空 The researcher _______________ the data analysis for three more weeks.Children are always _______________ how things work.I ______________ meet the CEO during the conference.Her grandfather ______________ peacefully in his sleep last night.We ___________ of the ship in the thick fog.完形填空 Zhang Heng, a great scientist in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was born in Nanyang, Henan. He was 1._____ about nature from a young age. He showed his 2._______ for studying when he was a kid and spent his whole life on scientific research. Scientists today consider him a 3.______ in the exploration of nature. Zhang Heng was deeply interested in the earthquake, a kind of terrible natural disaster. When he saw lots of people hurt by this disaster, he decided to 4._______ something to help people. Day and night, he kept studying. After 5._______ his work thousands of times, he finally invented the first earthquake detector. Although the detector was not 6._______, it made a big difference in ancient China. Zhang Heng was more than 7.________ an inventor. He was also an excellent astronomer (天文学家). he spent years studying the sky and recording what he saw. 8._______ would stop him and finally he finished China’s first star map. It recorded the positions and movements of many stars. This map has 9._______ astronomers for hundreds of years.It takes more than one cold day for the river to 10._______ three feet deep. Thanks to Zhang Heng’s hard work and curiosity, there are many priceless inventions in Chinese history.任务一：( )1. A. worries B. nervous C. curious D. positive( )2. A. results B. reasons C. decisions D. talents( )3. A. pioneer B. designer C. surfer D. member( )4. A. create B. receive C. teach D. record( )5. A. explaining B. testing C. imagining D. expressing( )6. A. basic B. perfect C. important D. different( )7. A. ever B. almost C. just D. even( )8. A. Everything B. Anything C. Nothing D. Something( )9. A. followed B. checked C. touched D. influenced( )10. A. freeze B. hide C. grow D. achieve任务二：再次阅读以上短文，选择最佳答案( )11. Which of the following idioms (成语) can be used to describe Zhang Heng according to the passage?一诺千金 B. 廉洁奉公 C. 坚持不懈 D. 足智多谋( )12. In which unit of a textbook can this passage be found?Unit 1 Fantastic plants. B. Unit 2 How’s the weather?C. Unit 3 Getting along with friends. D. Unit 4 Welcome to the world of science!阅读理解Do you know something about tree rings (年轮)? Do you know they can tell us what the weather was like, sometimes even hundreds of years ago? A tree will grow well in a climate (气候) with lots of sunshine and rainfall. And little sunshine or rainfall will limit the growth of climate by studying the tree rings. For example, to find out the weather of ten years ago, count the rings of a tree from the outside to the inside. If the tenth ring is far from the eleventh ring, then we’re sure that it was sunny and rainy most of that year. If it is near to the eleventh ring, then the climate that year was bad.Tree rings are important not only for studying the history of weather but also for studying the history of man. Many centuries ago there lived a lot of people at a place in New Mexico. But now you can find only sand there -- no trees and no people. What happened?A scientist studied the rings of dead trees there. He found that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees to make fires and buildings. As all the trees had gone, the people there had to move.( )1. _______ in good climate.Tree rings grow far from each other. B. Tree rings become thinner.C. Trees don’t need sunshine or rainfall. D. People can cut down most of the trees.( )2. The scientists are interested in studying tree rings because tree rings can tell _______.whether a tree was strong or not B. whether people took good care of the trees or notC. whether the climate was good or not. D. how old the trees were( )3. If you want to find out the weather of twenty years ago, you should study _______.the twentieth ring B. the tenth ringC. the nineteenth ring D. the twenty - first ring ( )4. Why did people usually live in places with lots of trees?Trees could tell the change of the weather.Trees brought lots of sunshine and rain.Trees could make weather not too hot or too cold.Trees could be used for burning and for building house.( )5. The people had to leave the place in New Mexico because ________.had weather stopped the growth of treesthey no longer had water and the land became sandthey didn’t have enough trees for burningthere was too much rain there 第三课时单项选择 ( )1. I hear that he ______ to buy a new house tomorrow.go B. will go C. went D. goes( )2. My father told me that the earth _____ around the sun.go B. will go C. went D. goes( )3. -- Do you believe that humans could live on Mars? -- I don’t think ______.if it comes true B. that it will come trueC. why it will come true D. how does it come true( )4. He said he _____ born in Heilongjiang.was B. is C. be D. will be( )5. He said he ______ the work by himself.could finish B. can finish C. doesn’t finish D. won’t finish( )6. I wonder _______ Tom had a good time having a picnic yesterday.that B. if C. what D. which( )7. -- I wonder __________. -- I’m not sure, but I hope so. It has been dry for two months.if it will rain tomorrow B. why it doesn’t rainC. when the rain will stop D. how long the rain will last( )8. I don’t know ______ he will come tomorrow. ______ he comes, I’ll tell you.if; Whether B. whether; Whether C. if; that D. if; If( )9. My teacher told me _______.the sun rose from the east B. the sun will rise from the eastC. the sun rises from the east D. the sun has risen from the east.( )10. I don’t know what time ______.the train leave B. does the train leaveC. will the train leave D. the train leaves阅读理解(A)We know that many animals do not stay in one place. Birds, fish and other animals move from one place to another at a certain time. They move for different reasons: most of them move to find food more easily, but others move to get away from places that are too crowded.When cold weather comes, many birds move to warmer places to find food. Some fishes give birth in warm water and move to cold water to feed. The most famous migration is probably the migration of fish, which is called “salmon”. This fish is born in fresh water but it travels many miles to salt water. There it spends its life. When it is old, it returns to its birthplace in fresh water. Then it gives birth and dies. In northern Europe, there is a kind of mouse. They leave their mountain homes when they become too crowded. They move down to the low land. Sometimes they move all the way to the seaside, and many of them are killed when they fall into the sea.Recently, scientists have studied the migration of a kind of lobster (龙虾). Every year, when the season of the bad weather arrives, the lobsters get into a long line and start to walk across the floor of the ocean. Nobody knows why they do this, and nobody knows where they go. So, sometimes we know why humans and animals move from one place to another, but at other times we don’t. maybe living things just like to travel.( )1. Most animals move from one place to another at a certain time to _______. give birth B. enjoy warmer weather C. find food more easily D. find beautiful places( )2. The fish called “salmon” spends a long time in _______.salt water B. rivers C. fresh water D. its birthplace( )3. The mice in northern Europe move when _______.they give birth B. the place gets too crowdedC. the weather is bad D. they haven’t enough food( )4. The lobsters move ________.to the fresh water B. at a certain time C. to the undersea D. to find more food( )5. What is the main idea of the passage?Animals move to find food more easily.The migration of the fish called “salmon” is the most famous migration.Living things move from one place to another because they like to travel.Sometimes we know why and how living things move from one place to another, but sometimes we don’t. (B)The natural world is colorful with humans, plants and animals showing different colors.Human skin can be many different colors and it changes with the sun, our feelings or our health for example. This is because of pigments (色素), which reflect light and make what the eye sees as colors. So, when we feel excited or angry, our heart can send more blood tot he face and the pigments in the skin become red. This is why we have the expression that someone “sees red” when they are angry.Plants also have pigments. Color is important for them to live on. The bright colors of flowers catch the attention of insects, which then carry their pollen (花粉) from one flower to another. Bees can see colors we can’t, and they follow these to the inside of the flower. Without bees visiting flowers in this way, many plants would die out.Animals also use color for their own need. They protect themselves with different colors so as not to be seen by predators. The snowshoe hare for example, a type of wild rabbit, changes color with seasons for this reason. During summer it is brown color, and in winter it is white so that it can hide in the snow. However, some animals use color as a warning to make predators stay away. Bright colors such as yellow and red are often used in this way. Nature, however, is very clever, and predators also use colors to attract (吸引) the animals they feed on.So, we can see that there may be many different reasons and uses for colors in the natural world. Some uses of color in nature remain unknown, but one thing is for sure, color not only makes our planet beautiful but it is also necessary for our planet to live on.( )6. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us that ___________ is/ are the cause that makes human skin change color.feelings B. pigments C. blood D. sunshine( )7. According to Paragraph 3. plants can use ________ to attract insects.leaves B. fruits C. pollen D. color( )8. The underlined word “predators” in Paragraph 4 refers to animals which _______.hide in secret places B. kill other animals for foodC. change color with the sun D. protect themselves from danger( )9. What is the main purpose of the passage? To describe animals’ ways of life. To encourage us to study color in nature.To introduce the uses of colors for life on earth. To explain the importance of protecting our planet. 任务型阅读The world is full of mysteries. Have you ever imagined what bees can do with their tiny brains? Now scientists are looking into a bee’s brain. Clint Perry, a scientist, has spent much time studying how bees think. He says studying bees is not very different from studying other animals. “The main difficulty is to design (设计) an experiment (实验) bee and get what we want,” he says. “With humans, we can ask them a question and get an answer. But we can’t use the same way to get an answer from bees. They are just trying to get sugar. Bees like sugar.” The fact that bees like sugar is helpful for scientists to design experiments. For example, in one experiment, Perry gave bees a task: to find delicious sugar on a landing place above a black bar (棒). Perry made the task easier or harder by moving the landing place farther from or closer to the black bar. He found that bees would avoid the task when it was difficult. And when the task was easy, bees would try it. As for humans, we might choose not to take a test when we weren’t ready for it. And we might choose to take the test when we were well prepared. In the same way, bees seemed to make decisions like humans. Perry points out that we are not sure whether bees actually make a thoughtful choice from experiments now scientists still do not know how bees manage to do so much with their tiny brains. But learning more about how bees’ brains work could help us learn more about how our own brains deal with information.Perry has been studying how bees ______ in his experiments. (仅填一词)When the task was difficult, bees __________according to Paragraph 3. (不超过5词)& 4. Fill in the blanks according to the passage.5. What can we know from the last paragraph? _______________________________(不超过20词)书面表达 大自然充满了许多值得人们探索的秘密，请分享探索过程中让你印象深刻的一件事，以“A trip to explore the Natural World”结合经历谈谈你对“保护自然世界”的理解。 要求：1. 词数80-100 2. 语句通顺，语法正确，条理清晰 3. 不得出现真实人名或校名。答案：第一课时1. whether 2. northern 3. alive 4. planet 5. clear1. unknown 2. fully 3. findings 4. argument 5. writings1 -- 5 ABDBB 6 -- 8 ADB1. unlock the secrets of 2. have in common 3. Thanks to 4. a piece of 5. achieve your goals五、1 -- 5 EBDCA六、1 -- 4 BCBB第二课时一、1. wealth 2. anybody 3. endless 4. hardlyprize 6. boiling 7. chemicals 8. softly二、1 -- 6 CCABCC三、1. have carried on with 2. curious about 3. will get to 4. passed away 5. lost sight四、1 -- 5 CDAAB 6 -- 10 BCCDA 11 -- 12 CD五、1 -- 5 ACADB第三课时1 -- 5 BDAAA 6 -- 10 BACCD1 -- 5 CABBD 6 -- 9 BDBC1. think 2. would avoid it 3. that bees like sugar 4. bees seemed to make decisions like humans 5. The scientists will continue studying how bees’ brains work to help us learn more about how human brains work. A trip to explore the Natural World Last weekend, I visited a beautiful forest. It’s home to rich biodiversity, with various plants and cute squirrels. The air there is fresh, and the scenery is so stunning that I was deeply attracted. During the trip, I spotted a rare orchid. Although it was hidden under leaves, I noticed it by chance. This made me realize the importance of preserving nature. To protect the natural world, we should reduce plastic use and plant more trees. Let’s act now to keep the natural beauty!It’s so cold today.Nature is all around us.What a wonderful time!I often go to the park.I’m not sure.Program ADates: 14 -- 16 July, 2014Days: Monday to WednesdayTime: 10:00 a.m. -- 4:00 p.m.Program BDates: 5 -- 7 August, 2014Days: Tuesday to ThursdayTime: 10:00 a.m. -- 4:00 p.m.be curious about...; lose sight; pass away; carry on with; get to do sth.Studying bees is not very different from studying other animals.With humans Ask them a question and get an answer.With beesDesign experiments according to the fact 3._______________(不超过5词)ResultHumans might choose not to take a test when we weren’t ready for it. In the same way, 4.___________. (不超过8词)