人教新目标八年级英语下册单元测试题：Unit5

人教新目标八年级英语下册单元测试题：Unit5姓名:_ 班级:_ 成绩:_一、补全短文5选5Learning to play an instrument (乐器) can be one of the most exciting ways to spend your free time. There are many different kinds of instruments to choose from: guitar, piano, violin . There is always one thats right for you.Make a choice(选择).First, you need to choose an instrument that you would like to learn to play. 1 . This will probably be the kind of music that you also enjoy listening to.Get your instrument.Now you have chosen your instrument, you need to buy one. 2 . Some schools will lend (借给) students instruments. Or you can buy a second-hand instrument and its usually much cheaper.Get ready to learn.After you have your instrument, you should then make a learning plan. You can have personal lessons with a music teacher or go to a music school. 3 . Play for others.Once you have learned enough to play a song, you should start playing for people. 4 . Then you can try to play for larger groups of people.Keep going.To become a good musician, you have to keep playing. 5 . As you learn more, you will get better and better.根据材料内容，从方框中选择恰当的句子填入文中空缺处，使短文完整、通顺。AIf it is expensive, you can borrow (借用) one.BKeep learning as much as you can and practice often.CYou can also choose to learn on your own.DYou could also think about the kind of music youd like to play.EIt is a good idea to start with your family or friends.二、阅读单选When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who has wings of their own and who will fly with me.When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say, “Lets start with a train whistle（鸣笛）today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social persons and the stories and poems stopped.When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair（失望）and I was in despair, too. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not travel over this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.For almost four years I have had a great friend whose imagination brightens mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the others dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind.It is such comforting companions（陪伴）I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist, who will only fill up the healing silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be with my own best friend.6 . We can infer from Paragraph 2 that the writer _ finally.Awasnt serious about her studiesBdidnt like writing poems or storiesCbecame popular with her classmatesDdeveloped her proper social behaviors7 . The underlined sentence “We gave London to each other” probably means _.Aour tour in London was a memorable gift to both of usBour unpleasant feeling about London disappearedCwe were unwilling to stay away from LondonDwe waved goodbye to each other in London8 . What is the best title for the passage?AUnforgettable Experiences.BUnbelievable Imagination.CTouching Companions.DLifelong Friendship.You get into an elevator（电梯）. There is a button（按钮）inside. You can press（按）the button. The elevator then takes you to outer space. Does this sound like something from a scifi（科幻）film? In fact, it might become real in the future. Scientists hope to build the space elevator by 2050. The elevator has a strong cable（缆绳）. The cable connects（链接）the elevator to the Space Station. The elevator goes up and down along the cable. The elevator might look like an egg. It can take 30 people . The trip is about 36,000 km. It may take eight days to get to space. People can only fly rockets into space right now. But they are expensive. A space elevator would be cheaper. It can do more than just take people into space. The elevator can also sned heavy things into space. A space elevator could make it easier to go into space.9 . The space elevator can _.Acarry 300 peopleBwork without cablesConly take people into spaceDsend heavy things into space10 . The space elevator may look like _.Aa boxBan eggCa carDa train11 . Flying rockets into space will be _ than taking the elevator according to the passage.AcheaperBmore expensiveCfasterDmore comfortable12 . The writer thinks _ in the future.Apeople can only fly rockets into spaceBpeople can only see the space elevators in the scifi filmCit could be easier to go into space with the space elevator.Dsending the heavy things into space will be impossible.AliceinWonderlandChapter 2Alice was not hurt, so she jumped to her feet in a moment. She looked up, and found the White Rabbit was still in sight. She was close behind it when she turned the comer, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen. She found herself in a long, low hall.There were doors all around the hall, but they were all locked.Alice walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again.Suddenly, she came upon a little threelegged table. There was nothing on it but a tiny golden key, and Alices first idea was that this might belong to one of the doors of the hall.But, alas! Either the locks were too large, or the key was too small. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before and behind it was a little door.She tried the little golden key in the lock, and she was pleased to find it fitted!13 . The hall where Alice stayed is .Along and lowBbig and highCwide and low14 . What did Alice want to do when she got to the hall?AShe wanted to know how to get some foodBShe wanted to know where her sister wasCShe wanted to find out how to get out again15 . Where did Alice find the tiny golden key?ABC16 . How did Alice feel when the gold key fitted into a lock?ATired.BShocked.CHappy.三、用所给单词的正确形式填空Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms.17 . Shall we go _ (camp ) this weekend ?18 . Mike is _ ( luck ) enough to pass the exam.19 . He is getting fat, because he eat too _ ( many ) sweet food.20 . We should brush our teeth at _ twice a day. (little)21 . Kitty lives on the _floor. (five)22 . We want to be _ children.(health)23 . It is _to eat too much fried food. (health)四、语法填空Once there were several s 24 . in a forest. They were trying to study the rarest animal in the world. No one had seen it,so everyone was 25 . (excite) and wanted to be the 26 . (one) one to photograph and study it.The animal only came out at night,27 . the scientists did some other studies in the day. Among them,there was a famous scientist named Walter. Every day,he would spend an hour 28 . (sit) at the desk and putting all his 29 . (设备) in the right place. He did this carefully. But other scientists laughed at him because they thought Walter was just wasting time.One night,the animal a 30 . suddenly. The scientists h31 . its call. But the call didnt last long. The animal was 32 . (fright) by the noises 33 . (make) by the scientists while they were scrabbling (忙乱地找) for their cameras and notebooksO34 . the next morning,the scientists compared their findings. Some bad tied to record its call,o35 . had noted down how it moved,and the 36 . (luck) one had e37 . photographed parts of its tail and legs. They all congratulated each other what they had found. However,when they saw w38 . Walter had,they were very