人教版新目标八年级英语下册Unit2单元测试题及答案.doc

2019年八年级下册unit 2 单元测试卷
一． 选择填空（20分）
1. Mr. Brown is_____ old policeman. He often tells us stories about ____ past.
A. an; an B. a; the C. an; the D. a; a
2. Don’t shout at him. He is unable to hear you because he is _________.
A. blind    B. deaf    C. hurt     D. clever
3. We will ______some money for the poor children. Would you like to come?
A. spend B. watch C. raise D. imagine
4. —We can’t______ making a plan．Clean﹣up Day is only two weeks from now．
—Yes，I think so．
A．put on B．put up C．put out D．put off
5. —We failed in the singing competition.
—_______. Better times are waiting for you.
A. No way B. Best wishes C. Cheer up D. Good job
6. Many teenagers________ the old and they often offer their seats to the old on buses.
A. agree with B. worry about C. laugh at D. care for
7. Jack _____ dislike the weather in Jinan in spring, because there is so much wind and sand. But now he ____ it.
A. is used to; used to B. used to; is used to
C. was used to; is used to D. used to; uses to
8. — Why do you look so_______ , Bruce?
— My father promised to take me to watch the football match this weekend.
A. excited B. lonely C. strong D. upset
9. Can you help me to _______ my dog when I leave for HongKong?
A. look for B. look after C. take after D. look through
10. His grandparents live ____ in a small house, but they don’t feel _____．
A．lonely; alone B. lonely; lonely C. alone; lonely D. alone; alone
11．David Burt's dream in China is to go into the west and an early childhood school there.
A．clean up B．look up C．give up D．set up
12．Betty has a love for animals so she often works as a volunteer to help those homeless animals.
A．weak B．strong C．strange D．fair
13. There isn’t any difference between the two. I really don’t know ________.
A. where to choose B. which to choose
C. to choose what D. to choose which
14. —I have great _______ in finishing the work by myself. Could you help me?
—No problem.
A.fun B. problem C. advice D. difficulty
15. — Mary takes _______her mother.
—Yes, she is similar _______he r mother.
A. after; to B. away; from C. to; with D. for; as
16. — How do you like the dictionary?
— It’s useful and makes a big _____to my English.
A. difficulty B. joy C. difference D. sign
17 . — I’m new here.
— Don't worry. I’ll do what I can _________ you.
A. to help B. help C. invite D. to invite
18. He was ______to see an old friend of __________in the street.
A. surprising; him B. surprising; his C. surprised; him D. surprised; his
19.“I’m a singer”is ____ an interesting TV show ____ many people like watching it.
A. so; that B. such; that C. so; as D. such; as
20．—Could you please teach me how to______"red envelope"（ 红包） on WeChat？
—Sure．Let me show you.
A．give away B．give up C．give back D．give out
二. 完形填空（15分） 2016济南中考改编
Mark and his brother Jamie rang their neighbor Mrs. Grady’s doorbell.
“Hi, Mrs. Grady”said Mark when she opened the door.“Would you like us to shovel(铲除) the 1._______ in your yard?”
Shoveling the snow was Jamie’s idea, a way to make enough money for a new video game. Mrs. Grady 2.________ her hand to the heart.“That would be wonderful,boys.The work is too much for me.”
“It will 3._______ 10 dollars.”Jamie said.
“Oh ,dear,” Mrs. Grady was a little upset, “I haven’t been able to get to the bank. I can 4._______ homemade cookies, but I guess that ‘s not what you had in your 5.________.”
Mark was going to say that Mrs. Grady could pay them 6._____ time, but Jamie cut him off.It still snowed 7._______.As they walked 8.________ the snow out of the yard. Mark suddenly 9.______how she helped him last summer. She didn’t look like a strong person, but 10.________ a big black dog boxed him in a corner, her door flew open. She ran to him and stood 11._____ him and the dog. She 12.__________ to hurry it away.
“It was 13.______. Good neighbors watch out for each other, don’t they?”She said when Mark’s parents thanked her.
And now Mrs. Grady needed Mark as much as he’d needed her last summer. Mark smiled and began to shovel the snow.
Jamie got surprised and 14______.“What are you doing? It will take you all day. No money.”
Mark explained, “Nobody will pay us 15._______if we only do things for money.”
1. A.water B. snow C. leave D. rain
2. A. changed B. repaired C. cut D. touched
3. A. take B. spend C.cost D. use
4. A. keep B.offer C.buy D. eat
5. A. heart B. head C. mind D. brain
6. A. another B. the other C. other D.others
7. A.easily B.heavily C. carefully D. quickly
8. A.across B.near C. around D. through
9. A. put up B. gave up C.thought up D. came up
10. A. if B.unless C. although D. when
11. A. up B. both C. between D. with
12. A. shouted B.spoke C. talked D. sang
13. A.everything B.nothing C. anything D. something
14. A.happy B.sick C.strong D. angry
15. A. if B. unless C. although D. until
三. 阅读理解（30分）
A
Lisa Reid is from New Zealand. She was not able to see at 11. But on the night of November
15, 2000, that all changed. When Ms. Reid kissed her guide dog goodnight, she hit her head on the coffee table.
The next morning, she woke up and found she could see again.
“Nobody knows what happened,” Ms. Reid, now 38, told Daily Mail Australia. “It was
really amazing and fantastic. It’s a gift for me to be able to see the world again.”
When Ms. Reid was blind, she got much help from New Zealand’s Blind Foundation. Now
she’d like to share her stories to help raise money for the foundation. She said that she must be lost without its help.
She also talked about the most surprising moments she had when she was able to see again. “My brother turned into a man. He used to be a little baby,” Ms. Reid said about the changes
in her brother. “My mother looked the same but older,” Ms. Reid said about her mother.
1. When could Lisa Reid see again?
A. In 1989. B. In 1995. C. In 2000. D. In 2015.
2. What happened when Lisa Reid kissed her guide dog goodnight?
A. She fell onto the floor. B. She hit her head.
C. The coffee table fell. D. The dog bit her.
3. What does the underlined word “its” refer to (指)?
A. The foundation’s. B. The guide dog’s.
C. The family’s. D. The newspaper’s.
4. What surprised Ms. Reid when she could see again?
A. She herself looked the same. B. Her father became older.
C. Her mother became younger. D. Her brother changed a lot.
5. Now Lisa Reid shares her stories to___________. 　　
A. find doctors to help herself B. raise money for blind people
C. find volunteers for the foundation D. get a job in Daily Mail Australia
B
Hailey Ford is a 9-year-old girl from Washington. She has grown food for the homeless for four years. Now She is hard at work building 11 small homes for the homeless.
She got the idea after meeting a homeless man named Edward on the street while out shopping
with her mother.They gave the man a sandwich, but Hailey got to thinking about how she could do more and continue providing(提供) food to the needy, so she set up Hailey's Harvest, a garden with its own Facebook page, to grow vegetables.
"I said sure, thinking it would last a week. It’s been four years and she still gives vegetables to
the homeless every week," her mom, Miranda, said.
"It just doesn't seem right that there are homeless people," Hailey said to her mother. "I think
everyone should have a place to live." So She has been putting in weeks of work on the shelters(庇护所). Hailey can use tools by herself to build a small house. The house is safe and dry.
Hailey has received money for the homes, which will be put in the town's permanent Tent City (永
久帐篷城) and be open to the homeless later this year. "One window got put in today," she wrote
in one post. "I didn't get as much done as I wanted today, but one wall is in and done."
Together Rising, which helped fund(资助) her project, said: "We can't think of a better example
than our Hailey, she's shown that no person - or act of kindness - is too small to change the world."
6. When did Hailey meet Edward?
A. After school. B. While eating out.
C. After shopping. D. Working in the garden.
7. The underlined words“Hailey's Harvest”is a name of ________.
A.a website B. a house C. a garden D. a shelters
8. Which is NOT the right description about the house Hailey’s built?
A. Small. B. Expensive. C. Safe. D. Dry.
9. Which of following is Not True according to the passage?
A. Hailey has helped the homeless for four years.
B. Hailey grows food for the homeless.
C. The money of building shelters comes from Hailey’s parents.
D. Hailey thinks the homeless should have a place to live.
10. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. How to help the homeless. B. A wise and hard-working girl.
C. Donate for the homeless. D. A girl’s kindness is changing the world.
C. 2017南宁
Why are dogs our best friends. Maybe because they can understand our words much better than we thought, according to (根据)a study in Hungary. It found that dogs understand not only what we say, but also how we say it.
“ The results were very exciting and very surprising.” Said the researcher（调查者）Attila Andies, from Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest.
For the study, the researchers first trained 13dogs for months. The dogs had to sit quietly inside machine, so that the researchers could check their activity.
Then the researcher put headphones on dogs and played people’s voice to them. There were four different voice. Some were positive（积极的）words, such as “well down”, or neutral(不带感情色彩的) words like “however”. The words were also in different tones(音调). Some were positive and some were neutral.
Brain scans（扫描）showed that the dogs could recognize（辨认）words.as well as the tone of words,much like people do. The positive words with a positive tone brought the stronger activity in their brain’s reward centers(反应中枢).
“It shows that for dogs, a nice phrase can word very well as a prize, but it words best if both words and tones match.” Said Andies.
They also found that dogs deal with meaningful words with the left side of the brain and tones with the right. Human brains work in the same way.
It gave us a new understanding of language, said Andies. That is, not only do humans understand the meaning in words, other species(物种) do too.
11.What was found according to the study in Hungary?
A. Dogs can’t understand people words.
B. Dogs can only understand what we say.
C. Dogs can understand what we thought better than our words.
D. Dogs understand not only what we say, but also how we say it.
12. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the study?
A. Researchers played with the dogs.
B. Researchers made dogs sit inside machine.
C. Researchers scanned the dogs’ brain.
D. Researchers played people’s voice to the dogs.
13. Dogs think______ as a best prize.
A. neutral words with a neutral tone.
B. neutral words with a positive tone.
C. positive words with neutral tone
D. positive words with positive tone
14. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Human brains don’t work in the same way as dogs do.
B. Dogs deal with meaningful words with the left side of the brain.
C. The researchers trained dogs for years to check their brain activity.
D. Researcher Attila Andies was sad at the result of the study.
15. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Dogs are as clever as humans.
B. Dogs are good at learning human’s language.
C. Dogs can understand the meaning in words.
D. Dogs can do what human do.
四.选词填空（10分）
A.阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的单词填空（每词限用一次）。
helpful themselves their during different

In western countries, most kids make pocket money by (1)_______. They make money in many (2)__________ ways. When kids are very young, their parents help them sell the fruit from their own trees to neighbors. Kids may also help parents do housework to make money at home. When they reach sixteen, they can make money by sending newspapers or by working in fast food restaurants, especially (3)     the summer holidays. Making pocket money is  (4)      _____for children when they grow up. That is why parents encourage(鼓励) (5)      _____ kids to make pocket money.
B．阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的动词，并用其适当形式填空。有的需要加助动词或不定
式符号（每词限用一次）。
go come wash mean die

Mrs. Brown lives in a small town. Her husband 6._______ when she was fifty-eight. And five years ago her daughter got married. Now the old woman stays at home alone.
“I haven’t seen Lily for months,” the old woman thought one day. “Perhaps something has happened to her .”
“Hello, dear,” Mrs. Brown said on the phone . “How is it 7._________ now?”
“It’s too bad, Mummy,” said a woman. “My children often make their clothes dirty but I have no time 8.________ them. I have to look after the children and can’t clean the room. Some friends 9._______ to dinner this evening, but I can’t cook for them. I don’t know what to do !”
“Don’t worry ,” said Mrs. Brown. “ I will go to help you soon.”
“It’s very kind of you! And how’s Daddy?”
“Daddy? Don’t you remember your daddy died nine years ago?” A little silence. “What number did you dial(拨号)?”
“Oh, sorry,” said the old woman. “I’ve dialed a wrong number!”
“Hold on(等等）, please,” shouted the woman. “Does it 10.________ you won’t come to help me?”
五、句型转换(10分）
1. Tom wrote a letter to his parents just now.(变否定句)
Tom _______ ______ a letter to his parents just now.
2. We need to come up with some ideas.(对画线部分提问)
_______ _______ you _______ to do?
3. They asked me to help to clean up our city parks. (对画线部分提问)
______ ________ they ask you to _______
4.Yao Ming began to play basketball at the age of 5 .(对划线部分提问)
__________ ___________ Yao Ming begin to play basketball?
5. She didn’t pass the exam. L