人教版八年级下册Unit 5What were you doing when the rainstorm came? Progress check（无答案）

Unit 5 Progress check
Class___________ Name___________ Number___________
I. 从以下各题的A、B、C三个选项中选择正确答案。
( ) 1. –Do you remember what Jeff was doing _______ the basketball competition last week –He was having a math class.
A. in order to B. at the time of C. the minute
( ) 2. There was a big earthquake _______ May 12, 2008 in Wenchuan, Sichuan.
A. on B. in C. at
( ) 3. Mike was having breakfast _______ his father Scott was working.
A. unless B. while C. since
( ) 4. –Did you hear someone calling me just now
–Sorry, no. I _______ music.
A. listened to B. was listening to C. will listen to
( ) 5. My alarm clock didn’t _______, so I woke up late and was late for school.
A. go up B. go away C. go off
( ) 6. Ben is quite good at badminton, so in yesterday’s competition he _______ all the players and _______ the first prize.
A. won; beat B. beat; won C. beat; beat
( ) 7. People in this area decide to _______ the old building, because it’s dangerous to live in.
A. turn down B. write down C. take down
( ) 8. My classmate borrowed my CDs. But he forgot to _______ them to me. What should I do
A. lend B. offer C. return
( ) 9. Allen _______ smoking now and I think it’s good for his health.
A. is used to B. takes risks C. gives up
( ) 10. There was no _______ in the room and I could hardly see anything.
A. alarm B. light C. tower
II. 根据句意及首字母提示，补全句中所缺的单词。
Dr. Alice Green’s s__________ during the meeting meant she didn’t want to continue talking with anyone.
I will feel very uncomfortable if I share an apartment with s__________. So I always live with my family or friends.
Look! These s__________ over there show us where the subway station is.
Sandy gave a c__________ wrong answer. No wonder Mrs. Lee was so angry.
They put off the art festival without any e__________. Nobody knows what happened.
III. 完型填空。根据短文内容，从A,Ｂ,C三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
A
Linda still remember her ninth birthday. In the early morning, Linda’s family were busy preparing the gifts with ___1___ on them. Linda’s parents promised her that they would drive to school together to give the gifts to her classmates.
They were preparing to start when they felt their house ___2___. The pictures on the wall and things on the shelves fell down to the floor. They quickly___3___ that it was an earthquake. At once, Linda’s father carried Linda in his arms and ran out of the house with her mother.
However, they still drove to her school, but the area was in a mess. “What can we do ” Linda asked her parents. “Let’s go to the ___4___,” answered her father. “We can give the gifts to the children if they got hurt. The gifts may cheer them up.”
In the hospital, Linda was ___5___ to see hundreds of people lying there. They all got hurt in the earthquake. They gave all the gifts with flowers they prepared to the kids there. Linda thought it was her most meaningful birthday.
( )1. A. candles B. cards C. flowers
( )2. A. driving B. shaking C. pushing
( )3. A. realized B. imagined C. predicted
( )4. A. park B. school C. hospital
( )5. A. excited B. shocked C. interested
B
Last Saturday morning, Mario had a yard sale with his cousin Jimmy. They ___1___ a long table in the yard and placed many old things on it. The reason why they did this was that they wanted to ___2___ some money for a student in their school. The student was badly ill but her parents didn’t have enough money to take her to hospital. To let more people know this, they gave out ___3___ to people around. Maybe because of their ___4___, the sale went very well. They were very happy because the ___5___ old things they left, the more money they could gave to the student. Just then, a boy came to their sale. He looked through many things and finally picked a ring.
“How much is this ” he asked. “Ten dollars,” Mario answered.
He thought for a while and asked, “Could I have it for five ” “This ring is the best we have. You can ___6___ it with others. Then you’ll know why it’s ten.” Jimmy answered. After hearing this, the boy didn’t say anything but he didn’t walk away ___7___.
This made them ___8___ why the boy wanted to buy it. So Mario said, “Who do you want to buy it for ”
“My mother. Tomorrow is her birthday. I want to give this nice ring to her as a gift. At the same time, I can also do ___9___ for the student you want to help. I think my mother will be happy about what I do.”
The boy’s words ___10___ Mario and Jimmy so much that they decided to let the boy buy it for five dollars. But the boy had to work for them for three hours.
( ) 1. A. set up B. made up C. turned up
( ) 2. A. give B. raise C. share
( ) 3. A. newspapers B. notices C. plans
( ) 4. A. illness B. happiness C. kindness
( ) 5. A. more B. less C. fewer
( ) 6. A. compete B. compare C. continue
( ) 7. A. neither B. too C. either
( ) 8. A. know B. wonder C. answer
( ) 9. A. something B. everything C. anything
( ) 10. A. interested B. moved C. scared
IV. 阅读理解。
A. 阅读下面的短文。根据其内容判断句子正误。正确的写A, 错误的写B
I was waiting for the plane to my parents’ city. They would drive me home when I arrived. There was lots of time before the plane took off. Then I saw there was a man helping a young mother. She was traveling alone with a baby. She didn’t seem to know where she needed to go. The man had two young boys and a lot of things to take himself. Seeing this, I walked up to the young mother and helped her The young mother showed me her ticket and it showed that her plane would take off in 10 minutes. She had a large stroller (婴儿车), some Christmas gifts and a box. She gave me her ticket and I took the box and the gifts while she pushed the stroller. At this time I could see she trusted me so much. While we were running to the gate (登机口), I looked back from time to time to make sure she was still behind me. When we ran up to the gate, we knew the gate was still open. I gave the young mother her ticket and said goodbye.
I thought the greatest part of that experience was seeing the happiness on her face and hearing her say “God bless you” to me in poor English. While I was walking back to my own gate on the other side, I couldn’t stop smiling.
( ) 1. The writer was going to visit his parents by car.
( ) 2. We can infer(推断) that the man asked the writer to help the young mother.
( ) 3. The writer helped the young mother take the Christmas gifts and box.
( ) 4. The young mother walked into the gate saying nothing because of her poor English.
( ) 5. The writer couldn’t stop smiling because he finally found his own gate.
B. 阅读短文，根据其内容，选择正确答案。
There was a very smart man in a small village. He was so famous because he almost knew everything so well that lots of people from all over the country came to learn things from him. The great man taught his students with his whole heart and answered their questions with great patience(耐心).
One day a student asked him, “My dear teacher, didn’t you say you have much more questions about things than we do On the contrary, we students don’t have so many questions. That is to say, you are not so smart.” With a smile, the teacher drew two circles. One was as large as a big wheel, the other next to it was smaller.
“Of course, I’ve learned much more. But a teacher does not necessarily have fewer questions than his students. Now, look at these two circles. In the big one is the things I know, and in the smaller one is what you know. Out of the circles is what we don’t know. Since my circle is larger, the line that I draw the circle is longer. That means I have more chances(机会) to face what is still unknown. So the more I learn, the more questions I have. And that’s why I myself have more questions than you do. I never feel I have learned enough, you know.”
( ) 6. What was the teacher famous for
A. His patience. B. The questions he asked. C. The things he knew.
( ) 7. The underlined phrase “on the contrary” means _________ in Chinese.
A. 相反 B. 相同 C. 最终
( ) 8. Which of the following pictures show what the teacher drew
A. B. C.
( ) 9. The teacher drew two circles in order to show _________.
A. how students could learn from the circles
B. what students could learn from a good teacher
C. why he had more questions than the students
( ) 10. The passage mainly tells us that _________.
A. it is never too old to learn from anyone
B. the more you learn, the more questions you have
C. students should ask more questions than teachers
补全对话。从方框中选择适当的选项补全对话。
A: What were you doing at 7:30 last night
A. My mother was doing the dishes.
B. I was watching TV.
C. She’ll have a big exam next week.
D. Was your sister watching TV, too
E. He was preparing for his English party.
B: 1._______
A: What TV show were you watching
B: Animal World.
A: Oh, that’s interesting. 2._______
B: No. She was studying. 3._______
A: What about your parents
B: My father was reading the newspapers. 4._______
A: What was your brother doing
B: 5._______
A: Oh, your family members were all busy.
VI. 短文填空。
用方框中单词的适当形式填入空格内，使短文意思正确，通顺（每词用一次）。
allow communication long nature new press
proper satisfy short something use with
Our lives are full of paper cups, plastic bags and old newspapers. There are so many single-use products(一次性产品) that we throw away after 1._________ only once.
At first, the idea of single-use was to make people’s life easier and more comfortable. But it seems that this idea didn’t develop 2. _________. According to news website, we are now living in a “throw-away society”. Single-use has become a 3. _________ way of life and can be seen almost everywhere. It has brought a lot of unnecessary waste and made people look for something new blindly. However, this does not only happen in the real life but also online.
Every day, we see new memes (表情包), stories and Internet slang (网络俚语) on social media. With so many of them coming out all the time, their life of each becomes 4. _________ – they become “single-use online products”. This also means social media users are always looking for the next big thing, so they always say, “5. _________ lives more than seven days on the Internet.”
You may feel upset when trying to keep up with these memes and slang, but you just cannot help looking for 6. _________ ones to show you’re the coolest. While you are viewing single-use things online, you are making them as well. In 2017, WeChat Moments started a new time, 7. _________ users to let others only see the last three days of their WeChat moments. This made people share more 8. _________ thinking too much, because others will not care about what they won’t see in three days.
Since it doesn’t take too much time 9. _________ anymore, we now even have disposable (用后即扔的) friendships, according to a story in Fast Company. A single-use way of life may give you quick joy, but it can’t make further 10. _________. It only keeps us coming back for more. Maybe we need to slow down and enjoy a more thoughtful way of life.
VII. 书面表达
用英文描述你身边发生的一件重大事件，并根据以下提示完成短文。
要求：80 词左右，必须包括思维导图中的内容，可适当发挥。适当运用when/while。
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