八年级英语上册期末基础巩固检测
Unit 1
Section A Last month, our dog ________(welcome) me when I came home from school. He wanted a walk, but I was too tired. I _______(throw) down my bag and went to the living room. The minute I ____(sit) down in front of the TV, my mom came over. “Could you please______( take) the dog for a walk ” she asked. “Could I watch one show first ” I asked. “No!” she replied _________(angry). “You watch TV all the time and never help out around the house.! I ______( work) all day and do housework all evening.” “Well, I work all day at school, too! I’m just as t______ as you are!” I shouted back.
My mom did not say a_______ and walked away. For one week, she did not do any housework and n______ did I . F_______, I could not find a clean dish or a clean shirt.
The next day, my mom came home from work________( find) the house clean and tidy.
“What _________(happen) ” she asked in surprise.
“I’m so sorry, Mom. I finally understand that we need______( share) the housework _____( have) a clean and comfortable home,” I replied.
Section B Dear Sir,
I do not understand why some parents make their kids h______ with housework and chores at home. Kids these days already have ________________足够的压力from school.
They __________________没有时间学习and do housework, too. Housework is _______________浪费他们的时间。 Could we just let them do their job as students They should s________ their time on schoolwork______________为了 get good grades and get into a good university.
Also, when they get older, they will have to do housework so there is no need for them ______( do) it now. It is the parents’ job p ________a clean and comfortable environment at home for their children. And ______而且,无论怎样, I think ______________做杂务is not so difficult. I do not _________介意做them.
Ms. Miller
Dear Sir,
I think it is important for children to learn______________ 如何做杂务and help their parents with housework. It is not enough ____________(只取得好成绩)at school. Children these days ____________依赖their parents too much. They are always asking, “Could you get this for me ” or “Could you help me with that ” ____做杂务helps to ______________培养孩子的独立性 and teaches them ___________如何照顾 themselves.
It also helps them to understand the___________公正性的概念. ___________既然 they live in one house with their parents, they should know that everyone should ____________尽他们的职责it clean and tidy. Our neighbors’ son got into a good college but during his first year, he had no idea=didn’t know how to take care of himself. _________结果, he often fell ill and his grades d__________. 孩子们越早学会独立,对他们的将来就越好 ______________________________________________
Mr. Smith
第一封信
我不理解,为什么一些家长让他们的孩子在家里帮着做家务。
I don't understand why some parents ________ their kids ________ ________ housework and________ at home.
现在的孩子们已经有来自学校的足够的压力了。
kids these days already _________ _________ _________ _________ school.
家务是浪费他们的时间。Housework _____ _____ _________ ________ their time.
为了取得好成绩并进入一所好大学,他们应当把时间花在学业上。
They should_________their time ______ schoolwork ______ _________ ______ _______ good_______ and get into a good __________.
当他们长大一些的时候,他们将不得不做家务,因此,他们没有必要现在做家务。
When thet get_______,they will habe to do housework ,so ______ ____ ______ ________ ______ _____ ______
______ it now.
在家中给他们的孩子提供一个干净舒适的环境,是家长们的职责。
It is the ___________ job _____ _____________ a clean and __________ __________at home _______ their children.
反正我觉得干点家务事也不太难。我不介意做家务。
__________, I think _________ __________ _________ not so _________. I do not _______ __________ them.
第二封信
8 我认为对孩子们来说学会如何做杂物并且帮助父母做家务很重要
I think it is _________for children ____ _______ how to______ _______ and help their parents ______ _______
9. 现在的孩子们过于依赖父母。Children these days ______________ ____________their parents too much.
10.做家务有助于培养孩子们的独立性,并教他们怎样去照顾自己。
_______ chores ________ to _____________ ________________ _______________ and ____________ them how _____ __________ _______ ______________..
11.这也帮助他们理解公正性的含义。
It also helps them to _________________ the _______ _____ ____________.
12.既然他们与父母住在一所房子里,他们就应该知道,每个人应当尽一份力来保持房子干净和整洁。
___________ they ________ in one house ________ their parents, they should know that everyone should do their ________ _______ __________ it clean and tidy.
13每个人应该尽力让家保持干净。Everyone should do their ______ in _______ ____ ______ _____ ____
14.他不知道怎样去照顾自己。He has no idea how to _________ __________ __________ _____________.
15结果, 他经常生病,成绩也下降了。
______ _____ ___________, he often ___________ __________ and his grades ________________.
16孩子们越早学会独立,对他们的未来就越好。
_______ _________ kids learn _____ _______ _________________, ______ _________ it is for their future.
Unit 2 Section A
Dear Mr.Hunt,
My problem is that I ________________________不能和我的家人和睦相处. _________________我父母之间的关系have become difficult. They fight a lot, and I really don’t like it. It’s the_____ __________唯一的交流 they have. I don’t know w_________ I should say anything to them about this. When they _________争吵, it’s like a big, black cloud ________________悬在上方our home. Also, my elder brother is not very nice to me. He always ______________拒绝让我看my favorite TV show. ___________相反 he watches whatever he wants until late at night. ________________________我认为这不公平. At home I always______________ 感到孤独和焦虑. Is that __________正常吗 What can I do
Sad and Thirteen
Dear Sad and Thirteen,
It’s not easy b_____ your age, and it’s normal _________有这样的感受. _______________你为什么不谈论these feelings w______ your family If your parents are having problems, you ___________________应该主动去帮忙 Maybe you could do more jobs around the house ________以便于they have more time _________进行适当的交流. to have proper communication Secondly, why don’t you sit down and______________ 和,,,沟通your brother You should _____________解释 that you don’t mind him _______(watch) all the time. ________然而, he should let you watch ______________你最喜欢的节目. I hope things will be better for you soon.
Robert Hunt
P14
These days, Chinese children are __________有时_____(busy) on weekends than weekdays b_____ they have to____________________ 上那么多的课外补习班。Many of them are learning ________________考试技巧。______________以便于they can get into a good high school and later a good university.___________其他人are ________________在练习运动以便于they can __________比赛并获胜。H_______,this doesn’t only happen in China.
The Taylors are __________________一个典型的美国家庭。Life for Cathy Taylor’s three children is very busy. “On most days after school,” Cathy says, “ I take one of my two boys to basket ball p_________ and my daughter to football training. Then I have to take my other son to piano lessons. Maybe I ____________可以减掉几项of their activities. But I b______ these a ________are important for ___________我孩子的未来。I really _____________想让他们成功。H______, the t_______ children don’t get home until after 7:00 p.m They have a quick dinner, and then ________________________到了做作业时间了。
Linda Miller, a mother of three, knows all about such s__________ 。 “In some families, c____________ starts very young and _________持续到 the kids get older,” she says. “Mothers s ______their small kids to all kinds of classes. And they are always c__________ them with other children. It’s _______疯狂的。 _______________________我认为那不公平。Why don’t they just let their kids be kids People shouldn’t ______________________________ 把孩子逼得太紧。
Doctors say ____________太多的压力is not good for a child’s d_________。 Dr. Alice Green says all these activities can ____________造成许多压力for children。 “Kids should have time ________(relax)and think for themselves, too. A_________ it’s normal to want s__________ children, it’s even more important to have happy children.
Unit 3 p 19
Ben could hear s winds outside his home in Alabama. Black clouds (make) the sky very d_______. With no l outside, it felt like midnight. The news on TV reported that a h____ rainstorm ____(be) in the area.
Everyone in the neighborhood was busy. Ben’s dad ______(put) pieces of wood o___ the windows while his mom _____(make) sure the flashlights and radio _____________正常工作. She a___ put some_________ 蜡烛 and__________ 火柴 on the table.
Ben was helping his mom ________(make) dinner when the rain began to beat ______(heavy) a _______the windows. After dinner, they tried _________ (play) a card game, but it was hard ________(have ) fun with a serious storm __________(happen) outside.
Ben could not sleep ____________起初. He finally _______ (fall) asleep when the wind _________(die) down at around 3:00 a.m. When he ________(wake) up, the sun ________(rise). He went outside with his family and found the neighborhood _______________一片凌乱. f____ trees, b______ windows and rubbish were everywhere. They joined the neighbors to help clean up the neighborhood together. A____ the storm b________ many things apart, it brought families and neighbors c________ together.
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Do You Remember What You Were Doing
People often remember what they ________(do)when they _________(hear) the news of important e______ in history.历史上的重要事件 In America, for e_______, many people remember what they were doing________ 介词 April 4, 1968. This was ______________一次重要的事件 in American history. On this day, Dr. Martin Luther King___________ 被杀.A_________ some people may not remember who k_______ him, they remember what they were doing when they h_______ the news.
Robert Allen is now over 50, but he was a school p_________ at that time. “I was at home w______ my parents,” Robert remembers. “We ___________( eat) dinner in the k_________ when we heard the news o_____ the radio. The news reporter said, ‘Dr. King _________(die) just 10 minutes ago.’ My parents_________________ 完全震惊了! My parents did not talk after that, and we finished the rest of our dinner______________ 默默地.”
More recently, most Americans remember what they _________(do)when the World Trade Center in New York ______________被摧毁by terrorists. Even the date — September 11, 2001 — has m_______ to most Americans.对大多数美国人都有意义。
This was a day Kate Smith will never forget. She remembers________( work) in her office near the two towers. “My friend shouted that a plane just hit the World Trade Center! I didn’t believe him _________起初, but then I looked out the window and realized that it was t________. I was ____________如此的害怕以至于I could hardly think _________(clear) after that.”
Unit 4 p27
I__ November 1979, p_________ in England were able to ____(watch) a new TV program ___(call) Monkey. Most of them were _________(hear) this story for the _______(one) time. H_________, this story is not n_______ to Chinese children. The Monkey King or Sun Wukong is the main character[ k r kt (r)] in the t_________ Chinese book Journey to the West.
The Monkey King is not j______ any normal monkey. In f_____ he sometimes does not e______ look like a monkey! This is b______ he can make 72 changes to his shape and size, _________(turn) _________(him) into different animals and objects. But u_________ he _______(hide) his tail, he cannot turn himself into a person. _________( fight) bad people, the Monkey King uses a m__________ stick. Sometimes he can make the stick s__________ small that he can keep it in his e________. At other times, he is able to make it big and long.
The Monkey King _______(excite) children of China for many years. And as soon as the TV program ___________推出,more than 30 years ago, Western children became ________(interest) in __________ (read) this story because the clever Monkey King keeps _____________坚持斗争to help the w______弱者,and never __________放弃.
P32
Gretel heard that their___________ planned to ______ her and her brother. But Hansel had a plan to _______ himself and his sister. He went to get some white______ before he went to bed that night. The next day, the wife sent the children to the_______. Hansel _______the stones as they walked. Later that night, they could see the stones because of the shining________. The stones showed them the way home. Hansel wanted to get some more stones, but his stepmother did not let him go out. The next morning, the wife sent the children to the forest again. Hansel had no stones, so he dropped _______of _____. But
the______ ate them, so Hansel and Gretel were _______ in the forest. They walked until they saw a ______made of food. Hansel wanted to______ the house, but then they heard the voice of an old _______coming from the house.
Once upon a time, there_____ (be) an emperor. He ______(love) buying and looking at clothes. One day, two brothers _____(come) to the city. They ______(tell) the emperor that they could make beautiful clothes for him, but he must ______ (give) them silk and gold. The brothers _____(be) bad people. They______ (keep) all the silk and gold for themselves. They told the emperor the clothes they made______ (be)
special because only clever people could____ (see) them. When the emperor____ (put) on the clothes, all he could see was his underwear. But he didn’t want people to ______ (think)
he was stupid, so he______ (say) the clothes were beautiful. Then he______ (walk) around
the city in his new clothes until one boy______(shout), “The emperor isn’t wearing any clothes
Unit 5 P35第一段
_________________________(世界上最危险的运动之一) is mountain climbing, and one of the most popular places for this is the Himalayas. The Himalayas ____(run) a___ the ________(西南部) China. O__ all the mountains, Qomolangma r____ the highest and is the most famous. It is 8,844.43 metres high and so is very d_____ ____( climb). Thick clouds c____ the top and snow can f___ very hard. Even more serious _______(difficult) include freezing weather c_____ and h____ storms. It is also very hard ____( 呼吸) as( ) you get near the top.
第二段The first people ____(reach) the top were Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary ___(介词)May 29, 1953. The first Chinese team did so ___(介词) 1960, w____ the first woman ____( succeed) was Junko Tabei f___Japan in 1975.
第三段Why do so many climbers _____________(冒生命危险) One of the main r_____ is that people want ___________(挑战他们自己)in the f____ of difficulties. The s______ of these climbers shows us that we should never __________(永不放弃尝试)______( achieve) our dreams. It also shows that humans can sometimes be stronger than the f____ of nature.
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It is 8:30 a.m. at the Chengdu Research Base. panda keepers are p______ milk for the baby pandas’ breakfast. At 9:00 a.m., they find that most of the babies are already a___ and hungry. When the babies see the keepers, they _________(跑向)them __________(兴奋地)and some of the young pandas e___ ______(撞上)(同义词knock into) their friends and _______(跌倒)!
Lin Wei, one of the panda keepers, says, “They‘re so cute and lovely. I _____(照顾)them l___ they’re my o___ babies. I wash, feed and play with them every day. They’re very s_____ to me.” ____(实际上), many people around the world love these black and white animals. Pandas have become so popular that they are now a s______ of China.
Scientists say there are now f____ than 2,000 pandas ___(live) in the f_____. Another 300 ___(大约)live in z___ or research centers in China and other c______ .Pandas do not have many babies, maybe o_____ one every two years. The babies often _____(死于疾病)and do not live very long. Adult pandas spend more than 12 hours a day _______(eat) about 10 kilos of bamboo. Many years ago, there ___(be) a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China, but then humans started to ____(砍伐)these forests. As(随着) the forest get smaller and other human activities _______(造成) more problems, pandas cannot find enough _______(eat) and they are having _______(less, fewer) babies.
A_ education program in Chengdu ___(teach) children about pandas and other _____ (danger) animals. They send people to schools __( tell) children about the ____(important) of ____(save) these animals. And the Chinese government is trying hard __( help )save the pandas. Scientists are doing research to better understand the ____(习惯)of pandas. We all hope that ____(在将来)there ___( be )a lot more pandas.
Unit 6 p43
When I first _______(到达) this island, I had nothing(=I didn’t____ ____) But I ‘ve found the ship and made a small boat. I’ve brought back many things I can use——food and drink, tools, knives and guns. A__________ I have_____( lose) everything, I have not lost my life. So I will not _______ (放弃)and I will ______________(等待另一艘船).I have already __________(砍伐了树木) and built a house. I’m e____ learning ____ ( grow) fruit and v_________.
A few days ago, I found the m____ of another man’s ___(foot) on the sand. Who e___ is on my island Not long after that, I saw some c_____ (试图杀死)______ two men from a ____ (break) ship. One of them died but _______(另一个) ran t_______ my house.I helped him ____(kill) the cannibals. This man now lives with me and helps me.I (称呼他为Friday)________ because that was the day I met him. He is s____ and I ____ already _____(teach) him some English.
P46
When sarah was a teenager,she used to ____(因,,,而争吵) almost everything w___ her family. But five years ago, while she _____(在国外学习)in England, she ___(hear) a song f___ with feelings about____ ( return) home ____(在广播里).
It made sarah ____(think) about her family and friends b___ in the US. She _____(逐渐认识到)how much she really m_____ all of them. Ever s___ then ,she ____(be) a fan of American country music.
Country is a t_________ kind of music from the s____ states of America. Nashville is the h____ of country music. Many songs these days are j___ about m___ life in the US, such as _______(重要性)of money and s____, but not about b________ to a group. H_____, country music b_____ us back to the “good old days” when people were kind to each other and t______ one another. It r______ us that the best things in life are f____—laughter, friends,family, and the _____(自然界的美)and the countryside.
Sarah ________(没有去过)Nashville yet, but it is her ______(梦想)_______( go )there one day. She ______( read) a lot about the place and done some r_______ on it. She knows that there is a Country Music Hall of Fame Museum in Nashville. There are a__ always a lot of great country music c________ with ___________(著名的音乐家) and singers, like Garsh Brooks. Sarah has already listened to most of his songs. “Garth is ______________ (最成功的音乐家之一) in American h_____. He______(sell) more than120 m________
(百万) records. I hope ______( see) him sing live one day.
Unit 7 P51
Ken: : ______________________________(我曾经去过最有趣的博物馆) is the American Computer Museum. They have i_______ about different computers and who i_______ them. The old computers were much bigger. It’s _______(believe) that technology ________( progress)____________________________(以如此快速的方式发展)! I’ve also learned that there was a _______(特殊的) computer. It could play chess even better than humans. I w_________ how much more computers will be able to do in the f________.
Amy: I’ve r_______ been to a very _____________________(不寻常的博物馆) in ______(Indian), the International Museum of Toilets. I just couldn’t b______ my eyes when I __(see) so ________________________________(那么多不同种类的厕所)there. The museum ______(teach) people about the history and _____(发展) of toilets. It also ____________(鼓励政府)and s_______ groups _______(think) about ways _______(改进)toilets in the future.
Linlin: Last year I went to the Hangzhou National Tea Museum. It’s _________________(一个令人放松和安宁的地方)near a lake. ______________(茶艺表演) show how to make a p__________ cup of tea ___________(用精美的茶具). __________(watch) the tea preparation is just ____________________________(和喝茶一样享受)the tea itself. I’ve finally realized why my grandpa loves drinking tea and c________ tea sets.
P54 Singapore—A Place You Will Never Forget!
____ you ever _____________(去过) Singapore For ______________(数千名游客) from China, this small island in Southeast Asia is a wonderful and safe place _______(take ) a holiday . ________________(一方面),more than ______________________________ (人口的四分之三) are Chinese,so you can____(simple) speak Putonghua a lot of the time. ______________________(另一方面),Singapore is ___________(一个说英语的国家), so it’s also a good place ______(practice) your English!
Have you ever tried Chinese food outside of China Maybe you f___ that you won’t be able _____(find) anything good _____(eat) when you travel. In Singapore, h______, you’ll find a lot of food from China; You won’t have any problem _____(get) rice, noodles or dumplings. Singapore is also an excellent place _____(try) new food. W____ you like ____(India) food, western food or Japanese food, you’ll find it all in Singapore!
Most large cities have zoos, but have you been to a zoo at night Singapore has a Night Safari. It might ___________好像很奇怪______(go) to a zoo when it’s dark. H____, if you go to see lions, tigers or ___(fox) _____(白天期间), they’ll probably be ______(sleep). A lot of animals only __________(醒来 ) at night, so this is the best time _____(watch) them. At the Night Safari, you can watch these animals in a _____(nature) environment than in a normal zoo.
One great thing about Singapore is that the t______ is almost the same ___________(全年).This is because the island ___________(离赤道如此近). So you can choose _____(go) whenever you like—spring, summer , a____ or winter. And, of course, It’s not too _____(离…远) China!
Unit 8
My children are 成长fast. My daughter is 16 and my boy is already in junior high school. 由于they get bigger ,our house seems ____(get )smaller. So we want ___(sell) some of our things _____________在庭院拍卖会上and ______(give) the money to a children’s home.
We __ already _______a lot of things from our bedrooms. We have decided ____ (sell)five things that we ______ use. My son was _______ at first. Although he __( not play) with his old toys for a long time, he still wanted ___them. For example, he ______(own) a train and railway set since his _____(four) birthday, and he played with it almost every week until he was about seven. And he did not want to lose his toy monkey ,e_____.
He ______(sleep) n______ the monkey every night when he was a child. My daughter was ____ ____________更善解人意的, although she also felt sad to _________ ________舍弃certain toys.
__________就我而言,至于我, I did not want___________放弃 my football shirts, but, —____________老实说, I ____________( not play) for a while now. I am getting older, too!
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Hometown Feelings 故乡情
一些 people still live in their hometown. However, 另一些 may only see it once or ___(two) a year. N____, _____(数百万)Chinese leave the countryside _________________(去找工作)in the cities. A_______ these is Zhong Wei, a 46-year-old h__________ and father. He has lived in Wenzhou for the last 13 years. _____________(有一份辛苦工作)in a crayon factory, he doesn’t find much time _________( visit) his hometown. “I used ______( return )home_____(至少)once a year, but I haven’t been back for almost three years now. It’s a s_______, but I just don’t have the time,” he says.
Many people like Zhong Wei _____________________(带着极大的兴趣关注着)how their hometowns_______(change). Perhaps large hospitals and new roads _________(已经出现). In many places, the government has also _________(build) new schools and ________(send) teachers from the cities to help.
“I n_______ that’s true of my hometown,” a____ Zhong Wei. “Children have learned _________( read) and_________(count) at my old primary school since the mid-20th c_____. But now the buildings are really old. I hear they’re going to b______ a new school there.” Zhong Wei thinks such d_____ are good, and he also knows that his hometown cannot always _____________(保持不变).
A__________根据Zhong Wei, however, some things ____never ________(change). “In my hometown, there was a big old tree o_______ the school. It is still there and has become quite a s_______ of the place. M_______ of the children in my time liked to play together under that big tree, e_________ during the _________暑假. It was such a happy _________童年. Our hometown has left many ___________________柔软和甜蜜的记忆in our hearts.”