2024-2025学年八年级下学期单元测试练习卷（人教版）
英语
【Unit 8】
满分：120分 考试时间：100分钟
听力部分 笔试部分 总分
题号 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九
得分
听力部分（共20分）
一、请听下面5个句子，选择与你所听到的内容相符的图片。每个句子读两遍。 （每小题1分，共5分）
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
二、请根据所听内容， 在每小题所给出的三个选项中，选出一个能完成句子的最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。独白听两遍。 （每题1分，共5分）
(1). When did the speaker’s parents give him a book
A.At the age of four. B.At the age of five. C.At the age of six.
(2). Who told stories to the speaker
A.His mother. B.His father. C.His teacher.
(3). How many books are there in the speaker’s study
A.About fifty. B.About one hundred. C.About two hundred.
(4). Why does the speaker loving reading
A.Because he loves collecting books.
B.Because the books are very interesting.
C.Because the books can teach him how to be a better person.
(5). What does the speaker think of books
A.Interesting and beautiful.
B.Beautiful and useful.
C.Important and helpful.
三、听短文，选择正确答案。短文读两遍。 （每题1分，共5分）
(1). How old was Daniel Defoe when he died
A.81. B.71. C.61.
(2). How does the speaker think of Robinson Crusoe
A.Boring. B.Terrible. C.Exciting.
(3). How long has Robinson Crusoe lived on the island
A.For about 18 years. B.For about 20 years. C.For about 28 years.
(4). What can we learn from Robinson Crusoe
A.How to live alone.
B.The spirit of never giving up.
C.The importance of reading.
(5). What does the speaker mainly tell us about
A.A book called Robinson Crusoe.
B.The writer of Robinson Crusoe.
C.The way to read Robinson Crusoe.
四、听短文，完成下列句子。每空不超过三个单词。短文读两遍。 （每小题1分，共5分）
(1). Lingling started to listen to Bob Dylan’s songs when she was .
(2). Bob Dylan was born on , 1941.
(3). Bob Dylan is one of the most successful of the last 50 years.
(4).In 2016, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature because of in his songs.
(5). Bob Dylan’s songs are that Lingling has already listened to all of his records.
笔试部分（100分）
五、根据对话内容，从选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，有两项多余。（每空2分，共10分）
A: Bill, we’re too tired these days. 1
B: OK. Where would you like to go
A: Some new films are on this week. Shall we go to the cinema
B: 2 Which film would you like to see
A: Let me look through the newspaper. Er... How about Coming Home
B: Yeah, I’ve heard of it. It’s so moving! 3
A: Cross is a little far. Let’s go to UME.
B: Good. But look at the sky! 4
A: Yes. The newspaper says it will be rainy tonight.
B: 5
A: The film will begin in two hours. We can go there after supper.
B: All right.
A.That sounds good!
B.Which cinema shall we go to, UME or Cross
C.What will we have for supper
D.It seems that it’s going to rain!
E.Well, it’s better to take an umbrella with us.
F.I don’t think so.
G.Let’s go somewhere to relax ourselves this evening.
六、完形填空（每题1分，共10分）
When I was young, I was so interested in Chinese movies that I wanted to know more about Chinese culture like kung fu and xiqu. I often 1 of going to China one day.
Luckily, when I was learning theater at university, I was provided with a chance to study 2 . There was a program to study Asian theater arts either in China or in India. I 3 to go to China and learn Beijing Opera in a Chinese theater school. The school offered me a place to practice. It was good 4 I could practice whenever I wanted. Also I had 5 lessons-the teacher would give me one-to-one class for three hours. That was the best part of my study in China. I do appreciate (感激) this chance to 6 the beautiful art!
I got a lot from my study in China. It has greatly 7 me and helped me develop into a more skillful 8 . This Chinese art gives me plenty of 9 , so I can use them when I perform other shows in Europe. I have 10 an art center to teach Beijing Opera. Now there are more fans of Beijing Opera in my country.
(1). A.heard B.died C.knew D.dreamed
(2). A.here B.inside C.abroad D.online
(3). A.failed B.decided C.regretted D.continued
(4). A.until B.though C.unless D.because
(5). A.easy B.private C.boring D.social
(6). A.learn B.expect C.test D.celebrate
(7). A.influenced B.troubled C.guarded D.controlled
(8). A.writer B.doctor C.actor D.pilot
(9). A.orders B.clothes C.tools D.poems
(10). A.kept off B.broken into C.pointed out D.set up
七、阅读理解(本题共有五个语篇，每篇后有五个小题，共 50 分)
（A）
Music of the world
With the song Apologize, US band OneRepublic became one of the hottest rock bands in the world in 2007. And their new song, Counting Stars, topped the UK singles charts soon after it came out in March this year.
People say they are successful because of their special music style: mixing rock with R&B and hip-hop.
But they don’t think so.
“We’re no respecter of music style,” said lead singer Ryan Tedder. “For 10 years, we’ve been trying to define our music. But in the music world with so many styles, we found ourselves unique. And we are glad with that.”
The band was set up in 2002. Their unique style draws fans of pop, rock and other music styles. The magazine Rolling Stone describes them as “the band that brings the future of music”.
It seems everybody likes their music. Maybe it’s because their music comes from their experience of traveling, said Drew Brown, the guitarist.
“We are inspired by the traveling that we get to do and the different ways of life and culture that we get to experience,” Brown told NST News.
For example, to prepare for the latest album, Native, the band traveled to Paris, London and many other places. They hope to create a kind of music that the whole world understands.
And now, they have brought their music to China. They had concerts in Shanghai and Beijing early this month.
“Chinese fans are really enthusiastic. I hope they enjoyed the concert from ears to souls,” said Tedder.
(1). OneRepublic is a band from ________.
A.China B.the UK C.the US D.Canada
(2). ________ topped the UK singles charts in March.
A.Apologize B.Counting Stars C.Rolling Stone D.Native
(3). Which of the following is true
A.The song Apologize is one of the famous songs of OneRepublic.
B.the music style of OneRepublic is just mixing rock with R&B and hip-hop.
C.The music style of OneRepublic can be defined.
D.OneRepublic has its own music style.
(4). OneRepublic was set up in ________.
A.2002 B.2007 C.2012 D.2017
(5). OneRepublic’s music comes from their________.
A.experience of working B.experience of performing
C.experience of traveling D.experience of studying
（B）
Once upon a time, there was a spider with the name Anansi. He knew that he was very clever but he also knew he wasn’t wise (英明的). He didn’t like this, but he didn’t know what to do. One day he had an idea. He went around the village with a basket and asked each person to give him some of their wisdom (智慧). The people laughed at Anansi because they knew that he needed wisdom the most. So each person put a bit in his basket and wished him good luck.
Soon his basket was full, but Anansi was worried that his neighbors might be jealous (嫉妒的) of his wisdom and take it from him. He decided to hide it at the top of a tall tree. When he had tied the basket to the front part of his body, he tried to climb the tree, but it was too difficult. He tried again and again without success.
Then his youngest son walked by. “What are you doing, Dad ” he asked and Anansi told him. “Why don’t you carry the basket on your back instead ” his son said.
Anansi put the basket on his back and climbed the tree easily, but he wasn’t happy. “I walked all over the village and collected so much wisdom that I am the wisest person ever, but my baby son is still wiser than me. Take back your wisdom!” he said. And he threw the basket of wisdom into the air and went home. And that’s how wisdom went all over the world.
(1). Anansi went around the village because________.
A.he knew he was very clever B.he wanted to show his good luck
C.he hoped to meet his son D.he thought he wasn’t wise enough
(2). Anansi wanted to get his wisdom from ________.
A.his son B.his father C.the villagers D.the neighbors
(3). The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to (指的是) ________.
A.the tree B.the baby C.the luck D.the wisdom
(4). The passage above is ________.
A.a report B.a story C.an advertisement D.a diary
(5). The best title for the passage would be ________.
A.Anansi’s Wisdom B.The Wisdom of Anansi’s Son
C.Anansi and His Son D.Anansi and the Villagers
（C）
Sailing the high seas
There are fantasy stories set in worlds of fairies and wizards, and there are ones set in the real world. Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is the latter, a tale about a young person like you or your classmates. It takes place in a world like yours, but the most exciting things happen. You don’t always need magic to tell a magical story!
Jim Hawkins, an English boy, first learns about treasure hidden on an island by the pirate Captain Flint. He then gets the chance to join a voyage with Captain Smollett in hopes of finding the treasure.
One of the crew members is a man called “Long” John Silver. Jim finds out that the one-legged John is a pirate who knows about the treasure and wants it for himself. Silver persuades others on the ship to join him in a mutiny.
Jim tells Captain Smollett about Silver. Once on the island, Jim sees just how dangerous Silver is as he watches Silver murder another pirate.
While wandering the island, Jim meets a half-mad soul named Ben Gunn. When Captain Flint left his treasure behind, he also left Ben.
Silver gets control over the expedition but the other pirates turn on him, just as Silver turned on Captain Smollett. Silver and Jim, both captives now, have to work together if they want to escape.
Although he is a criminal, Silver shows he can also be brave. He is not entirely evil, but has a mixture of both good and evil qualities.
Jim learns from the mission that people will kill and betray their friends for money. But he also understands that people are sometimes more than they seem to be on the surface.
(1). Treasure Island tells a story ________.
A.in the fairy world B.in the wizard world
C.in the real world D.in the animation world
(2). ________ hid treasure on an island.
A.Jim Hawkins B.Flint C.Smollett D.Silver
(3). What did Flint leave on the island
A.Only treasure. B.Treasure and Ben.
C.Only Ben. D.Jim and Ben.
(4). Which of the following is true
A.Everyone in the story is bad.
B.Everyone in the story is helpful.
C.Silver is entirely evil.
D.Everyone has a mixture of both good and evil qualities.
(5). What can we learn from the story
A.Sometimes people are not what they appear on the surface.
B.People have only one personality.
C.Everyone will become bad for money.
D.We shouldn’t get along well with everyone.
（D）
Remember honest Zhou
He is known as the father of modern Chinese literature. But his influence has gone beyond literature to the world of ideas, arts and politics. No wonder Chairman Mao Zedong once called him “the sage of modern China”.
Oct 19 is the 80th anniversary of the death of Zhou Shuren, commonly known for his pen name Lu Xun. Today his writing is still widely read and several of his stories and essays are included in China’s public school curriculum.
As one of the leaders of the New Culture Movement (1915-1923), Lu Xun is known for making honest comments on Chinese institutions, culture and customs.
Take the story From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Study for example. The writer wrote about his youth from his playground Baicao Garden to his school the Sanwei Study, where a respected teacher instructed him in Chinese classics. The name “sanwei”, which translates as “three flavors”, refers to comparisons of different types of reading to different types of foodstuffs. Confucian classics are like rice. History books are like dishes. And literature is like sauce and seasoning.
It was in this strict traditional learning environment that he started to form a solid understanding of Chinese feudal society.
So when he wrote his first short story, A Madman’s Diary, he declared war against the broken society. The story made a huge splash in China’s literary world when it was published in 1918 for being among the first to use colloquial language together with the hard-to-read classical language that “serious” authors were meant to write in at the time. The story also turned heads for its extremely critical take on the downside of Chinese tradition, which Zhou compared to cannibalism.
Three years later, another important story, The True Story of Ah Q, was published. It saw Lu Xun look at the Chinese psyche at the time. The writer criticized it through Ah Q, a peasant who always considers himself superior to others even as he is humiliated and finally executed in the end. This characterization was on-the-nose enough that the phrase “the Ah Q spirit” is widely used even today.
“In all of Chinese literature, Lu Xun is … a sharp observer of the era he lived through, and a remaker of language and form,” commented The Guardian newspaper.
(1). ________ called Lu Xun “the sage of modern China”.
A.Mao Zedong B.Zhou Shuren C.Guo Moruo D.Mo Yan
(2). What are history books like according to Lu Xun
A.They are like rice. B.They are like dishes.
C.They are like sauce. D.They are seasoning.
(3). Ah Q represents ________.
A.the Chinese grass-root people during the feudal period
B.Lu Xun
C.nobles during the feudal period
D.royals during the feudal period
(4). The underlined word “criticized” means ________.
A.赞扬 B.学习 C.展露 D.批判
(5). What’s the passage mainly about
A.Lu Xun—the sage of modern China.
B.How to write stories.
C.Some influential stories.
D.Famous works of Chinese literature.
（E）
Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the world’s most-loved composers, is famous for his nine symphonies (交响乐). Before he died in 1827, he began a new symphony, but never finished it. He only left behind some notes about the piece and a few “sketches” — short bits of written music.
In 2019, a special team of musicians, computer scientists, and historians was formed. Their goal was to complete Beethoven’s 10th Symphony to celebrate his 250th birthday. The team didn’t just want to complete the symphony, they wanted to come as close as possible to producing the symphony that Beethoven meant to write.
The team decided to use artificial intelligence (AI人工智能) to help finish the symphony. To train an AI, they turned every piece of Beethoven’s music to a form the computer could understand. By doing this, the AI could look for patterns (模式) in the way Beethoven wrote. They also studied Beethoven’s notes and sketches to work out where in the symphony he planned to use each little bit of music.
In an early test, the team took a few minutes of music created by the AI seed on Beethoven’s sketches, and played it for Beethoven experts, musicians and reporters. No one could tell which parts had been written by Beethoven and which parts were made up by the AI.
Finally, the AI had the challenge of trying to connect the little musical bits to a symphony. It took over two years, but the team was able to complete Beethoven’s 10th Symphony — not simply a melody (乐曲), but 40 minutes of music for a full orchestra (管弦乐队). On the night of October 9th, 2021, the piece was performed for the first time ever by the Beethoven Orchestra in Bonn, Germany.
So Beethoven now has a 10th Symphony. And though Beethoven didn’t write it all, the team feels sure that the music is very much like what he might be written, if he’d had the chance.
What was the team’s goal
What did the team do to train an AI
What was the result of the team’s early test
How long did it take the team to complete the 10th Symphony
What do you think of the team’s work Why do you think so
八、阅读下面短文，根据句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯意思，在空格处填入 一个正确的英语单词或者括号内所给单词的正确形式。（每空1分，共10分）
Do you like reading In the modern life, reading is becoming more and more important, because it is one of 1 (great) ways to get success. I’m a middle school student and I live in the 2 (south) part of Shandong Province 3 my mother. She always introduces many kinds of books 4 me, 5 my favorite kind is fiction.
I think reading is magical. If you sit down with a good book 6 (read), you will go into a different world. If you like reading something 7 nature, you can enjoy the beauty of it. If you love reading stories, you will experience different 8 (feel) when reading. If you enjoy reading books about music, you may 9 (learn) more about pop or country. Most importantly, when you are reading, you can not only relax 10 (you) but also learn more things. Certainly, I will keep my reading habit.
九、书面表达（共20分）
大自然是我们赖以生存的自然环境，然而它正在遭受着破坏，请写一篇文章谈谈你对环境保护的看法和建议。
内容包括：
1. 构建绿色生活对于我们来说是非常重要的，我们应该为它做什么？（至少写2点）
2. 呼吁大家一起来保护大自然。
写作要求：
1.语句连贯。
2.词数70个左右。作文的开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
As we all know, the Earth is in trouble! It is very important for us to build a green life. But how should we protect the Earth ___________________________________________________
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参考答案
(1). E (2). C (3). A (4). B (5). D
原文：
1. The new couple were so happy that they couldn’t stop smiling.
2. The Nile is the longest river in the world.
3. Do you know that the Great Wall is one of the oldest man-made objects in the world
4. The panda keepers wash, feed and play with them every day.
5. Robinson Crusoe took his gun with him every day.
二、（1）. B（2）. A（3）. B（4）. C（5）. C
原文：
Different people have different hobbies. My hobby is reading books. My parents gave me a beautiful book when I was five years old. From then on, I was very interested in reading. My mother told me many interesting stories from all kinds of books. As I grow older, I read the books by myself. There are about one hundred books in my study. I really love reading books. Books not only tell me stories but also tell me how to be a better person. I think books are really important and helpful.
三、（1）. B（2）. C（3）. C（4）. B（5）. A
原文：
Have you read Robinson Crusoe It was written by Daniel Defoe. He was a famous English writer. He was born in London in 1660 and died in 1731.
Robinson Crusoe is one of the world’s most popular books. It’s really exciting. It tells a story about an English sailor whose name is Robinson Crusoe. He is caught in a heavy storm at sea. Luckily, he arrives at an island without other people. In order to continue to live, he searches for food, builds a hut, makes tools and raises animals. He comes back to human society after living in the island for about 28 years. The book shows us the spirit of a brave man. And it also introduces us the spirit of never giving up.
四、1. 12 years old 2. May 24 3. popular singers 4. his beautiful words 5. so wonderful
原文：
My name is Lingling. I began to listen to Bob Dylan’s songs at the age of 12. Ever since then, I have been a fan of Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan is an American musician and he was born on May 24, 1941. He is one of the most successful popular singers of the last 50 years. In 2016, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature because of his beautiful words in his songs. His songs are so wonderful that I have already listened to all of his records. Of all his songs, my favorite one is Blowing in the Wind. Do you like the song, too
五、1. G 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. E
六、1. D 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. B 6. A 7. A 8. C 9. C 10. D
七、（A）1. C 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. C
（B）1. D 2. C 3. D 4. B 5. A
（C）1. C 2. B 3. B 4. D 5. A
（D）1. A 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. A
（E）1. To complete Beethoven’s 10th Symphony.
2. They turned every piece of Beethoven’s music into a form the computer could understand.
3. No one could tell which parts had been written by Beethoven and which parts were made up by the AI.
4. Over two years.
5. It’s amazing. Because in the early test no one could tell which parts had been written by Beethoven and which parts were made up by the AI.
八、1. the greatest
2. southern
3. with
4. to
5. but
6. to read
7. about
8. feelings
9. learn
10. yourself
九、参考:
As we all know, the Earth is in trouble! It is very important for us to build a green life. But how should we protect the Earth
Chinese government has taken action to protect our earth. For example, lots of factories that can cause serious pollution have been shut down. And we have started to use the sun and wind as new energy. We students can also do something to protect our earth. When we leave a room, we’d better turn off the lights. It’s a good behavior to turn off the tap when we brush our teeth. Going shopping with a cloth bag is also a good way.
It’s everyone’s duty to love and protect the environment. I believe small changes can make a big difference to the world.
