Unit6 An old man tried to move the mountains.单元检测（无答案）人教版八年级下册

八年级下册Unit 6单元检测题
姓名：_______ 班级：_______ 分数：_______
完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Long long ago, the Emperor of Heaven（玉皇大帝） organized an animal race. The first 12 animals to win could get a 1 in the Chinese animal signs （生肖），and have a year named after them.
The cat and the mouse both 2 the ox （公牛） to wake them up early on the day of the race. That day, the ox 3 to wake them up, but without success. So the kind ox carried them on 4 back and started running when the race began.The mouse 5 just when the ox was going across the last river. He knew that he could 6 beat the cat. So he pushed the 7 off the ox's back. When the ox reached the other side of the river, the mouse jumped off and ran to the finishing line, just 8 the ox. The tiger came third.
So the 12-year cycle （循环） begins with the mouse. The ox comes after him. The tiger 9 the ox. The rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig come after them. The cat was 10 to finish the race, almost dying in the river, but she has no place in the 12 animal signs.
So that's why cats kill mice. They can never forget what happened in that race long long ago!
( ) 1. A. place B. prize C. sign D. skill
( ) 2. A. promised B. helped C. hated D. asked
( ) 3. A. loved B. refused C. forgot D. tried
( ) 4. A. her B. his C. their D. your
( ) 5. A. made up B. took up C. woke up D. dressed up
( ) 6. A. never B. still C. perhaps D. almost
( ) 7. A. monkey B. cat C. tiger D. dog
( ) 8. A. for B. against C. before D. after
( ) 9. A. leads B. cheats C. reminds D. follows
( ) 10. A. fast B. lucky C. easy D. free
二、阅读理解（共8小题；每小题2分，满分16分）
A
Once upon a time，the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan went boating on the Eastern Sea. Unluckily, she fell into the sea and died. Then her spirit turned into a beautiful bird. As it flew over the sea, it cried sadly in the sound “jingwei". So people called it“jingwei”.
Jingwei hated the sea so much that it decided to fill it up. Every year, it flew to the sea, carrying a twig （细枝） and dropping it into the sea.
One day, the sea said to Jingwei, “Poor little bird, stop doing the meaningless thing! You'll never fill me up.” Jingwei replied, “I will, even if it'll take me thousands of years! I'll fight until the end of the world!" The brave little bird kept filling the sea without taking a rest.
This is where the story"Jingwei tries to fill the sea” comes from. We use the story to describe people who ______.
( ) 1. What happened to the girl
A. She died because of the illness. B. She fell into the sea and died.
C. She met a strange bird. D. She argued with her father.
( ) 2. How did Jingwei fill up the sea
A. By asking the god for help. B. By asking its friends for help.
C. By dropping twigs into the sea. D. By dropping birds into the sea.
( ) 3. What did the sea think of Jingwei's behavior （行为） of filling up the sea
A. Amazing. B.Stupid. C. Meaningless. D. Brave.
( ) 4. Which can be put in the line of the last paragraph
A. always bravely fight against bad people B. will not stop until they are successful
C. will be happy if they get what they want D. often offer to help the old and the weak
B
Li Shizhen was one of the most famous doctors in Chinese history. He was born in Hubei in 1518.
Both of Li Shizhen's father and grandfather were doctors. Li Shizhen's grandfather was a country doctor who traveled in the countryside and cured （治愈）many people. His father was a doctor who wrote several books.
Li Shizhen used to help his father in his medical practice when he was young. His father wanted him to enter politics（从政），so Li Shizhen studied for the exams and passed the country-level examination. But he was never able to pass the imperial examination（科举考试）.
When he was 38, he cured the son of the Price of Chu and was invited to be an official in that court （宫廷）. A few years later, he became an official at the Imperial Medical Institute （太医院）， but he didn't want to work for the court. One year later, he left the court and returned to be a doctor again.
Li Shizhen was famous for his book The Com pendium of Materia Medica (《本草纲目》). He spent 27 years writing the book. Unluckily, Li Shizhen died before the book was officially published. It is such a successful book. Now it is still one of the most important medical books in China.
( ) 1. What was Li Shizhen's grandfather
A. An official. B. A prince. C. A country doctor. D. A writer.
( ) 2. What did Li Shizhen's father want him to do
A. To be a doctor. B. To write a book. C.To be a prince. D. To enter politics.
( ) 3. According to the passage, what was Li Shizhen famous for
A. Working for the court. B. The book The Com pendium of Materia Medica.
C. His long traveling. D. Curing a lot of people.
( ) 4. What does the passage mainly talk about
A. Li Shizhen's life.` B. Li Shizhen's grandfather's life.
C. Li Shizhen's father's life. D. Li Shizhen's book.
三、补全对话（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
A
根据对话内容，从方框内的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
Emma: What are you doing, Li Lin Li Lin: 1.______.
Emma: I have read it before. What do you think of the story
Li Lin: 2.______. Yu Gong found a good way to deal with his problem.
Emma: Really 3.______. It seems impossible to move a mountain.
Li Lin: But the story is trying to show us that anything is possible if you work hard. Yu Gong kept trying and didn't give up.
Emma: 4.______. I think we should try to find other ways to deal with a problem.
Li Lin: But what could Yu Gong do except moving the mountains
Emma: He could build a road. 5.______.
Li Lin: We have different opinions about the story. There're many sides to a story and many ways to understand it.
Emma: Yes, that's fine.
A. Don't you think it's a little silly B. I'm reading a book called Yu Gong Moves a Mountain（愚公移山）. C. That's better and faster than moving a mountain. D. In my opinion, it's really interesting. E. Do you prefer to read stories F. I still don't agree with you. G. How about you
B
根据对话内容，从方框内的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
A: Have you ever read the novel Jane Eyre B: 1.______.
A: What a pity! It's a wonderful book, you know.
B: Well, I'm looking forward to reading it for a long time. But I can't get a copy. The library only
has three copies and 2.______.
A: Well, 3.______. If you like, I'll lend it to you.
B: Thank you. 4.______.By the way, when can I get it
A: 5.______.Would you please go to my house with me after school
B:OK, I'll go with you as soon as school is over.
A.It's very kind of you. B. I forget where I have put it. C. You really should make a report. D. they are all out. E. I'm afraid I haven't. F. I'm haven't had it with me. G. I have a copy of my own.
四、阅读对话，根据对话内容，从对话后的A、B、C、D、E五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
Once upon a time , there was a kind man named John . He was always ready to help people in
trouble.1.______. In order to help the poor , he learned medicine and tried to help treat the sick people. 2.______.
One day a poor woman asked Doctor John to go and see her husband , who was very ill and felt terribly weak.3.______. The husband couldn’t find a job for a long time and the wife could hardly make any money , either . Doctor John examined him and to his surprise , the husband was not ill.4.______.
"Come to my house this evening and I will give you some medicine for your husband,"Doctor John said to the woman.
When the woman got to his house , John gave her a paper bag with something inside and said, "Here is the medicine and it will be good for your husband.5.______.
After the woman got home, she opened the paper bag and found there was some money in it !
A. Don't open it until you get home. B. He often gave away what he had to the poor. C. So people called him Doctor John. D. He was too hungry because there was no food in the house. E. Doctor John went there and found the family was very poor.
五、词汇运用（共14小题；每小题1分，满分14分）
用括号内所给单词的正确形式或首字母填空。
The bird fell onto the ground after the man ________ （射击）it.
The boy kept________ (fight) to help the weak and never gave up.
How s________ of you to trust him! He never tells the truth.
The Monkey King can make 72 ________(change) to his shape and size.
5. In the animal world, the strong live while the w________ die.
6. There are some big s________ on the road. Let's move them away.
7. Once upon a time, a very old man ________(try) to move the mountains.
8. Tina stayed at home instead of ________(go) to the movies yesterday.
9. Please remind Grandpa ________(take) the medicine on time.
10. How soon will you finish ________(talk) on the phone
11. There are many ways ________(understand) a story.
12. There are many Chinese culture and ________(west) culture.
13. He didn't get ________(marry) until he was forty years old.
14. The Monkey King has ________(excite) the children for many years.
六、语法填空(共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)
Journey to the West is one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. It was 1.______ (publish) in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty. It's said that Wu Cheng'en was the 2.______ (write).
The novel is about the legends around Xuanzang's pilgrimage（朝圣之旅）to India during the Tang Dynasty to 3. ______ (get) Buddhist religious texts（经书）.
The 4.______ (story) of Journey to the West was based on real events. In real life, Xuanzang 5.________ (leave) Chang'an in 629. He traveled 6.________ Gansu and Qinghai to Kumul （哈密）， then following the Tianshan Mountains to Turpan （吐鲁番). He 7.________ (reach) India in 630.
In Western 8.________ (country)，the tale is also often known simply as Monkey. It was translated 9.________ Arthur Waley. The Waley translation has also been published as Adventures of the Monkey God, Folk Novel of China, 10.________ The Adventures of Monkey.
七、综合填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读短文，从方框中选择恰当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。
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There are many famous stories in history. When I was three, my mother 1.________ to tell me a story every night. Later, it became a habit for me and I couldn't 2.________ without a story. The 3.________ story I heard was about Kong Rong. He gave the bigger pears to his brothers and left the smallest one to 4.________ .Then, I heard the stories of two 5.________ boys. Sima Guang saved his friend by 6.________ the pot with a large stone. And Cao Chong weighed the elephant by a big 7.________ and lots of stones. These stories are so educational 8.________ they are still very popular. Now I enjoy 9.________ in my free time. I expect to learn more from books and 10.________ a great person.