Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? 单元测试题（含答案)

Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? 单元测试
一、单项选择（共10分）
（ ）1. ________ adult panda weighs many times more than ________ baby panda.
A. A; a B. An; an C. A; an D. An; a
（ ）2. Lanzhou is the only capital city that the Yellow River, the second ________ river in China, passes through.
A. long B. longest C. longer D. length
（ ）3. —________ is the wall?
—It’s about 8 850 kilometers long.
A. How often B. How long C. How far D. How soon
（ ）4. The mountain I visited last Sunday isn’t very ________. Few ________ go sightseeing there.
A. tourist; tourists B. touristy; tourist
C. touristy; tourists D. tourist; tourist
（ ）5. —I think English is ________ than math.
—I don’t agree. I think English is as ________ as math.
A. the most important; important
B. more important; important
C. important; important
D. more important; the most important
（ ）6. Maybe bamboo is more useful than ________ in the world.
A. any plant B. all the plants
C. other plant D. the other plants
（ ）7. —________ are African elephants?
—They are about 2.5 meters long and weigh about 600 kilos.
A. How many B. How much
C. How long D. How big
（ ）8. Tian’anmen Square is one of ________ squares in the world.
A. large B. larger C. largest D. the largest
（ ）9. I’m ________ than most kids.
A. serious B. more serious
C. the most serious D. most serious
（ ）10. We may feel excited when we ________ in a school play.
A. succeed B. success C. successful D. more successful
二、完形填空（共20分）
The Japanese Macaca monkey has been studied in the wild for over 50 years. In 1952, on one small Japanese island, scientists dropped some 11 with dirt for the monkeys. The monkeys liked their taste, but they found the dirt 12 . One clever 18-month-old monkey found he could 13 the problem by washing the sweet potatoes in a nearby river. She taught this to her mother. Her 14 also learned this new way and they taught their mothers, too.
All the younger monkeys 15 learned to wash the dirty sweet potatoes to make them 16 to eat. But many old monkeys found it very hard to learn this and still ate the 17 sweet potatoes.
Then something very surprising 18 . In the autumn of 1958, scientists found that the monkeys on other nearby 19 began washing their sweet potatoes, too. Scientists still don’t fully understand how this knowledge was 20 from one island to another.
（ ）11. A. sweet potatoes B. green plants
C. hard stones D. fresh nuts
（ ）12. A. beautiful B. terrible C. difficult D. interesting
（ ）13. A. find B. reach C. solve D. understand
（ ）14. A. children B. brothers C. sisters D. friends
（ ）15. A. quietly B. easily C. angrily D. awfully
（ ）16. A. nicer B. smaller C. lighter D. drier
（ ）17. A. small B. large C. new D. dirty
（ ）18. A. took on B. took off C. took place D. took away
（ ）19. A. trees B. islands C. beaches D. rivers
（ ）20. A. lowed B. dropped C. passed D. left
三、阅读理解（共16分）
In 1834, the clock tower in London was burned down. People planned to build a new clock which would be the biggest and the best in the world. So the clock had to be big and keep very good time. Several years later the tower was finished. The people put the big clock in the tower, and made it ring out for the first time on July 11, 1859.
In order to give the big clock a good name, people held a meeting. Someone wanted to call it the Queen of Bells, and someone thought Victoria was good. At last, a man named Benjamin Hall stood up. He was a big man. Before he started to speak, someone shouted, “Why not call it Big Ben?” Everybody laughed and agreed with him.
From then on, Big Ben became its name. And it also became a famous building of London. People all over the world write to Big Ben. They even send bottles of oil to help Big Ben keep running. Big Ben is not only a clock but also a dear friend of people.
（ ）21. Big Ben’s birthday was ________.
A. July 11, 1854 B. July 11, 1834
C. July 11, 1859 D. July11, 1852
（ ）22. How did Big Ben get its name?
A. Benjamin Hall gave it the name.
B. Big Ben got its name because of a joke.
C. Big Ben got its name from the Queen of the UK.
D. Victoria gave it the name.
（ ）23. “Keep very good time” means “________”.
A. have a good time
B. show people the correct time
C. keep running
D. be made in time
（ ）24. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. People all over the world consider（认为） Big Ben as their friend.
B. People all over the world even send oil to Big Ben.
C. People think Big Ben will answer their letters.
D. People think Big Ben is the biggest and the best clock in the world.
四、用所给词的适当形式和汉语提示完成单词（共20分）
25. I don’t want to go to the clothes store. It has the ________（bad） clothes in town.
26. I think English is the ________（interesting） subject of all the subjects.
27. Today is a ________（fine） day.
28. English is ________（popular） than Chinese and math. It’s ________（popular） subject.
29. Amy is a ________（famous） singer. She is ________（famous） than the other singers. She is the ________（famous） singer in her country.
30. The price for the hotel ________（包括） breakfast.
31. ________（成年的） pandas spend more than 12 hours a day eating about 10 kilos of bamboo.
32. He is busy with ________（研究） work.
33. The children are still wide ________（醒着的）.
34. She was very anxious to get away from cities and back to ________（自然界）.
五、根据汉语意思完成句子（共20分）
35.世界上最高的山是什么？
What’s ________ ________ ________ in the world?
36.中国几乎和美国一样大，但它是亚洲最大的国家。
China is almost ________ ________ ________ the US, but it is the biggest country in Asia.
37.你知道中国是世界上最古老的国家之一吗？
Do you know that China is ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ in the world?
38.那些幼崽经常死于疾病，不会活太长时间。
The babies often ________ ________ ________ and do not live very long.
39.科学家说现在有不到2 000只熊猫居住在剩下的森林里。
Scientists say there are now ________ than 2 000 pandas ________ in the remaining forests.
40.在1953年5月29日，到达珠穆朗玛峰山顶的第一人是丹增·诺尔盖和埃德蒙·希拉里。
The first people to ________ ________ ________ ________ the Qomolangma were Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary on May 29, 1953.
六、书面表达（共14分）
乐山大佛（the Grand Buddha in Leshan） 位于四川省，它是世界上最大的佛像，也是四川省最著名的旅游景点（places of interest） 之一。古代人民（ancient people） 花费了约90年时间才建成它。它有1 300多年的历史了。每年都会有数以千计的（thousands of） 游客来参观乐山大佛。

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Unit 7 What’s the highest mountain in the world? 单元测试
答案解析
一、【答案】1.D 2.B 3.B 4.C 5.B 6.D 7.D 8.D 9.B 10.A
二、【答案】11.A 12.B 13.C 14.D 15.B 16.A 17.D 18.C 19.B 20.C
三、
21.【答案】C
【解析】细节理解题。由第一段最后一句话中的“for the first time on July 11, 1859.”可知答案。
22.【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。由第二段“He was a big man…Everybody laughed and agreed with him.”可知是在Benjamin站起来时一个人灵机一动以开玩笑的方式起了这个名字，没想到这个名字真的被采纳了。
23.【答案】B
【解析】词义猜测题。keep good time直译为“保持好的时间”。那么对于钟表来说，保持好的时间无非就是“走得准”，故选B。
24.【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。由倒数第二句话“…send bottles of oil to help Big Ben keep running.”可得出答案。
四、【答案】25.worst 26.most interesting 27.fine 28.more popular the most popular 29.famous more famous most famous 30.includes 31.Adult 32.research 33.awake 34.nature
五、【答案】35.the highest mountain 36.as big as 37.one of the oldest countries 38.die from illnesses 39.fewer living 40.reach the top of
六、【答案】One possible version:
There are many places of interest in China. The Grand Buddha in Leshan in Sichuan Province is one of them. It is the biggest in the world. It took ancient people about 90 years to build it, and it has more than 1 300 years of history. Now it’s one of the most famous places of interest in Sichuan. Thousands of people from all over the world visit it every year. If you travel to Sichuan, don’t miss the Grand Buddha in Leshan.

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