八年级下U7 The unknown world测试卷
（B卷·提升能力）
【牛津（广州，深圳，沈阳）版】
学校：__________班级：__________姓名：_________ 考号：___________
温馨提示：
本试卷共分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分，第Ⅰ卷为选择题；第Ⅱ卷为非选择题；满分为100分，考试时间为
100分钟。
第Ⅰ卷 选择题
一、语法选择(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分。)
Every morning, you get up, wash your face, brush your teeth, eat breakfast and get ready for your day. These
daily actions are ____1____ common that you don’t think about them much. But what if you were in space? There
is no gravity there, so things are not as ____2____ as they are on Earth. When you drop something, it floats away
slowly in the air. This means that astronauts ____3____ just put down a tool. They need to tie it down. In space,
water breaks into small drops and hangs in the air. And ____4____ do astronauts drink?
Well, astronauts eat and drink ____5____ in space. They have special plates for their food. Besides, special
bags ____6____ for their drinks.
Sleep is also different in space. Astronauts tie ____7____ to the wall so that they don’t float around when they
are sleeping. Since they have to work hard, they need to get ____8____ rest. The sun rises and sets so often that it
can be confusing（令人困惑的）. The astronauts use alarms and sometimes music ____9____ themselves up.
Exercise is important for astronauts ____10____. Since there is no gravity and astronauts float instead of
walking or ____11____, they have to exercise on special machines everyday to keep healthy. No one ____12____
to become ill in space and exercise helps them a lot.
____13____, life is not completely full of hard work in space. When they are not working or exercising, there
is a little time ____14____ fun. They watch movies, read the news and contact family members and friends. The
astronauts ____15____ work on the International Space Station can even connect to the Internet.
1 / 101. A. very B. too C. quite D. so
2. A. heavy B. heavily C. heavier D. more heavily
3. A. mustn’t B. can’t C. shouldn’t D. needn’t
4. A. why B. when C. how D. where
.
5 A. different B. differently C. difference D. differ
6. A. use B. uses C. are used D. is used
7. A. they B. theirs C. their D. themselves
8. A. many B. a lot C. plenty of D. few
9. A. wake B. wakes C. to wake D. waking
10. A. as well B. as well as C. neither D. either
11. A. running B. run C. ran D. to run
12. A. want B. wants C. wanted D. wanting
13. A. Therefore B. Still C. Instead D. However
14. A. to B. for C. without D. in
15. A. what B. which C. whom D. that
二、完形填空 （共10分，每小题1分）
One day a professor （教授） entered her classroom and told her students about a surprise test. The students
took their seats and waited for the test to begin. The professor put a test paper on each student’s desk with the text
facing down. She then asked them to begin the test. So everyone started to ____16____ the paper.
The students were ____17____ to see no questions, but just a single black dot （圆点） in the center of the
page. The professor said, “I just want you to write down what you see on this paper.”
The students were confused and did not know why, but still ____18____ as they were told. At the end of the
class, the professor took their tests and started reading their answers aloud. Each student tried to ____19____ the
black dot — its size, its position on the paper, and so on. After the professor finished reading, the class was silent.
She started to ____20____ . “Don’t worry. I will not be grading this test. However, I want you to think about
something. All of you could only see the black dot and wrote about it, but nobody wrote about the ____21____ area
around the dot.”
“Imagine that this paper is your life ____22____ .The black dot just stands for the bad things you’ve gone
through. Life provides us with many other things—loved ones, ____23____ moments, and even miracles from time
2 / 10to time. However, we always worry about the bad things. Our problems and difficulties can beat us.”
“From now on, I want you to think about the big ____24____ more often. Don’t just pay attention to the black
dots in your life. Remind yourself how ______25______ you are sometimes.”
16. A. think about B. turn over C. write down D. look up
17. A. bored B. excited C. interested D. surprised
18. A. painted B. discussed C. did D. talked
19. A. draw B. think C. describe D. write
20. A. explain B. complain C. wonder D. ask
21. A. black B. white C. dark D. light
22. A. difficulties B. problems C. happiness D. experiences
23. A. sad B. terrible C. enjoyable D. hard
24. A. person B. picture C. text D. dot
25. A. lucky B. unhappy C. clever D. foolish
三、阅读 （共两节，满分45分）
第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
A
We got to another planet and we were on our way back to the earth.
Suddenly, a UFO appeared and it made our spacecraft land on another planet. On the planet, a very strange-
looking alien met us. He took my friends and me to see its master. All the aliens had four eyes, two heads and six
legs. They had a white body and no hair.
The planet looked like a prison (监狱). We were scared and they gave us some food. No one ate the food.
The next day, they gave us a long list of things to do, but we couldn't understand them at all. They put us in a
small room. After that, they did experiments(试验)on us. A few of us died and they put the rest of us back into the
room.
One day, the alien who brought us to our room forgot to lock the door, so we ran away. Soon we flew back to the
earth in our spacecraft.
We told people about our experience but no one believed us! After that, I never go into space again.
26.What happened to the writer and his friends on their way back to the earth?
3 / 10A. They got lost in the space.
B. An alien caught them.
C. Their spacecraft didn't work.
D. They did experiments on aliens.
27.What did the aliens look like?
A. They looked like the people on the earth.
B. They had six eyes, two heads and four legs.
C. They had four eyes, two heads and six legs.
D. They had four eyes, two heads and six hands.
28.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The writer and his friends were not aliens on another planet.
B. The aliens were very kind to the writer and his friends.
C. The writer and his friends could walk around freely on the planet.
D. The aliens wanted to do some research on the writer and his friends.
29.The writer and his friends could run away from the strange planet because .
A. a kind alien helped them
B.an alien was careless
C. they beat the aliens
D. the aliens let them go
30.The best title for the passage should be .
A. An Experience in Space B. Aliens on Another Planet
C.A Successful Mission D.A Prisonlike Planet
B
In my freshman year, I asked myself, “Why am I in school?” I thought I was forced to be there, but I decided
just to get along with it until I could find it meaningful.
One day it finally hit me. We were studying Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in our writing class. Each of us
was asked to play a part, and I jokingly volunteered to play the nurse. They all laughed, thinking that I, a boy,
couldn’t play it, but I decided I was going to be the best nurse ever to appear in the writing class. On the day of the
4 / 10performance, I made it a success, and then I knew what school meant to me. School was then a place where I could
explore unknown areas in my mind. Perhaps I hadn’t realized that before because I had never been brave enough to
discover it.
To my new-found hunger for learning, I decided that I wouldn’t be shy any more. I began raising my hand
higher in class discussions. In oral communication class, I chose unpopular speech topics and made them
interesting. In British literature class, I chose to write a song for a creative project. Through these activities, I made
classes interesting not only for me, but also for my classmates and teachers.
In short, I have discovered that learning is not something teenagers are forced to experience. Instead, learning
is a way teenagers grow. What I want to tell my classmates is that I am a brave and creative actor, musician and
writer, whose name each of my teachers knows by the end of their first class, and will be reinforced (增强) each
day through my brave behavior.
31．What’s the matter with the writer in the beginning?
A．He did badly in his studies. B．He couldn’t get along well with others.
C．He wondered why he went to school. D．His parents forced him to go to school.
32．The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 probably refers to the idea that ________.
A．I played the nurse B．learning in school is disappointing
C．we studied in the writing class D．learning in school is meaningful
33．What helped the writer change his thought about school?
A．The performance. B．The teachers.
C．The class discussions. D．The speech topics.
34．In the end, the writer became ________ in learning.
A．serious B．active C．unwilling D．impatient
35．What can we learn from the writer?
A．We should explore learning bravely.
B．We need to play a part in the writing class.
C．We should make teachers know our names.
D．We can learn to be actors, musicians and writers.
C
Su Su is a 16-year-old Beijinger. She studies at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University.
She has just published(发表) her first book, The Enigma of the Universe.
5 / 10The Enigma of the Universe tells a story of a girl called April. One day she meets an alien boy
named Kaka. Kaka takes April on a journey into the universe. Later April finds out a big secret about
Kaka...
What’s special about this book? It’s a book written in both Chinese and English.
Su wrote the book when she was 14 years old. She was influenced by the book Sophie’s World and
the movie The Truman Show. Sophie is a girl who is interested in philosophy(哲学). Truman’s life is run
by television.
These stories gave Su an idea for her own book. She decided to write it in English. “My English teacher asked us to
write something,” says Su, “I thought I’d write about my idea.”
Su spent a whole summer vacation writing the story. “Sometimes I had to stop because I couldn’t find the right
words,” says Su. “I used the dictionary all the time.”
After finishing the English novel, Su had another idea. She decided to turn it into Chinese. The job took her just
a few days. “It was easy because Chinese is my mother language,” she says.
Su says her story is “a mixture of philosophy and detective (侦探) story and science fiction”. “My
classmates and I have turned it into a DV play,” says Su. “I wrote the play and I played April. We
will show it in our school soon!”
36．What did Su Su write？
A．Harry Potter. B．Sophie’s World.
C．The Truman Show. D．The Enigma of the Universe.
37．In Which language did Su Su write this book?
A．Chinese. B．English. C．French. D．Both Chinese and English.
38．How did Su Su write the book?
A．She wrote it in Chinese first and then turned it into English.
B．She wrote it in English first and then turned it into Chinese.
C．She wrote it half in Chinese first and then wrote it half in English.
D．She wrote it half in English first and then wrote it half in Chinese.
39．What does her book talk about?
A．It talks about how to learn English well.
B．It is a mixture of philosophy and detective story and science fiction.
C．It talks about how to learn English grammar well.
6 / 10D．It is a mixture of love.
40．What’s the best title of this passage?
A．A clever girl. B．An interesting book.
C．Su Su and her first book. D．A young writer.
D
We’ve seen aliens in a vast variety of Hollywood films, but which is closer to the truth? As our understanding
of the universe grows, scientists are beginning to think what these aliens might look like.
Opinions can be certainly different, but scientists are forming their opinions on the basis of environment and
biology rather than science novels. Does that mean we’re closer to the answer? Of course not! Read on below to see
the different forms of life scientists are predicting.
Dr Maggie thinks aliens may be jellyfish(水母). She bases this on how life began in the ocean here on Earth and
draws the conclusion that creatures in the ocean could interact(相互作用) with water. Some scientists think aliens
may be bugs. Cockroaches (蟑螂) are among our planet’s strongest creatures thanks to their thick exoskeleton(外
骨骼) and they are able to survive in different conditions. This makes a bug-style life form. Simon, a scientist
working at Cambridge University, thinks that aliens would be “just like humans”, not only in appearance and
biology but also in weakness.
Have you got any ideas about what aliens might look like?
41. Where have people seen aliens according to the passage?
A. From TVs. B. From films. C. From cartoons. D. From magazines.
42. Where are scientists’ opinions on aliens from?
A. Environment and novels. B. Biology and novels.
C. Environment and biology. D. Environment, biology and novels.
43. How many kinds of aliens are described in the passage?
A. Three. B. Two. C. One. D. Four.
44. Which of the following creatures may come from the sea?
A. Cockroaches. B. Creatures like humans. C. Bugs. D. Jellyfish.
45. What does the passage tell us?
A. When aliens will come to the Earth.
B. What aliens may look like.
C. How aliens look like humans.
7 / 10D. Where people can find aliens.
第二节 阅读填空（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
根据短文内容，将下面A---E五个句子分别填入文中空缺处，使得补全后的短文意思通顺，结构完整。
Do you know what a resolution is? It's a kind of promise. Most of the time，we make promises to other people.
("Mom, I promise I'm going to tidy my room when I get back from school.") However, promises you make to
yourself are resolutions, and the most common kind is New Year's resolutions. ___ 46 ___ When we make
resolutions at the beginning of the year, we hope that we are going to improve our lives. Some people write down
their resolutions and plans for the coming year. ___ 47 __ Others tell their family and friends about their wishes and
plans.
There are different kinds of resolutions. Some are about physical health. For example, some people promise
themselves they are going to start an exercise program or eat less fast food. Many resolutions have to do with self-
improvement. ___ 48 ___ Some people might say they are going to take up a hobby like painting or taking photos, or
learn to play the guitar. Some resolutions have to do with better planning, like making a weekly plan for
schoolwork. ___ 49 ___
Although there are differences, most resolutions have one thing in common. People hardly ever keep them!
___ 50 ___ Sometimes the resolutions may be too difficult to keep. Sometimes people just forget about them. For
this reason, some people say the best resolution is to have no resolutions! How about you -will you make any next
year?
A. These are about making yourself a better person.
B. For example, a student may have to find more time to study.
C. There are good reasons for this.
D. This helps them to remember their resolutions.
E. The start of the year is often a time for making resolutions.
第2卷 写作（共30分）
第一节、短文填词（5分）
One morning I got up very early.1 wanted to go to see my teacher．I was walking along the street when I heard
a strange sound coming from the sky．I held up my head and saw strange animal with a big head and small body
flying around．It 1. l________ ugly，its skin was black，its eyes were as big as a bulb，its mouth was like a pan，and
its nose was too small to be seen．“It must be an 2 a_________” I said to myself，“Great!Great!”1 was so
8 / 103. s_________ and excited that I stopped to watch it carefully．The alien walked into a shop，the assistant in the
shop was very scared．Then she call the police．The alien heard the police whistle rushed 4. o________ of the shop
and ran away．The UFO flew away 5.q__________．
第二节 完成句子。（共5小题，满分10分）
1.他拒绝告诉我那人的名字。
He ________ ________ _________ me the name of that man.
2. 警察告诉他保持沉默。
The policemen told ________ _________ _________ _________.
3. 她不仅读了这本书，而且记得书里的内容
She _________ _______read the book, ________ _________remember what he had read.
4. 昨天下午大雨使得我们踢不了球。
The heavy rain _________ us ________ _________ football yesterday afternoon.
5.通过养狗，年轻人可以学会如何关怀他人。
Young people can learn_________ __________ _________ ________ others ________ keeping dogs.
第三节：书面表达
上周末，你和几个朋友一起去爬山。在爬山过程中，你们经历了奇妙的事情。请结合下面的提示介绍此次
的经历。
内容包括：
1. 当我们到达山顶时，一股强风吹来；
2. 晚上当我们正准备在帐篷里睡觉时，看到外星人站在我们附近；
3. 外星人又高又壮，牙齿像刀子一样锋利；
4. 我们向外星人挥手，但他们没有回复我们。
要求：70~80词，可适当发挥。
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