八年级初中英语训练题及答案11

A

Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each

word can only be used once（将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次）：

A．the way

B．from a distance

C．own

D．has studied

E．grew

F．recording

G．like

H．do

I．act

Jane Goodall is a famous woman scientist, who 1 chimpanzees（黑猩猩 ）in Africa for many years. Her research helps people understand how much

they behave 2 humans. Nobody before has fully understood chimpanzees'

behavior.

Jane spent many years observing and 3 their daily activities. She did not

study at a university but she worked with animals in their 4 environment.

When she arrived at Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the

forest. Only after her mother came to help her for the first months was she

allowed to begin her project.

At first, Jane could not get close to the chimpanzees of Gombe. But little by

little she was able to move closer to the chimpanzees and watch them 5 with

binoculars（双筒望远镜 ）. Finally, Jane 6 very close to the chimpanzees at

Gombe. Jane's patience and trust won them over, and she enjoyed a degree of

acceptance that was hardly dreamed possible. She sat among the chimpanzees,

and they would greet her as they 7 each other with a touch or a kiss.

Her work has changed 8 people think about chimpanzees, and she has

been helping the rest of the world understand and respect the life of these

animals. Perhaps most significantly, Jane's work has opened a window into the

world of chimpanzees for a public with a strong curiosity, and it has proved more

successful than anyone has ever imagined.

B

Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）：

I used to live in Kobe in Japan. On my way home on the bus every evening I

used to look for an old man who often played his saxophone near the river. I

couldn't hear his music because the windows were closed on the bus but I

imagined it to be loud and clear. I wanted to be like that man.

One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my

family along the river I saw a statue. It was a young man who looked just like me.

He was wearing a cap and smiling. Around his neck was a leather strap（皮带 ）and in his hands was a saxophone. He was lifting the saxophone to his lips and he

was just about to play. I stayed there for a long time by the statue dreaming of

playing a saxophone on TV.

Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my joy when I opened my

present from my parents and found that it was a saxophone! I put it to my lips to

play, but it wouldn't make a sound. Then Dad told me to read the instruction

book to find out what to do. After about 15 minutes the saxophone was ready to

play. I raised it slowly to my lips as my family watched. But still there was no

sound. I blew and blew but I couldn't get the saxophone to play. I was almost

crying when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound—loud and

clear like I imagined the music of the man by the river in Kobe. I blew again, I

moved my fingers on the saxophone and I made more sounds. I was happy

because I was playing very interesting sounds. But I wasn't playing music yet.

Then came the lessons. Night after night, week after week my teacher made

me practice. Slowly I started to improve and at last there came the magic day

when I started to play music. Now I'm in the TV studio with my saxophone

strapped to my neck and my cap on my head. I'm always thinking of the man by

the river in Kobe and the statue smiling at me in Himeiji. I'm a happy man.

1．On the bus, the writer couldn't ________.

A．find an old man with a saxophone

B．see a river

C．hear the old man's music

D．imagine the sound

2．The statue along the river made the writer think of ________.

A．having a saxophone

B．the old man near the river

C．having a cap and a saxophone as the boy

D．playing the saxophone on TV

3．The writer felt very pleased when ________ gave him a saxophone as a present.

A．his parents

B．his teacher

C．an old man

D．a young man

4．The writer could get the saxophone to play ________.

A．as soon as he got it

B．15 minutes later after he read the instruction

C．after he tried many times

D．after his father taught him

5．The underlined word "magic " shows that the writer ________.

A．was very surprised

B．was very excited

C．learnt to play music easily

D．didn't know how to play music

6．What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The magic day.

B．My birthday present.

C．The old man and the statue.

D．My dream of playing saxophone.

C

Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）：

All about Britain's Teenagers

School British teenagers can leave school at sixteen after taking their GCSE

exams. They study for exams in as many as ten subjects, so they have to work

pretty hard! Today's teens spend more time doing their homework than any

teenagers in the past, studying for 2.5～3 hours every evening.

Free Time It's not all work, of course. What do British teenagers do to have

1 ? They love watching TV, going out, meeting friends in Internet cafes and

listening to music.

Communications In addition to the Internet, teenagers in Britain use their

computers to play games and do their homework. They 2 love their mobile

phones, and spend hours texting their friends and chatting. Today, phones are

getting smaller and lighter and you can do a lot more with them than just talk.

Text messaging has become the 3 and most popular way to communicate.

More than 90％ of 12- to 16-year-olds have a mobile, and experts say that this

4 teenagers from spending their money on sweets and cigarettes.

Fashion At school, almost all British teenagers have to wear a school

uniform. However, in their free time they can wear whatever they like, and what

they like is designer names such as Nike, Diesel and Paul Smith. 5 ,40％ of

British teens say that they think it is important to have the latest fashion.

Looking good doesn't come 6 , but many teenagers think it usual or easy to

spend more than ￡100 on one item of clothing.

1．A．lessons

B．sports

C．advice

D．fun

2．A．never

B．already

C．also

D．no longer

3．A．coolest

B．laziest

C．slowest

D．happiest

4．A．brings

B．gives

C．borrows

D．stops

5．A．In addition

B．In fact

C．In return

D．In surprise

6．A．cheap

B．expensive

C．special

D．ordinary

D

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with suitable words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给）：

Melusina is said to have been the w 1 of the founder of Luxembourg,

Count Siegfried. When they married, she had one particular request, namely that

Siegfried must leave her alone for one full day and night every month, and that

he should not ask or try to find out what she was d 2 . Of course, Melusina was

such a beautiful girl, that Siegfried could not refuse her this one small wish, and

all went well for years and years. When on the first Wednesday of the month,

Melusina would retire into her chambers（房间 ）, not to be s 3 until early light

on Thursday.

But one day, Siegfried's curiosity got the better of（占了上风 ）him.

Wondering what on earth she might be doing alone all the time, he peeped t 4

the keyhole, and was shocked to see that Melusina was l 5 in the bathtub, with

a fishtail hanging over the rim（边缘 ）. As you all know, mermaids like Melusina

have a very keen sixth sense, which t 6 them instantly that they are being

watched, and thus she recognized her husband through the door, and jumped out

of the window into the river below, never to be seen again.

Count Siegfried r 7 not having listened to his wife and remained

heart-broken for long years.

E

Answer the questions（根据短文内容，回答下列问题）：

How I help to save lives

—by Sandra Dean

I do many different things in my job. I do some work in a laboratory or at a

computer and I do other work outside. I like everything about my job. It is always

interesting and I get to travel. Best of all, I know I'm helping to save lives. You see,

I'm a volcanologist.

I work for a volcano observatory（观测台 ）. People at the observatory study

volcanoes so they can predict when a volcano might erupt and where the lava（熔

岩 ）might flow. Then we can warn people and they can leave their homes before

they are buried under rocks, lava, and ash.

Of course, we can't yet predict every eruption accurately. I'll never forget

the time I was studying a volcano in Hawaii. I went down into the crater（火山口 ）to take some rock samples（样本 ）. We weren't expecting any volcanic

activity so I wasn't worried. All of a sudden, I felt the ground under my feet start

to shake. Then a huge fountain of steam blew out of the ground. That's when I

knew an eruption could happen at any moment. You've never seen anyone climb

out of a crater and run down the outside of a volcano so fast!

1．What does Sandra like best about her job?

_______________________________________

2．Why do people at the observatory study volcanoes?

_______________________________________

3．Why did Sandra go into a crater in Hawaii?

_______________________________________

4．What was the first sign that the volcano might erupt?

_______________________________________

5．What was the second sign?

_______________________________________

6．What kind of person is Sandra?

_______________________________________

A 1．D 2．G 3．F 4．C 5．B 6．E 7．H 8．A

B 1．C 2．D 3．A 4．C 5．B 6．D

C 1．D 2．C 3．A 4．D 5．B 6．A

D 1．wife 2．doing 3．seen 4．through 5．lying 6．tells 7．regretted

E 1．She is helping to save lives. 2．Because they want to predict when a

volcano might erupt and where the lava might flow. 3．To take rock samples.

4．The ground began to shake. 5．A fountain of steam blew out of the ground.

6．Sandra is brave.