人教新目标（Go for it）2021-2022学年八年级英语下册Unit 8单元检测卷

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   Monday morning is an important time at our school. All of the students go to the playground.
   We listen to music, and we  1 the national flag(国旗) go up.
   Usually, one student gives a talk on Monday mornings. One Monday last year, a boy gave the talk. He was  2 and excited ! When I saw him, I wanted to have a try, too. Can I really do it?
   Last week, our teacher said our class should give the talk. My teacher 3me, "I know you want to have a try. Next Monday, you can give the talk. Go and write something down. Get ready for it, I'm sure you'll do well." "Thank you ," I answered, It was such a great  4 for me ! When I got home , I was excited. I wrote two pages for the talk. I read them again and again. When I read, I asked my parents  5  . I wanted to make my teacher happy.
   Monday morning came. I began to feel  6 When did I last give a talk to so many people ? Never! This was my first time. Could I really do it?  Maybe I couldn't finish the talk.
   When I got to school, we all went out to playground. I  7  in front of everyone. I opened my mouth, but I couldn't say anything. "Take it easy," I said to 8 . " Don't be nervous. You can do it."
   Just then, I looked down at everyone. I saw about 1,000 eyes. They were all looking at me ! I couldn't even stand up. I looked at their eyes more carefully. Their eyes were saying , "You can do it! Don't be afraid, just talk !" I  9a big breath(呼吸). Then I began to talk. It wasn't hard. It was easy. I don't know  10 I finished my talk. But I did it. I felt so good that day. I showed myself
to everyone what I can do.

   Japanese students work very hard but many are unhappy. They feel heavy pressures from their parents. Most students are always told by their parents to study harder and better so that they can have a wonderful life in the future. Though this may be a good idea for those very bright students, it can have terrible results for many students who are not gifted enough. Many of them have tried very hard at school but have failed in the exams and have their parents lose hope. Such students feel that they are hated by everyone else they meet and they don’t want to go to school any longer. They became dropouts.
   It is surprising that though most Japanese parents are worried about their children, they do not help them in any way. Many parents feel that they are not able to help their children and that it is the teachers’ work to help their children. To make matters worse, a lot of parents send their children to those schools opening in the evenings and on weekends—they only help the students to pass the exams and never teach them any real sense of the world.
   Many Japanese schools usually have rules about everything from the students’ hair to their clothes and things in the school bags. Child psychologists now think that such strict rules are harmful to the feelings of the students. Almost 40% of the students said that no one had taught them how to get on with others, how to tell right from wrong and how to show love and care for others, even for their parents.

— What does Anna look like?    — ______. 

His words remind me ____we did together during the past holidays. 
 

根据对话内容，从方框中选择恰当的选项补全对话，其中有两项多余

A：Hey, Mark! Have you decided which book to borrow from the library?

B： I will borrow Tom Sawyer.

A：That's an interesting book.

B：Really?

A：Yes, and I've read it twice。

B：Wow!

A：It's about an American boy. Many exciting things happened to him.

B：I see. 

A：No. I've written about Oliver Twist.

B： I'm reading it now.

A．What's it about? B．Yes, I have. C．Yes, I know. D．Have you read it yet? E．When did you read it? F．Have you written about this book for English class? G．That book is fantastic.

阅读理解
    Benedict Alien was born in England in 1960. His dad was a pilot，and Benedict dreamed of traveling around the world like his dad. His dream came true. Benedict became an explorer. But he doesn' t travel the world in a plane. He finds a place he wants to explore，and then he lives with the local(本地的)people. He learns important skills, from them，and then uses those skills to explore the place he's visiting. He doesn't use modern things like cellphones(移动电话)，and he likes to travel alone.

    Benedict's explorations are often dangerous，but he likes them. One of his favorite explorations was in 2001. He wanted to be the first person to travel alone across the ice from Siberia to Alaska. So he went to Siberia and lived with the Chukchi people. He learned how to live like the Chukchi people and drive a dog team. He traveled 622 miles with only a dog team. The weather was really bad. There was a lot of snow, wind and ice，so the journey was very difficult. Benedict almost lost the dog team，and he almost died，so he ended his journey early. It was scary, but he learned a lot.

阅读理解
Dear students,

    After all your hard work on the homework on the history of this city, we have decided to visit the Maritime Museum. Here we are going to have a tour and learn about the sea and river in our city . We are going to meet a guide who will show us around the museum. Please make sure you read the information I have given you for homework，as our guide will ask you some questions. We will also get the chance(机会)to go inside a 200-year-old trading boat. This boat is very famous. After visiting the museum we'll enjoy a beautiful boat trip along the river near the museum.

The trip is from 10：00 a. m. to 2：50 p.m on May 25th. And you can return home as soon as we get back to school. Here is the day's timetable(时间表)：

    10：00 a. m. ：Meet at the front of the school.

    10：15 a. m. ：Walk to the station to catch the train to the museum.

    10：45 a. m. ：Meet our guide—visit the museum and boat.

    11：45 a. m. ：Free time to see the rest(其余部分)of the museum.

    12：30 p. m. ：Lunch(one hour).

    1：30 p. m. ：Meet me at the front of the museum. (Don't be late!)

    1：45 P. m. ：Boat trip on the river.

    2：15 P. m. ：Walk back to school.

    Please make sure that you are at school on time. The school is paying for the trip. All you have to bring is your lunch，water, a camera，pencil or pen，good shoes and an umbrella in case it rains.

    Any problems，for example：you get lost，are sick on the day of the trip or are going to be late for school, please call me at 07993 561992.

    See you all then!

    Yours，

    Andrew

阅读短文，从方框中选择恰当的词并用其适当形式填空，使短文完整、通顺。每词限用一次。

promise，room，angry, why, so，lead，with，I，well，appear

    Once，there was a young painter who was good at painting birds. His paintings soldand he was famous all over his country.

    The emperor loved collecting(收藏)paintings，especially roosters(公鸡). he asked the famous painter to paint a rooster for him. He wanted the rooster to be the best of all his collections.

     The painterto do so. The emperor waited and waited for one year, but did not get the painting. He became and asked the painter to come to see him.

    The painter came. He walked into the palacepaper, paints and a brush. In five minutes，a perfect(完美的)picture of a roosteron the paper. Seeing this，the emperor was all the more angry.“If you can paint a picture of a rooster in five minutes，did you keep me waiting for a year?”he said.

    “I'll let you know why，Your Majesty ”said the painter. “Could you please come with me?”

    Hethe emperor to his own study(书房). There，paper almost filled the . On each paper was a painting of a rooster.
    “Your Majesty, ”explained the painter. “It tookone year to improve my skill in order to paint a perfect rooster for you. ”

最近你们班要举办一次英语读书报告会的分享活动。请你根据以下提示，用英语写一篇短文为此做准备。

提示：
    ①What book have you read recently?

    ②What's it about?

    ③What do you think of it?

要求：90词左右，可适当发挥。

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

Many musicians meet and form(组成)a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start as a group of high school students and practice their music in someone's house. Sometimes they may play to passers—by in the street or subway so that they can get some money for themselves or pay for their instruments (乐器).

    However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and was formed in 1965. It began as a TV show. The TV show had planned to find four rock musicians who could act as well as sing. But they could only find one who was good enough. They had to use actors for the other three members of the band.

    Since some of these actors could not sing well enough，they had to ask for help from other musicians. So at first，the band just pretended (假装)to sing. Anyway，their performances were excellent and they got lots of fans. Each week on TV，the Monkees would pretended to play and sing songs written by other musicians. After a year or so，they became more serious about their work. They started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced(制作)their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more influential and popular than the Beatles and sold even more records.

    However, the band broke up around 1970，but happily they reunited(重聚)in the 1980s. They produced a new record in 1996 to celebrate their time as a band. It was very successful. Today the Monkees are still making music for their millions of fans.