课时训练08 Units 7-8(八上)
限时:30分钟
Ⅰ.语法填空
1.[2018·连云港改编] The total number of online literature website users had to 352 million by the end of June 2017.And the number is still growing.
A.increased B.influenced
C.included
2.—Ms. Wang, I’m afraid I can’t finish the work in two days.
—Don’t worry. I’ll give you days.
A.two another B.two more
C.more two
3.Eating dumplings at the Spring Festival is in China.
A.traditional B.lucky C.possible
4.[2018·辽阳改编] We can useless information in the article to make it easier to understand.
A.cut up B.cut out C.cut into
5.—I wonder you can finish the task.
—In two weeks.
A.how soon B.how long C.how often
6.[2017·眉山改编] —I’m afraid his radio is too noisy.Will you please him to a little?
—Sure.
A.ask; turn it down B.allow; turn it on
C.tell; turn it up
7.[2018·荆州] —Kids often feel better in a happy family.
—That’s true.A happy family provides a loving for its children.
A.expression B.environment
C.development
8.[2018·广东改编] —How soon will we get the offer from a new high school?
— about two months.
A.In B.After C.During
9.[2018·武威改编] —Is dinner ready?
—Not .
A.already B.just
C.yet
10.[2019·原创] To build a civilized city, we should save the environment and produce less .
A.prediction B.apartment
C.pollution
Ⅱ.词语填空
As a kid, I used to spend my summers with my grandparents on their farm in Texas. I helped them with farming at times. Luckily, they 11 a caravan, a kind of car designed for people to live in while traveling. Every few summers, we’d travel together around the US and Canada.
On one trip, I was about 10 years old. I was playing around in the back of the car 12 my grandfather was driving. My grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked through the trip, and I hated the 13 , which made me cough a lot. I read about smoking in an article. It says that every puff(吸) of a cigarette takes two minutesoff your life. I 14 the number of cigarettes per day and the puffs per cigarette. When I came up with a reasonable(合理的) number, I was 15 . Then I moved my head into the front of the car and proudly 16 , “So far, you’ve taken nine years off your life!” Hearing this, my grandmother began to cry and it was not what I 17 . I did not know what to do. My grandfather, who had been driving 18 , stopped the car, got out of it and opened my door. He looked at me calmly, and said 19 , “See, Grandmother is crying! One day, you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever.”
As I grow up, I realize that cleverness is a gift and kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy—they are given 20 . Choices can be hard, so it seems more difficult to be kind.