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8AU5 单元检测
一、选择填空
( ) 1. The number of wild animals____________________ now.
A. is getting fewer and fewer B. is getting smaller and smaller
C. are getting fewer and fewer D. are getting small and small
( ) 2.The doctors and nurses were all very tired, but ________ of them took a rest.
A. none B. all C. both D. either
( ) 3.—How nice the building is! What is it for? —It ________ a hotel. But I’m not sure.
A. must be B. have to be C. may be D. can be
( ) 4.These animals are in danger. We should think to protect them.
A. what can we do B. what we can do C. how can we do D. how we can do
( ) 5. —I'm sorry I can't go shopping with you. I have to look after my little brother. — .
A. It's a great pity! B. It's a pleasure! C. I'm sorry to hear that. D. Don't worry!
二 、完形填空
The Power of Determination(决心)
The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old coal stove(火炉).A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the 1 and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates got there.
One morning they 2 to find the schoolhouse burning.They dragged(拖)the little boy out of the building more dead than alive.Then he was 3 taken to a nearby county hospital.
The doctor told the boy’s mother that 4 the lower part of his body was seriously burnt,he couldn’t use his legs anymore.However,the 5 boy made up his mind that he would walk. Unluckily his thin legs 6 hung there,all but lifeless.
Finally he returned home from the 7 .Every day his mother would press his little legs,but there was no feeling,no control, 8 .Yet his determination that he would walk was as 9 as ever.
When he wasn’t in bed,he would sit in a wheelchair.One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air.This day,instead of sitting there,he 10 himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass,dragging his 11 behind him.
He worked his wa