Module 9 Population（测能力） 2023-2024学年外研版英语八年级上册

Module 9 Population（测能力）——2023-2024学年外研版英语八年级上册单元闯关双测卷

满分：100分

一、单选题（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

1.Practise more, _____ you'll learn English better.

A. or B. so C. and D. but

2.The boy didn't sleep well last night because of the _____ from the factory.

A. voice B. noise C. music D. song

3.The food safety is a serious _____ in our country. We should try to solve it.

A.subject B.programme C.opinion D.problem

4.—Look at _____ boy over there. He looks excited.

—Yeah, he has won _____ first prize in the school English Reading & Writing Competition.

A. a; the B. the; a C. the; the D. a; a

5.It took me half an hour _____ my homework yesterday.

A. finish B. finished C. finishing D. to finish

6.—How many friends will come to your _____ birthday party?

—About _____.

A. fifteen; fifteen B. fifteenth; fifteenth C. fifteen; fifteenth D. fifteenth; fifteen

7.—_____ the population of your town?

—Over 40,000.

A. How is B. How much is C. What are D. What is

8.It is important _____ people _____ good manners.

A.for; to learn B. of; to learn C. for; learn D. of; learn

9._____ is clear that everyone wants to live in a quiet and clean city.

A. That  B. It  C. This  D. These

10.All the small factories should be _____ because they make so much pollution.

A. closed down B. put down C. fallen down D. turned down

11.The _____ traffic stopped me from going to school on time yesterday. I was late!

A. heavy B. crowd  C. fast D. quick

12.Every year, _____ books are donated to the children in poor areas.

A. million B. millions C. millions of D. million of

13.It took us one week _____ this article _____ by Mo Yan.

A. read; written B.to read; written C. reading; to write  D. to read; to write

14.It's reported that people throw _____ plastic bags along this street every day.

A. hundred B. hundreds C. hundred of D. hundreds of

15._____ people prefer HUAWEI phones, and about _____ of them are adults.

A. The number of; four-fifths B. A number of; four-fifth

C. A number of; four-fifths D. The number of; four-five

二、完形填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

Mr. Black loved his daughter Helen very much. Every day he spent all of his free time    1    with her. One night, he had much work to do,    2    couldn't play with his daughter. In order to keep her    3    , he found a map of the world in a magazine and cut it into pieces. When he    4    , Helen came running to him and was ready to play. Mr. Black said he had    5    time to play right now. He told the girl to put the pieces of paper back together to a map of the world, and then they could both play.

    About half an hour later, Helen came to her father and said, "Okay, it's finished. Can we play now?" Mr. Black was surprised, saying, "That's    6    . Let's go and see." And sure enough, there was the picture of the world, all put together, every    7    in its place.

    Mr. Black said, "That's surprising!    8    did you do that?" Helen said, "It was    9    . On the back of the page was a picture of a    10    . When I put the man together, the whole world fell into place."

1.A.working     B.running     C.playing     D.walking
2.A.or     B.and     C.but     D.then
3.A.sleepy     B.warm     C.free     D.busy
4.A.left home     B.got home     C.left the office     D.got to the office

5.A.no     B.enough     C.much     D.some
6.A.right     B.wrong     C.possible     D.impossible
7.A.map     B.picture     C.piece     D.page
8.A.How     B.Why     C.When     D.Where
9.A.hard     B.simple     C.difficult     D.different
10.A.boy     B.girl     C.man     D.woman

三、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

A

What picture do you have about the future? Will life in the future be better, worse or the same as now? What do you hope for the future?

    People predict that life will probably be very different in 2050. First of all, it seems that there won't be TV channels(频道). At that time, people will pick up a program from a "menu" and a computer will send the program to the TV set at once. By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers and books will come to us by computer.

    Water will become one of our most serious problems then. In many places, farmers are in great need of water to grow fruit and vegetables.

    About transportation, cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. There won't be any accidents because of robots. We will see robots everywhere. And spaceplanes will take people around the world in two hours.

    By 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people see again and hear again. At that time, people's life will become better and better.

1.Which won't come to us by computer by 2050?

A. Music. B. Menus. C. Newspapers. D. Books.

2.People may worry about _______ most in 2050.

A. water B. fruit C. vegetables  D.air

3.The underlined word "fuels" means "_______" in Chinese.

A.佐料 B.食用油 C.燃料 D.饮料

4.Which is TRUE about the future cars?

A. They will use new and clean fuels.

B. There will be more accidents.

C. The robots in the cars can make them go very fast.

D. Cars can fly like spaceplanes.

5.What's the best title of this article?

A. How Do People Plan Their Life?

B. What Can People Do in 2050?

C. How Will People Play in 2050?

D. What Will Life Be like in 2050?

B

China is a great country with the largest population in the world. In order to solve the population problem, our government carried out one-child policy(政策) before.