Unit 7 Know Our World Lesson 38 The World Is a Big Place随堂小测 2021-2022学年英语冀教版八年级下册

Unit 7 Know Our World Lesson 38 The World Is a Big Place—2021-2022学年英语冀教版八年级下册随堂小测 一、单选题 1.Our school life ______ a lot since 2017. We have more activities now. A. changes B. changed C. will change D. has changed 2.There are only big trees on one side of the street, but different flowers lie on ______. A. other B. another C. the other D. others 3.—How do you like the community? —Wonderful! ______ of the land ______ covered with trees and grass. A. Two fifths; is B. Two fifth; is C. Two fifths; are D. Two fifth; are 4.The ______ of our body is skin. It is used to protect us. A.surface     B.top        C.back       D.front 5.It is not easy ______ the names of the countries in the world. A.to remember     B.remembering     C.remember     D.remembers 二、阅读理解 ​    The longest river in the world is the Nile. It is about 4,160 miles long. But the Nile is not the mightiest (浩荡的) river. The Amazon River is. The Amazon River is also the second longest river in the world. It is about 4,000 miles long. How long is that? It is longer than a road going from New York City to San Francisco.     The Amazon River is the mightiest for this reason. It has the greatest amount of water. More water runs out to sea than that from the Nile, the Mississippi River, and the Yangtze River combined(总和). That's a lot of fresh water! The force of its current (水流) is great too. The current can be seen 200 miles out in the sea. Here's a story to show the Amazon Rivers amazing current. A ship sailed (航行) far away from Brazil. It ran out of drinking water. Another ship passed by. The first ship asked for water. Someone on the second ship said, "Just put your buckets (桶) into the sea."     Here are a few more facts. At its mouth, the Amazon River is 90 miles wide. Even up the river, you can't see the opposite bank. The river is also very deep — from 22 to 76 meters! During the rainy season, the river rises about 16 meters more. Big ocean ships can sail about 1,800 miles upstream (向上游).Smaller ships ca