Unit 5【单元测试 · 提高卷】-2023-2024学年八年级英语下册单元速记•巧练（牛津沪教版）

Unit 5 【单元测试 · 提升卷】 一、完形填空(共10小题；每小题1分，满分 10分) The lion is one of the most fierce (凶猛的) animals in the world. Lions can be 1 in Africa and India. Lions in Africa can live without water for about one month. Lions are also popular animals in the 2 . Almost every zoo around the world has a few lions. It is very 3 for people to tell male and female lions from each other. You can judge (判断) simply by their appearance. A male lion has mane (鬃毛) while female lions do not have. Male lion is 4 than female lions. A male lion usually weighs about 200 kilograms which is always heavier than a female lion. Both male and female lions have very 5 teeth. They can break the backs of other animals 6 . Lions feed on other animals and one lion usually kills ten to twenty large animals each year for 7 . It’s unusual for lions to kill people. However, in 1898 two lions 8 and ate over one hundred people in Kenya before they were shot by a British man named P. J. Patterson. This 9 became the subject (主题) of a 1996 Hollywood movie called The Ghost and the Darkness. Now the Indian lions are endangered. It’s really necessary for us to 10 the animals, or we won’t see them again. Animals are our friends. It is our obligation to protect them. 1．A．used B．found C．told D．lived 2．A．zoos B．schools C．parks D．lakes 3．A．hard B．strange C．tiring D．easy 4．A．larger B．smaller C．thinner D．tinier 5．A．active B．sharp C．weak D．dull 6．A．sadly B．happily C．easily D．slowly 7．A．fun B．food C．money D．home 8．A．killed B．called C．saved D．protected 9．A．book B．story C．game D．movie 10．A．care for B．look for C．look at D．look out for 二、阅读理解。(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Nina is reading a book which described 37 endangered natural and cultural treasures in the world. The writers want the book to be a hopeful call to action. Here are some examples of these places. Mount Kilimanjaro Mount Kilimanjaro in northeastern Tanzania, is the highest point in Af