Unit 4 The Wonders of Nature单元测试卷 2025-2026学年人教版八年级英语下册

Unit 4 The Wonders of Nature单元测试卷 (时间:100分钟；满分:100分) 听力录音 第一部分 听力(共两节，满分20分) 第一节(共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分) 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读两遍。 ( )1. Where is the boy going this summer? A. To Paris. B. To London. C. To Beijing. ( )2. How high is the mountain? A. It's about 5,000 metres high. B. It's about 6,000 metres high. C. It's about 7,000 metres high. ( )3. When did the first Chinese team reach the top of Qomolangma? A. In 1953. B. In 1960. C. In 1975. ( )4. Which movie theatre is the closest to home? A. Screen City. B. Town Cinema. C. Movie World. ( )5. Where did Mike go last year? A. To the Nile. B. To the Caspian Sea. C. To the Sahara. 第二节(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分) 听下面6段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。 ( )6. What sport does John like best? A. Playing football. B. Bike riding. C. Mountain climbing. ( ）7. What can we learn from the conversation? A. To achieve our dreams, we should never give up. B. Playing football is dangerous. C. The only reason for climbers to climb mountains is that they want to challenge themselves. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。 ( )8. What are they talking about? A. The Yangtze River. B. The Poyang Lake. C. The Yellow River. ( )9. What should we pay attention to along the lake? A. The litter. B. The trees. C. The soil(土壤). 听第8段材料，回答第10、11题。 ( )10. How's the weather in Jeff's hometown in spring? A. Cloudy. B. Rainy. C. Windy. ( )11. What do Jeff and his friends often do in summer? A. Fly kites. B. Catch fish. C. Climb mountains. 听第9段材料，回答第12至 14题。 ( )12. How long is the Yangtze River? A. About 5,000 kilometres. B. About 6,300 kilometres. C. About 6,600 kilometres. ( )13. How many provinces does the Yangtze River pass? A. 9. B. 10. C. 11. ( ）14. Which direction does the Yangtze River flow through China? A. From west to east. B. From east to west. C. From north to south 听第10段材料,回答第15 至 17 题。 ( ）15. Where does the woman want to stand? A. At the top of a hill. B. By the small bridge. C. Under the big tree. ( ）16. What does the sign probably mean? A. No fire. B. No fishing. C. No littering. ( ）17. When does the conversation take place probably? A. In the early morning. B. In the late afternoon. C. In the evening. 听第11段材料,回答第 18 至 20题。 ( ）18. How large is Lugu Lake? A. It's about 15 square kilometres. B. It's about 50 square kilometres. C. It's about 40 square kilometres. ( ）19. What can people do when visiting Lugu Lake? A. Climb the nearby mountains. B. Swim in the lake. C. Take a boat ride. ( ）20. When is the best time to visit the lake? A. September. B. December. C. February. 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分 30分) 第一节(共11 小题；每小题2分，满分22分) 阅读下列材料，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Poem 1 Poem 2 Fishing in snow By Liu Zongyuan From hill to hill no bird in flight, From path to path no man in sight. A lonely fisherman afloat①, Is fishing in snow in a lonely boat. To Wang Lun By Li Bai I, Li Bai, sit aboard a ship about to go, When suddenly on shore your farewell② songs overflow. However deep the lake of Peach Blossoms may be,It is not so deep, O Wang Lun! As your love for me. Poem 3 Poem 4 Homesickness Night By Li Bai Before my bed a pool of light, Can it be hoarfrost①on the ground? Looking up,I find the moon bright, Bowing, in homesickness I'm drowned. On the Stork Tower By Wang Zhihuan The sun beyond the mountain glows④, The Yellow River seawards①flows⑥. You can enjoy a grander⑦sight, By climbing to a greater height. (Translated by Xu Yuanchong) NOTES:①on the river ②goodbye ③small pieces of ice ④shines less brightly ⑤towards the sea⑥runs⑦greater ( ）21. According to Poem 4, what would Wang Zhihuan agree? A. The higher you stand, the farther you can see. B. Don't put off today's work until tomorrow. C. Never give up even if you have no support. ( ）22. Which poem rhymes(押韵) differently from the other poems? A. Poem 1. B. Poem 2. C. Poem 3. ( )23.Match the pictures with the poems. Which of the following is RIGHT? A.1-a;2-c;3-d;4-b B.1-b;2-a;3-d;4-c C.1-b;2-d;3-a;4-c B The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world. It covers over nine million square kilometres acrossNorth Africa. The weather there can be very different in a day's time. During the day, temperatures rise above 40℃, while nights can be very cold. It is one of the toughest(艰难的) environments on earth. The Sahara is as big as Canada but has very few people. Less than two and a half million people live there and most of them are nomads. Nomads are people who have no permanent(固定的) homes. They move from place to place, carrying everything they need to live. The nomads of the Sahara are called Bedouin,which means“desert people”. They depend on goats, sheep, and camels for food and transport. Water is the most important for them. They need water to live, so they must carry enough water or know where to find it. Without water, life is impossible. A desert is not defined(定义) by sand but by the lack of rain. To be a desert, a place must get less than250 mm of rain each year. Surprisingly, only 25% of the Sahara is covered in sand. The rest is rock and gravel(沙砾). Long ago, the Sahara was covered in ice and later turned into grasslands. Over time, it became the desert we see today. Truly, the Sahara is a place of history and change. ( )24.Who is the passage mainly written for? A. Scientists doing research on deserts. B. Middle school students learning about the world. C. Travellers planning to visit the Sahara. ( )25. Which of the following is TRUE about Bedouin? A. The word means people who love deserts. B. Bedouin use cars and trucks to get around. C. The most important thing for Bedouin is water. ( )26. According to the text, what is a desert? A. A place that gets less than 250 mm of rain every year. B. A place that is very hot and dry all year round. C. A place that has more than 25% sand on its surface. ( )27. What is the passage about? A. Facts about the Sahara. B. The people of the Sahara. C. The weather of the Sahara. C A young boy is crying because his ear hurts. Then a man comes out of the forest. He carries some juice from a white fungus(蘑菇). Carefully, he puts the juice into the boy's ear. In some rainforest villages ofSouth America, that's how earaches are treated！ Rainforest doctors, called shamans, use many kinds of plants as medicines. They make tea from one type of red vine(藤蔓). This tea cures stomachaches. Yellow flowers from another plant are used to treat snakebite. Learning from the shamans Today, scientists from all over the world want to learn what these shamans know about plant medicines. They are studying the rainforest before the plants disappear. However, the rainforests are disappearing fast. Sometimes they want to use the land for farming. Sometimes they cut down the trees and sell the wood. Now the scientists travel by boat, air, and on foot to rainforest villages. Then they spend long hours making their way through the hot and humid jungle(丛林) with the local shamans. The shamans show the scientists which plants can be used as medicines. One US company has already found an important new medicine. It comes from a plant in the rainforest.This medicine may soon be used to cure lung infections in kids. Rainforest plants might cure many bad illnesses. So medicine companies are working to save the rainforest. When people buy medicines made from the rainforest plants, part of the money will go to help save the rainforest. If the rainforest survives, some day you may find cures in your home that were made from white fungi and red vines. ( )28.How does the writer begin the passage? A. By giving an example. B. By using a song. C. By asking a question. ( ）29.What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about? A. Many rainforest plants are used as medicines. B. The rainforests in the US are disappearing fast. C. Local shamans can cure different kinds of diseases. ( )30.Which of the following can be put in“ ▲ ”? A. The famous medicine company B. Saving the rainforest C. Inventing(发明) some new medicines ( )31. What is the best title for the passage? A. A Lucky Boy B. The Life of Shamans C. Rainforest Plants: Nature's Medicine 第二节(共4小题；每小题2分，满分8分) 阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。 Jerry is a world-famous mountain climber. He has climbed many high mountains in the world. Starting in 2015, he and his friends spent two years on an adventure in South America, covering 7,800 miles. He was even named“the Adventurer of the Year” by a famous geography magazine in 2018. Although Jerry has achieved great success, he didn't feel satisfied(满意的). He asked himself,“Is it enough to climb the highest mountains? Am I doing something helpful? 32 ” Jerry learned that some scientists need plants, rocks and water samples(样本) from the places far away to do research. However, the scientists can't get there themselves as such places are hard to reach— only the bravest adventurers can make it. 33 He then came up with an idea. He set up a team of top adventurers to collect samples for the scientists. 34 Recently Jerry and his adventurer friends have discovered a special plant on Mount Qomolangma. The samples they brought back have helped the scientists learn how plants live in extreme(极端的) conditions. For Jerry, this kind of adventure is the most satisfying.“Such adventures have made us see life in a different way. Now, being the best climber isn't important for me. 35 There is still much more we can do,” said Jerry. A. Jerry thought that he could do something to help. B. Adventurers can sometimes work as scientists. C. What matters is doing something helpful while climbing mountains. D. How can I turn my adventures into something that can help the world? E. By studying the samples, the scientists could know more about the earth and find ways to protect it. 32. 33. 34. 35. 第三部分 语言运用(共两节，满分25分) 第一节(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分) 阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。 Mount Tai is in Shandong Province in the eastern part of China. It is known as one of the greatest 36 in our country. It is said that the Chinese god Pan Gu created the world. After he finished the job, he was so 37 that he lay down, and died. Parts of his 38 became the five great mountains of China. His head becameMount Tai. His feet became Mount Hua. His arms became Mounts Heng in the 39 and in the north. His stomach became Mount Song. Confucius(孔子) 40 Mount Tai many times in his life and there are many stories about his visits.For example, Mencius(孟子) once wrote,“When Confucius went to the top of Mount Tai, the whole world seemed 41 .” Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty(唐代) never got to the top of the mountain 42 in his life. He tried three times, but every time he had to 43 because it was not easy. In history, many other emperors liked to visit Mount Tai, often to pray for good harvests for their people or to show their respect for nature. Why do people climb Mount Tai? Because they thought it was a great god before. Now people love to go to the mountain because of its 44 views(风景). As the World Cultural and Natural Heritage site(遗址), it draws thousands of 45 from all over the world every year. ( )36. A. rivers B. lakes C. mountains ( )37. A. hungry B. tired C. bored ( )38. A. mind B. heart C. body ( )39. A. south B. east C. west ( )40. A. paid B. visited C. went ( )41. A. bigger B. taller C. smaller ( )42. A. successfully B. hardly C. seriously ( )43. A. get up B. give up C. set up ( )44. A. strange B. boring C. amazing ( )45. A. tourists B. opinions C. pictures 第二节(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分) 阅读下面短文，从方框中选出恰当的单词并用其适当形式填空，使短文通顺、意义完整。 degree above quick desert stay include square introduce condition they There are many beautiful places in our world. Today, I'd like 46. a desert to you—— theSonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert covers about 311,000 47. kilometres. And it is one of the widest 48. in North America. The Sonoran Desert 49. parts of California, Arizona and Mexico. Summer in the Sonoran Desert is very hot. The temperature is often more than 100 50. during the day. Even in winter, the temperature is usually 51. zero. Desert plants and animals have accepted the living 52. in the desert. They have special ways to live with very little water and in very hot weather. The Sonoran Desert has many different kinds of cactus plants. Cactus plants can live a long time without rain. Cactus plants store water in their thick stems(茎). Cactus roots grow close to the top of the ground. When it rains, the roots can collect the water very53. . Like desert plants, wild animals in the desert can live without much rain. Most desert animals do not have to drink water. They get the water they need from 54. food. Many desert animals only come out to find food at night because it is cool at that time. During the hot days, these animals hide(躲藏) in the shade or underground. 55. cool helps animals keep water in their bodies. 第四部分 综合技能(共两节，满分25分) 第一节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分) 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容回答问题或翻译画线部分。 Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, but every year thousands of tourists go there. Why do they go?There are no famous buildings, no hotels and no restaurants. There are some beaches, but nobody wants to go swimming. Why do people want to take a vacation in Antarctica? Most people go to see the animals and the amazing scenery. There are seals(海豹) lying on the ice.There are whales swimming in the ocean. You can also watch penguins jumping into water from icebergs(冰山). It's one of the last untouched places on the planet. It's possible to visit Antarctica by plane, but most people go there by ship. That's because the ships are comfortable places to stay, and the journey(by sea) is part of the vacation. All tourists visit Antarctica in the summer. In the winter it's too cold for visitors, but in the summer— from November to March— it's warmer than many people think. In some parts of Antarctica in January, it's about 0℃. So it can be warmer there than it is in Beijing in January. Tourists are not the only people who go to Antarctica. In the summer months there are about 4,000scientists and other people living and working there, and a few of them stay for the long, dark winter.Tourists can visit some of these people and learn about their work in this amazing place. 56. When is the best time for people to visit Antarctica? 57. How is the weather in Antarctica in July? 58. Who also go to Antarctica besides the tourists? 59. Do you want to go to Antarctica? Why or why not? 60.将短文中画线句子翻译成中文。 第二节(满分15分) 假设你是李梅，上周末你和父母一起去了杭州西湖(the West Lake)游玩。请你根据下图的提示内容，写一封信，向你的笔友 Alice介绍一下你的旅程。 注意： (1)文中不得出现真实姓名和校名等信息； (2)写作词数为80个左右。 Dear Alice, Yours, Li Mei 第一部分 第一节 1-5 CABCA 第二节 6-10 CABBC 11-15 BBCAB 16-20 ABBCA 第二部分 第一节21-23 ACBB 24-27 BCAAC 28-31 AABC 第二节 32-35 DAEC 第三部分 第一节 36-40 CBCAB 41-45 CABCA 第二节 46. to introduce 47. square 48. deserts49. includes 50. degrees 51. above 52. condition53. quickly 54. their 55. Staying 第四部分 第一节 56. From November to March. 57. It is very cold.58. Scientists and other people living and working there. 59. Yes,I do. Because I can see many special animals like penguins and whales./ No, I don't.Because it's too cold there./… 60.所以那里一月份的天气可能会比北京(一月份)更暖和。 第二节 One possible version: Dear Alice, Last weekend,I went to Hangzhou on vacation with my parents. I'd like to tell you something about my trip. It was sunny that day, and the weather was really good. We got up early in the morning. We arrived in Hangzhou by car. Hangzhou is a beautiful city with many trees and flowers. It was enjoyable.We went to the West Lake and took a boat trip on the lake. We enjoyed everything beautiful along the trip by boat. And we took quite a few photos. Then we ate something special in Hangzhou for dinner. It was so delicious that we all finished it. We had a good time there. I like Hangzhou so much that I want to go there again. Yours, Li Mei 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $