江苏省苏州市星海实验初中2025-2026学年译林版八年级下学期英语 Units 5-6 单元练习卷

初二英语 8B Unit 5-6

2026.05

一、单项选择（每小题1分，共10分）

1.—Would you please not speak so loudly in              public?

—Sorry. I will remember to speak in              lower voice.

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

2.Why not leave the door              ? I think the air in the room smells bad.

 A. opening   B. opened   C. open   D. to open

3.              from a teacher often matters more to a student than we might think.

 A. Honour   B. Praise   C. Politeness   D. Cash

4.Mrs. Li was too busy              her housework              her favorite TV series.

 A. to do; to watch   B. to do; watching   C. doing; watching   D. doing; to watch

5.It took me a while to              up early in the morning, but now I feel energetic all day.

 A. used to get   B. be used to get   C. get used to getting   D. use to getting

6.—Mrs. Smith, I have some              sleeping. Do you mind              the music a bit, please?

—OK. Of course not.

A.troubles; turning up                   B. trouble; turning down 

 C. problem; to turn down   D. problems; turning off

7.—Do you think it is fantastic              you to work with these disabled people?

—Yes, and I think it is brave              them to take part in the competition.

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

8.When I was walking              to school yesterday morning, I found that a huge rock was lying right              , so I had to stop and move it aside carefully.

 A. in my way; on the way   B. in the way; in my way

 C. on the way; in my way   D. on my way; on the way

9.We found __________ necessary for students to have enough sleep every day to stay energetic.

 A. it   B. it’s   C. that   D. that’s

10.Which of the following sentences is an opinion?

 A. Beijing is the capital of China. B. There is a shop next to my door.

 C. The park is a good place to have fun. D. We have many subjects to learn.

二、完形填空（每小题2分，共20分）

I was eleven years old, standing outside when I saw the house I grew up burnt to the ground. A few minutes earlier I was asleep in bed when a    11    woke me up. My nana’s bedroom was just next to my brother’s and mine. A fire had broken out there and awakened her. Hearing her shouting, my elder brother    12    quickly. While I was walking    13    the smoke and darkness, he ran from room to room waking everyone in the house. The house,    14    , was over 50 years old and made of wood. Before we could do anything, the fire destroyed (摧毁) it.

I stood there, shaking when the fire destroyed everything. I watched    15    while my mom cried and my dad sighed (叹息). I wondered what was going to happen to us since we had lost all of our things. As I    16    , though, I realized something for the first time: The things that matter in our lives aren’t things. I saw my elder brother running to get help. I saw my nana and dad sitting together and my mom    17    our little dog. I suddenly realized that we were all    18    . Everything that was necessary had survived the fire. Our life would continue. We would all be around to love each other for many years to come. And that was all that mattered.I    19    think of that fire that helped me to become who I am today. It showed me what is truly important in my life. It helped me to learn that the    20    we share is far more important than the things we own.

11.A. ring   B. fight   C. noise   D. laugh

12.A. watched   B. jumped   C. searched   D. acted

13.A. towards   B. through   C. across   D. behind

14.A. however   B. unless   C. therefore   D. moreover

15.A. carefully   B. helplessly   C. angrily   D. calmly

16.A. looked back   B. looked up   C. looked out   D. looked around

17.A. training   B. dressing   C. holding   D. washing

18.A. tired   B. careless   C. poor   D. alive

19.A. hardly   B. still   C. once   D. just

20.A. love   B. responsibility   C. knowledge   D. opinion

三、阅读理解（每小题2分，共14分）

A

COME TO WIN PRIZES THAT MONEY CANNOT BUY

If you love trains, railways or enjoy designing things, have a try at one of these great competitions. The competitions are for the 200-year anniversary (周年纪念日) of the first journey on the Stockton and Darlington railway. This journey, in 1825, is seen as the birth of the modern railway.

London North Eastern Railway (LNER) and the National Railway Museum are asking young people to share their wonderful ideas of what the next 200 years of rail would look like. There are some fantastic prizes to be won that you cannot get anywhere else, including a ride in the driver’s cab (驾驶室) of a high-speed train.

Design a uniform of the future        For those aged 11 and under Design a uniform for someone who works on the railway. For example, this could be for a train manager, a driver, etc. Winner’s prize: A real-life uniform of your winning design made by LNER’s uniform supplier (供应商), and first-class LNER tickets for you and your family.

Design a train of the future        For ages 12 to 17 This is your chance to design a train for the future. But what makes a great train? The first thing to consider is the outside. Will the train be modern? Don’t forget that the inside of the train is important, too. Where will people sit, store their luggage(行李), go to the toilet, charge (充电) their phones, and where will they get their food and drink? Winner’s prize: A train ride, a driver simulator (模拟器) experience, and first-class LNER tickets for you and your family.

How to enter

The competitions close on August 31, 2025.

Visit lnr.co.lrail200 for more information. Good luck!

21.Why are the competitions held?

A. To celebrate the 200 years of the first rail journey.

B. To encourage more teenagers to take LNER trains.

C. To raise money for those who work on the railway.

D. To prepare for the 200-year anniversary of the museum.

22.Who will most probably win the uniform designing competition?

23.What do the two competitions have in common?

A. Passengers’ convenience should be considered.

B. A driving experience will be provided for the winners.

C. The inside and the outside of the train should be designed.

D. The winners will get free train tickets for the whole family.

B

Libraries around the world still keep old books hundreds of years old. But will we be able to read today’s digital books in hundreds of years? Librarians are worried. Even now, we can’t open some files (文件) from 20 or 25 years ago. Will our digital works be lost in a digital black hole (黑洞)? Will we face the loss of valuable information?

Technology is changing fast. Old ways of keeping information are gone now, or they are no longer supported by new technology. For example, many people used floppy discs (软盘) to save files years ago, but today few machines can open them. Also, millions of songs were saved on tapes or CDs, but now most old music players no longer work. Another problem is that websites often change or close down, and all the information on them can fall into the digital black hole.

Books, however, are quite easy to keep. We don’t need special tools or technology to read them. If you keep them in a dry and safe place, they will stay safe for a long time. Li Shizhen’s great medical book Ben Cao Gang Mu came out in 1593. Amazingly, three copies from the first printing still survive today. That’s not bad for a book more than 400 years old.

For now, when it comes to storing information, printed copies remain a safe way to keep information. However, future technology might develop and provide new ways to solve the problem of the digital black hole. Time will tell.

24.What happens if our digital works fall into a digital black hole?

 A. They are carefully kept. B. They cannot be understood.

 C. They cannot be read or reached. D. They are saved in a wrong place.

25.What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A. How music players are developing. B. How technology is changing over time.

C. Why old machines are no longer used today. D. Why technology may cause information loss.

26.Why does the writer mention Ben Cao Gang Mu?

A. To discuss why this book is still important.

B. To show printed books can last for a long time.

C. To explain how easy it is to keep printed books.

D. To tell when the earliest printed book came out.

27.What would the writer most probably agree with?

A. Libraries should keep more digital books.

B. Digital books are less valuable than printed ones.

C. Technology will soon solve the problem of the digital black hole.

D. Technology is still looking for better ways to keep information.

四、信息还原（每小题1分，共5分）

“Don’t try to change me.”    28    For some people, any suggestion of improvement may make them feel uncomfortable. But is there a person in this world who never changes during their whole life?

Change is something that is happening to us every day. Our experiences and the problems we face, the people