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牛津版(深圳•广州)2019-2020学年初中英语八年级上册Unit 2 自主检测

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    A rich man was riding along the road and saw an old man digging in his garden. There was a young tree lying on the ground. The rich man asked the old man, "What kind of tree are you planting there, my good man?

    "This is a fig(无花果)tree, sir," he said.

    "A fig tree?" the rich man was very surprised." How old are you, may I ask?"

    "I am ninety years old."

    "What!" shouted the rich man." You're ninety years old. You are planting a very young tree now and it'll take years to give fruit. You certainly don't hope to live long enough to get any fruit from this tree." The old man smiled and said, Tell me, sir, did you eat figs when you were a boy?" "Sure," the man did not know why he asked this question.

    The old man asked, "Who planted the fig trees?"

    "I don't know."

    " You see, sir," the old man said slowly," our forefathers(祖先) planted trees for us to enjoy and I am doing the same for the people after me."

    The rich man was quiet. Then he said, "You are right, my good man. We should do some things for the people after us. Thank you very much." Then he rode away.

(1)、The old man was planting _______ when the rich man saw him.
A、an apple tree B、a fig tree C、a pear tree D、a banana tree
(2)、The old man was _______.
A、80 years old B、60 years old C、90 years old D、70 years old
(3)、The old man was planting the tree _______
A、to get himself some fruit to eat B、for the people after him C、to make his garden more beautiful D、just for fun
(4)、The sentence in the last paragraph "The rich man was quiet." refers to _______.
A、he was thinking about who were his forefathers B、he didn't want to disturb the old man C、he couldn't communicate with the old man D、he understood why the old man planted the young tree
举一反三
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的词,或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。

 Who would have thought that Albert Einstein, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} famous German- American scientist from the early 1900s, would make it into the news these days? But that's {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(exact) what happened. Recently, his handwritten work notes about the theory of relativity(相对论) went up for auction(拍卖).

 Einstein, along with an {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(Italy) engineer Michele Besso, worked together for several years on a scientific paper. They hoped to come up {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a mathematical equation(数学方程式) to explain the theory of relativity. It {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(involve) the factors of energy, mass and light.

 They ran into {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(problem) and stopped working on it, but Besso saved the written papers anyway. Einstein didn't successfully finished the work {#blank#}7{#/blank#} he realized that gravity also needed to be considered. He finally published a paper about it on his own in 1915. After all these years, the 54 pages of notes were recently put up for auction at Christie's (佳士得拍卖行) in Paris.

 The buyer's name was not released, but the manuscript (手稿) is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(expensive) scientific paper ever bought, at over $15 million. One has to wonder {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the owner is going to do with those notes. Frame them? Keep them in a vault(保险库)? Resell them {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(make) even more money? Only time will tell.

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