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牛津深圳版初中英语八年级上册Module 1 Unit 2 单元测试

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Stephen Hawking, a world famous British physicist, will write a children's book with his daughter. Hawking said the book will be "a bit like Harry Potter" but without the magic. "It explains the wonders of the universe(宇宙)," said Hawking, while he was on a visit to Hong Kong last week.

Hawking, 64, is probably the world's most famous scientist after Albert Einstein. He is an expert on black holes. He has put his whole life into digging into the beginning (and the end) of the universe.

"My goal is simple," Hawking once said. "It is to completely understand the universe, why it is and why it is there at all."

Hawking has a bad illness that stops him from moving or talking. For a period of time, he had no way to communicate except(除了) by blinking(眨眼).

Now he sits on a wheelchair with a computer by his side. To communicate, he moves two fingers to control the computer's mouse. He selects(挑选) his words from the screen, which are then spoken by a voice synthesizer(音乐合成器).

"I have had the disease for most of my life," Hawking once said. "Yet it has not stopped me from being successful at my work."

Although Hawking is such a disabled man, he made great achievements(成就). He has received many awards and prizes for his work over the years. This includes winning the Albert Einstein Award. It is the highest achievement in theoretical physics(理论物理).

(1)、The book that Stephen Hawking will write is             .
A、the same as Harry Potter B、quite different from Harry Potter C、about the magic D、about science
(2)、From the text we can learn             .
A、Hawking is more famous than Einstein. B、Hawking is less famous than Einstein. C、both Hawking and Einstein are very famous. D、neither Hawking nor Einstein is famous.
(3)、What does the underlined pronoun "it" stand for?
A、The goal. B、The magic. C、The universe. D、The book.
(4)、According to the text, which of the following statements is the fact?
A、Hawking has received many awards and prizes except the Albert Einstein Award. B、The illness keeps him from moving and talking. C、He communicates with others by speaking. D、The illness stopped him from being successful.
(5)、What is the best title for the text?
A、Stephen Hawking. B、A famous book. C、Live as Hawking does. D、A clever man.
举一反三
阅读下列短文,从下面每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

        On a rainy day, about 150 volunteers worked for eight hours to clean up Carson Creek that is near a river. About nine tons of trash (垃圾) was taken out from there.

         "We did a good job," said Alan Specter, the organizer of the event. "We've planned to come back here one more time, three years from now. Of course, we hope that there won't be so much trash next time."

         The trash came in all shapes, sizes and colors: bottles, bicycles, batteries, furniture, clothing, plastic bags, dolls and even a golf bag with a full set of golf clubs (高尔夫球杆).  

         The dirty and tiring work was done by two volunteering groups - Save the Bay and Watch the Whales. Most of the volunteers came from a local police station and a fire station. And some of them were old people who had already got retired.

         That day, it rained a little. All of them wore boots and raincoats. The work took place along a two-mile river with over 500 big yellow trash bags everywhere.

         No one found anything that cost much. A five-year-old boy found an earring which he thought might be worth a million dollars. He said he'd sell it. Then he'd donate half of the money to Watch the Whales, and use the other half to buy his favourite ice cream every day.

         Many people laughed at the boy's story. However, it was easily found that the environment there did become better.

    阅读下面四篇短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

C

    When Matty Sallin,34,was working on a degree in art and technology at New York University,he got interesting homework in electronics class.He decided to create an alarm clock(闹钟).

    "Everybody has to deal with these every day,and they are really unpleasant!"he says.He asked different people what they would like to wake up to instead of a noisy alarm.A lot of them said,"The smell of bacon(培根肉)".

    So Sallin and two classmates invented a new kind of alarm clock:a wooden box with a pig face and a digital clock that uses the smell of cooking bacon instead of the sound to wake someone up.He explains."There's no danger of burning,because I built it carefully.It uses halogen light bulbs(卤素灯)instead of a fire for cooking and turns off automatically after ten minutes.Yes,the clock itself can do it.Just a few easy steps are needed to set the alarm."

    "What you do is to put some frozen bacon in the night before and set the alarm,"says Sallin.

    "If you set the alarm for 8:00,it will turn on at 7:50 and slow cook for ten minutes under the halogen bulbs."he says,Then the bulbs turn off and a fan blows the smell out through the nose of the pig.

    "So instead of an alarm,  ▲,"says Sallin."Then you can open the door on the side and pull the bacon out and eat it."

    When Sallin was a kid,he spent a lot of time making drawing of inventions."I wanted to make an lift in my backyard and a special tree house."he says."But I never really thought I'd be called an inventor!"

    Sallin got an A in the class and went on to other things—but people continue to hear about his invention and email him every day asking where they can buy his alarm clock.

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    Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between the ticket office and us. This family made a big impression on me.

    There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they didn't have a lot of money. Their clothes were not expensive, but they were clean. The children talked excitedly about the clowns. It was clearly a very important day out for them. The father and mother seemed happy as they could be.

    The tickets lady asked how many tickets the father wanted, he proudly answered," Please let me buy eight children's tickets and two adults' tickets, so I can take my family to the circus."

    The ticket lady told him the price.

    The man's wife lowered her head. There was no longer a smile on the man's face. He quietly asked," How much did you say?"

    The ticket lady again told him the price.

    The man obviously didn't have enough money. But how could he tell his kids the bad news?

    Seeing what was happening, my dad took a $20 note from his pocket and dropped in on the ground. (We were not rich ourselves at all!) He then tapped the man on the shoulder and said," Excuse me, sir, you dropped this."

    The man understood my father was helping him. He picked up the money, looked straight into my dad's eyes, and in tears replied." Thank you. This really means a lot to me and my family."

    Although we did not go to the circus that night, we didn't go without.

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