八年级英语基础训练（十五）8B U5-U61 词汇测试（10分）( )1.I can finish the work on my own.A. by myself B.with others C.together( )2. -Have you fed the chickens yet?-Not yet.1 will do it right now.A. hand a look at B. sold out C given food to( )3-What can I do?-You have no choice but to obey him though you dont want to.A can Bmay C.must( )4. Its common for people to work a 40-hour week here.A. usual B. difficult C. useful( )5. More and more students drop out of school now. Theyll regret. They wont realize the importance of study until they leave school,A. as B. till C. after( )6.If you something or someone, you measure how heavy they are.A. complain B. weigh C. choose( )7. A is someone you have never met before.A. neighbor B. stranger C. relative( )8. -Do you know Lucys aunt?-Of course. She was a kind woman, but she cancer.A. died of B.ran out of C. kept off( )9.-Its not easy to people from driving after drinking.-Yeah. Many people are still unaware of its danger.A. Protect B. keep C.learn( )10.Thats the why he was late for school.A. cause B responsibility C. reason完形填空Save the Wild TigerWhen people think of tigers, they think: strong 0”and dangerous. But now, the big animal is calling for our help.There were once eight kinds of 1 in the:world, but three died out during the 20th century. Ln 0the last 70 years, the 2 of Siberian tigers（东北虎） has gone from as many as 300 to 3 than 22somewhere. The Siberian tiger has been 4 dying out completely. If the government doesnt make any efforts, its quite 5 that there will be no more Siberian tigers in China in ten to twenty years.In order to double the number of wild tigers in the 6 ten years, the World Wildlife Fund（世界自然基金会）has started a program recently. It 7 save wild tigers and put an end to tiger hunting and killing. China, together with twelve other 8 , has joined inWild animals, such as red deer and wild pigs,are the main 9 of the tigers. The hunting of these animals is the greatest threat (威胁) to tigers. So the most important thing is to _ 10 the animals that tigers eat. To protect the wild tigers, we need to call on more people to stop eating and hunting wild animals.( )1.A. pigs B. tigers C. deer( )2.A. name B. kind C. number( )3.A. Less B. more C. bigger( )4.A. in need of B. in danger of C. in front of( )5.A. possible B. impossible C. necessary( )6.A.last B.next CPast( )7.A. aims to B. used to C. refuses to( )8.A. cities B. provinces C. countries( )9.A. friends B. food C. members( )10. A. sell B. kill C. SaveIII.阅读理解The Indian elephant is one of four kinds of the Asian elephant, many of which are becoming fewer and fewer. Elephants are used to please tourists allover Thailand. As visitors prefer younger animals, the value of a young elephant has risen quickly to around$33,000.To meet this demand, smugglers（走私者）in Myanmar catch wild elephants whose number is becoming smaller and smaller in the country. They tried different ways to catch young elephants, cruelly beat to break their spirits and then smuggled to different countries. The Thai government has punished some smugglers with some success over the past two years,but animal protectors believe that smugglers are now waiting for another chance to sell the animals once again. Most people want to see the laws stricter in Thailand. Elephants dont have to be reported to the government until they are eight years old. It makes the smuggling of young elephants possible for the smugglers.Also, Asian elephants now have fewer and fewer living place. They have to face agriculture and ivory poachers（象牙偷猎者）According to researchers,the smuggling of live young elephants could put danger to the long-term survival（生存）of the elephants in Myanmar.( )1.What does this passage talk about?A. Asian elephants in a hard situation. B. Asian elephants in great need.C. Ways of protecting Asian elephants. D. The great value of Asian elephants.( )2.Why are young elephants becoming more and more expensive?A. Young elephants are lovely. B. Young elephants are easy to catch.C. Visitors prefer young elephants. D. Young elephants are protected.( )3.What do we know about the Thai government?A. It failed to stop the trade. B. It made money from the trade.C. It has built many zoos. D. It has a long way to go( )4.Most people in Thailand think that the laws .A.should be stricter B. are of no use C. should be passed D. are successfulIV.语法填空There was a small boy on a farm. He had to getup before the sunrise every morning to start his 1. (worker) on the