Unit8 detective stories单元测试卷 （满分： 100 分；时间： 90 分钟） 一、单项填空（10 分） ( )1 .The police are trying their best to who the murderer is. A. look for B. find C. find out D. look out ( )2. A(n) is a person who sees something happen and can describe it to other people. A. suspect B. witness C. victim D. enemy ( )3. You have just read the magazine. Did you find in it? A. interesting anything B. anything interesting C. interesting something D. something interesting ( )4.Do you know what the young man was charged ? I hear he robbed a woman of her bag. A. with B. of C. for D. about ( )5.When the accident happened, many were passing by. So they told a lot to the police about it. Oh，we should write a report about them. A. witnesses B. enemies C. suspects D. victims ( )6. Its said that his father was wounded a man a knife. A. with;with B. by; by C. by; with D. with;by ( )7. Usually ，carelessness failure. A. leads to B. happens to C. gets to D. agrees to ( )8. After running a 1 ，000-metre race, he was A. out of breathe B. breathed heavily C. took a deep breath D. out of breath ( )9. He is a person，but he is good at telling funny stories. A. serious B. patient C. kind D. humnrnus ( )10.I still dont know what while I was away from home. Youll know it all some day, I believe. A. had happened B. would happen C. has happened D. happened 二、完形填空（10 分） Once there was asking and his daughter. The king asked his daughter how much she loved him. She said that she loved him as much as she loved 1 .Her answer made the king very happy. Salt is a simple thing, 2 it is very important. So the king thought his daughter cared a lot about him. Salt has many 3 .Our bodies need salt. If we dont have enough, our bodies cant work properly. We put salt on icy roads to make them 4 .We also use salt to produce other products，like paper and glass. But for many years, salts most important job was to 5 food. Like other living things, most bacteria(细菌 )need water to live. Salt takes in plenty of water, so most bacteria cannot live 6 a salty environment. As a result， salt protects food and many other things. For much of human history, this ability has made salt 7 .Every ancient culture from Egypt to China depended on salt. Even today, the hard-working, useful people are 8 as the salt of the earth. For centuries, salt was also hard to 9 .Its usefulness，together with rarity( 稀有 )made it very expensive. Salt could even be used like 10 .In fact, the word salary( 薪水 )comes from the word salt. Today, salt is used more widely and it still plays an important role in our life. ( )1 .A. salt B. air C. gold D. sugar ( )2. A. or B. so C. and D. but ( )3. A. forms B. secrets C. uses D. skills ( )4. A. wide B. safe C. smooth D. thick ( )5. A. protect B. provide C. produce D. prepare ( )6. A. in B. outside C. for D. without ( )7. A. hopeful B. comfortable C. valuable D. successful ( )8. A. saved B. dreamed C. invited D. described ( )9. A. sell B. get C. take D. keep ( )10. A. money B. medicine C. earth D. food 三、阅读理解(22 分) A He was an old man who fished alone in a small boat on the sea and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish ，the boys parents had told him that the old man was now salao ， which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone with another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his boat empty. The sail looked like the flag of failure forever. The old man was thin with deep wrinkles( 皱纹 ) in the back of his neck. His face was terribly brown because of the strong sunlight on the sea every day and his hands had the deep scars(伤疤 ) from dealing with heavy fish on the lines. But none of these scars were fresh. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same colour as the sea and were cheerful. Santiago， the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from the sea.I could go with you again. Weve made some money. The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him. No， the old man said.Youre with a lucky boat. Stay with them. But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks. I remember, the old man said. It was papa who made me leave. I am a boy and I must follow him. I know ， the old man said.It is quite normal. He hasnt much faith( 信心 ). No.the old man said.But we have. Havent we? Yes， the boy said. Can I offer you a beer on the Terrace? Why not? the old man said ，Between fishermen. ( )1. The underlined word they in Paragraph 2 refers to( 指的是 ) of the old man. A. the hands B. the scars C. the eyes D. the wrinkles ( )2. The old man refused the boy to go fishing with him again because . A. he wanted to fish by himself B. he could really understand his parents C. the boy asked for some money D. the boy had already learn