八年级下册 Units 3～4
一、阅读理解
阅读下面材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 Would you like to live in a city where buildings turn the lights off for you， and self-driving cars will find the nearest parking space themselves? Although it might sound a little far from you， living in a “smart” city like this could happen sooner than you think.
Great changes have taken place in towns that we have lived in for centuries， while
completely new cities are being built. One such place is the city of Songdo. Every home there will have a “telepresence system(远程遥控系统)— allowing users to control the heating and locks， take part in video meetings， and receive education， health care and government services. Around the city， escalators(自动扶梯) will only
move when someone is on them， and offices and schools will all be connected to the system.
The great mind behind Songdo is from the company Cisco. In fact， technology companies around the world such as IBM， Siemens and Microsoft are already in the business.
About 75% of the world's population will live in cities by 2050， so cities will need to be more modern to deal with the coming problems. Making cities smarter is one way out， and I think this will in turn make cities greener， said Dan Hill， head
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of a
research company.
1．According to the text， living in a “smart” city . A．is not a green way B．will be far from you C．will soon become true D．is completely impossible 2．What is Paragraph 2 mainly about? A．A city of the future. B．A meeting in Songdo. C．A plan to build a house. D．A report on public health.
3．Which company offers the great mind to build Songdo? A．Cisco. B．IBM.
C．Siemens. D．Microsoft.
4．Dan Hill thinks that making cities smarter is one way to ． A．drive people out of cities B．control the world's population C．develop his own company D．solve the cities' coming problems
5．Which of the following might be the best title for the text? A．Future Education B．Smart Cities C．Government Services
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D．Famous Companies 二、词汇运用
A．用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。每词仅用一次，每空一词。
fair， leave， old， sweep， neighbor
1．I my homework at home this morning. 2．Sally doesn't get on well with her brother.
3．Mom is busy today. Why don't you offer to the floor?
4．It's for mothers to do all the chores. We should share the housework. 5．My are having a yard sale in the neighborhood. Let's go and have a look.
B．根据短文内容和所给中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式。每空限填 一词。
What do you think of when talking about a blue whale? A kind of sea animal? The largest animal in the world? Recently， the word got a new， 1. (可怕的)
meaning: a suicide(自杀) game.
The game was 2. (发明) by a 21-year-old college student from Russia. It is believed to be an online social media group， encouraging people to kill themselves.
The group keeper gives tasks to 3. (成员) every day， for 50 days. At first， the tasks ask the person to do something like watching a horror movie. But then the tasks get more 4. (危险的)， like cutting a whale shape onto the
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person's skin. On the 50th day， the keeper tells people to kill themselves.
The “game” has led to 130 teenage deaths in Russia， reported Daily Mail. It's now
5. (传播) to other countries like the United Kingdom， Brazil and China， aimed at those aged 10 to 15.
US cyber bullying(网络霸凌) research center 6. (所长) Justin Patchin warned children to 7. (避免) this “game” and not treat it as a joke. “Most teenagers don't think much about death or 8. (危害)，” he told Yahoo. He explained that they are quick to trust others and are sometimes naive(天真的). Some may think they are 9. (害怕的) of nothing， including death.
Our society now is trying its best to stop the “game” spreading. Since May 6， social media company Tencent has taken down 12 QQ chat groups that were suspicious(可疑的). If you see groups like this online， you should 10. (报告) them to your parents， teachers or the police straight away. 三、语法填空
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。
At the end of the term， our ethics(伦理学) professor gave us a test. He had told us
1. (expect) one and had warned us it would be included in the final grade. The test began. Sure enough， I was 2. confident that I finished all the questions after forty 3. (minute) except the very last one: What is the name
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of the woman who cleans the lecture hall? I thought it was 4. joke. I'd seen the woman many times.
She'd been working in the building for at least a year. She is short
5. dark hair， in her fifties， and we'd even smiled at each other once or twice.
But I didn't know 6. (she) name because I'd never thought to ask her. I handed in my test and the last question 7. (leave)unanswered-hoping the final result wouldn't be influenced too 8. (bad) because of it. But then one student put up his hand. He hadn't finished the test， 9. .“I'm just wondering，” he said. “Will it really change my grade if I don't complete that last question?
“Certainly，” our professor 10. (smile)．“In your future jobs...” I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned that the cleaner's name was Sherry.
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年浙江省杭州市中考英语复习同步训练：八年级下册 Units 3～4
