《2025年学霸甘肃少年儿童出版社八年级英语下册人教版》

Ⅴ. 词汇检测（每小题 1.5 分，共 15 分）
A. 根据句意及首字母提示填空。
37. The river is very w_______. I don't think you can swim across it.
38. We call animals that live in nature as w_______ animals.
39. Canada, the second largest country in the world, covers an area of about 10 million s_______ kilometers.
40. The panda is China's national treasure. It's a kind of cute animal that likes eating b_______.
41. They saw a h_______ monster in the forest and they ran away quickly.

答案： wide
@@wild
@@square
@@bamboo
@@huge

B. 用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空。
42. When they heard the good news, they jumped with _______（excite）.
43. There are lots of _______（tour）visiting the Summer Palace every year.
44. Of the three parks, this one is the _______（far）from my home.
45. If your child shows any signs of _______（ill）, take him or her to the doctor.
46. The elephant _______（weigh）about 5,000 kilos and its weight is much heavier than a cow.

答案： excitement
@@tourists
@@farthest
@@illness
@@weighs

Ⅵ. 语法填空（每小题 1.5 分，共 15 分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。
Many people think that the dinosaurs were the biggest animals that ever lived. They are wrong. The world's biggest animal is still 47. ____________（live）, and it lives in the sea. It is called the blue whale. Blue whales can be as long as 33 meters 48. ____________ they weigh as much as 181 tons. The largest dinosaur weighed only 60 tons.
The whale is not only the world's biggest animal, but it is also one of 49. ____________（clever）animals. We know that whales can communicate with one another, although we do not know what they are saying. One day perhaps we will learn 50. ____________（talk）to whales, and then they will be able to tell us about 51. ____________（they）.
There are lots of stories 52. ____________ whales, and maybe the most famous one is called Moby Dick, which was written by the American writer, Herman Melville. He spent a lot of time 53. ____________（do）research on whales. In this story, a sailor—Captain Ahab makes an effort to kill 54. ____________ very big white whale named Moby Dick. 55. ____________（sad）, there are not many kinds of whales left. People have killed them for 56. ____________（thousand）of years for food and other things. However, there are now laws to stop people killing most kinds of whales, so perhaps there will be more of them in the years to come.

答案： living/alive@@and@@the cleverest/the most clever@@to talk@@themselves@@about@@doing@@a@@Sadly@@thousands