《2025年海淀单元测试AB卷八年级英语下册外研版》

Passage 1
Cities are bigger and bigger. Many people often leave their home towns 1. ________ (work) in the cities. Zhang Bin, a 46 - year - old man from Huaihua, is such a person. He 2. ________ (find) a job in a shoe factory in Wenzhou. He 3. ________ (real) misses his home town.
More and more home towns are developing 4. ________ (fast) than before. Large hospitals and new schools are built. There are many new roads and 5. ________ (bridge). This has made travelling between villages and cities much 6. ________ (easy). Thanks to the new roads around his village, Zhang Bin will now be able 7. ________ (open) an online shop that sells delicious food from his home town.
Zhang Bin thinks the changes 8. ________ (be) great in his home town. He is very happy about the new school in his village. However, he believes that one thing will never change—the 9. ________ (love) old tree. The home town is the place that holds 10. ________ (he) best memories.

答案： Passage 1)
1. to work 2. finds 3. really 4. faster 5. bridges
6. easier 7. to open 8. are 9. lovely 10. his

Passage 2
Motuo lies in the south of the Himalayas in China. It is home to all 1. ________ (kind) of mountains, rivers, waterfalls, plants and animals. Its special geographical location 2. ________ (make) it a beautiful place. It was one of the 3. ________ (hard) places to reach and was the last city in China without a highway.
The construction(施工) of the first highway to Motuo 4. ________ (start) in the 1960s. However, it was not completed until over 50 years later. In 2014, the construction of its 5. ________ (two) highway—the Paimo Highway started. In October 2022, the construction of the main body of the highway was completed.
They are great engineering projects. In this area, earthquakes and heavy rains 6. ________ (happen) very often. There could be 7. ________ (fall) rocks or even landslides(滑坡). People must build many walls and nets to protect the two highways. Another challenge was the snow. Large amounts of snow sometimes destroyed rocks and roads. As a result, the construction of the highways to Motuo was stopped several times. 8. ________ (solve) this problem, people built a tunnel(隧道) that 9. ________ (go) through the mountain area.
The two highways stand for the Chinese spirit of “never giving up”. They are ways to connect Motuo to the outside world and show how China 10. ________ (care) about people in the far areas.

答案： Passage 2)
1. kinds 2. makes 3. hardest 4. started 5. second
6. happened 7. falling 8. To solve 9. goes 10. cares

Passage 3
One day at school, something strange caught Ann's attention. Lily 1. ________ (quick) put a bag in her own desk, making Ann feel unusual. Later, she 2. ________ (see) Lily secretly give something to Cindy under the desk. It seemed that they decided 3. ________ (do) something without her. Ann thought, “How can my best friend plan something without inviting me?” Even though they were still 4. ________ (friend) to her, she was a little upset.
On the bus ride home, Ann avoided 5. ________ (sit) next to Lily on purpose. She noticed Lily giving an envelope to someone else, which made her even 6. ________(upset).
Later that evening, there was a knock on 7. ________ (Ann) door. There stood Cindy from next door, inviting her to Lily's party. At first, Ann didn't want to go and said no to her, explaining that they were no 8. ________(long) friends. But Cindy kept asking Ann to come along.
When they arrived at Lily's house, everyone shouted, “Surprise!” Ann hardly believed that. Lily smiled and said, “Tomorrow is your birthday!” Ann was so 9. ________(move) that tears filled her eyes. She said 10. ________ (thank) and hugged Lily.

答案： Passage 3)
1. quickly 2. saw 3. to do 4. friendly 5. sitting
6. more upset 7. Ann's 8. longer 9. moved 10. thanks

Passage 4
It was the fifth day of our Italian journey. We arrived at our hotel 1. ________(early) than usual. Dad offered to take us to the ancient city of Pompeii. I didn't really want to go because I wasn't 2. ________(interest) in old cities.
We travelled there by train. On the way, Dad told us something about the history. Many years ago, Pompeii was a large city near a volcano(火山). The volcano broke out and 3. ________(complete) covered the city in ash(灰). About twenty 4. ________ (thousand) people lost their lives. But the buildings remained there. And now, about 2,000 years later, people around the world come here 5. ________ (see) how people lived all those years ago.
I had thought it was boring to visit the 2,000 - year - old 6. ________ (house), but I was wrong. They were very interesting! Most of their rooms 7. ________(have) fine paintings all over the walls. I was also amazed at the bathrooms. I'd love a big bathroom in our house—8. ________(our) is so small!
Dad usually 9. ________(make) bad plans but this time he gets it right, finally. What a 10. ________(surprise)! I got really interested in Pompeii. In fact, I've got lots of ideas for our house when we get home!

答案： Passage 4)
1. earlier 2. interested 3. completely 4. thousand 5. to see 6. houses 7. had 8. ours 9. makes 10. surprise

Passage 5
Kendall Rae Johnson spends a lot of time playing in the dirt. She has a huge garden that 1. ________(produce) over 100 pounds of food each year!
Kendall 2. ________(begin) gardening at age three, when her grandmother gave her some fresh collard greens. Kendall says, “Grandma Kate told 3. ________(I), ‘Don't throw away the stems, because if you put them in the ground, they will grow back. ’” She tried it and the stems really grew new 4. ________(leaf).
Soon after, her parents built a backyard garden. When her friends came to their house, Kendall enjoyed 5. ________(share) what she knew about farming. She says, “My friends would help me water and care for the plants' 6. ________ (grow). They started to enjoy farming too.” At age six, she became 7. ________(young) certified(有资质的) farmer in her home town.
Today, her garden 8. ________(grow) to include sixty plant beds and twelve trees! When the vegetables and fruit are ripe(成熟的), Kendall sells some of them 9. ________(make) money. She also invites people who don't have enough food to take what they need. “If more kids join us, our community will 10. ________(certain) become better,” says Kendall. “Growing food takes a lot of work, but together we can do it.”

答案： Passage 5)
1. produces 2. began 3. me 4. leaves 5. sharing
6. growth 7. the youngest 8. has grown 9. to make
10. certainly

Passage 6
Lixia, or the Start of Summer, is the 1. ________ (seven) of the 24 Chinese solar terms(节气), which falls on May 5 this year. It 2. ________(mean) the passing from spring to summer.
With the heat of summer, plants and crops will begin to grow much 3. ________(fast). So farmers are always happy to welcome the arrival of Lixia. This is the 4. ________(good) time of the year to plant early rice in the southern part of China. Chinese has plenty of old sayings that are used 5. ________(warn) people not to be lazy during this period of time.
In China, people celebrate the day of Lixia in different 6. ________(way). For example, in some places people cook “Five - Coloured Rice”. Usually, it is made from five kinds of beans(豆)—mung bean, red bean, yellow bean, black bean and green bean. It stands for people's good wishes for a colourful life. People also have the custom of 7. ________(eat) some different kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables. On the day of Lixia, children will wear a bag with an egg around their necks in some areas. This is believed to help keep 8. ________ (they) safe and healthy. Other 9. ________ (tradition) of Lixia include the singing of beautiful folk songs. And people also weigh themselves on Lixia. When the summer 10. ________(pass), they'll weigh themselves again to see how many pounds they have lost during the hot season.

答案： Passage 6)
1. seventh 2. means 3. faster 4. best 5. to warn
6. ways 7. eating 8. them 9. traditions 10. passes

Passage 7
Basketball is an active and much - loved sport that is enjoyed by many for fun and exercise. So far, the “Village Basketball Association” at Taipan Village in Guizhou 1. ________ (get) tons of attention. The 2. ________ (finally) game of the Guizhou Country Basketball League(联赛), known as “Village BA”, took place on March 27. The 3. ________ (win) was Team Qiandongnan and prizes for the team were bags of rice, fish and ducks. The players were not professional. Most of 4. ________(they) were farmers from local villages and nearby cities. More than 30,000 people from across the country poured into the small village to 5. ________ (watch) the game. Even a single seat was hard to get. People 6. ________(knock) on iron pots and bowls to cheer for players. Villagers performed folk songs and danced 7. ________ (happy) in the half - time show.
Since 2016, the local government has worked hard to build new standard basketball courts(篮球场) to support basketball 8. ________(develop). Taipan has now been a model place of rural vitalization(乡村振兴) in sports and tourism(旅游业). In the summer of 2022, about 500,000 9. ________ (visit) came here to watch “Village BA” games. It brought great benefits(收益) to the village.
Zeng Jinlong, a 17 - year - old villager, has watched the games since he was 6 years old. He said, “I dream of 10. ________(take) part in the ‘Village BA’ final one day.”

答案： Passage 7)
1. has got 2. final 3. winner 4. them 5. to watch
6. knocked 7. happily 8. development 9. visitors
10. taking

Passage 8
China is the birthplace of tea. Since ancient times, Chinese people have been planting, picking, making and drinking tea. Chinese tea makers 1. ________(develop) 6 main kinds of tea—green, yellow, dark, white, oolong and black teas. There are thousands of tea 2. ________(product) in China.
Tea was originally used as herbal(香草的) medicine 3. ________(call) “tu”. During the treating process, people gradually found that tea could not only cure 4. ________(ill) but also help to clear heat away, so tea became a necessary drink. Nowadays, tea is one of the world's three major drinks. People all over the world enjoy 5. ________(drink) it. Tea can be found everywhere, such as in family activities, workplaces, teahouses and restaurants. It is also an important 6. ________(communicate) medium for making friends, weddings and other activities. So far, Chinese tea culture 7. ________(become) an important part of Chinese culture.
On November 29th, 2022, China's traditional tea - making was 8. ________(successful) added to the intangible cultural heritage list(非物质文化遗产名录) of the UNESCO. China now has the 9. ________(many) items(项目) on the list. The move will help protect and hand down Chinese tea culture. It also helps foreign people have a better 10. ________(understand) of Chinese tea, as well as Chinese culture.

答案： Passage 8)
1. have developed 2. products 3. called 4. illness
5. drinking 6. communication 7. has become
8. successfully 9. most 10. understanding

Passage 9
During this year's May Day holiday, Yemeni(也门的) student Mohammed Saleh Ahmed and his Chinese friends visited Pingyao ancient city in Shanxi Province. They even experienced the ancient way of getting money in the 1. ________ (early) bank of China.
“The historical relics(遗迹) in China's ancient cities have made me 2. ________(want) to learn more about the country's past,” Mohammed said. In recent years, tourism industries have developed 3. ________(rapid) and these relics have become new favourites of tourists.
Xinzhou ancient city in Shanxi, with a history of more than 1,800 years, 4. ________(have) over 500 stores and restaurants. During the five - day holiday, Xinzhou ancient city received about 400,000 visitors.
“5. ________(I) restaurant is always busy. During the peak(高峰) season, the yard is 6. ________(crowd) with tourists waiting for dinner,” said Wang Guodong, a businessman who 7. ________(own) a restaurant in Xinzhou ancient city.
Geng Yeqiang, an expert from Shanxi University, said that historical relics can form a 8. ________(culture) tourism circle during their protection and development. The process can increase local economic(经济的) growth. An expert also said, “At the same time, relics protection organisations and the tourism organisations should work together 9. ________(make) this economic model better.”
When a modern city meets 10. ________(it) old past, not only can the tourism be developed better, but the local culture and history can also be known by more people.

答案： Passage 9)
1. earliest 2. want 3. rapidly 4. has had 5. My
6. crowded 7. owns 8. cultural 9. to make 10. its