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上学期八年级英语（第
18
周）组合训练
【完型填空】
Carson
was
having
dinner
with
his
mother
and
sisters
one
evening.
Suddenly
his
younger
sister asked, “
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does it look like that outside?”
Everyone looked out of the window on the
north side of the kitchen. They saw the
sun in a blue sky. Then, they looked out of the
window on
the south side of the
kitchen. They saw a dark sky
2
big
，
grey clouds.
Next
，
they heard the
tornado
siren(
龙卷风报警）
.That
meant
a
tornado
was
coming.
They
all
knew
that
during
a
tornado
，
the
3
place to be is underground.
luckily, they had a basement
(
地下室）
.They all
ran
quickly
into
the
basement.
Suddenly,
Carson
remembered
the
pet
cat, Pete.
we
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Pete!” Carson yelled, “ I will go
upstairs and find him!” But his mother said,
“
5
, Carson! It’s
too
dangerous. The tornado is coming, you
have to stay down here.” All at once they
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the
very loud
noise of a very strong wind. It was
7
loud that although they were screaming,
they
could not even hear their own
screams. Everyone was very scared.
Just
8
seconds later
，
it
was finished. The tornado went away and everyone
was safe.
Carson ran upstairs and found
that the house was
9
damaged and Pete was gone. He began
to cry went outside. He saw that all
the trees were knocked down
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one. And at the top of
the
tree, there was Pete, looking at Carson and
waiting for him to help him down.
(
) 1.
A. How
B. What
C.
Why
D. Where
(
) 2.
A. with
B.
have
C. has
D. having
(
) 3.
A. safe
B. safely
C. safest
D. safety
(
) 4.
A. forgot
B. left
C. leave
D. forget
(
) 5.
A. Sure
B. All right
C. Yes
D. No
(
) 6.
A. heard
about
B. heard
C. listened
to
D. listened
(
) 7.
A. very
B.
such
C. too
D. so
(
) 8.
A. a few of
B. a little of
C. a few
D. a
little
(
) 9.
A. bad
B. badly
C. worse
D. worst
(
) 10.
A. except
B. besides
C. expect
D. beside
【阅读理解】
A
A heat
wave
（
热浪）
happened
in parts of India in
2015
．
Temperature in parts of
the country during
those days went up
to 48
℃．
Over
1
，
100people
died
．
Very hot
weather is common in many parts of the
world
．
Hot weather can
cause
（导致）
health
problems and
death
．
Floods
（洪灾）
and
other natural disasters kill a lot of people every
year
．
And we hear much about
them
in
news
reports
．
But
we
hear
little
about
heat
．
Scientists
say
it
may
be
nature′s
most
dangerous killer
．
Scientists say that since the year
1900
，
very hot weather has
killed more people in the US than any
other natural
disaster
．
One
year
﹣
the strange hot summer
of 1980
﹣
caused about
1
，
700deaths in
the US
．
In
1995
，
more than 600people
died in another heat wave in one city
﹣<
/p>
Chicago
．
Doctors say people can not only drink
lots of cool water
，
but also
do some other things to stop
health
problems caused by heat
．
Stay
out of the sun
，
if
possible
．
Wear
light
﹣
colored
clothes
．
Wear
a
hat while in the sun
．
Eat
less hot food
．
And when
possible
，
make dinner cooler
time of the day
．
If
possible
，
rest
more often
．
1
．
What′s the main
idea of the fourth paragraph
？
A
．
It is not
common that high temperature causes
deaths
．
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B
．
Hot weather
makes no difference to people′s
life
．
C
．
The
number of deaths caused by very hot weather is
high
．
D
．
Hot
weather is common only in the
US
．
2
．
How many ways
are there to stop health problems caused by heat
in the passage
？
A
．
Six
．
B
．
Seven
．
C
．
Eig
ht
．
D
．
Nine
．
3
．
Which of the
following is NOT true
？
A
．
Floods can also
make people lose their
lives
．
B
．
More than
1
，
100people died in India
because of the heat wave in
2015
．
C
．
Heat may be
nature′s most dangerous killer according to
scientists
．
D
．
People should
have more hot food to keep healthy in hot
weather
．
4
．
What′s the
passage mainly about
？
A
．
Different kinds
of natural disasters in the
world
．
B
．
Some health
problems caused by hot
weather
．
C
．
Health problems
caused by hot weather and ways to stop
them
．
D
．
Special places
where heat waves happen more
often
．
B
In a natural
disaster
﹣
a hurricane
< br>，
flood
，
volcani
c eruption
，
or other
catastrophes
﹣
minutes and
even
seconds
of
warning
can
make
the
difference
between
life
and
death
．
Because
of
this
，
scientists
are working to use the latest technological
advances to predict when and where disasters
will happen
．
They
are also studying how best to analyze and
communicate this information once it
is
obtained
．
On
September 29
，
1998
，
Hurricane Georges made landfall in Bil
oxi
，
Mississippi
，<
/p>
after damaging
Haiti
，
the
Dominican Republic
，
Puerto
Rico
，
and several islands of
the Caribbean badly with
torrential
rains and winds up to 160km per
hour
．
Few people lost their
lives along the Gulf Coast
of the
United States
，
although
hundreds died in the
Caribbean
．
This
was a very different outcome from
1900
，
when a powerful Gulf
Coast hurricane made an
unexpected
direct hit on Galveston
，
Texa
s
，
killing at least 6
< br>，
000people
．
Vastly improved hurricane warnings
explain the different circumstances at either end
of the 20th
century
﹣﹣
residents of Galveston had no advance warning
that a storm was
approaching
，
while
residents of Biloxi had been warned
days in advance
，
allowing for
extensive safety precautions
（预防）
．
At the same time that people in Biloxi
were thankful for the advance
warning
，
some residents of
New
Orleans
，
Louisiana were less
satisfied
．
A day before
Georges made
landfall
，
forecasters were
predicting that the hurricane had a
good chance of striking New
Orleans
．
Because much of New
Orleans lies below sea
level
，
the city is at risk
for flooding
．
Emergency
management officials must
begin
evacuations
（疏散）
well before
a storm strikes
．
But
evacuation costs
money
：
businesses
close
，
tourists
leave
，
and
citizens
take
precautionary
measures
．
The
mayor
of
New
Orleans
estimated that his
city's preparations for Georges cost more than
50million
．
After Georges
missed
New
Orleans
，
some residents
questioned the value of the hurricane forecasts in
the face of such
high
costs
．
The
different views on the early warnings for
Hurricane Georges show some of the complexities
related to predicting
disasters
．
Disaster
prediction is a process of providing scientific
information
to the government officials
and other decision makers who must respond to
those predictions
．
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