上海牛津版八下期中考试英语试卷(含答案).doc

Mid-term Examination
(满分100分)
Part 2 Vocabulary and Grammar
(第二部分 词汇与语法) (共40分)
I. Choose the best answer (选择最合适的答案) (14分)
26. There is “l” and “p” in the word “lamp”.
A. a; an B. an; a C. a; a D. an; an
【答案】B
27. I usually communicate my pen friend through e-mail.
A. by B. to C. for D. with
【答案】D
28. If you park your car in the right place, you have any trouble.
A. will B. wouldn't C. didn't D. won't
【答案】D
29. Which city is to Shanghai, Suzhou or Hangzhou?
A. close B. closer C. closest D. the closest
【答案】B
30. Please keep the door .
A. close B. to close C. closing D. closed
【答案】D
31. - I go to the shop for a packet of dried mushrooms now?
- No, you .
A. Must; needn't B. Must; wouldn't
C. May; oughtn't to D. May; couldn't
【答案】A
32. Have you finished your homework?
A. chemical B. chemistry C. chemical's D. chemistry's
【答案】B
33. Do you know how long he the flat?
A. buy B. had C. has had D. has bought
【答案】C
34. The teacher warned the students in class.

A. to not talk B. not talk C. not talking D. not to talk
【答案】D
35. We can protect our environment by the air, the water and the land.
A. not polluting B. not pollute C. not to pollute D. to not pollute
【答案】A
36. useful advice you've given us!
A. What a B. How a C. How D. What
【答案】D
37. He's such a warm-hearted man. He gave the poor clothes food.
A. as nice as B. as long as C. as well as D. as soon as
【答案】C
38. You are fat. You must not eat .
A. too much; too much B. much too; much too
C. much too; too much D. too much; much too
【答案】C
39. Could you tell me ?
A. that it rains tomorrow
B. what will the weather be like
C. which bus I can switch to
D. how would I get to the nearest stop
【答案】C
II. Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once (将下列单词或词组填人空格，每空格限填一词) (共6分)
A. slowly B. quickly C. rely on D. are being destroyed
E. much cleaner F. by G. hold

Wetlands are a very important part of the environment. Ihey help slow down and clean up polluted water from the land and provide habitat (栖息地) for animals. You wil find wetlands in areas where water covers the soil or is near the ground surface for part or all of the year. Sometimes a wetland wil actually appear dry at certain times of the year! You can often tell if something is a wetland (40) the types of plants that are growing in it. Most of these plants, like cattails and swamp roses, are adapted to living in the water and can't live in dry soil for very long.
Wetlands as sponges (海绵)
The sponge will (41) a lot of water before it slowly starts to leak. The same happens in a wetland. A wetland will trap water that flows into it during a rainstorm and will (42) release the water later. This helps to prevent flooding.
Wetlands as filters (滤纸)
After being trapped by the wetland sponge, polluted water moves slowly through a wetland, finding its way around plants and through small spaces in the soil. While it moves, the nutrients are absorbed by the plant roots. By the time the water leaves the wetland it is (43) than it was when it entered. This is why many people think of wetlands as nature's filter system.
Wetlands as habitat
Wetlands are home to many types of fish, amphibians (两栖动物), birds, mammals, and reptiles. These animals (44) the plentiful food, water, and shelter that the wetland offers. While some animals spend their whole lives in a wetland, many use it only for a particular time in their lives, such as for hatching eggs and raising young.
Wetlands (45) to make way for farmland, highways, houses, and development of commercial sites like malls. We need to try harder to control changes in our watersheds so we can stop losing wetlands.
【答案】40-45 FGAECD
III. Fill in the blanks with the given words in their proper forms (词性转换) (8分)
46. We sell all kinds of glass in our shop. (contain)
47. Your article is really in disorder. Why not get it into good . (organize)
48. Fear made him on his way to the forests. (frozen)
49. As a mother, she shouldn't be more with her children. (patience)
50. Her idea sounded very . She needs a clearer outline. (puzzle)
51. There is no between the two words. (connect)
52. My daughter fell and didn't know what had happened. (sleepy)
53. Recently some announced that they had some new discoveries. (science)
46.【答案】containers
47.【答案】organization
48.【答案】freeze
49.【答案】patient
50.【答案】puzzled
51.【答案】connection
52.【答案】asleep
53.【答案】scientists
IV. Rewrite the sentences as required (按要求改写句子) (12分)
54. Monica brought me a packet of sweets yesterday. (改为一般疑问句)
Monica you a packet of sweets yesterday?
55. The assistant invited us to a magic room to show us some wonderful experiments.
(对划线部分提问)
did the assistant you to a magic room?
56. I told her hundreds of times not to turn on the light with wet hands. (对划线部分提问)
times did you tell her not to turn on the light with wet hands?
57. We need to plant more trees. (改为反义疑问句)
We need to plant more trees, ?
58. They can play squash. I can do that, too. (保持句意基本不变)
They can play squash and I.
59. The iPad you are using is his. (保持句意基本不变)
The iPad you are using him.
54.【答案】Did ... bring
55.【答案】Why ... invite
56.【答案】How many
57.【答案】don’t we
58.【答案】so can
59.【答案】belongs to
Part 3 Reading and Writing
(第三部分 阅读与写作) (共35分)
I. Reading comprehension (阅读理解)
A. Choose the best answer (根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案，用A,B,C或D表示) (6分)
When May got her first cellphone about a decade ago, one of the first things she did was go to her service provider's website and stock up on ringtones. And then her dad got the phone bill. When new songs came out, she would download them, but most of the ones she downloaded, she never really used, because most of the time she was in school or work.
By about 2009, May lost interest in buying ringtones altogether. And she wasn't the only one. May's personal experience mirrors what has been a sharp decline in ringtone sales over the last half-decade.
In the early- to mid-2000s, the ability to play a customized sound (定制铃声) for incoming calls --- was a fun new thing for people buying their first cellphones. Ringtones became fashionable. People scrambled to personalize their phones with the newest or coolest tunes.
Mastertones made the ringtone an easy way to hear one's favorite music. People also could assign different ringtones to different callers --- say, “Take This Job and Shove It” when your boss calls, ha ha --- as a sonic form of Caller ID.
The ringtone sales was a great barometer (晴雨表) of how people were starting to live around entertainment on their phones. We saw the market grow from $68 million retail in the U.S. in 2003 to about $600 million in 2006.
But then the sales dipped. Despite the enormous growth of smartphones, mobile audio products such as ringtones and ringbacks (which is a song that plays while a caller's waiting for an answer) brought in only $167 million last year.
So what happened?
Two things: The interest of the musical snippets wore off. And we learned how to make custom ringtones for free.
Musical ringtones could be costly. Costs for ringtones varied, but the 20-to-30-second snippets (片段) were often pricier than buying the whole song. Someone who updated their ringtones frequently could easily pay $20 a month or more.
But with the rise of audio-editing software and free Web programs for making ringtones, users could easily create their own custom ringtones from songs they already owned.
And as smartphones evolved, with their enticing menu of video, games, music and Facebooking, suddenly ringtones didn't seem so exciting anymore.
There's another factor at play, too. Surveys have shown that as text-messaging has grown in popularity, especially among younger users, people don't make calls as often. So ringtones are less of a priority.
Cellphone users may not think about them as much, but the gradual decline of the ringtone has been bittersweet for people in the music industry. It was a little sad. In BMI's early digital days, they made more money from ringtones than anything else. And now when you think about it, it's basically zero.
60. After May downloaded her favourite ringtones, she .
A. paid $5 for them B. sent the phone bill to her Dad
C. remembered to use them D. never really used most of them
61. According to May's personal experience, ringtone sales became these years.
A. better B. worse
C. more interesting D. more attractive
62. “Master tones” enables people to with the newest or coolest tunes.
A. write a song for incoming calls B. buy their first cell phones
C. personalize their phones D. hear different callers speaking
63. The ringtone market grew from .
A. $68 million in 2003 B. $600 million in 2006
C. late 2000s D. late 2012
64. Nowadays, people no longer need to to update their ringtones.
A. use audio-editing software B. use free web programmes
C. pay $20 a month D. share 20-to-30-second snippets
65. According to the passage, the is not the main reason for the decline of ringtone sales market.
A. smartphone
B. use of text-messaging
C. the music industry
D. the rise of free audio-editing software
【答案】60-65 DBCACC
B. Read the passage and choose the best words or expressions to complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文) (6分)
Imagine a mass of floating waste is two times the size of the state of Texas. Texas has a land area of more than 678,000 square kilometers. So it might be difficult to imagine anything twice as big.
All together, this mass of waste flowing in the North Pacific Ocean is known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch. It (66) about 3,500,000 tons. The waste includes bags, bottles and containers --- plastic products of all kinds.
The eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about 1,600 kilometers west of California. The western part is west of the Hawaiian Islands and east of Japan. The area has been (67) a kind of oceanic desert, with light winds and slow moving water currents. The water moves so slow that garbage from all over the world (68) there.
In recent years, there have been growing concerns about the floating garbage and its effect on sea creatures and human health. Scientists say thousands of animals get trapped in the floating waste, resulting in death or (69) . Even more die from a lack of food or water after swallowing pieces of plastic. The trash can also make animals feel full, lessening their desire to eat or drink.
The floating garbage also can have (70) effects on people. There is an increased threat of infection of disease from polluted waste, and from eating fish that swallowed waste. Divers can also get trapped in the plastic.
Its existence first gained public attention in 1997. That was when racing boat captain and oceanographer Charles Moore and his crew sailed into the garbage while returning from a racing event. Five years earlier, (71) oceanographer learned of the trash after a shipment of rubber duckies got lost at sea. Many of those toys are now part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.
In August, 2009, a team from the University of California, San Diego became the latest group to travel to it. They were shocked by the amount of waste they saw. They gathered hundreds of sea creatures and water samples to measure the garbage patch's effect on ocean environment.
66. A.works B.weighs C. contains D. consists
67. A.the same as B.known as C.described as D.named as
68. A.crosses B.collects C.begins D.brushes
69. A.injury B.impression C.health Dhopes
70. A.helpless B.helpful C.harmless D.harmful
71. A.other B.another C.others D.that
【答案】66-71 BCBADB
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空限填一词，首字母已给) (7分)
William Herschel was born on November 15th, 1738 in Hanover in a family of musicians. In 1757, he fled to England and began earning a living as an organist (风琴手) and later composer and conductor. In 1772, he (72) i his sister Caroline to join him as a singer. In their spare time the brother-sister team became (73) i in astronomy.
Herschel's first major discoveries were to show that Mars and Jupiter exhibit axial rotation (绕轴自转). Herschel struck fame in 1781, when on March 13th he discovered the planet Uranus (天王星) while engaged in work (74) a at determining stellar parallax (恒星视差). This being the first new planet discovered (75) s ancient times, Herschel, until then an amateur (业余的) astronomer relatively unknown even in England, became world-famous. Adopting a historically proven strategy, Herschel named the new planet Georgium Sidum, in honor of the then ruling English king George III. The trick worked once again, as King George III gave William and Caroline the titles of "The King's Astronomer" and "Assistant to the King's Astronomer”, an honor which came with a life's wealth for both. In 1782 they (76) m to Bath, and shortly thereafter to Slough, and from this point on William and Caroline could devote themselves entirely to astronomy. The Herschels (77) w on to discover two moons of Uranus in 1787.
While Caroline became increasingly occupied (投入) with the search for comets (彗星) at which she was quite successful, William became for a time keen on the Sun. Inspired by Wilson's 1774 work, he put forth the theory of sunspots (太阳黑子), an opinion that (78) c to exist well into the nineteenth century. In 1801, he published two papers that effectively started the field of solar influences on Earth's weather.
72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77.
78.
【答案】72. invited 73. interested 74. aimed 75. since 76. moved 77. went 78. continued
D. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题) (6分)
In New York City, doctors in a new program recently prescribes (开处方) fruits and vegetables to overweight patients. It aims to give at-risk families greater access to healthy foods.
Under the program, overweight patients can be prescribed the tickets from Health Bucks company to exchange produce at local farmers markets. This is part of the programme to make locally grown produce available to low-income New Yorker