八年级英语上册期中测试卷.doc

2015学年第一学期八年级英语期中质量检测卷
听力部分（25分）
一．听对话回答问题（共5小题，计5分）
1. How does Mary go to work when it rains?
A. By subway. B. By bus. C. By bike.
2. When did J.K Rowling start to write Harry Potter?
A. In 1998. B. In 1965. C. In 1990.
3. What did the man buy for his sister on the trip?
A. Nothing. B. Football. C. Watch.
4. What are they doing？
A. Doing shopping. B. Having sports. C. Making a telephone call.
5. How often does the man learn English by watching TV?
A. Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Every day.
二．听长对话回答问题（共5小题，计10分）
听下面一段对话, 回答第6至8三个小题。现在, 你有15秒钟的时间阅读这两题。
6.What is the weather like ?
A. It’s a rainy day. B. It’s so noisy. C. It’s a beautiful day.
7. Why doesn’t the man feel like going out for a walk with the woman?
A. There is too much noise and the air isn’t good. B. It’s a rainy day. C. It’s too hot.
8.What are they going to do in the end ?
A. They want to take a walk. B. They want to listen to music. C. They will do a lot of interesting things.
听第二段对话，回答9~10题。
9. Where is Bob living now?
A. In a town in England.
B. In West Hills, a small town in California.
C. In a village in the west of England.
10.Which country are Bob’s travel books mainly(主要地) about?
A. England. B. Italy. C. France.
三、听短文，根据所听内容选择正确答案。短文读两遍。（10分）
11. By which means(方式） can we get a lot of knowledge faster?
A. By listening to the radio. B. By reading books. C. By watching TV.
12. On TV you may know_____________ .
A. super stars B. your family C. everything in our life
13. If you have no time to travel, you may be very ___________ .
A. worried B. sad C. shy
14. What does the writer think of watching TV?
A. It’s good. B. It’s bad. C. It’s good, but too much is bad.
15. Some of the students don’t like their studies ___________ .
A. because their studies are too boring.
B. because they don’t know how important their studies are.
C. because they love watching TV too much.

笔试部分（95分）
一. 选出划线部分发音与其他三项不同的一项。（5分）
1. A. vacation B. exam C. David D. favorite
2. A. most B. post C. host D. cost
3. A. seem B. feel C. coffee D. between
4. A. however B. blow C. brown D. now
5. A. clearly B. hear C. learn D. near
二. 单项选择(15分)
1. ---_______do you have an art festival in your school? ---Once a year.
A. How long B. How often C. How far D. How soon
2. They decided ____________ by bus.
A. to go to there B. to go there C. going there D. going to there
3. ---Do you often go to the gym? ---No. ________. I don’t like sports at all.
A. always B. never C. sometimes D. usually
4. ---I often have hamburgers for lunch.
--- You’d better not. It’s bad for you _____ too much junk food.
A. eat B. to eat C. eating D. ate
5. ---Do you know the ______of the exam? ---Yes, I got an A.
A. result B. time C. place D. name
6. ----What’s wrong with me, doctor? ---- ________. You just have a cold.
A. Something much. B. Nothing much C. Much something D. Much nothing
7. ---Are there any oranges in the bag? ---Yes. But only _______.
A. few B. a little C. a few D. little
8. ---Hey, Tina. _____are you going for your vacation?
--- Hmmm. I think I’m going to shanghai.
A. How B. Where C. When D. Why
9.----I’m going for a summer camp in Beijing next month. --- ________.
A. What a pity B. Not at all C. Don’t worry D. Have a good time
10. ---How often are the Olympic Games held？ ---_____four years.
A. Every B. Each C. In D. For
11. He must _____ his sister with her math.
　　A. try help B. trying to help C. trys to help D. try to help
12. --- Are you ______ from America? --- No, none of us.
A. both B. all C. any D. either
13. ----Why do you make friends with Joe ?
----He isn’t a good student, but ________ he is honest.
A . almost B . at least C. less than D. more than
14. The woman is ______ fat because he eats ______ junk food.
A. much too, too much B. much too, much too
C. too much, too much D. too much, much too
15. Which one is ________ , football or basketball?
A. more popular B. popular C. popularer D. much popular
三、完型填空（10分）
One day a woman walks __1__ a hat shop. The boss smiles and says, “Good afternoon, madam.”
“Good afternoon.” the woman answers. “There is a green hat __2__ red flowers on it in your __3__ . .Will you please take it out of there?
“Yes, madam,” the boss says, “I’m happy to do that __4__ you.” Usually women look at a lot of __5__ before they buy one, and the boss gets very tired. “Good,” he thinks, “I can sell this hat very __6__ today.”
“Do you want it in a box or __7__ your head, madam?” he asks.
“Oh, I don’t want it,” she answers. “I __8__ want you to take it out of your window. I pass your __9__ every day, and I don’t like to __10__ the ugly(丑) thing there.”
( ) 1. A. to B. into C. at D. by
( ) 2. A. with B. has C. have D. of
( ) 3. A. door B. wall C. window D. table
( ) 4. A. to B. for C. about D. help
( ) 5. A. clothes B. shirts C. trousers D. hats
( ) 6. A. quickly B. dear C. cheap D. late
( ) 7. A. from B. in C. on D. with
( ) 8. A. really B. only C. can D. must
( ) 9. A. park B. car C. room D. shop
( ) 10. A. look B. read C. see D. watch
四、阅读理解（30分）
（A）
A young boy was playing with a ball in the street. He threw（扔）it too hard and it broke（打破）the window of a house and fell（掉）inside. A woman came to the window and shouted（大喊） at the boy. The boy was afraid and ran away. But he still wanted his ball back. A few minutes（分钟）later. The boy came back and knocked（敲）at the door and said, “My father is going to come and repair（修理）your window soon.”
After a while, a man came to the door with tools（工具）in his hand, so the woman let the boy take his ball away.
When the man finish repairing the window, he said to the woman, “Please pay ten dollars.”
“But aren’t you the father of the boy?” the woman asked, looking surprised（惊奇）. “No,” he answered, looking more surprised, “Aren’t you his mother?”
1. The boy lost his ball because _____.
A. the ball fell into the woman’s garden
B. the ball broke the window of his house
C. the ball broke the window and fell into the woman’s house
D. he went through the window of the woman’s house
2. The boy ran away because _____.
A. he was afraid of the woman B. he had to ask his father for help
C. he didn’t want his ball back D. he had to look for his friends
3. The boy came back again because _____.
A. he father will come soon B. he wanted the ball back
C. the woman was his mother D. a man would come to repair the window
4. The woman let the boy take his ball away _____.
A. because she thought he was honest（诚实的）
B. because he came back and repaired the window
C. because she thought the man was his father
D. because his father repaired the window
5. Which of the following is RIGHT?
A. The boy was the son of the man.
B. The man was the father of the boy.
C. The woman knew the man was the father of the boy.
D. The man thought the woman was the boy’s mother.
（B）
Cindy, Jerry and Mary are giving their opinions about a good friend.
Cindy: I think a good friend should be honest(诚实的). That’s more important than any other thing and is where a good friendship starts. If a friend isn’t honest, he may lose his friends’ trust.
Jerry: I think a good friend has to be generous. Here“generous” doesn’t mean he has to give his friends his lunch money or his clothes. It means he should share(分享) his ideas and feelings with his friends. In fact, his friends can know him better in this way.
Mary: In my opinion a good friend should understand(理解) his friends. When there’s
something wrong between him and his friends, he must put himself in his friends’ place and think more for his friends.
6. What does the underlined sentence(句子) mean?
A. To be honest is the most important.    B. To be honest is as important as other things.
C. To be honest is not so important. D. Honest people get more things than others.
7. Jerry would like to make friends with people who ______.
A. give him lunch money  B. know him very well
C. tell him their ideas and feelings  D. give him some clothes
8. Mary thinks friends should ______.
A. visit each other often B. go to more places to play
C. understand each other D. help each other do more things
9. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. They are talking about what they think a good friend should be.
B. They are talking about money.
C. They are talking about clothes.
D. They are talking about trust.
10. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. My friend.              B. Trust is the most important. 
C. Opinions about a good friends.         D. Being generous is the important.
(C)
Why is 2004 a special year? Because it is a Leap Year（闰年）.
What’s so special about that? Well, we have a Leap Year every four years. And it has 366 days, not the usual （通常的）365. In a Leap Year, we have 29 days in February, while in a usual year we have only 28 days.
Why do we have a Leap Year? We have a Leap Year so we can keep the calendar （日历）in step （一致）with the seasons. The calendar is a kind of clock for the year. But how long is a year? A calendar year is 365 days. But a true year is 365 days 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds long. That’s the time it takes the earth to go around the sun. So every four years we have one more day, and we put it at the end of February, the shortest month of a year. Then we have a Leap Year.
11. How often can we have a Leap Year?
A. Every year B. Every February C. Every four years D. Every two years
12. What is a calendar? It’s a kind of clock _______.
A. for the year B. for Leap Year C. for the usual year D. for the calendar
13. It takes the earth ________ to go around the sun.
A. a day B. a year C. a little longer than 365 days D. 365 days
14. Which is the shortest month of the year?
A. February B. March C. May D. June
15. Mary was born on February 29,1972. Now she is 32. How many birthdays has she had?
A. 32 B. 16 C. 8 D. 4

五、词语填空 (10分)
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）。
new, breakfast, do, stay, but, different, you, class, big, meal
Anna comes from Russia. She is 17 years old. She’s going 1.________ with the Black family for a year. Anna comes to England because she wants to study English. She helps Mrs Black 2.________ housework in the house and goes to English 3._________ every Wednesday and Friday afternoon.
Anna is now in London. Everything is 4. _______ to her. She finds life is 5.________ from that in Moscow. Some things are nice in London, many things are not so nice. The shops are 6._________ in London than those in Moscow. 7._______ it’s very expensive to enjoy 8._________ in London. It’s expensive to have a 9.________ at a restaurant or go to a cinema.
Now Anna has got used to (习惯) many things, but she can’t get used to the 10.___ in England. “You English eat so much in the morning,” she often says. “Fruits, porridge, eggs, tea and bread. How can you face(面对) all that food so early in the day?”

六、单词拼写（10分）
1. We had a wonderful dinner at the restaurant. The food was d________.
2. My father goes to Beijing ______ (two) a year.
3. Can you find any ______________ (different) between this photo and that one?
4. Eddie is very lazy and he never e______.
5. How many _____________ ( people ) are there in your family?
6. The river is b________ the bridge. The bridge is over the river.
7. Ben, your teeth look dirty. Go to the d________ to clean them.
8. Her dress is very s_________ to mine though we bought them in different stores.
9. I think it’s a good habit to keep a d________ in English every day.
10. ----Did you visit the Great Wall? ----Yes, I did. It was really w_______________!

七、 书面表达（15分）
以“My Vacation”为题，写一篇70个单词左右的短文，描写你的假期，文章必须包括以下要点：
1. 时间：上周
2. 天气：很好
3. 地点：北京
4. 人物：你和你的家人
5. 经历：游览了许多美丽的地方，看了许多旧房子，吃了很多美味的食物。但是，当我们要回家时，天开始要下雨了，所以我们决定乘出租车回家。
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