2016八年级下期期中试题

2016年上学期八年级下册英语期中考试（时间：90分钟满分：120 分）班级__________ 姓名______________ 学号_______________ 一．听力技能（共四部分，20小题，计20分）二．知识运用。

A）单项选择。

（共15小题，计15分）（）21. I got up too late this morning so I went to school _______ breakfast.A.withB.withoutC.for（）22.---- Why don’t you _____ her a camera?A.gotB.gettingC.get（）23.David says he won’t join them. I won’t_________.A.tooB. alsoC.either（）24.The old woman lives______, but she doesn’t feel _________ .A.alone; aloneB.lonely; aloneC.alone; lonely（）25.----- How does Jack usually go to work?----- He _____drive a car,but now he _____there to lose weight.ed to ;is used to walked to ; is used to walkingC.was used to; is used to walking（）26.-----Why do you make your parents so _________?------Because they give me ________ pressure.A.angrily; too muchB.angry;too muchC.angry; much too （）27.My friend had trouble ________ homework.A.doB.doingC.to do（）28.There must be ______ wrong with the clock. It doesn’t work.A.nothingB.somethingC.anything（）29.All of us find ______ necessary to take exercise every day.A.itB.thisC.that（）30.----- Could you please sweep the floor?------ _________. I’m busy babysitting my sister.A.Sorry,I can’t.B.Sorry, you can’t.C.Yes,sure.（）31.My grandma didn’t go to sleep______I got back home.A.whereB.untilC.as soon as（）32.Gina was sleeping _______ someone knocked at the door.A.beforeB.whileC.when（）33.My father was reading ______ my mother was cooking dinner.A.whileB.asC.when（）34.Do you remember what _______ at 11:00 a.m. Yesterday?A.were you doingB.you were doingC.are you doing（）35.----I hope you feel better.-----_______.A.Yes,I think so.B.Thank you.C.That sounds great. B）完形填空。

（共10分，计10分）Water is the__36__ of all the things we eat and drink. Not many people understand this but__37___ true. The human body can go without __38__ for a long time. We’ve many examples for this. Yet two __39__ three days without water can usually make people __40___ . Man can’t live __41___ water.A lot of people don’t understand how __42___ water the human body needs to work well, and how many people ,especially young people, do not drink enough, ___43__ in very hot weather. Our body has mostly water, about 65% to 75%. That is to say two thirds of our body__44___ water. When we do sports, some of the water will get away from our body. ___45__ we don’t drink some water, we won’t have enough water. And if we don’t have enough water, we’ll feel tired and many of us will get ill. So you know how important water is to us.( ) 36. A .important B.most important C.more important ( ) 37. A.it’s B.its C.it( ) 38. A.food B.water C.drink( ) 39. A .or B.and C.but( ) 40.to die B.die C.dying( ) 41. A.have B.with C.without( ) 42. A.many B.much C.little( ) 43. A.even B.ever C.almost( ) 44. A.is B.are C.have( ) 45. A.If B.For C. Because三．阅读理解。

（共三部分，20小题，计40分）A)阅读短文，根据短文内容判断句子的正（T）误（F）One day , Mr Smith is going to take a train to his hometown. When the train starts , one of his shoes falls to the ground. The train is running faster and faster and he can’t pick it up . Then he quickly takes off the other one and throw it on the ground near the fallen shoe. A little boy on the train asks him, “Why do you do that ?”“I’ve already lost one shoe.” Mr Smith answers, “ If a man picks them up, he may get a pair of shoes.”( ) 46. Mr. Smith is going to his hometown by train.( ) 47. Mr. Smith lost two shoes when the train starts.( ) 48. Mr. Smith can’t pick up the fallen shoe because the little boy has picked it up.( ) 49. The little boy throws the other shoe on the ground.( ) 50. Mr . Smith thinks a man may get a pair of shoes to wear if he throws the other near the fallen shoe.B)阅读短文，根据短文内容选择最佳答案。

（共10小题，计20分）（A）We each have a memory. That’s why we can still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things by heart, but some people can only remember things when they say or do them again and again. Many of the great men of the world have got surprising memories.A good memory is a great help in learning languages. Everybody learns his mother language when he’s a small child. He hears the sounds, remember them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living with their parents in a foreign countries. They can learn two languages as easily as one because they hear, remember and speak two languages every day. In school ,it’s not so easy to learn a foreign language because the pupils have so little time for it , and they are busy with other subject, too.But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises.( ) 51. Some people can easily learn many things by heart because______.A. they always sleep well.B.they read a lot of books.C.they have very good memories.( ) 52. Everyone learns his mother language _______.A.at the age of six.B.when he’s a small child.C.after he goes to school.( ) 53. Before a child can speak, he must _______.A.hear and remember the sound.B.read and writeC.make sentences.( ) 54. In school the pupils can’t learn a foreign language easily because_____.A.they have no good memories.B.they don’t like it.C.they are busy with other subjects( ) 55. Your memory will become better and better_____.A.if you have a lot of good foodB.if you do more and more exercisesC.if you do morning exercise every day（B）In the United States, parents usually encourage their children to develop their potential(潜能）. They pay attention to what their kids can do ,not what they can’t. As a result, US boys and girls hope to be actors, athletes and doctors; many even want to be presidents when they grow up.US parents often encourage their children to take part in all kinds of activities at school. They believe that joining in these activities can make their children mature(成熟）. Schoolwork is important, but they think that social skills are important as well.But things in China are different. Chinese parents often tell their children to study hard and pass exams. They think that for a student, staying away schoolbooks means wasting time. This put a lot of pressure on Chinese students, so leaders in China’s education department have called for less homework at lower grades. Only healthy kids can become healthy adults.( ) 56. American parents think that ______.A.schoolwork is as important as social skillsB.schoolwork is more important than social skillsC.schoolwork is less important than social skills( ) 57. Why do many American children have their dream jobs?A. Because they starts school earlier than Chinese children.B. Because they study hard.C. Because their parents usually pay attention to what they can do , notwhat they can’t.( ) 58. Chinese parents think that ______.A.taking all kinds of activities at school can make their children mature.B.staying away schoolbooks means wasting timeC.their children should do what they want to do.( ) 59. According to this passage the writer thinks_____.A. China’s education is better than America’sB. America’s education is better than China’sC. Chinese students at lower grades should have more homework( ) 60.From the passage, we can know ________.A. children in China have little pressureB.only healthy kids can become healthy adultsC.children in America have much homeworkC)阅读下面的材料，回答问题。