八年级第一学期英语期中考试试卷

八年级英语第一学期期中考试试卷（总分：100分考试时间：100分钟）一、听力（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）A、根据录音，选出合适的答句，读两遍（5分）（）1、A. He is good at maths B. He doesn’t like EnglishC. He likes history best（）2、A . Of course. I’d love to B. It doesn’t matter.C. Thanks. I’m full now.（）3、A. It happened at school. B. It happened yesterday afternoon.C. I saw it yesterday afternoon.（）4、A. Last year. B. In America. C. By plane. （）5、A. Once a year. B. For a long time. C. Next year. B. 听下面3段长对话和短文，每段对话和短文后有几个小题，从题中A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

(读两遍)听第1段材料，回答第6、7题。

( )6. When did Sandy hurt her leg?A. On Monday.B. On Tuesday.C. On Thursday.( )7. How long can’t she play football?A. A week.B. Two weeks.C. About two months.听第2段材料，回答第8至10题。

( )8. How far is Nancy’s home from her school?A. About four li.B. Three li.C. About six li.( )9. Does Nancy often walk to school?A. Yes, she does.B. No, she doesn’t.C. I don’t know.( )10. How does John go to school if it rains or snows?A. He takes the school bus.B. He walks to school.C. He goes to school by bike.听第3段材料，回答第11至15题。

( )11. Which birthday of the mother was coming?A. 56 th.B. 65th.C. 55th.( )12. What kind of present did the rich man want to give his mother?A. Strange.B. Special.C. Common(普通的).( )13. How much did the rich man pay for the bird?A. $50,000.B. $5,000.C. $500.( )14. How many languages could the bird talk in?A. Twelve.B. Twenty.C. Ten.( )15. Why did the mother say “delicious” when the rich man asked about the bird?A. Because the bird was very smart.B. Because she ate the bird.C. Because the bird could cook meals.二、单项选择（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）( )16. She often goes to school early he is never late for class.A. butB. orC. /D. and( )17. There are over places of interest from all over the world.A. two hundred ofB. two hundredsC. hundreds ofD. two hundred( )18. “Lift” is also called ______ in British English .A. dustbinB. corridorC. elevatorD. rubber( )19. Can you _______ a funny story ?A. speakB. sayC. talkD. tell( )20. Kitty and I felt sick for________.A. many of the tripB. most of the tripC. more of the tripD. the most of the trip( )21. Picking apples___ very interesting.A. areB. isC. beD. am( )22. In my family I have a lot of housework to do. I have _____ free time.A. moreB. muchC. fewerD. the least( )23. The dolphins were really tired _____ the long performance.A. becauseB. soC. because ofD. to( )24. The weather today is even ______ than yesterday.A. badB. goodC. bestD. worse( )25. He often tells us ______people in trouble.A. not laughB. not laugh atC. to laughD. not to laugh at ( )26. Now Mary is driving ______ than before.A. more carefulB. more carefullyC. carefullyD. careful( )27. The Yellow River is one of _____ rivers in China.A. longerB. longestC. longD. the longest( )28. You look____ than before, why?A. more thinB. more thinnerC. much thinnerD. much more thin ( )29. There ______ a basketball match in the playground this afternoon.A. will haveB. is going to haveC. is going to beD. is going to has ( )30. Let’s enjoy the song. It sounds____.A. wellB. sadlyC. niceD. nicely( )31. There were ______friends of his in the room. So he felt lonely.A. fewB. a fewC. littleD. a little( )32. The doctor told him to take more _______ to keep _____.A. exercise, fitB. exercises, fitC. exercise, healthD. exercises, healthy ( )33.The number of the students in Woodland School _______1998.A. areB. isC. beD. in( )34. We were all ______ at the _____ news.A. excited, excitedB. excited, excitingC. exciting, excitedD. exciting, exciting( )35. Why is there _____ traffic on the streets in February than in May?A. lessB. fewerC. fewD. little三、完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）The famous Italian traveler, Marco Polo, travelled a long way to China in 1 century. He saw many interesting things in China. One of 2 things he found was that the Chinese people used paper money. In 3 countries, people didn’t use paper money 4 the seventeenth century. But people in China began to use paper money in the eleventh century.A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper almost 2,000 years ago. He made it from wood. He took the wood from trees and made it 5 paper. He then put them together, and made them into a 6 .Now we know 7 comes from trees, and we must save paper. We use a lot of paper every day .If we always waste paper, there will be no paper, because there are not so many trees 8 us to make paper from. Everyone must help to 9 paper. If we all think carefully, we can help to grow 10 trees. And we should do it now, before it is too late.( )1.A.thirteenth B. the thirteenth C. thirteen D. the thirteen( )2.A.great B. greater C. greatest D. the greatest( )3.A.western B. west C. eastern D. east( )4.A. in B. until C. from D. when( )5.A. in B. of C. from D. into( )6.A. book B. paper C. wood D. tree( )7.A. wood B. book C. paper D. magazine( )8.A. of B. for C. to D. with( )9.A. waste B. use C. make D. save( )10.A.more B. much C. a lot D. too四、阅读理解（共15小题，AB篇每小题1分，C篇每小题2分，共20分）(A)Last Sunday I saw the worst storm in years. It came suddenly and went on for more than three hours. After lunch, I went into my room to have a rest. The air was hot, and all was quiet.The strong wind started blowing into my room. Pieces of paper on my desk flew high into the air and some flew out of the open window. As I ran out to catch them, big drops of rain began to fall.When I came back into the house, it was raining harder and harder. I tried very hard to close the window. Then I heard a loud crashing（碰撞的）sound from the back of the house. I ran out of my room to find out what it was--- a big tree had fallen down and broke the top of the back room.（）1.The storm happened________.A. in the morningB. in the afternoonC. while I was in the back roomD. while I was in the garden（）2.Before the storm came, the weather was_________.A. coldB. coolC. hotD. warm（）3.The storm went on for _________.A. over three hoursB. three hoursC. less than three hoursD. two hours（）4.The wind blew some of the paper ________.A. all over the floorB. out of the doorC. into the back roomD. out of the open window（）5.The top of the back room was broken because of _______.A. the hot airB. the crashing soundC. the rainD. the falling tree（B）An old scientist recently made several tests with different animals to find out which was cleverer than other animals.In one test the old scientist put a monkey in a room where there were several boxes. Some boxes were inside other boxes . One small box had some food in it . The scientist wanted to watch the monkey and to find out how long it would take the monkey to find the food. The scientist left the room. He waited a few minutes outside the door. Then he got down on his knees and put his eyes to the keyhole. What did he see? To his surprise, he found himself looking into the eye of the monkey. The monkey was on the other side of the door and looked at the scientist through the keyhole.( )6. The scientist did the test to see ______.A. if the monkey would steal the foodB. if the monkey would look for the foodC. if the monkey was cleverer than other animalsD. if some boxes were inside other boxes( )7. In one test the scientist put a monkey ______.A. into a small boxB. into several small boxesC. into a box where there was some foodD. in a room( )8. After the scientist left the room , the monkey ______.A. began to eat foodB. began to look for foodC. looked at the scientist through the keyholeD. came into the boxes one after another( ) 9. The scientist ______.A. got down on his knees and waited outside the doorB. got down on his knees and heard with his earsC. left the room for a long timeD. looked at the monkey through the keyhole with his eyes( )10. To the scientist’s surprise ______.A. the monkey got down on its kneesB. the monkey came out of the roomC. the monkey looked at the scientist through the keyhole.D. the monkey put its eye to the keyhole（C）Welcome to the zooCome and meet the Indian(印度的) elephants and the new tigers from America. The bears are waiting to meet you, and the monkeys from China are waiting to throw things at you. The lovely dogs from Australia are waiting to laugh at you. The giraffes（）11. How many kinds of animals are talked about in the passage？A. FourB. FiveC. SixD. Seven（）12. Now Mr. Smith is in the zoo with his two sons, one aged 14 and the other10. How much are the tickets altogether(总共)?A. ＄4.00B. ＄2.00C. ＄3.00D. ＄1.00（）13. Which of the following is a visiting time?A. 8:30 a.m. Monday.B. 9:30 a.m. Friday.C. 5:00 p.m. Tuesday.D. 2:00 p.m. Sunday.（）14. From the passage we can guess the animal “giraffe” mu st be very ___.A. fatB. longC. tallD. strong（）15. Which of the following can we do in the zoo?A. Take a few nice photos.B. Give some food to the fishC. Touch the monkey on the head.D. Throw things everywhere.五、词汇（每小题1分，满分20分）A)根据句意、汉语注释和音标，在空格上写出单词的正确形式。