八年级英语期中考试试题2012

八年级英语（下）期中考试卷一.单项选择题：（共15小题，每小题1分）( )1. I went to Yunnan last year and fell in love _____ it .A. withB. inC. toD. for( )2. In Spanish, he __________listening.A. do better inB. does well inC. is good inD. do OK in( )3.There ________ a basket ball match this afternoon.A. will beB. will haveC. are going to beD. is going to have( )4.---How do you go to the zoo tomorrow?---If it ______ tomorrow, I’ll go there by car.A. rainingB. rainC. rainsD. will rain( )5. His flight to London ______ from Chengdu International Airport yesterday.A. took offB. gave offC. took upD. turned off( )6. ---My friend needs some money. What should she do?---Maybe she should ______some ______her friends.A. borrows…fromB. lend…toC. lends…toD. borrow…from( )7. While the students ________ about Harry Potter , the teacher came in.A. talkedB. are talkingC. were talkingD. talk( )8.He feels lonely in Wenzhou because he has __________ friends here.A. manyB. muchC. littleD. few( )9. Your room looks dirty. Will you please _______ it clean?A. takeB. makeC. letD. tidy( )10. TV and computers can ______our eyes to the outside world.A. start withB. open upC. turn upD. take up( )11. ---What did your son say in the letter?---He told me he _______ Shanghai the next week.A. will visitB. has visitedC. visitedD. would visit( )12.Lisa was supposed her homework before nine o'clock. But she couldn't.A. to finishB. to finishingC. finishD. finishing( )13.He ___________ know where her house is.A. maybeB. may beC. mayD. must be( )14. He doesn’t have any money, ____________.A. tooB. alsoC. eitherD. neither( )15.I finished my __________ exams last week.A. end of yearB. end-of-yearC. year-of-endD. year-end二、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分）Do you know Eskimos(爱斯基摩人)? Let me 1 you something about their life.The Eskimos live near the North Pole(北极). There are only two seasons 2 : winter and summer. There is no spring 3 autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can't __4__ the sun for more than two months, even at noon. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never _5__ and there is no night.The Eskimos have __6__ clothes. They make their clothes from the skins(皮) of animals. From skins they make coats, caps and __7__. Near the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is _8__ there. The Eskimos__9__ make their houses from skins, stone or snow. When they __10__ in a storm and can't __11__ home, they make houses of snow. They __12__ these snow houses when the storm is _13__.Life is __14__ for the Eskimos, but they still __15__ to live there.1.A.say B.speak C. talk D. tell2.A. there B.here C. warm D.cold3.A.not B.or C.and D.neither4.A. see B.watch C.look D.look at5.A.rises B.goes up es up D.goes down6.A.hot B.cold C.warm D.cool7.A.food B. drinks C.medicine D.shoes8.A.too cold B.too hot C.either cold or hot D. neither cold nor hot9.A.will B.should C.never D.have to10. A.go out B.go over C.go on D.go up11.A.get back B.get off C.get on D.get in12.A.reach B.leave C.leave for Dget to13. A. over B. finished C. ended D. in the end14. A. easy B. easily C. hard D. hardly15. A. enjoy B. like C. wish D. hope三. 阅读理解(共30分)A阅读短文，选出最佳选项A lady wrote a long novel. She sent it to a famous editor (编辑). After a few weeks the novel was returned to her. The lady was angry. She wrote back to the editor. “Dear sir, yesterday you sent back a novel of mine. How do you know that the novel is not good? You didn’t read it. Before I sent you the novel, I posted together pages 18, 19 and 20 . This was a test to see whether you would read the novel. When the novel came back yesterday, the pages were still posted together. Is this the way you read all the stories that are sent to you?”The editor wrote back: “Dear madam,at breakfast when I have an egg, I don’ t have to eat the whole egg in order to discover(发现) that it is bad.”( ) 1. The title that can explain the story best is __________.A. A Letter ReturnedB. A Novel Given BackC. Testing Whether Reading or NotD. Reading While Eating( ) 2. The novel was sent back to its writer because__________.A. some pages of it were posted togetherB. the editor checked the novel in a hurryC. the editor thought it was not goodD. the novel was n’ t written by the writer herself( ) 3. Which of the following sentences is true?A. The editor read the whole novel carefully.B. There are twenty pages in the novel.C. Both the editor and the lady were clever.D. The editor was pleased with her novel.( )4. The lady posted three pages together so as to find_____________.A. whether the novel was read throughB. whether the novel was openedC. whether the novel was stolenD. whether the novel was broken( ) 5. From the story we know that ________.A. the editor likes the novel very muchB. the editor has a good way to read novelsC. the editor has a good way to eat an eggD. the editor doesn’t like the novel at allB 选出最佳选项In Britain the weather never gets hot or too cold. There isn’t difference between summer and winter. Why is this?Britain has a warm winter and a cool summer because it’s an island country. In winter the sea is warmer than the land. The winds from the sea bring warm air to Britain. In summer the sea is cooler than the land. The winds from the sea bring cool air to Britain.The winds from the west blow over Britain all the year. They blow from the southwest across the Atlantic Ocean(大西洋)。