牛津上海版八年级上册英语基础知识练习

八年级上英语基础知识练习

I.Choose the best answer:

( ) 1. There is __________ “ h ” in the word “ hour ”.

A. /

B. the

C. a

D. an

( ) 2. Could you please tell us ____________ Tom has gone to America?

A. how often

B. how long

C. if

D. when

( ) 3. Though Lei Feng _________________ , the Chinese people still remember him.

A. has dead

B. has been died

C. has died

D. was died ( ) 4. The Olympic Games ____________ every four years.

A. is held

B. are held

C. holds

D. hold

( ) 5. What did the class teacher ___________ Mary to _________ at the class meeting?

A. ask, talk

B. tell, speak

C. ask, speak

D. tell, say ( ) 6. The Chinese the first to use paper money in the early part of the eleventh

century.

A. is

B. are

C. was

D. were

( ) 7. Anyone can master English and Chinese _____________ he doesn ' t want to.

A. unless

B. until

C. when

D. if

( ) 8. The weather forecast doesn ___'__t_ s_a_y.

A. if rains tomorrow

B. if it will rain tomorrow

C. when will it rain tomorrow

D. if it would rain tomorrow

( ) 9. The Shanghai Radio and TV Tower is a _____________ tower.

A. 468 meters tall

B. 468-meter tall

C. 468 meter tall

D. 468-meter

-tall

( ) 10. About __________ the clients are old people.

A.hundreds of

B. two hundred of

C. two hundred

D. two hundreds

( ) 11. The system of numbers _________________ the numbers from 1 to 9 and 0.

A. consist of

B. consist

C. consists in

D. consists of

( ) 12. There is going to be ____________ snow in my hometown this winter than last winter.

A. little

B. few

C. less

D. fewer

( ) 13. My younger brother was eager to find out _______________ Father Christmas had put in his stocking ．

A. whether

B. when

C. what D . that

( ) 14. Workers ___________ __ some chemicals __________ the water to give it a thorough cleaning.

A. add, in

B. add, on

C. add, to

D. add, with

) 15. __________ piece of important information it is!

(

A. How

B. What

C. What a

D. What an

) 16. When you _______ _ the work, please call me.

(

A. finish doing

B. finish to do

C. finishes doing

D. will finish to do ( ) 17. You ' d bett_e_r_ _ ____ in the street. It 's too dangerous.

A. don ' t play

B. not to play

C. not play

D. not playing ( ) 18. I felt ________________ sorry for having kept you __________ .

A. truly, waiting

B. true, waiting

C. true, wait

D. truth, to wait

( ) 19. Not only my brother but also I _________________ in interested in football.

A. am

B. are

C. is

D. be

( ) 20. What made the country ________________ so fast?

A. developed

B. developing

C. develop

D. Develops