八年级英语期中测试试卷
（试题总分100分 测试时间100分钟）
第一卷（共60分） 一．听力理解。（20分）
A. 听对话，选择合适的图画或答案，每段对话读两遍。 ( ) 1. What sports are they talking about?
A B ( ) 2. Which place may Alice visit during the holiday?
A B ( ) 3. How does Sandy usually go to school?
A B
( ) 4. What will the weather be like tomorrow?
A B ( ) 5. How many people are going camping?
A. Five B. Four. ( ) 6. Whose bike is broken?
A. Linda’s. B. John’s. ( ) 7. When will the woman visit the Wildlife Park?
A. On Friday. B. On Saturday． ( ) 8. What time is it now?
A. 8：00． B. 8：30． ( ) 9. What are they talking about? A. The class trip.
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C C C C. Three. C. Lucy’s. C. On Sunday. C. 9：00． 1
B. How to go on a trip. C. The weather tomorrow.
( ) 10. Where are the two speakers?
A. At the bookshop． B. In a library． C. At home． B. 根据所听到的对话或短文选择正确答案。每段材料读两遍。 听下面一段对话，回答第11至12题。
( ) 11. What does the woman think of her work?
A. Difficult. B. Interesting. C. Boring.
( ) 12. What does the woman do as a social worker in the hospital?
A. Tell stories. B. Sing songs. C. Wash clothes. 听下面一段对话，回答第13至15题。
( ) 13. Whose birthday are they talking about?
A. Tina’s. B. Jim’s. C. Linda’s. ( ) 14. When is her birthday?
A. On June 27th. B. On July 27th. C. On July 7th. ( ) 15. What present will Jim buy for his friend’s birthday?
A. Some books. B. A music CD. C. A magazine. 听下面一段短文，回答第16至20题。 ( ) 16. Where is Andy from?
A. France B. The UK. C. The USA ( ) 17. When did Andy get to the top of the Eiffel Tower? A. On the third day of his visit to Paris. B. On the second day of his visit to Paris.
C. On the first day of his visit to Paris.
( ) 18. What did Andy see at the top of the Eiffel Tower? A. He saw most of the city. B. He saw many tall buildings. C. He saw some rivers.
( ) 19. What did Andy do after he went back home? A. He gave his friends a lot of photos.
B. He asked his friends to come to his home.
C. He showed many photos to his friends.
（ ）20. Where does Andy want to go for a visit next year?
A. Russia B. Japan C. The USA 二．单项选择。（15分）
( ) 21. ________useful advice the teacher gave us yesterday!
A. What a B. What C. How D. How a ( ) 22. Last Friday, we had a great time_______ chess in the park.
A. to play B. playing C. to playing D. on playing
( ) 23. My father hoped _______ horse riding when we were in Inner Mongolia. A. me to learn B. I learn C. to learn D. to learning ( ) 24. — How did he finish he work?
— I heard that he did it _________.
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A. of himself B. on the own C. of his own D. by himself
( ) 25. Sadly, the number of the giant pandas getting ________________. A. is, fewer and fewer B. are, larger and larger C. are, less and less D. is, smaller and smaller
( ) 26. Of the two coats, she’d like to choose the _______ one because she has no enough
money.
A. cheapest B. cheaper C. more expensive D. most expensive
( ) 27. The dish smells __________. I can’t wait to taste it.
A. good B. well C. terrible D. terribly ( ) 28. Our teacher told us _______ make _______ noise. A. don’t, some B. not to, any C. not to, some D. don’t, any
( ) 29. ---Don’t forget to close the windows when you leave the classroom. --- _________
A. No, I won’t. B. Yes, I will. C. Yes, I do. D. No, I don’t.
( ) 30. The room is not bright enough. I need to _______ a light in the room. A. put up B. put in C. put on D. put with ( ) 31. Study hard, _______ you will fail in the exam.
A. or B. and C. but D. because ( ) 32. If Jim ______ free tomorrow, I will ask Tom to go instead. A. doesn’t be B. isn’t C. won’t D. won’t be
( ) 33. The Grade 8 students will ______ about two hours on the trip and the ____ is $50 per person.
A. take, cost B. spend, price C. take, price D. spend, cost ( ) 34. It’s __________ for him to complete the project in one day. A. unpossible B. impossibly C. possibly D. impossible ( ) 35. — My brother fell off the bike and hurt himself yesterday.
— _____________.
A. It doesn’t matter. B. Never mind.
C. I’m sorry to hear that. D. He should be careful. 三．完形填空。（10分） A lady once wrote a long story. She sent it to a famous editor. After 36 weeks the editor 37 the story to her. The lady was 38 . She wrote back to the editor: “Dear Sir. Yesterday
you sent back a story of mine. 39 do you know that the story is not good? You did not read it.
40 I sent you the story, I pasted together pages 18,19 and 20. This was a 41 to see if you 3
would read the story. When the story came back yesterday, the pages were 42 pasted together. Is this the 43 you read all the stories that are sent to you?”
The editor wrote back: “Dear Madam, when I have an egg 44 breakfast, I 45 eat the whole egg to discover that it is bad.”
( ) 36. A. few B. a few C. little ( ) 37. A. gave
D. a little
B. came back C. handed D. returned
( ) 38. A. unhappy B. happy C. pleased D. glad ( ) 39. A. How B. Why C. What D. Where ( ) 40. A. After B. until C. Before D. Since ( ) 41. A .lesson B. test C. question D. thing ( ) 42. A. already B. still C. even D. yet ( ) 43. A. work
B. check C. road D. way
( ) 44. A. on B. for C. at D. in
( ) 45. A. must not B. have not to C. need not to D. don’t have to 四．阅读理解。（15分）
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In a New York street, a small truck hit a big tree. The truck was full of glasses and they were all broken now. The driver came out of the truck and looked at the broken glasses. He was very sad and people in the street felt sorry for him. Then an old man walked over to the driver. He looked at him for a few minutes and said, \was the sad answer.
\— here's some money for you, and I can say that some of these people will give you a helping hand, too.\words, he walked away.
The driver held out his hat and over a hundred people came and put their money in it. At last the driver took a bag and put all the money in it. Then he looked at the people and said, \thank you very much. But you didn’t know that the old man is the owner of the truck. I'm driving and making money for him.”
( ) 46. What did the truck hit?
A. An old man B. A big tree C. Some glasses. D. A big hat ( ) 47. How did the driver feel when he looked at the broken glasses?
A. Afraid and excited. B. Pleased and frightened. C. Unhappy and worried. D. Surprised and happy. ( ) 48. Why did people give the driver money?
A. Because they felt sorry for him. B. Because they knew the old man.
C. Because they wanted to help the old man. D. Because they were the drivers’ friends.
( ) 49. From the passage, we know that______________.
A. The old gave the young man a hat. B. The old man was the driver’s father.
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C. The driver became rich.
D. The driver had to give the money to the old man. ( ) 50. What do you think of the old man?
A. generous B. humorous C. clever D. helpful （B）
The children in the village wear dirty, cheap clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in small houses. They have no school. But they can write 26 English letters, and some know a few English words.
How did it happen? It was because a U.S. group called One Computer Every Child offered them 20 computers.
Can children teach themselves to read when they have no schools or teachers but have the help of today’s new technology(技术)? The goal of the group is to find out the answer. And the results are exciting.
“The children are learning more than they would in one year of school,” said Matt Keller, who organized the programme.
The fastest learner was an eight-year-old boy called Kelbesa Negusse. He said that he himself was like a lion.
Keller said, “Seven months ago he didn’t know any English. But now he has known many words. I think if you give them food and water they will never leave the computer room. They will spend day and night there.”
Kelbesa said, “I like the computer because I can learn things with it.” He added, “I know many English words, like dog, monkey, horse, sheep, cow, pig and cat.”
Keller said that One Computer Every Child was planning a programme for children who couldn’t go to school.
( ) 51. From the first paragraph, we can learn that the people in the village are _____________.
A. easy B. poor C. rich D. bored
( ) 52. How can the children in the village learn English words?
A. They go to school every day. B. They have good teachers.
C. One Computer Every Child gave them computers. D. They can learn from books.
( ) 53. What is the goal of One Computer Every Child?
A. To teach children how to use today’s new technology. B. To help children to spend their free time. C. To help children out of their hard life.
D. To help children teach themselves to read through new technology.
( ) 54. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Kelbesa is in Grade 2 now. B. The computers help the children a lot.
C. Keller is the teacher of those children. D. Kelbesa doesn’t like the computer.
( )55. What is the best title for the passage?
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