八年级英语期中测试卷
第I卷（50 分）
I 选择填空（30分）
( ) 1. Yang Lei had ______ unusual experience in Gansu Province. ______ experience
changed her life.
A. a, The
B. an, The
C. an,
D. an, An
( ) 2. There _______ a basketball match on CCTV-5 tonight.
A. will have
B. is going to have
C. will be
D. are going to be
( ) 3. If there is ______ pollution, the air in our city will be ______ dirtier.
A. less; more
B. more; much
C. less; less
D. more; more
( ) 4. My grandpa lives ________ in the country, but he doesn’t feel ________. A. alone; alone B. lonely; lonely C. alone; lonely D. lonely; alone
( ) 5. I will be an astronaut ______. A. after ten years B. in ten years C. ten years ago D. since ten years
( ) 6. ---Won’t books be only on computers?
--- ______ they _______. Books will still be on paper.
A. Yes; will
B. No; will
C. Yes; won’t
D. No; won’t
( ) 7. Marcia isn’t going to the party tomorrow. I’m not going there, _______.
A. too
B. also
C. both
D. either
( ) 8. --- Why are you so upset?
--- Because all my classmates passed the English test ________ me.
A. with
B. except
C. without
D. for
( ) 9. We must listen to the teacher as________ as possible.
A. careful
B. carefully
C. more careful
D. more carefully
( ) 10. Yesterday I _______ to take my homework with me. I _______ it at home.
A. forgot; forgot
B. left;
left C. forgot; left D. left; forgot
( ) 11. Alice often borrows things
______ me but she never _______ them to me.
A. from; returns
B. from; gives back
C. of; returns
D. to; returns
( ) 12. You are supposed ________ on the message to your teacher.
A. pass
B. passed
C. to
pass D. passing
( ) 13. Nowadays teachers may find
______ hard ______ middle school students.
A. that; teach
B. that; to teach
C.
it; teach D. it; to teach
( ) 14. The news made Bob ________.
A. feel exciting
B. feel excited
C. feels exciting
D. feels excited
( ) 15. When the alien ______ out of the museum, Jimmy ________ an ice cream.
A. came; was eating
B. come; was eating
C. comes; ate
D. was coming; ate ( ) 16. While we ______ about Mr Wang in the classroom, he came in.
A. talked
B. are talking
C. were talking
D. talk
( ) 17. Linda was shopping when she saw a strange woman___out of the supermarket.
A. went
B. gets
C. get
D. to go
( ) 18. My father ______ a newspaper at 9:00 last night..
A. is reading
B. read
C.
read D. was reading
( ) 19. Anna looked for her dog ______ but she didn’t find it ______.
A. everywhere; anywhere
B. somewhere; somewhere
C. anywhere; somewhere
D. everywhere; somewhere
( ) 20.The little boy _____ stop playing computer games _____ his father came back.
A. won’t; until
B. didn’t; until
C. doesn’t; after
D. doesn’t; when
( ) 21. ________ amazing the result of the basketball match is!
A. How
B. How an
C. What
D. What an
( ) 22. Please ______ these books to the library and ______ back here some new ones.
A. take; bring
B. bring; take
C. take; take
D. get; bring
( ) 23. Jack is _______ math and I do ______ physics.
A. well at; good in
B. good in; well in
C. good at; good at
D. good at; well in
( ) 24. Mother was mad ________ me because of my ________ report card. A. at; disappointed B. at; disappointing
C. with; disappointed
D. with; disappointing
( ) 25. When I came back home, my baby ________ cry ________.
A. no; more
B. doesn’t; more
C. didn’t; anymore
D. won’t; anymore
( ) 26. The teachers ask us ______ mobile phones to school.
A. bring
B. not bring
C. don’t bring
D. not to bring
( ) 27. The policewoman asked the
little boy ______.
A. where did he live
B. where he lived
C. where he lives
D. where does he lives
( ) 28. --- I don’t know if it _________ tomorrow.
--- Well, if it _______, we won’t go for a picnic.
A. will rain; will rain
B. will rain; rains
C. rains; will rain
D. rains; rains
( ) 29. If you bring snacks to school，the teacher will ________.
A. take it away
B. take away it
C. take them away
D. take away them
( ) 30. --- How long have you been collecting coins?
--- ________.
A. Since 5 years ago
B. Since 5 years
C. In 5 years
D. When I was 5
III 完形填空（10分）
How to practice spoken English?
How can we practice our spoken English (英语口语)?
The first and most important thing is to believe 31 . You should always have confidence or you 32 be able to improve your English. You should often encourage (鼓励) yourself, “Come on,
don’t be afraid!’’
You should never lose heart and never give up.
Maybe you are afraid of losing face, but you should think we are students and we’re33 , there’s no need to
worry 34 anything. You must always be active in practice. There’s no problem that your pronunciation and intonation(语调) can’t be as
good 35 the native (某国的,当地的) people because we are Chinese, and we don’t have chances to live in foreign countries and talk with the people there 36 . But you must know that the main
way to study English is to make ourselves understood and understand other people. You should believe that native speakers will not
37 you, 38 they will encourage you . If you are brave (有勇气的) enough, you’ll certainly be better at 39 English than before.
40 be shy or afraid! Just have a try. ( ) 31. A. itself B.
yourself C. themselves D. myself
( ) 32. A. can’t never B. are never C. will D. will never
saying C. students D. teaching
( ) 34. A. / B.
to C. about D. for ( ) 35. A. so B. with C. as D. than
( ) 36. A. some time B. sometime C. sometimes D. all the time
( ) 37. A. laugh at B. get
over C. open up D. seem like
( ) 38. A. so B.
instead C. or D. nor
speech C. speak D. spoke ( ) 40. A. Don’t B.
Not C. No D. Do
IV 阅读理解（10分）
( A )
Long, long ago there was no zero. To write the number sixty-three people wrote 63.To write six hundred and three, people wrote 6 3.The space between six and three was there to mean." not any "tens. Sometimes people did not remember the space. It was hard to see and read.
Later people used a dot to hold the
space. Six hundred and three looked like this 6.3.But the dot was hard to see. So people put a circle around it like this
6⊙3.Then people could see the dot. They remembered the space. at last ,only the circle around the dot was used. It was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero came to be used.
Now zero has many important
uses .Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways of using zero?
( ) 41. Long long ago people didn`t know how to ____.
A. write
B. write zero
C.write numbers
D. sixty-three
( ) 42. Long long ago if they wrote two hundred-eight, people wrote_____.
A.28
B.2 8
C.228
D.208
( ) 43. Later ______ was used to mean space.
A. "not any"
B. letter"0"
C. zero
D.
a dot
( ) 44. People used circles
_____________.
A. to remember ways
B. to remember numbers
C. not to forget the space
D. to mean nothing
( ) 45.The story tells us _____.
A. how zero came to be used
B.
how to write zero
C. what’s the use of zero
D. that zero means a dot, a circle or space
(B)
If you get lost, this is what you should do. Sit down and stay where you are. Don’t try to find your friends—let them find you. You can help them find you by staying in one place. There is another way to help your friends or other people to find you. You can shout or whistle （吹口哨）three times. Stop. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal（信号）for three times is a call for help.
Keep up shouting or whistling. Always three times together. When people hear you, they will know that you are not just making a noise for fun. They will let you know that they have heard your signal. They will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice, it is an answer to a call for help.
If you don’t think that you will get help before night comes, try to make a little house with branches（树枝）. Make yourself a bed with leaves and grass. When you need some water, you have to leave your little branch house to look for it. Don’t just walk away. Pick off small
branches and drop them as you walk in order to go back again easily. When you are lost, the most important thing to do is to stay in one place.
( ) 46..If you get lost in the forest, you should___________.
A. try to find your friends
B. stay in one place and give signals
C. walk around the forest
D. shout as loudly as possible
( ) 47..Which signal is a call for help?
A shouting here and there B. crying twice
C. shouting or whistling three times together
D. whistling every where in the forest ( ) 48.When you hear two shouts or two whistles, you know that_____.
A. someone is afraid of an animal
B. people will come to help you
C. someone needs help
D. something terrible will happen
( ) 49.What’s the meaning of the underlined sentence?(划线句子) A．Drop branches to find your way back B．Pick off branches to build another house
C．Use branches to make a bed D．Drop branches to look for water ( ) 50.The main（主要的）idea of the