寒假作业八年级英语试卷（二）考试时间90 分钟试卷满分 100 分温馨寄语：我自信, 我努力 , 我成功 ! 时间会证明全部!一单项选择 (每题 1分,共 10分)( ( ( )1._______ people lost their homes in Japan’s earthquake.A. Two thousandsB. ThousandC. Thousands ofD. Thousand of)2 Now, everybody, please turn to Page ____ and look at the ________picturA. Fifth; fiveB. Five; fifthC. Fifth; fifthD. Five; five) 3 About _______ of the workers in the factory were born in the _______.A. two-thirds; 1970B. two-thirds; 1970sC. two-third; 1970D. two-third; 1970e.（） 4 -How old is your daughter?-_____. We had a special party for her _______birthday last week.A. Ninth; ninthB. Nine; nineC. Ninth; nineD. Nine; ninth（） 5My aunt was born on _____.A. October one, 1969 C. October 1, 1969B. October 1, 1969D.1969, October 1（） 6 The work is too difficult for Mr. Zhu to finish in a week. He needs ________ days.A. more twoB. two moreC. two anotherD. another more( )7 Here 2.54 reads _____.A. two point fifty-fourB. two points fifty-fourC. two point five fourD. two points five four() 8 Many _____ students went to see the English film.A. hundredB. hundredsC. hundreds ofD. hundred of() 9 Ten plus five equals _____.A. fiveB. fiftyC. fifteenD. ten( )10. There are ___ days in a year.A. three hundreds sixty-fiveB. three hundreds and sixty-fiveC. three hundred and sixty-fiveD. three hundred and sixty five二完型填空 (每题 1 分, 共 15 分)The King and the riceA long time ago, there was a king in India. The king’s___11__ game was chess. One day, __12___wise old man came to the palace and the king challenged him __13__a game. The king promised the old man,“You can have ___14__prize if you win the game.”The old man said, “If I__15__ the game, I of the chessboard, two for the second,’d like one grain of rice for the__16__ squarefour for the third,and__17__ double the amount foreach of the rest of the ___18__.”“Is that all? ” asked the king. “Wouldn’t you like gold or silver___19__? ”“___20__, just rice, ” replied the old man.The king and the old man played the game __21__a long time. Finally, the old man won. Sothe king ordered his men ___22___a bag of rice. He__23__ one grain on the first square,__24__on the second, and so on. The king quickly realized the problem — even with all the rice in the country, he would still not have __25___to put on all the squares!( )11 A favourite B like C better D love( )12 A a B an C the D two( ) 13 A to B of C in D for( )14 A any B some C many D much( )15 A wins B won C winning D win( ) 16 A one B two C second D first( )17 A than B then C after D before( )18 A squares B square C the square D the squares( )19 A instead of B in stead to C instead D instead for( )20 A no B yes C Yes D No( ) 21 A in B since C for D For( )22 A collect B collected C to collect D collecting( ) 23 A puts B put C has put D will put( )24 A one B first C second D two( )25 A enough rice B rice C rice enough D enough rices三阅读理解，选择最正确答案（每题 1 分，共 15 分）AAmericans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(住宅汽车)A small car can hold(容纳)four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it isvery crowded( 拥堵 ). A van hold seven persons easily, so a family three children could asktheir grandparents to go on a holiday travel They could all travel together.Mr. Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second carand buy a van. Their children sixth and seventh seat are used to put other things, for afamily of five must carry many suitcases(衣箱)when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents ’ home, the suitcases are brought into the two seats can then carry thegrandparents.Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays.Whena family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home fora few days or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks.All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together.That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.()26. From the passage, a van is also called ____________.A. a motor carB. a motor homeC. a motorbikeD. a big truck（） 27. Before Mr. Hagen and his wife bought a van, they__________.A. sold their old houseB. moved to their grandparents’ houseC. built a new place for a vanD. sold their second car（） 28. A motor home is usually owned by a family with__________.A. a babyB. much moneyC. more than two childrenD. interest in vans（） 29. Americans usually use motor homer____________.A. to travel with all the family members of holidayB. to do some shopping with all the family membersC. to visit their grandparents at weekendsD. to drive their children to school every day（） 30. Motor homes have become popular because___________.A. they can take people to another city when people are freeB. they can let families have a happier life when they go out for theirholidays C. some people think motor homes are cheapD. big families can put more things in motor homesBCDogs are our good friends, but dogs can sometimes be a little noisy. In fact, Americanlaws say the dog owners should pay＄ 50 if their dogs bark for more than fifteen minutesa day.But how can you stop a dog from barking? Barking is a natural part of a dog ’s life,and many different things can make a dog bark. The Queen’s University of Belfast has the answer: Let your dog listen to music.You should play music for your dog, but you have to be careful with the kinds of music.The Queen’s University of Belfast watched 50 dogs with all kinds of music. They found rock and heavy metal music made the dogs bark loudly. Pop music seemed to go in one ear and outthe other. Classical ( 古典的 ) music made dogs quiet. But scientists say that playingclassical music all the time will not always work. The more familiar the music becomes, themore the dog can ’t notice it.So a new kind of music comes: Pet music! The pet music CD has sounds with classical piano music to keep your pet quiet.( ) 31. In the USA, if a dog barks for over _____a day, its owner has to pay ＄50.A. fifty minutesB. fifteen hoursC. a quarter of an hourD. five hours( ) 32. _____can make dogs quiet.A. Rock musicB. Pop musicC. Soft musicD. Classical music( ) 33. The underlined sentence “Pop music seemed to go in one ear and out the other. ”means that_____.A. the dogs like pop music bestB. the dogs enjoy listening to pop musicC. pop music doesn’t work in keeping dogs quiet(D. there is something wrong with the dog ) 34.Which of the following is true?’s earsA. Barking is a natural part of dog’s life.B. All the music can stop dogs from barking.C. If the dog owner pays＄50, the dog will stop barkingD. Dogs will keep quiet when they hear their owners sing.( ) 35. The best title for the passage is “_____”.A.Animals ’lifeB. A noisy dogC. Music and dogsD. Dogs ’barkingCAs a student, you may have many dreams. Those dreams can be very big like getting a Nobel Prize (诺贝尔奖), or very small like just becoming the best student in your class.What do you do with your dream? Do you try your best to make it come true?Follow Your Heart is a book by Andrew Matthews.It tells us it ’s the biggest difficultyto make our dreams come true.There will be many problems on the way to dreams, but you must never give up becausethe biggest problem comes from yourself.Everyone can make his or her dream come true. The first thing you need to do is to rememberyour dream. Don ’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want and keepworking hard. Do like that and your dream will come true one day.( ) 36. Which of the following may be a small dream for a student?A. To be a man like Nobel.B. To be a scientist.C. To be the best student in the class.D. To get a Nobel Prize.( ( ( ()37 . If you want to make your dream come true, the biggestA. yourselfB. your familyC. your dreamD. your school) 38 . Follow Your Heart is the name of ________.A. a studentB. a book about heartsC. a book by Andrew MatthewsD. a dream) 39 . If you want to make your dream come true, you must________.A. make a good dreamB. remember the problemsC. give it up firstD. always remember your dream) 40. Which of the following is right?A. Different people have the same dream.B. If you keep working hard, you can make your dream come true.C. There are few problems on the way to dreams.D. When you give up your dream, it will come true soon.problem is from ________.四阅读回答下列问题，（每题2 分，共 20 分）AToday many people like collecting things for fun. Some like collecting stamps, somelike collecting toys and some others like sports collection, painting collection and soon ( 等等 ). But do you hear about collecting smiles?About 8,000 students in Yangpu, Shanghai take part in“Collecting Smiles”. They go to the streets, the old people’s houses and other places. They talk with the old people,read news for them, help them wash clothes and do some shopping. And then they record allthose old peopleWe can give ’s smiles on camera.our help to everyone. Of course they will send us their smiles for our helpand greetings. A smile is a kind of language around us. Let ’s use it, OK?41.Why do many people collect things?____________________________________________________________42.What do students in Yangpu do?____________________________________________________________43.Where do the students go for collecting smiles?____________________________________________________________44.How do they make the old people smile?____________________________________________________________45.What ’s the main idea of the passage?____________________________________________________________BThe largest familyThe world ’s largest family has 178 people. Every day, the India n family eats lunch and dinner together. But they have to eat in turn( 挨次 ). A group of 30 people can eat whileothers wait. Women cool and serve the food. Men eat first. Cooking starts about noon andgoes on until midnight. The family eat about 1,600 pancakes( 薄饼 ) and lots of vegetables every day.The hairiest familyLife for Larry and Danny is always exciting. They look very different from us. They are covered in hair. They work as acrobats( 杂技演员 ) and are always flying to places to giveshows. The two boys come from a family of 19. Everyone in the family has more hair thanordinary( 一般的 ) people. They are the world ’s hairiest family.46. How many people are there in the world ’s largest family?________________________________________________ ____________47. Where is the world ’s largest family?____________________________________________________________48. When does cooking start in the world ’s largest family?____________________________________________________________49. What do you think of life for Larry and Danny?____________________________________________________________50. Why is Larry and Danny ’s family called the world ’s hairiest family?____________________________________________________________五综合阅读（每题 2 分，共20 分）ACounting before numbers Before the invention of written numbers, people used many different ways to count things. At first, people use their_(A)_, and even their toes. However, they could only count small numbers(B) 用这类方法 . After that, they （ C） began to make small marks on sticks and bones. This helped them count bigger numbers. They usedthem to count the days of the month, the amount of food and the number of animals they have. Then people began to use tokens made from clay or small stones. This helped (D)them count even(E)____numbers. They often put the tokens on pieces ofstring so that they could carry them around easily. This developed into tools like the abacus.(F)At last, people began to develop systems of written marks to show different numbers, and this led to the Hindu---Arabic system(0-9). We are still using this system today.51 在文中 (A)和(E)的空白处罚别填上适合的单词_________ ____________52 将文中划线部分（B）译成英语；________________________________53 写出文中 (C)和（F）的同义词或近义词；_________ ____________54 文中划线的（ D）指代的是； __________55 从文中找出能说明本文要旨粗心的句子；_________________________BIt was a cold Saturday morning. David and some of his classmates went outside for a picnic. The girls sang and danced under a big tree and David played football with some boys on thegrass.Suddenly he heard someone calling(A)_____ help from the lake nearby. David ran to thelake quickly (B)and saw a little girl in the middle of the lake. He took off his clothes,jumped into the lake and swam to the girl. The water in the lake was very cold, but Davidwas not afraid at all. He caught the girl ’s hands and took her to the bank. With the( C)_____of his classmates, David helped the girl out of the water.David saved the little girl, but he fainted( 昏迷 ). He wasn ’t (D) out of danger_ until 24 hours later. Then(E) he stayed in hospital for a week. Many teachers and students cameto visit him. They brought him(F) lots of flowers and presents. The girl ’s parents were very thankful to David.David ’s teacher Miss Lee recommended him for the School Most Helpful Student Award.And she asked everyone to learn from him(G).56 在文中 (A)和(C)的空白处罚别填上适合的单词_________ ____________57 将文中划线部分（D）译成汉语；________________________________58 写出文中 (B)和（F）的同义词或近义词；_________ ____________59 文中划线的（ G）指代的是； __________60 将（ E）划线部分的句子改写成特别疑问句；________ ________ did he stay in hospital?六阅读写作20 分 ( A)5分B)15分)A)阅读短文，而后依据其内容，从短文后的四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最正确选项。
