周末重难点八年级下册英语期中模拟试题
八年级英语
姓名______________成绩______________
第二部分基础知识应用（共计40 分）
六．选择填空（共20小题，每小题1分，计20分）
t worry. Your father fixed up your bike yesterday.
( )32. I started to learn the piano when I was 4.
( )33. When the earthquake happened, people ran out of the house at once.
( )34. I can’t buy any food since I have no money.
B.) 从各题中的A、B、C三个选项中选择正确的答案
( )35. Thomas , ________8-year-old English boy, is crazy about music. Look, he bought a guitar two years ago with his own pocket money. _______guitar cost him 30 dollars.
A. a; The
B. an; The
C. an; A
( )36. After three months’ ________, James successfully became a________football player.
A. training; trained
B. train; trained
C. training; training
( )37. We received a lot of old clothes from kind people. We should ______ them ________to the people in need tomorrow.
A. give…away
B. give…up
C. put…up
( )38. Hopefully, I could get up ___________ I woke up naturally.
A. as soon as
B. while
C. until
( )39. Ally used to _________ the dark, but she now is used to __________ alone at night.
A. like; staying
B. be afraid of ; stay
C. be afraid of; staying
( )40. I’m worried about my sister. She has some difficulties ___________on with others.
A. getting
B. to get
C. get
( )41. ---Who is that boy standing under the tree?
--- He is a friend of ___________. He is inviting Susan to come to his party.
A. Susan
B. Susan’s
C. her
( )42. ---What would you like to drink, Sir? Orange juice or Cola?
---__________________. I’d like some coffee, please.
A. Both
B. Neither
C. Either
( )43. ---Did you feel the shake just now?
---No, I didn’t. I ____________outside at that moment .
A. am having lunch
B. swam
C. was walking
( )44. You’d better prepare enough water for the trip, because you might ________it ______next Saturday.
A. run out…; /
B. run out of.. ; on
C. run out of…; /
( )45. After a heavy rain, the wind __________at 4 am. It finally became quiet outside.
A. slowed down
B. died down
C. blew hard
( )46. Chinese government tried to control the price of houses, __________more and more families can have their own house.
A. although
B. in order to
C. so that
C.) 根据对话内容，从方框中选出适当的选项补全对话，并将选项的编号依次填入题号后横线上。
A: You can’t guess what happened to me yesterday.
B: What?
A: 47______________________
B: Really? What did you see?
A: It was my friend Tom. He rode the bike very fast. While he was riding and listening to MP3, a car came out. 48___________________The car hit him heavily.
B: Oh, dear! 49________________
A: I was having my hair cut at that time.
B: Did the car driver get out of the car?
A: Yes. 50 _____________________
B: Well, you see it’s really dangerous for kids to ride fast.
A: I agree with you. And we can’t do other things while we are riding. 七、完形填空。分别通读下面两篇短文，根据短文内容，从A、B、C三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。（共20小题，每题1分，共20分）
A．
One summer, a library in Texas in the US was having a terrible problem. For years, the number of books in the library 51________growing. As a result, they became too big for the 52_________and had to move to a newly-built library across the town. 53__________ was finished and paid for. They found out that they didn’t leave 54_________ to move their mountain of books across the town. Even 55________ moving company(公司) was going to ask for several thousand dollars to move the books. What could they do? They thought and thought. 56________one clever worker had a good idea. She said that during that time, the library would be closed. 57_________ allow the readers to borrow more books and ask them to come in to borrow 20, 40 or 100 books? At the end of the summer they could 58_________them to the new library. The idea 59_________ beautifully and the 60_________ were happy to have more books to enjoy. The library saved a lot of money and people read a lot of books.
( )51. A. go on B. continue C. kept
( )52. A. building B. home C. university
( )53. A. Something B. Everything C. Nothing
( )54. A. enough books B. enough money C. enough people
( )55. A. the cheapest B. the cheaper C. the cheap
( )56. A. Finally B. At first C. At the same time
( )57. A. Why not B. Why don’t C. Let’s
( )58. A. give back B. return C. bring
( )59. A. was B. work C. worked out
( )60. A. workers B. writers C. Readers
B．
It’s time for school! 61 on May 14, 170 students at Duncanville High School in Texas, US, were told to go back home.
Why? Because they were wearing the 62 clothes to school.
Schools in the US 63 always ask students to wear uniforms. But they have dress rules. For example, Duncanville High School 64 students to wear belts, shirts without logos (标识). Schools’ most-hated clothing rules are different.
From 2011, the schools don’t allow students to wear the saggy (松垮的) in Florida. It 65 students from wearing pants that show underwear (内裤) or body parts.
Now, “the favorite new rule is for leggings (紧身裤), reported the Associated Press. Students can’t wear leggings to school. Other schools ask students to wear a shirt or skirt 66 leggings.
Some students are 67 with the rules. They think that schools are going too far. But schools say dress rules help 68 students’ safety and69 they grow up with good taste.
“We want to teach them that they must meet the expectations (期望) not only here in school, but 70 of school as well,” said Andre Smith, the principal of Duncanville High Sc hool.
( )61. A. But B. So C. And
( )62. A. formal B. proper C. wrong
( )63. A. don’t B. / C. also
( )64. A. makes B. tells C. lets
( )65. A. throws B. stops C. beats
( )66. A. in B. on C. over
( )67. A. satisfied B. unhappy C. strict
( )68. A. protect B. provide C. have
( )69. A. so that B. so far C. make sure
( )70. A. get out B. outside C. leaving
第三部分阅读理解（共15个小题，每小题2分，计30分）
八、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容判断句子的正误，正确的涂“A” ，错误的涂“B” 。（共5个小题，每小题2分，共10分）
“Reading for pleasure” is a hot topic in countries such as the US and UK. It m eans you read a book out of interest, not because teachers or parents tell you to do so.
Studies by US organization Common Sense Media show that a third of 13-year-olds in the US read for pleasure no more than twice a year.
At the same time in the UK, a survey from the charity Booktrust says more than 60 percent of 18-to-30-year-olds either watch television or go online in their free time,
Computer games, online videos and social networking are pushing books off the shelf. Educational experts believe it’s a big worry. “A reading child is, quite simply, a successful child,” said British children’s writer Alan
打好基础) that last for life.”
What helps a child have a bright future? In a
2010 study, the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD，经济合作
与发展组织) found reading for pleasure plays a
more important role than a child’s family.It’s never
too late to start reading. So try turning off the TV, and jumping into the wonderful world of a book.
