2015-2016学年第二学期八年级期中联考英语科试卷

2015-2016学年第二学期八年级期中联考试卷

第一部分 听力 （略） 第二部分 选择题部分

一、词汇测试（15分）。

1. Pollution is a very serious problem. A. good and safe

B. bad or dangerous

C. very important

2. We had no difficulty selling our car. A. problem

B. difference

C. hard

3. The lady with a smile on her face in the hall is well-dressed. A. wearing ugly clothes

B. wearing soft clothes

C. wearing nice clothes

4. If you require more information, please call Mr.Shawn. A. need

B. accept

C. get

5. Your shirt and your jacket don’t match. A. have a game

B. go together

C. as good as

6. If someone gives you to do something, it means that they allow you to do it. A. warning

B. message

C. permission

7. A is a person aged between 13 and 19 years old. A. teenager

B. lady

C. actor

8. Mary often from serious headache. A. gets

B. suffers

C. hurts

9. If people do work, they are not paid for it. A. part-time

B. full-time

C. voluntary

10. I’m getting with his words. I want to leave the room right now. A. bored

B. interested

C. attractive

11. Can you me to call Cindy? I always forget things recently. A. ask

B. remind

C. remember

12. A is a person who catches fish either as a job or as a sport. A. diver

B. cormorant

C. fisherman

13. If you want to play a musical instrument well, you must every day. A. record

B. practice

C. appear

14. When you , you start a journey. A. set off

B. set in

C. set up

15. Joe once had many dreams about his career. Now he a career in teaching. A. suffers from

B. takes piece

C. decides on

二、完形填空（共15分）

Bruce loved basketball. One day 16. his way home, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the next year. Suddenly a car hit him and he passed out. Bruce woke up in a 17. . Both his legs were broken. He knew his college basketball dreams were 18. . Bruce did what the doctors told him, 19. it didn’t work when he left the hospital.

A week after he arrived at a rehab(修复)center, he met Sunny Chen. Sunny was a coach(教练)before his legs were hurt 20. in a skating accident. 21. he couldn’t move his legs, Sunny became a coach of a basketball 22. called the Suns. It was an on-wheelchair basketball team, because 23. played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Bruce to 24. the team. After becoming a part of the Suns, Bruce improved quickly. He was much better than before. One day, he asked Sunny 25. he could be so happy, even with his broken legs. Sunny smiled and said, “It’s really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows fall behind.”

16. A. in 17. A. college 18. A. over 19. A. or 20. A. badly 21. A. However 22. A. class 23. A. anybody 24. A. take part in 25. A. When

B. on B. hospital B. late B. but B. well B. Though B. school B. nobody B. join B. What

C. by C. game C. true C. so C. slowly C. Besides C. team C. everybody C. watch C. How

三、阅读理解（共30分）

A

Very often, newly-born babies are not beautiful. They are wrinkled or hairless, or they have an angry look in their face. They seem to say,“Get away! I hate everybody.” But to a parent, that hairless, wrinkled, angry-faced baby is the rnost beautiful and perfect child in the world. When that proud father or mother asks you, “Well, what do you think...isn’t she beavtiful?” What are you going to say? Is this the time for the truth? Of course not! You look into that proud father’s eyes and say,“Yes, she is! She is really a beauty. She’s one in a million. She’s as beauiful as a picture.”

In English, this is a white lie. White lies don’t hurt people. They are not cruel or angry words. People use them to make a difficult thing a little easier. When people don’t want to meet someone, or eat something new that they

really don’t like at a friend’s house, they tell a white lie, They are trying to be kind. They feel that being kind is sometimes more important.

26. Parents are usually when their new babies are bom.

A. angry

B. proud

C. sad

D. surprised

27. The underlined word “white” in the passage means “ ”

A. kind

B. unkind

C. the white color

D. angry

28. According to the passage, is more important.

A. telling the truth B. being cruel 29. Which of the follwing is a white lie?

A. You broke the window but you say you didn’t. B. You know Jack was late but you say you don’t. C. You friend’s bag isn’t beautiful but you say it is. D. You tell a parent that the newly-born baby isn’t beautiful.

B

Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, “I’m going to fly to New York next week because I’ve got some work there.” “Where are you going to stay there?” his wife asked.“I don’t know yet.” Dick answered.“Please send me your address from there in a telegram(电报),” his wife said.“All right.” Dlck answered. He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city.He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.

In the evening he didn’t have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine o’clock and said,“Now I’m going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner.”

He found a taxi and the driver said,“Where do you want to go?” But Dick didn’t remember the name and address of his hotel.

“Which hotel are my things in?” he said, “And what am I going to do toninht?” But the taxi driver did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another telegram, and in it he wrote,“Please send me address at this post office.” 30. Why did his wife want a telegram from him? A. Because she didn’t know his address yet B. Because she wanted to go to New York, too C. Because she might send him another telegram

D. Because she couldn’t leave her husband by himself in New York 31. Where did Dick stay in New York? A. In the center of the country. C. In a restaurant.

B. At a hotel.

D. At his friend’s house. C. being kind

D. being silent

32. Who would send him the name and address of his botel? A. The manager of his hotel. C. The taxi driver.

33. Which of the following is not true?

A. Dick stayed at a nice hotel in the center of the city. B. Dick didn’t work on the first night of his arrival. C. Dick forgot to send his wife a telegram. D. Dick wanted to go back to his hotel in a taxi.

C

Mr. Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son,“if anyone asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for doing something and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea.”

“OK, Dad,” said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn’t remember this, he wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.

Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and that the piece of paper was useless. so he burnt it that evening.

The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door and said,“Where is your father?” The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted. “No more.”

The man was very surprised. He asked,“No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?” “Burnt yesterday evening.”

34. Mr. Brown told his son that .

A. he would be away from home for four days B. he would be back in seven days C. he would be back in a month

D. he liked a cup of tea B. The police officer. D. His wife.

35. Mr. Brown wrote the words down on . A. the wall

B. the door

C. a piece of paper

D. his son’s pocket

36. The man was very surprised because . A. he thought the child’s father was dead C. the child gave him a cup of tea

37. What was burnt? . A. The piece of paper C. The visitor

B. Mr. Smith D. The boy

B. the child didn’t ask him to sit down D. he couldn’t find that piece of paper

D

Welcome to Shenzhen Hotel. We will make your stay here as enjoyable as possible. We hope we will give you the best service.

Room Service: You can use the service 24 hours a day. Phone the information Desk, and your message will be passed on to the room waiter. Dining Room: You can have three meals a day in the dining room Breakfast is served from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Also the room waiter may bring breakfast to your room at any time after 7:30 a.m. If you need, please fill in a card and hang it outside your door before 6:00 a.m. Lunch is from 11:30 a.m. to 14:00 p.m. Dinner is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Telephones: To make a phone call, dial “9” for Information Desk to put you through with the room waiter. There are also public telephones near the Information Desk. Tell Information Desk if morning calls are needed. Shop: The hotel shop is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Coffee House: You can drink coffee here at the following time: 12p.m. --- 2:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.--- 1:30 a.m. Other Services: There is a cinema in the hotel. Films begin at 7:30 p.m. on Sundays and Wednesdays. Hot water is offered 24 hours. There is also a big swimming pool in the hotel. You can enjoy yourself at any time if you like. It is free. 38. You would see this NOTICE . A. in a hotel dining room C. in a bedroom of a large hotel

B. at the entrance of a small family hotel D. in the hotel shop

39. What would you do you if you want room service at midnight? A. Phone the Information Desk C. Phone the room waiter

B. Go to the Information Desk D. Fill in a card

40. If you want to have your breakfast at a quarter past seven, what should you do? A. Phone the Information Desk. C. Go to the hotel dining room

B. Go to the coffee house to have it.

D. Put a message outside your room before 6:00 a.m.

41. If you want to have a two hours’ business talk in the coffee house, you may go there at . A. 10:00 a.m.

B. 12:00 p.m.

C. 1:00 a.m.

E

Now satellites are helping to forecast the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere(大气), because this is where the weather forms(形成). They send these pictures to the weather stations. So meteorologists(气象学家) can see the weather of any part of the world.

D. 11:30 a.m.

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