陕西省西安市2017-2018学年八年级英语上学期期中试题(无答案) 人教新目标版

2017-2018学年第一学期英语期中试题
I. 单项选择 (每题1分，共20分)
1. How often do you drink milk?
_____. I don’t like it.
A. Often
B. Always
C. Hardly ever
D. Sometimes
2. Not everybody _____ watching talent shows.
A. enjoy
B. want
C. wants
D. enjoys
3. The magazine is _______ for us to read and it’s fun.
A. hard enough
B. enough hard
C. easy enough
D. enough easy
4. He didn’t have ____ money for a taxi, ____ he walked back to the hotel.
A. any; and
B. much; because
C. any; so
D. some; so
5.A ____ friend will always_____ care about you.
A. truly, true
B. true, truly
C. true, true
D. truly, truly
6. I spent most _______the time ________ my good friends yesterday.
A. of, with
B. of, on
C. of, for
D. at, with
7. Linda likes ______and wants to become a ______ when she is young.
A. act, performer
B. acting, performer
C. to act, reporter
D. to act, reporter
8. What time do you expect her________？
A. arrive
B. is arriving
C. arriving
D. to arrive
9. My friend Jane works as _______as his brother.
A. hardly
B. hard
C. the hardest
D. harder
10. necessary for us breakfast before we go to school.
A. This is; to have
B. It’s; to have
C. It’s; have
D. It is; to having
11. I ___ sitcoms, because they’re boring.
A. can’t stand
B. can’t mind
C. mind
D. couldn’t mind
12. Is there ___________ in today’s n ewspaper?
A. anything interesting
B. interesting anything
C. something interesting
D. interesting something
13. My parents ______ in the same post office.
A. are all
B. all are
C. are both
D. both are
14. _________ he is a little girl, _________ he knows a lot.
A. Though, but
B. But, though
C. Though, /
D. But. /
15. My sister promises a big dinner for our mother on her birthday.
A. cook
B. cooks
C. to cook
D. cooking
16. _____ special girl Mary is!
A. What a
B. What
C. How
D. How a
17. ---The service is very wonderful and the weather is quite fine?
---Yes, this holiday is so great, we have never had before.
A. the better one
B. a good one
C. a better one
D. the best one
18. This is one of ____ films of this year.
A. more exciting
B. exciting
C. the most exciting
D. most exciting
19. When winter comes, the days get _______.
A. short and short
B. shorter and shorter
C. long and long
D. longer and longer
20.Sometimes stories are _______ than scary movies.
A. even terrible
B. even more terrible
C. even terribler
D. very terrible
Ⅱ. 完形填空（每题1分，共10分）
When Mr Smith retired(退休), he bought a small 1 in a village near the sea. He 2 it and hoped to live a quiet life in this house.
But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most 3 building in the village. From morning to night there were 4 outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and 5 of them even went into Mr Smith’s garden. This was too much for Mr Smith. He decided to ask the visitors to 6 . So he put a piece of paper on the window. It said, “If you want 7 your curiosity(好奇心)，come in and look round. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr Smith was sure that the visitors would 8 coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr Smith had to 9 every day showing them around his house. “I came here to 10 not to work as a guide,” he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.
1. A. garden B. shop C. house D. school
2. A. liked B. hated C. sold D. built
3. A. big B. interesting C. small D. clean
4. A. children B. students C. parents D. tourists
5. A. no B. none C. many D. much
6. A. come B. leave C. stay D. play
7. A. to satisfy B. satisfy C. to satisfying D. satisfying
8. A. go on B. stop C. continue D. not
9. A. take B. cost C. spend D. pay
10. A. play B. work C. watch D. retire
Ⅲ. 阅读理解（每题2分，共30分）
A
Cindy, Jerry and Mary are giving their opinions about a good friend.
Cindy: I think a good friend should be honest(诚实的). That’s more important than any other thing and is where a good friendship starts. If a friend isn’t honest, he may lose his friends’trust.
Jerry: I think a good friend has to be generous. Here “generous”doesn’t mean he has to give his friends his lunch money or his clothes. It means he should share(分享) his ideas and feelings with his friends. In fact, his friends can know him better in this way.
Mary: In my opinion a good friend should understand(理解) his friends. When there’s something wrong between him and his friends, he must put him self in his friends’ place and think more for his friends.
1. What does the underlined sentence(划线句子) mean?
A. To be honest is the most important.
B. To be honest is as important as other things.
C. To be honest is not so important.
D. Honest people get more things than others.
2. Jerry would like to make friends with people who ______.
A. give him lunch money
B. know him very well
C. tell him their ideas and feelings
D. give him some clothes
3. What’s the best title(标题) of the passage?
A. My friend.
B. Trust is the most
important.
C. Opinions about a good friend.
D. Being generous is the most important.
B
Some children wish to be writers some day. They want to write stories or books for people to read. That’s good! It’s good to write something for people to read! But they should know that they need to be good readers first before they really are good writers. They should read a lot of books. And read for hours every day instead of watching TV and spending a lot of time to do the reading homework. Then you have time to read many other books for fun. Because of more fun in reading, you want to look for more books to read.
Before you decide to be a good writer, you’d better say to yourself, “I mu st read and read and read and read more and more!”
4. This article mainly tells us that_______.
A. some children wish to be writers some day.
B. it is good to write something for people to read.
C. reading can make you a good writer
D. writers like to read more books for fun.
5. Some children want to be writers______.
A. because they want to be good readers.
B. to write stories or books for people to read.
C. to find good work some day
D. to get more money to keep a family
6. From the passage we know that_________.
A. all children like to be writers
B. people like to read for children
C. all writers are children
D. children need to read more and more books.
C
Dear students, here I want to introduce two big cities in China for you. If you go to Beijing and Shanghai, you can see the same and the different points between them. In some ways they look the same, in some ways they look different. Both of them have tall buildings and wide streets, although some buildings in Shanghai are taller than in Beijing. They are both important in China. Beijing is the capital of China, there are more places of interest there, but Shanghai is the biggest city in China, you can see people from the world on the street in Shanghai. Now they are becoming more and more important in China. I hope you can see them for yourselves one day.
7. Some buildings in __________ are taller than in Beijing.
A. Shanghai
B. Xi’an
C. Tianjin
D. Chongqing
8. Shanghai is the _____city in China.
A. tallest
B. biggest
C. smallest
D. busiest
9. The underlined word “point” means _______.
A. 想法
B. 点
C. 内容
D. 主意
10. Beijing has more _________ than Shanghai.
A. places of interest
B. buildings
C. wide streets
D. people
11. Which is right according to the passage?
A. Shanghai is the capital of China
B. The buildings in Beijing are taller than in Shanghai
C. Shanghai is the largest city in China.
D. Shanghai has more places of interest.
D
Steven Jobs, the designer(设计者) of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his schoolmates. When he went into college, he didn’t change a lot. Then he dropped out(退学). But he was full of new ideas.
After he left college, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in life.
Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India.
In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple Computer with his friend in his garage(汽车库). He gave the name “Apple” to his company just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent in an apple tree garden. His Apple Computer sold so many computers, and Steven Jobs soon became famous all over the world.
12. Steven Jobs was not a good student in school because he _____.
A. never did his lessons
B. was full of new ideas
C always made troubles with his schoolmates D. dropped out
13. Steven Jobs didn’t fi nish college, did he?
A. Yes, he did.
B. No, he didn’t.
C. Yes, he didn’t. D .No, he did.
14. Steven Jobs designed his new computer _____.
A .in India B. with his friend
C. in an apple tree garden
D. by himself
15. From this passage, we know _____.
A. Steven didn’t finish his studies in the college because he hated his schoolmates
B. Steven liked travelling in India and California
C. Steven liked trying new things and making his new ideas become true
D. Steven Jobs could only design video games
Ⅳ. 根据提示写出单词的正确形式。

（每题1分，共10分)
1. There are some ______________(差别) between Chinese and Japanese.
2. They are (讨论)where to go for vacation.
3. The boy's father didn't ____ (出现)at the parents' meeting.
4. I think this movie is the most _______(有教育意义的) of all.
5. Maggie Cheung is a ___________ (成功的) actress.
6. A bite of China is a program on CCTV about food _____ (文化).
7. Your idea ________(似乎) to be right.
8. The boy got a very good prize in the ________(比赛，竞赛).
9. I ______ (选择) to become a magician when I was a little boy.
10. We should sit (舒服地) on the chair.
Ⅴ.按要求完成句子（每题2分，共20分）
1. If you don’t ______the exam , you will fail. (认真对待)
2. Her best friend likes to do same things she does.（和…一样）
3. His father often ____stories to make him sleep. （编造）
4. The winner of the competition ____ _____ _____ all of you.（取决于）
5. Sun Li _____ _____ _____ in this moive.（扮演角色）
6. I think good friends should ______ a lot ______ _____. (有…共同之处)
7. Mulan ____ ____ like a boy and went to fight in the army. (乔装打扮)
8. What so you_____ _____ scary movies? (认为)
9. He is always ready to ______ ______ ______. (尽他的最大的努力)
10. You don’t need a lot of friend____ ____ ____ (只要) they are good.
Ⅵ.根据要求完成作文。

(10分)
健康一直是人们关注的问题，我校将举行以“关爱健康”为题的主题班会，请根据以下提示谈谈你的看法，写一篇70词左右的演讲稿。

开头已给出，不计入字数。

1.健康的对每一个人都是很重要的。

2.健康的饮食习惯。

3. 适量的运动。

4. 愉悦的心情。

Good afternoon, boys and girls!
I’m very happy to have the chance to give you a talk about health.
2017-2018学年第一学期初二英语期中答题卡
班级：______________ 姓名：______________ 成绩：_____________ 一. 单项选择。

（1×20 = 20分）
二完形填空。

（1 × 10 = 10分）
四按要求写出下面的单词或词组。

（1×10 = 10分）
1._______
2. _________
3. ________
4._________
5. __________
6. ________
7._________ 8. ________ 9. ________ 10 __________ 五按要求完成句子。

（2×10 = 20分）
1. _____ ______ 2 3. _____ ______ 4._____ _____ _____ 5. _____ _____ _____
6._____ _____ _____
7. _____ ______ 8
9._____ _____ _____ 10. _____ _____ _____
六作文（10分）
请将作文写在第五页横线处。