浙江省温州市2017-2018学年八年级下学期期中考试英语试题(word版)
2017-2018学年第二学期八年级期中测试
英语试题卷
第一部分听力部分（15分）
一、听力（本题有15小题，每小题1分，共计15分）第一节：听对话，选择图片。
1. Which is Bill s favourite sport?
A. B.
A , , B
3. What s in his sister s hand?
4. What s the matter with the woman?
5.
What does the girl want to eat?
第二节：听对话，回答问题。 听第一段对话，回答 6-7小题。
6. How does Tina look? A. Tired. B. Excited.
7.
Where did Tina watch the cartoon? A. In the cinema. B. At her home. 听第二段对话，回答 8-10小题。
8.
When did Jim begin to cough? A. Last night. B. Last week.
9. What did the boy have for breakfast this morning?
A. A little milk and two eggs.
B. A little coffee and some bread.
C. A little tea and an apple. 10. What are they talking about?
A. The food for breakfast.
B. The weather. 第二节：听独白，完成信息记录表。
11. A. scientist B. astronaut C. actor 12. A. American B.Japanese C. Chinese 13. A. two
B. three
C. four 14. A. October 16th B. October 17th
C. October
18th 15. A. third
B. fifth
C. sixth 第二部分笔试部分（85分）
二、单项选择（本题有 10小题，每小题1分，共计10分）
16. Sally is active girl and she enjoys playing volleyball.
A. the
B. a
C. an
D./ 17. Mary received many presents on her 12th birthday, but she liked of them.
A. both
B. neither
C. all
C. Sad.
C. At the boy s home.
C. Last month.
C. Jim s trouble.
D. none
18. ----have you been in the sports club?
---- For two years. A. How often B. How soon C. How long 19. I didn t sleep well last night, so I felt the next day.
A. happy
B. sleepy
C. proud 20. ---- Why did you lose the game yesterday? You should think about it.
----I will. It taught me an important . A. dream B. exercise C. lesson D. practice 21. I football quite well, but I haven t' had time to play since the new year.
A. will play
B. have played
C. played
D. play 22. ---- What does your English teacher look like?
---- Miss Gao is quite tall short fair hair. A. on B. at C. with D. of 23. It was such a funny show that people couldn t 'help again and again.
A. laugh
B. to laugh
C. laughing
D. laughs 24. You d better take an umbrella when you go out. it will rain in the afternoon.
A. Once
B. Perhaps
C. Certainly
D. Then 25. ---- Tom, do you visit your grandparents on the weekend?
----. I am always busy with my homework. A. No, not usually B. I m afraid so C. I agree with you D. I m sorry to hear it 三、完形填空（本题 15小题，每小题1分，共计15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从各题所给的 A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A young
man was deep in debt （欠债）and could see no way out. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, thinking if anything could 26 his company.
Suddenly an old man appeared.—I can see 27 is troubling you, I he said.
After listening to the young man s 28_, the old man said, — I believe I can 29 you. II
He asked the young mans name, and wrote out a check （支票）,saying, — Take this money. Meet me here just one year from today, and you can 30 ________ me back at that time, I then he left quickly.
The man 31 ____ i n his hand a check for $ 500,000, signed （签）by John D. Rockefeller, who was then one of the 32 men in the world!
—It can solve my problem! II the man realized. But at last, he 33 to put the check in his safe. Just knowing it was there to give him the power to work out a
34^ to save his company.
Within a few months, he was out of debt and 35 _____ m oney once again. Just one year later, he returned to the 36 with the check. At the agreed-on time, the old man appeared. Just as the man
was about to hand back the check and 37 ________ his successful story, a nurse came running up and caught the old man. — I am so .38 _____ I caught him! 'she cried, — I hope he hasnt' been bothering （打扰） you. He often leaves the hospital and 39 ____ telling people he s John D. Rockefeller. II
And she led the old man away by the arm. The man just stood there, 40 .
Suddenly, he realized it wasn t 'the money, real or imagined, but his new found self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after. 26. A. start B. stop C. save D. sell
D. How much D. relaxed
27. A. something B. everything C. nothing D. anything 28. A. programs B. troubles C. wishes D. dreams 29. A. find B. teach C. help D. protect 30. A. bring B. pay C. feed D. call 31. A. saw B. tied C. pulled D. hid 32. A. tallest B. richest C. strongest D. busiest 33. A. remember B. refused C. decided D. forgot 34. A. record B. result C. problem D. way 35. A. losing B. making C. lending D. raising 36. A. park B. room C. company
D. hospital 37. A. read B. test C.share D. hear 38. A. sad B. angry C. tired D. glad 39. A. sometimes B. hardly C. never D. always 40. A. surprised
B. bored
C. excited
D. interested
四、阅读理解（本题有 15小题，每小题2分 \共计30分）
阅读下面四篇材料，然后从题中所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案。 A
What do you think will happen when the traditional culture meet modern technology? Yes, the —dead I
Words become lively characters at once. How happy it is to enjoy these Chinese cartoons!
A. The Magic Brush
B. Little Tadpole looking for Mom
C. The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven
D. Calabash Brothers
42. What does the underlined 画线的）word — complex I I mean in Chinese? A.
重复的 B.复杂的
C.杂乱的
D.冗长的
43. Which is true according to the passage?
A. Ma Liang punished the villagers with his brush.
B. Little Tadpole Looking for Mom came out in 1964.
C. The Monkey King is from a Chinese novel.
D. Calabash Brothers is from Chinese clay art.
B
Have you ever wished that your life was like a reality TV show? Well, like it or not, things might be this way in the future.
This is because of Google glasses. Glasses are the latest technolociy科技）from Google. They have more exciting features （特征）than you could possibly imagine.
For one thing, people who wear the glasses can shoot videos and record the sounds around them. So if your friend is wearing Google glasses, he or she can record your every move and broadcast live on the Internet for the world to see.
There is a GPS system in the glasses. So if you get lost you can say— OK, Glass, where am I? || and it will find where you are and tell you where you need to go.
Google glasses are a bit like a helpful secretary. You can tell them what you want to write in an and they will type it for you.
Since April 16, Google glasses have been on the market in small numbers. But by the end of the year anyone will be able to buy a pair for about 2,500 yuan.
Some people are not sure whether they find Google glasses cool or not. When someone is wearing Google glasses, it is not easy to see whether or not they are using them.
44. The article is mainly about.
A. what Google glasses can do
B. the designer of Google glasses
C. how to use Google glasses
D. the importance of Google glasses
45. Which of the following statements is TURE?
A. Google glasses can record everything.
B. Google glasses will take the place of TV.
C. Google glasses are helpful secretaries to us.
D. Google glasses are sold in the small market.
46. How many features of Google glasses are mentioned in the passage?
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five
47. What can we know from the last paragraph?
A. People don t like wearing Google glasses.
B. People with Google glasses are not so cool.
C. People don t'believe they can find Google glasses.
D. It s hard to find that someone is using Google glasses.
C
Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous scientists in this century. He was born in 1942. He s world well-known on space and time. Stephen was searching some very big questions, such as — How did the universe begin? How will it end? II
Stephen was a student at Oxford University. He studied math and science. Then, at the age of twenty, he became sick. He was so young, but the doctors said to his family, — He has only two more years to live. I As a matter of fact, the doctors were wrong - he didn t' die. He can t'walk but he uses a wheelchair. He can t 'feed himself and get in or out of bed himself. But he refused to give in to the condition. He talks with the help of a computer. After Oxford, Stephen went to Cambridge University. Three years later, in 1965, he became a doctor of philosophy （哲学）.
Because of his serious health problems, it was difficult for him to draw diagrams （图表）or to write. So he started to think in pictures. With this new way of thinking, he became one of the most famous scientists in the world. In 1981, he met the Pope （教皇）in Rome. They talked about his ideas. Then in 1988, he wrote his first important book, A Brief History of Time . It sold more than 5.5 million copies in 33 different languages. He was once invited to China, he impressed us with his self-confidence, humorous and witty （风趣的）conversation.
48. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Stephen is good at thinking.
B. Stephen cannot walk.
C. Stephen has had the answers to some very big questions.
D. Stephen had once studied math and science.
49. A Brief History of Time is.
A. a book which is well-known all over the word
B. a book about Rome s history
C. Stephens talk collection with the Pope in Rome
D. Stephen s talk collection with me in China
50. Stephens studies DO NOT relate （涉及）to ________ according to the passage.
A. science
B. math
C. philosophy
D. art
51. The right order of Stephen s main experiences in .
a. He went to Cambridge University.
b. He became very ill.
c. He wrote his first important book.
d. He met the Pope in Rom
e.
A. c-a-b-d
B. a-b-c-d
C. b-a-d-c
D. a-c-b-d
D
Several months after I was badly hurt in a car accident, my father sent me to a blind school. That morning was the new beginning. I went to this school and I heard lots of children. My new teacher took me to the class where we were taught to write and type in Braille （盲文）.I found it quite difficult.
——Hi, sweetheart, how is school going? I asked my father.
—Daddy, I can t'do this. I try and try but I just don t' get it. I don t'know if I am ever going to