四川省成都市大邑县晋原初中教育集团2012-2013学年八年级下学期期中考试英语试题

晋原初中教育集团2012-2013学年下期期中检测
八年级英语试题
命题制卷：张琪云审核：杨亚琼
A卷（共100分）
◆第一部分听力测试（共25小题，计25分）
一、听句子，根据所听到的内容选择正确答语。

每小题读两遍。

（共6小题，每小题1分，计6分）
（）1、A、Yes, please. B、Yes, I do C、No, they won’t.
（）2、A、Do more exercise. B、I’m fine, thanks. C、I don’t think so.
（）3、A、On foot. B、At seven o’clock. C、With my mother.
（）4、A、Of course not. B、Good idea. C、A birthday party.
（）5、A、In the afternoon. B、I’m at home. C、I was watching TV.
（）6、A、They are friendly. B、They are my classmates. C、They all like sports.
二、听句子，选择与你所听到的句子意思相符合的图片，并将代表图片的字母填在相应的题号后。

每小题读两遍。

（共4小题，每小题1分；计4分）
7、8、9、10、
三、听对话，根据对话内容及问题选择正确答案。

每段对话读两遍。

（共10小题，每小题1分；计10分）
（）11、A、The red one. B、The black one. C、The blue one.
（）12、A、Math. B、Chinese. C、Physics.
（）13、A、30 minutes. B、1 hour. C、1.5 hours.
（）14、A、Have a good rest. B、Go to see a doctor. C、Go to sleep early at night.
（）15、A、Eight hours. B、Six hours. C、Five hours.
（）16、A、Boring. B、Bad. C、Interesting.
（）17、A、Cloudy. B、Rainy. C、Windy.
（）18、A、To a library. B、To a cin ema. C、To a clothing shop.
（）19、A、She went to a party. B、She repaired the car. C、She went to meet her friend.
（）20、A、Cook some food. B、Buy her a pair of shoes. C、Buy her a dress.
四、听短文，根据短文内容选择正确答案。

短文读三遍。

（共5小题，每小题1分，计5分）
（）21、What day is it today?
A、Saturday.
B、Sunday.
C、Monday.
（）22、What was the girl doing when her parents went to work?
A、Sleeping in the bed.
B、Studying for the test.
C、Playing with her friends.
（）23、Who went to visit the girl yesterday afternoon?
A、Her teacher.
B、Her best friend.
C、Her cousin.
（）24、How long hadn’t they seen each other?
A、For three hours.
B、For three weeks.
C、For about a year.
（）25、Where did they have dinner?
A、In a restaurant.
B、In the girl’s home.
C、In Manrk’s home.
◆第二部分基础知识运用（共45小题，计45分）
五、选择填空（共25小题，每小题1分；计25分）
A、从下面方框中选出与下列各句中划线部分意思相同或相近、并能替换划线部分的选项。

（共4小题，每小题1分；计
（）26、When he heard the amazing news, he could hardly believe his ears.
（）27、Because John didn’t pass the math test, he felt upset.
（）28、When the earthquake took place, they were having an English class.
（）29、Tom was eating snacks in class and the teacher was mad at him.
B、从各题的A、B、C三个选项中选择正确答案。

（共17小题，每小题1分；计17分）
（）30、girl in red said she had unusual experience during the school trip.
A、The; an
B、A; a
C、The; a
（）31、There a basketball game on TV tomorrow morning and Jeremy Lin will paly in it.
A、has
B、will have
C、will be
（）32、-- will you finish the project?
-- Maybe in two days.
A、How soon
B、How often
C、How long
（）33、The scientist often stays in the lab but he never feels when he is
busy with his work.
A、lonely; alone
B、alone; lonely
C、alone; alone
（）34、Look! People are having a good time on the beach.
A、Two hundreds
B、Two hundred of
C、Hundreds of
（）35、-- Did you lot of money buying so many books?
-- Yes. I over 600 yuan for it.
A、pay; paid
B、spend; paid
C、pay; spent
（）36、I don’t have a brother or sister. She doesn’t have a brother or sister, .
A、too
B、either
C、also
（）37、I won’t believe it I see it with my own eyes.
A、if
B、until
C、while
（）38、-- Did you see a man in black pass by just now?
-- No. I a newspaper.
A、read
B、am reading
C、was reading
（）39、In the future, people will cut down trees and use paper.
A、fewer;less
B、less; fewer
C、less; less
（）40、I remember I put keys on the chair, but I can’t find it now.
A、everywhere
B、anywhere
C、nowhere
（）41、-- When did Linda come back?
-- She said she back on Friday night.
A、will come
B、comes
C、would come
（）42、She had to sell the house though it was her own wishes.
A、above
B、against
C、about
（）43、If Mr Smith back tomorrow, please let me know.
A、will come
B、came
C、comes
（）44、The accident happened a cold winter morning.
A、on
B、in
C、at
（）45、The plane will from Beijing Capital Airport and land in London.
A、take away
B、take off
C、take out
（）46、-- Tony, don’t paly with my computer.
-- .
A、Never mind
B、Yes, I’d love to
C、Sorry, I won’t again
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。

（共4小题，每小题1分；计4分）
A: Hi, Jack! 47
B: I fell in the street and hurt it quite badly.
A: 48
B: I was waiting to cross the street when a cat ran in front of me. I was worried that it might run
into the passing traffic. 49 I run to the cat and saved it, but I fell on the ground.
A: It is very nice of you to save the cat. 50
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。

A
I have traveled to many countries. But none gave me such a great 51 as South A frica did.
I went there to work as a 52 . At first, I thought of South Africa as a beautiful country, but what I saw was
53 from what I thought. After my flight 54 , I took a long bus ride to a small rural town. The next day when I walked into the 55 , I saw old desks and chairs. I taught English ther e. In the beginning it was 56 for me to communicate with t he students, 57 English was different from their “African” English. But we 58 the problem a few weeks later and got on well.
I will never 59 them. I will go to the town 60 in the future. If you have a chance to go there, you should go!
（）51、A、chance B、decision C、experience
（）52、A、teacher B、doctor C、reporter
（）53、A、true B、same C、different
（）54、A、moved B、landed C、changed
（）55、A、classroom B、hospital C、hotel
（）56、A、interesting B、difficult C、unpleasant
（）57、A、my B、their C、his
（）58、A、found out B、cared for C、got over
（）59、A、leave B、return C、forget
（）60、A、still B、again C、ever
B
Last night, my lovely pet dog w as lost. I was very 61 .
This morning when the break time between classes, all my 62 had a break. Some of them were playing games on the playground came, and some were talking 63 . I sat in my chair 64 a word. Then I saw Emilio 65
to me. I thought he was looking for 66 on the floor by my feet. I asked him whether he had lost something. He said he had lost a very 67 thing. Then he said, “I’m looking for a smile.” Suddenly I understood（懂）68 he meant and then there was a smile on my face, and it 69 bigger. Emilio told me that was just the 70 he was looking for.
From then on, I know the world will be a nice place if everyone is ready to give their love to others.
（）61、A、relaxed B、upset C、excited
（）62、A、classmates B、teachers C、friends
（）63、A、quickly B、clearly C、happily
（）64、A、about B、without C、over
（）65、A、jumping B、running C、walking
（）66、A、something B、everything C、anything
（）67、A、interesting B、different C、important
（）68、A、where B、what C、how
（）69、A、took B、felt C、became
（）70、A、thing B、place C、love
◆第三部分阅读理解（共15小题，计30分）
七、阅读下面短文，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小题，每小题2分；计10分）
（）72、Maggie thinks Susan should buy an alarm clock with her money.
（）73、Martin took his classmate’s money in the coat.
（）74、Ben’s money was lost in the gym.
（）75、Maggie thinks Ben should find out the truth first.
八、根据短文内容选择正确答案。

（共10小题，每小题2分；计20分）
A 难度：★★
After leaving his office in the center of the city, a young man bought a new car and drove it from the city to his home. He was very happy and the car ran very fast. Suddenly（突然）, a shoe hit the car door. The man got very angry. He jumped out of the car and caught a boy who still had a shoe in his hand.
“ Who are you? Why did you do that?” the young man shouted at the boy.
“ I’m sorry. But I don’t know what else to do. My sister has been hurt. I cried for help but nobody stopped,” the boy said.
The man looked around and saw a girl by the road. Her leg was bleeding（流血）.
“ She is my sister. She wanted to cross the road but fell out of her wheelchair（轮椅）. She is too heavy for me. I can’t get her back into the wheelchair.” The man was moved. He helped the bleeding girl back into her wheelchair.
“ Thank you. You’re so kind,” said the little boy.
Life speaks to our hearts. Sometimes we don’t have time to listen and it will throw a shoe at us.
（）76、The young man drove his new car .
A、to the city
B、home
C、to his office
（）77、Why did the boy throw the shoe?
A、Because he disliked the car.
B、Because he needed help.
C、Because he was hurt.
（）78、What happened to the boy’s sister?
A、She was hit by the young man’s car.
B、She was hurt by the wheelchair.
C、She fell out of the armchair and hurt her leg.
（）79、From the passage we can know that the boy was .
A、kind
B、clever
C、unfriendly
（）80、What can we learn from the story?
A、We should be kind and helpful.
B、We should drive slowly and safely.
C、Nobody wants to be hit by a shoe.
B 难度：★★★
John sent his mother expensive presents on his mother’s birthday every year. He liked to show her how rich he was.
“ I must find something wonderful for her this year, and it must be the only one in the whole world.” John thought.
He advertised（登广告）in the newspapers. “Wanted – the best present that is the only one in the whole world.”
For many days people phoned him from all over the world. They wanted to sell him “ the best present”. But they did not have anything that was the only one in the whole world.
Then a man came to his office. He was carrying a cage（笼子）, and in the cage there was a large bird.
“ This bird,” the man said, “can speak ten languages and sing any pop song. There is no other bird like it in the world.”
“ I’ll buy it,” John said. “ How much do you want?”
“One hundred thousand dollars,” the man said. This was a lot of money but John paid him. Then he sent the bird to his mother with a birthday card.
The day after his mother’s birthday he phoned her. “Well, mother,” he said, “Is the bird wonderful?”
“ Oh,it was delicious, dear,” she said.
（）81、Why did John send her mother expensive presents for her birthday every year?
A、Because he loved his mother very much.
B、Because his mother needed them.
C、Because he wanted to show he had a lot of money.
（）82、How did people know John wanted the best present in the world?
A、They rang John up.
B、They knew it from the newspapers.
C、John phoned them one by one.
（）83、People all over the world phoned John to .
A、send him the best present
B、hope to see the best present
C、sell their things to him
（）84、What does John think of the bird?
A、It was too expensive.
B、It was the best present.
C、It was a very clever bird.
（）85、What does the sentence “ It was delicious” really mean in the story?
A、His mother ate the bird.
B、His mother let the bird fly away.
C、His mother thought it was the most expensive present in the world.
B卷（共50分）
一、完成对话。

在对话的空格中填上适当的单词，使对词完整正确。

一空一词。

按编号把答案依次填入下边的表格内。

（共10小题，每小题1分；计10分）
A: Hello, Dave. What were you doing when the three Chinese astronauts flew into 1 together?
B: I was cleaning my room then. What about you?
A: I was cutting hair at the 2 . I’ll never forget that great day.
B: Don’t you think it is so strange? We can always 3 what we were doing when something important happened.
A: Yes, I can’t also forget the day 4 I saw a UFO three years ago.
B: You saw a UFO? What an unusual 5 it was! What were you doing then?
A: I was walking down the street when I saw it 6 on the top of a house. Most people were so scared that they stood there in 7 for a moment. Then they started shouting crazily.
B: What did the UFO look like?
A: It looked like a big flying plate.
B: Did you take any 8 of it?
A: No, I didn’t bring my camera with me. And it 9 off and flew away quickly. How disappointing it was!
1 ? Yes, in your dream.
A dream is a lot of 2 , ideas and feelings in the mind during the sleep. Humans spend one third of life sleeping and six years 3 . Usually we can’t remember all of our dreams. But we can remember clearly those interesting and strange 4 . So many people believe that those strange dreams have a deep 5 or important message.
Scientists think differently about dreams. Some say that a dream is only a normal（正常的）part of sleep. It doesn’t tell us 6 . Others think that a dream is a direct message from one’s mind. It is like a 7 into one’s hopes or fears. For example, when you’re very nervous about an exam, you may dream of a monster（怪物）8 after you.
Scientists also help us know 9 about dreams. They now can 10 people’s dreams by scanning（扫描）
A、阅读排序。

阅读下列各句，根据其内容重新排列所有句子的顺序，使其构成意义完整正确、逻辑顺序合理的语篇，并将代表句子或语段的字母依次填入下边表格内。

（共10小题，每小题0.5分；计5分）
I will never forget what happened yesterday when I was shopping with my friend.
A. It seemed that he hadn’t eaten for quite a while.
B. Unfortunately, there was no store in the area.
C. We asked the boy to wait in the same place and told him that we would be back soon.
D. My friend and I we re surprised to see that, so we decided to help by buying hime some food.
E. We were just arriving at the shopping center when we saw a poor boy begging for food.
F. We went to the next street and found a store, and we bought some biscuits（饼干）.
G. When I gave the biscuits to him he was delighted and said that he hadn’t really expected（料
到）us to come back!
H. When we returned, the boy was still standing there.
I. Seeing his happiness also made us happy.
，并将选项的编号依次填入题后表格中。

（共5小题，每小题1分；计5分）
My husband, our younger daughter and I were traveling home from New York one evening. We were driving north when my husband said, “ Look at those lights（光）in the eastern sky（天空）.”11 Our younger daughter was sitting in the back seat and said, “What is it?”
I tried to stop the car beside the road, but my husband said he couldn’t see it then. 12 Then he said, “ Look, there they are again!” I then stopped the car, got out and looked. It was a round, bright thing with orange lights. 13
It was so amazing. My husband said maybe it was an UFO.
14 So he stayed outside for about two hours after we returned home, but he didn’t see anything else that evening. It was not the first time that we saw things that came and flew away without making a sound. They moved very fast, so we couldn’t follow them. 15 Next time I will try to take some pictures because I want to show them to my friends.
C、阅读下面短文，补全表格中所缺的信息。

（共5小题，每小题1分；计5分）
India is country in South Asia. It is a nice place to go.
India has many festivals and some are great. If you go to the right place at the right time, it is possible to go through your visit with a festival each day. There are also many great places of interest（名胜）to visit. The Taj Mahal is one of them. It’s one of the greatest buildings in the world. There are 75 National Parks in India. It is a dream home for more than 1,000 different kinds of birds and wild animals.
Most of India has three seasons（季节）: the cool season from October to February, the hot season from March to June and the rainy season starting from middle of June to September. The months from October to March is the most pleasant for most parts of the country. The best time to visit Sikkim and the areas of north-eastern India is March and August. The best time to visit the deserts（沙漠）of Rajasthan and the north-western Indian Himalayan area is from
四、书面表达。

（计15分）
假如你校学报的英文版正在对“How to Live a Low-Carbon Life（如何实现低碳生活）”这一话题进行征稿，请根据以下提示，写一篇英语短文并投稿。

字数80-100。

提示：
1、尽量骑车或步行上行，减少污染；
2、节约用纸，少砍伐树木，保护森林；
3、随手关灯，节约用电。

参考词汇：
save 节约protect 保护forest 森林light 灯electricity 电
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life
We all should learn to live a low-carbon life.
晋原初中教育集团2012-2013学年下期期中检测试题
八年级英语答题卷成绩：A +B =
A卷（100分）
第一部分听力测试（25分）
一、听录音，根据所听内容选择正确答语。

（6分）
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
二、听句子，选择与你听到的句子意思相符合的图片。

（4分）
7. 8. 9. 10.
三、听对话，根据对话内容及问题选择正确答案。

（10分）
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
四、听短文，根据短文内容选择正确答案。

（5分）
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
第二部分基础知识运用（45分）
五、选择题（25分）
AB) 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46.
C) 47. 48. 49. 50.
六、完形填空（20分）
A) 51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.
B) 61. 62. 63. 64. 65.
66. 67. 68. 69. 70.
第三部分阅读理解（30分）
七、阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容判断句子正误，正确的写“A”，错误的写“B”。

（10分）
71. 72. 73. 74. 75.
八、（A)阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容选择最佳答案。

（10分）
76. 77. 78. 79. 80.
(B)（10分）
81. 82. 83. 84. 85.
B卷（50分）
一、补全对话，一空一词。

（10分）
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
二、短文填空。

（10分）
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
三、阅读理解。

（共15分。

A.B.C各5分）
A 排序 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
B选填 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
C 补全所缺的信息 16. 17
18. 19
20.
四、书面表达（15分）
八年级下期英语半期检测答案及听力材料
A卷
1-5 CAABC 6-10 AADCB 11-15 CBCBC 16-20 CABBA 21-25 CABCA
26-30 DCABA 31-35 CABCB 36-40 BBCAB 41-45 CBCAB 46-50 CBADC
51-55 CACBA 56-60 BACCB 61-65 BACBC 66-70 ACBCA 71-75 ABBBA
76-80 BBCBA 81-85 CBCBA
B卷
一、1、space 2、barber’s 3、remember 4、when 5、experience
6、land
7、silence
8、pictures / photos
9、took 10、chance
二、1、real 2、pictures 3、dreaming 4、ones 5、meaning
6、anything
7、window
8、running
9、more 10、read
三、1-5 EADBC 6-10 FHGJI 11-15 ECBFD 16、festivals
17、birds and wild animals 18、from October to March 19、north-eastem India
20、from middle of June to September
四、One possible version:
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life
We all should learn to live a low-carbon life. First, we should go out by bike or on foot as much as possible. If we ride bikes or walk more, we will use cars less. Then there will be less pollution. Second, we should try to save paper. If we use less paper, we will cut down fewer trees. So, we can protect the forests. We shou ld also turn off the lights when we leave a room, so we will save electricity. If we do these things, I believe our life will be better.
【听力原文】
一、听句子，根据所听到的内容选择正确的答语。

每题读两遍。

1、Will people use money in 100 years?
2、What should I do to keep healthy?
3、How do you get to school every day?
4、Why don’t you go to the birthday party with me tomorrow?
5、What were you doing at 3:00 pm yesterday?
6、How do you like your classmates?
二、听句子，选择与你听到的句子意思相符合的图片。

每题读两遍。

7、Jim said he saw his sister go into the post office yesterday a fternoon.
8、I was in the park when the accident happened.
9、You should go to bed early in the evening.
10、I want to have a robot in my home.
三、听对话，根据对话内容及问题选择正确答案。

每题读两遍。

11、W: Which sweater should I buy, the black one or the blue one?
M: The blue one.
Q: Which sweater does the man want the woman to buy?
12、M: Thank you for helping me with my Chinese, Linda.
W: You’re welcome. And you also help me a lot with my math and physics.
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Q: What subject is the girl good at?
13、W: How long did it take you to get home yesterday?
M: Well, I left school at 6:00 pm and it was 7:30 pm when I got home.
Q: How long did it take the boy to get home?
14、W: I have a headache for 3 days. I even can’t sleep well at night.
M: You should go to see a doctor at once.
Q: What’s the man’s advice?
15、W: The swimming pool is open from 9:00 am till 5:00 pm on week-days. On weekends, it’s open from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
M: I see, thank you.
Q: How long is the swimming pool open on weekends?
16、M: I don’t want to be a famous person in the future.
W: Why not? I think that’s funny.
Q: What does the girl think of being a famous person?
17、M: Look! It’s cloudy outside. Is it going to rain tonight?
W: Yes, the weather report says so.
Q: How’s the weather now?
18、M: What about going to a movie tonight?
W: I’d love to.
Q: Where are they going tonight?
19、M: Did you go to her birthday party?
W: I planned to go, but my car was broken on the way and I had to repair it the whole night.
Q: What did the woman do last night?
20、M: Mother’s Day is coming. What will you do for your mom?
W: I plan to buy her a dress. What about you?
Q: What is the boy going to do for his mother on Monther’s Day?
四、听短文，根据短文内容选择正确答案。

短文读三遍。

It was Sunday yesterday. In the afternoon, I was sleeping in my bed when my parents went out to work. Then, I heard someone knocking at the door. Who could that be? I opened the door, and surprisingly found it was my best friend Mark. I hadn’t seen him since last year when I moved to this town with my family. What a big surprise to see him again! We talked about our lives for more than 3 hours. He told me that our Math teacher gave my address to him so he could find me. Then we went out to have dinner together in a quiet restaurant.
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