牛津英语8A期末试题（有答案）!!!

牛津英语8A期末试题
笔试部分（ 80 分）
一、单项选择。

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11. _____ a warm spring morning, they arrived in London .
A. On
B. In
C. At
D. By
12. If you like beef, please have _____ you can.
A. so much as
B. much as
C. as many as
D. as much as
13. She didn't think she had _____ more pears _____ Rose.
A. too, as
B. so, as
C. many, than
D. much , than
14. Read the story and ______ the answer ______ the question.
A. find, of
B. find, to
C. find out, of
D. find out, to
15. --- Can you catch what I said?
-- Sorry, I can _______ understand it.
A. almost
B. hardly
C. nearly
D. never
16. Please ______ the light. It's too dark.
A. turn off
B. open
C. don't turn on
D. turn on
17. I came quite early, so I was at the ______ of the queue.
A. back
B. middle
C. head
D. line
18. Whose parent is ill ______ ?
A. in the hospital
B. in hospital
C. at hospital
D. at the
hospital
19. The old woman looks worried. She is ______ something.
A. looking at
B. finding
C. waiting for
D. looking for
20. ______ weather we have today!
A. What a fine
B. What fine
C. How fine
D. How fine a
21. What ______ you do this Sunday if it ______?
A. do…will rain
B. will…rain
C. do…rains
D. will…rains
22. Don't ______ his mistake, you'd better help him.
A. laugh
B. laugh to
C. laugh at
D. laugh with
23. Bob never does his homework _______ Mary. He makes lots of mistakes.
A. so careful as
B. as carefully as
C. carefully as
D. as careful as
24. Do you often help your mother ______?
A. with clean the house
B. cleaning the house
C. to cleaning the house
D. clean the house
25. You ______ eat ______ food if you want to be thinner.
A. must to…less
B. have to…less
C. must to…a little
D. had to…little
26. It's very kind _______ to see me.
A. that you come
B.that you will come
C. for you to come
D.of you to come
27. I won't go to the cinema. Please ask Mary to go _____.
A. instead of
B. instead
C. also
D. for
28. Li Lei is a good student. He always finishes his homework _____.
A. by him
B. himself
C. yourself
D. itself
29. There are more than ______ in our school.
A. two hundreds teachers
B. two hundred teachers
C. two hundreds teacher
D. two hundred of teachers
30. In those days, few people liked taking a bus, _____?
A. didn't they
B. did they
C. don't they
D. were they
二、完形填空。

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二、完形填空。

I was riding my motorbike along a country road near Chilton on the evening of February 15. I 31 it was about 9:30. It was and I couldn't see things clearly. So I was driving very
32 and
33 , but the road was bad and suddenly my bike 34 a stone, and before I could stop my bike, I was already 35 on the ground. My whole 36 hurt, especially （特别）my left arm. I knew I was bleeding （流血）, and I 37 get up. Luckily I was 38 by a policeman. He made a telephone call and I was taken to the 39 . There I was examined. I had a broken
（石膏绷带）arm and lots of cuts. My arm was put in a cast
and my cuts were 40 and bandaged （包扎） .
31. A. told B. said C. guess D. thought
32. A. dark B. far C. long D. later
33. A. fast B. well C. carefully D. carelessly
34. A. kicked B. hit C. beat D. touched
35. A. standing B. sleeping C. waiting D. lying （躺）
36. A. mind B. body C. head D. arm
37. A. couldn't B. didn't C. wouldn't D. might not
38. A. caught B. held C. led D. found
39. A. police station B. village C. doctor D. hospital
40. A. stopped B. repaired C. served D. cleaned
三、阅读理解。

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三、阅读理解。

（ A ）
A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long.
He went downstairs to the kitchen. His mother and two sisters were washing up the tea-things there. “The new trousers are too long,” he said. “They need shortening by
about two inches. Could one of you do it for me, please?” His mother and sister were busy and none of them said anything. But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son's bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.
Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother's trousers. She was a kind-hearted girl, so she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches.
The younger sister went to the cinema, but when she came home she, too, remembered her brother's trousers. So she ran upstairs and did as her mother and sister had done.
You can imagine the look on the young man's face when he put the trousers on the next morning.
41. The young man's trousers were ______ for him at first.
A. a bit too long
B. very good
C. not too long
D. too short
42. The young man's mother and sisters didn't answer because they were busy ______ in the kitchen.
A. cooking
B. making tea
C. washing clothes
D. washing cups, glasses and so on
43. His elder sister shortened the trousers ______.
A. in the evening
B. after lunch
C. as soon as she had finished the washing
D. after she came back from the cinema
44. The next morning the young man found that the trousers were ______ inches too short for him.
A. two
B. four
C. six
D. eight
45. We can imagine that when the young man put the trousers on the next morning,
he would feel________________.
A. happy
B. surprising
C. surprised
D. thankful
（ B ）
When tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in the 18 th century, people had different ideas about their use. Some said that tea and coffee were harmful to humans and they could cause people to die.
In Sweden （瑞典）, King Gustaf Ⅲdecided to find out whether or not this was true. It happened that there were two brothers in prison at that time. They were twins and were almost exactly alike in every way. They had both been
sentenced to death （判处死刑）. The King decided to let them live if one of the men agreed to drink several cups of tea each day and the other several cups of coffee.
Both brothers lived many years without problems of any kind. At last, the brother who had drunk tea every day died at the age of 83, the other died a few years later.
Because of the experiment, tea and coffee got accepted （接受）and became popular as drink in Sweden, and it is one of the many countries of the world where much tea and coffee is drunk today.
46. Tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in ______.
A. the eighteenth century
B. the eighteen century
C. eighteenth centuries
D. eighteen centuries
47. King Gustaf Ⅲdecided to find out ______.
A. if （是否）tea and coffee were harmful to people
B. if the twin brothers should be sentenced to death
C. if tea and coffee did harm to people's health and caused
them to die
D. whether tea and coffee were useful or not
48. The King decided to let the brothers live ______.
A. if they wanted to obey his rules
B. if they agreed to drink tea and coffee every day
C. if one of them drink several cups of tea each day while the other had several cups of coffee
D. if they agreed to have several cups of tea every day
49. The brother who had drunk tea every day lived ______.
A. until he was over 83
B. until he was 83
C. until the other had been dead for several years
D. until he had drunk tea for a few years
50. Today the Swedish drink ______.
A. much more coffee than tea
B. much tea and coffee
C. little tea and coffee
D. much tea but little coffee
（ C ）
Soon it would be the holidays. But before that, there were the end of year exams. All the students had been working hard for some time. If they didn't pass, they would have to retake the exams in September. There were usually a few
who failed, but Kate decided not to be one of them. She had worked hard all day, but just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister was worried about her. She was staying up too late. The night before the first exam,
Barbala insisted （坚持）that she should have an early night and take a sleeping pill. She promised （许诺）to wake her in the morning.
As she was falling asleep, Kate was worried in case （万一）she over-slept. Her mind kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of the pill, she fell asleep. In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the paper. She couldn't answer any of the questions. Everyone round her was writing pages and pages. However hard she thought, she couldn't find anything to write about. She kept looking at her watch. Time was running out. There was only one hour left. She started one question, wrote two sentences, gave up and tried another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started crying. Her whole body shook （摇晃，震颤）. It shook so much that it woke her up. She was still in bed and it had all been a terrible dream. A
minute later, Barbala called her name.
51. Which of the following is true?
A. All the students were usually successful in their exams.
B. Most of the students usually passed the year exams.
C. Only some of the students could pass the end of year exams.
D. None of the students would take the exams again in September.
52. When you prepare for an exam,________
A. you go over your lessons.
B. you read new books.
C. you take the exam again and again.
D. you look through the exam.
53. Kate worked very hard before the exams for ______
A. she was very poor at her lessons.
B. she decided to be the best one in her class.
C. she didn't work hard all year.
D. she didn't want to fail in them.
54. Why did Barbala insist that Kate should take a sleeping pill?
A. Because she thought Kate should oversleep before the first exam.
B. Because Kate was so worried about her exams that she couldn't go to sleep at all.
C. Because Barbala hoped her sister would have a good sleep
before the first exam.
D. Because she had promised to wake her up the next morning.
55. Kate dreamed a terrible dream simply because ______
A. she had taken a sleeping pill.
B. she was too worried about her exams.
C. her sister had forgotten to wake her up.
D. she did not pass the exams.
四、介、副词填空。

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四、介、副词填空。

56.The sweater looks nice _____ me. Do you like it?
57. Don't tell Jim about it. It's only _______ you and me.
58. Kate fell _______ the tree and hurt herself.
59. Mr. Smith often goes _______ a ride before breakfast.
60. There is something new _______ today's newspaper.
61.People made medicine _______ bones.
62. They went there by bus instead _______ on foot.
63. Japanese is quite different _______ English.
64. Would you tell Bruce to ring me ______ if you see him?
65. He will wait for me _______ the bus stop.
五、完成句子。

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1. 你的小刀像我的小刀，我认为它们看上去一样。

Your knife is _______ , I think they __ ___ _ ___ _ _ ___ .
2. 我们必须采取行动来保护野生动物。

We __ __ _ __ __ _ ___ __ _ __ __ __ __ __ __ wild animals.
3. 下周有空我将去野餐。

If I __ __ ___ __ _next week , I _ ____ __ __ _ for a __ __ __.
4. 越来越多的鸟类因没有足够的空间而濒临绝迹。

___ __ ___ __ _ ___ __ birds are __ __ _ __ __ ___ because they don't have enough space.
六、用所给词的适当形式填空。

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六、用所给词的适当形式填空。

1. “ Help ______（you ）to some fish, please.” her friend
said to her.
2. That black sweater is ______（beautiful ）of all.
3. A few American ______（visit ）will come to Beijing next Saturday afternoon.
4. Mr. Wang ______（teach ）maths in the school a few
years ago.
5. Keep quiet, please. The scientist ______（give ）a talk to
the students of Grade Three in the meeting-room now.
6. The maths problems are very difficult. We can't work them out all by ______（we ） .
7. I ______（write ）to my uncle the day before yesterday.
I ______（write ）another one next month.
8. Mrs. Black stopped ______（buy ）some vegetables on
her way home.
9. I am looking forward to ______（hear ）from my pen pal Maggie.
［期末试题答案］
笔试部分
一、单项选择。

11. A 12. D 13. C 14. D 15. B16. D 17. C 18. B 19. D 20. B
21. D 22. C 23. B 24. D 25. B 26. D 27. B 28. B 29. B 30. B
二、完形填空。

31. D 32. A 33. C 34. B 35. D 36. B 37. A 38. D 39. D 40. D
三、阅读理解。

41. A 42. D 43. A 44. B 45. C 46. A 47. C 48. C 49. B 50. B
51. B 52. A 53. D 54. C 55. B
四、介、副词填空。

56. on 57. between 58. off / from 59. for 60. in 61.from 62. of 63. from 64. up 65. at
五、完成句子。

1. like mine, look the same
2. must take actions to protect
3. am free, will go, picnic
4. More and more, in danger
六、用所给词的适当形式填空。

1. yourself
2. the most beautiful
3. visitors
4. taught
5. is giving
6. ourselves
7. wrote
8. will write
9. to buy 10. hearing。