八上英语重点中学期末测试题

二．从A. B. C. D四个选项中选择最佳答案。

（每小题1分，共15分）21. Why ______ you join the art club? You like painting so much.A. notB. doC. don’tD. won’t22. My _____ sister is 3 years _____ than me.A. older; olderB. older; elderC. elder; olderD. elder; elder23. Let’s stop ____ eye exercises. It’s good for our years.A. doingB. to doC. doD. did24. Lily decided _____ hard.A. studyingB. studyC. studiesD. to study25. The teachers often asks us _____ the rules.A. obeyB. obeyingC. to obeyD. obyed26. Alice heard it _____ “Oh, dear! Oh dear! I will be late.”A. sayingB. saidC. to sayD. says27. The boy is too young ______ to school.A. goB. goesC. goingD. to go28. He runs ______ of the four boys.A. fastB. fasterC. the fastestD. more fast29. I think maths is _____ of all the subjects.A. the most interestingB. more interestingC. so interestingD. the best interesting30. Jim left home ____ in different cities.A. workB. workingC. worksD. to work31. She does her best _____ up with the other students in her class.A. to catchB. catchC. catchingD. catches32. The Changjiang River is one of ______ in the world.A. the longest riverB. longest riversC. the longest riversD. longer rivers33. It is ____ today than yesterday. Shall we go swimming this afternoon?A. the hottestB. hotC. hottestD. hotter34. In the exam, the ______ you are, the _____ mistakes you’ll make.A. careful; littleB. more careful; lessC. more careful; fewD. more careful; fewer35. My sister planned _____ her black long hair herself.A. to cutB. cutC. cuttingD. cuts三．阅读理解（40分）AOne evening, a country young girl was walking along the road with a can of milk on her head, when she fell into the following imaginations. “The money for which I will sell the milk will help me to buy more than three hundred eggs. Maybe some of the eggs will go bad, or will be destroyed by vermin, but the good ones will produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens. If the poultry are always dear, I will carry all the chickens to the market and sell them. By the new year I can have enough money to buy a new dress. I like green and green fits me best. OK, green the dress will be. In this dress I will go to the party where all young men will want to invite me to be a partner of them. And I will refuse every one of them, going away without looking at them.”Excited at this idea, she could not help moving her head. She shook her head again and again. Suddenly, the milk on her head poured down. And all her imaginary happiness disappeared in a moment.36. The country young girl was _____ when the story happened.A. going to cook at homeB. going to sell the milkC. going to buy some chickensD. going to buy a new green dress37. The girl wanted to buy ______ with the money that she could get from the milk.A. some eggsB. some chickensC. some ducksD. a dress38. What does the underlined word “poultry” mean in Chinese?A. 豆制品B. 肉类C. 禽类D.乳制品39. Why couldn’t she help shaking her head at last?A. Because she was tired.B. Because she was too excited to remember the can on her head.C. Because she saw someone.D. Because the can was too heavy.40. What is the main idea of the story?A. If you work hard, you can get what you want.B. We should take the chance to do everything we want to do.C. Don’t plan too much before it happens.D. A beautiful girl has a good chance to do everything.BWhat do you call frogs that have red eyes and live in trees? you call them red-eyed tree frogs. These frogs live in warm, wet forests.A mother frog lays her eggs on a leaf above water. Soon baby frogs begin to move inside the eggs. Then the babies, called tadpoles, come out of the eggs and drop into the water. They live and grow in the water. After about 75days, the tadpoles become frogs. The frogs come out of the water to live in trees.The frogs are mostly bright green, with a little yellow and blue on their sides. Their feet are orange or red. They are about as long as your nose. Tree frogs move around and eat at night. They eat flies and other small bugs.Why do these frogs have big red eyes? Their eyes scare animals that try to eat them while they are sleeping. When the red-eyed tree frog opens its eyes, the animal runs away. The bright colour surprises the animal.41. Tadpoles are probably good at __________.A. runningB. flyingC. laying eggsD. swimming42. You can tell from the story that red-eyed tree frogs are very ______.A. bigB. sillyC. colourfulD. long43. Other animals are surprised when red-eyed tree frogs ______.A. open their eyesB. climb into treesC. swim in waterD. are sleeping44. What’s the meaning of “scare” in this passage?A. 使开心B. 使惊恐C. 吃掉D.害怕45. From the passage we know that _____.A. mother tree frogs lay their eggs in waterB. mother tree frogs lay their eggs on leaves about waterC. baby tree frogs move around and eat at nightD. baby tree frogs live in trees for about 75 daysCMr. King is a tall and strong man. He teaches P.E. in a middle school. He wears a long beard and takes good of it.It was Sunday yesterday. There was a big football match of the year on the playground in the centre of the city. Mr. King likes the game very much and of course he was going to watch it. With his friends’ help he got a ticket a few days ago. After breakfast he hurried to the bus stop, but a lot of people were waiting there. A bus came and he hardly got on. There were plenty of people in it and it was difficult for them to put their feet. He had to grip a back of the chair. At the next stop a boy got on the bus. He was short and couldn’t grip anything. Suddenly the bus stopped and the boy hardly fell to the floor. He looked around and saw Mr. King’s beard and grip it. The man found it at once and called out, “ Let go of (松开) my beard, boy!”“Are you going to get off, sir?” asked the boy.46. Mr. King is a ________.A. playerB. runnerC. teacherD. driver47. Mr. King was going to watch the match because _____.A. he teaches P.E. in a middle schoolB. he likes football very muchC. he had already got a ticketD. he didn’t go to work yesterday48. It was difficult for Mr. King to stand because ______.A. he had drunk too muchB. the bus was too smallC. he got on the bus too lateD. it was very crowded in the bus49. The boy gripped Mr. King’s beard because ______.A. he was afraid to fall againB. he wanted to make the man angryC. he hoped the man to find a seat for himD. he hoped the man to get off soon50. Mr. King was afraid ______, so he shouted at him.A. the boy would pull him downB. the boy would hurt his beardC. the boy could be hurt againD. the boy would borrow his ticketDSally was a student. It was going to be her mother’s birthday. She wanted to buy her a present that would be nice and useful but not expensive. She went shopping after a quick and simple lunch. After she looked for half an hour, she found a shop that was selling cheap umbrellas, and she decided to take a black one. She thought “Mom can carry it when she is wearing clothes of any color.”So she bought a lovely black umbrella and took it to school with her until her class finished.On her way home on the train she felt hungry because she had so little for lunch. So she went to the buffet car. She left the umbrella on her seat. But when she got back, it had gone! Sally began to cry. The other passengers felt very sorry for her and asked what the matter was. She told them the black umbrella she bought for her mother had gone, and she had to get off at the next station. After the three passengers heard this, they asked her for her mother’s address so that they could send the umbrella to her if someone took it by mistake and brought it back. And now a week passed. Sally got a letter from her mother. It said “Thank you very much for your lovely gifts, but why do you send me three black umbrellas?”51. Which sentence has the same meaning as “Mom can carry it when she is wearing clothes of any color”?A. Mom must carry it when she is wearing any clothes.B. Mom is beautiful in any clothes.C. The color of the umbrella is OK for Mom’s clothes of any color.D. Mom can buy can any clothes that she likes to wear.52. Where did Sally find the umbrella missing?A. On the train.B. At his school.C. At the train station.D. In the shop.53. From the passage, we can know that _______.A. Sally’s mother would write to her if she didn’t receive the giftB. one of the umbrellas must be sent by SallyC. the three umbrellas were sent by the three passengersD. nobody on the train took away the umbrella54. The best title for the story is “__________”.A. A lucky girlB. The story of an umbrellaC. On the trainD. A happy mother55. The writer wants to tell us ______.A. we should look after our things when we are travelingB. if we show our love to others, we can get love from othersC. we should often send our parents giftsD. it’s no use crying when we are in trouble四．完成短文（10分）May 27 Saturday56.___________. After a quick breakfast, I went to the zoo with my classmates, we went there by bus. There are many kinds of animals there. 57.___________. We fed them with some banana. We stayed there for about an hour. Then we went to Qianshao Lake. We saw many people fly kites in different colors near the lake, we had no kites, so we boating instead. 58.___________.59. __________, and some of us climbed the hill. We went back home at about four o’clock. 60. ____________. I enjoyed myself a lot!A. some of us went fishingB. We liked monkeys best.C. We had our lunch at a restaurant.D. The water in the lake is very clean.E. What a happy day we had today.F. I got up very early this morning.五．首字母填空（10分）Rose l________ school when she was seventeen years old, and went to a college for a year to l_______ to type. She passed her exam quite well and then went to l_______ for work. She was still living with her p______.A lot of people wanted typists at that t________, so it was not difficult to find interesting work. Rose went to several offices, and then chose one of t_______. It was near her parents’ house. She t______, “I’ll walk there every morning, I won’t need to go by b______.”She went to the office again and to the manager.” I want to work here, but what will you pay for me?”“We’ll pay you 27 yuan now,” the manager answered,” and 30 yuan a______ three months.”Rose thought for a few seconds b______ she answered. Then she said, “All right, then I will start in three months’ time.”六．任务型阅读（10分）Do you like winter? (1) If you are not afraid of cold weather and like the ice, you can try a night at an ice hotel.The ice hotels are in Jukkasjaryi, Sweden, about 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Inthe ice hotels, all the things are ice---ice walls, ice beds, ice sofas and even ice glasses.Maybe you’re worried that the beds are (2) _____ cold ______ sleep on at night. Don’t worry about that! There are special sleeping bags on the beds. The sleeping bag can keep you warm. If you still feel cold, you can cover yourself in a reindeer skin. If you can’t stand the cold, you can go to one of the heated hotels nearby.If you want to try it, you should (5) book it soon.根据短文内容，回答下列问题。