八年级上学期英语期末考试试卷第13套真题)

八年级上学期英语期末考试试卷
一、完形填空
1. 阅读下而短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Sometimes,I doubt if there is any love between my parents,They1say: “I love you.” For them,it’s really difficult to say. Every day they are2tryingto make money. They don’t act in the romantic w aythat I read in books and I see on TV.
One day, my mother was sewing a3I sat down beside her quietly.
“Mom,I have a4toask you,” I said after a short time.
“What?”she replied,5doing her work.
“Isthere love6you and Dad?” I asked her.
She didn’t answer and went on7. I was worried8I thought I had made her unhappy. After sometime, she said to me with a smile, “Susan, look at this thread ,” she said. “Sometimes it appears, but most of it9inthe quilt. It makes the quilt strong.10life is a quilt, then love should be athread. You can hardly see it anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there. Loveis11.”
Thenext spring, my father suddenly got very sick. My mother had to stay with himin the hospital for a month. After they12,she helped my father walk slowly down the road every day. To my surprise,Father was weak but really very13.
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” Iasked him one day.
“Susan, don’t14me,”he said. “I just like walking with your mom.”
Once, I thought love meant flowers and gifts.Now, I know that love is the15that holds a family together.
（1）A . alwaysB . oftenC . neverD . once（2）A . fastB . earlyC . lateD . busy （3）A . dressB . hatC . quiltD . shirt（4）A . wordB . questionC . problemD . reason （5）A . stillB . evenC . alreadyD . ever（6）A . betweenB . behindC . fromD . through（7）A . talkingB . listeningC . wonderingD . working（8）A . whenB . becauseC . butD . though（9）A . disappearsB . losesC . findsD . deletes（10）A . UnlessB . UntilC . IfD . although（11）A . outsideB . insideC . everywhereD . anywhere（12）A . turned downB . ran awayC . got onD . got back（13）A . sadB . happyC . angryD . upset（14）A . worry aboutB . look afterC . look forD . hear from（15）A . threadB . quiltC . speakingD . money二、阅读理解
2. 阅读下列材料，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳选项。

Weall need friends. Friends bring us happiness and hope in our lives. But the abilityto make friends changes from person t0 Person. Tosome people, making friends is easy, and to others, it’s very difficult.
Makingfriends is a skill, and the first thing is to know how to get along with others.
Ifyou have problems in making friends, maybe I can tell you how to do it.
Believethat you are a good person and have something nice to share with others.
Behumorous . Learn to laugh at yourself and yourweakness . Remember
to smile to others.
Respect the others. Everyone has his own idea. Learn to listen to others’ideas. Don’t always try to make them accept yours.
Bekind. If you are kind to others, they will usually be kind to you. There arehundreds of little things you can do to show kindness such as opening the doorfor someone.
Don’tcomplain . Lear to accept what you can’t change,and work hard to change what you can. No one wants to hear your complaining allthe time.
（1）Why do we need friends according to the passage?
A . Friends can do everything for us.
B . Friends can bring us happiness.
C . Friends accept our ideas all the time.
D . If we have no friends, we can not live.
（2）What’s the first thing we should learn to make friends?
A . To help others.
B . To smile to others.
C . To get along with others.
D . To listen to others’ complaints.
（3）Which of the following shows someone is humorous?
A . Opening the door for someone.
B . Complaining to others all the time.
C . Laughing at ourselves and our weakness.
D . Finding someone who will understand us.
3. 阅读理解
Agirl went to her father to ask for his advice. She was having a hard time inlife. It seemed that when one problem disappeared, another one appeared. It wasterrible!
Herfather, a cook, took her into the kitchen. He poured water into three
pans and put them on to boil . After thewater boiled, he put some carrots into the first pan, some eggs into the secondpan and coffee into the last one.
After20 minutes, her father turned off the stove , tookout the carrots and eggs and put them in a bowl. He poured the coffee into acup.
“Dear,what do you see?” he asked his daughter.
“Carrots,eggs, and coffee”, she said.
“Touchthe carrots,” he told her. She did and felt that the car rots were soft . After that he asked her to take an egg and break it. She foundthat the egg was hard . At last, her father askedher to taste the coffee.
“What’sthe meaning, Father?” she asked.
“Thestrong and hard carrots became soft and weak after boili ng. The fragile eggs became hard in the boiling water. The coffee beans were veryspecial, but they changed the water around them.” her father said, “Asyou can see, each thing reacted differently to the boiling water”
“Whoare you?” asked her father. “When you have problems, what will youdo? Are you carrots, eggs, or coffee?”
（1）What does the first paragraph tell us?
A . A girl’s father had much advice.
B . A girl was having a lot of problems.
C . A girl was interested in cooking.
D . A girl could solve all her problems by herself.
（2）What does the underlined word “reacted” mean in the passage?
A . 回答
B . 反应
C . 划分
D . 规划
（3）What is the right order of what the father did?
a. He turned off the stove, put the carrots and eggs in a bowl and poured the coffee into a cup.
b. He poured water into three pans and boiled it.
c. He asked his daughter to touch the carrots, break the egg and taste the coffee.
d. He put carrots, eggs and coffee into the three pans.
A . c-b-d-a
B . b-d-c-a
C . c-b-a-d
D . b-d-a-c
（4）What is the main idea of this story?
A . We should run away from our problems.
B . It is best not to think about our problems.
C . We should face our problems and try to solve them smartly.
D . Doing some cooking can help us solve problems.
4. 阅读理解
RiverviewSchool is a great school. There are many reasons why Riverview is great.
Riverviewis a “green” school. That means it is good to the environment. First,the school shows a devotion to recycling . Recycling is very important to them. All the kids learn aboutrecycling in class. They have different bins for different things. One bin isfor glass. One bin is for plastic. One bin is forpaper. Second, they also have special lights. The lights can sense if people are in the room. When there is no one in the room, thelights tum off. That saves energy !
Saving energyis also good for the environment. Riverview loves music. Music helps the kidslearn! They use music in all of the classes. And they have a beautifulauditorium . And the music teacher teaches there.She has many musical instruments . She has a piano.She has many drums. She has a guitar. And she has many other instruments. Thestudents enjoy playing concerts! Their parents enjoy it too!
Rivervieweven started a farm. The farm is right next to the school. The farm has manycool things to study. It has chickens and cows. It has lots of trees. It hasgardens for growing things. Classes sometimes go to the farm. They go to studythe environment. Or they go to study different kinds of trees. Sometimes in PEclasses, they go to have a walk there. These are just a few of the cool thingsclasses do on the farm.
Allof these things make Riverview a wonderful school. But there is one more reasonwhy Riverview School is a great school. It has great kids!
（1）According to the passage, Riverview is a “green” school because __________.
A . it has special lights
B . it has a special color
C . it has special windows
D . it has special music
（2）The main purpose of paragraph3 is to ________________________.
A . expl ain why Riverview is a “green” school
B . tell us which musical instruments arc in the auditorium
C . explain how Riverview uses music
D . tell us about a concert at the school
（3）In paragraph 4, we read that the farm has “gardens for growing
things.” Who wi ll most probably grow things in the garden?
A . Farmers.
B . Neighbors.
C . Parents.
D . Students.
（4）Which is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A . The writer thinks the kids in Riverview School are great.
B . The school thinks music helps the kids to learn, and they use it in all of their classes.
C . There are many cool things for students to study on the farm, such as trees and animals.
D . The school doesn’t think that recycling is necessary for the environment.
5. 阅读理解
Thursday, April 24th
Wearrived in the clean, lovely city of Yangzhou early in the morning. This is ourfirst trip to China. We hear that the food in Yangzhou is really delicious. Sowe plan to try something special for dinner tonight. The hotel we are stayingin is not expensive but very clean. We plan to stay here for a few days, visitsome places in the city, and then travel to the Great Wall in the north.
Sunday, April 27th
InYangzhou, we visited the famous Slender West Lake which was crowded withvisitors from all over the world, and bought a lot of toys for our friendsoutside the gate of the park. Everything is so colorful, and we took hundredsof photos there! Later today we will do the famous foot massage and then leave for the Great Wall. We will take the night train toBeijing and stay in Beijing for two days, and then catch a bus to the GreatWall.
Wednesday, April 30th
Ourtrip to the Great Wall was long and boring. We visited a small village in themountains. The village people here love the quiet life. They are really kind.They always smi le and say “Hello”. Ralph and I can only speak a fewwords of Chinese, so smiling is the best way to show our kindness.
（1）From the passage we can see that the writer had a ______________ stay in Yangzhou.
A . four-day
B . five-day
C . six-day
D . seven-day
（2）The writer didn’t ______________ in Yangzhou.
A . taste delicious food
B . visit places of interest
C . do foot massage
D . climb mountains
（3）Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A . It took them a long time to get to the Great Wall from Beijing.
B . The writer Ieft Yangzhou for Beijing by train at night.
C . People in the village live a quiet but happy life.
D . The writer was travelling by himself unhappily.
（4）What is the best title for the passage?
A . My First Visit to Yangzhou
B . My Travelling in China
C . Delicious Food and Beautiful Places
D . A Trip to the Great Wall
三、任务型阅读
6. 阅读下面短文，请把A-E中的句子填入横线上，使短文完整。

每句限用一次。

A. Because ofthese good facts, few people refuse it,
B. These arethe reasons why they do not like it.
C. So it ispossible for many of them to do shopping through the Internet.
D. Here aresome reasons.
E. On theother hand, some people don’t like this new way of shopping.
A lot of people are crazy doing shopping through the Internet now. Why is it so popular? ________First, more and more people have their own computers and their computers can bejoined with the Internet. ________ Second, shopping through theInternet can save them some money and a lot of time. Third, they don’t need togo to the shop themselves. ________
________ They are worriedabout the safety of shopping online. Customers canonly see the pictures of products on the Internet.And they can’t enjoy the fun of buying things in large supermarkets or somewonderful stores. ________
But I think more and more people will likethis new kind of shopping in the future.
四、根据句子及所给汉语注释，写出各单词的正确形式，每空只写一词。

（10分）
7. I’m afraid you have to solve thisproblem by ________ , twins!
8. Next year, I’m going to write articlesfor ________ and newspapers.
9. I think Nelly sings ________ than any other student.
10. Last fall, my father ________ me a nice present on my birthday.
11. He is ________ . Don’t take it seriously!
12. My mother and I go and do the ________ shopping every Thursday.
13. Nothing is ________ if you put your heart into it.
14. Turkey is a kind of ________ food for Thanksgiving.
15. You’ll get wet if you go out in therain ________ an umbrella.
16. Many children and ________ eat unhealthy foods that are high in fat and sugar.
五、选词填空（5分）
17. 用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确。

每词仅用一次。

enjoy like fantastic actplan
Mulanis an exciting ________ movie. It comes from an old Chinese story. The movieis about a village girl, Mulan. She dresses up ________ a boy and takes herFather’s place to fight in the army. I think the actress played Mulan’s rolewell. The other actors are also ________ and they did a go job in the movie.I like Mula very much. The movie shows her love for her family, friends andcountry. If you ________ to watch a movie this weekend and you want to see something________ choose Mulan!
六、语法填空
18. 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

Doyou know the movie “I, Robot”? It tells us a story about the future.
Theyear is 2035 and robots are just as common ________ cell phones. Robots play________ important role in people’s l ives. People use their robots to dolots of things, for ________ babysitting, cooking, doing chores and ________
their dogs for a walk. Robots have to follow humans’ orders, becausetheir makers make them. ________ so. A policeman ________ Spooner hates robots. He doesn’t think humans can get on well with their robotsat all! ________ the scientist Susan has different opinions. Susan works onrobots’ mind and she thinks in the future robots ________ morepowerful than humans and help humans to makeprogress .
WhenSpooner and Susan work together, they find that something is wrong with theworld’s robots. A few robots have their own thoughts and they’re ________ to get out of humans’ control ! Of ________,these robots’ dream doesn’t come true. Humans work hard to control their robotsagain and finally, they succeed.
七、书面表达
19. 假设你是学校英文报社的一名学生记者，在寒假来临之际，你就同学们的寒假活动计划采访了部分同学。

请你用下面表格中的信息用英语为校报写一份调查报告,并谈谈你的打算。

Who
What they aregoing to do
Reasons
Two girls fromGrade 7
上一些钢琴课
对钢琴感兴趣
A girl from Grade8
学做不同种类的汤
感谢妈妈
Some boys fromGrade 9
加入一个跑步俱乐部
变得更健康
More than halfof the students 待在家里阅读、做作业
有更多的时间学习
You
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Wintervacation is coming. As a school reporter, I interviewed some students abouttheir vacation plans. Here are the results.。