牛津英语8A时期考试题附答案

Monthly Test Paper for Oxford English 8A
(总分值100分，60分钟完卷，试题全数做在答卷纸上)
Part 1 Listening (25%)
I. Listen and choose the picture for the sentence. (6%)
A B C D
E F G H
III. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear. (7%)
1. A. Because of the traffic jam. B. Because of the traffic accident.
C. She was ill.
D. She got up late.
2. A. Once a week. B. Once a day. C. Twice a week. D. Twice a day.
3. A. The long skirt. B. The new skirt. C. The jacket. D. The shoes.
4. A. A pencil-case. B. A book. C. Something. D. A pencil.
5. A. Fine. B. Sunny. C. Sunny, then rain. D. Rain, then
Sunny.
6. A. The exam was very difficult.
B. The exam was very easy.
C. The exam was difficult, but it was easy for Tom.
D. The exam was easy, but it was difficult for Tom.
7. A. Gork’s eye. B. Captain King’s eye.
C. Nobody’s eye.
D. Peter’s eye.
IV. Listen and decide if the following statements are true or false. (6%)
1.The speaker is probably keen on reading books.
2.Many students wear glasses because they read too many books.
3.There are three reasons against watching TV.
4.Reading books can make children think more.
5.In the end, the writer decided to sell the television set.
6.Books should be children’s best friends and the speaker will write more books for his children.
V. Listen to the passage, then complete the table. (6%)
Part 2 Vocabulary and Grammar (41%)
I. Fill in the blanks with the words in their proper forms: (5%)
1. By my ________, we made a profit of $20,000 last year. (calculate)
2. You are _________ to come and go as you please. (freedom)
3. Sweets can be _________ to children’s teeth. (harm)
4. This was a very important ________ because it made our life easier. (invent)
5. The new car goes at an ________ speed. (amaze)
II. Choose the best answer: (18%)
( ) 1. He is _____ honest boy, so we all believe in him.
A. an
B. a
C. the
D. /
( ) 2. I have got two tickets _______ Langlang’s concert t onight. Would you like to go there with me?
A. to
B. with
C. of
D. for
( ) 3. Some people enjoy KFC, but ______ prefer McDonald’s hamburger.
A. another
B. the other
C. others
D. the others
( ) 4. _______ of the students like the pop songs.
A. Thirds-fifth
B. Third-fifths
C. Three-fifth
D.
Three-fifths
( ) 5. Her wish is ________ a film star in the future.
A. become
B. becomes
C. to become
D. will become
( ) 6. During this Christmas season, several charities（慈善机构） in Britain offered the chance（机遇） for people to do ________ for others by buying an animal for a poor family.
A. something
B. somebody
C. nothing
D. nobody
( ) 7. It usually takes me half an hour ________ my homework after school.
A. do
B. to do
C. doing
D. to doing ( ) 8. A photographer takes pictures of a copy of a new early dinosaur. The animal is ________ years old.
A. million of
B. two millions
C. two hundred million
D. two hundreds million
( ) 9. I’d like to buy __________ scissors.
A. pairs of
B. a pair of
C. a couple of
D. couples
of
( )10. Speaking is _________ reading in learning English.
A. so important as
B. so more important as
C. as important as
D. as more important as
( )11. A: _________ do you go to Europe for business?
B: Twice a year.
A. How many times
B. How soon
C. How long
D. How often
( )12. A: What's your plan for the coming holiday?
B: I ________ Beijing if possible.
A. visit
B. visited
C. am going to visit
D.
have visited
( )13. The roar he gave was so ____ that our blood turned to ice.
A. exciting
B. excited
C. frightening
D. frightened ( )14. Each year at the date that Nobel died, the prizes _________ to people who have done a great job in making a better world.
A. gave
B. give
C. were given
D. are given ( ) 15.We try our best to make our country ________.
A. more beautiful
B. more beautifully
C. more beauty
D. most beauty
( ) 16. Mr. Wilson is my new English teacher. I have invited both ____ and _____ girl friend to our New Year’s Eve dinner.
A. he, him
B. him, his
C. his, him
D. he, his
( ) 17.This teacher tried his best to be ________ to each student.
A. fair enough
B. fairly enough
C. enough fair
D. enough fairly
( ) 18. -----I am so sorry I broke the window just now. ----- ________. Be careful next time.
A. That’s right
B. All right
C. You’re right
D. That’s all right
III. Choose the right words or an expressions in the box to the blanks of this paragraph：（8’）
Every year a lot of films are made, but not all of them ___1___us. Most of these films are not ___2___for children. Before we see a film in a cinema or watch a DVD at home, we should ___3___choose a good one.
A good film usually ___4__ us a lesson. ___5____, “Beauty and the Beast” Teaches us to love someone for his/ her good heart but not for his /her__6____. “ The Lion King” teaches us to be brave and be fair to other people.
There are ____7___films. There are adventure films, comedies, horror films, science fiction films, documentaries, action films, love stories and so on.___8___, many of these films are only for adults. So always ask your parents before you see a film.
IV. Rewrite the following sentences as required: (10%)
1. 1. Mr. Smith lived in Shanghai sixty years ago. （改成否定句）
Mr. Smith __________ __________ in Shanghai sixty years ago.
2. It’s about ten minutes’ walk from my home to my school. (对划线部份提问)
_______ ________ is it from your home to your school?
3. Please put your right hand up. （改成反意疑问句）
Please put your right hand up, _______ ________?
4. The child is too short to reach the lock. （句意相同）
The child isn’t ________ ________ to reach the lock.
5. This encyclopaedia consists of ten volumes. (维持句意不变)
This encyclopaedia is __________ __________ of ten volumes..
Part 3 Reading and Writing (39%)
I. Read and finish the tasks. (21%)
(A)
In England, people like eating fish and chips. They sometimes cook this kind of food at home. But there are many fish and chip shops. People usually buy fish and chips in a shop. The food can be put into a paper bag. It is easy for people to take the food home or to their work place. They can even eat it on the road. This“take-away”food is very popular in Englan d. It is welcomed by people there. Chinese take-away food is also popular. There are all kinds of Chinese take-away food, such as steamed bread dumplings, New Year cakes and so on. Chinese take-away food can be found all over the world: in England, in Australia ,and in the USA. But in the USA, there aren’t so many fish and chip shops. The most popular food is probably (有可能)fried (油煎的)chicken.
( )1 The most popular food in England is fried chicken.
( )2 Englishmen never cook fish and chips at home.
( )3 People can eat the take-away food everywhere.
( )4 Chinese take-away food is also served in other countries.
( )5 Fish and chips in the USA are as popular as that in England.
( B )
Choose the best answer according to the passage.(5%)
( ) 1. On Saturday morning, you can ____.
A.go to watch a ball game
B.take children to play games at the City Theatre
C.go to a concert at Rose Hall, City College
D.go to the Central Park for a picnic
( ) 2. The Red Birds ballgame ____.
A. is in the afternoon
B. is outside
C. is at the gate
D. might be cold ( ) 3. You can eat many different kinds of food from all over the world if you ____.
A. go to the Central Park
B. go to the City Theatre
C. buy tickets at the gate
D. go to see a film
( ) 4. "The Zoo" is ____.
A. a U. S. concert
B. a park with
many red birds in it
C. a music group
D. going to give their last concert ( ) 5. Mr Turner wants to have a nice Saturday. Which is not possible for him to do?
A. Watching a ballgame and having a picnic.
B. Having a picnic and seeing a film.
C. Listening to a concert and watching a ball game.
D. Seeing a film and listening to a concert.
(C)
Flying to the Moon
Scientists always want to know about other worlds in space. They have looked at them through telescope and found a lot. For example, they know much about the moon. But they wanted to get more information about it. The only way is to send men to the moon.
The moon is about 384,000 kilometres away from the earth. A plane cannot fly to the moon because the air reaches only 24 kilometres. Then there is no air.
A plane cannot fly without air to raise its body. But there is something that can fly when there is no air. This is a rocket.
A rocket is made of metal. The metal must not be heavy but it must be very strong. Inside the rocket there is a special gas. It is very hot. The hot gas runs out of the end of the rocket and this pushed the rocket move ahead.
Rockets can fly into space. Rockets with men inside them have already reached the moon. A few rockets, without men inside them, have been to other worlds far
away. One day rockets may go anywhere in space.
Answer the questions with less than five words for the blank.(5%)
1. What do scientists always want to know?
Scientists always want to know ___________________.
2. What is the only way to the moon?
The only way ___________________ to the moon.
3. Why can’t a plane fly to the moon?
A plane can’t fly to the moon because __________to raise its body above 24 km in the sky.
4. What can fly to the moon instead of a plane?
____________________________.
5. What is the hot gas in the rocket used to do?
It is used to _________________.
(D)
Choose the words or expressions to complete the passage. (6%)
More than three hundred years ago, about half of the USA's land was covered by forest. But now the forests are almost 1 . They can't stop good land from being sold. Today too many trees are being cut 2 in the USA.
China doesn't want to follow the USA's 3 . So China has built a new Great Wall of trees. It will stop the 4 from blowing earth away and stop the sand from moving towards the rich farmland. It has 5 saved a lot of land. We must
plant 6 trees every year. The more, the better.
( ) 1. A. went B. changed C. gone D.
covered
( ) 2. A. off B. down C. away D. for
( ) 3. A. forests B. land C. people D. example
( ) 4. A. wind B. sand C. rain D. cloud ( ) 5. A. still B. always C. already D. almost
( ) 6. A. fewer B. much C. many D. more
(E)
Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.（5%）
Stories of “Sky Gods”
Are there aliens or not? It’s your choice whether to believe. But there is some i___1___ about them.
In a lot of ancient cultures from all over the world, there are stories about strange beings from the sky. Many people will tell s ２about these “Sky Gods” to children, then the children will pass the stories on to their kids when they get older. From the many stories, there have been books and movies about space creatures（生物）. Somewhere in all this, the word “alien” was invented.
According to some ‘Scientists’, aliens c３ to Earth several millions of years ago after the dinosaurs were gone, but before humans were here. The aliens
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made human life with an ape （猿）. Then they put humans in charge of （掌管）their planet (the Earth) and promised that they would some day return.
What do aliens look like? There are d __４___ ideas: bright, dark, small, big, ugly, cute, green… No one r___5___ knows. You can choose to believe what you have just read or not.
1. i________
2. s________
3. c________
4. d_________
5. r__________ IV. Write at least 60 words about the topic “A great person in my mind ”. 8% Answer sheet for 8A Monthly Test 2020.12
Part 1 Listening (25%) I. Listen and choose the picture for the sentence. (6%)
1. ____
2. ____
3. ____
4. ____
5. _____
6. _____
III. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question
you hear. (7%)
1. ____
2. ____
3. ____
4. ____
5. _____
6. _____
7. ______
IV. Listen and decide if the following statements are true or false.
(6%)
1. ____
2. ____
3. ____
4. ____
5. _____
6. _____
V. Listen to the dialogue, then complete the following passage. (6%) 1. _____________ 2. _________________ 3. __________________
4. _____________
5. _________________
6. __________________
Part 2 Vocabulary and Grammar (36%)
I. Fill in the blanks with the words in their proper forms: (5%)
1. _________
2. __________
3. _____________
4. ___________
5. ___________
II. Choose the best answer. (18%)
1.______
2._______
3._______
4.________
5._______
6.________
7.______ 8.________9._______10._______ 11._______ 12.________
13. _____ 14. _____ 15. ______ 16. ______ 17. _______ 18. _______ III. Choose the right words or an expressions in the box to the blanks of this paragraph：（8%）
1. ____
2. ____
3. ____
4. ____
5. ____
6. ____
7. _____
8. ______
IV. Rewrite the following sentences as required. (10%)
1. __________ __________
2. __________ _____________
3. __________ __________
4.___________ _____________
5. __________ __________
Part 3 Reading and Writing (34%)
I. Read and finish the tasks. (26%)
(A) 1. ____ 2. ____ 3. ____ 4. ____ 5. _____
(B) 1. ____ 2. ____ 3. ____ 4. ____ 5. _____
(C) 1. Scientists always want to know ________________________________.
2. The only way ____________________________________ to the moon.
3. A plane can’t fly to the moon because __________________________
to raise its body above 24 km in the sky.
4.
__________________________________________________________.
5. It is used to _______________________________________________.
(D). Choose the words or expressions to complete the passage.
1. ____
2. ____
3. ____
4. ____
5. _____
6. ______
(E). Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.
1. i________
2. s________
3. c________
4. d_________
5. r__________
IV. Write at least 60 words about the topic “A Great Person in my mind ”. 8%
A Great Person in My Mind
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(总分值100分，60分钟完卷，试题全数做在答卷纸上)
Part 1 Listening (25%)
I. Listen and choose the picture for the sentence. (听句子，选出与句子内容符合的图画，用A、B、C、D、E、F或G表示) (6%)
1.The postman is delivering Christmas cards.
2.They are planning to travel on their holidays.
3.Does the rabbit look like a kangaroo?
4.Let’s listen to the Christmas carol sung by the choir.
5.The secretary makes notes of the manager’s words quickly.
6.Jack is sitting at a restaurant for dinner.
III. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear.
(听对话和问题，选择适合的答案，用A、B、C或D表示) (7%)
1. W: I'm sorry I'm late.
M: Why are you late again, Kate?
W: Because there was a traffic accident on my way to school.
Question: Why was Kate late again for school?
2. W: Jack, do you go to the library every day?
M: No. I go there once a week.
Question: How often does Jack go to the library?
3. M: Hi, Susan. You're looking great in your new skirt.
W: Thanks, Bob. But I've had this skirt for a long time. Look! I bought these shoes this morning. Do you like them?
M: Yes, very nice. They look good with that jacket.
Question: What did Susan buy today?
4. M: Hi, Jenny, what are you looking for?
W: I don't know what to buy for Tom's birthday.
M: Well, I've bought him a pencil-case, so why don't you get him a book or
something else?
W: Yes, that’s a good idea. I will give him a book.
Question: What is Jenny going to buy?
5. M: What will the weather be like tomorrow?
W: Fine, it will be sunny until tomorrow afternoon.
M: Really? What will happen?
W: Well, it will be sunny in the morning, but it will rain in the afternoon. Question: What will the weather be like tomorrow?
6. W: What was the exam like, Tom?
M: Oh, it wasn’t difficult at all.
Question: What does Tom mean?
7. W: Did Captain King try to hurt Gork, Peter?
M: Yes, he attacked Gork and damaged his eye.
Q: Whose eye was hurt?
IV. Listen and decide if the following statements are true or false. (依照听到的内容，判定以下句子是不是正确，正确的用T表示，不正确的用F表示) (6%) Like many other parents, I worry that my children watch too much television. Why? First, there are a lot of bad programmes on TV. My children may copy what they see on it. Second, sitting in front of the TV set all day is bad for their eyes. Many students wear glasses because they watch TV for long hours. Also, watching TV too much makes children think little. Their brains will be slow and
lazy. I think it is very important for children to read some books. Books will make children think more. Books should become children’s best friends. When I say this to my children, they just do not answer. They are too busy watching TV to answer me. So, I have decided to sell the television set. Don't you think it is a good idea?
V. Listen to the passage, then complete the table. (听短文后填表) (6%) It’s 8 a.m. now. Mr. Grey, the general manager of a large company is talking with his secretary Helen in his office.
F: Good morning, Mr. Grey.
M: Good morning, Helen. Could you tell me my timetable today?
F: Sure. Let me see…Ah, here it is! At 9:00 you’ll have a meeting with department managers.
M: Where? Room 304?
F: No, I’m afraid. Mrs. Jones plans to hold another important meeting there, but you can use Room 405.
M: That’s all right. And then?
F: At about 10:00, your assistant will give you a report on the international conference last week.
M: That’ll be fine. What about my lunch time?
F: The CEOs from three US companies will have lunch with you in Garden Restaurant. M: Well, I remember I’ll have a lecture to attend at 1:00 p.m., won’t I?
F: Yes. It’s in our meeting room. It is a lecture by Professor Johnson on Business
in Southeast Asia. But the time has been changed to 1:30 p.m.
M: I see. How long will the lecture take?
F: About one and a half hours.
M: Then I will have free time?
F: I’m afraid not. At 3:00p.m, Ms. Black wants to see you at the meeting room and discuss the exhibition project with you.
M: What a busy day!
F: Cheer up, Mr. Grey. This is life!
M: Maybe. Thanks a lot, Helen.
F: You’re welcome.
Key to MonthlyTest Paper for Oxford English 8A 2020.12
Part 1 Listening (25%)
I. (6%)
1. G
2. D
3. A
4. H
5. F
6. C
III. (7%)
1. B
2. A
3. D
4. B
5. C
6. B
7.A
IV. (6%)
1. T
2. F
3. T
4. T
5. T
6. F
V. (6%)
1. 405
2. report
3. Garden
4. attend
6. 3:00 p.m.
Part 2 Vocabulary and Grammar (41%)
I. 1. calculation(s) 2. free 3. harmful 4. invention 5. amazing
II. 1-6. A ,D,C,D,C,A; 7-12. B,C,B,C,D,C; 13-18. C,D,A,B,A,D III. E A C F G H D I
IV. 1. didn’t live 2. How far 3. will you 4. tall enough 5. made up
Part III.(34%)
I. (A) F F T T F
(B) 1. B 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. C
(C) 1. Scientists always want to know about other worlds in space.
2. The only way is to send men to the moon.
3. A plane can’t fly to the moon because there is no air to raise its body above 24 km in the sky.
4. A rocket (can)
5. It is used to push the rocket move ahead / make the rocket fly.
(D).. C, B, D, A, C, D (E). information, stories, came ,different, one。