安徽省美佛儿国际学校八年级英语下学期第一次月考试题

安徽省美佛儿国际学校2011-2012学年八年级英语下学期第一次月考试题
（时间：120分钟总分：120分）
第一部分听力（每小题1分，共20分）
Ⅰ关键词语选择（每小题1分，共5分）
你将听到五个句子，请在每小题所给的A, B, C 三个选项中选出一个你所听到的单词。

每个句子读两遍。

1. A. should B. could C. need
2. A. cake B. bike C. bake
3. A. expensive B. inexpensive C. comfortable
4. A. good B. okay C. bad
5. A. what B. which C. how
Ⅱ短对话理解。

（每小题1分，共10分）
你将听到十段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，请在每小题所给的A, B, C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

每段对话读两遍。

6. What time did John begin playing basketball?
A. 1:30 pm.
B. 2:30 pm.
C. 3:00 pm.
7. Why isn’t Mary going to stay for supper?
A. She has to look after her sister.
B. She is going to see her sister.
C. She has to get ready for her sister’s coming.
8. What do es Jim wa nt?
A. Fish and chips.
B. Hamburgers.
C. Sandwiches.
9. Where are the two speakers?
A. On the school playground.
B. At a supermarket.
C. In a street.
10. How is Lee’s Chinese?
A. Good.
B. Weak.
C. Not bad.
11. What day is it today?
A. My birthday
B. Thursday
C. Friday
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12. Where do you think the man and the woman are talking now?
A. In the supermarket.
B. In the classroom.
C. In the cinema.
13. What did the woman do last night?
A. She watched a table tennis match.
B. She played table tennis.
C. She saw a film.
14. What is Mary doing?
A. She is reading.
B. She is writing.
C. She is drawing.
15. What will Mike be in 10 years?
A. doctor.
B. teacher.
C. cook.
Ⅲ短文理解。

（每小题1分，共5分）
你将听到一篇短文，短文后有几个小题。

请在每小题所给的A, B, C 三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

短文读两遍。

16. Where did the story happen?
A. In a fruit shop.
B. In a book shop.
C. In a clothes shop.
17. How many apples did the boy want to buy?
A. For one dollar.
B. For four dollars.
C. For five dollars.
18. How did the boy feel when he counted the apples?
A. Relaxed.
B. Surprised.
C. Pleased.
19. Why didn’t the shop keeper let the boy leave?
A. Because the boy didn’t give him enough money.
B. Because he wanted to give the boy more apples.
C. Because the boy’s mother came to the shop.
20. What do you think of the boy from the story?
A. He is kind.
B. He is silly.
C. He is clever.
第二部分英语知识运用（共35分）
Ⅳ. 单项选择（每小题1分，共20分）
1. Eve and Sally like to speak _______ the phone.
A. in
B. on
C. at
D. with
2. You must run fast. The train _______ in two minutes.
A. go
B. went
C. will go
D. goes
3. If there are ______trees, the air in our city will be ______ cleaner.
A. less; more
B. more; more
C. more; much
D. much; more
4. I predict he will be an engineer _____ten years because he is so interested in making things.
A. in
B. after
C. later
D. for
5. ---- I think that China will win the World Cup on e day.
----I_______. The Chine se team is becoming stronger and stronger.
A. agree
B. disagree
C. am not agree
D. think
6. Han Mei __________Li Lei with his English at eight yesterday.
A. was helping
B. is helping
C. helps
D. helped
7. ---- __________did you spend working out the problem?
----About two hours.
A. How much
B. How many
C. How soon
D. How long
8. I have _________ haircut _________ you.
A. same; as
B. the same; like
C. the same; as
D. same; like
9. I ________ think there ________ be more buildings in two years.
A. don’t; will
B. 不填; won’t
C. will; don’t
D. won’t; 不填
10. While you were at the ______, I was going to school.
A. doctor
B. doctors
C. doctor’s
D. doctors’
11. There are about five ____ trees on the hill.
A. hundred
B. hundreds
C. hundred of
D. hundreds of
12. If you want to talk to your teacher, you should _______ first.
A. called to her
B. called up her
C. call her up
D. called her up
13. ----Where’s Lily?
----I don’t know. We are all here _______her.
A. beside
B. about
C. except
D. with
14. What _______ you _______ when your father came back?
A. did; do
B. are; doing
C. were; doing
D. do; do
15. Tom often argued _______ me.
A. in
B. on
C. with
D. to
16. ----Could you give me some _______?
---- Of course.
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A. advice
B. advise
C. advices
D. advises
17. There _______ a class meeting this afternoon.
A. will have
B. will be
C. have
D. is
18. I don’t like this shirt, and I don’t like that one, _______.
A. too
B. either
C. also
D. will
19. ----My brother is ill. _______
---- You’d better take him to see the doctor.
A. What do I do?
B. What did I do?
C. What should I do?
D. What am I doing? 20. ----My clothes are _______ ---- Maybe you should buy some new clothes. A. out of style B. too dear C. too large D. very clean Ⅴ. 完形填空（每小题1.5分，共15分） A generous gap(代沟) has become a serious problem. I read a ____1___about it in the newspaper. Some children have killed themselves after ____2___with parents. I think this is because they don’t often have a talk with each other. Parents n ow___3___ more time on their work in the office, ____4___ they don’t have much time to stay with their children . As time passes, they both feel that they don’t have the ___5___topic(话题) to talk about. I want to tell parents to be more with your ___6___, get to know them and ___7___ them. And for children, show your____8___ to your parents. They are the people who love you. So ___9___them your thoughts. In this way, you could have a better understanding of each 10__ . 1. A. message B. call C. report D. letter 2. A. talk B. argue C. fight D. play 3. A. spend B. stay C. work D. have 4. A. because B. if C. but D. unless 5. A. interesting B. same C. true D. good 6. A. business B. children C. work D. office 7. A. get on well with B. look after C. understand D. love 8. A. interest B. secret C. trouble D. feelings 9. A. tell B. ask C. answer D. say 10. A. other B. others C. the other D. another 第三部分 阅读理解（每小题2分，共30分） Ⅵ.阅读理解 A …
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…学 校_______________ 班 级________ADS (广告) August 14, 2002 ■ The biggest shopping center KRF will open on August 18. Everyone with Today’s newspaper will get a small gift. You are welcome. Address: No. 6 Bridge Street ■ English Newspaper is looking for good English speakers as editors. He should study news in college. He will get $8,000 a year. Please send you application form(求职表) in 10 days. Tel: 3898766 Address: No 5 Longway Street Email: englishnewspaper@
1. If anyone has the newspaper of today, he will get a gift _________________.
A. on August 18
B. on August 19
C. on August 17
D. on August 20
2. Bob from UK and study news. He wants to work for the English newspaper. He should send
his application form （求职表）before___________.
A. August 23
B. August 24
C. August 25
D. August 26
3. Where and when will the soccer match be?
A. In New York on Sunday
B. In Star stadium at 7:00 AM
C. In Star Stadium on August 17
D. In New York on Saturday
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4. If a person wants three cheapest tickets to watch the match, he will pay RMB______________ yuan.
A.160
B.80
C.240
D.350
5. Which of the following is not right?
A. The shopping center is at No.6 Longway Street.
B. The telephone number of Chinese doctor is 137629390.
C. You can buy a soccer ticket by calling 3456754.
D. You can find the information about the football ticket on www.
B
It is over a year now since Cathy came to China. She is now living in Nanjing and has worked in a computer factory for six months. The factory is in the north of the city, and
her flat(公寓) is the south. But, she has never been late for work..
Cathy is very popular in the factory. She is kind to everyb ody and gets on well with the Chinese workers. After work, in the evenings they visit each other and talk about almost everything.
However, Cathy has made up her mind(下定决心) to leave the factory. She is going to find a job in a travel service(旅行社).“If I work in a travel service, I’ll be able to meet more people. I can learn more about China,” she told her friends. One day last week she had a talk with the manager(经理) of the travel service. He seemed pleased with her Chinese. At the end of the talk, he said, “I’ll give you a ring in a week and tell you the result.”Now Cathy is waiting for the answer.
6. Cathy has been in China for ___________.
A. more than a year
B. half a year
C. two and a half years
D. two years
7. She is___________ for work.
A. always late
B. always on time
C. never on time
D. often late
8. Almost ___________in the factory knows Cathy.
A. nobody
B. somebody
C. everybody
D. anybody
9. She wants to work in __________because she wants to know more about China and the Chinese people.
A. the south
B. the hometown
C. the north
D. the travel service
10. Cathy’s___________ must be quite good.
A. Chinese
B. maths
C. Japanese
D. physics
C
Television is good. You’d like to watch it all day and all night. Bu t too much TV is a very bad thing.
Scientists found that kids who watch too much TV may have more trouble le arning to read. They can’t
focus （集中）on their work.
Kids learn language skills best by reading, talking and playing with others. If they spend too much time watching TV, they’ll have less time for those things. Watching too much TV is bad for people’s health.
People don’t move much while watching TV. What’s more, they may eat a l ot of food while watching. This can make them fat. We call these people couch potatoes.
Fighting on TV is a big problem for kids. Young people are good a t following. Scientists have found that those who watch a lot of fighting shows are more likely to fight.
11. Scientists say if kids watch too much TV, they will ______.
A. learn language skills more easily
B. be healthier
C. find it hard to learn to read
D. eat less food
12. Kids learn language skills best by ______.
A. reading
B. talking
C. playing with others
D. all of the above
13. While watching TV, what DON’T people do?
A. Eat a lot of food.
B. Have less time for reading.
C. Hardly move.
D. Focus on their work.
14. Which of the following is true?
A. An American child will watch 12,000 fighting acts on TV a year.
B. It’s good for kids to learn from fighting acts on TV.
C. Too much TV is good for people’s health.
D. It’s easy for kids who watch a lot of fighting shows to fight with others.
15. Couch potatoes are people who watch to much TV and become____.
A. thin
B. fit
C. fat
D. strong
第四部分写(共35分)
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Ⅶ. 用所给词的适当形式填空（每小题1分，共5分）
1.It began to rain outside while Tom ____________(eat) supper.
2.I was ____________(surprise) to see you in this such party.
3.Parents should give their children more time and _________(free) to relax.
4.We _________(visit) your factory next week.
5. I found it difficult _______ (listen) to the teacher in class.
Ⅷ. 完成下列句子，每空一词。

（每题2分，共10分）
1. 昨天晚上我和妈妈吵了一架。

I________ ________ my mother last night.
2. 孩子们直到写完作业才上床睡觉。

The children ________ go to bed________ they finished their homework.
3. 当那个女孩看见一起车祸时，她正在购物。

The girl _______ ________ when she saw a car accident.
4. 上星期天，她有一次不同寻常的经历。

She had an _______ ________ last Sunday.
5. 他能看见水里有好几百条鱼。

He can see _________ _________ fish in the water.
Ⅸ.书面表达（共20分）
想象一下你未来的生活是怎样的？请以My future life 为题描述你10年后的生活（如居住环境、生活、事业、家庭、爱好等的变化）。

要求：1.表达清楚，意思连贯，书写规范，卷面整洁。

2.词数：50-70。

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八年级英语答案。