广东省广州市广雅实验中学2009—2010学年八年级上学期期中质量检测试卷——英语

广雅实验学校2009学年度第一学期期中质量检测八年级英语试题考试时间：100分钟总分：120听力部分(共15分)一、听力（共两节，15分）第一节：听力理解（共10小题，10分，每小题1分）听下面几段对话或独白，每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的三个选项中选出最佳选项。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第一段对话，回答第1小题。

1. Which of the following is true?A. Tom has visited the Pyramids before.B. People built the Pyramids with some machines.C. People built the Pyramids more than 4,000 years ago.听第二段对话，回答2-3小题。

2. Where did people first play table tennis?A. In ChinaB. In England.C. In Japan.3. Some English people played tennis on a table because _______.A. the weather was badB. it was more interestingC. they liked this way better听第三段对话，回答4-5小题。

4. Where did the war take place in the film?A. On the land.B. On the water.C. On an island.5. What are the two speakers going to do?A. To go to visit Red Cliff.B. To go to play in the water.C. To go to see a film.听下面一段独白，回答第6-10小题。

6. What did the king like doing?A. Writing stories.B. Reading stories.C. Telling stories.7. People said the king’s stories were good because _______.A. they loved himB. the stories were really goodC. they were afraid of him8. What did the king ask the writer to do?A. To tell his stories.B. To read his stories.C. To teach him how to write stories.9. What did the writer think of the king’s stories?A. They were wonderful.B. They were bad.C. They were special.10. The writer asked the soldiers to take him back to prison because _______.A. he didn’t tell the truthB. he did something wrongC. he thought the king would get angry again第二节：听取信息（共5小题，5分，每小题1分）笔试部分（共85分）二、语言知识与运用（共两节，20分）三、完形填空（共10小题，10分，每小题1分）What time is it? There are many ways you can find out the time. You may have a watch on your wrist（手腕）. You can look at a clock on the wall. You can __31__ the radio or call a number on the telephone to get the time.It has not always been __32__ to know the time. A long time ago people looked at the __33__ to tell the time. They could tell the time by looking at it in the sky: morning, noon or afternoon.Around the year 1400, people began to use the hourglass（沙漏）. It was made __34__ glass with sand in it. It was wide at both ends, __35__ narrow in the middle. The sand ran from one end to __36__ in one hour. At the end of every hour people turned the glass over and it began __37__.Hundreds of years later a machine called __38__ was invented. After that people made small clocks so that they could __39__ them in their pockets. These pocket clocks were called watches. Then, during the first world war men started __40__ their watches on their wrists. It was easier and faster to tell the time.31. A. hear B. listen C. hear from D. listen to32. A. different B. difficult C. easy D. important33. A. earth B. sun C. moon D. satellite34. A. by B. into C. from D. of35. A. so B. and C. but D. or36. A. another B. other C. others D. the other37. A. once B. more C. again D. too38. A. watch B. clock C. radio D. telephone39. A. take B. bring C. carry D. get40. A. wearing B. wear C. putting D. to put四、阅读理解（共3篇，20分，每小题2分)(A)41. Walking on Main Street USA is _____.A. the start of DisneylandB. being back in timeC. living on a quiet streetD. shopping on a busy street42. Which is not true according to the material?A. We can talk to Donald Duck.B. Surprises are waiting for us along the river in Adventureland.C. We can enjoy fireworks at night.D. The flying elephant will take us to Sleeping Beauty Castle.43. What is special in Hong Kong Disneyland?A. Visitors can join a cartoon character.B. Visitors can listen to the music The Lion King.C. Visitors can see Mickey in a Chinese suit.D. Visitors can go under the sea.(B)A small man with a fat stomach got on the train at the last station before the frontier（边境）. He carried a paper bag. And four ducks’ feet could be seen under the cover. The man found an empty seat, put the bag in the middle of the floor, took out a newspaper and began to read. Then a policeman came in. Of cours e he saw the bag with ducks’ fe et at once and said, “ Whose is that bag?” Nobody answered. The policeman repeated the question, and said, “I'll have to take it away from the owner. Food mustn’t be taken out of the country.” “Well, then,” said the small man with a fat stomach. “Hurry up and take it. We want to go home.” The policeman took the bag and went on to the next carriage.At the next station, when they were safely across the frontier, the small man got up, smiled at the other passengers and said, “I hope they’ll enjoy the ducks’ feet. The rest of the bag had nothing but rubbish in it.” Then he opened his coat and pointed to another bag he was carrying under it. It was tied tightly（紧紧地）over the stomach, which was not really fat. “I have the rest of the two ducks here,” he said. With these words, he got off the train. But while he was happily walking to the exit with the bag in his hands, a policeman came up to him, saying, “Hey, man! Foreign food mustn’t be brought in.”44. The small man put the bag in the middle of the floor _____.A. so that he could make more room for himselfB. so that the policeman could find it easilyC. be cause the other passengers didn’t like itD. because there was not an empty seat in the carriage45. The first policeman took the paper bag away because _____.A. he wanted to find the owner of the bagB. he enjoyed the ducks’ feet in the bagC. the bag was put in a wrong place in the carriageD. food can’t be taken abroad46. The best title of the story is _____.A. Excited Too EarlyB. An Empty BagC. Two Fat DucksD. A Fat man(C)Very often, new-born babies are not beautiful. They are wrinkled（皮皱的）or hairless, or they have an angry look on their faces. They seem to say, “Get away! I hate everybody.” But to a parent, that hairless, wrinkled, angry-faced baby is the most beautiful and perfect child in the world. When that proud father or mother a sks you, “Well, what do you think…isn’t she beautiful?” What are you going to say? Is this the time for the truth? Of course not!You look at that proud father in the eye and say, “Yes, she is! She’s really a beauty. She’s one in a million. She’s going to be a movie star! I can tell! She’s as beautiful as a picture.”In English, this is a white lie. White lies don’t hurt people. They are not cruel（残忍的）or angry words. People use them to make a difficult thing a little easier. When people don’t want to meet someone, or eat something new that they really don’t like at a friend’s house, they tell a white lie. They are trying to be kind. They don’t want to hurt someone. It’s important to be honest, but many people feel that being kind is sometimes more important.47. When a parent asks what you think of their new baby, they want you to _____.A. tell the truthB. say what you likeC. tell liesD. say good words48. The word “w hite” in this passage means _____ in Chinese.A. 善意的B. 恶意的C. 白色的D. 苍白的49. From the passage we can know that _____.A. a new-born baby hates everyone around herB. a new-born baby is the most beautiful oneC. people who tell white lies are not kindD. people who tell white lies want to be kind50. Which of the following is a white lie?A. You broke the window, but you say didn’t.B. You know Jack has stolen a watch, but you say you don’t.C. You don’t think his first drawing great, but you say it is.D. You tell a parent that the new-born baby isn’t beautiful.五、写作部分（共三节，35分）第一节：单词拼写（共10小题，10分，每小题1分）根据所给单词的首字母用正确的单词形式填空,使句子意思完整，语法正确。