2014学年第一学期八年级期中考试 英语试卷

2014学年第一学期八年级英语期中考试（满分100分，考试时间90分钟）Part 1 Listening (第一部分听力)I. Listening Comprehension (听力理解) (共25分)A. Listen and choose the right picture(根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片) (6分)A B C DE F G HB. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear (根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案) (6分)7. A) 8:00 B) 8:30 C) 9:00 D) 9:308. A) Mike. B) Betty. C) Tom. D) Jane.9. A) To the cinema. B) To the hotel. C) To the bank. D) To the post office.10. A) Rainy. B) Cloudy. C) Windy. D) Sunny.11. A) On Wednesday. B) On Thursday. C) On Friday. D) On Saturday.12. A) By car. B) By taxi. C) By bike. D) By bus.C. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false (判断下列句子是否符合你听到的内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示) (5分)13. Sarah has learned horse riding, dancing and swimming before.14. The violin teacher was good at teaching and the lessons were cheap. 15. After six weeks, Sarah’s father wanted to stop paying for her lessons.16. Neither the father nor the teacher enjoyed it when Sarah played the violin.17. The neighbors moved out because of the noise from the violin playing.D. Listen to the dialogue and fill in the blanks (根据你听到的短文，完成下列内容，每空格限填一词) (8分)18. More and more people are _______ ______ in many places in Africa today. However, things are different in Malawi(马拉维).19. These days, taking a ‘bicycle taxi’to ______ ______ Malawi has become quite popular among tourists.20. The bicycle taxi riders make the bikes _______ _______ passengers to sit on.21. Alice, a 21-year-old student from Canada enjoys the special bike riding because it is ______ and ______.Part 2 Phonetics, Vocabulary and Grammar(第二部分语音、词汇和语法)II. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案) (共15分)22. They are good at studying and they never fail exams. Which of the following iscorrect for the underlined word in the sentence?A) /fɪl/ B) /fel/ C) /feɪl/ D) /faɪl/23. Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation with others？A) Leaves have fallen from trees. B) My sister had a bad headache.C) My dream is to be a famous star. D) The sun gives the earth a lot of heat.24. I would like to be _______ university student in the near future.A) / B) a C) an D) the25. My schoolbag is quite similar to ______.A) she B) her C) herself D) hers26. The taxi driver was responsible ______ the accident.A) for B) in C) of D) from27. About ______ visitors went to the Century Park to see the giant rubber duck(大黄鸭).A) ten thousand B) ten thousands C) thousands of D) ten thousand of28. Tom likes cars. He is keen on ______ model cars of all kinds. A) makes B) making C) to make D) made 29. ______ carefully, John! There is a school ahead. A) Drive B) To drive C) Drove D) Driving 30. Tim and his parents ______ to Italy for sightseeing last summer. A) go B) went C) will go D) have gone31. Now my father ______ his bike to work every day to protect the environment. A) ride B) rode C) will ride D) rides 32. Bob spends a lot of money on books ______ he is not rich. A) if B) though C) when D) because33. Our teacher asked us ______ a report on how to protect wild animals. A) write B) writing C) wrote D) to write 34. The cheese cake tasted so ______ that the kids asked for more. A) delicious B) well C) bad D) badly 35. –I ’m sorry I am late. I missed the underground. -______________.A) You are welcome. B) Not at all. C) That ’s all right. D) Of course not. 36. –Happy birthday to you! - _____________.A) Thank you. B) The same to you. C) You are welcome. D) That ’s all right.III. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once. (将下列单词或词组填入空格。

每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次)(共8分) are you, and they would do 37 for you. Like a lot of middle school students, Mary has a problem. She and her parents don ’t get on well. ‘I 38 want to be my Daddy ’s little girl. But my father just doesn ’t understand. He talks to me all the time and doesn ’t 39 ,’ said Mary.Do you and your parents also have problems? Well, why don ’t you take a walk and have a talk on Saturday? It ’s the International Day of Families and let ’s 40 family problems. 41 went out, they always left the dog inside the house. One evening they went to the 42 , so they left the dog in the house and locked the door and their garden gate. Then they left. When the movie finished, they went 43 home. They opened the gate and stopped the car in the garage(车库). But when they came to the front door, they found that the glass in the door was broken and the door was half-open. The 44 word that came in their mind was ‘robbery ’. Then they went in quickly and saw what had been taken away. But to their surprise, everything was in the right place.IV . Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms (用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子)(共5分) 45. The food center is on the _______ floor. (five)46. Can you tell me the _______ of the building? (high) 47. _______, nobody was hurt in the accident. (lucky)48. He couldn ’t _______ his paintings and he was very poor. (sale) 49. The boy ’s favourite subject is _______. (physical)V . Complete the following sentences as required. (根据所给要求，完成下列句子。