2014--2015年厦门八年级下册英语期中考试考试试卷

2014—2015年厦门八年级下英语期中考试试卷

笔试部分（100分）

一、单项选择题。（15 分）

( ) 21. What’s __________ – I have a sore back.

A . the wrong B. the matter C. matter D. trouble

( ) 22.__________ more vegetables is good for our health.

A .Eating B. Eat C. ate D. eats

( ) 23.My brother used to _________ computer games at home after supper .

But now he is used to _________ his homework after supper.

A . play, do B. playing , do C. playing , doing D. play, doing

( ) 24. Gina eats ________ junk food so she is __________fat.

A . too many, too much B. too much, too many

C. too much, much too

D. too many, much too

( ) 25. The old woman lives_________, but she doesn’t feel__________.

A . alone, alone B. lonely, lonely

C. lonely, alone

D. alone, lonely

( ) 26. Could you __________ pictures on the wall

A . not to draw B. don’t draw C. not draw D. not drawing

( ) 27.Bob wants to fix up the bikes and _________ to the poor children.

A . give away them B. give them away

C. give out them

D. give off them

( ) 28. Aron likes to climb the mountains by___________. X k B 1 . c o m

A. him

B. himself

C. his

D. he

( ) 29.- Would you like the red shirt or the black one

-__________. I’d like the white one.

A. Both

B. Either

C. Neither

D. None

( ) 30. The ______ you work at your lessons, the _______ results you will get.

A .hard, good B. harder, good C. hard, better D. harder,

better

( ) 31.He looks upset. He doesn’t know_________.

A .what to do it. B. how to do it.

C. how to do

D. what do

( ) 32. I’m afraid _________ in front of a lot of people.

A . of speaking B. speaks C. speak D . for speaking

( ) 33.She always gets up early_________ she can catch the early bus to school.

A . although B. so that C. but D. because

( ) 34.When it began to rain heavily, she ________ for a bus at the bus stop.

A . waited B. waits C. is waiting D. was waiting

( ) 35.Jim called me yesterday, but I didn’t _________.

A . pick up B. put up C. turn up D. set up

二、完形填空（10分）

The Americans were getting ready to send their first man to the moon, an old Irishman (爱尔兰人) was _36___ them on TV in a hotel room. There was an Englishman in the room__37__. And he said to the Irishman, “The Americans are very ___38__, aren’t they They are going to send some me n to the moon. It’s a very __39__ way from our world.” “Oh, that’s ___40__,”the Irishman answered quickly.” “The Irishman are going to send some men to the sun in months’ __41___. That’s much __42___ away than the moon, you know. “The Englishman was very _43__ when he heard this. “Oh, yes it is,” he said, “But the sun is too __44__ for people to visit.”

The Irishman laughed and answered, “Well, the Irish are clever, too, you know. We __45___ go to the sun during the day, of course. We’ll go there during the night.”

( )36.A. reading B. watching C. making D. mending

( )37. A. too B. also C. of course D. only

( )38.A. kind B. bad C. clever D. good

( )39.A. short B. long C. far D. near

( )40.A. nothing B. all C. wrong D. great

( )41. A. later B. ago C. long ago D. time

( )42.A. far B. never C. farther D. longer

( )43.A. angry B. surprised C. glad D. sorry

( )44.A. warm B. big C. cold D. hot

( )45. A. don’t B. won’t C. want to D. Must

三、阅读理解. （40分）

A

In many English homes people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. People have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge，eggs or bread. English people drink tea or coffee at breakfast. Lunch comes at one o'clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is about half past seven. First they have soups, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that they eat some other things, like bananas，apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very necessary.

( )46. Many English people have ___________meals a day.

A. two

B. three

C. four

D. three or four

( )47. People may have ___________ for their breakfast.

A. tea and eggs

B. porridge，eggs，bread，tea or coffee

C. tea and coffee

D. bread and eggs

( )48. People have lunch at ___________ ．

A. any time

B. nine

C. five

D. one

( )49. People don't have _____________ for their dinner.

A. porridge

B. bana nas and apples

C. some soup and meat

D. meat and fish

( ) 50. In many English homes dinner comes______________．

A. at one o'clock

B. about half past seven

C. at noon

D. at night

B

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