2012——2013下八年级英语竞赛试卷

2012——2013下八年级英语竞赛试卷命题人：何巍巍I.单项选择（20分）（）1.--Have you heard that ____ UFO landed on Center Street yesterday?--Of course. And ____ alien got out of the UFO and visited the TV station.A. a, theB. the, anC. a, anD. an, an（）2.I hope there will be ____ cars and ____ pollution in the future, thus（这样）people will live longer.A. more, lessB. fewer, lessC. fewer, moreD. fewer, fewer（）3.--Oh, my clothes are ____!--Maybe you should buy some new clothes.A. out of styleB. in styleC. originalD. comfortable（）4.--I don‟t have enough money for the camp.--You could ____ some money ____ your parents?A. lend, fromB. lend, toC. borrow, toD. borrow, from（）5.--I have too much housework to do at home!--____ ask your husband for help?A. You couldB. Why don‟tC. Why notD. How about（）6.--What ____ you ____ when the phone rang?--I was washing my hair in the bathroom.A. were, doingB. was, doingC. did, doD. are, doing（）7.The girl was ____ ice cream in the sofa while the boy was ____ paper at the table.A eating, cuting B. eatting, cuttingC. eating, cuttingD. eatting, cuting（）8. How far do you live from my house? ________.A. An hourB. Three timesC. Ten minutes‟ walkD. At ten（）9. I was doing the same job________.I really feel bored.A.all timeB.the whole timeC.all the timeD.the all time（）10. He always has a great time ________.A. make friendsB. making friendsC. to make friendsD. made friends（）11. Amy‟s legs are longer than ______.A. myB.herC. meD. mine（）12. You scored 95 points. I scored 90 points. I scored _______ points.A. fewB. littleC. fewerD. less（）13. --What is she like?-- ________. Do you think she‟s good-looking.A. HikingB.She has straight, long hairC.A singerD. A tree（）14. He raised ______ for the charity to help the poor children.A. thousand of dollarsB. thousand of dollarC. thousands of dollarsD. thousands of dollar（）15. －______ does the first class begin?－At 7:40.A. How longB. WhereC. WhenD. How（）16.Where are you going? I‟m going to the library to ___ the book.A. return backB. get backC. take backD. give back（）17.Can I use your bike to go to school?____ . But you must return it tomorrow.A. It doesn‟t matterB. No problemC. SorryD. I‟m OK（）18.I get ____ when my parents turn off the TV.A. annoyedB. annoyC. annoyingD. to annoy（）19. It‟s not polite to ___ when people stand in front of you.A. cut in lineB. cut lineC. cut a lineD. cut in lines（）20. When did you ____ Shanghai last night?A. arriveB. reachC. getD. goII.补全对话（5分）Li Fang: Hi, Wang Hai! It’s a long time since we met last. (1)_____Wang Hai: I’ve been to Kunming with my friends.Li: (2) _____Wang: Yes, of course. And we saw many kinds of flowers there. (3) _____Li: Did you meet any foreign visitors?Wang: Yes, a lot. And I talked with some of them.Li: (4) _____Wang: They said we were very friendly.Li: (5) _____Wang: The delicious food and the places of interest.III.完形填空（10分）Linda has brought all her books home today. After lunch she puts the 1 out on the table and begins to do the homework for each subject. She begins with math. She finds that she has no 2 . She looks for it everywhere, but doesn’t find it. After a little while, she doesn’t feel comfortable 3 . She moves to the sofa with all her books. Now the sunlight from the window shines 4 . She moves back to the table. She has made a good start on her 5 when she stops to listen to her mother talking on the telephone.When she comes back to her work, her little sister Betty asks her for some 6 . Betty joins her at the table and begins to draw a horse. Linda has to 7 her. When they have finished, both go to the 8 . Linda eats some cakes there and brings a tin Coca Cola to her table. She says to herself, “I’ll finish my English exercises 9 at school before classes start ”Then she starts to review her history lesson, but she feels 10 . She doesn’t know what she is reading. She closes her books and goes to bed.（）1. A. balls B. books C. toys D. pictures（）2. A. cake B. water C. ruler D. bag（）3. A. on the floor B. near the window C. on the table D. in the chair（）4. A. on the door B. on the walls C. on her feet D. in her eyes（）5. A. English B. Chinese C. history D. math（）6. A. money B. paper C. sweets D. apples（）7. A. pull B. help C. listen to D. write to（）8. A. bedroom B. bathroom C. classroom D. kitchen（）9. A. today B. tomorrow C. this evening D. this afternoon（）10. A. cold B. sorry C. tired D. hungryIV.阅读理解（25分）AIt was Sunday. Mrs. Read got up early in the morning. She had some housework to do. After breakfast she had a look at the watch and found it didn‟t work. She bought it ten years ago, so she wanted to buy a new one. Her daughter Sue was only four. Her husband was busy with hi s work that day and nobody looked after the girl, she couldn‟t leave her at home. So she took Sue to the nearest shop in the town.It was fine that day and there were a lot of people in the shop. Mrs. Read and her daughter went upstairs and they got to the third floor and she began to pick a watch there. But when she bought one, she couldn‟t find Sue. She ran to the manager‟s office and asked for help. Mr. King began to go up and down to look for the little girl with her.Suddenly the woman heard someone ca lling, “Kate” She found it was her daughter. How happy she and the girl were!“Whose name did you call, dear?” asked the woman.“Yours.”“Why not call …Mother?‟”“There are lots of mothers in the shop,” said the girl. “Which mother answered me?”( ) 1. Mrs. Read got up early to ______ that Sunday.A. buy a new watchB. do some houseworkC. helped her husbandD. take her daughter to the shop( ) 2. Mrs. Read went to the nearest shop because ______.A. she hoped to go back soonB. she know the manager thereC. the things were cheap thereD. she was too tired to go further( ) 3. Sue left her mother _______.A. when they went to the shopB. when they reached the shopC. when Mrs. Read was picking a watchD. when they came out of the shop( ) 4. What was the woman‟s name?A. Her name was Kate ReadB. Her name was Sue ReadC. Her name was Kate KingD. Her name was Sue King( ) 5. The girl called her mother‟s name because ______.A. she didn‟t like herB. she couldn‟t find herC. she didn‟t know where she wasD. she could easily find herBMany years ago, in a small town, there lived a doctor. He was good and kind. At any time of day and night, he was always ready to go and help sick people. Everyone in the town liked him and people always went to him when they were sick.But many years went past and the doctor became old. He began to lose memory. This made him do foolish things sometimes. When people noticed this, they didn‟t go to him any more.“He may give us the wrong medicine,” they said and they were afraid.“Why does no one come to see me now?” he wondered. But no one wanted to tell him because they didn‟t want to hurt the good old man, so they said “You have cured all the sick people in the town. There is no one sick now.” The doctor was pleased when he heard that and they went away happily.( ) 6. The doctor lived _______.A. in a cityB. in a villageC. in a hospitalD. in a town( ) 7. People didn‟t go to the doctor any more because ______.A. he might give them wrong medicineB. he didn‟t want to see themC. they were afraid of himD. he didn‟t want to cure them( ) 8. When the doctor heard what people said, he _______.A. was worriedB. was pleasedC. was surprisedD. was sorry( ) 9. The doctor _______.A. was not kind to the sick peopleB. believed what the people told himC. always gave the sick wrong medicineD. was quite foolish( ) 10 Why didn‟t people tell the truth to the doctor?A. Because they didn‟t need to tell him the truth.B.Because the do ctor didn‟t like to listen to them.C .Because they didn‟t want to hurt the old doctor.D.Because they were angry with the doctor.CWe‟ve talked about snails (蜗牛) and their slow move. But much of the time snails don‟t move at all. They are in their shells —sleeping.Hot sun will dry out a snail‟s body. So at the least sign of hot sun, a snail draws its body into his shell. A snail will die in a heavy rain. So when it rains, a snail does the same thing, too. A snail can sleep for as long as it needs to. It spends all the winter months in its shell, asleep.In spring the snail wakes up. Its body, about three inches long, comes out from the shell. When hungry, the snail looks for food. Its eyes, at the end of the top feelers (触角), are very weak. But its sense of smell is very strong. It helps the snail to find food and the new greens.A snail‟s mouth is no bigger than the point of a pin (大头针). Yet it has 256,000 teeth! The teeth are very small, and you can‟t see them. If you put a snail in a hard paper box , it will eat its way out! And if a snail wears out its teeth, it will grow new ones.( ) 11. A snail _________.A. moves more slowly at nightB. has thousands of feetC. doesn‟t move at allD. sleeps much of the time( ) 12.In the sentence “A snail draws its body into its shell”, the word “draw” means _____.A. to make with a pencilB. to pushC. to pullD. to move away( ) 13.From the story, we know _________.A. a snail‟s shell is very thinB. a snail can‟t see wellC. a snail‟s nose is quite shortD. a snail‟s body changes in different seasons( ) 14.A snail goes to sleep when _____.A. it feels hungryB. it is put into a paper boxC. spring is comingD. it rains heavily( ) 15.Which of the following is TRUE ?A. In spring the snail doesn‟t eat or move.B. A snail has a big mouth.C. The snail sleeps in its shell most of the time.D. The snail‟s feet help it find food.DAnna reallywantedto do something significant for her school before she went to college. But she couldn ‟t thinkof anythingmeaningful that would influence the lives of her schoolmates.One day, Anna saw a girl sitting by the school pond crying. Anna went up to her and said, “Are you okay? Is there anything I can do to help?” Anna found out that the girl was in her first year and was having trouble coping with her schoolwork. Then, Anna had an idea. She would start a tutoring group where seniors could help juniors who were weak in their subjects.Before long, many seniors volunteered to join Anna ‟s tutoring group. Soon, Anna also started other support groups like “I ‟m not Alone ” which provided counseling for students whose parents had been divorced and “Crime Fighters ” where students get help with keeping away from theft. Anna was happy that she made a difference in her peers‟ lives. She was showered with flowers of appreciation from her friends!Maybe you could start a peer support group too? Here ‟s a list of peer support groups that you can start: You can start a group that(1)Helps students quit smoking(2)Helps students quit drinking and gambling(3)Counsels students with health problems(4)Helps new students cope up with school life(5)Provides graduating students with information on further studies(6)Helps students who have abusive parents(7)Helps students who come from low-income families( ) 16.Anna wanted to help start a tutoring group because _________.A.She wanted to do something significant for her schoolB. She wanted to make more moneyC. She wanted to help the juniors with health problemsD. She wanted to stop them from smoking( ) 17. You can get help from the tutoring group if you _________.A.have problems in studyB.have problems with your friendsC. don‟t know what to wear at schoolD. can‟t find something( ) 18. The girl who was crying by the school pond needed help in _____.municating with her friendsB.family relationshipC. studyingD. getting on with teachers( ) 19. The writer wants to _______ by writing this article.A. get helpB. help othersC. call for more volunteersD. find friends( ) 20. What does the underlined word “quit” most likely mean?A.stopB. startC. chooseD. getEReading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Somepeople read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning; others readnewspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learnwhat is happening in the world.Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so wejust take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be in such ahurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages.Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many differentkinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see fewnewspapers.Some newspapers are published （出版）once a week, but most of the papers arepublished once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! You knowdifferent people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, andothers prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in.Today newspapers in English have the largest number of readers （读者）in theworld. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are readingEnglish newspapers such as China Daily and 21st Century. They bring us more andmore messages together with the Internet.（）21. Reading newspapers is the most important part of life for everybody.（）22. Usually we do not read all the passages in newspapers.（）23. People in some mountain villages can see many kinds of newspapers.（）24. Different people like to read different newspapers.（）25. We can get more and more messages in English newspapers together with the Internet.V.词语填空（10分）After the government (政府) started Go West program to develop the remote western areas of China, more and more students went there as volunteers. In 2007, Mei Chunjin 1 Beijing went to Guangxi and worked in a small hospital 2 a student nurse. Yu Yiping, 3__ volunteer, began his work as a teacher in Jiangxi in 2008. He said he 4 working there, but he had to 5 after his parents in Jiangsu. He was so 6 about that. Also in 2006, manystudents went to the west. One of them 7 my cousin Liu Zhanglong. He would work in Tibet for four 8 as an office worker. He hoped more 9 volunteers would go to the __10 and help people there develop the west.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.VI.任务型阅读（10分）One day, Mr White told the class to get ready for a hobby show. All the students had the whole morning to get what they were going to show.All the students came back on time except Bob, the laziest boy in his classmates‟ eyes. It was very difficult to believe that such a boy could have a hobby. But to their surprise, Bob came back with many beautiful stamps in his hand. Mr White was very happy after watching them. However, Bob was going to take them back.“Bob, you can‟t take them back until the others watch them this afternoon,” s aid Mr White.“But I‟m sorry they are my brother‟s,” he answered. “He doesn‟t want them to be out of our home for long. He‟s afraid that they will be lost.”“Bob, you should show your own hobby here, not someone else‟s” Mr White became a bit angry.B ut Bob‟s following words made him even angrier. “Mr White, it‟s true that I have a hobby. My hobby is watching my brother collecting stamps.”1. All the students ______ the whole morning in ______ready for the hobby show.2. Bob was so______ that his cla ssmates didn‟t ______ he could have a hobby.3. When Bob ______ to his classroom, he brought many beautiful ______.4. The things in ______ hand were ______ his but his brother‟s.5. Bob thought he ______ a “hobby”. He liked ______ his brother collectin g.VII.书面表达（20分）假如你叫Celia。