2015学年第一学期期初八年级英语

亭新中学2015学年第一学期 八年级英语期初检测（满分100分，时间90分钟） 2015年9月考生注意：所有答案务必写在答题纸上，写在试卷上不给分。

Part 1 Listening （第一部分 听力） （25分）I. Listen to the sentence and choose the suitable picture. （听句子，选出与句子内容符合的图画）5%(A)(B) (C)(D) (E) (F)1._____2. _____3._____4. _____5. ______Ⅱ.Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear. ( 听对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案) 10%( ) 6. A. In the library. B. In the playground.C. At home.D. In the underground.( ) 7. A. Teacher and student ’s parent. B. Teacher and classmate.C. Doctor and patient.D. Father and daughter.( ) 8. A. Kitty B. Mark C. John D. Kate ( ) 9. A. Action films B. Funny filmsC. Love storiesD. Adventure films( ) 10. A. Teacher B. Worker C. Doctor D. Engineer ( ) 11. A. 5yuan B. 25yuan C. 30yuan D. 35yuan ( ) 12. A. To do some shopping B. To do some housework C. To do her homework D. To go shopping ( ) 13. A. Black B. Grey C. Red D. Blue( ) 14. A. Size small B. Size mediumC. Size largeD. Size small and large ( ) 15. A. 6: 10 B. 6: 20 C. 6: 30 D. 7:10Ⅲ. 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短文内容, 符合的用“T ”表示,不符合的用“F ”表示）5%( ) 16. People have much time to think about what to eat in America. ( ) 17. Sarah likes McDonald ’s because she knows it sells healthy food.( ) 18. Most Americans still have fast food although they know it is not good forthem.( ) 19. Almost every American school child knows McDonald ’s.( ) 20.The passage tells us some of children probably have health problems becauseof overweight.Ⅳ. Listen to the dialogue and fill in the blanks.（听对话，完成下列句子，每格限填一词）5％21. Dick Brown will go to Garden City on _____________ 13th .22. It takes the train about seven hours to get to Garden City Railway _____________. 23. Passengers will have to pay ￥300 for the_____________ sleeper. 24. Dick wants to __________21 tickets for the hard sleeper. 25. Dick’s telephone number is _____________Part 2 Vocabulary and Grammar （第一部分 词汇和语法）(41分)I ．Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案)： （19分） ( )26. I have a cold and therefore I need to have a rest.Which of the following is correct for the underlined word? A. /´θæ ə f ɔ:/ B. / ´ð æ ə f ɔ:/ C. /´θεə f ɔ:/ D. /´ðεə f ɔ:/ ( )27. Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from theothers?A. I have no pocket money.B. There was an old tree long ago.C. These beds are very comfortable.D. This nice box is too heavy.( )28. Which of the following is right?A. Can you play the guitar? ↘B. No, I can ’t. ↗C. Who can play the guitar? ↘D. I don ’t know. ↗( )29. Which of the following words matches the sound /freim/?A. famousB. frameC. friendD. firstly( )30. What happens when ______water boils?A. aB. anC. theD. /( )31. We vote______ model students at the end of every school year.A. forB. onC. withD. to( )32. Look! Your jeans are a little looser than ______.A. IB. meC. myD. mine( )33.The fisherman’s wife was too g reedy, so the gold fish was sad and gave her______.A. somethingB. nothingC. anythingD. everything( )34. The farmer lives on growing vegetables. He can’t earn______ this year because of the drought (旱灾).A. littleB. muchC. manyD. few( )35. Paris (巴黎) is one of ______ cities in the world.A. beautifulB. more beautifulC. most beautifulD. the most beautiful ( )36. Mother’s Day makes me______ of my dear mum.A. thinkB. thinksC. thinkingD. to think( )37. The silly crow（乌鸦）wanted to______ its song but none would enjoy it.A. take offB. show offC. turn offD. get off( )38. What will my lovely son be like______?A. in twenty yearB. in twenty years timeC. in twenty years’ timeD. in twenty year’s time( )39. ---______ book do you like best?---The one on the left.A. WhichB. WhyC. WhereD. When( )40. We hope that we ______ more electrical appliances in our house.A. will haveB. haveC. are havingD. had( )41. Aunt Betty ______ an English teacher since she graduated from the university.A. wasB. has beenC. have beenD. were( )42. It’s already 12:00 and I’m hungry. Let me ______ lunch first.A. haveB. to haveC. to havingD. having( )43.---I don’t like films about adventures.---______.A. Neither do IB. So do IC. Neither don’t ID. So don’t I( )44. --- Perhaps we’ll meet some famous people when we’re in the stadium.---______. I want to see my favourite star, Yao Ming with my own eyes!A. That’s all right.B. I think so.C. My pleasure.D. I don’t think so. II. Complete the following passage with the words or expressions. Each can only be used once.(：（5分）45 . Smoking in public does harm to people around you. So smoking is forbidden(禁止) on trains and at cinemas.Smoking is very harmful. First, smoking 46 a great deal of money. It wastes 200 billion dollars each year in the world. Second, smoking does harm to the health of smokers and even the people near them. About 3 million people 47 diseases caused by smoking every year.Luckily, more and more people have learnt the great harm of smoking. To our joy the amount of the world tobacco(烟草) production has dropped 48 over 14 billion pounds in 2000 to 7 billion pounds in 2010.If all smokers give up smoking, we can enjoy clearer air. Let’s try our best to help the smokers 49 smoking.III. 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)：（6分）50. Good friends should always share each other’s _________.（happy）51. We saw two_________ run out of the bank quickly just now. (rob)52. It would be_________ to live on the Mars (火星) nowadays. (possible)53. If you exercise __________ every day, you will be stronger and stronger. (regular)54. The students make leaf cards________ to tell us to love the Earth. (they)55. It is very________ that so many young people go abroad for further study. (surprise) IV．Rewrite the following sentences as required （根据所给要求，改写下列句子，每空格限填一词）：（12分）56. People travel to the airport by the Airport Express. (改为否定句)People ________ ________ to the airport by the Airport Express.57. Alice has never been to America. (改为反意疑问句)Alice has never been to America, ________ ________?58. Fred and his friend are living in a nice flat . (改为感叹句)________ ________ nice flat Fred and his friend are living in!59. The red kite is not as beautiful as the blue kite. （保持句意不变）The blue kite is ________ ________ than the red kite.60. We can make the boat move by pouring water into it. (对划线部分提问)______ ______ you make the boat move?61. will, no, water, there, be, perhaps, air, or, the, earth, on (连词成句)_________________________________________________________.Part 3 Reading and writing （第三部分阅读和写话）Ⅰ. Reading Comprehension .(阅读理解) 25%(A)Harry saw an advertisement in a window. It said, “Wanted. The best salesman in the world.”“I’m a great salesman,” Harry said to himself. “I can sell anything. I’ll go in and ask for that job.”He went into the building and spoke to the manager. “I’m the best salesman in the world,” he said. “I need the job.”“You must prove (证明) you’re the best,” the manager said.“I’ll pass every test you give me,” Harry told him.Then the manager took a box of candy out of his desk. “Last week, I bought a thousand boxes of this candy. If you can sell them all before the end of the week, you can have the job.”Harry took the boxes of candy and left the office. He went from shop to shop, trying to sell boxes of the candy, but he couldn’t sell one.At the end of the week, he went back to the manager. “I’m sorry, sir,” he said. “I was wrong about myself. I’m not the best salesman in the world, but I know who is.”“Oh,” said the manager. “Who?”“The person who sold you a thousand boxes of this candy,” Harry said.True or False.（判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示）5%( ) 62. Harry wanted to get the job on the advertisement.( ) 63. The manager believed (相信) Harry was the best salesman in the world.( ) 64. The manager asked Harry to sell a thousand boxes of candy last week.( ) 65. Finally, the person who sold the manager a thousand boxes of candy got the job.( ) 66. From the story, we can learn that a per son can’t be too proud (骄傲的).(B)Mrs Mark: I got what I wanted that day. My son gave me a book of poems. He wrote it himself. My daughter bought a scarf for me and wrote me a Mother’s Day card. They also made me bread for breakfast. My husband took us to the movies.Mrs Judy: I woke up with the music. I knew this day would be nothing special for me. However, I was wrong. My husband gave me a day off! He did the dishes, took care of the children and played with them. In the evening, he took us out for a delicious dinner. They gave me 4 hours of computer playtime. I felt very warm.Mrs Jane: My one-year-old son and I went to my mother’s house on Mother’s Day. After a nice lunch, we spent half the day driving. When we got home, my husband made me dinner. He set up a picnic on the living room floor. It was with candles, cold wine and Mother’s Day cards from both him and our son, Jackson. It was a very nice Mother’s Day for me! Choose the best answers（根据短文内容选择最恰当的答案, 用A,B, C或D表示) 5%( ) 67. ______ wrote the passages.A. ReportersB. TeachersC. MothersD. Children ( ) 68. The first mother wanted______.A. poems.B. a scarf.C. breadD. her family’s love ( ) 69. The underlined sentence means ______.A. My husband would take care of the children.B. I always heard the music when I woke up.C. I would be busy all day.D. I was able to play computer games for 4 hours.( ) 70. The third passage told us that the mother ______.A. had a few children.B. celebrated her first Mother’s Day happilyC. went to visit her sister with her sonD. had to make dinner for the family after she got home( ) 71. The first mother and the third mother both received______.A. a book of poemsB. a nice scarfC. Mother’s Day cardsD. cold wine(C)An Wang was born in Shanghai, China. He went to America at the age of twenty-five. He studied at Harvard, a famous university near Boston. He was ___72_____ and soon got a doctorate (博士头衔). In 1951, An Wang ___73____ a small company. It had only one room and two employees (雇员). Every year the company grew and grew. By 1985, Wang had thirty thousand employees and had made 3,000 million dollars. His company became one of the most ___74_____ companies in the USA. It made the newest computers.____75___An Wang was very rich, money did not change him. He lived with his wife in the same house outside Boston. He only had two suits at one time, and they were blue. He was kind to the poor and liked to give money to them. People in the USA will ___76____ forget this good man.Read the passage and choose the correct words. (阅读短文，选择恰当的单词)5% ( ) 72. A. happy B. hardworking C. strong D. careful ( ) 73. A. designed B. made C. found D. started ( ) 74. A. important B. public C. difficult D. possible( ) 75. A. Because B. Although C. Since D. Before ( ) 76. A. sometimes B. always C. never D. often(D)Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给) 5%The USA is a very big country. You should choose the travelling placesc____77____. Bring a good map because you may go around.It’s a good idea to v____78____ New York and Washington D. C. in May or October. It’s not too hot or cold then.To arrive in New England in September is an e____79___plan. The weather starts to get cooler and the streets start to change colour. You’d better bring your camera because you may take photos of the leaves a____80____ the grass. You can also travel to a town, 4,000 kilometres away in Los Angeles. It’s nice to enjoy the moon in December on a clear night! In the northwest, it isn’t very cold, b____81____ there’s a lot of rain. It’s also nice to visit Alaska in July and August. It might be cool in the evening. Don’t forget to wear warm clothes. Don’t come in winter because it’s so cold.(E)Welcome to this short tour of London. This square is the middle of London. The National Gallery is opposite it, a museum with lots of well-known paintings. Go down the red street to Buckingham Palace. The Queen lives there.Turn left and go to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Opposite you can see the London Eye. It takes you 135 metres above the River Thames. You can see most of London on a clear day.When you are tired, taking a boat is the best way to visit London. You can get the boat near Big Ben. As you go down the river, the London Eye is on your right.Get off the boat at Tower Bridge. There you can see the Tower of London next to the bridge. The Tower of London is the city’s oldest palace. It is 900 years old. Take the boat back up the river. Get off the boat and g o past the station. Then walk down the street. Opposite are the old fruit and vegetable markets. Now they are shops and restaurants. Turn left into King’s Street, and go past the church. You’re now back where you started at the square.Read and answer the following questions. (阅读并回答下列问题) 5%82. Where will you go if you want to see the well-known paintings?___________________________________________________________.83. Who lives in Buckingham Palace?___________________________________________________________.84. How high is the London Eye?__________________________________________________________.85. When did the workers finish the Tower of London?__________________________________________________________.86. The shops and restaurants were fruit and vegetable markets in the past, weren’t they? ____________, ___________________________________________.Ⅱ. Write at least fifty words on the topic “My Ideal School life”.( 以“我理想的校园生活”为题, 写一段不少于55个单词的短文，标点符号不占格) 8%（注意：短文中不得出现考生的姓名，校名及其其他相关信息，否则不予评分）Suggested points:1) How is your school life?2) What changes would you like to see in your school?3) What do you think of these changes?_________________________________________ _________ __________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __________ _________ __________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __________ _________ __________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __________ _________ __________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __________ _________ __________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __________ _________ __________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __________ _________ __________ _________ _________ _________亭新中学2015学年第一学期八年级英语期初检测 答题纸（满分100分，时间90分钟） 2015年9月考生注意：所有答案务必写在答题纸上，写在试卷上不给分。