上海重点中学牛津沪教版初二上学期8A-2017学年-大华中学-期中(含答案)

宝山区大华中学2017学年第一学期期中考试八年级
英语试卷
(满分100分，考试时间90分钟）
考生注意：本卷有十大题，共84小题。

试题均采用连续编号，所有答案务必按照规定在答题纸上完成，做在试卷上不给分。

Part 2 Phonetics, Grammar and Vocabulary
(第二部分语音、语法和词汇)
V. Choose the best answer(选择最恰当的答案)(15%)
1. What’s the advantage of shopping online? Choose the right phonetic symbols for the underlined letter in the word “advantage” of the sentence.
A. /a:/
B. /a/
C. /ei/
D. /e/
2. John’s father is _____ university professor.
A. A
B. an
C. the
D. /
3. Mr. Wang teaches _____ Physics.
A. Our
B. ours
C. ourselves
D. us
4. It’s a year _____ Mr. Smith came to teach in our school.
A. When
B. since
C. after
D. until
5. _____ they are living in the countryside now.
A. What happy life
B. What a happy life
C. How happy life
D. How a happy life
6.There is _____ about robots’ appearances. But there is _____ about their uses.
A. anything good, something interesting
B. good anything, interesting anything
C. nothing good, something interesting
D. good nothing, interesting something
7. I'm still hungry. Can I have _____ apple?
A. other
B. anther
C. others
D. some more
8. The heavy snowstorm made the mountain climbers _____ halfway.
A. stop
B. to stop
C. stopping
D. stopped
9. Robots _____ policemen control the traffic.
A. are used to help
B. are used to helping
C. used to help
D. used to helping
10. _____ do you usually go to help the old granny, once a week or twice a week?
A. How long
B. How soon
C. How often
D. How many 11. Tom _____ the teacher carefully but couldn’t _____ it clearly because it was noisy outside.
A. listened, hear
B. listened to, hear
C. heard, listen to
D. heard, listened
12.—Look, it _____ be your roommate.
—No, it _____ be him. He has gone on a study trip in London.
A. may, mustn’t
B. must, may not
C. must, can’t
D. can, may not
13. Mary is busy _____ _____ the violin every day.
A. to practise, playing
B. practising, to play
C. practising, playing
D. practise, playing
14. The medical team _____ ten doctors.
A. is made up of
B. is made from
C. is made of
D. is consist of
15.—Could you help me deal with my trouble.
— _____.
A. That’s right.
B. My pleasure.
C. Never mind.
D. With pleasure。

Ⅵ. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms. (8%)
1. People can’t live conveniently without . (electric)
2. Granny is over 90, but she still has a very good . (memorize)
3. They had a trip last weekends. (please)
4. There were many mistakes on Alice’s paper. She is such a person.(paint)
5. Mary’s are on show at the Children’s Palace these days. (paint)
6. He is listening to the music with .(please)
7. Ann is talking about some questions with her college teacher. (medicine)
8. The vacuum cleaner my mother to clean my house more quickly. (able)
Ⅵ. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used
A successful businessman was invited to a TV interview. Everybody couldn’t wait to hear a （）story from him. He, however, only said（2）. “Won’t it be better for me to ask me you for help on certain problem?”
Here was his problem. “People all rushed to the place where a gold mine had just been （3）, but there was a deep river stopping them. They must cross the river if they wanted to get to the gold mine. What would you do if you were among them?” please give me some （4）
.
）, “swim across,” said another. The businessman smiled without saying a word. Finally he gave his idea. “Why not do something different（2）rushing to the mine? How about buying a boat to do some ferrying?” The listeners were surprised. Then
he explained（3）. “The boatman could ask the passengers for as much money as possible. They were willing to pay because there was gold on the other bank.”
Do what others have not thought to do, or something that never tried before. That is the key to success. In the view of a wise man, a difficult situation often （4） a chance of success.
Ⅵ. Rewrite the following sentences. (按要求改写句子)14%
1. There were few cooks in that restaurant. (反义疑问句)
There were few cooks in that restaurant, ?
2. It took most families a lot of time to do housework in the past.(保持原句意思)
Most families a lot of time housework in the past.
3. This air-conditioner is as big as that one. (保持原句意思)
This air-conditioner is as that one.
4. You’ve got a high fever. You’d better have a rest.(两句合成一句)
you’ve got a high fever, you’d better have a rest.
5. Jack draws better than any other painter in his company.(保持原句意思)
draws as well as Jack does in his company.
6. The problem was so difficult that they couldn’t work it out.
The problem was not for them to work out.
7. it, prepare, takes, only, a, us, minutes, few, to, our, breakfast
.
Part 3 Reading and Writing(第三部分读与写)
VI. Reading comprehension (阅读理解) (共24分)
A. Choose the best answer (根据短文内容选择最恰当答案)：（5分）
Living in a foreign culture can be exciting,but it can also be confusing(令人迷惑的). A group of Americans who taught English in other countries recently discussed their experiences. They decided that miscommunications(沟通误解) were always possible, even over something as simple as " yes " and " no ".
On her first day in Micronesia, an island in the Pacific(太平洋), Lisa thought people weren't paying any attention to her. The day was hot. She went into a store and asked, " Do you have cold drinks?"The woman there didn't say anything.Lisa repeated the question. Still the woman said nothing.She later learned that the woman had answered her: She had raised her eyebrows(眉毛), which in Micronesia means "yes".
Jan remembered an experience she had in Bulgaria, a country in Europe. She went to a restaurant that was famous for its cabbage. She asked the waiter, "Do you have cabbage today?"He nodded his head. Jan waited, but the cabbage never came. In that country, a nod means "no". Tom had a similar problem when arrived in India.After explaining something in class,he asked his students if they understood. They answered with many different nods and shakes of the head. He thought some people had not understood, so he explained again. When he asked again, they did the same thing. He soon found out that his students did understand. In India, people nod and shake their heads in different ways depending on(依据)where they come from. You have to know where a person is from to understand whether they mean "yes" or "no".
( )1.The Americans teaching English in other countries found that they.
A.should go abroad for vacations
B. needed to learn foreign languages
C. should often discuss their experiences
D. had problems with communications
( )2. People in Micronesia show "yes" by__________.
A.nodding heads
B. raising eyebrows
C. shaking heads
D. saying "no"
( ) 3. Tom misunderstood(误解) his class at first because.
A. he did not know much about Indian culture
B. he didn't explain everything clearly enough
C. some students didn't understand his questions
D. he didn't know where the students came from
( )4.Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?
A.In Bulgaria, nodding heads means "no".
B. Jan taught English on a Pacific island.
C. Lisa was trying to buy some cabbage.
D. In India, only shaking heads means "yes".
( )5.The passage is mainly about________ .
A.body language in foreign restaurants
B. class discussion in India schools
C. miscommunication in different cultures
D. English teaching in other countries
B. Choose the words and expressions and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文)：（5分）
It was December 25. Marie, a 13-year-old Australian girl, was happy. It was Christmas, and Marie' s mother was making a special cake. She put four small coins into the cake, and then she baked (烤) it. The four coins were for good ____1____.
After dinner Marie and her family ate the cake. They found three coins in the cake and put them on the table. Where was the fourth coin? It was missing, but Marie's mother didn't notice. After
Christmas Marie got sick. She coughed, and she couldn' t speak. After six weeks she felt ____2_____, but she still couldn't speak. Marie's parents took her to hospital.
Doctors at the hospital looked at her. They took an X-ray of he r throat. Marie’s parents asked the doctors, “why can’t Marie speak?” The doctor said, “we don’t know. Maybe she will speak____3_____. Maybe she won’t. We are sorry, but we can't help her.
For 12 years Marie didn't speak. She grew up, she got a job, and she got married. But she_____4_____ spoke. One day, when Marie was 25 years old, she got a sore throat ( 嗓子疼) at work. She began to cough. She coughed up something small and black. What was it? Marie didn't know. She took it to the hospital. A doctor at the hospital said, "This is a ____5_____!"
The doctor told Marie, "I think you can speak again. " Marie went to a special doctor, and soon she was talking. What a story Marie can tell.
( )1. A) health B)success C)hope D)luck
( )2. A)ill B)worse C)better D)fine
( )3. A)once B)too C)again D)sometimes
( )4. A)always B)never C)usually D)sometimes
( )5. A)roll B)button C)coin D)stone
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. （5分）
We live in the computer age. People like accountants in banks and teachers in school use computers to do all kinds of work. But more than30 years ago, computers couldn't do much. They were very big and e___1__,so very few people were interested in them and k___2___ how to use them.
Computers become very important b___3____ they can work faster than people and make fewer mistakes. Computers can help people do a lot of work. Writers now use computers to write. Teachers use them to help teaching. Students use them to learn. Computers can also r____4____ what you put into them. Computers are very useful and h___5___.They are our friends.
D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）（6分）
Have you heard about teleworking? It means working from a distance, in other words, not working in an office but working at home. You use the computer and the Internet to keep in touch with your boss, but instead of being tired of an office work, you can work in your own comfortable room.
The idea sounds nice, doesn't it? You can do all your research on the World Wide Web, and send in all your work by e-mail. Well, that's exactly what my boss said to me two years ago. "Jenny, how would you like to work at home?" he said.
At first everything was great. My job was editing articles for a university, and so I spent most of my time sitting in front of a monitor and typing busily at the keyboard. Through the Internet I had access to all the information I could possibly want.It was really good being at home, too. I didn't have to waste any time traveling, and I could stop and make myself a cup of coffee or a sandwich if I wanted to—I was quite free and happy. But then things started to change. I put on weight, because I wasn't going out as much as I had before. I stopped wearing smart dresses, because a jogging suit (运动服) and trainers were so much more comfortable. My friends stopped telephoning because I didn't meet them on the bus or in the cafe.
I knew something had to change. I needed to get back out into the world. So I telephoned my boss, "Please let me come back to the office—I'm going mad on my own!"
And then goodness, he did. If you want my personal opinion, teleworking may become popular in the future...but not for me!
1.What does the word "teleworking" in the passage mean?
_________________________________________________________________________.
2.What was Jenny's job?
_________________________________________________________________________.
3. Did she go out as much as she had before?
_________________________________________________________________________.
4.Why did Jenny telephone her boss?
_________________________________________________________________________.
5.How do you like teleworking?
_________________________________________________________________________.
IV. Writing（作文）：（共10分）
Write a passage of at least 60 words on the topic “A Visit to ...’s Family...”(以“一次...家的拜访”为题，写不少于60个词的短文)（注意：文中不得出现考生的真实信息，否则不予评分）
参考答案
V. Choose the best answer(选择最恰当的答案)(15%)
1-5 AADBA 6-10 CBAAC 11-15 DCCAD
Ⅵ. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms. (8%)
1. electricity
2. memory
3. pleasant
4. careless
5. paintings
6. pleasure
7. medical 8. enables
Ⅵ. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once. 8%
CABD EBAD
Ⅵ. Rewrite the following sentences. (按要求改写句子)14%
1.were there
2. spent on
3. same size
4. Now that
5. Nobody else
6. easy enough
7. It takes us only a few minutes to prepare our breakfast.
Part 3 Reading and Writing(第三部分读与写)
A篇
1. D
2. B
3. A
4. A
5. C
B篇
答案：1. D 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. C
C篇
1.
2.
3. 4. 5.
D篇
1. It means people don't work in the office but at home.
2.Her job was editing articles for a university.
3.No, she didn’t.（I put on weight, because I wasn't going out as much as I had before.
4.Because she needed to get back into the world.
5. I like it because it makes work more convenient than before.
IV. Writing
A visit to ....family
I went to visit Kate’s family this Saturday, it's in the countryside far from the city. They made a rich dinner for me, and showed me around the beautiful fields and gardens scene around, the sheep bleeting and the birds singing, breath the fresh air on the farm with trees and flowers all around, I was of good heart. Appreciating the clear and serene scene in the countryside, and the big change in the country, I sighed with emotion. It's a unforgettable experience for me.。