八年级第一学期英语期末卷

八年级上学期期末英语试题

第二部分笔试部分

二、完形填空

阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从题后所给的A. B. C. D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A father and his son went to a kite-flying festival. The son was happy when he saw the sky full of colorful kites. He wanted to fly a kite, too. The father then ___1___ a kite for his son in the store.

The son started to fly the kite. ___2___, his kite was high up in the sky in a few minutes. Then, the son said, "Father, it seems that the string（线）is stopping the kites from flying higher. If we cut it, it will be ___3___ and fly higher. Can we cut it?" The father cut the string off of the reel线轴）.

The kite started to go ___4___. This made the little boy happy.

But then, slowly, the kite started to ___5___. It finally fell to the ground. The son was ___6___to see this. He asked his father, "Why did it fall down? I thought that the kite would fly higher ____7____cutting the string."

The father explained, "The string was not stopping the kite from going higher, but was helping it stay in the sky. You helped the kite go up in the right ___8___ by using the string. But it can no longer support（支撑）the kite if you cut the string."

We may sometimes feel like there is ___9___ holding us back and stopping us from growing. But ___10___, it might be the thing that supports us the most.

1. A. bought B. painted C. made D. borrowed

2. A. Usually B. Soon C. Certainly D. Sadly

3. A. small B. big C. busy D. free

4. A. higher B. closer C. slower D. harder

5. A. write down B. turn down C. fall down D. cut down

6. A. bored B. interested C. surprised D. excited

7. A. after B. before C. during D. until

8. A. side B. way C. space D. time

9. A. anything B. nothing C. everything D. something

10. A. of course B. so far C. in fact D. at least

三、阅读理解

阅读下面短文, 然后从各题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Every day, at least one child dies in a house fire.

293 children are hurt（受伤）by fire.

House fires make about 90% of all fire deaths (the moum.of die).

Place a smoke alarm on every floor of your home.

Half of all housefire deaths happen between 11 pm and 7 am. Run away from danger quickly when

hearing alarms outside of every bedroom.

77% of families have no house fire escape（逃离）plan. A plan can help you escape

a house fire. It needs two ways out of every room.

If there is a fire, you may have less than 3 minutes to leave your home. Be ready to escape quickly when

the alarm sounds and then call for help.

11. 90% of the fire deaths are because ________________.

A. forest fires

B. school fires

C. house fires

D. farm fires

12. If there is a fire, you have less than___________ minutes to leave your home.

A. two

B. three

C. seven

D. eleven

13. This passage mainly tells us ____________to keep away from fires.

A. what we should do

B. where we should go

C. who we should ask for help

D. why we should make a plan

B

When he was a teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy and he spent many years in a special hospital for people with mental（心理的）health problems.

When he left the hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, USA. There he often did things in a different way. For example, he didn't like the doctor's white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients（病人）. He also tried to make them laugh.

Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine. He saw that patients were lonely and unhappy. He tried to help them, not just as patients, but as friends, too. He spent a lot of time with the children in hospital. He often put on a red nose to look like a clown to make the children laugh.

When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital named "the Gesundheit Institute". He wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.

Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1988, Universal Pictures made a film called Patch Adams. It was about his life. It was a great success. In the film, Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, "Hunter is a really warm person. He believes that patients need a doctor like a friend. I enjoyed playing him."

14. Hunter Adams went to Virginia because_____________________.