浙江省嘉兴市2017-2018学年八年级下学期期末考试英语试题(Word版,无听力,无答案)

2018初二下嘉兴市期末试卷（2018.7）

第二部分读写做部分

二、完形填空（本题共有15小题，每小题1分；共计15分）

阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Louise and Neil had known each other for three years. They wanted to get married and have their own 16 as soon as possible because they were not very young---Neil was forty and Louise was forty. 17 there was a problem. They couldn’t agree with each other on 18 they would bring their children up.

Louise had a high-paying job, so Neil could stay at home and 19 the children. He was looking forward to this, because he felt that he would be a(an) 20 father. First, he would teach them how to 21 . He would buy a lot of interesting picture books for them. Then he would teach life 22 . The children were going to learn how to swim and how to use computers. He also wanted 23 to study business at university, because he believed that business was where the money was.

Louise had other 24 . She was the oldest child in a poor family and her family couldn’t send her to school. Her father had put her to 26 in the filed as soon as she turned six. Life had been 27 for her. She didn’t want it to be the same with her children.

Neil said there was still plenty of time for him to 28 a way for the children to have fun and he was 29 that they could become happy and rich in the future. However, Louise still felt worried because she thought it was not possible for her children to have fun and have 30 at the same time.

If you were the parents like Neil and Louise, what would you do?

( )16.A.cars B.houses C.babies panies

( )17.A.But B.And C.Or D.So

( )18.A.why B.how C.when D.where

( )19.A.train B.raise C.expect D.satisfy

( )20.A.clam B.strict C.strong D.excellent

( )21.A.run B.ride C.read D.cook

( )22.A.tests B.skills C.conditions D.purposes

( ) B.him C.her D.them

( )24.A.plans B.jokes C.trips D.secrets

( )25.A.quickly B.carefully C.quietly D.actively

( )26.A.play B.study C.dance D.work

( )27.A.real B.hard C.lonely D.happy

( )28.A.take up B.write down C.find out D.depend on

( )29.A.sure B.proud C.worried D.pleased

( )30.A.regret B.trust C.success D.pleasure

三、阅读理解（本题共有10小题，每小题2分；共计20分）

阅读下面材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

A father and his son went to a kite-flying festival. The son was happy when he saw the sky filled with colorful kites. He wanted to fly a kite, too. The father then bought a kite for his son.

The son started to fly the kite was high up in the sky. After a while, the son said, “Dad, it seems that the string(线) is stopping the kite from flying higher. If we cut it, it will be free and fly even higher. Can we cut it?” The father cut the string off the reel(线轴).

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

But then, the kite started to come down. It soon feel to the ground. The son was surprised to see this. He asked his father, “I thought that after cutting the string, the kite would fly higher. Why did it fall down?”

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 direction using the string. But when you cut the string, it could no longer support (支持) the kite.”

We may sometimes feel like there are certain things holding us back and stopping us from growing. But in fact, these might be the thing that support us most.

( )31.The boy wanted to cut the kite string because .

A.he saw other people do so

B.he wanted the kite to fly higher

C.he wanted to let the kite fly freely

D.he wanted to watch the kite fall down

( )32.What happened when the string was cut?

A.The kite fell down quickly.

B.The kite flew away with a strong wind.

C.The kite flew higher and higher

D.The kite flew higher first, then fell down.