初二英语竞赛

初二英语上学期竞赛试题

一、单项选择（20分）

（）1. How could he ____?

A. makes you laugh

B. make you laugh

C makes you laughing D. make you laughing

（）2. It’s nice of you to __ ___so much time showing me around your school .

A.take

B.spend

C.cost

D.have

（）3. ____of the two books is interesting.

A. None

B. Neither

C. All

D. Both

（）4. What are you talking ____?

A.to

B.with

C. about

D./

（）5. I really don’t know__ ___my father will come back..

A. how long

B. how soon

C. how far

D. how much

（）6. We saw ___ ___ elephant in the zoo. ______ elephant

was from India.

A. a; The

B. the; An

C. an; The

D. the; A

（）7. Last night I watched the football match and didn’t go to bed ______ 12 o’ clock .

A.when

B.until

C.as

D.while

（）8. He tries to spend as much time as he can ___ Chinese well.

A to study

B studies

C studying

D study

（）9. My brother is so fat ___ ___ too much food and little exercise.

A. like

B. that

C. because

D. because of

（）10. Peter is friendly. He never __ ____ a bad word about anyone.

A. speaks

B. tells

C. talks

D. says

（）11. James,I’m too tired .Let’s stop __ __ a rest .

A.having

B.have

C.to having

D.to have

（）12. All the people should do their best ___ ___the work.

A. to finish

B. finish

C. finished .

D.finishing

（）13. _____do you write to your pen pal ?

Once a week .

A. How long

B. How soon

C. How far

D. How often

（）14. Listen! Can you hear the boy ___ ___ in the next room?

A. to sing

B. sings

C. sang

D. singing

（）15. Peter found some old men _____ Beijing Opera in the park.

A sing

B to sing

C singing

D sang （）16. There is __ __ river in my hometown.

A.two--metre--deep B .a two--metre—deep

C. two metres deep

D. a two metres deep

（）17. Beijing is bigger than __ ___in Jiangsu.

A. any other city

B. any city

C. any other cities

D. other cities

（）18. They don’t know what ___ __yesterday.

A. did he happen

B. he happened

C.happened to him

D. happened to he

（）19. Mr Wang is an _ __man.. He is_____ in telling jokes.

A. interesting , interested

B. interested, interesting

C. interesting , interesting

D. interested, interested

（）20. ___ ___ bad weather it is!

A. What

B. What a

C. How a

D. How

二、完形填空（10分）

December 21st is my grandma’s birthday. I’ll go back to my hometown 1 my parents. Yesterday evening our family 2 the presents for my grandma. “ 3 can we buy for my grandma’s birthday?”I asked. “We can b uy her a big suit,” said my mother. “My sister 4 me yesterday. She said she would buy clothes for my mother,” said Father. “We can buy her a big 5 and some vegetables.” I said. “My brother, your uncle, told me he would prepare the birthday 6 .” my father said to me. “Can we buy something 7 ?” asked my father. We thought8 . At last I shouted, “I know. We can buy 9 some Wahaha!” “Wahaha?” asked my father. “Why?” “Grandma is10 . She lost some of her teeth. If we buy her some Wahaha, she will drink it and get all the calcium(钙) she needs.”

( ) 1. A. and B. with C. for D. at

( )2. A. looked for B. talked about C. found D. heard from

( )3. A. Where B. Which C. How D. What

( )4. A. called B. took C. said D. made

( )5. A. pear B. apple C. cake D. orange

( )6. A. suit B. dinner C. present D. dress

( )7. A. others B. another C. other else

( ) 8. A. hard B. of C. about D. over

( )9. A. she B. hers C. her

( )10. A. strong B. old C. tall D. thin

三、阅读理解（20分） A

A man has a cat. He likes her very much. At mealtime the cat sits at the table with him.