牛津英语8B期中测试卷

1.We _______ have time to listen to music.(A. hard/ B. hardly)
2.How _______ people are there in your family?(A. many/ B. much)
3.There _______ little milk in the bottle.(A. is/ B. are)
4.You_______ not play basketball in the street.(A. must/ B. can)
5.Our teacher will come back______ ten minutes.(A. at/B. in)
6.He has been to Beijing_______ 200
7.(A. for/ B. since)
7.Tom enjoys_______ stamps.(A. collecting/ B. collect)
8.I often go to school_______ bus.(A. on/B. by)
9.Let’s go _______.(A. swimming/B. swim)
10.Tom studies in_______ university in Shanghai.(A. an/B. a)
1.Trees can make streets_______ beautiful and _______ noisy.
A. less; less
B. more; more
C. less; more
D. more; less
2.The trees can protect_______ by producing a chemical.
A. their
B. theirs
C. itself
D. themselves
3.Don’t keep the door _______. It is too cold today.
A. opened
B. open
C. closed
D. close
4.Thank you for _______ me a job.
A. offer
B. offered
C. to offer
D. offering
5.I know that trees can communicate _______ one another.
A. with
B. on
C. by
D. and
6.You’d better _______ the traffic rules. They are useful and necessary.
A. not obey
B. to obey
C. not to obey
D. obey
7.There are tall buildings on _______ sides of the street.
A. all
B. any
C. both
D. either
8.The piece of news he told me made me get _______.
A. puzzle
B. puzzled
C. puzzling
D. puzzlingly
9. I was born _______ November 5th.
A. in
B. on
C. at
D. about
10.Mother told me _______ all the dishes last night.
A. wash
B. washing
C. to wash
D. washed
11.We must always be careful _______ electricity.
A. to
B. with
C. for
D. in
12.My brother always _______ his head when he is in trouble.
A. hits
B. knocks
C. scratches
D. washes
13.Although they are poor, _______.
A. they are happy.
B. but they are happy.
C. so they are happy.
D. still they are happy
14.Sam failed the exam again. He looked _______.
A. sadly
B. sad
C. happy
D.happily
15.Don’t forget _______ the light before you leave the house.
A. to turn on
B. to turn off
C. turning on
D. turning off
16. You have a new knife, _______?
A. haven’t you
B. don’t you
C. have you
D. do you
17. _______ can you see the traffic lights?
--At the crossroads.
A. What
B. Where
C. How
D. How many
18.David is so strong that he _______ any help.
A. need
B. needs
C. needn’t
D. doesn’t need
19. _______,I like him very much.
A. In some ways
B. In a way
C. In one way
D. On his way
20. What does your mother do?
--- She is _______.
A.working
B. cooking
C. Mrs. Smith
D. a doctor
21.Three trees can do the job of 15 air conditioners _______ almost all day.
A. working
B. run
C. running
D. work
22. _______ nice music it is!
A. How
B. What a
C. What
D. What an
23.The weather is fine and there is no lesson this afternoon. Let’s go fishing. ---_______
A. That’s right.
B. Thank you.
C. Not at all.
D. That’s
a good idea.
24.Could you tell me_______?
---He is twenty.
A.where he is from
B.how old is he
C.how old he is
D.when he will leave
1.It’s much more _______ to play with fire than to play with water.(danger)
2.The girl smiled and answered the question_______.(polite)
3.I am _______ sorry for my being late, sir.(real)
4.The boss hired a _______ to do his housework.(serve)
5.Don’t do such _______ things.(fool)
6.Would you like to get me some _______?(battery)
7.Modern Family is a popular _______ magazine.(month)
8.The weather in Shanghai is always _______ in spring.(change)
9.Look! How nice the _______ houses are!(wood)
10.The flat with a big balcony on the _______ floor of the building is very
modem.(four)
1.He has already been to Beijing.(改为一般疑问句)
_______ he been to Beijing _______?
2.Peter does his homework at home every day.(改为否定句)
Peter _______ _______ his homework at home every day.
3.My father will be back in two weeks.(对划线部分提问)
_______ _______ will your father be back?
4.Lin Tao put the MP3 on the table.(对划线部分提问)
_______ _______ Lin Tao put the MP3?
5.It is five minutes’ walk from here to the school.(对划线部分提问)
_______ _______ is it from here to the school?
6.They told me which way I should choose.(保持原句意思)
They told me which way _______ _______.
7.I am happy to see you again.(改为感叹句)
_______ _______ I am to see you again!
8.He’s never told me this thing.(改为反义疑问句)
He ‘s never told me this thing, _______ _______?
The Earth is our home. We must take care of it. That is to say we must keep the land, air and water clean.
But man began to pollute the Earth after he first made a fire, washed his clothes in the river and threw dirty things on the ground. Many years ago, pollution was not so serious because there were not so many people. There was enough clean air, land and water. When the land or the river was dirty in one place, man moved to another place. But now man is slowly polluting the whole world and there is not enough clean air, clean land, or clean water. More people ,more pollution.
When is this all to end? Is it possible to get rid of pollution? We are glad to see the people have come to know the dangers of pollution and a larger number of them are working hard to get rid of it.
( )1. To pollute is to keep the land, air and water clean.
( )2. Pollution began a long time ago and it is now getting less and less serious. ( )3. The land, the air and the water are becoming dirtier because there are more people in the world.
( )4. Many years ago, people moved a lot in order to get cleaner land, cleaner air and cleaner water.
( )5. Now people have begun to learn how to get rid of pollution.
If you want to learn about other societies, it is not necessary to travel. We can discover what happens in ____1___ parts of the world by ____2___ TV. It is difficult to imagine an easier ___3____ of learning about other countries. These days, TV not only tells stories, it also records the actions and the habits of ordinary people. ___4____ our present knowledge of living forms and objects in distant space, too, is got from TV and photographs___5___ cameras.
( )1. A. another B. others C. any other D. other
( )2. A. seeing B. watching C. looking D. learning
( )3. A. TV B. entrance C. book D. way ( )4. A. Many of B. A lot C. Much of D. all ( )5. A. taken by B. had C. made by D. get Many year ago, there lived an old man. The old man sold hats. One day, he went
to a small village. It was summer. The sun shone brightly. He stopped ad took a rest. Soon he felt thirsty, so he went to a river for water. When he came back, he found all his hats were gone.“Where are my hats?” the old man said. He looked up and saw a monkey in the tree, and his hats, too.
“Hey, monkey! Why did you take away my hats? Give them back to me! Be quick!”But the monkey didn’t listen to him. The old man thought and thought, and he found out a way. He took off his hat and threw it away. And the monkey threw all the hats down. The old man got his hats and walked to the village.
( )1. It was very _______ that day.
A.cold
B. hot
C. cloudy
D.rainy ( )2. The monkey took the hats away_______.
A.when the man was under the tree
B.when the man went to the village
C.after the man came back
D.after the man went to the river
( )3. The old man went to the river because _______.
A.the sun shone brightly
B.he wanted to sell his hats
C.he wanted to drink some water
D.he liked swimming very much
( )4. The old man found the monkey in the _______.
A.tree
B. house
C. street
D. village ( )5. Which is not right?
A.The old man sold hats.
B.The monkey was quick to learn.
C.The monkey liked wearing hats.
D.The old man was happy to pick the hats up.
When man began to search the sky, he saw a lot of things in the universe, the Earth seemed to be just a small bit of dust. It is only a small planet, and travels around the Sun. The Sun, together with its planets, travel in the Milky Way(银河), our galaxy(星系). The Milky Way has about thirty billion stars like our sun, and is one of about a hundred million galaxies in the universe.
Because the space is so great, it is difficult to work out how far away a star is. Instead of kilometers, we have light years. A light year means how far light travels in one year. Our nearest neighbor galaxy is more than 900,000 light years away from the Earth.
( )1. Man has known that _______.
A.the Milky Way is the only galaxy.
B.other galaxies are near ours.
C.the Sun is a large star in the Milky Way.
D.the Earth is a small part of the universe.
( )2. A galaxy is the mane of _______.
A. a large group of stars
B.the Sun
C.planet like the Earth
D.the universe
( )3. In the Milky Way, we can see many_______.
A.galaxies
B.sun like ours
C.stars like our sun
D.both B and C
( )4. There are about _______ galaxies in the universe.
A.thirty billion
B. a hundred million
C.nine thousand
D.nine hundred
( )5. We use _______ to work out how far a star is from us.
A.kilometers
B.meters
C.light years
D.months and years
fire can h___1____ people in many ways. It can heat water, warm house, give light and c____2___ food. But fire can burn things, too.
Today people know how to make a fire w____3___ matches. Children sometimes likes to p____4___ with matches. But matches can be very dangerous. One match can burn a piece of paper, and then it might burn a house. A small fire can b____4___ a big fire very fast.
1.h_______
2.c_______
3.w_______
4.p_______
5.b_______ Knowledge is power. But there is one other thing that we must remember. A strong mind needs a strong body in order to make it most useful. There are many good exercises. They are helpful and healthful. Many of them may be taken indoors during rainy weather. Indoors exercises, however, are never as helpful as those taken out of doors in pure, fresh air. It is because, in fresh air, more oxygen in taken into our systems and more wastes are given off. The air in the house does not remain fresh very long. But out of doors, it is usually fresh and pure. But what shall we play? There are a number of games such as football and basketball, etc.
Any game with plenty of movements is good. The best are those which are play out of doors. Don’t neglect your body. It is of as much importance as your mind. Our country mow needs men with strong minds, good judgment and healthy bodies.
1.What does a strong mind need to make it most useful?
2.Indoors exercises are never as helpful as outdoors exercises, are they?
3.Why are outdoor exercises more help?
4.Dose the air in the house remain fresh very long?
_______________________________________________________________________________ 5.What is a good game?
ELECTRICITY
1.What is electricity?
2.What can we do with electricity?
3.Should we be careful with electricity? Why?。