浙江省温州市2017-2018学年八年级下学期期中考试英语试题(word版).doc

2017-2018 学年第二学期八年级期中测试

英 语 试 题 卷
第一部分 听力部分（15 分）
一、听力（本题有 15 小题，每小题 1 分，共计 15 分）
第一节：听对话，选择图片。
1. Which is Bill‘s favourite sport?

2. What kind of competition will take place in May?

A B C
3. What‘s in his sister‘s hand?

A B C
4. What‘s the matter with the woman?

A B C

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5. What does the girl want to eat?

A B C
第二节：听对话，回答问题。
听第一段对话，回答 6-7 小题。
6. How does Tina look?
A. Tired. B. Excited. C. Sad.
7. Where did Tina watch the cartoon?
A. In the cinema. B. At her home. C. At the boy‘s home.
听第二段对话，回答 8-10 小题。
8. When did Jim begin to cough?
A. Last night. B. Last week. C. Last month.
9. What did the boy have for breakfast this morning?
A. A little milk and two eggs.
B. A little coffee and some bread.
C. A little tea and an apple.
10. What are they talking about?
A. The food for breakfast. B. The weather. C. Jim‘s trouble.
第三节：听独白，完成信息记录表。

Who
Taikonaut comes from ―taikong‖ and ― 11 ‖
In 1998, a Malaysian 12 scientist used the word
―taikonaut‖ for the first time.
The Shenzhou XI spaceship carried 13 taikonauts took off from China.
From China‘s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on 14 , 2016
It‘s the 15 time for China to send people into space.
When
What
When and where
Times

11. A. scientist B. astronaut C. actor
12. A. American B. Japanese C. Chinese
13. A. two B. three C. four
14. A. October 16th B. October 17th C. October 18th
15. A. third B. fifth C. sixth
第二部分 笔试部分（85 分）
二、单项选择（本题有 10 小题，每小题 1 分，共计 10 分）
16. Sally is active girl and she enjoys playing volleyball.
A. the B. a C. an D./
17. Mary received many presents on her 12th birthday, but she liked of them.
A. both B. neither C. all D. none

18. ---- have you been in the sports club?
---- For two years.
A. How often B. How soon C. How long D. How much
19. I didn‘t sleep well last night, so I felt the next day.
A. happy B. sleepy C. proud D. relaxed
20. ---- Why did you lose the game yesterday? You should think about it.
---- I will. It taught me an important .
A. dream B. exercise C. lesson D. practice
21. I football quite well, but I haven‘t had time to play since the new year.
A. will play B. have played C. played D. play
22. ---- What does your English teacher look like?
---- Miss Gao is quite tall short fair hair.
A. on B. at C. with D. of
23. It was such a funny show that people couldn‘t help again and again.
A. laugh B. to laugh C. laughing D. laughs
24. You‘d better take an umbrella when you go out. it will rain in the afternoon.
A. Once B. Perhaps C. Certainly D. Then
25. ---- Tom, do you visit your grandparents on the weekend?
---- . I am always busy with my homework.
A. No, not usually B. I‘m afraid so
C. I agree with you D. I‘m sorry to hear it
三、完形填空（本题 15 小题，每小题 1 分，共计 15 分）
阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A young man was deep in debt （欠债）and could see no way out. He sat on the park bench,
head in hands, thinking if anything could 26 his company.
Suddenly an old man appeared. ―I can see 27 is troubling you,‖ he said.
After listening to the young man‘s 28 , the old man said, ―I believe I can 29 you.‖ He asked the young man‘s name, and wrote out a check（支票）, saying, ― Take this money.
Meet me here just one year from today, and you can 30 me back at that time,‖ then he left quickly.
The man 31 in his hand a check for $ 500,000, signed（签）by John D. Rockefeller, who
was then one of the 32 men in the world!
―It can solve my problem!‖ the man realized. But at last, he 33 to put the check in his safe. Just knowing it was there to give him the power to work out a 34 to save his company.
Within a few months, he was out of debt and 35 money once again. Just one year later, he returned to the 36 with the check. At the agreed-on time, the old man appeared. Just as the man was about to hand back the check and 37 his successful story, a nurse came running up and caught the old man. ―I am so 38 I caught him!‖ she cried, ―I hope he hasn‘t been
bothering（打扰）you. He often leaves the hospital and 39 telling people he‘ s John D.
Rockefeller.‖
And she led the old man away by the arm. The man just stood there, 40 .
Suddenly, he realized it wasn‘t the money, real or imagined, but his new found self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.
26. A. start B. stop C. save D. sell

27. A. something B. everything C. nothing D. anything
28. A. programs B. troubles C. wishes D. dreams
29. A. find B. teach C. help D. protect
30. A. bring B. pay C. feed D. call
31. A. saw B. tied C. pulled D. hid
32. A. tallest B. richest C. strongest D. busiest
33. A. remember B. refused C. decided D. forgot
34. A. record B. result C. problem D. way
35. A. losing B. making C. lending D. raising
36. A. park B. room C. company D. hospital
37. A. read B. test C. share D. hear
38. A. sad B. angry C. tired D. glad
39. A. sometimes B. hardly C. never D. always
40. A. surprised B. bored C. excited D. interested
四、阅读理解（本题有 15 小题，每小题 2 分，共计 30 分）
阅读下面四篇材料，然后从题中所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案。
A
What do you think will happen when the traditional culture meet modern technology? Yes, the
―dead‖ words become lively characters at once. How happy it is to enjoy these Chinese cartoons!
Ma Liang is a poor boy who loves painting. He always uses his magic brush to fight against the bad people in the village. The cartoon The Magic Brush came out
in 1955.
A group of tadpoles （蝌蚪）are born. They try to find their mother that they
have never seen. The story is very simple, but it needs complex technology to show the artistic style of ink （水墨）painting. Little Tadpole Looking for Mom was watched in 1961 first.
The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven (1961—1964) is China‘s first color cartoon. It is from the Chinese novel Journey to the West. It‘s successful. Not only
we but also many westerners like the great monkey Sun Wukong.
To beat two bad persons, an old man grows 7 calabashes（葫芦）, and they
change into 7 boys. They try their best to beat the bad.
Calabash Brothers(1986) is a masterpiece（杰作） of Chinese paper-cutting art.

41. shows the artistic style of ink painting.

A. The Magic Brush
B. Little Tadpole looking for Mom
C. The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven
D. Calabash Brothers
42. What does the underlined（画线的）word ―complex‖ mean in Chinese? A. 重复的 B. 复杂的
C. 杂乱的 D. 冗长的
43. Which is true according to the passage?
A. Ma Liang punished the villagers with his brush.
B. Little Tadpole Looking for Mom came out in 1964.
C. The Monkey King is from a Chinese novel.
D. Calabash Brothers is from Chinese clay art.
B
Have you ever wished that your life was like a reality TV show? Well, like it or not, things might be this way in the future.
This is because of Google glasses. Glasses are the latest technology（科技）from Google. They
have more exciting features（特征）than you could possibly imagine.
For one thing, people who wear the glasses can shoot videos and record the sounds around them. So if your friend is wearing Google glasses, he or she can record your every move and broadcast live on the Internet for the world to see.
There is a GPS system in the glasses. So if you get lost you can say ―OK, Glass, where am I?‖, and it will find where you are and tell you where you need to go.
Google glasses are a bit like a helpful secretary. You can tell them what you want to write in an e-mail and they will type it for you.
Since April 16, Google glasses have been on the market in small numbers. But by the end of the year anyone will be able to buy a pair for about 2,500 yuan.
Some people are not sure whether they find Google glasses cool or not. When someone is wearing Google glasses, it is not easy to see whether or not they are using them.
44. The article is mainly about .
A. what Google glasses can do
B. the designer of Google glasses
C. how to use Google glasses
D. the importance of Google glasses
45. Which of the following statements is TURE?
A. Google glasses can record everything.
B. Google glasses will take the place of TV.
C. Google glasses are helpful secretaries to us.
D. Google glasses are sold in the small market.
46. How many features of Google glasses are mentioned in the passage?
A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five
47. What can we know from the last paragraph?
A. People don‘t like wearing Google glasses.
B. People with Google glasses are not so cool.
C. People don‘t believe they can find Google glasses.

D. It‘s hard to find that someone is using Google glasses.
C
Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous scientists in this century. He was born in 1942. He‘s world well-known on space and time. Stephen was searching some very big questions, such as ―How did the universe begin?‖ ―How will it end?‖
Stephen was a student at Oxford University. He studied math and science. Then, at the age of twenty, he became sick. He was so young, but the doctors said to his family, ―He has only two more years to live.‖ As a matter of fact, the doctors were wrong – he didn‘t die. He can‘t walk but he uses a wheelchair. He can‘t feed himself and get in or out of bed himself. But he refused to give in to the condition. He talks with the help of a computer. After
Oxford, Stephen went to Cambridge University. Three years later, in 1965, he became a doctor of philosophy（哲学）.
Because of his serious health problems, it was difficult for him to draw diagrams（图表）or to write. So he started to think in pictures. With this new way of thinking, he became one of the most famous scientists in the world. In 1981, he met the Pope（教皇）in Rome. They talked about his ideas. Then in 1988, he wrote his first important book, A Brief History of Time. It sold more than 5.5
million copies in 33 different languages. He was once invited to China, he impressed us with his self-confidence, humorous and witty（风趣的）conversation.
48. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Stephen is good at thinking.
B. Stephen cannot walk.
C. Stephen has had the answers to some very big questions.
D. Stephen had once studied math and science.
49. A Brief History of Time is .
A. a book which is well-known all over the word
B. a book about Rome‘s history
C. Stephen‘s talk collection with the Pope in Rome
D. Stephen‘s talk collection with me in China
50. Stephen‘s studies DO NOT relate（涉及）to according to the passage.
A. science B. math C. philosophy D. art
51. The right order of Stephen‘s main experiences in .
a. He went to Cambridge University.
b. He became very ill.
c. He wrote his first important book.
d. He met the Pope in Rome.
A. c-a-b-d B. a-b-c-d C. b-a-d-c D. a-c-b-d
D
Several months after I was badly hurt in a car accident, my father sent me to a blind school.
That morning was the new beginning. I went to this school and I heard lots of children. My new teacher took me to the class where we were taught to write and type in Braille（盲文）. I found it quite difficult.
―Hi, sweetheart, how is school going?‖ asked my father.
―Daddy, I can‘t do this. I try and try but I just don‘t get it. I don‘t know if I am ever going to

learn to read Braille. It‘s too difficult,‖ I cried.
Daddy just held me in his arm and said, ―Do you remember that we went to the temple which is on the top of a mountain? When we were climbing the mountain, my legs started aching, I sat down and said, ‗I can‘t see the temple. You can‘t see it because it is covered with fog（雾）.
Although you can‘t see it, I know it is there. I will make sure you will climb up to it.‘‖
―That day you showed me that just you can‘t see something does not mean it is not there. So although climbing the mountain was difficult, I knew I would get to the top.‖
I was clear what my dad wanted me to understand.
I went back to school and started with new energy. Very soon I could read.
One of my classmates said, ―You are lucky, you know, you have at least seen the world. I have just heard it. I have been told there are many colors in this world but I don‘t understand what color means.‖
After listening to her for the first time in two years, I felt lucky. And on that day I learnt that although the light in my eyes is gone, I must see the world with the light in my heart.
52. What can we know about the writer?
A. He was born blind.
B. He was sent to a blind school because he wanted to learn Braille.
C. He couldn‘t see anything after a car accident.
D. He disliked the new school.
53. What did the writer‘s dad want him to understand?
A. You can‘t see anything, but it doesn‘t mean it is not there.
B. Climbing the mountain is as easy as learning Braille.
C. Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
D. Cheer up! Life is full of choices, so choose to be happy.
54. One of the writer‘s classmates thinks he is lucky because the writer .
A. has once seen the world
B. spent the least time learning Braille well
C. knew the real meaning of color
D. could tell what the world is like without seeing it
55. What does the last paragraph want to tell us?

五、词汇运用（本题有 15 小题，每小题 1 分，共计 15 分）
A. 用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词仅用一次。

artist
count
yet
nervous
take

56. Jack put all the money into his wallet without it.
57. I often feel before strangers.
58. My brother and sister like drawing. They want to be when they grow up.
59. I haven‘t received a letter from him .
60. Forty-eight football teams part in the 2026 World Cup.
B. 阅读下面短文，然后根据括号内所给汉语意思写出单词的正确形式（每空一词）。
I am a fan of the cartoon. Cartoons have been an important part of my life 61 （自从）I

could remember. Have you watched the cartoon called Kung Fu Panda? It‘s my 62 （最喜欢的人或事）.
The story is about 63 （古老的）China and the 64 （英雄） of the animals. Po is a 65 （可爱的）, lazy and fat panda. He works for his father in a restaurant. His father hopes he will be a good cook, but he
doesn‘t think so. At last, Po is chosen save the world by 66 （与……战斗）Tai Lung and his
67 （梦想）come true. Po becomes the winner. This cartoon has won the 68 （心脏）of young people all over the world. From the story, we learn a 69 （教训）. If we try our best, nothing will be 70 （不可能）.
六、书面表达（本题有 1 小题，共计 15 分）
亲爱的同学，你喜欢阅读吗？每年的 4 月 23 日是世界读书日。为响应读书号召，我校设
定 5 月份为全校读书月，请你为我校拟定一则倡议书，宣传读书。
字数：80-100，文章开头已给出，不记入总词数。
短文包含以下要点：
1. 阅读很容易，不受时间、地点限制。
2. 阅读能给我们带来快乐, 例如：男生读航天旅行，女生读最喜欢的卡通。
3. 阅读有助于开阔思想……
4. 阅读使人增长知识……
5. 有关阅读的倡议和计划（1-2 点即可）。
参考词汇： open up one‘s mind; increase one‘s knowledge
要求：1. 书写规范、工整，条理清晰。
2. 不逐字翻译，可适当发挥。
3. 文中不得出现真实人名、地名、校名等。
Dear students,
Reading is not only a good habit but also an enjoyable thing.