2012～2013学年度第一学期八年级英语期中考试试题
(考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分)

请注意：1.本试卷分和非两部分。
2.所有试题的答案均填写在答题卡上，答案写在试卷上无效。

第一部分 选择题（共95分）
一、(每题1分，共20分)
A．听对话及问题，选择正确的图片。每段对话听两遍。（5分）
（ ）1. A B C

B. 听对话及问题，选择正确答案。每段对话听两遍。（5分）
（ ）6. A. Generous. B. Helpful. C. Both A and B.
（ ）7. A. John. B. Daniel. C. Kate.
（ ）8. A. On foot. B. By bike. C. By car.
（ ）9. A. Geography B. Coputer Studies C. English
（ ）10.A. 8 B. 6 C. 3
C. 听对话，回答问题, 每个对话听两遍。（5分）
听第一段对话，回答第11- 12题。
( ) 11. Did the an have a trip yesterday?
A. Yes, he did. B. No, he didn’t. C. We don’t kno
( ) 12. How did they go hoe?
A. By bus B. By taxi. C. By underground.
听第二段对话，回答第13- 15题。
( ) 13. Where does the girl coe fro?
A. the USA B. China C. the UK
( ) 14. How long does she stay in China?
A. 2 years. B. 3 years. C. 4 years.
( ) 15. Which class and grade is she in?
A. Class 8, Grade 7 B. Class 8, Grade 8. C. Class 7, Grade 8
D. 听短，回答问题，听两遍。（5分）
（ ）16. When did the faily go out for the holiday?
A. Last ay Day. B. Last Sunday. C. Last week.
（ ）17. Did it rain on that day?
A. Yes. B. No. C. Not sure.
（ ）18. How long did it take the to get out of the town?
A. Three hours. B. One hour. C. Two hours.
（ ）19. What suddenly cae to the?
A. A strong wind. B. A car. C. A bus.
（ ）20. What did they think of their trip?
A. It was pleasant. B. It was funny. C. It was sad.
二、单项选择 从下列每题所给的选项中，选择一个最佳答案。（15分）
（ ）21. To is _______ honest boy, and he has ______ good sense of huour.
A. a, a B. an, / C. a, / D. an, a
（ ）22. They young an wears glasses because he spends too uch tie _____ the coputer.
A. to work, in B. working, on C. to work, on D. working, in
（ ）23. When soething ______ e, I always feel ______.
A. worry, worried B. worries, worry C. worries, worried D. worried, worries
（ ）24. Sa spends _____ tie ______ CDs than Daniel.
A. ore, to buy B. less, on C. fewer, buying D. less, to buy
（ ）25. --- Do you have any probles _______ your aths?
--- No, I don’t. But I need soe help _____ y English.
A. on, on B. with, with C. on, with D. with, on
（ ）26. --- Which city do you want to_______?
---I want to go to Beijing.
A. go B. to go to C. go to D. going
（ ）27. I have a friend __________ illie.
A. call B. to call C. called D. calling
（ ）28. Will you please invite hi _________ in a writing copetition?
A. joins B. to joining C. to join D. joining
（ ）29. Betty is a beautiful girl ________ bright eyes and black hair.
A. in B. has C. with D. have
（ ）30. ---Would you like soe oranges?
---__________________.
A. Yes, please do B. Yes, I will C. No, thank you D. Yes, I like it
（ ）31. ---__________ is the hospital?
---It is about ten kiloeters away fro here.
A. How any B. How often C. How far D. How soon
（ ）32. The trip fro Kitty’s school to the park _________ about one hour by taxi.
A. take B. spend C. takes D. spends
（ ）33. Everything is OK. We are ready _______ work.
A. to start B. for start C. start D. starting
（ ）34. When he walks_______ y desk，he knocked y books________ the desk．
A．passed；away B．past；away C．passed；off D．past；off
（ ）35. ---Is English ore iportant than aths?
---No, I don’t think so. English is _____________ aths.
A. uch iportant than B. ore iportant as
C. as iportant as D. as ore iportant as
（ ）36. ---Is there ___________ left in the fridge? ---Only soe eggs.
A. nothing else B. else anything C. soething else D. anything else
（ ）37. Her father was too tired_________ too uch hard work．
A．because B．as C．for D．because of
（ ）38. Thank you for______ let e_______ on the trip today．
A．agree to；go B．agreeing；going C．agreeing to；go D．agree；to go
（ ）39. You’re late! Why don’t get up a little________?
A．early B．late C．earlier D．later
（ ）40. The news is really_________，and everyone is_______．
A．exciting；exciting B．exciting；excited
C．excited；exciting D．excited；excited
三、完形 短，从每题所给选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（15分）
r Clarke works in a iddle school. He likes reading and often __41__ soe books fro the library. He __42__ to the radio every orning and reading __43__ after supper. So he knows uch and teaches well. His __44__ worship(崇拜) hi very uch. ike, r Clarke’s little son, is only nine. He __45___ likes reading books. And he often asks his father soe questions. r Clarke always thinks he's too __46__ to understand hi and chooses __47__ ones to answer. Of course the boy is not satisfied with(对…满意) it. One day ike read __48__ about the electric lights (电灯) and was __49__it. When his father told hi to do soe housework, he went on thinking of it. He asked hi __50__ questions, and his father answered all. Then his father said proudly, "Fathers always know __51__than sons!" The boy thought for a while and said, __52__" "Oh? Why?" ike didn’t answer and asked, __53__, "Who invented the electric lights?" __54__ "answered r Clarke. "Why didn't his father invent the, then?" Looking at his son, r Clarke didn't know __55___ to answer!
( ) 41. A. finds B. sells C. buys D. borrows
( ) 42. A. hears B. listens C. says D. reads
( ) 43. A. newspapers B. letters C. stories D. essages
( ) 44. A. teachers B. parents C. students D. classates
( ) 45. A. also B. never C. even D. only
( ) 46. A. old B. young C. clever D. able
( ) 47. A. ore difficult B. the ost difficult C. easy D. the easiest
( ) 48. A. everything B. nothing C. soething D. anything
( ) 49. A. worried about B. interested in C. afraid of D. angry with
( ) 50. A. few B. little C. a few D. a little
( ) 51. A. ore B. ost C. less D. least
( ) 52. A. I think so B. I don’t know C. I agree D. I don’t think so
( ) 53. A. instead B. carefully C. quickly D. brightly
( ) 54. A. Thoas Brown B. Allan Sith C. Thoas Edison D. Ron Jenkins
( ) 55. A. when B. what C. where D. which
四、理解 阅读下列短，根据短内容选择最佳答案。（40分）
A
y other was telling e about how she and her faily got their first television when she was a teenager. Of course it was black and white. She said she only watch it at night. She doesn’t reeber over watching it in the orning or afternoon. When I was young we had only about 3 or 4 different channels(频道). y bothers, y sisters and I would soeties fight(打架) about which channel to watch. But we usually enjoyed the sae shows. Noe can get hundreds of channels on TV. I can’t believe it! There are channels with old fils, cooking, fishing and so on. It’s surprising! There is a channel for everything. I wonder how uch y bothers, y sisters and I would fight if we had hundreds of channels when I was a child. Of course we had only one television set. These days I find failies with 2 or 3 or ore television sets in their hoes. I guess it stops people fro arguing(吵架) about which channel to choose fro .
( ) 56. In those days, how any television sets did people have?
A. ore than one B. one C. 3 or 4 D. ore than 4
( ) 57. What kind of TV channels do we have now?
A. Channels with cooking B. Channels with old fils
C. Channels with fish D. A, B≈C
( ) 58. Now how any channels can we get on TV?
A. 3 or 4 different channels. B. Only one channel.
C. Hundreds of channels. D. Less than 10 channels.
( ) 59. When y u was a teenager, her brothers, sisters and she usually enjoyed______.
A. different channels B. the sae shows C. different shows D. all the shows
( ) 60. Which of the following in NOT true?
A. y u’s brothers and sisters would fight about which channel to watch when she was a child.
B. These days, there is only one channel with old ovies, cooking and fishing.
C. People have any channels to choose fro no
D. Faily ebers will not fight for the television set.
B
Aerican schools begin in Septeber after the long suer holidays. There are two ters in a school year, the first ter is fro Septeber to January, and the second is fro February to June. ost Aerican children go to public schools.
High school students study only four or five subjects at a tie. They usually go to the sae classes every day, and they have an assignent(外作业) for every class. After class they have any activities.
After high school, any students go to college. They can go to a sall one or a large one. They usually have to pay a lot of oney for college education (教育). But there are scholarships (奖学金) for good students, and any college students work part tie in order to get oney for their education.
( ) 61. How long do Aerican students study in school every year?
A. 8 onths B. 9 onths C. 10 onths D. 11 onths
( ) 62. High school students take ______ subjects at a tie.
A. all B. four C. five D. B or C
( ) 63. ______ can get scholarships.
A. any college students B. All the students
C. Good high school students D. Good college students
( ) 64. any college students work part tie because ______ .
A. they have any activities B. they have a lot of free tie
C. they like doing things D. they have to pay a lot of oney for their education
( ) 65. According to the passage, which sentence is Not true?
A. Aerican schools have long suer holidays.
B. There are two ters in the USA.
C. Aerican students don’t do exercises after class.
D. They do part tie job to get oney to pay for their education.
C
The Young Pop King
He is quiet and shy. He likes to hide his eyes behind his hair. He doesn't sile very often. However, if you talk to hi about usic, he'll have a lot to say.
This is Jay Chou, the 33-year-old Taiwanese pop king(天王). His fans are so excited because he will sing songs on Noveber 30, 2012 in Wuhu, Anhui Province. any pop stars will coe, too.
Chou grew up just with his other. He did not talk uch and did badly in any school subjects. His other noticed the boy's special interest in usic and sent hi to learn piano when he was only three years old. He loved it and kept on practicing.
Chou is not very handsoe. He does not speak clearly when he sings or talks. But the singer has a lot of fans. "He is really good at usic. It akes hi attractive(有魅力的) to e, " said Liu Jiajun, a Junior 2 student in No. 101 iddle School in Beijing. "He is true to hiself. He never follows others, "said Zhang Yujie, a Junior 1 girl at No.23 iddle School in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
( ) 66. Fro this passage, we know that Jay Chou_________.
A. is very handsoe B. has a bright sile
C. often akes too uch noise D. is a pop usic star
( ) 67. His fans are so excited because_________.
A. he is quiet and shy. B. he will sing new songs in Wuhu.
C. he can play the piano very well D. any faous stars will coe to Wuhu.
( ) 68. When he was a little child, he_________.
A. talked a lot every day B. did well in his study at school
C. started to like usic D. had a lot of fans
( ) 69. According to one of his fans, Jay_________.
A. is a good student B. has long and beautiful hair
C. is a well-known pianist D. is very attractive to the
( ) 70. The sentence "He never follows others" in the last paragraph eans_________.
A. he always has his own style. B. he likes to walk alone
C. he doesn't like other people's songs at all D. no one can catch up with hi
D
Reading newspapers has becoe an iportant part of everyday life. Soe people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the orning; others read newspapers as soon as they have free tie during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world. Soeties, we do not have enough tie to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other ties, we ay be in such a hurry that we only have a few inutes to look at the headlines of the passages.
Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get any different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in soe ountain villages we can see few newspapers. Soe newspapers are published once a week, but ost of the papers are published once a day with any pages, soe even published twice a day. You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Soe like world news and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in.
Today newspapers in English have the largest nubers of readers in the world. The English language is so popular that any Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 21st Century. Also they bring us ore and ore inforation with Internet.
( ) 71. People read newspapers in order to _____________.
A. learn the latest (最新的) news B. eet their own different needs
C. read the short stories D. find the orning news
( ) 72. Fro the passage we can see that __________ when people get newspapers.
A. they read the very carefully B. they just read the headlines
C. not everyone reads all the pages D. they have no tie to read the
( ) 73. Newspapers have so any pages because _______________.
A. ore and ore people like to read the
B. people enjoy reading soething different
C. newspaper becoe cheaper
D. ore pages ean ore oney
( ) 74.The ost popular in the world are newspaper ____________.
A. in English B. in Chinese
C. in other language D. with any pages
( ) 75.According the passage, besides newspapers, people also get inforation fro ___.
A. agazines B. advertiseents
C. e-ail D. Internet

第二部分 非选择题（共55分）
五、阅读表达 阅读短，按要求完成短后的各项任务。（10分）
y dear friends, what do you often do at the weekends or on holidays? Do you like going hiking? ost people enjoy hiking, especially in spring or autun.
Hiking is a healthy activity. But do you knohy any people like going hiking? The reason why people go hiking is different fro each other. Here are soe of the ost iportant reasons for people to hike.
First, hiking is a kind of good _______, and it is good for your _______ and not hurt your body. You can relax(放松) yourself during the hiking. And you can get fresh air, too.
(1)Second, hiking is easy and cheap. All you need to do is to wear a pair of hiking shoes to start.
(2)At last, hiking is the best way to get away fro your everyday life. You could hike alone or go with your faily or your good friends. And you can have a picnic together during hiking.
So why not plan your hiking day right now? Let’s go hiking together!
1. 在（1）句的空白处分别填入一个适当的词使句意完整、上下通顺。________ _______
2.将（2）句译成中。____________________________________________________________
3.回答问题：How any reasons for hiking are there in the passage?
_________________________________________________________________________________
4.在中找出与You just need to wear a pair of trainers to start your hiking. 意思相近的句子，并将它写在答题卡上。___________________________________________________________________
5.在中找出最能表达该短主题的句子，并将它写在答题卡上。
__________________________________________________________________________________
六、词汇运用 用括号内所给词的适当形式（每空不限一词）。（15分）
1. If you want keep fit, you should eat _______(little) fast food than before.
2. They love reading. They are ________(read) of your agazine;
3. Kitty enjoys cooking. She likes to cook _________(taste) eals at weekends.
4. People like going horse ____________(ride) in Inner ongolia.
5. There _________(be) a lot of traffic on the city roads, but it got better later.
6. Our school football tea played _________(bad) yesterday and lost the final.
7. I think his advice is ________(use), I don’t want to take it.
8. At the _________(begin), ary didn’t feel well.
9. The Class1, Grade8 students ___________(plan) their class trip to the park no
10. During this ________(year) Reading Week, I read the ost books in y class.
11. y story akes the little boy ________(laugh) happily.
12. In cooking lessons, I can learn how ________(cook).
13. Our school life is different fro ________(they).
14. Laura is a true friend. She likes to keep secrets to ____________(she).
15. The apples in the picture look like the real __________(one).
七、短填空 根据短内容及首字母提示，补全空格内单词，使短完整、通顺。（请在答题卡上写出完整单词）（10分）
The weekend is usually a tie of rest. B 1 today’s Chinese students cannot rest during the weekends. According to a survey(据调查), 24% of the junior students in Beijing have classes at the weekend. Over 40% of the Junior 3 have less t 2 eight hours’ sleep each night because o 3 too uch study. Ji Ping, a junior student in Guangzhou, h 4 to get up at 6:30 a on Saturday. Then she has a whole day of classes. On Sunday she goes to extra classes for ath and English. But she doesn’t coplain(抱怨). She says that a 5 her classates work hard on Sunday. Liu Yang is fro Dalian. As a Junior 2 student, his weekends are less busy. But he also spends Saturday in school. On Sunday, after d 6 hoework, he plays basketball. He feels happy b 7 he still has tie to do the things he likes. A few students are a little luckier. Yang Qing, a Junior 3 student fro Zibo, Shandong, is o 8 of the. And she is a top student. During the weekends, she usually gets up at 8:00. Then she s 9 soe tie doing hoework. After that she is free to go shopping or watch TV. “Don’t push yourself too uch. Learning well at school is e 10 ,” she said.
八、书面表达（20分）
假如你叫李涛，你的英国笔友ary正在学习汉语。她在给你的信中介绍了她的中国朋友的情况。请根据以下信息用英语写一封回信，向她介绍你的美国同学Nancy的情况。
内容如下：
姓名Nancy年级八年级11班
外貌高挑、苗条、漂亮国籍美国
最喜欢的颜色……个人爱好……
品质慷慨、乐于助人，幽默理想职业……
要求： 1.词数100个左右。信件开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
2.所写短必须包括以上内容，省略号部分自由发挥，内容必须围绕主题，调理清晰，字迹工整。
3.中不得出现真实的人名、校名、地名等相关信息。
Dear ary,
Thank you for telling e soething about your Chinese friend. I think you have a good friend. Now let e tell you soething about y classate, Nancy.


Best wishes！
Yours Sincerely,
Li Tao

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