◎ 2008-2009学年度牛津译林版江苏省无锡市江阴市八年级下学期英语期中考试题的第一部分试题
  • 听下面5段短对话,从题中A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。
    1. How is Linda?
    [     ]
    A. She is ill. 
    B. She is exciting.
    C. She is free.
    2. Why is Mike so happy?
    [     ]
    A. He has seen his friend.
    B. He has got a letter from his family.
    C. He has written a letter to his family.
    3. Which country is the most popular travel place in the world now?
    [     ]
    A. China.
    B. Japan.
    C. France.
    4. When does the man usually get to his office in the morning?
    [     ]
    A. At 7:30.
    B. At 8:00.
    C. At 8:30.
    5. How do they usually go to work?
    [     ]
    A. By bike.
    B. By bus.
    C. On foot.
  • 听下面5段短对话,从题中A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。
    1. What is Peter's favourite colour?
    [     ]
    A. White.
    B. Blue.
    C. Black.
    2. What are they talking about?
    [     ]
    A. An earthquake.
    B. A flood.
    C. A typhoon.
    3. Which number is Jerry reading?
    [     ]
    A. 6,008.
    B. 6,080.
    C. 8,060.
    4. What is Mary's sister's job?
    [     ]

    A. A nurse.
    B. A doctor.
    C. A worker.

    5. What will the weather be like tomorrow?
    [     ]
    A. cloudy.
    B. rainy.
    C. sunny.
  • 听1段材料, 回答第1-2题。
    1. How is Jane now?
    [     ]
    A. She is sick.
    B. She is fine.
    C. She is unhappy.
    2. Why does Jane phone Nick?
    [     ]
    A. To say hello to him.
    B. To tell him what the homework is.
    C. To ask him what the homework is.
  • 听1段材料, 回答第1-3题。
    1. Who is Mr. Johnson?
    [     ]
    A. Millie's history teacher.
    B. Millie's father.
    C. Millie's geography teacher.
    2. What will Millie do on Saturday?
    [     ]
    A. Go climbing.
    B. Take an exam.
    C. Stay at home and study.
    3. Which season is it?
    [     ]
    A. Spring.
    B. Summer.
    C. Autumn.
  • 听1段材料, 回答第1-5题。
    1. Where will they go?
    [     ]
    A. A town.
    B. A city.
    C. A school.
    2. How will they go there?
    [     ]
    A. By train.
    B. By bus.
    C. On foot.
    3. How long will it take them to get there?
    [     ]

    A. Over 3 hours.
    B. Over 2 hours.
    C. Less than 3 hours.

    4. What will they take for lunch?
    [     ]
    A. Rice.
    B. Bread.
    C. Sandwiches.
    5. What can they do after lunch?
    [     ]
    A. Give a call.
    B. Go shopping.
    C. Ask questions.
  • This morning Jack came to school _____ than _____ student in his class.
    [     ]
    A. much late; any other
    B. much later; the other
    C. much later; the other
    D. much later; any other
  • We can ______ food ______ the hungry children.
    [     ]
    A. provide; with
    B. take; with
    C. provide; for
    D. take; for
  • The correct symbol of "at" is _____.

    [     ]
    A. @
    B. &
    C. $
    D. %
  • Simon _____ a computer already. He wants to learn _____.
    [     ]
    A. bought; what to use
    B. has bought; how to use it
    C. bought; how to use it
    D. has bought; what to use it
◎ 2008-2009学年度牛津译林版江苏省无锡市江阴市八年级下学期英语期中考试题的第二部分试题
  • He did everything _____, his parents were angry with him.
    [     ]
    A. careful
    B. careless
    C. carefully
    D. carelessly
  • Simon _____ the photos when I came to visit him.
    [     ]
    A. enjoyed
    B. is enjoying
    C. was enjoying
    D. has enjoyed
  • Look! The one-eyed dog is still _____ after the flood.
    [     ]

    A. to live
    B. living
    C. lived
    D. alive

  • He fell off his bike yesterday, _____, he wasn't hurt _____.
    [     ]
    A. unluckily; bad
    B. luckily ; badly
    C. luckily ; bad
    D. unluckily; badly
  • Excuse me, what _____  just now?
    [     ]
    A. happened
    B. to happen
    C. is happening
    D. did happen
  • The flood killed _____ people.
    [     ]
    A. over five hundred
    B. hundreds of
    C. hundred of
    D. A & B
  • Now the shop factory _____ a big shopping mall.
    [     ]
    A. is turning into
    B. has turned into
    C. turned into
    D. turns into
  • All of us were _____ to hear the _____ news.
    [     ]
    A. surprised; surprising
    B. surprise; surprising
    C. surprised; surprise
    D. surprising; surprised
  • —How long have Mr. and Mrs. _____?
    —For more than twenty years.
    [     ]
    A. married
    B. been marry
    C. get married
    D. been married
◎ 2008-2009学年度牛津译林版江苏省无锡市江阴市八年级下学期英语期中考试题的第三部分试题
  • I got quite worried _____ the coming final exam.
    [     ]
    A. because
    B. because of
    C. so
    D. since
  • —If you have any trouble, be sure to call me.
    —_____.
    [     ]
    A. I'm sorry to hear that.
    B. I have no trouble.
    C. I will. Thanks very much.
    D. I will think it over.
  • 完形填空。
         In 1608, an Englishman named Thomas traveled in Italy. He liked the country and    1    down everything
    interesting. But he found one thing    2    interesting than the others. In his diary Thomas wrote: "   3     the
    Italians eat meat, they use small forks. They do not eat with their hands because, as they say, people do not
    always have    4    hands."
         Before he went back to England, Thomas bought a few     5   .
         At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the forks to his friends. When the steak (牛排) was brought
    out, he took out a fork and wanted to    6    the steak as the Italians did in Italy. His friends were    7    when
    they saw this. He told them what the fork was. They all said that Italians were very strange people because
    the fork was not easy to use at all. Thomas tried to prove that his friends were     8   , so he began to show
    that it was easy to use the fork. But the first    9    of meat he took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends
    began to    10    at him and he had to take the fork away.
         People in England began to use forks only fifty years later.
    (     )1. A. broke  
    (     )2. A. less   
    (     )3. A. Why    
    (     )4. A. clean  
    (     )5. A. knives 
    (     )6. A. use    
    (     )7. A. worried
    (     )8. A. honest 
    (     )9. A. piece  
    (     )10. A. scream
    B. wrote    
    B. much  
    B. When      
    B. big     
    B. dishes            
    B. eat     
    B. bored   
    B. correct 
    B. kilo    
    B. look  
    C. went 
    C. even  
    C. Which   
    C. dirty  
    C. forks 
    C. make             
    C. tired 
    C. wrong
    C. pound  
    C. shout

    D. put        
    D. more      
    D. Where         
    D. safe       
    D. plates    
    D. cut          
    D. surprised  
    D. clever     
    D. packet     
    D. laugh   

  • 阅读理解。
         Mr. Brown was going away for a week. Before he left, he said to his son, "If anyone asks for me, you
    can tell him that your father has been out for doing something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to
    ask him to sit down for a cup of tea."
         "OK, Dad," said his son. But he was afraid his son couldn't remember this, he wrote these words down
    on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every
    now and then.
         Four days passed, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come
    and that the piece of paper was of no more use for him, so he burnt it that evening.
         The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was standing at the door
    and said, "Where is your father?" The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of
    paper. He could not find it. He suddenly remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted, "No more." The man
    was very surprised. He asked, "No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen?" "Burnt
    yesterday evening."
    1. Mr. Brown told his son that _____.
    [     ]
    A. he would be away from home for four days
    B. he would be back in seven days
    C. he would be back in a month
    D. he liked a cup of tea
    2. Mr. Brown wrote the words down on _____.
    [     ]
    A. the wall
    B. the door
    C. a piece of paper
    D. his son's pocket
    3. A man came to visit the boy's father on _____.
    [     ]
    A. the second day
    B. the third day
    C. the fourth day
    D. the fifth day
    4. The man was very surprised because _____.
    [     ]
    A. he thought the child's father was dead
    B. the child didn't ask him to sit down
    C. the child gave him a cup of tea
    D. he couldn't find that piece of paper
    5. What was burnt? _____.
    [     ]

    A. The piece of paper
    B. Mr. Smith
    C. The visitor
    D. The boy

  • 阅读理解。

         Years ago, many zoos kept all kinds of animals in small cages. Small cages made it easy for people to
    see the animals, but a small cage is not a good place for an animal to live in.
          Today zoos keep animals in different kinds of cages.The cages are very big and open. They usually
    have plants and little lake. The cages look like the animals' habits.
         Zoos help to protect all kinds of animals. They protect animals in the zoo and they protect animals
    in the wild. How do they do this? Zoos teach people how animals live in the wild. Zoos want people to
    help protect the animals' wild habitats.
         Many plants and animals are going extinct (灭绝). Mammoths, which related with the Asian elephants,
    are now extinct. There are no mammoths in the world today. Scientists say that seventy-four different
    kinds of living things go extinct every day!
          Zoos are working together to stop animals from going extinct.

    1. Zoos kept animals in small cages so that people can _____.
    [     ]
    A. protect them
    B. see them better
    C. feed them
    D. save them
    2. Today, zoos keep animals _____.
    [     ]
    A. in bigger cages
    B. in the wild
    C. in smaller cages
    D. in the field
    3. To protect animals, zoos _____.
    [     ]
    A. are trying to keep all kinds of animals
    B. are trying to free the animals
    C. teach people more about animals
    D. want people to feed the animals
    4. A mammoth is a kind of _____ that has gone extinct.
    [     ]
    A. plant
    B. bird
    C. animal
    D. tree
    5. An animal or a plant that is going extinct _____.
    [     ]

    A. no longer exists (存在) in the world
    B. comes into this world soon
    C. becomes very dangerous
    D. has fewer and fewer living members

  • 根据句意,用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
    1. They will lose __________ (they) if they go down that path.
    2. Jack is a __________ (honest) boy. He often tells lies.
    3. The food smells __________ (terrible) bad, you won't like it.
    4. Are you pleased with these __________ (dance) performances?
    5. We held a party to celebrate our father's __________ (forty) birthday yesterday.
  • 根据句意和汉语注释,写出单词的正确形式。
    1. His coming can bring many __________ (好处) to the villagers.
    2. We all know that some birds fly to __________ (南方的) places in winter.
    3. Jim __________ (借) me a book about animals three days ago.
    4. Many plants only grow well in ___________ (自然).
    5. Noise is unpleasant, ___________ (尤其) when you are trying to sleep.
  • 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。
    1. Look! Someone ___________ (lie) on the floor. What is happening?
    2. If it ___________ (snow) tomorrow, we won't go to the cinema.
    3. His friends did all they could ___________ (help) him out of difficulty.
    4. On May 12, 2008, a strong earthquake ___________ (hit) Sichuan, it killed many people.
    5. ___________ (spend) too much time playing computer games is bad for our eyes.
    6. We must prevent hunters from ___________ (kill) the animals.
    7. Many changes ___________ (take) place in our daily life since the invention of the computer.
    8. One of the cleaners ___________ (remove) the snow from 5 to 7 yesterday morning.
    9. The boy is very happy because he __________ (sell) out all the newspapers.
    10. There __________ (be) two football matches in your school, are there?
  • 翻译
    1. 上周,我采访了姚明,我最喜欢的篮球运动员。
         Last week, I _________________ with Yao Ming----my favourite basketball player.
    2. 地震后,人们匆忙的移开砖头和石块。
        People were _________________ the bricks and stones after the earthquake.
    3. 我希望我所有学生都对学英语感兴趣。
         I hope all my students _________________ English.
    4. 我们已经很长时间没有见面了,但我们不时的打电话。
          We ______________ each other for a long time, but we make telephone calls __________________.
    5. 这个机场投入使用三个月了。
        The airport ________________ for three months.
    6. 由于搬到了另一个城市,他经常感到有点孤单。
        Because of ________________ another city, he often __________________.
  • 根据短文内容和所给首字母,在空格内填入一个适当的词,使短文意思完整。
         In the p   1    few years, reading has become more and more i   2    in entrance examination (入学考试).
    So it is quite n   3    for the students to raise their reading a   4   . Here are a few don'ts that may be h   5   
    for faster and b   6    reading.
         1. Don't point at words or hold a pencil under the line w   7    you are reading. This might help little children.
         2. Don't move your head f  8     side to side while reading. Some students t   9    to read fast, so they move
    their heads often. But neck muscles (肌肉) can not be moved as q  10     as muscles.
         3. Don't say the words to y  11   . Some poor readers often think that it is necessary to mumble (咕噜) the
    words to themselves while r   12   . In bad cases even their lips (嘴唇) move. This should be avoided (避免).
    1.______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______ 6.______
    7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______ 11.______ 12.______
  • 书面表达。

          根据所给提示用英语写一篇题为“Saving our earth” 的短文。
    内容要点如下:
    1. 多年以前我们拥有蓝天白云,现在一切都已经改变;
    2. 空气不如以前新鲜了,水污染已经变成了一个很严重的问题;
    3. 由于人们大量砍伐树木,许多野生动物濒临灭绝;
    4. 我们应该尽我们所能保护环境。我们必须……
    注意:
    1. 第4 要点的内容须用1-2句话展开合理想象,作适当发挥;
    2. 短文内容须包括所有内容要点,要求语句通顺、意思连贯;
    3. 词数60个左右。
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