北京市西城区初二英语期末测试第二学期

北京市西城区初二英语期末测试第二学期

北京市西城区2014—2015学年度第二学期期末试卷 八年级英语 听力理解 一、 听对话，从下面各题所给的ABC三幅图片中选择与对话内容相符的图片。每段对话你将听两遍 二、 ‎ ‎ ‎ A B C ‎2. ‎ ‎ A B C ‎3. ‎ ‎ A B C ‎4. ‎ ‎ A B C ‎5. ‎ 三、 听对话或独白，根据对话或独白的内容，从下面各题所给的ABC三个选项中选择最佳选项。每段对话或独白你将听两遍。 ‎ 请听一段对话，完成第6至第7小题。‎ ‎6. Why does Nancy look unhappy?‎ ‎ A. Because she has lost her friend’s phone.‎ B. Because she has a problem with her friend.‎ C. Because she has forgotten her friend’s birthday.‎ ‎7. What will Nancy do?‎ ‎ A. Make a call to her friend B. Send an email to her friend C. Give some flowers to her friend 请听一段对话，完成第8至第9小题。‎ ‎8. Where should the man start his trip, in the woman’s opinion?‎ ‎ A. In London B. In Cambridge C. In Oxford ‎9. What is Bath famous for?‎ ‎ A. Wonderful activities B. Ancient buildings C. Quiet environment 请听一段对话，完成第10至第11小题。‎ ‎10. The opera will be ________‎ ‎ A. at the school hall B. at the radio station C. at the playground ‎11. This passage is most probably______________.‎ ‎ A. an introduction B. a suggestion C. a competition 一、 听独白，根据所听到的内容和提示词语，记录关键信息。独白你将听两遍。‎ A message from the City Health Centre Place ‎ Opening time Things to remember Phone number The Health Centre ‎8:00 am---6:00 pm Very ___12__ early in the morning ‎ ‎785—2306‎ Toms’ Chemist Shop ‎8:00 am---____13____‎ Take the No. 77 Bus ‎___14___‎ University ___15______‎ ‎_________ a day For accidents only ‎793-2230‎ 知识运用 二、 单项选择 ‎17. ---Danny, is this model spaceship yours? ---Yes, it’s ______. I made it by myself.‎ ‎ A. my B. mine C. your D. yours ‎18. ----Have you heard of Yang Liwei? ---Yes. He’s China’s first astronaut and we’re all proud ________ him.‎ ‎ A. of B. at C. on D. for ‎19. ---Bill, would you like to join in the writing competition? ---I’d love to, ______ I’m afraid I have no time recently.‎ ‎ A. or B. so C. but D. and ‎20. ---Mum, how about having a picnic this weekend? ---OK. It _____ great.‎ ‎ A. sounds B. feels C. looks D. smells ‎21. ---Granny, _________ do you water the flowers? ---Once a week.‎ ‎ A. how long B. how often C. how soon D. how much ‎22. Tom and Jerry are very funny and I can’t help __________ when I watch them.‎ ‎ A. laugh B. laughing C. laughed D. to laugh ‎23. I’d like to offer her some help, but I’m not sure ______ she’ll accept it. ‎ ‎ A. why B. which C. where D. whether ‎24. ---Tom, let’s go to see The Fantastic Four tonight! -- I _________ it already. I went with my father yesterday.‎ ‎ A. see B. saw C. will see D. have seen ‎25. Tintin has been popular for over eighty years since the artist _______ him.‎ ‎ A. invent B. invents C. invented D. inventing ‎26. ---We didn’t see you at the party yesterday. What were you doing? ‎ ‎ ---I ________ the diary about the trip to Beihai Park.‎ A. write B. wrote C. will write D. was writing ‎27. ---- Tina, do you know what today’s homework is?‎ ‎ ---We have to _________ sentences with the words given.‎ A. make up B. take up C. wake up D. tidy up ‎28. ---Sorry, what did you say just now? ----I asked ____________.‎ ‎ A. how I can get to the station B. how can I get to the station C. how I could get to the station D. how could I get to the station 三、 完形填空：阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的ABCD四个选项中，选择最佳选项 It’s between over eleven years now. one cold afternoon, my older son, Stephen, was at school, and Reed, my husband, at work. My __29_____ little boys were sitting around the kitchen table. Tom was perfecting a paper plane, ____30___ Sam was busy drawing.‎ But Laura, our only daughter, sat quietly, working on her project. Once in a while she would ask how to ___31____ the name of someone in our family. Next, she would add flowers with small green leaves, complete with grass at the bottom. She finished off each with a sun in the upper right hand corner. Holding them at eye level, she let out a long sigh of _32____.‎ ‎“What are you making, Honey?” I asked.‎ ‎“It’s a ___33______,” she said.‎ It wasn’t until later that evening that I noticed a “mailbox” on the doors to each of our bedrooms. For the next few weeks, we received mail usually. There were little __34____ showing her love for each of us. There were short letters full of thanks. I was in charge of Sam’s letters, page after page full of colored sights including flowers with happy faces.‎ ‎“He can’t read yet. But he can look at pictures.” She said.‎ Each time I received one of my little girl’s gifts, it _35_____ my heart. I was touched at how carefully she watched. When Stephen lost a baseball game, there was a letter telling him she thought he was the best ballplayer in the whole world. After I had a particularly ___36____ day, there was a message thanking me for my efforts, complete with a smile face near the bottom corner of the page.‎ This little girl is grown now, driving off every day to college. But some things about her have ____37____ changed. One afternoon only a week ago, I found a love note next to my bedside. “Thanks for always being there for me, Mon,” it read, “I’m glad that we’re the best of friends.”‎ I couldn’t help but remember the precious child whose __38___ has brought me countless hours of joy throughout the years. There are angels among us. I know l live with one.‎ ‎29. A. two B. three C. four D. five ‎30. A. so B. while C. because D. although ‎31. A. read B. give C. spell D. change ‎32. A. anger B. worry C. sadness D. satisfaction ‎33. A. toy B. letter C. success D. surprise ‎34. A. notes B. faces C. boxes D. newspaper ‎35. A. broke B. darkened C. changed D. brightened ‎ ‎36. A. easy B. hard C. dull D. happy ‎37. A. yet B. ever C. never D. already ‎38. A. view B. smile C. progress D. experience 阅读理解 一、 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，让短文后各题所给的ABCD四个选项中，选择最佳选项 A Big Hero 6 is a 2014 computer animated comedy-superhero film made at Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film is directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams. The film was released on November 7, 2014 in the US, Canada and India. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.‎ The Croods is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film. The Croods was written and directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders. The film premiered at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival on February 15, 2013.‎ Frozen is a 2010 American thriller written and directed by Adam Green. Frozen won to Academy Awards, the Golden Globe A ward, the BAFTA Award, five Annie Awards.‎ Cinderella is a 2015 American film directed by Kemmeth Branagh. Cinderella had its world premiere on February 13, 2015, at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.‎ ‎39. Frozen is directed by__________.‎ ‎ A. Don Hall B. Kenneth Branagh C. Kirk DeMicco D. Adam Green ‎40. ________ won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.‎ ‎ A. Big Hero 6 B. The Croods C. Frozen D. Cinderlla ‎41. All the films were made in _________.‎ ‎ A. Canada B. America C. India D. Germany B Jack threw the papers on my desk.‎ ‎“What’s wrong?” I asked.‎ ‎“Annie, next time you want to change anything, ask me first, ” he said, turning around and leaving me in anger.‎ ‎“How dare he treat me like that?” I thought. I had changed one long sentences, and corrected grammar.‎ As the weeks went by, I grew to look down upon Jack. One day another of his words left me in tears. I stormed into his office, and Jack looked up. “What?” he asked.‎ Suddenly I knew what I had to do. After all, he deserved it.‎ I sat across from him and said calmly, “Jack, the way you’ve been treating me is wrong. I’ve respect had anyone speak to me that way.”‎ ‎“I promise I will be a friend,” I said. “I will treat you as you deserve to be treated, with respect and kindness. You deserve that. Everybody does.”‎ Jack avoided me the rest of the week. I brought cookies to the office one day and left some on his desk. Another day I left a note. “Hope your day is going great, ” it read.‎ Over the next few weeks, Jack reappeared. Every time I saw Jack, I smiled at him. After all, that’s what friends do.‎ One year after our “talk”, I discovered I had cancer. I was scared.‎ One day, Jack stood in the doorway of my hospital room. I waved him in with a smile.‎ ‎“Tulips,” he said. “If you plant them when you get home, they’ll come up next spring. I just want you to know that I think you’ll be there to see them when they come up.” Tears clouded my eyes and I reached out my hand.‎ ‎42. At the beginning, the writer was very angry because___________.‎ ‎ A. she corrected B. Jack left her there alone C. Jack treated he rudely D. she did something wrong ‎43. The writer thinks friends should show ________ to each other.‎ ‎ A. pity B. help C. trust D. respect ‎44. Which of the following is true according to the passage?‎ ‎ A. Jack often smiled at Annie. B. Annie brought food to Jack C. Jack often wrote notes to Annie D. Annie avoided talking with Jack ‎45. From the last paragraph, we know that_________.‎ ‎ A. the writer felt the warmth of friendship B. the writer was getting well C. Tulips would surely come up next spring D. the writer liked Tulips a lot C So you think you know your dog. But how well does your dog know you? She probably recognizes you when she sees you. But can a dog tell by simply looking at you whether you have a happy or an angry expressions on your face? Researchers in Austria have taught pet dogs to know the difference.‎ Dogs are very mindful of sound. When dog owners shout or speak in a strong, angry voice, dogs often act guilty and quietly move away from the area.‎ Recently, researchers found that dogs can look at our faces, and tell the difference between a smile and frown. The animals were able to recognize a look of agreement from one of disagreement.‎ The researchers tried to teach dogs to recognize facial expressions. They showed the dogs tow pictures of either the upper or lower half of a person’s face. On one picture, the person looked happy. The other appeared angry.‎ The dogs were then shown pictures of the eyes or mouths of people they had never seen before. They were also shown the left half of the faces used in training. The goal of the research is to find out if the dogs realize that smiling eyes have the same meaning as smiling mouth, or angry eyes have the same meaning as an angry mouth. And it turned out that they really did perform very well in these tests.‎ Once the dogs learned to recognize which picture was happy or angry, they could easily tell the same expressions in pictures of any face.‎ The study has shown that they can discriminate these expressions are different. They would connect something nice with the smiley face and something bad with the angry face. But what is not sure of at this point is if they really know the true meanings of them--- for example, a frown means angry.‎ The researchers’ findings provide the first certain idea that humans are not the only species that can read the body language of another people.‎ ‎46. Scientists did the research by ______________.‎ ‎ A. having dogs make smiley faces in the test B. shouting at dogs or speaking to them angrily C. teaching dogs to tell happy or angry expressions D. showing pictures of the eyes or mouths of people ‎ ‎47. The word “discriminate” in paragraph 7 means “___________________”‎ ‎ A. explain B. tell C. accept D. believe ‎48. What is the research mainly about?‎ ‎ A. How dogs show their feelings B. How dogs owners show their feelings C. Whether dogs can tell people’s feelings D. If dogs can tell people’s facial expressions ‎49. What can we infer from the passage?‎ ‎ A. Humans are the only species that can read body language B. If you shout to your dog in an angry voice, it will act guilty C. If you train your dog, it can recognize you by your eyes or mouth D. Researchers may study if dogs know the true meaning of a frown next 一、 阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。每个选项只能用一次。‎ One day a bookseller let a big box of books fall on his foot. “Go to see the doctor.” Said his wife. “No,” he said. “I’ll wait until the doctor comes into the shop next time. ____50_____ if I go to see him, I’ll have to pay him.”‎ ‎____51____ When the bookseller was getting them ready, he told the doctor about his bad foot. The doctor looked at it. “You must put that foot in hot water every night. Then you must put something on it, ” sand the doctor. ____52______ “Buy this and put it on the foot before you go to bed every night,” he said, “Thank you, ” said the bookseller. “And now, sir, here are your books.” “How much?” said the doctor. “Two pounds.” “Good, ” said the doctor. _______53_______‎ ‎“Why?” asked the bookseller. “I told you about your foot. I want two pounds for that. If people come to my house, I ask them to pay one pound for a small thing like that. ____54______ And I came here, didn’t I.”‎ A. Then I’ll ask him about my foot.‎ B. ‎“I shall not have to pay you anything.”‎ C. He took out a piece of paper and wrote on it.‎ D. But when I go to their houses, I want two pounds.‎ E. The next day the doctor came into the shop for some books.‎ 一、 阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题 Scientists in UK have discovered a solar system with five earth-size planets born at the very beginning of galaxy. The star and its planets of years older than our own sun. That is to say, life might be somewhere in our galaxy in the long past.‎ We can hear the music of the stars. It’s the vibrations of a 2.6 billion-year old star that changed into sound. While researchers now compare it with the sound of a star that’s nearly three billion years older, Pro. Bill Caplin, who led the research, discovered that he could work out the age of stars from the sound they make.‎ So as the stars get older, as their outer parts grow larger, and we get these changes to the structure of the deep inner part, what we find is that the time which the star resonates was made longer.‎ Pro. Caplin and his team were able to work out that the star, with five planets going around it, which are about the same size as our own earth, was more than eleven billion years old. That’s 6.5 billion years older than our own sun and the oldest star with such planets discovered to dat. It’s thought that living organisms are more likely to live well in words that are about the same size as the earth, as well as having the right temperature and having running water. So the discovery raises the possible that life might have been there in our own galaxy billions of years before our own earth had appeared.‎ ‎55. What have the UK scientists discovered?‎ ‎56. Can we hear the music of the stars?‎ ‎57. How could the researchers work out the age of the stars?‎ ‎58. How old is our own sun?‎ ‎59. Why might life be somewhere before our earth appeared?‎ 书面表达 二、 文段表达 ‎60. 为了迎接暑假到我校游学的英国学生们，宣传北京文化，学校正在开展主题为“我喜爱的北京景点”的征文活动，请你以“My favourite place of interest in Beijing”为题，写一篇不少于50词的征文 内容包括：1. What is your favourite place of interest?‎ ‎ 2. Why do you like it?‎ ‎ 3. What can people do there?‎