外研版八年级英语下册期中测试题及答案

外研版八年级英语下册期中测试题及答案

外研版八年级英语下册期中测试题及答案 笔试部分(75分)‎ 二、完形填空。(共15小题, 每小题1分, 满分15分) ‎ Everyone has a dream. Caroline Colberg's dream is to own a bakery. ‎ The 14yearold American girl is a home school student. She became ________16 in baking and decorating cakes when her mother first taught her how to do it. Since then, she has shown a great ________17 for making cakes. ‎ She made her first cake for her sister's ________18. “I was so excited about it because I had ________19 really done anything like it before,” she said. “It actually turned out pretty good and I actually realized how much I liked cake decorating.” ________20 making her sister's birthday cake, Caroline tried decorating her own birthday cake, and a friend's, too. ‎ Caroline________21 starting her own business for a few years. But it wasn't until she________22 pictures of her cake designs on Facebook that she started receiving orders. ‎ ‎“Somebody saw Caroline's cake designs and said ‘Will ________23 make a cake for my daughter's birthday?’ and that was her first ________24 cake,” her father Erich said. ‎ After the family realized the public's interest in Caroline's________25, Erich said that they decided to ________26 a business for her. Caroline said ________27 that she had made about 35 cakes since she started, including birthday, wedding and baby shower(迎接新生儿聚会) cakes. ‎ Erich said his daughter's customers were________28 that she could create such impressive designs at such a young age. ‎ Caroline makes her cakes________29 drawing a sketch (草稿) first. “I don't usually draw out my cakes, because usually they're not big,” she said. “But I always talk with my dad if I need extra(额外的) ________30. It works for me all the time anyway.”‎ 9‎ ‎ ‎ ‎16. A. interested　 B. worried C. proud　 D. confident ‎17. A. hope　 B. progress　 C. success　 D. gift ‎18. A. graduation B. birthday C. wedding D. performance ‎19. A. never B. always C. sometimes D. often ‎20. A. When B. While C. After D. Before ‎21. A. worried about B. cared about C. talked about D. thought about ‎22. A. gave B. made C. passed D. put ‎23. A. you B. we C. he D. she ‎ ‎24. A. loved B. divided C. paid D. completed ‎25. A. designs B. experiences C. decisions D. choices ‎26. A. provide B. start C. set D. make ‎27. A. politely B. tiredly C. proudly D. noisily ‎28. A. bored B. excited C. surprised D. relaxed ‎29. A. by B. without C. to D. on ‎30. A. time B. support C. order D. energy 三、阅读理解。(共10小题, 每小题2分, 满分20分) ‎ A The Sunshine Public Library offers teenagers two different volunteer jobs. ‎ A: If you are good at reading, you can read stories for children in Grades 1－5. ‎ B: You can also choose to be a homework tutor(家教) for students in Grades 1－6. Their subjects are English, maths, history and geography. ‎ You can choose a child, and you two will meet in the library weekly for a halfhour reading course. Meetings are between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays and between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays. ‎ Teenagers who are good students and enjoy working with children can make excellent tutors. Tutoring is offered from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. (Monday－Friday) in the Elle Children's Room. ‎ Teenagers who are interested in either role can go to the Elle Children's Room, call them at 845－3445, or visit www. poklib. org and click(点击) on Programs and Events. ‎ 9‎ ‎ ‎ ‎31. Which of the following is TRUE?‎ A. You have to meet the kid at your own house. ‎ B. The reading course lasts(持续) twenty minutes. ‎ C. A tutor helps kids with homework on weekends. ‎ D. A good tutor should enjoy working with children. ‎ ‎32. The purpose(目的) of writing this passage is ________. ‎ A. to teach children how to read better B. to ask teenagers to volunteer in a library C. to help more adults to be homework tutors D. to tell people the importance of volunteering ‎33. The passage may come from ________. ‎ A. a music book　　　　 B. a storybook C. a newspaper　　　　 D. a cookbook B I have a birthday coming up, but I'm not excited about it. After my 21st birthday last year, 22 was never going to be exciting, but that's not why I'm so disinterested this year. The real reason I'm not interested is because ever since I turned nine my birthdays have gone downhill, all because some kids at school decided to boycott my birthday party. ‎ Why? Glad you asked. ‎ Let me take you back to Field Day, 2004, at Thornell Elementary School. ‎ So there was this race. To see who was the fastest kid in the school. Being the greatest and best and most successful athlete to ever come from that school, I of course won by a mile. Huge mile. Anyway, there was this “official” at the race who said that I somehow jumped the gun or gained an advantage in some way over the other kids. And people started to call it a show about nothing. ‎ There was no evidence that showed I cheated at the exam, and I had never been officially proved as a cheater. However, due to these lies spread by the students who lost in the race, they decided as a group to boycott my birthday party. ‎ I was kind of nervous about this, as obviously the size of a kid's birthday party in ‎ 9‎ ‎ ‎ primary school is directly tied to how successful he/she will be. It turned out that I was completely wrong about the whole thing. We had a good time, wonderful time and the best time. Once all the kids who didn't want to be there weren't there, no one could stop us from having the best times imaginable. ‎ Instead we could do whatever we wanted and make all those other kids jealous, and make me forget about the whole race thing. ‎ ‎34. What does the underlined word “boycott” mean?‎ A. Refuse to join in. 　　　　　　 ‎ B. Play a trick on. ‎ C. Make all the boys leave. 　　　 ‎ D. Laugh at. ‎ ‎35. The author was nervous about her birthday party at nine because she ______. ‎ A. cheated in the race B. worried no one would come to the party C. was afraid someone would play a trick on her D. was jealous about others ‎36. What's the best title of this passage?‎ A. My experience as a “cheater” ‎ B. My brilliant but boycotted birthday party C. The worst birthday I have ever had ‎ D. The most successful race C Four students are talking about May Day Holiday. ‎ Li Yufang: I went to Xiangyang with my cousin. We visited the ancient city of Xiangyang. We ate the most famous Xiangyang Beef Noodles. Xiangyang is a beautiful city with the history of more than 2, 800 years. I like it very much. We stayed there for two days. ‎ Zhang Xin: My parents took me to Beijing by plane. We visited the Great Wall, the Birds' Nest and the Palace Museum. We had planned to visit the Beijing Expo, but the tickets were too difficult to buy. My parents said they would take me there this ‎ 9‎ ‎ ‎ summer. ‎ Liu Liang: My uncle and aunt work in Shanghai. I took a train to visit them with my sister. They took us to Shanghai Disneyland. It opened on June 16th, 2016. It is the sixth Disney theme (主题) park in the world. It is different from the others. ‎ Wang Lan: My father drove me to Hainan Province. It's in the south part of our country. The weather there is pretty good. We stayed in Haikou for a short rest and then we drove on to Sanya. There, we found many beautiful beaches. ‎ ‎37. Liu Liang's uncle and aunt work in ________. ‎ A. Xiangyang　 B. Beijing　 C. Shanghai　 D. Haikou ‎38. Zhang Xin couldn't visit ________ with his parents during the holiday. ‎ A. the Great Wall B. the Palace Museum ‎ C. the Bird's Nest D. the Beijing Expo ‎39. Wang Lan went to Sanya ________. ‎ A. by car　 B. by ship　 C. by train　 D. by plane ‎40. Choose the TRUE sentence of the following according to the passage. ‎ A. Li Yufang stayed in Xiangyang for three days. ‎ B. Wang Lan's father drove her to Sanya without rest. ‎ C. Liu Liang and her sister went to visit their parents by train. ‎ D. Zhang Xin will go to Beijing again with his parents this summer. ‎ 四、词汇运用。(共15小题, 每小题1分, 满分15分) ‎ A　用方框中所给词的适当形式填空, 每词限用一次(每空一词) 。‎ art, sleep, nervous, possible, make up ‎41. Everyone feels ________ between 1 and 3 p. m. ‎ ‎42. I felt ________ when I was standing in front of the class. ‎ ‎43. It is ________ for us to finish the job in a short time. ‎ ‎44. Tom ________ stories to let his little brother laugh. ‎ ‎45. Her talent and hard work made her successful as an ________. ‎ 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) 。‎ 9‎ ‎ ‎ Honey from the African forest is not only a kind of natural sugar(糖), but it is also delicious. Most people and many animals like eating it. ________46 (然而), the only way for them to get that honey is to find a ________47 (野生的) bees' nest(巢) and take the honey from it. Often these nests are high up in trees, and it is difficult to find them. But in ________48 (部分) of Africa, people and animals looking for honey have a ________49 (奇怪的) and unexpected helper. It is a little bird ________50 (名叫) a honey guide. ‎ The honey guide does not ________51 (实际上) like honey, but it does like the wax(蜂蜡) in the beehives(蜂房). The little bird cannot reach this wax because it is much ________52 (深的) inside the bees' nest. So when it finds a suitable nest, it looks for someone to help it. The honey guide gives a loud cry. Once the passing animals or people notice the cry, it flies through the forest, waiting from time to time for the animals or people as it ________53 (领路) them to the nest. When they finally arrive at the nest, they reach in to get the delicious honey as the bird waits and watches. Some of the honey, along with the wax, always falls onto the ________54 (地面), and this is when the honey guide takes its share. ‎ Scientists do not know why the honey guide likes eating the wax. The birds seem to be able to smell wax from a long distance away. They will quickly arrive ________55 (无论何时) a beekeeper is taking honey from his beehives, and even go into houses when beeswax candles are lighted. ‎ 五、语法填空。(共10小题, 每小题1分, 满分10分) ‎ From an early age, Parker always said that he would be an astronaut. ________56 no matter how much he studied, worked, and took tests, he never passed. Year by year, he was never able ________57 (achieve) his dream. ‎ But Parker went on working hard, and never gave up his dream. He continued ________58 (train) and studying every day, just like he was going to take tests next month. ‎ He carried this on as he got older. And when he was a very old man, he heard that doctors in Space Agency ________59(do) some very important medical 9‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ experiments(试验). For those experiments they needed ________60 very old astronaut. Parker was the only old man in the whole world who had been trained to fly ________61 rocket. Parker got the chance to fly this time. ‎ The experiments were very________62 (success). The knowledge(知识) from the experiments helped doctors to treat one of ________63 (bad) sicknesses for old people. ‎ People all over the world saw ________64 (photo) of an astronaut with a walking stick and no teeth. They thought of ________65 as a hero(英雄), but Parker didn't care about it. “I am just a real astronaut now. That's enough,” Parker said to the reporter. ‎ 六、书面表达。(满15分) ‎ 假如你是李华, 你在某英文网站上看到一则招募中国志愿者(volunteer) 的广告。请根据广告中所提供的两个志愿者项目, 选择其中一个, 结合自己的实际情况, 给项目负责人写一封电子邮件, 表达你希望参加这个项目的愿望, 并阐述理由。‎ Project 1‎ Place: A small village in the west of China Activities: ●teach children English ‎●visit the old people's home ‎●work on the farm Project 2‎ Place: A primary school in the north of Thailand Activities: ●set up a small library ‎●give Chinese lessons ‎●play games with children 注意: 1. 邮件中必须包括招募广告中的信息, 可适当发挥。2. 文中不得出现与你身份相关的信息。3. 词数: 80～100。短文首句仅供参考, 不计入总词数。‎ Dear Sir/ Madam, ‎ I'm Li Hua, a middle school student from China. I want to be a volunteer.‎ 9‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________‎ ‎_____________________________________________________________________‎ ‎_____________________________________________________________________‎ Looking forward to your early reply!‎ ‎ ‎ 期中测试卷 笔试部分 二、16. A　17. D　18. B　19. A　20. C ‎21. D　22. D　23. A　24. C　25. A ‎26. B　27. C　28. C　29. B　30. B 三、A　31. D　32. B　33. C B　34. A　35. B　36. B C　37. C　38. D　39. A　40. D 四、A　41. sleepy　42. nervous　43. impossible　‎ ‎44. makes up　45. artist B　46. However　47. wild　48. parts　49. strange　50. called/named ‎51. actually　52. deeper　53. leads　54. ground　55. whenever 五、56. But　57. to achieve　58. training　59. were doing 60. a　‎ ‎61. by　62. successful　63. the worst 64. photos　65. him 六、One possible version: ‎ Dear Sir/Madam, ‎ I'm Li Hua, a middle school student from China. I want to be a volunteer. I hope I can help the local students in a primary school in the north of Thailand. ‎ I have already made some plans for this project. First of all, I will set up a small library, which can help children get more extra knowledge. Then I will give them some Chinese lessons. The purpose is to let them know more about Chinese cultures. In addition, I will play games with them. I am good at playing basketball and football. Maybe I can set up a basketball team for them. If you give me the chance, I will do ‎ 9‎ ‎ ‎ my best to help them. ‎ Looking forward to your early reply!‎ 名师点评: 本文采用了“三要点法”介绍所选的志愿者项目。说明所选的项目(第一段)，介绍你要做的事(第二段)，提出反馈(第三段)。‎ 本文添彩点: 1. 能恰当运用所学的逻辑词，first of all, then, in addition等。 2. be good at, set up, do one's best, make some plans等词组的运用恰到好处。 3. if 引导的条件状语从句，应用合理。‎ 9‎ ‎ ‎