2014届江苏江都大桥中学八年级下期期末考试英语卷（解析版）

Sina said she ______ to school the next Sunday.

A．wouldn’t go      B．isn’t go          C．didn’t go         D．won’t go

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I find this computer game ______ to play.

A．enough easy       B．easy enough       C．enough easily      D．easily enough

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This magazine ______ out _____ the morning of March 1^st.

A．came, in          B．came, on          C．was come, in       D．was come, on

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He doesn’t know ________ they will plant trees on Saturday or not.

A．weather          B．whether          C．if                D．that

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Mary prefers _______ to ________ .

A. sing, dance           B. sing, dancing         C. singing, dancing

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There’re too many clothes in the shop. I really can’t decide ________.

A．which to buy coat                       B．to buy which coat

C．which coat should I buy                   D．which coat to buy

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These days my classmates are busy ________ ready for the final exam.

A．to get            B．get               C．getting            D．got

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Last year I _________ drive. I used to take the bus.

A．could            B．couldn’t         C．should            D．shouldn't

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— Would you mind turning down the music?

— ________.

A．Yes, I would        B．No, of course       C．No, not at all       D．Yes, of course

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_Could I go to the movie this Sunday, Dad?

Yes, you_____. But you ______ come back before nine.

A．should, can                            B．must ,have to

C．can , have to                           D．need, must

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Andy is very tall, but I’m _______.

A．thin              B．short             C．slim              D．small

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--- What can I do for you, sir?

--- It’s so hot now. Could you give me _____________.

A．cold something to eat                    B．anything cold to drink

C．anything cold to eat                      D．something cold to drink

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- -What does your grandmother do? ---_____________________.

A．She likes her work                      B．She is a clerk.

C．She is busy                            D．She is working

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-Did Mrs Brown leave a message?

-Yes.  She wanted to know____this Sunday.

A．that you will go shopping

B．when will you go shopping with her

C．if you would go shopping with her

D．who you would go shopping

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Everyone says that he is difficult to _______，but I don't think so.

A．get along          B．make friends       C．deal with          D．talk about

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Hi, dear friends! Welcome 1our zoo. It is really a good place to have fun. We have a big family in the zoo. All the animals in the zoo are brothers and sisters. Follow(跟随) me to see 2. First, let’s3the pandas over there. They come from China. They are black and white. They like eating bamboos(竹子). They are beautiful and very shy, so please4quiet. Now come this way, please. We will go and see the lions. These two lions are from Africa. They are very 5and they usually sleep and relax 20 hours every day.6is their favorite food. So don't be near to them. Don't you want7and see Bill ? He is a koala. He is 8  for you. Look! Isn’t he cute? He is from Australia. He sleeps during the day,9 at night he gets up and begins to eat food. That’s not all. I would like to take you to see some10 animals of our family.

1.                A．on            B．at             C．to   D．for

2.                A．them          B．they           C．their D．theirs

3.                A．see            B．to see          C．to look   D．look

4.                A．is             B．are            C．am  D．be

5.                A．nice           B．lazy            C．beautiful  D．busy

6.                A．fruit           B．meat           C．vegetable D．ice cream

7.                A．goes           B．going           C．to go D．go

8.                A．wait           B．waiting         C．waits D．to wait

9.                A．but            B．or             C．because D．if

10.               A．the other       B．others         C．another   D．other

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Zhang Li lies in bed sadly. The 24-year-old young man lost his right leg because of a blood disease. The doctor said that his 10 years of smoking had caused the disease. “I began to smoke when I was in Junior 3. It made me feel like a man and I thought it looked cool. Now I know I was really wrong.” said Zhang.

It is a mistake many teenagers make. It is said that about 40 million of the country’s young people between 13 and 18 have tried smoking. Nearly 68 percent of teenager smokers smoked their first one before the age of 13. Those who live in big cities started even earlier. Many teenagers see people smoking in the movies. But in real life, stars like Jackie Chan think smoking is a bad thing. In fact, smoking is one of the top killers in China. Each year one million people die from smoking-related(与吸烟有关的)diseases. Smoking causes illnesses like lung cancer and heart disease.

Doctors say that the younger a person starts smoking, the worse it will be. If a person starts smoking as a teenager, he or she may live twenty-two years less than non-smokers.

1.What kind of disease did smoking cause for Zhang Li?

A. Lung cancer. B. Blood disease.   C. Heart disease.

2.From the passage, we know Zhang Li started to smoke when he was      years old.

A. 13   B. 14   C. 18

3.The city’s young people .

A. knew that smoking was a bad thing

B. tried smoking when they were in Junior 3

C. started smoking earlier than those in the country

4.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. Zhang Li had a disease and lost his left leg.

B. Smoking may cause many kinds of diseases.

C. Smoking may make you have a shorter life.

5.What does the underlined word “non-smokers ” mean in English?

A. People who like smoking.

B. People who smoke.

C. People who don’t smoke.

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When I was a teenager growing up in Russia, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could do this was to work in the local brick factory in my town, or get married. I was nervous when I told my father I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, “No! You are going to college.” He took me by surprise when he said, “OK. We’ll go to the brick factory.”

Two days later, he took me to the factory. I had a very romantic idea of working in a factory. I had imagined everyone to be friends working together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I guess I had watched too many movies as a teenager.

When we arrived at the factory gate, my father spoke to the guard and one minute later we were inside. My father said, “Take your time. Look around.” I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers, and listening to the noise. It was horrible. I ran back to my father and said, “I want to go home.”

He asked me, “What do you think of the factory?”

“It’s terrible,” I replied.

“And marriage is even worse!” he said.

I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard so I could get into a good college. I enjoyed studying English so I decided to major in languages at college. Thanks to my father and our trip to the brick factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory!

1.The writer lived in ________ when she was a teenager.

A. Russia       B. Japan        C. China

2.At first she thought life in the factory would be ________ than in school.

A. more careful     B. more colorful       C. more beautiful

3.When she told her father that she wanted to leave school, he expressed his disagreement ________ .

A. by doing nothing    B. in a special way     C. by saying nothing

4.After they visited the factory, the girl ________ .

A. decided to work there     B. decided to get married    C. changed her mind

5.The underlined work “horrible” means “________” in Chinese.

A. 糟糕的       B. 紧张的       C. 浪漫的

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China Youth says that more and more girl students have entered colleges to study in recent few years. As we know, once the number of boys was larger than that of girls, and the boys did much better than girls in our country for a long time. Now things have changed a lot.

In recent years, the proportion of girl students is growing fast. In 1998, about 39.7% of college students were girls. In 2000, it was 41.07% and in 2001, the number was 42.14%.

There are several reasons for this.

Firstly, there is little difference between boys and girls in their intelligence(智力). That’s to say, girls are as clever as boys. And boys have more interests than girls, so they may not do well in their study.

Secondly, girls are more careful and more sensible than boys. They work harder at school and they do better in all exams.

Another reason is that with the development of society, people pay more and more attention to girls’ education.

1.China Youth says that more and more ______

A．boys are cleverer than girls

B．boys can’t go to school

C．girls have entered colleges

D．girls begin to study at school

2.42.14% refers to the number of _________

A．girls at schools at schools in 1998

B．girls in colleges in 2001

C．boys at schools in 2001

D．boys in colleges in 1998

3.The writer gave us _________   reasons to explain the question.

A．two              B．three             C．four              D．five

4.The underlined word “proportion” means _________ in Chinese.

A．身高             B．比例             C．特征             D．速度

5.Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A．Boys may not do as well in their study as girls because they don’t like studying.

B．Boys are much cleverer than girls because they’re interested in many things.

C．Girls’ intelligence is the same as boys’.

D．Girls study harder, but they couldn’t get higher marks than boys.

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“Would you tell me which way I should go from here?” asked Alice.

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get,” said the Cat.

“I really don’t care where” replied Alice.

“Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go,” said the Cat.

--- from “ Alice in Wonderland ”

My name is David. And I have a brother called Mike.

One day, my brother called me and asked me for some advice. He was trying to decide between two job offers:

Job 1 – The first job was your typical 40 hour a week “office” job.

Job 2 – The second job was more of a career in the insurance industry(保险业), where he would start at the bottom, and after many years and many long hours eventually rise to the top (if he was good).

The second job did not pay as well as the first job (at the beginning), but the pay-off of the second job (in the future) was much greater than the first job. So which job should my brother take? Well the answer is…it depends.

Just like the Cat was trying to tell Alice, which road you take depends a great deal on where you want to end up.

Begin with the End in Mind

I asked my brother what was his life’s purpose. He said his purpose was to “teach,” but he wanted to make a lot of money first. I told my brother to forget about the money, and I advised him to focus on his purpose. I then asked him which job best supported his end result of “teaching.” He said the first job best supported his goal because he would only have to work 40 hours a week, which would give him spare time to teach. He continued on to say, “but if I take job number two, I can work hard and make more money, then I can retire early and “teach” later in life.” I again advised him to “focus” on his purpose, not money. Things don’t end wrong, they begin wrong!

You Can’t Ride Two Horses Well

It would be very difficult to have a successful teaching career while you’re working 70-80 hours a week in the insurance business; no one can ride two horses well. As they say, you can do anything, but not everything. I advised him to get started today by choosing the job that best supported that decision.

Tomorrow Never Comes

My brother was thinking that he could always start teaching later in life, but the reality is, tomorrow never comes. Unless you decide right now to follow your feelings, they will probably never be completed. You only live once, don’t go to the end of your life with one regret.

The Money Will Come

My brother seemed to be overly concerned with making money. I told him not to be anxious about making money. You will always have greater money when you’re doing what you love.

In a word, whenever you’re at a cross-road, be sure to make the decision that best supports the goal of your life. If you do, then you will be well on your way.

1.Mike ___________ David one day.

A．visited            B．met              C．made a telephone call to   D．found

2.Mike was trying to ____________.

A．look for a job                          B．start a career

C．wok in an office                         D．decide between two job offers

3.As for the life’s purpose, Mike ______________.

A．wanted to teach first                     B．wanted to make a lot of money first

C．wanted to work in the insurance industry     D．wanted to work 40 hours a day

4.You Can’t Ride Two Horses Well means _____________.

A．you’d better have two horses

B．you can only ride one horse well

C．you can do everything well.

D．you can’t do two things well at the same time

5.The best title of the passage is ______________.

A．How to choose a better job

B．It is more important to begin than to end

C．How to make a better decision

D．Make more money because tomorrow never comes

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用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。

1.In the past three years, my home town ______________(change) a lot. already.

2.It’s hard to say what ____________ (happen) in 100 years in our country.

3.They_______________(not travel)to Shanghai next week, are they?

4.The students________(chat) from 6 to7 yesterday evening.

5.When I got to the station yesterday morning, my friends _______(wait ) for me at the entrance.

6.If it__________ (not rain) tomorrow, we’ll go hiking.

7.He____________ (not write) a letter to his mother yet. He has to do that soon. His mother misses him very much.

8.Would you please__________(not make) such a big noise. The baby is sleeping.

9.It’s a long time since we ________(meet) last time, isn’t it?

10.----How many times _______the girl __________(forget) to take the keys to her home?

----At least three times.

11.You must spend as much time as you can ________  (practise) playing the piano.

12.They_______(live) in Wuxi since they were born.

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据报道，从2011年开始上海、宁波等地个别学校进行了电子书包试点。这是否预示电子书将全面推广？它对学生的学习会有什么影响？就此，你班同学发起了一次主题为“E-Books, Good or Bad?”的讨论，假如你叫陈华，请你给某英文报社写一封信，介绍一下讨论的情况及你自己的观点。

注意：1、开头部分已写好，只需接着写,不计入字数总数。

2、可适当增加讨论话题时经常用到的话语，使所写内容连贯。

3、所写内容必须包括上面表格全部信息。

4、短文词数：80个左右。

Dear Editor,

I’m writing to tell you about a discussion we’ve had about whether e-books are good or bad?___________________________________________________________________________

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Yours truely,

Chen Hua

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