2015-2016学年浙江绍兴永和中学八年级上期中英语试卷（解析版）

完形填空（本题共10小题，每小题1分，共计10分）

阅读下面短文，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

Will the sky ever fall? The answer is no. But if it________, there’s no need to be afraid!

Chicken Little is an American cartoon film. It’s very popular around the world. Its story teaches us: don’t worry too much in your________.

One day Chicken Little is in the forest when an acorn（橡果）falls on his head! This makes him________ . He thinks a piece of the sky is falling!

He can’t wait to tell________about it. They run for their lives!

When people________the truth, no one likes Chicken Little. They laugh at him. He gets a bad name in the town. It’s time for him to change others’ ________.

Chicken Little begins to play baseball. He is not bigger than a ball, ________he plays it very well! He helps his team________ . Now they think he’s great.

Just then, a spaceship really does fall from the________! The aliens （外星人）have bad plans. Once again he must tell people about it.

Will he get help from his friends in the town? Can he show himself a /an ________ person? You will get the answer from the cartoon film.

1.A. takes　　　 B. happens　　 C. leaves　　　 D. works

2.A. life　　　　 B. family　　 C. sports　　　 D. study

3.A. happy　　　 B. excited　　 C. surprised　 D. afraid

4.A. anyone　　 B. someone　　 C. everyone　　 D. no one

5.A. forget　　 B. write　　　 C. know　　　　 D. ask

6.A. minds　　　 B. plans　　　 C. programs　　 D. jobs

7.A. and　　　　 B. so　　　　　 C. but　　　　　 D. or

8.A. lose　　　　 B. beat　　　　 C. miss　　　　 D. win

9.A. land　　　　 B. water　　　 C. grass　　　　 D. sky

10.A. difficult　 B. different　　 C. outgoing　 D. beautiful

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Film Times(13th June-23th June)

1.Which film lasts the longest?

A. Harry Potter　 B. Catch Me If You Can

C. The Twins　　 　 D. I Spy

2.You can see Harry Potter on ________.

A. Saturday　　 B. Sunday　　 C. Friday　　 D. Monday

3. When Mr Wang and his 9-year-old son go to see The Twins, they should pay _______.

A. ￥45　　 B. ￥40　　　 C. ￥35　　 D. ￥30

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Going to a friend’s house is very exciting. You may spend time with a friend and get to see where he lives. So remember to be polite.

★ When to arrive

The first thing to remember is that when a friend invites you to his/her house, you need to arrive on time. If your friend tells you to come “around 3:00”, that means you can arrive a few minutes after 3:00, but it is also a good idea to arrive at the right time.

★ What to bring

Often it is also nice to bring something to your friend’s house. This could be a box of chocolates for you two to share(分享), or maybe a movie that you can watch together. You can also bring some flowers. A little gift is a nice way to show your friend that you are excited to be at his house.

★ How to greet (问候)

When you visit your friend’s house, you may also meet his parents. You should tell them who you are and they may tell you their names. As a child, I went to visit my friend Paul. I called his parents by their first names John and Mary. But now I know it is more polite to call them Mr or Mrs Smith. This will show them more respect(尊重).

It is a cool thing to visit a friend’s house. Be polite to your friend’s parents, and you will be invited again!

1. If your friend asks you to get to your friend’s house around 5:00 p.m, it is polite to arrive at ________ p.m.

A. 4:30　　　　　　 B. 4:50　　　　　　 C. 5:02　　　　　　 D. 5:30

2.The passage mainly(主要)tells us ____________.

A. when to arrive at your friend’s house

B. how to greet people

C. what to bring to your friend

D. how to be a good visitor

3. It’s not good to bring your friend ____________ when you go to his/her house.

A. a box of chocolates　 　　　　　 B. some flowers

C. a movie　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. some money

4.The passage may be from ____________.

A. a notice(通知) on a wall

B. a letter to a friend

C. an article in a magazine

D. a piece of news in a newspaper

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A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.

The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling (四脚朝天).

When it doesn’t get up, what the mother has done is repeated again and again. The struggle (挣扎) to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off again. Why? She wants it to remember how it can get up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.

Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying great people, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.

Stone was once asked if he had found something unusual about these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out (着手) to do.”

1. The expression “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 most probably means ______.

A. a happy thing　　　　　　　 B. a difficult thing

C. a big dream 　　　　　　 　　 D. a beautiful place

2.A View from the Zoo is a book written by　　　　 .

A. Gary Richmond　　 B. Charles Darwin

C. Irving Stone　　 　 D. Vincent van Gogh

3.The mother giraffe puts herself over her child and throws her long leg and kicks her baby because she 　　　　 .

A. is an unkind mother

B. likes watching her bay sprawling

C. doesn’t want her baby to live with her

D. wants to train her baby to get up in this way

4. The writer mainly wants to tell the readers that

A. the giraffe is an unusual animal

B. we should learn to be a careful writer

C. learning to get up leads to success

D. A View from the Zoo is a good book to read

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One day a famous teacher was walking with his student. On the way, they saw a lake. They stopped and the teacher told the student, “I’m thirsty. Get me some water from that lake.”

Just when the student reached the lake, a cow was walking in the lake. So the water became very dirty. He thought “I can’t give the dirty water to my teacher!”

He came back and told the teacher, “The water is very dirty. We can’t drink it.” After about half an hour, the teacher asked the student to get some water again. So he went back to the lake.

But the lake was still dirty. So he told the teacher the same thing. After some time, the teacher asked him to go back again. But this time, he found the water was clear. The mud in the water came to the bottom. So he got some water.

The teacher looked at the water and said to him, “You did nothing to make the water clear. You just let it be… Your mind is also like that! When it is bothered, just let it be. Give it some time.”

1.One day the teacher asked his student to 　　　　 .

A. make the lake clear

B. drive away the cow in the lake

C. get some water to drink

D. get some water to wash his face

2.How many times did the student go to the lake?

A. Twice.　 B. Three times.　 C. Four times.　 D. Five times.

3.The teacher told his student that he should 　　　 when his mind was bothered.

A. drink some water　 B. eat something

C. do nothing 　　　　 D. ask him for help

4. From the passage we know that　　　　　 .

A. the teacher taught his student something useful

B. the teacher wanted his student to work hard

C. the student know how to make the water clear

D. the student was very lazy

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任务型阅读 (本题有5小题，每小题l分，满分 5分)

请阅读下面Alan, Carol, Helen, Steve和Linda关于自己爱好的描述，并根据电影海报，从A.B.C.D.和E五个选项中选出适合他们观看的电影。

1.Alan: I like to see cartoons to relax myself.

2.Carol: I enjoy love stories, such as Romeo and Juliet.

3.Helen: I am interested in Chinese history and great Chinese persons.

4.Steve: Fantastic action movies are my favorite. I am usually excited about them.

5.Linda: I think talent shows are the most exciting. Everybody in my family enjoy watching these shows.

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用方框内所给词的适当形式填空。每词限用一次。

1.Which city is _________, Beijing or Shanghai?

2.Let’s do what we can ________ those homeless children.

3.Of all the ways to travel, I think going by train is the_________.

4.It’s a good idea to practise _________ English in and out of class.

5.Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for literature _________ and becomes famous around the world.

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根据所给中文意思拼写单词，使短文完整、正确、通顺。每空限填一词。

My family is 1.______(计划) a journey to China in the winter. Our first 2.______(选择) is to visit Beijing, one of the 3._______(大) places in the world.. So we need to 4.________(预订) the plane tickets. To tell you the truth, we like going by train 5._______ (好) . But we think it is too slow and it 6.______(花费) much time. Though going by plane is more7._________(昂贵的)，it goes8.______(快) and saves time. Some people may think it’s not 9._______(安全) , but our family all10.______(赞同)it’s our favorite way to travel.

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语法填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

Betty started to learn English at the 1._________ of six. She went to an after-school English class every week. But Betty thought it was 2._________(bored) to go to her English classes. She didn’t think 3._______was important to learn English and she did not need to speak English in her everyday life.

After she 4.______(join) a school baseball team , she started to know more about the baseball players who joined teams in the USA. Now, she wants to know more about what happens to them. So she reads English newspaper5._____ the Internet. When she meets new words, she looks 6._______up in her dictionary and writes difficult sentences in her notebooks. When she goes to school, she asks her English teacher for7.______ . Little by little, she finds that English is really important, and she is more and more8.____(interesting) in it.

Her parents promise to take her to New York to watch a baseball game if she gets good mark in the English exam next month. 9.________ exciting it is! Betty is so happy that she works 10.________ (hard) on English than before.

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书面表达（本题共1小题，满分 10分）

假如你Dave，请根据表格信息介绍自己，可适发挥。

要求：语句通顺，语意连贯，语法正确。大约80词左右。

My name is Dave. I’m 13.

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