娄底五县市联校2015年下学期八年级期中考试试卷
一、听力（略）
二、完形填空（10分）
Paul and I are good friends. We 21 thirteen years old. He is taller than I, and he is 22 than I, too. He often 23 a pair of thick glasses but I don’t. His mother is a _24_in People’s Hospital. His father is a worker in a big factory and he has a lot of work _25_every day.
Paul likes eating sweets. He sometimes 26 a few sweets to school and shares them 27 me after class. We are in the same school and in the same class. So we can help 28 . We always play together after school. He likes doing the things that I do.
I live very far from our school and he lives near it, so he 29 comes to my house, but I usually go to his house on weekends. We always have a 30 time when we are together.
（ ）21. A. are both B. all one C. are all
（ ）22. A. thin B. thinner C. the thinner
（ ）23. A. puts B. wear C. wears
（ ）24. A. teacher B. policewoman C. doctor
（ ）25. A. doing B. to do C. does
（ ）26. A. shows B. puts C. brings
（ ）27. A. from B. to C. with
（ ）28. A. another B. each other. C. the other
（ ）29. A. hardly ever B. often C. usually
（ ）30. A. good B. kind C. well
三、 阅读理解（50分）
A
Mr. and Mrs. Brown lived in a small town near London with their child. Sometimes Mr. Brown came back home from work very late, when his wife（妻子） and the child were asleep, and then he opened the front door of this house with his key and came in very quietly.
But one night when he was coming home very late, he lost his key, so when he reached his house, he rang the bell. Nothing happened（发生）。 He rang it again. Again nothing happened. Nobody moved inside the house. Mr. Brown knocked at（敲）the bedroom window, he spoke to his wife, he shouted, but she didn’t wake up. At last he stopped and thought for a moment. Then he began to speak like a small child. “ Mother! ”he said. “ I want to go to the toilet! ”He spoke quite quietly but at once（立刻）Mrs. Brown woke up. Then he spoke to her, and she opened the door for him.
根据短文内容，判断正误，正确的写T，不正确的写F（10分）。
31.Mr. Brown and his family lived in a small town near London.
32.Mr. Brown’s wife and his child always went to sleep after he came back from work.
33.One night when he was coming home very late, he lost his key.
34.Mr. Brown said，“ Mother” like a small child because he wanted his wife to wake up.
35.Mrs. Brown woke up at once when she heard the bell rang. She opened the door for her husband.[来源：Zxxk.Com]
B
Here are four clothing stores.
Golden Point Sell: women’s clothing and accessories （配饰） Open hours: 8:30 a.m. — 9:30 p.m. Clothes: Good Price: ￡￡￡￡ Service: ★ Phone: 6632225The West Village Sell: men’s clothing and second-hand （二手的） clothing Open hours: 8:00 a.m. — 10:00 p.m. Clothes: Bad Price: ￡￡ Service: ★★★★ Phone: 7632646
Sports World Sell: sports clothing Open hours: 9:00 a.m. — 9:00 p.m. Clothes: Very good Price: ￡￡￡ Service: ★★★ Phone: 7799365The Cross Sell: children’s clothing and accessories Open hours: 8:30 a.m. — 7:30 p.m. Clothes: Best Price: ￡￡￡ Service: ★★ Phone: 7246911
Notes: ￡ means the cheapest; ￡￡￡￡ means the most expensive; ★ means friendly; ★★★★ means the friendliest
（ ）36. What can you buy in Golden Point?
A. Women’s clothing.B. Men’s clothing.
C. Second-hand clothing.D. Children’s clothing.
（ ）37. What does the writer think of the West Village?[来源：学科网ZXXK]
A. It has the best clothes.B. It has the best service.
C. It has the worst service.D. It has the most expensive clothes.
（ ）38. If you want to learn more about children’s accessories, which number should you call?
A. 6632225.B. 7632646.C. 7799365.D. 7246911.
（ ）39. Which store has the longest opening hours?
A. The Cross.B. Sports World. C. The West Village.D. Golden Point.
（ ）40. What can we learn about the Golden Point?
A. It has the best clothes.B. It has the friendliest service.
C. It opens earliest each morning. D. It sells women’s accessories.
C
Cindy, Jerry and Mary are giving their ideas about what a good friend should be like.
Cindy: I think a good friend should be honest （诚实 ）。 That's the most important thing and is where a real friendship （友谊） starts. If a friend isn't honest, he may lost his friends' trust.
Jerry: I think a good friend should be generous. Here "generous" doesn't mean he has to give his friends his money or his clothes. It means he should share his ideas and feelings with his friends. So, his friends can know him better in this way.
Mary: For me, a good friend should understand （理解） his friends. When there's something bad between him and his friends, he must put himself in his friends' place and think more for his friends.
（ ）41. What does the underlined sentence mean?
A. To be honest is the most important.
B. To be honest is as important as other things.
C. To be honest is not so important.
D. Honest people get more things than others.
（ ）42. Jerry would like to make friends with people who______
A. give him money B. know him very well
C. tell him their ideas and feelings D. give him some clothes
（ ）43. Mary thinks friends should_______
A. visit each other often B. go to many places to play
C. understand each other D. help each other do things
（ ）44. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The three people are talking about what they think a good friend should be.
B. Cindy thinks to be honest is the base （基础） of a real friendship.
C. Mary would like to make friends with people who think more for friends.
D. "A man is generous" means he is very smart.
（ ）45. What does the underlined word "trust" mean in Chinese?
A.夸奖 B.批评 C.理解 D.信任
D
Do you like making friends online? Here are some popular websites （网站） for making friends. Have a look at them if you are interested.
Make Friends Online.com
Martin Bush and Marcus Hamilton made it in 2001. They lived in Paris. They found it was difficult to make new friends in a big city, so they decided to start Make Friends Online.com. Now it is an online club with a lot of members.
Friends Reunited Web
It was started in 2003. 16-year-old people or older have the chance （机会） to find friends and a partner （伴侣） for life through it. A lot of new members join it every day from the UK.
Yahoo! Personals
It was started in 1997 in the US and Canada. It is the second largest online-friends-making website. Just like a real neighborhood, different people may have different hobbies in Yahoo! Personals.
Friendsmaking.com
It was started in 1995. Last year, a lot of people found their friends here. Some people say it’s the best website to find your best online friends.
（ ）46. When was Friends Reunited Web started?
A. In 1995. B. In 1997. C. In 2001. D. In 2003.
（ ）47. Which is the second largest online-friends-making website?
A. Make Friends Online.com.B. Friends Reunited Web.
C. Yahoo! Personals.D. Friendsmaking.com.
（ ）48. Where was Yahoo! Personals started?
A. In Paris. B. In the UK. C. In the US and Canada. D. In the US and the UK.
（ ）49. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Few people join in Friendsmaking.com?every day.
B. Friends Reunited Web has members?aged 16 or older.
C. Make Friends Online.com was started in?1995.
D. Friendsmaking.com is the biggest online-friends-making website.
（ ）50. What does the writer mainly tell us?
A. Four neighborhoods in the US.
B. Four websites for making online friends.
C. Four computer businesses （业务） in Paris.
D. Four students and their pen-friends.
E
Americans spend their weekends in different ways. But usually they choose the same aim （目的）--to rest, to enjoy beautiful places and to enjoy the time with their family and friends.
Some Americans hold parties on Saturday night. 51.______.Then they won' t get up until 9,10 or ,even 11 o'clock next morning. As soon as they get up they will go to the nearest comer shop to buy the daily newspaper （日报）。 52._______ . It will help them to decide what to do on Sunday afternoon.[来源：学科网]
Before going out on Sunday, they will have a meal, which is called" brunch" --" br" from "breakfast" and "unch" from "lunch". 53._______ . After brunch some Americans may have a picnic with their family or friends. They will take many things with them, such as fresh vegetables, seafood, drinks, tablecloth （桌布） and so on. Usually they drive to a beautiful park, a lake or the seaside.
54.________ . It is the biggest meal of the week and all family members try to present（ 出席）。
Weekends are to be welcome everywhere. 55._________.
从下面方框中选择适当的句子还原到短文中，使短文内容通顺、完整。
A. They will make it at home or go to a restaurant nearby.
B. They will dance,sing and drink together till midnight.
C. Most people look forward to the coming weekends.
D. They can get news about films, plays, shows and sports in the paper.
E. Sunday dinner is the most important meal of the week.
四、语法填空（10分）（其中七处用单词的正确形式填空，三处根据上下文填入适当的词。） Getting up early is helpful in more than one way. We all need fresh air（空气）。
But air in the afternoon and evening is never as 56. （good） as early in the morning. And it is also useful to do morning 57. （exercise）。 Secondly, getting up early 58. （help） us with our studies. In the morning we learn better and find it 59. （easy） to understand what we learn. Thirdly, getting up early can give 60. plan to our work for the day. We can’t work 61. a good plan. Fourthly, getting up early gives 62. （we） enough time to get ready for our work. We can wash our 63. （hand） and faces and eat our breakfast. The people who get up late may find it difficult to have the habit 64. getting up early. They have to try their best to do so. As an English saying goes, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man 65. （health）， wealthy（富有的） ，and wise （聪明的）。
五、补全对话（10分）
A：Nice to meet you, Rick.
B: Helen.66. .
A: 67. ?
B: We had a discussion about TV shows in class today. My classmates like game shows and sports shows. But I can’t stand them. I love soap operas.
A: Do you like watching the news?
B: 68. . I like watching the news.
A: 69. ?
B: Because I hope to find out what’s going on around the world.
A: 70. ?
B: I watch it three or four times a week.
六、阅读表达。（10分）
What a difference a day makes! Jane and her father decided to go to Penang Hill today. They wanted to walk up to the top, but then it started raining a little so they decided to take the train. They waited over an hour for the train because there were too many people. When they got to the top, it was raining really hard. They didn’t have an umbrella so they were wet and cold. It was terrible! And because of the bad weather, they couldn’t see anything below. 简的父亲没有带足够的钱。So they only had one bowl of rice and some fish. The food tasted great because they were so hungry.
71. Where did Jane and her father decide to go today?
72. Why did they wait over an hour for the train?
73. Did Jane have a good time on this day?
74. 将划线部分的句子翻译成中文。
75.将划线部分翻译成英语。
七、书面表达（10分）
请根据调查表所提供的信息写一篇不少于70词的报道。
No?7?Middle?School:?Activity?Survey
ActivitiesEvery dayOnce or twice a weekThree or four times a week
Play computer games 0% 70% 30%
Watch TV 5% 85% 10%
Exercise 60% 10% 10%
Do homework 100% 0% 0%
? An Activity Survey from No. 7 Middles School
There are many activities in No.7 Middle School.
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2015年下学期八年级期中英语参考答案
一、1-5 BABCA 6-10 ABCBA 11-15 BBBCA 16-20 CAABC
二、21-25 ABCCB 26-30 CCBAA
三。31—35 TFTTF 36-40 ABDCD 41-45 ACCDD 46-50 DCCBB 51-55 BDAEC
四、56. good 57. exercise 58. helps 59. easy 60. a
61. without 62. us 63. hands 64. of 65. healthy
五、66. Nice to meet you, too.
67. What did you do in class today?
68. Yes, I do.
69. Why do you like it?
70. How often do you watch it?
六、71. Penang Hill.
72. Because there were too many people.
73. No, she didn’t.
74. 他们没有带雨伞所以全身都湿了并且很冷。
75. Jane’s father didn’t bring enough money.
七、略。
