[四川]2012-2013学年四川省成都铁中八年级12月检测英语试卷

从以下4小题中，选出与各句中画线部分意思相同或相近，并能替换画线部分的选项。（共4小题，每小题1分；计4分）

She visited Hainan last year.
All the children had a great time at Bob’s birthday.
He’d like to put some salt into the noodles.
Cindy started to play the guitar when she was five years old.

30. We want to make a fruit salad. We need __________ ice cream.
A. two kilos of         B. two slices of            C. two teaspoons of

---When __________ Jessy __________ to New York?
---Yesterday.
A.does; get             B. did; get             C. has; got

__________ the class, the students left the classroom one by one.
A. At the end of            B. In the end               C. By the end

Do you have __________ to say about this?
A. something else           B. anything else            C. else anything

---__________ were you born, Meimei?
---I was born in Wuhan.
A. Where                   B. When            C. Why

When did your brother __________ the army?
A.join                  B. join in              C. take part in

There __________ lots of popcorn in the kitchen last night.
A. were                B. had                 C. was

It rained heavily yesterday. __________, we brought raincoats.
A. Luckily              B. Badly                C. Lucky

Please turn __________ the light before you leave.
A. on                     B. off                 C. down

_________ fruit do we need?
A. How many             B. How much         C. How far

The story sounds __________, and we’re all __________ in it.
A. interested; interested
B. interesting; interesting
C. interesting; interested

Deng Yaping went to Tsinghua University and __________ English and management.
A. majored in              B. majored for          C. major in

---__________ did Tara learn ice skating?
---For three years.
A. How long             B. How old              C. How often

Jim spent all his free time ________ soccer.
A. play                 B. to play              C. playing

---Have you heard of Liu Qian from Taiwan?
---Sure! His magic performance is ________ surprising for people _______ forget.
A. so; that               B. such; that               C. too; to

Stop _______ on the ice. It’s too dangerous.
A. skated                  B. skating              C. to skate

We had fun __________ in the lake last Sunday.
A. boat                B. boating             C. boated

补全对话 根据对话内容，从方框中选出适当的选项补全对话（ 共4小题，每小题1分，计4分）
A: Hi, how was your school trip?
B:      
A: Did you go to the zoo?
B: No, I didn’t. I went to the aquarium.
A: Oh, it must be very interesting.        
B: No, there weren’t any sharks, but there were some really clever seals.
A: Wow, that sounds wonderful!        
B: Well, I hung out with my friends and I took lots of photos.
A:         
B: Of course. I’ll bring them to school as soon as they come out.
A: Thank you.

完形填空 分别通读下面两篇短文，根据短文内容，从A、B、C三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。（共20小题，每小题1分；计20分）
The word “sandwich” is an English word. Sandwich was an English   1 . He lived in England about two hundred years ago. Sandwich had a lot of   2 . He was very rich(富有的). But he liked   3  cards for money. He often played   4  day and night.   5  day he played for twenty-four hours without stopping. He did not   6  the card table to eat. He asked his man to   7  him some meat and   8 . So he put some meat between two pieces of bread. He did not want to stop   9   playing cards. From the name of this man, Sandwich, we have the word “sandwich”   10 .
A．woman               B．man                 C．book
A．money               B．food                C．cards
A．making              B．keeping              C．playing
A．every              B．only                C．all
A．One              B．Next                C．This
A．hold                B．leave                C．show
A．use                 B．take                 C．bring
A．milk                B．fruit                C．bread
A．before              B．when                C．after
A．in shops           B．this year            C．today

Do you know about Liu Xiang? He is one of the most popular   1  stars in China.
Liu Xiang was born on July 13, 1983 in Shanghai. Like many other Olympic sports stars, he started training when he was very   2 . In Grade Four, he went to the Junior Sports School of Putuo District of Shanghai.   3 , he was trained as a high jumper. Then, in 1998, his coach noticed his skill in hurdling(跨栏).
Liu Xiang put his whole heart into his training.   4  the age of 18, Liu Xiang set a record. In 2002 he won his first international   5  hurdles in Switzerland, and in the same year, he   6   a gold medal at the Asian Games in Korea. In 2004, Liu Xiang won the   7  Olympic gold medal in Athens, Greece. In 2006, he set a new world record with a time of 12.88 seconds in the men’s 110m hurdles in Lausanne.
  8  a sporting hero, Liu Xiang is invited to competitions around the world. And he also appears(出现) in advertisements and films. So what’s next for Liu Xiang? Will he   9  more time away from sports? No, Liu Xiang will go for more medals for China   10   he’s a symbol of China’s international sporting success.
A. movie           B. sports         C. music
A. old             B. short           C. young
A. At first        B. At last          C. Next
A. On             B. In              C. At
A. 100m            B. 110m             C. 120m
A. won             B. made             C. kept
A. third           B. first            C. second
A. Like          B. For             C. As
A. pay             B. spend            C. need
A. because        B. but              C. although

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容判断句子的正误。正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”。（共5小题，每小题2分，计10分）
Long long ago, there was a girl called Nuwa. Her father was Emperor(皇帝) Yan and he loved her very much. They often played together, and she also loved her father very much. One day, she had a wonderful time. Then she swam in the sea. She was too tired to swim and she was drowned(淹死). Because she wanted to see her father then she changed into(变成) a bird. She put some stones(石头) into the sea day after day and changed the sea into the land. She made a wish, and she would like to play with her father again.
This story was a little sad. It tells something important. When we do anything, we have to work hard. Learning English is difficult but if you study hard, you can learn it well.
Emperor Yan didn’t love her daughter at all.
Nuwa put some stones into the sea when she changed into a bird.
Nuwa was too tired to swim and she was drowned.
The meaning of “land” is “操场”.
When we do anything, we don’t have to work hard.

There are many kinds of cars in the world. My grandfather thinks this is because cars are like their drivers. He says, “Rich people have expensive cars, big people have large cars, and old people drive old cars.” But I don’t agree with him.
My neighbor, Mrs Hill, is 82 years old. She drives only on Tuesday to the bank. She never drives more than 30 kilometers an hour. Do you think Mrs Hill has a very old and small car? No! Her car is new. It’s very large, and it can go 200 kilometers an hour!
My friend Mike is an artist. He paints beautiful pictures with lots of colors. But his car is black. Mrs Bates has a very, very old car. It often has some trouble. Does she drive that kind of car because she is poor? No, she has four restaurants and two million dollars in the bank. My uncle Joe has a very small car. Every Sunday, he drives to the country with his wife, his three children, his mother and his dog.
Now, you have read about my friends and their cars. Do you agree with my grandfather? Maybe you have a car. Does it say something about you?
The writer’s grandfather thinks _______________.
A. a person has the same kind of car as himself (herself)
B. different people have cars of the same kind
C. poor people have large cars
Mrs Bates has an old car ________________.
A. because she is poor
B. because she likes old cars
C. and the passage doesn’t tell us why
Though Uncle Joe has a very small car, _____________.
A. he has a dog
B. he has a large family
C. he has no children
The writer’s friend Mike paints _________________.
A. pictures in black
B. colorful pictures
C. pictures with only a few colors
The writer thinks _______________.
A. cars are often the same as their drivers in many ways
B. artists shouldn’t drive black cars
C. a car doesn’t say anything about its owner

Every country has its favorite food. Italians like to eat pizza. Indians like to eat hot food. Japanese like to eat fish. Often they don’t cook it.
In England, one of the most popular kinds of food is fish and chips. People usually buy it in a fish and chip shop. They put it in paper bags, and take it home, or to their workplace. Sometimes they eat it in the park or on the road. The world’s favorite food is American fast food. If you go to some important cities in the world, you can find people eating hamburgers and chips.
Fish and chips, and Chinese take-away food are very popular in England. But they are less popular in the USA, they eat take-away food, too, like chicken. But the most popular kind of take-away food is the hamburger. It looks like bread with meat in it. Ham(火腿) is a kind of pork, but the hamburger does not have any pork in it. The beef is inside a kind of cake hamburgers. They are delicious. They are also popular in England and Australia.
Italians like to eat ___________.
A. fish                B. pizza                    C. hot food
Fish and chips are very popular in ________.
A. England          B. Australia                C. the USA
In different countries people eat ________ food.
A. different                B. the same             C. hot
The hamburger does not have any _________ in it.
A. beef                 B. pork                C. chips
Hamburger is a kind of __________.
A.meat              B. drink                    C. food

完成对话 在对话空格中填上适当的单词，使对话完整正确。一空一词（含缩写词）。（共10小题，每小题1分；计10分）
May caught a cold yesterday. She did not go to school today. She stayed at home all day. Helen went to May’s home after school.
A: How do you         today, May?
B: I don’t feel well.
A: Did you take any        ?
B: Yes, I did. I took some medicine before lunch.         I still don’t feel very well.
A:        you drink a lot of water today?
B: Yes, I drank a lot of water today. I         drank some tea.
A: Did you eat        apples?
B: Yes.         apple a day keeps the doctor away.
A: How        days will you stay at home?
B: I don’t know, but I won’t go to school tomorrow. Do we have much        today?
A: No, we don’t have very much.
B: Why        ?
A: Our English and Chinese teachers didn’t go to school today. They both caught a cold yesterday.

短文填空 从下面方框中选出10个单词并使用其正确形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确，通顺（每词限用一次。共10小题，每小题1分；计10分）

    
“Where is the university?” This is a question that many visitors to Cambridge(剑桥) ask. But no one can give        a clear answer, for there is no wall to be found         the university. The university is the city. You can find classroom buildings,        , museums and offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and         of the thirty-one colleges.
Cambridge was already a developing(发展中的) town long before the first students and teachers arrived 800 years ago. It grew up by the river Granta, and the river was once         Cam. A         was built over the river as early as 875. So the town got its name “Cambridge”.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries(世纪) more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew much         in the nineteenth century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became a         in 1951 and now it has a population(人口) of over 100,000. Many young students in other countries         to study at Cambridge.         of people from all over the world come to visit the university town. It has become a famous place all around the world.

阅读排序。阅读下列各句，根据内容重新排列所有句子的顺序，使其构成意义完整正确，逻
辑顺序合理的语篇，并将代表句子的字母填写在答题卡上相应的位置。（共10小题，每小题0.5分；计5分）
How young can a teacher be?

E. A teacher can be any ages. Just ask Chrissie Mckenney.
F. First, Chrissie learned to sign.
G. Chrissie wanted to help children who cannot hear.
H. The children love their young teacher.
I. Now Chrissie visits the school almost every day.
J. Signing is a way of talking with your hands.

补全短文。根据短文内容，从短文后的A-F选项中选出适当的选项补全对话。（共5小题，每小题1分；计5分）
I had a summer camp with my classmates last year.
Early in the morning, we gathered(集合) at the bus station.
                       It took us more than two hours to arrive at the campground.
We got off the buses happily. Laughing and shouting, we jumped and ran all over the place. ___                 Some of us started to feel homesick(想家). However, when the night party and dances began, the homesickness was gone.
                       At first, my friends and I worked hard, but the boat wouldn’t listen to us and kept going round and round. Then the teacher taught us how to work together. After many tries, we did much better.
Swimming class was my favorite. It was about the hottest time of a day and the best time to stay in the cool water.                         During the week I learned a lot of new things and made many new friends.              

完成表格 阅读下面的短文，根据内容，完成表格中所缺的信息。（共5小题，每小题1分，计5分）
George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write.
He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher.
On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man—George Stephenson.

Great Inventor:
In	He started work.
In 1795	He spent much time                   .
In 1798	He began to learn the English letters.
In 1799	He could                  for the first time.
In his life	He invented many things, including              .

书面表达（计15分）
根据下列提示写一篇短文，词数：70个左右。
莫扎特（Mozart）是世界上最伟大(the greatest)的音乐家之一。他1756年出生于奥地利（Austria）。他4岁时开始学钢琴。当时很多人喜欢他的音乐，却没有人付给他钱。他终生过着艰难的生活(live a … life)。可是他的音乐使他感到快乐，他创作了许多音乐。1791年去世(die)时，他才35岁。今天他的音乐仍然让我们感到快乐。