[江西]2012-2013学年江西南康新世纪学校八年级下期中考试英语卷

I found _____ very difficult to learn  maths  well.

If you miss so many lessons, you must fall behind ____ classmates.

____ will he be back? 
In a week.　

Everyone went to the zoo last Sunday ______Jim.　

– May I take the magazine out of the reading room?
-- No, you can’t. You            read it here. It’s the rule.

– What a nice model ship!  
-- Thank you. It        me three days to make it.

– Dinner is ready. Help yourself!
-- Wow! It                 delicious. Could you please tell me how to cook it?

“What time does the plane _________?”
“I think at about 10 o’clock.” 

Nina is clever but kind of lazy. If she ___harder next term, she ___ better grades.

I  was  never_____ t o  receive  a  _____ result  from  my  science  teacher. 

Don’t leave your books on the table. Please________.
A. take away it    B. take them away
C. take away them   A. take it away

--- What did your brother say in the letter?
--- He told me he_____to Shaoxing next week.

Can you imagine ___________?

When Mary stood up to answer the question , she was _____at first but soon relaxed.

---I feel tired and sleepy.
---Why not stop______?

A nurse took a tired soldier to an old man , “Your son is here ,” she told the old man. The old man could hardly  1 the young soldier clearly. He reached out his  2 .The soldier held the old man’s hand. The nurse brought a chair so that he could sit 3 the bed. All through the night,the young soldier sat there holding the old man’s hand. Now and then she heard him say  4  words. The dying man said  5  . He only held his son’s hand tightly  all through the night.
The next morning, the old man died. The soldier freed his hand and went to  6  the nurse .While the nurse did  7 she had to do, he waited. Then he asked her, “Who was that man?”
The nurse was  8 ”Wasn’t he your father?” she said.
“No,he wasn’t” ,the soldier answered.”I  9 saw him before.”
“Then 10  didn’t you say anything when I took you to  11   ?”
“I knew right away there had been a 12  , and I also knew he needed his son ,_13  his son just wasn’t here. When I found that he was too 14   to tell whether or not I was his son, I knew  15  he need me,I stayed.

A．see B．look C．saw D．seeing

A．head B．foot C．hand D．hair

A．besides B．beside C．under D．on

A．a little B．little C．few D．a few

A．everything B．nothing C．anything D．something

A．tells B．telling C．tell D．told

A．how B．who C．what D．when

A．surprising B．surprised C．surprise D．surprises

A．sometimes B．usually C．always D．never

A．where B．why C．which D．who

A．him B．he C．his D．her

A．bed B．chair C．mistake D．hand

A．and B．or C．but D．then

A．sick B．healthy C．strong D．nice

A．how many B．how long C．how much D．how old

 
April Fool’s Day is on April 1^st.  People can play     on others on the special day. If you succeed, you usually laugh and say, “April Fool!” The person who has been fooled by you laughs, too, and he will never be     with you.
Mother’s Day is on the     Sunday of May. It’s a day to     mothers. On that day mothers usually     flowers and cards from their kids. Father and     do the housework so that mothers can have a rest.
Thanks – giving Day is on the fourth Thursday in November. It’s a day    people give thanks for the good things in life. Usually families all get together and have a big    .
Christmas Day     on December 25^th. It’s the most important festival in a year. The beautiful things are seen everywhere. People exchange gifts, send Christmas cards and visit    .

What does Mrs. Zhou do?

Who will join Betty’s party?

What can we learn from the cards?

A woodcutter(伐木工) was working in the forest one day when he found a box full of gold coins. Unfortunately, his wife was the kind of woman who could not keep a secret. Somehow, he knew, he had to prevent(阻止) her from talking about the gold.
He thought about this for a long time, then had an idea.
“ I found something in the forest”, he told his wife, “come with me and I’ll show you.”.His wife followed him into the forest and soon they came to a tree.“ Look at that!” the woodcutter said to his wife, and pointed to the tree. “There’s a fish growing on that branch!” His wife was surprised ,especially when he climbed up the tree and brought down the fish for her to see.They walked on and soon came to the river. “I’ll just pull in my net and see what I’ve caught”, the woodcutter said.
He pulled in his net and inside there were several hares(野兔). “How interesting!” he said “there are now hares in the river.” After that, they came to where the woodcutter had found the box of gold. “Look, wife”, he said “this is what I have found. A box of gold coins.”
The next day, his wife could not stop herself from telling her friends about all the wonderful things she had seen.Of course, nobody believe her!
Where did the woodcutter find the box of gold?______

Where do you usually see hares?______

Why did his wife tell her friends what happened? Because ______

Edith Cavell was born in a little English village. She was a clever, hard-working girl and did well at school, especially in music and French. After she left school, her first job was to take care of the children of a rich family in Belgium（比利时）. The language they spoke was French, so she found that her school studies were useful. She could understand them easily, at the same time she taught the children to speak English and play the piano.
After hearing that her father was seriously ill, Edith returned home to look after him. She then decided to become a nurse. Afterwards for five years she worked in an English hospital where she proved to be highly professional at her job. A Belgian doctor was so impressed（印象深的）that he invited her to his country to organize a training school for nurses. The First World War broke out in 1914 and Edith Cavell’s school of nursing became a hospital. She stayed there to look after the sick and wounded soldiers . Edith treated them with kindness. Between November 1914 and August 1915 she secretly helped about 200 wounded soldiers and prisoners (囚犯) escape from the Germans. Later the German army found out what Edith had done and they arrested her. Finally, the Germans killed her, but they could not kill her memory. A tall statue（雕塑）has been built in Trafalgar Square, London, in honor（纪念）of the brave English nurse.
Edith Cavell’s first job was to __________.

Why did Edith return home from Belgium?

What’s the Chinese meaning of “kill her memory” in this passage?

According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

What will life in the future be like？Will it be much better than it is now？____________  ?
Genetic engineering(基因工程)may help us make the perfect human．Babies may grow up to play basketball like Yao Ming or look like Cecilia Cheung．Also，we may be able to bring the dead back to life．________________________ .Over the next 20 to 50 years，it will become harder to tell the difference between humans and machines.
Perhaps we will be able to make copies of ourselves，so we will appear to be alive long after we are dead．________________.
Narobots(纳米机器人)will be important．________________．For example，when we have a stomachache，we will swallow(吞下)a narobot and it will travel through our  stomach，taking a video of what’s happening there．The video will help the doctor heal(治愈)us．
In the future，computers may have their feelings．____________________. We may be more and more interested in computers and the Internet，spending all our time in front of computers．Perhaps we will forget our real needs．Perhaps we will become super couch potatoes weighing 250kg！

E. Maybe people will be able to meet and talk with their dead family members．
F. People may be able to find ways of putting the life of a person into a new body．
G. And will we be able to have own robots in 2020 or 30 year’s time?

最近你和父母就你要参加校篮球队一事交换了意见，各自阐述了观点。现在请你参照表内所提供的信息，写一篇英语短文。

 
注意：1. 开头部分已写好，你只需接着写；
2. 所写内容必须包括表格中父母的想法和你的想法（至少三条）
3. 词数：70个左右。
Recently I’ve had a discussion with my parents about whether or not I should join the school basketball team.