[江苏]2013-2014学年江苏省江阴市青阳片八年级上学期期末考试英语试卷

--- Do you know ________ girl in pink on the playground?
--- Oh, yes, she is ________ honest student. She is my best friend.

Tom swims __________ than I, but he doesn’t swim_________ my brother.

A number of birdwatchers ______in Zhalong Nature Reserve. The number of them____500.

---Which is your favourite drink, juice, water or milk?
--- Thanks, but I’m sorry I like ________ of them. I like coffee most.

Put it down, Timmy! You mustn’t read __________ letter. It’s not right to do so.

Jack seems ________ than you __________ ready for the basketball games.

---________? ---It was sunny.

After we came into the house, we found him lying on the ground with his mouth _______ and eyes ________.

---Why is the girl called Kitty so sad?   ---_________, I think.

---The coat with Yao Ming’s picture _________ Tom’s. He likes him very much.
--- No, it ___________ be like his. He dislikes black colour.

Would you please _________ them _________ a writing competition?

Today the forests are getting fewer and fewer. We must _______ down too many trees.

I _________ my mum cook dinner in the kitchen when the telephone ______.

The floor is so wet. Let’s _____________.

--- Please don’t tell anyone about the secret.
---__________.

Now, most people have watches. As we know, Switzerland（瑞士） is famous for its watches. ___ , the watch was not _ in this country. It was the British who did. Many years ago, an Englishman traveled to Italy and on his way he went      a small town in Switzerland. This Englishman traveled in a carriage（马车） inside which there was a carriage watch. This was the __ kind of watch. A blacksmith’s（铁匠） assistant hoped to see the watch. He __ what it was. __ he asked the Englishman about it. “ It is a carriage watch,” said the Englishman. “ This machine can tell the ___ but now it isn’t working.”
At once the blacksmith’s assistant decided to try to __ it. So the traveler handed him the watch. He was very __. So it was not surprising that he was __ in showing it right. He even remembered how it was made. As soon as the traveler had gone, he made a watch of exactly the same kind.
So the watch-making was started in Switzerland. Today Swiss watches are sold all over the world.

A．So B．And C．However D．For

A．brought B．invented C．came D．appeared

A．on B．at C．in D．through

A．earliest B．latest C．nicest D．cheapest

A．knew B．wondered C．thought D．wrote

A．Because B．After C．So D．Since

A．time B．price C．address D．number

A．repair B．steal C．make D．buy

A．hardworking B．strong C．forgetful D．clever

A．difficult B．hard C．glad D．successful

Have you ever seen a horse with toes? Millions of years ago, horses had many toes. They had four toes on each front foot. They had three toes on each back foot. The horses were smaller than cats.
These small horses lived in the forest. Their many toes helped the horses run over the soft wet ground.
It was very hot in the forest. But the weather changed. It became cold. Many trees couldn’t live in cold weather. The trees died and fell. Forests became open field. The sun made the ground dry and hard. Horses began to change too. They began to get bigger. This took a long time. On the dry hard land, horses needed only their middle toes for running. At last their middle toes became hard.
Long ago, the horse had four toes on each of its __________.

The cats were __________ the horses at that time.

When the weather changed, __________.

Steve Jobs was one of the fathers of the personal computing time and the founder of Apple. He was also one of the giants of the information age. Here are some of his greatest contributions.

Apple II Jobs and Steve Wozniak  founded  Apple Computers Inc. in 1976. A year later, the Apple II was  invented. This production( 产品) was  the world's first mass-market personal computer.	The iMac Under Jobs' leadership Apple  introduced  the all-in-one iMac computer in 1998. The iMac became the first machine, which offered only a CD-ROM slot.
The iPad By 2010, Steve Jobs  was  confident the world was ready to  have  a  tablet computer that would be great for watching movies and playing games. The touch-sensitive iPad is a great success.	iPhone 4s iPhone 4s came out on October4, 2011, in America. It looks like iPhone 4. It has a larger and wider screen and a slimmer yet wider case.  It has a better camera and faster data transfer speeds.

When did the iMac first come out?

Which one was the oldest?

From the passage, we can know that the iPad _______.

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

A king in Africa had a close friend that helped him grow up. The friend had a habit of looking at everything positively(肯定)that happened in his life and saying “This is good”.
One day the king and his friend were out hunting. The friend would prepare the guns for the king. The friend did something wrong in preparing one of the guns, and after the gun from his friend, the king fired it and his thumb(拇指) was blown off. On seeing the situation the friend said as usual, “This is good!” The king replied, “No, this is not good!” He was very angry and sent his friend to jail(监狱).
About a year later, the king was hunting in a forest. Cannibals(食人者) caught him and took him to their village. As they were going to kill him, they noticed that the king was missing a thumb. They never ate anyone who was less than whole, so they sent the king back.
When he returned home, he felt sorry for his treatment of his friend. He went quickly to the jail to speak with his friend. “You were right”, he said. “It was good that thumb was blown off.” And he told the friend all that had just happened. “And so I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long. It was bad for me to do this.”
“No,” his friend replied, “this is good!” “What do you mean? How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?” 
“If I had not been in jail, I would have been with you, and I would have been eaten!”
From the story we learn that ________.

The king was sent back by Cannibals because _______.

The best title for the reading is _______.

根据句意，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
My father will go to Beijing on business at the   ____      (begin) of next month.
I couldn’t fall ___________ (sleep) because I drank too much coffee in the daytime.
Who do you think did _____________(badly) in this competition, John, Jim or Jane?
--- Is the fruit salad __________(finish)? --- You’d better wait for five more minutes.

根据句意和汉语注释，写出单词的正确形式。
We can enjoy the beauty of the    _____     (自然的) world in the countryside.
Write down all the ______________ (观光者)names here, please!
Do you want to learn something about the ____________(文化) of western countries?
People walk in all ______________(方向) after getting off the bus.

动词填空 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。（本大题共8分，每小题1分）
--- What’s the noise?     --- Oh, the students _________ ( plan ) their autumn trip excitedly.
The radio says that the rain ________________ ( stop) in a few hours.
Not only the twins but also Tom often____________(mix) the sugar with the coffee together.
How much time do you usually spend _____________ (do) some reading every weekend?
_____________ (take) care of his wife, he gave up the chance to go abroad.
--- Why didn’t you come and open the door for me, dear?
--- Oh, sorry, I _______________(cook) in the kitchen. I didn’t hear you.
--_______ your father ___________ (make) the weather report today?
--- Yes, he did. He says it’s important for us all. He must do it well.
There will be less space for wildlife if we ____________ (not protect) the wetlands.

先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容和所给字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词必须在横线上完整写出。（本大题共5分，每格0.5分）
We are beautiful red-crowned cranes. We have red caps on top of our heads. You may (1) t____ the caps are our feathers. In fact, they are combs (冠). We are one of the l____ birds in size in the world. We are the heaviest cranes. An adult red-crowned crane can w____ up to 11 kilograms. We are good at dancing. I think we are the most beautiful dancers of all the birds. We are also good s_____. We sing loudly and b____. We are good at flying as well, we fly to warm East Asia (亚洲) when (6) s_   comes. We give birth to baby cranes there. We like to live together on w____ in Southwest China and some other places.
We live on worms and small fish. We like to live in long grasses. Water and grasses are i____ for us. But sometimes, life is harder these years. We are one of the most endangered birds in the world now. People keep  c____ our living areas into farms and buildings. We don’t have enough space to live. And we don’t have enough food to feed our babies because people fish and h_____ too much.

完成句子 按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子。（本大题共9分，每小题1.5分）
当拿到生日礼物时，Jane迫不及待地打开了它。
When getting the birthday present, Jane _____________________________.
在我呆在北京期间，他们给我提供了很多美食。
During my stay in Beijing, They ___________________________________.
现在你最好别再打电脑游戏了。
You _____________________________________ now.
在这样的大风天，人们不得不用围巾把脸遮住。
People ______________________________ on such a windy day.
广州的天气与北京的天气大不相同。
The weather in Guangzhou _________________________ in Beijing.
请尽快给我回信。
Please _______________________________.

假如你是张华，现要用英语写一封加入动物协会的申请信：
要点：1.你是第一中学8年级学生；因为喜欢动物，所以想成为动物协会的一名成员；
2.对生物和地理感兴趣；最喜欢春天因为这是放风筝的好时节；
3.你热爱自然并理解保护野生动物的重要性，
4.可拨打0510-12345678或发电子邮件zhanghua@hotmail.com联系你；
5.你加入该协会后的感受和做法。（请适当发挥1-2句）
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to join the Animal Society.
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Yours sincerely,
Zhang Hua