江苏泰州海陵八年级上期中英语试卷

— I heard Max sing just now. What     beautiful voice!
— That’s true. He also has     good sense of humour.

— Who is that girl sitting there    ?   — Well, her name is Jenny.

— I have more storybooks than     do.
— But your books are not as interesting as    .

— I’d like to buy Guo Jingming’s Tiny Times.
— You had better     his books. The stories he tells are far from real life.

I’m thirsty now. Would you please give me      water to drink?

Tom has     than Daniel.

I’m sorry for     all your books     the floor.

Why not     an English club to practise     English?

I have two brothers. One is a driver, and     is a doctor.

I like her bright ___ eyes and they make her ___ really pretty and kind.

---- The spelling isn’t right. You missed an “r” here.
---- Yes. Would you please pass me my    ?

---- What’s Jim’s English teacher like?  ----        .

The street was very busy because there was         traffic.

---- Let’s go out to enjoy the fresh air? ----        .

---- Dad, I’m fixing my bike, can you give me a hand?
---- Just    . Be sure of your own ability.

完形填空 （共15题每小题1分，计15分）
My family went on a trip to         last year. We went there in autumn. We think it is the best         to visit England. The       is usually quite fine and there aren’t too many         in October.
We        in a small hotel in the west of England. We did most of the sightseeing on foot. Sometimes we went sightseeing         underground. We         went shopping and spent much         .What we liked most was going to watch some plays         we didn’t have the chance(机会) to watch such good          at home. A lot of people say that          food is not very nice. We don’t think so. It’s true that most of the famous          was French or Italian or Chinese, but we had some really good traditional English          .We enjoyed our holiday so much that we decided to go there                this year. We are going to take our umbrellas with us. I believe sometimes we’ll        them.

A．New York B．Washington C．London D．Tokyo

A．autumn B．year C．season D．day

A．UK B．weather C．people D．library

A．visitors B．trucks C．houses D．places

A．came B．stayed C．bought D．borrowed

A．to B．by C．of D．for

A．too B．either C．as well D．also

A．sport B．food C．money D．drink

A．but B．or C．so D．because

A．plays B．jokes C．films D．stories

A．British B．Chinese C．Japanese D．Canadian

A．halls B．houses C．buildings D．food

A．visitors B．friends C．meals D．clothes

A．more B．again C．once D．second

A．like B．give C．see D．need

阅读理解（共15题，每小题2分，计30分）

How long did the 2014 FIFA World Cup last?

What kind of TV programme is A Bite of China?

What’s Lu Jialei’s hobby?

Which is NOT true according to the reading?

Where may the articles probably come from?

He is quiet and shy. He likes to hide his eyes behind his hair. He doesn't smile very often. However, if you talk to him about music, he'll have a lot to say.
This is Jay Chou, the 34-year-old Taiwanese pop king. His fans are so excited because he will sing new songs on November 30, 2013 in Wuhu, Anhui Province. Many pop stars will come, too.
Chou grew up just with his mother. He did not talk much and did badly in many school subjects. His mother noticed the boy's special interest in music and sent him to learn piano when he was only three years old. He loved it and kept on practicing. Chou is not very handsome. He does not speak clearly when he sings or talks.
But the singer has a lot of fans. "He is really good at music. It makes him attractive(有魅力的) to me, " said Liu Jiajun, a Junior 2 student in No. 101 Middle School in Beijing."He is true to himself. He never follows others, "said Zhang Yujie, a Junior 1 girl at No.23 Middle School in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.

From this passage, we know that Jay Chou_________.

His fans are so excited because_________.

When he was a little child , he_________.

According to one of his fans, Jay_________.

The sentence "He never follows others" in the last paragraph means_________.

An old man was fishing on the bank of a river. A child came to see him fishing. The old man was really good at fishing and it didn’t take long for him to catch a full basket of fish. The old man saw that the child was very cute(可爱), and he wanted to give her a whole basket of fish. But the child shook（摇） her head. The old man was surprised and asked, “Why don’t you want the fish?”
The child answered, “I want the fishing rod(竿) in your hands.”
The old man asked, “Why do you want the rod?”
“It doesn’t take long to eat all the fish in a basket. But if I have the fishing rod, I can go fishing by myself and I won’t be afraid of not having any more fish to eat.”
I think you will certainly say that the child is very smart. Wrong! If she doesn’t know how to fish, she can not have fish to eat, even though she has the fishing rod. It’s useless to only have a fishing rod. Fishing skills are the most important, not the fishing rod.
Too many people think that if they have a “fishing rod” in their life, they will no longer fear(害怕)the wind and rain. They are just like the child, who thought that if she had a fishing rod, she would have fish to eat.
The old man was fishing on the bank of ______

Why did the child refuse(拒绝) the fish the old man gave her?
A．Because she didn’t like fish
Because she wanted his fishing rod
Because the old man had few fish
Because she wanted to learn fishing skills
The writer thought the child was __ after she explained why she didn’t want the fish.

The article mainly tell us _________

What is the best title for the article?

任务型阅读 （共10小题；每空一词各1分，满分10分）
Do you want to be the most popular person in the class? You don’t need to change your character; you just need to improve your personality. The most popular people are trusted (信任) and loved because they stay normal but still have something that makes them different from the rest of us. Here are some pieces of advice on how to become the most popular person in the class.
·If you want others to like and respect (尊重) you, you have to start by liking yourself. Do not change yourself in order to please others.
·Be helpful to everyone and d it happily. Being nice to people is almost like helping them, too, because by being nice you make others happy.
·Be active and have a positive attitude (积极的态度) towards life. Develop confidence in yourself.
·Stay clean and wear fresh clothes. Do not try to follow fashion to please others.
Respect cannot be bought with big words or money. You have to get it by being honest. It also helps your personal growth. You must be a person that can be trusted to get respect.

To be a        person
Something you don’t need to do	·Don’t try to follow         or change yourself to make others pleased. ·You can’t          respect with big words or money.
Something you _____  to do	·Win others’ respect            liking yourself. ·Be honest, helpful and          to everyone. ·Have an         and positive attitude towards life and develop confidence in yourself. ·          fresh clothes and keep clean.
Conclusion	your personality instead of       your character, and you will be popular.

阅读表达：根据短文内容回答问题(每小题2分，共10分)
I like to get up late, so my ideal school starts at 9 a.m. It finished at 3 P.m., so we will have lots of time for after-school activities. There is a big dining hall.
We have an hour for lunch. We eat lunch and chat there. We can also listen to pop music in the hall. We eat fruit and vegetables every day.
We have Maths every day because I think Maths is very interesting to us. I love computers, so we have Computer Studies every day. We wear school uniforms, but we do not wear ties. The classes are quite small. There are 15 students in each class.
There is a park on one side of our school and a shopping mall on the other. We have a big librarywith lots of useful books. We also have a tennis court and a swimming pool.
There are lots of clubs and after-school activities. We only have half an hour of homework every day, and we do not do homework at weekends. Every month, we go on a school trip to a museum or a theater.
How many hours for lessons are there in my school?
Why do we have Maths every day?
How many students are there in my class?
How often do we go on a school trip to a museum or a theater?
What’s the best title for the passage?（Less than 5 words）

根据句意和汉语提示写出单词，完成句子。
I kept on              (call) him the whole day.
Tom,              (stop) the rock music. Dad is sleeping.
There are so many places of               (interesting) in Beijing, such as the Great
Wall, the summer Palace, and so on.
This book is               (use). I won’t read it.
Lily writes to her parents               (two) a month.

根据句意，用所给单词的适当形式填空。
The             (句子) in this poem are so beautiful.
Lucy and Lily, you’re old enough to look after                  (你们自己) now.
Peter did the exercises much                    (更仔细), so he came first in the test.
Sandy wants to make a               (外国的) friend to improve her spoken English.
Mum, can I go to play for a while? Because my homework is almost          (完成).

连词成句。
put, not, books, you, on, should, so many, shelf, the
in the USA, as, is, those, bus, as, the, comfortable
two hours, took, get, about, us, it, to, by bus, there
you, would, best friend, as, who, your, choose
have, hour, only, we, an, of, every day, homework
 

缺词填空 (共10小题；每空一词各1分，共10分)
Do you know DIY? It is very popular a_____ young people. Suzy and her classmates often talk about DIY and enjoy their o____ works. Suzy has so many tools at h___, for example, different kinds of brushes. Every Christmas , Suzy makes a lot of paper c____for her friends. I like the card with tall Christmas trees b____. When I get the card, I felt so e_____. How wonderful it is! Now I am a new m_____of the DIY Club. We have activities on Thurs day afternoon.We always sell our works to other c_____.
Then we can raise some m_____ for thestudents in poor areas. It’s an e______and meaning thing

书面表达(20分)
假如你是Daniel，想加入学校的Buddy Club。根据提示的信息完成自我介绍。开头已给出，不计字数，总词数不少于80，不能逐句翻译，可适当发挥。
1. 乐于助人，认真聆听别人的问题，并提供他们帮助。
2. 有幽默感，当其他人不高兴时讲滑稽的笑话让他们开心。
3. 唱歌是爱好之一，不但喜欢唱歌而且喜欢看足球赛，看比赛时总为最爱的运动员加油喝彩。(cheer for… 为… 喝彩)
4.迫不及待长大，长大后想环游世界。
My name is Daniel, I’d like to join the school Buddy Club.