新目标八年级英语下册期中考试试卷（2005/4）

听力部分(20分)
第一节(共10小题,每小题1分,共10分)
听下面10段对话.每段对话后有一个小题,从题中所给的A,B,C三个选项中选出最佳选项.听完每段对话后,你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题.每段对话仅读一遍.
( )1. A.She was drawing a piece of paper.
B.She was drawing a teacher.
C.She was drawing on a piece of paper.
( )2.A.He asked her not to talk.
B.He asked her not to play with the chalk.
C.He asked her not to park.
( )3.A.He said he would talk with the man upstairs.
B.He said he wanted to disturb the man upstairs.
C.He said the man from upstairs often troubled him.
( )4.A.He was trying a horse. B.He was building a house.
C.He was riding a horse.
( )5.A.She was having eggs. B.She was selling eggs.
C.She was shopping.
( )6.A.A bag B.Some tea C.A shirt
( )7.A.8:15 B.8:30 C.8:45
( )8.A.Peter B.Ratt C.Pratt
( )9.A.In a shop B.At their home C.In the classroom.
( )10.A.A teacher B.A doctor C.A worker.

第二节(共10小题,每小题1分,共10分)
听下面2段对话或独白.每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的A,B,C三个选项中选出最佳选项.听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题.每小题5秒钟.听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间.每段对话或独白读两遍.
听第7段独白,回答第11---15小题.
( )11. What was Tom?
A.Tom was a school boy. B.Tom bought baskets for his mother.
C.Tom ws a postman.
( )12.Where did Tom put the letter at first?
A.In the post box. B.In a litter basket.
C.By the side of the street.
( )13.What did Tom do after he dropped the letter?
A.He went to school. B.He read it at once.
C.He returned home and told his mother about the basket.

( )14. Why did Tom make the mistake?
A.He couldn’t spell the word correctly.
B.He did like this often.
C.His mother told him to do so.
( )15.What did the words on the litter basket mean?
A.To post letters. B.To buy things.
C.To put old paper and thing that are no good.

听第8段独白,回答第16---20小题.
( )16.Mrs Black got home_____.
A.before lunch B.after breakfast C.before supper
( )17.Mike is in Grade_____now.
A.One B.Two C.Three
( )18.Mr Black was not happy because_____.
A.Mrs Black came back too late.
B.he and his son were hungry.
C.Mike was not good at his lessons.
( )19.Mrs Black didn’t help her son because_____.
A.she didn’t want to do that. B.she was sometimes busy.
C.her husband didn’t let her do that.
( )20.Which of the following is right?
A.It was hard for Mrs Black to help Mike
B.Mrs Black didn’t love her son.
C.Mrs Black didn’t want to help Mike.

笔试部分（80分）
I.单项选择（15分）
( ) I. think she____her homework in two hours.
A.finished B.finishing C.finishes D.will finish
( )2.---Will there be more pollution? ---- _____.
A.Yes,there won’t B.No,there will
C.Yes,there will D.No,there aren’t
( )3.___the child was walking down the road, the UFO landed.
A.While B.After C.As D.Before
( )4.---You borrowed my jacket last week and why didn’t you return it to me?
---I was ____to meet you at the school gate yesterday,but you didn’t come.
A.plan B.supposed C.should D.shouldn’t
( )5.I had a hard time with science,so I wasn’t___to receive a____ result from my science teacher.
A.surprised; disappointed B .surprised; disappointing
C.surprising; disappointed D.surprising; disappointing

( )6.She said she would do homework for me, but I refused,because I ___think it___
a good idea.
A.X;was B.X;wasn’t C.didn’t;was D.did wasn’t
( )7.In English.she’s____writing than listening.
A.better at B. better in C.good at D.best in
( )8.Your daughter____worse grades if she____hard.
. A.will get,won’t work B.gets,doesn’t work
C.will get, works D.will get,doesn’t work
( ) 9.Do you want to remind___the rules for the school parties?
A.I to B.me of C.my of D.mine with
( )10.---I’m sorry.I___my homework at home.
---Don’t forget___next time.
A.leave,take B.left,to bring it C.left,taking D.leave,to take
( )11.I hope I will have___car soon.
A.my own B.mine own C.my D.own my
( )12.Don’t bring friends from___schools.
A.other B.each other C.the others D.another
( )13.---I’m going to the party___.---
A.So I am B.So I do C.So am I D.So do I
( )14.She told us that she___soap operas this Saturday.
A.would watch B.will watch C.will see D.would see
( )15.I don’t know___.
A.where is my bike B.what should I do
C.where my bag is D.how does he go to work

II.完成对话（10分）。
(1).阅读A，B栏的句子，然后在B 栏中分别找到A栏句子的答句。（5分）
A B
16. Why not have the meeting today? A. I think he will be a lawyer.
17. What do you think will Tom be in two years? B.I was in my uncle’s
18. What was he doing when he saw the child? C. Maybe you should go to see a doctor.
19. What shall I do? D. If we have the meeting today, the manager
20. Where were you at 8:00 last night? will not attend it.
E. He was reading under the tree.

(2).根据句意从下列方框中选择句子补全对话， 使句意完整。填写句子代号.（5分）
A: Summer holidays will begin next month. Are you going back to your hometown?
B: No, __________________(21)
A: What are you going to do?
B: Mum will take me to Beijing. _______________(22)
A: She’ll be happy to see you.
B: Yes, we haven’t seen each other for several years.
A: _________________(23)
B: She is an English teacher. She is teaching in Beijing now. But last year she taught in Changzhou.
A: _________________(24)
B: Yes, she has. She likes traveling. So she always moves to different places to work.
A: Is she going to work in Qinghai?
B:Yes. ___________________(25)
A: That’s great.
A. We’ll meet my aunt there.B. I went back last summer holiday.C. What does your aunt do?D. Next year she is going to teach in our school.E. She has been to many places, hasn’t she?


III.完形填空（10分）
A young man went into a shop. He wanted to 26 a watch. He saw a watch that he liked, but the man in the shop 27 ninety pounds for it. At that time a boy came into the shop, took the watch out of the man’s 28 and ran out. When the man in the shop ran out into the street, the boy was already 29 the people.
The young man went 30 . At the next corner he saw the boy with the stolen watch
31 his hand. “Would you 32 to buy a fine watch, sir?” he said in a low 33 . “It is only fifty pounds”. The Young man paid at once, and went back to his room. His friend took a look 34 the watch and said. “This watch isn’ t worth even ten pounds. I 35 that they planned this together.” When he heard this, he was very disappointed.
( )26. A. borrow B. sell C. lent D. buy
( )27. A. paid B. asked C. spend D. used
( )28. A . hand B. room C. desk D. pocket
( )29. A. among B. in C. behind D. between
( )30. A. out B. away C. on D. back
( )31. A. in B. on C. by D. above
( )32. A. like B. want C. need D. enjoy
( )33. A. sound B. voice C. noise D. speaker
( )34. A. for B. at C. after D. up
( )35.A. am sure B. know C. heard D. learned

IV. 阅读理解（25分）

A. 根据短文内容判断正误，正确的写A，错误的写B。（5分）
Everyone has a name. Names are different in different countries. Chinese usually have two, three or four Chinese words in a name. They put their family name first and then the given name. But in England and America the last name is the family name. To many people the meaning of the name is important. Fathers and mothers always want to give beautiful names to girls and great names to boys. People use Mr, Mrs, Ms or Miss before their family name. In foreign countries children can call their father or mother’s name directly(直接地). But in China they can never do that because it is not polite.

( )36. In China, the first name is the family names.
( )37. Americans put their family names first.
( )38. If your English teacher is Sally Green, you can call your teacher Ms Sally.
( )39. Usually, people give boys beautiful names.
( )40. It’s impolite to call your parents’ names in China.

B. 阅读短文，选出最佳选项。（10分）
A lady wrote a long novel. She sent it to a famous editor (编辑). After a few weeks the novel was returned to her. The lady was angry. She wrote back to the editor. “Dear sir, yesterday you sent back a novel of mine. How do you know that the novel is not good? You didn’t read it. Before I sent you the novel, I posted together pages 18, 19 and 20 . This was a test to see whether you would read the novel. When the novel came back yesterday, the pages were still posted together. Is this the way you read all the stories that are sent to you?”
The editor wrote back: “Dear madam, at breakfast when I have an egg, I don’ t have to eat the whole egg in order to discover that it is bad.”
( ) 41. The title that can explain the story best is __________.
A. A Letter Returned B. A Novel Given Back
C. Testing Whether Reading or Not D. Reading While Eating
( ) 42. The novel was sent back to its writer because__________.
A. some pages of it were posted together
B. the editor checked the novel in a hurry
C. the editor thought it was not good
D. the novel wasn’ t written by the writer herself
( ) 43. Which of the following sentences is true?
A. The editor read the whole novel carefully.
B. There are twenty pages in the novel.
C. Both the editor and the lady were clever.
D. The editor was pleased with her novel.
( ) 44. The lady posted three pages together so as to find_____________.
A. whether the novel was read through
B. whether the novel was opened
C. whether the novel was stolen
D. whether the novel was broken
( )45. From the story we know that ________.
A. the editor Iikes the novel very much
B. the editor has a good way to read novels
C. the editor has a good way to eat an egg
D. the editor doesn’t like the novel at all

C. 阅读短文，根据短文内容填空完成答案，每空一词。（10分）
One day Mr Jackson took Paul to his favourite restaurant. It was a French restaurant. The waiter was from France. But he didn’t speak to them in French.. “Would you like to see the menu?” he asked in a kind way. “Yes, please.” Mr Jackson said.
The waiter gave them a menu each. They studied them. “You can spend only twenty—five dollars,” Mr Jackson told his son. The waiter asked Paul, “What would you like, young man?”
“How much is the tomato soup?” Paul asked.
“Six dollars,” the waiter said. “It’ s very good.”
“How much is the chocolate ice cream?”
“Six dollars,” the waiter said.
Paul added it up quickly. Six plus fifteen plus six is twenty—seven. He thought he could have the duck and the soup, or the duck and the ice cream. “I’ll have the duck and the chocolate ice cream, please,” he said to the waiter.
Paul said to his father, “My meal will cost only twenty—one dollars. Can I keep the other four dollars?” His father laughed, “No Paul,” he said. “Leave it for the waiter.”

46. How many menus did the waiter give Mr Jackson and Paul?
He gave them_______ menu(s).
47. How much was the duck?
It cost________ dollars.
48. What does “studied” mean in Chinese in the passage?
It means _________.
49. Who would get the other four dollars?
The ________.
50. What does the passage tell us?
It tells us that Paul was ________ not to spend more than $25 in the restaurant.

V. 阅读填词。（10分）
A generation gap(代沟) has become a serious problem. I read a r_______(51) about it in the newspaper. Some children have killed t________(52) after quarrels(争吵) with parents. I think this is b________(53) they don’t have a good talk with each other. Parents now s________(54) more time in the office. S________(55) they don’t have much time to stay with their children. As time passes, they both feel t________(56) they don’t have the same topics(话题) to talk about. I want to tell p_______(57) to be more with your children, get to know them and understand them. As for children, show your feeling t_______(58) your parents. They are the people who l________(59) you. So tell them your thoughts(想法). In this way, you can have a b_______(60) understanding of each other.

VI．书面表达。（10分）
根据汉语提示及要求， 用英语写一篇文章。
标题：我理想的工作
提示：1）长大以后当一名歌星
2）优势：如果歌唱得好， 就会出名. 出了名，就可以挣很多钱，可以开自己的公司，可以向慈善机构捐款，可以帮助别人，还可以周游全世界。
3）问题：如果出名，就有人会一直关注你，这会给你的生活带来麻烦。并且你很难知道谁是你真正的朋友。
要求：1）条理清楚，意思连贯，语句通顺，书写规范。
2）不少于80字。
新目标八年级英语下册期中考试试卷（2005/4）

答 题 卡
听力部分
1………………..5 6………………10 11……………..15 16……………..20
A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
笔试部分
1………………..5 6………………10 11……………..15 16……………..20
A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
E E E E E
21………………25 26………………30 31 ………………35 36………………40
A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
E E E E E

41………………45 46 ____________ 51 ______________ 56 _____________
A A A A A 47 ____________ 52 ______________ 57 _____________
B B B B B 48 ____________ 53______________ 58 ______________
C C C C C 49_____________ 54______________ 59______________
D D D D D 50_____________ 55______________ 60______________
书面表达
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