江苏省昆山市锦溪中学八年级英语上学期质量检测试题（一）.doc

江苏省昆山市锦溪中学2012-2013学年八年级英语上学期质量检测试题（一）一、单项选择（20分）( )1._ hard work! we cant finish it in two days. a. what b. what a c. how d. how a( )2. mr fat has _ money than mr thin, but he has _ friends.a. more, fewer b. more, less c. fewer, more d. less, more( )3. our school life is _ that in britain.a. same as b. different from c. the same like d. different between( )4. betty wants to buy a walkman _.a. also b. either c. as well d. as good( ) 5a horse is_animalit helps people a lot aa useful ban useful ca useless dan useless( ) 6if it _tomorrow，how_you_to school? awill rain；do；go bwill rain；will；go crains；do；go drains；will；go( )7ohwhat a_ lessoni really get_ with it aboredbored bboringboring cboredboring dboringbored( )8.cycling isnt _ climbing, but both of them are interesting. a. as exciting as b. as more exciting as c. as excited as d. as more excited as( )9. ill vote _ mary because she always helps people _ need. a. to, in b. to, for c. for, in d. for, for( ) 10. can i have _ more food?sorry. theres _ in the fridge. a. some; anything else b. some; nothing else c. any; anything else d. any; nothing else ( ) 11. kate is my good friend. she often _a smile _her face and looks happy. a. wears; on b. with; in c. with; on d. has; in ( ) 12. our maths teacher often gives us _ on how to learn maths well. a. some good advices b. some good advice c. an advice d. some pieces of good advices ( ) 13. these oranges taste _ . a. wellb. good c. to be good d. to be well( ) 14. li lei often talks _but does_. everyone says he is a good boy.a. less, more b. few, much c. more, less d. little, many( ) 15. miss gui _help her students with their lessons.a. is ready for b. are ready for c. is ready to d. does ready to( ) 16. the child felt happy _ he could stay at home with his parents. a. as b. because of c. but d. because( )17my school has_weeks_ in summertime than daniels schoolaless，off bless，away cfewer，off dfewer，away( )18playing football and climbing are_than watching tv amore heathy bmore healthier cmuch more healthier dmuch heahhier( )19. the school is a little far from my home. it often _me half an hour _ to school. a. takes; to go b. take; to go c. spends; going d. needs; go( ) 20. could you please _ my mother about it?a. didnt tell b. not tell c. wont tell d. not to tell二、用所给动词的适当形式填空：（10分）1.they often have a good time _(chat) together.2.johns box is than toms. (heavy)3. amy is _ (beautiful) one of us all.4.he left the room without ( say ) a word.5.the girl has a _ (smile)face6.cindy feels _ (comfortable)when her new classmates talk to her7.summer _ after spring. (come) 8. i have _ memory in my class. (bad)9my mother often_(miss)her old friends when she sees the photo of her class10who is _(slim),lily or lucy?三、句型转换：（10分）1there was little water in the glass. (改为反意疑问句) there was little water in the glass, ?2english is easier than maths. (改为同义句)maths is easy english.3kitty is able to dance very well now(用three years ago改写句子)kitty_ _ _ dance very well_ _ _4. he was late for school because it rained heavily. （同义句）he was late for school _ _ the _ rain.5i dont know how i shall talk to my new classmatesi dont know_ _ _ _my new classmates6it takes him ten minutes to walk to his office every day he_ ten minutes_ to his office every day四、下列各句中均有一处错误，选出并改正。（5分）( ) 1. is there a advertisement in todays newspaper? yes, there is. _ a b c d( ) 2. your english book is much newer than me. _ a b c d( ) 3. his present made my little brother very happily. _ a b c d( ) 4. -what grade are you in? - 8 grade. _ a b c d( ) 5. we must keep the classroom cleaning every day. _ a b c d五、完形填空（10分）the famous italian traveler ,marco polo ,travelled a long way to china in 1 century(世纪) . he saw many interesting things in china. one of 2 things he found was that the chinese people used paper money .in 3 countries, people didnt use paper money 4 the seventeenth century .but people in china began to use paper money in the eleventh century.a chinese man called cai lun invented paper almost 2,000 years ago .he made it from wood .he took the wood from trees and made it 5 paper .he then put them together ,and made them into a 6 .now we know 7 comes from trees ,and we must save paper .we use a lot of paper every day .if we always waste(浪费) paper ,there will be no paper ,because there are not so many trees 8 us to make paper from .everyone must help to 9 paper .if we all think carefully ,we can help to grow 10 trees. and we should do it now ,before it is too late.( )1.a.thirteenth b. the thirteenth c. thirteen d. the thirteen( )2.a.great b. greater c. greatest d. the greatest( )3.a.western b. west c. eastern d. east( )4.a. in b. until c. from d. when( )5.a. in b. of c. from d. into( )6.a. book b. paper c. wood d. tree( )7.a. wood b. book c. paper d. magazine( )8.a. of b. for c. to d. with( )9.a. waste b. use c. make d. save( )10.a.more b. much c. a lot d. too六、阅读理解：（30分）（ a ）villa is a lovely girl with two big eyesbut she always hides them behind a pair of black glassesshe is my best friend but once i nearly finished our friendshipone day，the teacher gave us our result of chinese testi did very badly so i didnt want to talk to anyone after classsuddenlyvilla said，“you look unhappy，milliewhats wrong?”i looked up at her but said nothingi knew villa got a good mark in the testi thought she must make fun of meshe kept asking me，“is it because of the test?do you want me to show you the right arlswers?”i still didnt talk to herthen villa went away with my test paper in the afternoon，villa gave me my test paper backi looked at it and became surprisedvilla wrote the right answers next to each of my mistakesmy face went redhow kind she was!i wanted to hug(拥抱)her，but i only cried and said，“thank you!”after school，villa and i walked home togetheri felt very happy and thanked her againwe are still good friends now( )1the sentenee“but she always hides them behind a pair of black glasses”really means“_” abut she doesnt want others to see her eyes bbut she has poor eyesight cbut she likes to wear black glasses dbut she is very shy( )2millie felt sad after class because_in the chinese test ashe got good grades bvilla did better than her cshe didnt do well dthe teacher was angry with her( )3villa came up to millie to_after class ago home with her bfind out what happened to her cpay with her dgive the test paper to her( )4when millie didnt say anything,villa left because she_ awould write the right answers for millie bdidnt know what to d0 for millie cwent to have a chinese class dwent home for lunch( )5which of the following phrases has the same meaning as“make fun of”? asay hello to btalk to claugh atdlook after（ b ）one morning mrs petty said to her husband, “jack, theres a meeting of our ladies club at mrs youngs house at lunchtime today, and i want to go there. ill leave you some food for your lunch. is that all right?“oh, yes.” her husband answered, “thats quite all right. what are you going to leave for my lunch?”“this tin of fish.” mrs petty said, “and there are some eggs and vegetables and some bread here, too.”“good.” said mr petty. then mrs petty went to her meetings. all the ladies had lunch at mrs youngs house and at 3 oclock mrs petty came home.“was your fish nice, jack?” she asked.“yes, but my feet are hurting.” he answered.“why are they hurting?” mrs petty asked.“well, on the tin was written -open the tin and stand in hot water for five minutes.”( ) 6. mrs petty wanted to _.a. visit her old friends b. go to mrs youngs house c. have a dinner in the restaurant d. have lunch by herself.( ) 7. mr petty had to _ .a. buy some food himself b. cook dinner for mrs petty c. have lunch at a restaurant d. have lunch by himself at home( ) 8. mrs petty had her lunch _ . a. at home b. with her husband c. in mrs youngs house d. in jacks house( ) 9. mr pettys feet were hurting because _.a. the tin of fish hurt his feet. b. he fell down and hurt his feet. c. he himself stood in hot water for 5 minutes. d. his wife didnt tell him how to open the tin.( ) 10. in the last sentence, “stand” means _. a. put b. push c. send d. sink (浸) ( c )millions of years ago，dinosaurs lived on the earthin the days of dinosaurs the whole world was warm and wetthere were green forests and they could find enough to eatlater，parts of the earth became cold and dry，and the forests there diedthen dinosaurs could not find enough to eatthis must be one reason why dinosaurs died outwe can guess another reasonnew kinds of animals came on the earthsome had big brains and were fast and strongthey could kill dinosaursthere may be other reasons that we dont know about yetscientists are trying to make more discoveries about dinosaurs dinosaurs were of many sizes and shapessome were as small as chickens，while somewere about 90 feet long there were also terrible fights between dinosaursthough there was no man to see any of the fights，we can be told by their footprints that fighting did take place ( )11according to this passage，dinosaurs did exist(存在)_on the earth athousands of years ago bmillions of years ago cfor millions of years dwhen it was warm and wet somewhere ( )12one reason why dinosaurs died out is that_ athere were too many dinosaurs bparts of the earth became cold and dry cthe dead forests there could supply them with some food dthey could find little to eat ( )13one more reason why dinosaurs died out may be that_ athey were killed by fast and strong animals with big brains bsome of them were as small as chickens cthere were terrible fights between them dhumans appeared on the earth ( )14we can see from the passage that_ ascientists are trying to make dinosaurs bscientist