北京四中八年级英语上学期期中考试试题.doc

北京四中2009-2010学年八年级英语上学期期中考试试题(考试时间：100分钟；试卷分值：110分)第卷，选择性试题(共61分)第一部分 听力(共9分)一、听对话，选择相应的图片，每段对话读两遍。(每小题0.5分，共2分)二、听对话或独自，根据对话或独白内容，从下列各题所给的a、b、c三个选项中，选择最佳选项。每段对话或独白读两遍。(每小题0.5分，共7分)听四段小对话，回答第5-8题5when will the man leave for shanghai? a2:00 b2:30 c2:506where does the woman want to go? acapital airport bpost office ccity library7whats wrong with the boy? he has _ aa bad tooth ba bad cough ca headache8why is the girl so happy today? ashe has found her lost dog bshe has got an a in the test cshe has won the table tennis match 听下面的对话，回答第9-10小题。9what is the boy looking for? ahis books bhis tickets chis keys10where do they find them? ain his pocket bat the door con his desk 听下面的对话，回答第11-12小题。11where are the two speakers? ain the hospital bin the shop cin the bookshop12who does the boy meet there? amr lihis teacher bpeter，his friendchis grandparents 听下面的对话，回答第13-15题。13what is the boy probably doing? areading a book blooking up a dictionary cmending his bike14what does the boy want to know? athe name of the book bnew words and a sentence csomeone in the yard15whats the matter with the house? athe roof is broken bthe windows are gone cthe walls are not clean 听下面的独自，回答第16-18小题。16what happened last night? aa strong earthquake ba fire at a shopping center ca traffic accident17what did they lose at least? a500 million yuan bone dead，six hurt ca gym and a net bar18what caused the accident? acareless operation bsomebody did it on purposecstill not clear第二部分 笔试(共52分)一、单项选择(每小题1分，共12分) 从下列各题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选择可填入空白处的最佳选项。19the cake is very delicious_ having some more? thats wonderful! awhy not bwhy not you chow about dwhy dont you20did you see tom? we are looking for him everywhere he _ to the library ahas been bwent chas gone dgoes21mozart has written _ pieces of music in his life ahundreds of bfour hundredschundred of dfour hundred of22have you finished reading the book _，mary? aalready bever cyet dbefore23_ have you been in beijing? 一i have been here since 2003 awhich year bhow long cwhen dwhat time24_ is the price of a plane ticket _ sanya?ahow much，for bhow much，tocwhat，for dwhat，to25i have already _ the book for a week，so i have to return it soon aborrowed bhad ckept dtaken26few of them noticed the difference，_? adidnt they? bwere they cwerent they ddid they27the concert begins，please stop _ asaying bto say ctalking dto talk28sam loves playing footballwe can often see him _ on the playground through the window aplays bplay cplaying dto play29he came to school yesterday，didnt he? _he caught a bad cold and stayed in bedayes，he didnt bno，he didcyes，he diddno，he didnt30she _ in bed when i _ the door alay，opened bwas lying，opened clay，was opening dwas lying，was opening二、完形填空(每小题1分，共12分) 阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选择最佳选项。 once when i was a teenager，my father and i were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus (马戏团)and there was a family standing ahead of us the family had eight childrentheir clothes were not expensive but 31 the children were well behavedthey stood in line，two by two behind their parents，holding handsthey were excitedly talking about the clowns (小丑)，elephants and other acts they would see that nightyou could 32 that they had never been to the circus before the ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wantedhe 33 replied，“i want eight childrens tickets and two adult tickets please，so i can take my 34 to the circus” the ticket lady quoted (报) the pricethe mans wife let go of his handthe mans lip started to quiver (颤抖)he leaned (靠) toward 35 and asked again，“how much did you say?” the ticket lady quoted the price againthe man didnt have 36 moneyhow could he turn and tell his eight kids that he couldnt take them to the circus? my dad put his hand into his pocketpulled out a $20 bill and 37 it on the ground(and we werent rich!) then he 38 down，picked up the bill，tapped the man on the shoulder and said，“excuse me，sirthis 39 out of your pocket” the man knew 40 was going onhe looked into my dads eyesheld my dads hand in his，and took the $20 billwith a tear in his eye，he replied，“thank you，thank yousirthis really 41 a lot to me and my family” my father and i went back to our car and drove homewe didnt get to see the circus that night，but we didnt 42 31aclean blarge cthick dwarm32afind bagree ctell ddecide33asuddenly bproudly csafely dquietly34awife bchildren cteam dfamily35aher bhim cthem dus36amuch bany cenough dsome37amissed blost cpassed ddropped38agot breached cwent dlooked39amoved brushed cfell dtook40awhat bhow cwhen dwho41atakes bcosts cowns dmeans42aworry bcare cknow dshow三、阅读理解(每小题2分，共28分) 根据所给材料的信息或短文内容，从各题所给的a、b、c、d四个选项中，选择最佳选项。(a)like reading?want an interesting book to read?here are our booksjust pick the one that you like best*the best of the song books：by harlan cobenlist price：$28.00 price：$21.00 you save：$7.00 (25)customer review： bookmarks by phillips：magazine by patricia cornwelllist price：$24.00 price：$18.00 you save：$6.00 (25)customer review： the mystery of breathing：a novel by peril klauslist price：$15.00 price：$12.00 you save：$3.00 (2004)customer review： ten little fingers：books for babies by annie keblelist price：$25.00 price：$15.00 you save：$10.00(40)customer review： *for further information，please click (点击) here。43which book is the most popular one among the buyers? aten little fingers bbookmarks by phillips cthe mystery of breathing dthe best of the song books44you read this advertisement most probably _， ain a novel bin a magazine con the internet din a newspaper45if you buy the four mentioned books (one of each)，how much can you save? a$92.00 b$26.00 c$66.00 d$110.00(b) homework is a big part of going to schoolunluckily，homework has to be dane，outside classduring times when you would probably much rather be doing something else，for example，you prefer going to a birthday party to copying out a whole chinese textluckily，there are severalthings you can do to make homework less work firstbe sure you understand the taskwrite it down in your notebook if you need to，and dont be afraid to ask questions about whats expectedif you want，you can also ask how long thespecial homework task should take to finish，so you can budget your time second，use any small pieces of time you have in school to work on your homeworkmany schools have study halls that allow students to study or get homework donethe more work you can get done in school means the less youll have to do that night what if you dont have time in school to get homework done? youll need to think about how much homework you have for a given night and what else is going on that day，and then budget your timemost high school students have between 1 and 3 hours of homework a nightif its a heavy homework day and it seems like you got a task in every subject but gym and lunch，youll need to spend more time on homeworkits a good idea to come up with some kind of homework timetable，especially if you enjoy sports or activities or have an after-school job46usuallystudents dont like _ very much outside class aplaying sports outside bhaving birthday parties casking any questions dcopying out a text47whats the meaning of the word budget in paragraph two? aplan bsave cwastedkill48which of the following is not true according to the passage? ait is natural for you to finish your homework byou can finish your homework in school or at home cyou can do your homework as much as you can every day dits good to use small pieces of time to get homework done(c) science has changed the way we live and the way we thinknew inventions and discoveries have made it possible for us to think about the world in new ways the means of transportation (运输方式) we use today are good examplesthey are based on the idea that transportation means moving something from one place to anotherthis takes time，of course，and we can only travel as fast as the laws of physics allowit is not easy to travel much faster than todays airplanes and to travel very far，such as to the stars or to other planets now，scientists believe that we might be able to send things from one place to another without moving them through spacethis sounds strange，but a new way of transportation may become possible in the future teleportation is a combination (组合) of sending information through telephone or the internetwith normal transportation，for example，by car or plane，a person or thing is moved from point a to point bwith teleportation，a person or thing is taken apart (把拆开) at point a and put together again at point bit becomes possible，we may be able to travel faster and farther than we could imagine in the 1990s，scientists discovered that teleportation was possibleexperiments showed that teleportation could be done，but the thing being teleported was broken into pieces on the wayso far scientists have only been able to teleport photos-particle (粒子)what about teleportation of human beings? teleporting a human being would be very difficult since there are so many parts in a human bodyeven the smallest mistake could cause serious problems with the persons mind or body there is still a long way from being able to use teleportation to move human beings，but what we used to think impossible does now seem possiblewhat we know and what we imagine often work together；the more we know，the more we can imagine and the more we imagine，the more we can learnscience is the tool that we use to make our dreams come true and to build a new world with our ideas49according to the laws of physics，we know that _ ahuman beings can be taken apart first and put together again bhuman beings can move everything from one place to everywhere cits easy for human beings to drive much faster than airplanes dits difficult for human beings to travel to the stars or other planets50teleportation has the following advantages except that _ ait can travel very fast bit can be very cheap cit can travel very far dit can teleport small things51we can learn from the last paragraph that _ aimagination is the most important way to build a new world bwe can only use modern science to make our dreams come true cmany things thought impossible in the past seem possible now dit is certain that human beings can be teleported in the near future52what would be the best title for the passage?ateleportation binventions ctransportation dinformation(d) without goals，life is meaninglessgoals provide the direction in lifeit is always wondered why some people cannot see the importance of goals，the need to set goals and follow them throughvery few people would get on a plane or a ship，not knowing where they were traveling togoals are the aims for striving (奋斗目标) and those who walk about without plans through life waste a great deal of time goal setting has long been thought to be necessary in business and more recently many people have come to think highly of some of the great people in the world people who set simple goals and who go after them，such as nelson mandela，mother teresa and michael jordan for personal development，the starting point is setting goalssometimes the starting point is dreaming，having wishes，then breaking their big plan into small ones that can be achieved (实现)a useful idea is to think about what you would really like to achieve，what you will be in the futurefive years from now，ten years from nowwriting these down is a good starting point it is always wise to break goals up into short-term and long-term goalsknowing that something is achievable soon can give more confidence to achievelong-term goals will probably be fewer，but short-term goals can fall into a“more possible to achieve”basket goals need to be started with clearnessthe clearer they are，the easier they are to reachif a goal is shown clearly，it can guide to a fitting actionit is important that a person never loses sight of their goalsto do so is to become aimless and off trackit is sometimes useful to question yourself“how important is this goal to me?”if the answer is“i think it is very important”，then it must be followedthat means that action must be taken at once delay (拖延) is the thief of time for humanthe longer you delay，the more difficult it is to achieve goalsthere are many people who probably have less skill，even less education than you，yet they succeedit is most likely because they take actions，they realize what they want，what they set out to dothey achieve their goalsgoal setting really never finishes for the successful persononce a goal has been achieved，there is another to be set and reached for53the good starting to take action is _ ato go after these great successful people bto have dreams or make some wishes cto write down what you think about dto think about what you really like to achieve54the sentence long-term goals will probably be fewer，but short-term goals can fall into a “more possible to achieve”basketmeads _ along-term goals are probably fewer than short-term goals bshort-term goals are more possible to achieve than long-term goals cit is much easier to set short-term goals than to set long-term goals dfewer long-term goals can be put into a basket of short-term goals55to be successful，it is important for one to _ afollow them through without delay after setting goals bset long-term and short-term goals and never lose sight of them chave not only more skill but alsogood education dask oneself large numbers of questions and make them clear56which of the following is the main point of the passage? awhy it is necessary to set goals in life bhow best people can set their goals chow important the goals are to peopledwhy it is possible for some people to succeed第卷 非选择性试题(39分+10分附加题)五、听对话，记录关键信息。对话读两遍。(每空1分，共4分)a tele messagewho：(57) _where：(58) _，at beijing railway stationtime：(59) _ on saturday morningcell phone number：(60) _六、完成句子(每小题2分，共10分) 根据中文翻译，将句子补充完整。61中国以其丰富的文化而闻名。 china is _ its rich culture62你多久帮你妈妈做一次家务? how often do you _ housework?63从这到上海需要三个小时。 it _ 3 hours _ shanghai from here64贝多芬是世界上最有名的作曲家之一。 beethoven is _ in the world65在短短半个小时之内，不仅要读完他的来信，并且要给出自己的建议，这是不可能的。 _ his letter _ give my own advice in just half an hour七、阅读短文选词填空(共7分，每空1分) 根据短文内容，用方框中所给词填空。tired，saw，poor，watch，and，bought，while once upon a time there was an old shoemakerhe was very 66 nobody bought his shoes and he had no moneyone night，he cut some silk for his last pair of shoeshe was 67 ，so he decided to make the shoes in the morning the next morning he got a surprisethe shoes were already finished! they were beautiful and a rich man 68 themwith the money，the shoemaker bought some more silkthat night， 69 he was sleeping，someone made the shoes again! but who was it? the shoemaker decided to 70 and find outthat night，two little people came into the shop and made the shoesthey worked hard but they werent wearing any clothes the shoemakers wife made some little clothesthe two little people came in againthey put on the clothesthey were so happy! they were singing 71 dancingthe shoemaker never 72 them againbut he and his wife were never poor again八、阅读短文回答问题(共8分，每小题2分) 阅读短文，根掘其内容，书面回答问题。 you may know the word“astronaut”，but do you know the word“taikonaunt”? it means“chinese astronaut”in englishit comes from the chinese pinyin“taikong”and tile english word“astronaut”in 1998，a malaysian chinese scientist used the word for the fi