初中英语八年级上学期期中考试模拟试卷（2）C卷.doc

初中英语八年级上学期期中考试模拟试卷（2）C卷一、 完形填空 (共1题；共15分)1. （15分）完形填空 Tongtong is three years old. She likes1English very much. Her mother2English in a high school. Tongtong likes to3English cartoon videos. She plays games with her dolls and4with them in English. She learns a lot by watching the videos. Sometimes she can5but doesnt know the6. When her mother comes back home, she will tell Tongtong what the words and sentences mean. Tongtongs mother thinks that interest is important, and7is more important. Tongtong has great interest in English speaking. She can learn to speak by8and listening. But she should have chances(机会)to use it. So her mother tries to talk with her in English at home and takes her to the9at school. Though Tongtong makes many mistakes, her English improves10. （1）A . telling B . speaking C . saying D . talking （2）A . teaches B . speaks C . learns D . studies （3）A . read B . watch C . look at D . see （4）A . speaks B . talks C . says D . tells （5）A . speak B . to speak C . speaking D . speaks （6）A . spelling B . meaning C . words D . sentences （7）A . interest B . using C . writing D . reading （8）A . watching B . watch C . watches D . to watch （9）A . supermarket B . cinema C . bookshop D . English corner （10）A . quick B . quickly C . slow D . slowly 二、 阅读理解 (共4题；共40分)2. （10分）阅读理解 Chris Rock was born in the state of South Carolina in the United States. When he was a child, his family moved, and he grew up in a poor area in Brooklyn, New York. As a teenager, Rock left high school and started telling jokes in comedy clubs in New York City, Even at age 18, Chris Rock was very funny. He told jokes about his family (his parents were very strict), and about growing up in Brooklyn in the 1980s. Many of his jokes were also about high school, which Rock says was terrible. Famous comedians(喜剧演员)went to see Rocks performances. One comedian(Eddie Murphy) helped him get work on television and in the movies. Chris Rock still acts in movies, but he does not want to be a serious actor. For him, comedy is more important. It makes people laugh, but it can also make people think. Today, Chris Rock still does live comedy shows around the world. He also created a TV show called Everybody Hates Chris. It is about his teenage years growing up and going to school in Brooklyn. In 2006, it was considered as one of the best comedy shows on American television. （1）What is this passage mainly about? A . How to tell a good joke.B . Where the best comedy clubs are.C . One comedians life.D . The funniest people in the United States.（2）Chris Rock tells a lot of jokes about _. A . South CarolinaB . BrooklynC . Los AngelesD . Texas（3）Which sentence about Chris Rock is true? A . As a teenager, he was not funny.B . He started working in clubs after he graduated from college.C . He loved going to high school.D . A famous comedian helped him get work on TV and in the movies.（4）Today, what does Chris Rock say is the most important? A . Being a serious actor.B . Making people laugh.C . Helping teenagers.D . Having his own club.3. （10分）阅读理解 According to scientists research, the month in which babies are born could affect them in some ways.Babies born in spring get sick easily. Children born under Aquarius (Jan. 21stFeb. 19th) may be less clever than those born in other seasons. They may also have shorter lives than those born in autumn. Scientists believe many of the differences can be explained by the mothers exposure to sunlight in pregnancy (怀孕). Sunlight helps lead to the production of vitamin D in the body. The lack (缺乏) of vitamin D in the first months of life may have a bad effect on health. Vitamin D is called the sunshine vitamin. It has a good effect on health. A study showed that people born from April to June had slightly shorter lives than those born in October, November or December. Similar studies in the US showed that people born in autumn lived about 160 days longer than those born in spring.Professor Russell Foster said the conclusions were surprising and interesting. He added, These are small effects but they are very, very clear. I am not giving voice to star signs and they are just for fun. But it is true that we are affected by our season of birth.（1）A childs season of birth can affect all the following things EXCEPT _ according to the first two paragraphs. A . his healthB . his heightC . his length of lifeD . his quality of being clever（2）What does the underlined word exposure mean in Chinese? A . 偏爱B . 抗拒C . 过敏D . 暴露（3）What can we know about vitamin D according to the passage? A . It comes from sunlight.B . It helps people live longer.C . Sunlight prevents its production.D . It does harm to peoples health.（4）Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A . Women should get enough sunlight in pregnancy.B . Children born under Aquarius are cleverer than those born in autumn.C . People born in May will live longer than those born in October.D . Professor Russell Foster is interested in star signs and believes in them.（5）What does the passage mainly tell us? A . People can know the length of life by star sign.B . Women should choose to give birth to children in spring.C . A childs season of birth has an effect on him or her.D . Vitamin D is very important to peoples health.4. （10分）阅读理解 Im going to make a time capsule(胶囊), Anna told her parents at the breakfast table. Dad looked up from his coffee cup and smiled. Sounds interesting. Dad, Im building a time capsule its like a memory box. I watched my teacher dig one up from our school yard yesterday. Some students buried(埋) the capsule thirty years ago. It had a lot of old things in it, so we could see what life was like back then. After breakfast, Anna looked around in the garden and found an old coffee can. What should she put in the can? With her cat Kitty following close behind, Anna looked through her things. She grabbed her favorite book, her yo-yo and some photos. She put them in the can. She pulled off her watch and placed it in the can too. What else should I put into it? she asked Kitty. Meow. Kitty pushed a ball toward the can. Sure, Kitty, Ill include your ball. Anna put Kittys ball in the can. Anna put the top on and closed the can. On the front, she wrote ANNA AND KITTYS TIME CAPSULE and then buried it in the garden. All done, she told Kitty. After a few minutes, Anna sighed. What should she do next? She couldnt yo-yo. Or read her favorite book. Shed buried those. Now, she missed them. Meow. Kitty looked at her. Do you miss your ball? Anna asked. Dont worry. Ill get it for you. So Anna dug up their time capsule. Kitty pounced on the ball. And Anna pulled on her watch and read her book while yo-yoing under a tree in the garden. （1）When did Anna begin to build a time capsule? A . In the morning.B . At noon.C . In the afternoon.D . In the evening.（2）What did Anna put into a time capsule? A . A yo-yo, photos and her skirt.B . A book, a watch and her dress.C . A book, a watch and the cats ball.D . A yo-yo, photos and the cats bell.（3）At last, Anna dug up the can because _. A . her cat lost its ballB . her cat needed a canC . she had nothing to doD . she would put more into it5. （10分）阅读理解 If you want to check where the nearest coffee shop to your home is, if you want to know how to get to a place in your city, or if you want to see where in the world your foreign pen friend lives, theres now a new free online map you can use.Last month, China started its official online mapping service, Map World. Through this free online service users can fly over mountains and valleys around the world and search for restaurants and traffic information across the country for free, said Xu Deming, director of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM). The bureau, which does Chinas surveying and mapping work, is in charge of the Map World project.Users can get into Map World through or and search for 2- and 3-D images from across the world. The home page shows a view of the Great Wall.It took about two years to prepare the service with all the satellite(卫星) images taken from 2006 to 2010, said Jiang Jie, director of the database department(数据库部门) under SBSM.The technology(技术) and website are still at an early stage. The images from inside China are detailed. Users can see close pictures of roadsides. But the views of places outside China are less clear.Service providers have more than 80 machines, with the ability to deal with 10 million requests (请求) daily, while Google Earth, Googles mapping service, has thousands of machines, Jiang said.Our map service can update(更新) data about twice a year, but Google Earth can update its information every couple of minutes, through satellites, Jiang said.The bureau said it will continue developing Map World. At the same time, you can have a try for yourself. Some users have given their opinions about the service after trying it. One student in Beijing said that Map World even shows the small bookstore near her school.（1）What is the main purpose of the first paragraph? A . To show how valuable the service is.B . To introduce the new online photo-map of China.C . To show the importance of the new online photo-map.D . To tell how popular the new online photo-map is in China.（2）According to the Bureau, Map World_. A . only has images of ChinaB . will need another two years to completeC . needs further developmentD . begins with the Great Wall（3）What disadvantages does Map World have, compared with Google Earth? A . Information is updated much less often.B . It provided less clear images of places.C . Its machines are less high technology.D . It only has black and white images.（4）What is the passage probably taken from? A . A notebookB . A guide bookC . A story bookD . A newspaper三、 选词填空（词汇运用） (共1题；共5分)6. （5分）用方框中单词的正确形式填空。 with you earthquake quick object（1）_ happen in this city at least one time a year. （2）Im angry because she used my book _ telling me. （3）You can do something to protect _ during an earthquake. （4）Its one of the most beautiful _ I have seen before. （5）Were late. Lets go home as _ as we can. 四、 单词拼写（词汇运用） (共1题；共10分)7. （10分）Lets go to the best restaurant in town. The_(服务) there is also the best of all. 五、 语法填空 (共1题；共10分)8. （10分）I go to have dancing lessons _ (two) a month. 六、 任务型阅读 (共1题；共5分)9. （5分）阅读短文，回答问题。 Arctic fox (北极狐) is a kind of small fox that lives in the Arctic. It grows about 50 centimeters (厘米) long, not including its tail, 30 centimeters tall and weighs from 3 to 7 kilos.The Arctic foxes are white or blue in color. The white ones are white in winter, but gray-brown in summer. The blue ones are blue-gray all year round. The Arctic foxes have long, thick hair that is called fur (毛皮). And the long fur covers their whole bodies, including both their cat eyes and rabbit feet, to keep them warm in the low temperature in the Arctic.The Arctic foxes feed mainly on birds, birds eggs and other small animals. T