冀教版2020年八年级下学期英语期中考试试卷（II ）卷.doc

冀教版2020年八年级下学期英语期中考试试卷（II ）卷一、 完形填空 (共1题；共10分)1. （10分）通读全文，根据短文理解，选择正确答案填空。What do you do at weekends? Some people like to 1at home, but others like to go for a walk 2have a picnic. My friend Jack works hard in a factory during the 3. At weekends he always4the same thing. On Saturday he 5his car and on 6he takes his family to a nearby village. His uncle and aunt have a farm there. It isnt a 7one, but theres always 8to do. The children help with the animals and give them their 9, Jack and his wife help in the fields. At the end of the day, they are all 10and Jacks aunt gives them a big meal.（1）A . play B . live C . stay D . like （2）A . and B . or C . but D . so （3）A . day B . time C . autumn D . week （4）A . does B . makes C . borrows D . has （5）A . watches B . drives C . sells D . washes （6）A . Monday B . Sunday C . Saturday D . Wednesday （7）A . small B . big C . hard D . short （8）A . much B . little C . fast D . far （9）A . clothes B . places C . food D . water （10）A . clean B . late C . happy D . kind 二、 阅读理解 (共4题；共55分)2. （10分） Before you go to another country it is a great help if you know the language（语音） and some of the customs（风俗）of the country.When people meet each other for the first time in Britain, they say “How do you do?” and shake hands(握手). Usually they do not shake hands when they just meet or say goodbye. But they shake hands when they havent met for a long time or when they will be away from each other for a long time.Last year a group of German students went to England for a holiday. Their teacher told them that the English people hardly ever shake hands. So when they met their English friends at the station, they kept their hands behind their backs. The English students had learned that the Germans shake hands as often as possible, so they put their hands in front and got ready to shake hands with them. It made both of them laugh.（1）It is _ if you know the language and some of the customs of a country before you pay a visit to that country.A . not usefulB . not helpfulC . very helpfulD . very bad（2）English people usually shake hands when they _.A . meet every timeB . meet for the first timeC . say goodbye to each otherD . say hello to each other（3）Usually, English people dont shake hands _.A . when they will be away for a long timeB . when they say “How do you do?”C . when they just meet or say goodbyeD . when they havent met for a long time（4）Which is right?A . German people shake hands as often as possible.B . English people like shaking hands very muchC . German people hardly ever shake hands.D . Both English people and Germans dont like shaking hands.（5）This story is about _.Ashaking handsBshaking handsCcustomsDlanguages and customsA . shaking handsB . languagesC . customsD . languages and customs3. （10分）根据文章内容，判断句子正误 Everybody Should Say Thank You to Ray TomlinsonWhy should you thank Ray Tomlinson? You might have never heard of his name before, but do you know that the email you use every day was his child?Ray Tomlinson is known as the father of email. He was born in New York in 1941. He attended college at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he took part in a program with IBM and in 1963 he received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering.In 1971, Ray created the first email system, which allowed people to send messages electronically from the same computer. But he thought that there might also be a way to send messages from different computers, which led to the birth of the email we know now. He chose the sign to separate(区别于)local from global(全球的) emails in the mailing address. I used the sign to show that the user was at some other hosts (电脑主机)rather than being local,” said Ray in an interview Person to person network email was born and user host became the standard for email addresses, as it remains today.Ray Tomlinson died at the age of 74. Thank Ray Tomlinson for inventing the email and making thesign well-known. Though he may not be as famous as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates, Ray Tomlinson surely has his place among the geniuses(天才) that gave us the convenience in our life.（1）Ray Tomlinson is German and known as “the father of email”. （2）We still see user host as the standard for email addresses now. （3）Ray Tomlinson created the first email system before he received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. （4）Ray Tomlinson may not be as famous as Bill Gates, but he surely has his place among the geniuses. （5）We should say THANK YOU to Ray Tomlinson because he makes our life more convenient. 4. （10分）（2015山东临沂）American country music is also known as (被视为) country western music .It has a very long history . It comes from the folk songs of immigrants(移民) from Britain.Country music users simple music and words to express everyday feelings such as loneliness, love , and sadness . That is to say , country music describes life . It talks about friends and enemies , trucks and roads , farm and crops. People in many parts of the world like country music, because everyone can understand what the music is about .Country western music became popular first among cowboys(牛仔) in the American west countryside . Cowboys had to take care of cows day and night. When they were alone with the cows, they often sang beautiful and peaceful songs to calm the animals and to overcome their own fear .They were not well-educated and so they sang about their daily life in very simple words .They played guitars, violins. and other instruments. In the south of America , many people added instruments from their homes , like bottles and spoons, When cowboys visited their friends and families on holidays like Thanksgiving , they usually sang and played country western music .In recent years ,many musicians have made country western music a little different from the one in the past.These changes make the songs sound even better.Today singers such as Carth Brooks.Reba McEntire. Emmylou Harris. Lyle Lovett,Eddie Rabbitt, LeAnn Rimes,Randy Travis and a group called Alabama are singing and playing in different styles.They have brought country western music more and more fans from all over the wold.（1）Country western music comes from the folk songs of immigrants from _.A . AmericaB . FranceC . BritainD . Germany（2）According to the passage, people like American country music because _.A . It has a long historyB . It comes from Europe.C . It comes from Europe.D . It is easy to understand.（3）The chunk “calm the animals “ here means “make the animals become _”.A . sad and lonelyB . quiet and relaxedC . angry and wild D . upset and scared（4）Which of these is mentioned in the passage ?A . Early immigrants lived a very simple life.B . Many country music singers are not well-educated.C . Cowboys usually played country western music on holidays.D . In the west of America , cowboys added instruments from their homes（5）The best title(标题) for the passage is _.A . Americans Love American Country Music.B . The History of American Country Music.C . Singers and Fans of American Country Music D . All Kinds of American Music, Yesterday and Today5. （25分） （2012陕西）Arctic fox(北极狐) is a kind of small fox that lives in the Arctic. It grows about 50 centimeters 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 grey-brown in summer. The blue ones are blue-grey all year round. The Arctic foxes have long, thick hair that is called fur. 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. Teamwork is the way they look for food, and they dont like to do that alone.Baby Arctic foxes are very lovely. They dont open their eyes until a week after their birth. For the first half of the year, their parents offer them food. They begin to look for food on their own when they are about six months old. The next year they can live alone.Today, the number of the Arctic foxes is becoming smaller and smaller, because people kill them for their fur to make beautiful coats for money. Something must be done to protect the Arctic foxes.（1）Not all the Arctic foxes change their colors in different seasons.（2）The Arctic foxes have rabbit eyes and cat feet.（3）Baby Arctic foxes are born with their eyes open.（4）Birds, birds eggs and other small animals are the main food for the Arctic foxes.（5）According to the passage, there are more Arctic foxes now.三、 选词填空 (共1题；共10分)6. （10分）用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯，每个单词限用一次。 world, dirty, from, angry, little, cause, fight, but, keep, evenLife today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. To pollute means to make things _. Pollution comes in many forms. We see it, smell it, drink it and _hear it. Man is now slowly polluting the whole _Air pollution is still the most serious. Its bad for all living things in the world, _it is not the only kind of pollution. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us _more easily. Many countries are making rules to _pollution. They stop people _burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from putting dirty smoke into the air. Pollution by SO2 is now the most dangerous kind of air pollution. It is _by heavy traffic. We are sure that if there are fewer people driving, there will be _air pollution. The Earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means _the land, water and air clean .And we must take care of the rise in pollution at the same time.四、 单词拼写 (共2题；共15分)7. （5分）用括号内所给动词的正确形式填空（共5小题；每小题1分。满分5分）（1）I hear that Sam has gone to Beijing for his holiday.Oh, how nice! Do you know when he _ (leave)?（2）Whats wrong with my computer, Jim?Let me see. Oh, it _ (break) down. Youd better ask Mr. Li to mend it.（3）The reporter said that the UFO _ (travel) from east to west when he saw it.（4）Look! The teenagers are making cards _ (show) love for their mothers.（5）That important problem _(discuss) for nearly two weeks.Yes, its hard for us to solve it.8. （10分）请用适当的词完成下面的短文, 并把所缺单词填写在答题卡指定的位置上。每个空只能填写一个形式正确、意义相符的单词。If you think of afterschool activities as a waste of time, you are wrong! Afterschool activities help us grow up in many _Above all, they offer us chances to practice_we learn in class._various activities, we can also learn more about todays society and a lot of new things that we cant learn from our books. Whats more, they help to develop our abilities that we need _for our studies now and for our work and life in the future.We are busy with our studies in school, so after school we all need to _ourselves. Afterschool activities just make it possible _us to breathe _air and remove tiredness. Then, we can pay _to our studies and achieve good results.Some afterschool activities will make us useful _helpful to others. Some can keep us strong and healthy, some may even change our life. So, all the students, get out and take _active part in various afterschool activities!五、 任务型阅读 (共1题；共5分)9. （5分） Hi, everyone, Im Jane. Two years ago, my husband bought me a bicycle. If you live in a town, it is often faster than a car and you dont have to worry about parking. You can leave it anywhere. As it has a seat at the back and a basket in the front, I can take my small daughter to school, to the library, to the shops, and to anywhere.I use it most in summer when the weather is warm and dry. It can be very unpleasant in winter when it is cold and the snow is heavy. Of course, you must be careful on a bicycle. Accidents are not the only problem. One day I went shopping with my friends. But when I came back, I found that my bikes front wheel was missing. It was a long walk to the bicycle shop. Now I have three strong locks(锁).My husband uses my bicycle sometimes for short journeys. He says it is better than waiting for a bus. He still uses his c