陕西省西安市2020学年八年级英语上学期期中试题（无答案） 人教新目标版

2020学年第一学期英语期中试题I. 单项选择 (每题1分，共20分)1. How often do you drink milk? _. I dont like it.A. Often B. Always C. Hardly ever D. Sometimes2. Not everybody _ watching talent shows.A. enjoy B. want C. wants D. enjoys3. The magazine is _ for us to read and its fun.A. hard enough B. enough hardC. easy enough D. enough easy4. He didnt have _ money for a taxi, _ he walked back to the hotel.A. any; and B. much; because C. any; so D. some; so5. A _ friend will always_ care about you. A. truly, true B. true, truly C. true, true D. truly, truly6. I spent most _the time _ my good friends yesterday.A. of, with B. of, on C. of, for D. at, with7. Linda likes _and wants to become a _ when she is young. A. act, performer B. acting, performer C. to act, reporter D. to act, reporter8. What time do you expect her_？ A. arrive B. is arriving C. arriving D. to arrive9. My friend Jane works as _as his brother. A. hardly B. hard C. the hardest D. harder10. necessary for us breakfast before we go to school. A. This is; to have B. Its; to haveC. Its; have D. It is; to having11. I _ sitcoms, because theyre boring.A. cant stand B. cant mind C. mind D. couldnt mind12. Is there _ in todays newspaper? A. anything interesting B. interesting anything C. something interesting D. interesting something13. My parents _ in the same post office. A. are all B. all are C. are both D. both are14. _ he is a little girl, _ he knows a lot. A. Though, but B. But, though C. Though, / D. But. / 15. My sister promisesa big dinner for our mother on her birthday. A. cook B. cooks C. to cook D. cooking16. _ special girl Mary is!A. What a B. What C. How D. How a17. -The service is very wonderful and the weather is quite fine? -Yes, this holiday is so great, we have never had before.A. the better one B. a good one C. a better one D. the best one18. This is one of _ films of this year. A. more exciting B. exciting C. the most exciting D. most exciting19. When winter comes, the days get _.A. short and short B. shorter and shorter C. long and long D. longer and longer20. Sometimes stories are _ than scary movies. A. even terrible B. even more terrible C. even terribler D. very terrible. 完形填空 （每题1分，共10分）When Mr Smith retired(退休), he bought a small 1 in a village near the sea. He 2 it and hoped to live a quiet life in this house.But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most 3 building in the village. From morning to night there were 4 outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and 5 of them even went into Mr Smiths garden. This was too much for Mr Smith. He decided to ask the visitors to 6 . So he put a piece of paper on the window. It said, “If you want 7 your curiosity(好奇心)，come in and look round. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr Smith was sure that the visitors would 8 coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr Smith had to 9 every day showing them around his house. “I came here to 10 not to work as a guide,” he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.1. A. gardenB. shopC. house D. school2. A. likedB. hatedC. sold D. built3. A. bigB. interestingC. smallD. clean4. A. childrenB. studentsC. parents D. tourists5. A. noB. noneC. manyD. much6. A. comeB. leaveC. stayD. play7. A. to satisfy B. satisfyC. to satisfyingD. satisfying8. A. go onB. stopC. continueD. not9. A. take B. costC. spendD. pay10. A. playB. workC. watchD. retire. 阅读理解（每题2分，共30分）ACindy, Jerry and Mary are giving their opinions about a good friend.Cindy: I think a good friend should be honest(诚实的). Thats more important than any other thing and is where a good friendship starts. If a friend isnt honest, he may lose his friendstrust.Jerry: I think a good friend has to be generous. Here “generous”doesnt mean he has to givehis friends his lunch money or his clothes. It means he should share(分享) his ideas and feelings with his friends. In fact, his friends can know him better in this way.Mary: In my opinion a good friend should understand(理解) his friends. When theres something wrong between him and his friends, he must put himself in his friends place andthink more for his friends.1. What does the underlined sentence(划线句子) mean?A. To be honest is the most important. B. To be honest is as important as other things.C. To be honest is not so important. D. Honest people get more things than others.2. Jerry would like to make friends with people who _.A. give him lunch money B. know him very wellC. tell him their ideas and feelings D. give him some clothes3. Whats the best title(标题) of the passage?A.My friend. B. Trust is the most important.C. Opinions about a good friend. D. Being generous is the most important.B Some children wish to be writers some day. They want to write stories or books for people to read. Thats good! Its good to write something for people to read! But they should know that they need to be good readers first before they really are good writers. They should read a lot of books. And read for hours every day instead of watching TV and spending a lot of time to do the reading homework. Then you have time to read many other books for fun. Because of more fun in reading, you want to look for more books to read. Before you decide to be a good writer, youd better say to yourself, “I must read and read and read and read more and more!”4. This article mainly tells us that_.A. some children wish to be writers some day. B. it is good to write something for people to read.C. reading can make you a good writer D. writers like to read more books for fun.5. Some children want to be writers_.A. because they want to be good readers. B. to write stories or books for people to read. C. to find good work some day D. to get more money to keep a family6. From the passage we know that_.A. all children like to be writers B. people like to read for children C. all writers are children D. children need to read more and more books.C Dear students, here I want to introduce two big cities in China for you. If you go to Beijing and Shanghai, you can see the same and the different points between them. In some ways they look the same, in some ways they look different. Both of them have tall buildings and wide streets, although some buildings in Shanghai are taller than in Beijing. They are both important in China. Beijing is the capital of China, there are more places of interest there, but Shanghai is the biggest city in China, you can see people from the world on the street in Shanghai. Now they are becoming more and more important in China. I hope you can see them for yourselves one day.7. Some buildings in _ are taller than in Beijing. A. Shanghai B. XianC. TianjinD. Chongqing8. Shanghai is the _city in China. A. tallest B. biggest C. smallestD. busiest9. The underlined word “point” means _. A. 想法 B. 点 C. 内容 D. 主意10. Beijing has more _ than Shanghai. A. places of interest B. buildings C. wide streetsD. people 11. Which is right according to the passage? A. Shanghai is the capital of China B. The buildings in Beijing are taller than in Shanghai C. Shanghai is the largest city in China. D. Shanghai has more places of interest.DSteven Jobs, the designer(设计者) of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his schoolmates. When he went into college, he didnt change a lot. Then he dropped out(退学). But he was full of new ideas.After he left college, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in life.Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India.In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple Computer with his friend in his garage(汽车库). He gave the name “Apple” to his company just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent in an apple tree garden. His Apple Computer sold so many computers, and Steven Jobs soon became famous all over the world.12. Steven Jobs was not a good student in school because he _.A. never did his lessons B. was full of new ideasC always made troubles with his schoolmates D. dropped out13. Steven Jobs didnt finish college, did he?A. Yes, he did. B. No, he didnt. C. Yes, he didnt. D .No, he did.14. Steven Jobs designed his new computer _.A .in India B. with his friend C. in an apple tree garden D. by himself15. From this passage, we know _.A. Steven didnt finish his studies in the college because he hated his schoolmatesB. Steven liked travelling in India and CaliforniaC. Steven liked trying new things and making his new ideas become trueD. Steven Jobs could only design video games. 根据提示写出单词的正确形式。（每题1分，共10分)1. There are some _(差别) between Chinese and Japanese.2. They are (讨论)where to go for vacation. 3. The boys father didnt _ (出现)at the parents meeting.4. I think this movie is the most _(有教育意义的) of all. 5. Maggie Cheung is a _ (成功的) actress. 6. A bite of China is a program on CCTV about food _ (文化).7. Your idea _(似乎) to be right.8. The boy got a very good prize in the _(比赛，竞赛).9. I _ (选择) to become a magician when I was a little boy.10. We should sit (舒服地) on the chair. 按要求完成句子（每题2分，共20分）1. If you dont _the exam , you will fail. (认真对待)2