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2016-2017学年第一学期海珠区期末调研测试
八年级英语试卷
（本试卷共四大题，9页，满分110分；考试时间120分钟）
一、语法选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从1-15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
( A )
Almost everyone has a favourite number. John loves the number three. It is ___1___ number from one to nine. John was born on March 3, 1983. He
lives now in Three Crosses near Swansea. He works ___2___ a teacher at
Number Three Loyal School. He always says, “Can you think of any number ___3___ than three?” John has ___4___ the amazing things about the number three since he was a child. For example, in fairy tales, people always get three wishes. His favourite story is Three Little Pigs. He can’t think about ___5___ bad about the number three. Three is really John’s favourite number.
1. A. third B. the third C. three D. the three
2. A. as B.by C. of D. out
3. A. good B. well C. better D. the best
4. A. study B. studies C. studied D. studying
5. A. anything B. something C. everything D. nothing
( B )
Great inventions change people’s lives. Vending machine (自助贩卖机) is
perhaps one of ___6___ ones. Starting from snacks to drinks, vending machines
provide as ___7___ things as you can think of. Of course, you won’t get anything
___8___ you put money in it.
The story of vending machines started with the earliest vending machine in Greek
temples foe selling water. Over a hundred years ago, people ___9___ to sell post cards
with vending machines in London. Later in Philadelphia, a new vending machine
called “coin operated restaurant” appeared. The company made the restaurant a big
___10___. In fact, such restaurants have been popular ___11___ many years, even
today.
Vending machines have introduced people ___12___ different shopping
experiences. They offer help when people have trouble ___13___ time for shopping.
A 24-hour store can solve the time problem as well. ___14___, it takes time to build a
store. Moreover, at least one person has to stay at the store all day long.
We ___15___ really thank the inventor of the vending machine because it has made life easier and more convenient.
6. A. practical B. More practical
C. more practically D. the most practical
7. A. many B. much C. more D. most
8. A. if B. when C. unless D. after
9. A. begin B. began C. will begin D. have begun
10. A. success B. succeed C. successful D. successfully
11. A. in B. for C. since D. with
12. A. by B. at C. to D. into
13. A. save B. saved C. to save D. saving
14. A. Or B. So C. And D. However
15. A. can B. may C. should D. have to
二、完形填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~25各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Once some rabbits lived happily together in a forest. A wise old rabbit said to the others, “There is a tiger in our area. You should not ___16___ your homes while the tiger is around.”
The rabbits followed his ___17___. They never played or ate in the area where the tiger appeared. The tiger had been there for several days, but he didn’t find any animal. Feeling ___18___, the tiger walked tiredly.
But a young rabbit saw the tiger. He thought, “The tiger looks thin and ___19___. He isn’t really dangerous.
The next morning, the rabbit came to the same ___20___, waiting for the tiger.
The tiger had actually noticed the young rabbit but it was too far. So the tiger ___21___.
Nothing happened. The third day, the young rabbit became braver. He walked
___22___ to the tiger. The tiger still didn’t make any move because of the long
distance.
On the fourth day, the rabbit ate on the grassland. Luckily, the tiger was
___23___ that day, so he didn’t want to eat the rabbit. The rabbit thought, “The tiger
doesn’t hurt rabbits at all.”
On the fifth day, as the tiger was resting quietly, the young rabbit ___24___ went
to him. When the foolish young rabbit was close enough, the tiger caught him and
made him a ___25___.
When other rabbits heard about this, they were all frightened. The old rabbit
sighed, “If the young rabbit had listened to me and didn’t appear in the area where the
tiger returned, he wouldn’t have died.”
16. A. come B. go C. leave D. stay
17. A news B. advice C. promise D. information
18. A. lively B. hungry C. happy D. frightened
19. A. weak B. strong C. wise D. strict
20. A. room B. house C. home D. place
21. A. left B. came C. rushed D. jumped
22. A. lower B. higher C. farther D. closer
23. A. quiet B. full C. excited D. hungry
24. A. sadly B. luckily C. tiredly D. confidently
25. A. meal B. grass C. smile D. noise
三、阅读（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
( A )
A young man applied for the job of the “office boy” at Microsoft. The HR
manager interviewed him. And then he watched him cleaning the floor as a test.
“You’ve passed the test,” he said “Give me your email address and I’ll send you the application to fill in, as well as when you may start your work.”
The man replied, “But I don’t have a computer or an email.”
“I’m sorry,” said the HR manager, “We are a computer company. We can’t hire a man without an email.”
The man left with no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do, with only 10 dollars in his pocket. He then decided to the supermarket buy a box of 10 kg tomatoes. He then sold the tomatoes in a door-to-door way. In less than two hours, he doubled his money. He did this three more times, and returned home with 120 dollars.
The man realized that he could make a living in this way, and started to go every day early, and return late. His money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own company selling different kinds of foods. Five years later, the man became one of the biggest food sellers in the US.
One day after an interview with a TV reporter, the reporter asked him for his email. The man replied, “I don’t have an email.” The reporter asked curiously. “You don’t have an email, and yet you are so successful. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?”
The man thought for a while and replied, “Yes, I’d be an ‘office boy’ at Microsoft!”
26. Why did NOT the young man get a job at Microsoft?
A. Because he didn’t pass the test.
B. Because he didn’t have an email.
C. Because he preferred to sell tomatoes.
D. Because he forgot to fill in the application.
27. How did the young man sell his tomatoes?
A. He sold them on line.
B. He sold them in a supermarket.
C. He sold them from house to house.
D. He sold them by putting advertisement on TV.
28. What does the underlined word curiously mean in the last paragraph?
A. Feeling interested and wanting to know more.
B. Feeling excited and not able to relax.
C. Feeling happy and not able to stop.
D. Feeling sad and wanting to cry.
29. In what order did the following happen in the story?
a. A TV reporter interviewed the young man.
b. The young man left Microsoft sadly and hopelessly.
c. The manager asked the young man for his email address.
d. The young man bought a box of tomatoes in a supermarket.
A. a-c-b-d B. c-b-d-a C. c-b-a-d D. a-b-d-c
30. What may be the best title of the story?
A. No emails, no jobs.
B. How important the email is.
C. How to act in a job interview.
D. A successful man without an email.
( B )
Chloe Cai, a 16-year-old Chinese student, will never forget the night, when she got caught in the snow in the US. She could not get a taxi and was hoping that her host family would make the 30-minute drive to pick her up. But they didn’t. She ended up waiting for a bus to come. “I did not feel the warmth from my host family at all,” said Cai. Cai moved to the US on Dec. 13, 2013 and lived with three different host families in those years.
According to a report from ftchinese. com on June 20, Chinese students are now entering schools abroad at a younger age. From 2004 to 2016, the number of Chinese students studying in American high schools has risen from 433 to 43,000 .
According to Wang Meng, a senior adviser from a training center for learning English and studying abroad, as the number of students grew, the number of host family programs became larger.
“More Chinese parents now send their kids abroad at an earlier age,” said Wang. “Because most of them are under 18, that means host families are a must.”
He said staying with a host family is also preferred by many students over 18 because they offer “English language environment, homey warmth, and local culture.”
However, culture and lifestyle differences between the Chinese students and their host families have brought many problems.
31. How did Chloe Cai go back home at last?
A. By bus B. By taxi
C. On foot D. In her host family’s car
32. How many Chinese students were studying in American high schools in 2016?
A. 433 B. 2013 C. 43,000 D. 43,433
33. Which of the following is NOT the reason why students over 18 prefer a host family?
A. It helps them improve English.
B. They can save lots of money.
C. They can feel the warmth of home.
D. They can experience the local culture.
34. According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A. Chloe Cai has stayed with one host family in the US.
B. Wang Meng is also Chinese student studying in the US.
C. Language is the biggest problem for the Chinese students in the US.
D. The number of host families in the US is growing bigger and bigger.
35. Where can you probably read this passage?
A. In a story book. B. In a science magazine.
C. In a fashion newspaper. D. In a education magazine.
( C )
Name
PC
Use/advantage
A personal computer (PC) is a computer produced for a personal user. At home, the most popular use for personal computers is for playing games. Businesses use personal computers for word processing and calculating.
Price
From a few hundred dollars to thousands of dollars.
Name
Notebook
Use/advantage
A notebook is much lighter and smaller than a PC. You can carry it around easily. But modern notebooks are nearly the same as personal computers. They have the same CPUs, memory and disk drives.
Price
From ＄300 to ＄700
Name
Workstation
Use/advantage
A workstation is simply a desktop computer that has a more powerful processor, additional memory and better abilities for doing a special group of work, such as 3D Craphies or computer game development
Price
From ＄1,500 to ＄2,500
Name
Super Computer
Use/advantage
Super computers are single computer systems. Most are made of high performance computers working in a group.
Price
Hundreds of thousands of or even millions of dollars.
Name
Wearable Computer
Use/advantage
The new development in computer is wearable computers. That means you can wear the compute, E-mail, calculator and other apps are put into watches, mobile phones, and even clothes. An iWatch is an example of wearable computer.
Price
From ＄1,500 to ＄2,000
36. Which of the following computers is the most expensive?
A. A notebook B. A PC
C. A super computer D. A wearable computer
37. John, a hotel manager, has to work in another city for a week. He had better take a ________.
A. notebook B. personal computer
C. workstation D. super computer
38. What kind of computer is an iwatch?
A. A notebook B. A workstation
C. A super computer D. A wearable computer
39. What is the best choice for computer game development?
A. A notebook B. A workstation
C. A super computer D. A wearable computer
40. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Notebooks have different CPUs, memory capacity, and disk drives from PCs.
B. The most popular home use for a PC is word processing and calculating.
C. Most super computers are made up of a group of computers.
D. A workstation has a less powerful processor.
第二节 阅读填空 （共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
阅读短文及文后选项，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Among the Creek gods, the one most widely loved was Apollo (阿波罗). He was the son of Zeus(the king of the gods) and Leto. According to Greek stories, ___41___.
Apollo was the sun-god. Early in the morning, he usually sat in his bright eastern palace and made ready to start his daily journey across the sky. ___42___. Late in the afternoon he came to the end of his journey in the far western sea and got on his golden boat to return to his eastern home.
___43___. He could raise his feelings. These feelings were then written in songs. When he helped Poseidon build up the walls of Troy, he sang a beautiful song. ___44___.
Apollo stood up for youthful and manly beauty with golden hair, gentle manner and air. A beautiful girl, Clytle, was deeply in love in his beauty and pride. From morning to evening she waited on the ground, put her hands towards the sun god, and her eyes looked at his golden wheeled carriage racing across the blue sky. ___45___. At last, the gods moved at the sad sight, and changed her into a sunflower.
A. Apollo was also the god of music and poems
B. Leto gave birth to the twins, Apollo and Artemis
C. Her love was not returned, but she had never changed her mind about Apollo
D. The song was so exciting that the stones jumped into their palaces by themselves
E. During the day he drove his carriage of gold and brought light, life and love to the world below
41. ________ 42. ________ 43. ________ 44. ________ 45. ________
四、写作（共三节， 满分35分）
第一节 单词拼写 （共5小题； 每小题1分，满分5分）
根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母写出所缺单词。 （每空限填一词）
46. He is such a f________ man that he always makes people laugh.
47. Don’t go this way. The restaurant is on the other s________ of the road.
48. To w________ the basketball match, they practice after class every day.
49. You’d better c________ your homework again. It’s full of wrong answers.
50. Robin Hood and his friends stole money from the r_______ and gave it to the poor.
第二节 完成句子 （共10小题； 每小题2分，满分20分）
根据所给的汉语内容，用英语完成下列句子。
51. 如果你把鱼从水里拿出来，它就死了。
________ you take a fish out of water, it ________.
52. 抱歉，房间很乱，我还没有打扫卫生。
Sorry, the room is in a mess, I ________ ________ it yet.
53. 有一些生物很微小，你也许不能察觉到它们。
Some living things are tiny. You may be ________ ________ them.
54. 在我看来，每间学校都应该有英语周。
________ my ________, every school should have an English week.
55. 他在第一个方格中放进了一粒米，第二格两粒，如此类推。
He put one grain on the first square, two on the second, and ________ ________.
56. 在每年的圣诞晚会上，同学们通常会上演一出英语剧。
Students usually ________ ________ an English play at Christmas
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