八年级下学期期末考试英语试题及答案

第二学期期末试卷

八年级英语

第Ⅰ卷(共80分)

一、听力测试（共20小题；每小题1分，计20分）

第一部分：听对话回答问题（共10小题；每小题1分，计10分）

本部分共有10道小题，每小题你将听到一段对话，每段对话听两遍。

在听每段对话前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读题目，听完后，你还有5秒钟的答题时间。

place of interest does he want to visit

A. B . C.

2. Which organization does Jack’s sister work for

A. B. C.

3. Where are the two speakers talking now

A. B. C.

4. Which sign do they talk about in the conversation

A. B. C.

5. When will the plane take off

A. 7:15.

B. 7:00.

C. 7:30.

6. What can we learn about this young man

A. He hasn’t got married.

B. He is very shy.

C.

He has a sense of homour.

7. Why is the boy still in the library

A. Because the book is interesting.

B. Because he forgets the time.

C. Because the bad weather prevents him from leaving.

8. Which of the following is helpful to live a green life in

Daniel’s opinion

A. To drive to school.

B. To ride a bicycle to school.

C.

To take the underground to school.

9. What does the woman want her son to do

A. Save energy.

B. Save water.

C. Reduce air pollution.

10. What can we learn from the man’s words

A. David lost his racket.

B. David should pick up his things.

C. David may be somewhere nearby.

第二部分：听对话和短文答题 (共10小题；每小题1分，计10分)

你将听到一段对话和两篇短文，各听两遍。听每段对话或短文前，你

将有时间阅读相关小题，每小题5秒钟，听完后，每小题你仍有5秒钟的答题时间。

听一段对话，回答第11-12小题

11. How many times has the boy read the novel

A. Never.

B. Twice.

C. Three times.

12. What will the girl probably do

A. She’ll borrow the novel.

B. She’ll go to buy the novel.

C. She’ll work in the bookshop.

听第一篇短文，回答第13-15小题。请根据短文内容，选择正确答案，完成信息记录表。

Life in the past and now

What the speaker’s father did with the old radio He listened to 13 .

What the speaker’s grandpa’s new

radio looks like

It’s 14 .

What the speaker has now A 15 .

13. A. the news B. football matches

C. English

14. A. modern B. big C. small

15. A. radio B. computer C. television

听第二篇短文，回答第16-20小题。

16. What does the organization encourage

A. The understanding between children and adults

B. The understanding between people with and without intellectual disabilities

C. The understanding between the deaf and the blind

17. When was the organization set up

A. In 1898.

B. In 1968.

C. In 1986.

18. How many athletes take part in the activities now

A. A few hundred.

B. 107.

C. Over 4 million.

19. Besides athletic competition and other programs, what else does the organization provide

A. medical treatment

B. sports training

C. food and drinks

20.Whose lives are changed by the organization

A. People with poor children in poor areas.

B. People with intellectual disabilities in 170 countries.

C. People with intellectual disabilities in all countries

around the world.

二、单项选择（共15小题；每小题1分，计15分）

在下列各题A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个能填入题干空白处

的答案。

21. As we all know, playing chess is usually

one-to-one game.

A. /; an

B. /; a

C. the; an

D. the; a

22. You two live in the same community now. It’s too hard

_____you to avoid_____ her.

A. of; meeting

B. for; to meet

C. for; meeting

; to meet.

23. My uncle will come _______ next month and he will stay here

for _______.

A. sometime; some time

B. sometime; sometime

C. sometimes; some time

D. some time; some

times

24. It’s careless ________ Jim ________ his homework to school.

A. for; to bring

B. for; not to bring

C. of; to bring

D. of; not to bring

25. Without enough trees, soil won’t be kept____. And then sandstorms may happen.

A. in the place

B. on place

C. in place

D. on the place

26. The young man_______ leave his office around eight o’clock

last night.

to B. is seen to C. was seen D.

was seen to

27. _______ of the people in the North live on wheat. They live

_______ on wheat.

A. Mostly; most

B. Most; mostly

C. Mostly; almost

D. Most; almost

28. These kinds of CD-ROMs in that shop over there. They well.

A. are sold; are sold

B. are sold; sell

C. sell;

sell D. sell; are sold

29. –Have you read the __ of the country you are going

to

–Yes. Now I know it’s famous for natural beauty.

A. instruction

B. introduction

C. interview

D. conclusion

30. Try to guess its meaning when you meet a new word. Don’t

just ________ your dictionary all the time.

A. look on

B. take on

C. keep on

D. depend on

31. –Sally, I went to the concert last night. How b ig Yangzhou

Music Hall is!

– So it is. It is ________ to hold more than one thousand people.

A. big enough

B. enough big

C. too big

D. big too

32. – You haven’t been to Hong Kong Disneyland ,have you

–_______. But this summer I plan to go to Shanghai

Disneyland with my parents.

A. Yes,I did

B. No,I didn’t ,I have

D. No,I haven’t

33. – Did the doctors save the man

– Yes. He _____ on the morning of March 5th and now he is out of danger.

A. was operated

B. operated

C. operated on

D. was operated on

34. — Bill, can I get you anything to drink — __________.

A. You are welcome

B. No problem

C. It doesn’t matter

D. I wouldn’t

mind a cup of coffee

35. –You shouldn’t stay up late tonight. – Thanks, I will

go to bed earlier. .

A. No pain, no gain

B. I believe

practice makes perfect

C. Many h ands make l ight work

D. I won’t burn the

candle at both sides

三、完型填空（共15小题；每小题1分，计15分）

阅读下列短文，从文后所给A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最

佳答案。

I was walking down the road one day when my phone rang. 36 voice on the other end spoke to me, “Dad, please come b ack soon.

I miss you so much!” I thought that it was a wrong number.

A short while later, the call came once again, so I 37 impolite ly, “You’ve call ed the wrong number!”　and then hung up.

During the 38 days, I often got the 39 call. But I

didn’t care much about it. Then one day she kept calling me,

40 I didn’t answer. Finally I a nswered the phone and heard

a weak voice, “Dad, pleas e come

b ack. I miss you so much! Dad, I’m i n so much 41 ! Mom said you were too busy to take care of me. But, dad, please 42 me again, OK” It was 43 to refuse the innocent(天真的)ask. I made a 44 kiss on the phone and heard the weak voice say, “Thank you…Dad, I am s o…happy, so…happy….”

Shortly after this, I became curious about 45 it was on

the other end of my p hone. So I called back, and a woman answered, “Sorry, sir. I am really sorry to 46 you. My daughter has

had bone cancer since she was born. And her father…died in a car 47 two weeks ago. I didn’t want to tell her the news.

Poor baby. When she couldn’t 48 the painful chemotherapy(化疗), she would cry for her dad because her dad

49 encouraged her. I really don’t know what to do, so I gave her a random(随意的) phone number…”

“How is your daughter now”I couldn’t wait to ask.

“She has died. You must have 50 her on the phone, because she died with a smile, tightly holding the cell phone….”Tears full of my eyes…．

36. A. A boy’s B. A child’s C. My d aughter’s D. My son’s

37. A. spoke B. told C. returned D. answered

38. A. other B. front C. following D. coming

39. A. different B. same C. wrong D. funny

40. A. though B. and C. as if D. so that

41. A. dangerous B. troubles C. pain D.

different

42. A. look after B. kiss C. help D. support

43. A. easy B. sad D. happy

44. A. softly B. sweet C. lower D. wisely

45. A. that B. what C. who D. how

46. A. trouble B. ask C. stop D. reach

47. A. experiment B. event C. accident D. activity

48. A. receive B. stand C. fighting D. faced

49. B. sometimes C. never D. always

50. A. kissed B. taught C. shouted D. told

四、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，计30分）

阅读下列短文，从每小题A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

A

Scotland 12:00 noon Scotland is part of the UK. Egypt 2:00 .

Friday is already the

Japan 9:00 .

Japan is seven hours ahead

Canada 4:00 . to 8:30 . Canada is a big country with

51. If it is 12:30 . in eastern Canada, the time is _______ in

western Canada.

A. 8:00

B. 10:00 .

C. 1:30 .

D. 4:30 .

52. The people in needn’t go to work on Fridays.

A. Canada

B. Scotland

C. Japan

D. Egypt

53. While Canadian children are waking up, children in Scotland

are ________.

A. sleeping

B. having lessons

C. watching TV

D. playing games

B

I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the

tortoise. At the end I said, “Son, remember: Be slow and steady (镇定的), and that will win the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise”

Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean n ext time when I’m entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony

and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway”

I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep!”

“He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so foolish as to race with the hare He knew very

well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”

“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by perseverance (坚忍不拔), by pushing on steadily.”

Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,”　he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare ha dn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could

be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never have won the race. That’s for sure.”

I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to

be. They’re just hopeless.

54. The writer wanted his son _______.

A. to learn from the tortoise

B. to open his eyes wide

C. to enter for the 60-meter race

D. to have a big wish

55. According to Sonny, it was the tortoise’s wish that _______.

A. the hare would be as steady as he was

B. he could run faster than the hare

C. the hare would fall asleep during the race

D. he would have a sleep during the race

56. Sonny believed that the tortoise won the race ________.

A. by pushing on steadily

B. by luck

C. by taking a risk

D. by telling a lie

57. It is clear that the writer ________ in the end.

A. learned a lesson

B. won the argument

C. became impatient

D. was satisfied

C

I hid the long black bag in the garage two days ago. Tonight, in the dark, I would finally take it away. If everything went

OK, it would be done by morning. But I had to be sure no one,

not even my wife, saw me.

It was more difficult to get away from the party than I

expected. I said that the children were tired and needed to get to bed. It was partly true. But the main reason for leaving was that I wanted to complete my plan.

First I had to get the kids to sleep. That was never easy

at any time and tonight it was even more difficult. The eldest one wanted to know why we left the party early. I told him 10:30 pm was not early. As usual, I read them a bed time story, but

I had to stop myself reading too quickly or they would learn

my secret.

Silence finally came, and feeling like a thief in the night, I went out of the house and into the garage. Taking one end,

I pulled the bag out from its hiding place and took it into the garden. I was worried that my neighbours might see me a nd call the police.

It was already eleven o’clock. By the light of the moon

I started working, trying to make as little noise as possible. And that was not easy with a saw (锯子) and a hammer (锤子).

After much h ard work, I finally completed my w ork. I looked down at my watch. It was exactly 4:00 am. Then I went inside

to have a shower and get a few hours of sleep. It wouldn’t be long now before the kids would rush into my room and wake me

up to tell me a bout the new tree-house Father Christmas brought them this year.

58. Why did the man feel nervous

A. He left the party too late.

B. He was afraid of the darkness.

C. He didn’t know where the black bag was.

D. He worried that others would know his secret.

59. The underlined word “they”in Paragraph 3 refers to_______.

A. thieves

B. parents

C. children

D. neighbours

60. In what order did the man do the following

a. Read the kids a story.

b. Had a shower.

c. Worked in the moonlight.

d. Pulled the bag from the garag

e. e. Went to a party.

A. e-d-a-b-c

B. e-a-d-c-b

C.

a-b-e-d-c D. a-e-d-c-b

61. How w ould the childr en feel when t hey saw the man’s work

A. Interested.

B. Excited.

C. Tired.

D. Angry.

D

Most people around the world are right-handed. This also

seems to be true in history. In 1799, scientists studied works of art made at different times from 1,500 . to the 1950s. Most

of the people shown in these works are right-handed, so the

scientists guessed that right-handedness has always been common through history. Today, only about 10% to 15% of the

world’s population is left-handed.

Why are there more right-handed people than left-handed ones Scientists now k now that a person’s two hands each have their own jobs. For most people, the hand is used to

find things or hold things. The right hand is used to work with things. This is because of the different work of the two sides of the brain. The right side of the brain, which makes a person’s hands and eyes work together, controls the left hand.

The left-side of the brain, which controls the right hand, is

the centre for thinking and doing problems. These findings show that more artists should be left-handed, and studies have found that left-handedness is twice as common among a rtists as among people in other jobs.

No one really knows what makes a person become right-handed instead of left-handed. Scientists have found

that almost 40% o f the people become l eft-handed because their main brain is damaged when t hey are born. However, this doesn’t happen to everyone, so scientists guess there must be another

reason why people become left-handed. One idea is that people

usually get right-handed from their parents. If a person does

not receive the gene(基因) for right-handedness, he/ she may become either right-handed or left-handed according to the

chance and the people they work or live with.

Though right-handedness is more common than left-handedness, people no longer think left-handed people are strange or unusual. A long time ago, left-handed children were made to use their right hands like other children, but today

they don’t have to.

62. How many people in the world are left-handed now？

A. Less than one sixth.

B. More than a half.

C. About 40% passage doesn’t tell us.

of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “damaged” in this passage？

A. knocked

B. changed

C. broke

D. harmed

64. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT

true？

A. No one really knows what makes a person become right-handed.

B. Left-handedness is cleverer than right-handedness.

C. Today children are not made t o use their right hands only.

D. Scientists think there must be some reason why people

become left-handed.

65. The best title for this passage is _______.

A. Scientists’ New Inventions

B.

Left-handed People

C. Which Hand

D. Different