1、=【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = 山东省荣成市六校 2017-2018 学年八年级英语上学期期中试题 五四制 （时间： 90 分钟 满分： 80 分） 一选择填空 从下面每道题所给的 ABC 三个答案中挑选符合该题的最佳答案，使其句意完整。（共10 小题，计 10 分，每小题 1 分） 1.Nancy with her brother _computer games when Mother came back A. were playing B. are playing C. was playing 2. Mr. Li asks us to remember that _we are, _mi
2、stakes we will make. A. the more careful, the less B. the more careful, the fewer C. the more carefully, the fewer 3.Can you _ me your bike? -With pleasure. But you mustnt _ it to others. A.lend, borrow B. borrow, lend C. lend, lend 4.I put _salt in the soup, so it tastes _ salty. A. too much, much
3、too B. much too, much too C. much too, too much 5.-Ann, would you like to drink tea or coffee? -_.I like drink some water. A.Either B. Neither C. Both 6.-He usually takes the dog for a walk after dinner. -_ my mother. A.So does B.So is C.Neither does 7.-The little girl _ her seat to the old man on t
4、he crowded bus. =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = -What a kind girl! A.lent B. took C.offered 8.Are you for or against _ zoos in the center of the town. A. building B. to build C build 9. He spent as much time as he could _ the piano. A. playing B.play C. on playing 10.I forgot _ my homework, so I did it again. A. d
5、o B. to do C. doing 二 阅读理解（共四大题， 20 小题，计 20 分，每小题 1 分） 阅读 AB 篇，选择正确答案。 An English traveler found himself in a northern European country with a little money to buy the ticket for the travel back home. He knew that it would take him only two days to get to England. He found that he would be all right
6、without food. So he bought a ticket and got on the ship. He closed his ears to the lunch bell. When dinner time came, he refused to go to the dining hall, saying that he was not feeling well. The next morning he didnt go to breakfast and at lunch time he again stayed in his room. At dinner time he w
7、as so hungry that he could not stand it any longer. “Im going to eat,” he said, “even if they throw me into the sea.” At dinner he ate everything in front fo him at the table, and felt for the coming trouble. “Bring me the bill,” he said. “There isnt any bill, sir”, answered the water, “On the ship
8、the money for the ticket includes meals.” The traveler was sad when he heard this. ( ) 11. The English traveler knew he would _in two days. =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = A. be back home B. buy some food to eat C. travel everywhere in Europe ( ) 12. The first day he _ to have lunch and dinner. A. had B.refused C.
9、 missed ( ) 13. He didnt go to the dining hall because _ _. A. he was ill B. he was not feeling well C. he had no money ( ) 14. The next day he decided to _at last. A. stay in his room B. be thrown into the sea C. have dinner ( )15. The English traveler _that he had no meal on the first day. A. was
10、very sorry B. was glad C .was told B Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find that the whole world smile
11、s to you. While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teachers face when you did a g ood job? One day it is fine. Just before you go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather.
12、 But dear friends, why dont you sit down and listen to the free concerts that the nature offers you? And with the timely(及时 )rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest. =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometim
13、es failure cant be avoided. I think failure isnt terrible, and the ter rible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes， “Fai
14、lure is the mother of succes s”. Attitude decides everything. With an optimistic attitude life is easy and pleasant. Lets smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us. ( )16. People sometimes complain _. A. the sky is always dark B. they see the world with their heart C life is tir
15、ing ( )17. According to the passage, in school, _. A. the students dont like their lessons B. the teacher will be happy if the students do good jobs C. the teachers dont like their teaching ( )18. If there is a timely rain, _. A. farmers cant have a good harvest B. you can listen to a concert C. cro
16、ps in the fields will grow better ( )19. When we face failure, we _. A. must be confident in ourselves B. shouldnt g ive up hope =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = C all of the above ( )20. The best title for the passage is _. A. Smile and the World Smiles to You B. Complaining about life C. Failure Is The Mother of
17、Success C 阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，每个选项只能用一次。 Twenty years ago very few people used the Internet. Only scientists and people in the government knew about the Internet and how to use it. This is changing very fast. Now almost everyone knows about the Internet, _21_. When people think about
18、 the Internet, they often think about information. But now, more and more, when people think about the Internet, they think about shopping. A was one of the first companies to try to sell products on the Internet. Jeff Bezos started the company ._22_One day he predicted the future. He thought, “The
19、World Wide Web is growing 2000 percent a year. _23_. Shopping is going to move to the Internet. People are going to shop online.” He gave up his good job and drove across the country to Seattle, Washington. There he started an online bookstore called A. Bezos had very little money. The company began
20、 in a garage, and at first there were very few customers （ people who buy things） . At the A site, people can search for a book about a subject, find many different books about that subject,_24_ order them by credit card, and get them in the mail in two days. This kind of bookstore was a new idea, b
21、ut the business grew. In a few years, A had 10 million different items in categories including books, CDs, toys, =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = electronics, videos, DVDs, home improvement products（ things you use to fix up a house), software, and video games. Today you can buy anything from gourmet food to casket
22、s at a “virtual shopping mall,” that is, a gro up of stores all over the world that functions （功能） like a group of stores all in one place. Are people going to shop online more and more? _25_ At least now online shopping is growing. A. read what other people think about the books B. Its going to co
23、ntinue to grow C. many people are online（ using the Internet） every day D. He was a successful vice-president of a company in New York. E. No one knows for sure. D 阅读下列短文，简要回答文后问题。 One of the worlds most dangerous sports is mountain climbing, and one of the most popular places for this is the Himalayas. The Himalayas run along the southwestern part of China. Of all the mountains, Qomolangma rises the highest and is the most famous. It is 8, 844.43 meters high and so is very dangerous to climb. The first people to reach the top were Tenzing Norgay
