云南省昆明三中、昆明滇池中学2019-2020学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题
云南省昆明三中、昆明滇池中学2019-2020学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题
第一节单项选择（共15分，每小题1分）
1. As a ________, I have to travel all the time to report the latest news.
A. writer
B. dentist
C. DJ
D. reporter
2. My parents _______a doctor when I grow up.
A. wants me to be
B. want me to be
C. want me be
D. wants me being
3. What _______Mike last Saturday night?
A. is doing
B. does; do
C. did; do
D. was; do
4. _______it got dark, ________ they still worked hard there.
A. /; so
B. Because, so
C. Although, but
D. Although, /
5. The boy wrote _______to pass the test.
A. careful enough
B. enough careful
C. carefully enough
D. enough carefully
6. It's too crowded outside, so we decided______ at home on National Day.
A. stay
B. to stay
C. stayed
D. staying
7. ---There are many restaurants here. Which one would you like to go to?
----________. They are too expensive for me.
A. Not
B. Never
C. None
D. No
8. ---How do you like your new teacher, Sue? —Oh, he's so _________and we can learn a lot from him!
A. comfortable
B. serious
C. quiet
D. talented
9.Steven studies ______for the test, so he _______plays with his friends.
A. hard; hard
B. hardly; hardly
C. hard; hardly
D. hardly; hard
10.The twins_____ the teachers in our school.
A. are both
B. both are
C. are all
D. all are
11.---The Chinese women' volleyball team got the champion(冠军)in the Women's V olleyball World Cup in Japan!
----_________exciting the news is!
A. What
B. What a
C. How
D. How a
12.— _____do you visit your grandparents with your parents?
-----Once a month, because their house is not close.
A. How soon
B. How long
C. How much
D. How often
13. ----Dad, you are ______taller than me! —Well, you'll be as tall as me soon.
A. too
B. much
C. very
D. so
14. In the past 70 years, China has made great achievements(成就).This makes all of Chinese full of prides.
A. care about
B. help with
C. bring out
D. filled with
15. ---Jenny won the first prize in the spelling competition, didn't she? ----Yes, she did. She is really something!
A. fantastic,
B. enjoyable
C. interesting
D. quiet
第二节完型填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分l0分）
I often spend my summer holidays just with my parents. It is quite boring. But last summer holiday was __1___ . Some of my friends came to stay with my parents and me for a week at our summer house. It is in a small beach town called Portsea. They got there by train. It ___2___them three hours.
One morning my friends and I ____3___to take my parents’ boat for a ride. We rowed (划船) ____4___ half an hour and found a big cave (山洞). Susan said it could be dangerous to go into it. But Peter said it was okay. ___5___we started rowing again and got in. Then the tide (潮) started. At first we thought we could fight it but we were ___6___. We shouted for ____7___but there was no one around. Susan and I began to cry. Louis told us not to worry because the tide would be out. Because Louis always seemed to know the answer for ____8___ , we stopped crying.
Luckily, Loui s was right ___9____. After some hours the tide went out. We rowed back home quickly. We didn’t ____10____my parents about this special trip. And we were so afraid that we would not have a boat ride again.
( )1. A. terrible B. Different C. popular D. difficult
( ) 2. A. took B. spent C. gave D. used
( ) 3. A. waited B. dreamed C. decided D. thanked