辽宁省锦州市古塔区2017-2018学年八年级英语上学期期中试题人教新目标版

2017—2018学年度八年级（上）期中评价英语试卷

（考试时间：70分钟试题总分：100分）

Ⅰ.选择题。（共10分，每小题1分）

从各题的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并将其代表答案的字母填在答题卡的相应位置。

( ) 1. - Where did you go ______ vacation?

A. in

B. on

C. to

D. for

( ) 2. I'm _____taller than my sister.

A. more

B. much

C. most

D. little

( ) 3. - What’s on TV, Mary? -There is ____.It’s boring.

A. something interesting

B. anything interesting

C. everything interesting

D. nothing interesting

( ) 4. - ______ do you exercise, Nancy? - Four times a week.

A. How often

B. How many

C. How long

D. How much

( ) 5. –What do you ________ scary movies?

A.think

B. think of

C. think over

D. think up

( ) 6. - Tara works as ____ as Tina.

A. harder

B. hard

C. hardly

D. hardest

( ) 7. After the rebuilding, our school is becoming __________.

A. more and more beautiful

B. more beautiful and beautiful

C. beautiful and beautiful

D. the more beautiful

( ) 8. We couldn’t see the road clearly ______ the heavy snow.

A. because

B. because of

C. so

D. though

( ) 9. I know what Jack wanted to say, _________ he said no words.

A. although

B. so

C. but

D. because

( ) 10. –Why don’t you help your little son?

--Because he’s _______ to dress himself.

A.old enough

B. enough young

C. enough old

D. young enough

Ⅱ.完形填空（共10分，每小题1分）

根据短文内容，从各题的四个选项中选择一个最佳答案，并将代表答案的字母填在答题卡的相应位置。

My twin brother is called Daniel, and he is four __11___ younger than me. Our birthdays are __12___ on the 5th of January. We have the same eyes and nose. Most people say we __13___ the same, but Daniel looks a little ___14__ than me. We aren’t in the same class at school, __15___ my parents want us to be a bit different. We often __16___ in the same way, but we choose d ifferent _17___. I like red and he likes blue. I think we are very __18___. He’s really, really active(活跃的), and he __19___ every day. He also plays computer games a lot but I don’t. At school I always come top, but he hardly ever does well __20___ the tests. So teacher often say we are very different.

( ) 11. A. years B. weeks C. minutes D. months

( ) 12. A. all B. both C. also D. once

( ) 13. A. look B. think C. sound D. enjoy

( ) 14. A. taller B. hotter C. smarter D. nicer

( ) 15. A. so B. if C. though D. because

( ) 16. A. study B. play C. wear D. speak

( ) 17. A. sizes B. kinds C. prices D. colors

( ) 18. A. serious B. quiet C. different D. outgoing

( ) 19. A. sleeps B. exercises C. studies D. relaxes

( ) 20. A. in B. at C. for D. of

Ⅲ.阅读理解 (共20分，每题1分)

根据短文内容从各题的四个选项中选择一个最佳答案.

(A)

In the summer holiday, our school organized a trip for us to England.

I arrived at the airport in London at 9 o’clock on July 16th. Then the coach drove us to the small town of Sawston. When we reached Sawston, it was 11:30 at night. I thought the hos t family would take us home the next day. But to my great surprise, they were still waiting for me in the cold air. My host mot her, Claire Carse, took me home and gave me some food to eat. At 8 o’clock the next moring, the host mother woke me up. I went downstairs and began to look around the house. This time I kept the names of the other family members –her husband Kevin Carse and her daughter Rebecca Carse. After breakfast, the family invited me to watch TV with them. I was surprised to see that they had 999 channels on TV! How lucky they were, I thought.

( ) 21. They went to England _____.

A. by plane

B. by taxi

C. on foot

D. by car

( ) 22. What time was it when they got to the small town of Sawston?

A. It was at 8:00.

B. It was at 9:00

C. It was at 11:30 a.m.

D. It was at 11:30 p.m.

( ) 23. How was the host family to them?

A. They were cool.

B. They were friendly

C. They were surprised.

D. They were necessary

( ) 24. The underlined word “kept” means “ _____” in Chinese.

A. 忘记

B. 借用

C. 记住

D. 拿走

( ) 25. Which of the following is NOT true acc ording to the passage?

A. When we got to Sawston, it was cold that day.

B. I was surprised to what my host family did.

C. There were four people in my host family.

D. There were over 900 channels on TV in the host family.

(B)

The earth moves round the sun, and the moon moves round the earth. When our part(部分) of the earth turns to the sun, it is a day. When our part of the earth turns away from the sun, it is a night. The sun is much bigger than the moon. But sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because it’s much nearer to the earth. The sun is very bright(明亮的). It gives very strong light(光). The moon looks quite bright, too. But it doesn’t give any light at all.The moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars. But actually(事实上) the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon. They look smaller than the moon because they’re much farther away from us.

( ) 26. _____ moves round _____.

A. The earth, the moon

B. The moon, the earth

C. The moon, the stars

D. The sun, the earth

( ) 27. Sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because _____.

A. it is much bigger than the sun

B. it comes out only at night

C. it is much nearer to the earth than the sun

D. it doesn’t give very strong light

( ) 28. The sun _____.