八年级英语竞赛试题卷
笔试部分（共八大题，满分120分）
Ⅰ. 单项填空。（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
31. ---How nice dictionary it is! Thank you for buying me such special gift. --- I’m happy you like it.
A. a; a B. the; the C. the; a D. a; the
32. About ______ of the population of this country ______ farmers.
A. four-fifth; is B. four-fifth; are C. four-fifths; is D. four-fifths; are 33. --Porter, take this ______ to ______ 106, please. ---Yes, sir.
A. lady; Room B. lady; the Room C. woman; Room D. woman; the Room 34.---John, I like your sweater. ---Thanks. I got it _____ Peter_____ my birthday.
A. over; on B. from; for C. for; from D. about; in 35. My cousin Betty is the black _________ of the family
A. cow B. pig C. horse D. sheep 36. I considered _______ my job, but in the end I decided _______.
A. to change; to do not B. changing; to do not C .changing; not to D. to change; not to 37. I don’t think it is going to rain the day after tomorrow,________ ?
A. do I B. don’t I C. is it D. isn’t it
38.Although the working mother is very busy, she still ______a lot of time to her children. A. costs B. spends C. offers D. provides 39. Only then _______how much damage had been caused.
A. she realized B. she had realized C. had she realized D. did she realize
40. As Mr. Best was passing the bookshop, he thought he'd just to see whether any interesting books were on sale.
A. look in B. look up C. look round D. look for 41. My father's very quiet too. I _________ him.
A. follow with B. take after C. look like D. turn up to be 42. It's not far from the village if we take the short _________ through the jungle. A. pass B. comer C. turning D. cut 43. Could you keep a(n) _________ on the baby for a moment? A. heart B. eye C. hand D. ear 44. ----How beautiful those kites are! Would you please ____, mum? ----OK, let me have a look first. A. get me one B. show it to me C. give me them D. buy it to me 45. He seems ____ about it, so he ____ at this time. A. that he knows, needn’t to be told B. to have known, doesn’t need to be told C. to know, doesn’t need to tell D. that he has known, needn’t tell 46. He had left the city ____ I moved here. A. before long B. long ago C. shortly while D. long before 47. ----It’s about three hours’ walk, ____. ----____ it is, I’ll get there alone. A. now and then, No matter how B. at the most, No matter far C. more or less, No matter how far D. at least, However far 48. The museum we visited yesterday was built ten years ago. A. where B. what C. in which D. that
49. If you run ____ walk to the hall where the interview is held, you will not be late.
A. rather than B. in place of C. insteadD. other than
50. ----Guess what! I came across an old friend at the party last night. ---- ____ I’m sure you had a wonderful time. A. All right B. Very well C. How nice D. Sounds good
Ⅱ. 完形填空。（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文， 掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
“I’ve been writing a book, John. Do you think anyone would be interested in (51)it?” said the old lady.
John took over the papers from her shaking hand and (52)her in chair. He remembered her rich (53)in the early days of the Old West. He looked through the papers. “It’s good, Grandma,” he said gently. Then realizing that she (54)hear him, he shouted into her ears, “I think it’s very good. I’11 (55)it to a publisher.”
The days later, he reported that the publisher had had time to read only a few (56). But he was so impressed that he had sent $ 100 for an option（版权）. (57)money would be given as an advance(预付). Every month John (58) $ 100 for her with a letter from the publisher telling about the progress of the book.
One morning, three months after her 100th birthday, Grandma didn’t get up. The doctor told her that she couldn’t (59)more than a few days. She was ready to go, but she first wanted her book to be in print. John promised that she could get it very soon.
Grandma (60)on until the day the book came into her hands with the title and her name on the cover. Though she couldn’t see it, she could touch it . She proudly traced（探查）her name with her fingers, tears in her eyes. Two hours later, she died peacefully, (61) holding her book.
Her granddaughter took up the book and opened it. “Why, it’s just blank pages!” she cried in (62). John’s face turned (63). Then the girl understood. There never was a book. Grandma couldn’t hear the little bell when the typewriter came to the (64) of the line. She would keep on working, not (65) the whole sentences and sometimes the paragraphs were missing. John did not tell her, for he couldn’t take away her only hope. It was John himself who had written the letters and sold his car to pay the advance.
51. A. buying B. publishing C. reading D. lending 52. A. sat B. put C. placed D. seated 53. A. ideas B. experiences C. thoughts D. family 54. A. couldn’t B. needn’t C. mustn’t D. doesn’t 55. A. throw B. put C. send D. lift 56. A. words B. sentences C. pages D. books 57. A. Some B. Much C. Enough D. More 58.A. brought B. took C. gave D. carried 59. A. die B. stay C. last D. remain 60. A. went B. kept C. carried D. held 61. A. still B. yet C. always D. then 62. A. anger B. joy C. surprise D. tears 63. A. white B. red C. gray D. pale
64. A. middle B. last C. end D. beginning 65. A. writing B. knowing C. thinking D. wanting Ⅲ. 阅读理解。（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A
Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and apple pie. But ice
cream was known long before America was discovered.
The Roman emperor Nero may have made a kind of ice cream. He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains. He used it to make cold drinks. Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.
Hundreds of years later, ice cream reached England. It is said that King Charles enjoyed that treat very much. There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret.
Today ice cream is known throughout the world. Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year.
66 .The passage says that most Americans _________
A. think that ice cream is very new B. think that ice cream was an American idea C. know that ice cream has a long history D. do not know what ice cream is 67. Charles I of England wanted to _________
A. make ice cream popular B. keep the secret of ice cream for himself C. develop new kinds of ice cream D. bring ice cream recipes from China
B
Ben Johnson is one of the few men ever buried(埋) standing up.
As the story goes, King Charles I once made him a promise. The king told the great writer that he would be buried in England's famous Westminster Abbey(大教堂). But that wasn't all. Johnson could choose any place he liked for his grave.
Johnson died in 1637. Then it was found that the place he had picked was already filled. The ground space left in it was just eighteen inches square. King Charles I kept his words. He had Johnson's coffin placed on its end in the small place. That's the way it would just fit. 68. Which probably happened first?
A. Johnson picked a place in the Abbey. B. Johnson died.
C. Johnson received Charles’s promise. D. Johnson told the king of his choice. 69. Charles I found out the place filled after _________
A. Johnson’s death B. Johnson’s burial C. the reading of Johnson’s will D. 1638
70. Johnson’s coffin was placed upright so that it would _________ A. face the west B. look bigger C. take less room D. reach the floor 71. The story shows that Charles tried to _________
A. role Britain well B. keep his promise C. learn about art D. write poems and stories
C
One of the sad stories in American history has something to do with slavery（奴隶制）. For a short time between 1800 and 1865, British and American ships would go to Africa and buy Africans from people who forced young men and women to leave their villages. They were brought to coastal cities and put on ships which came to the states where cotton was grown. The American farmers would buy the Africans and put them to work picking cotton. The Africans had to work for these farmers all of their lives. It was President Abraham Lincoln who signed a law that slavery was unfair to the Africans. He thought all the black slaves should be set free. But the slave owners in the southern states did not agree with him. There was a fight over this disagreement and it was called the American Civil
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