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2015-2016学年第一学期八年级英语阶段练习卷（2015.12.10）
Paper 1 Listening听力(25%)
Part 1 Listening （第一部分 听力） （共25分） I. Listen and choose the right picture: （6分）
1. _________ 2. _________ 3. _________ 4. _________ 5. _________ 6. _________
II. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear: （7分） ( ) 7. A. Pop music. B. Rock music. C. Country music. D. Classical music. ( ) 8. A. At a hospital. B. At the airport. C. At a restaurant. D. At a library. ( ) 9. A. Spring. B. Summer. C. Autumn. D. Winter. ( ) 10. A. It will be rainy. B. It will be cloudy. C. It will be fine. D. It will be snowy.
( ) 11. A. Because Peter didn’t know the way. B. Because Peter was not old enough. C. Because Bob wanted to go there, too. D. Because someone wanted to hurt Peter. ( ) 12. A. At 5.30. B. At 6.00. C. At 6.30. D. At 7.00.
( ) 13. A. The boy always makes his mother angry. B. The boy is poor at Maths.
C. She will help the boy with his Maths.
D. It is unusual for the boy to fail the Maths exam.
III. Listen to the passage and say whether the following statements are true or false: （4分） ( ) 14. Miss Kitty always gets into a lot of trouble.
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( ) 15. Miss Kitty changed the flowers into a dog biscuit in the pot. ( ) 16. Miss Kitty is trying to plant flowers in my garden now. ( ) 17. I sent Miss Kitty back to Mr Smith in my car. IV. Listen and complete the sentences: （8分）
18. There’s a good _________ called After Shock that starts at _________ at the cinema tonight.
19. The movie at the New State starts at _________ tonight, but the man doesn’t _________ Robert Redford.
20. Mary and _________ are coming to dinner on _________ night.
21. The man is going to play _________ on Saturday morning, and he will be home by _________.
Paper 2 Vocabulary and Grammar 词汇和语法(40%) I. Choose the best answer（选择最恰当的答案）(20分)
( ) 1. Some fences divide our garden from neighbour’s garden. Which of the following is correct for the underlined word in the sentence?
( ) 2.Which of the following words matches the sound ? A. amaze B. amazing C. amusing D. amuse ( ) 3.He was _________ university student five years ago. A. a B. an C. the D. /
( ) 4. Many people lost _________ lives when the earthquake happened in Sichuan. A. theirs B. their C. they D. them
( ) 5.Can you give me the answer _________ the problem? A. of B. about C. to D. at
( ) 6. —Do I need to connect the computer to the telephone line? —No, you ______.
A. mustn’t B. can’t C. don’t have to D. shouldn’t
( ) 7. There are three short articles. One is about dinosaurs, and _________ two are about numbers.
A. the other B. others C. the others D. another
( )8. I’m hungry now. I ate only ________ bread and ________ vegetables for my lunch. A. a few… a little B. little…few C. a little… a few D. few… little ( ) 9. Would you like to give us some _________ on how to deal with the trouble? A. idea B. suggestion C. news D. advice ( ) 10. Milton felt even _________ when he helped the others. A. happy B. happily C. happier D. happiness
( ) 11. The ancient calculating machine in China is still _________ do calculations
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nowadays.
A. used to B. use to C. used for D. use for
( ) 12. I saw the girls _________ the classroom when I passed by it. A. cleaned B. to clean C. cleaning D. cleans
( )13.Kelly ______ Shanghai 10 years ago. A. has come to B. came to C. has been in D. comes to ( ) 14. —Could you please call me ______ you go to the party? —No problem. Let’s go there together. A. though B. before C. since D. after
( )15.Finally, the boy _____ the bag and showed everyone that there was nothing in it. A. held up B. held out C. took off D. took away ( ) 16. When we ______ the top of the Great Wall, we were very excited. A. got B. arrived C. reached D. went
( )17.Yesterday afternoon I heard that my neighbours were having a big quarrel. The underlined part means _______. A. noise B. talk C. argument D. meeting
( )18.He had left his wallet on the table, so I went after him. The underlined word in the sentence means _______. A. followed B. looked after C. went to D. Returned
( )19.—Winter holidays will come soon. Why not go to Hainan Island? — ______. A. That’s right. B. Good idea! C. Good luck! D. I’m afraid not. ( )20. —Excuse me, may I borrow the encyclopedia on animals? —_________ A. Sorry, you don’t. B. It’s very nice of you to say so. C. No, you won’t like it. D. Certainly. Here you are.
II. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次): (4分) A. first B. right C. real D. have to E. before Do you take photos of your food __1__ having a meal? Now in a British restaurant, people can pay the bill for their meals by uploading (上传) photos of their food.
The world’s __2__ pay-by-picture restaurant opens to the public in London. If customers
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send photos of the food to Twitter or Facebook, they won’t __3__ pay. There is also a photo expert (专家) in the restaurant. She will help customers take better photos of their food.According to research, more than half of people always take photos of their meals. The activity is a part of the “Food of Life” project (项目) of the restaurant. It hopes to show ___4__ food and the way people eat and behave at meal times.
III. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子）: (6分）
1. My new flat is on the ______ floor of that building. (four)
2. Jenny goes to her grandparents’ house at _________ once a week. (little) 3.I wonder if you are ______ in science? . (interest)
4..The pilot landed the plane_________ (gentle) on the ground.
5. The film about space adventures was a great _________. (succeed)
6. The young man was so tired that he fell ______ when his head touched the pillow. (sleep)
IV. Rewrite the following sentences as required（根据所给要求，改写下列句子，每空格限填一词）:(10分)
1. They listened to the concert very carefully. (改否定句)
They ____________ ____________ to the concert very carefully. 2. I was busy all the time. (一般疑问句)
__________ __________ busy all the time? 3. Mary has never seen such a wonderful film.( 反意疑问句)
Mary has never seen such a wonderful film, _______ ________ ?
4. Devi is an Indian lady, and she has an amazing brain. (将两句合并为一句) Devi is an Indian lady _________ _________ amazing brain.
5. and, in a cave, a skeleton, found, they, footprints, some.（连词成句） _______________________________________________________
Paper 3 Reading and Writing读写 (35%)
I. Reading comprehension(阅读理解)：（25分）
A．Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）: (共6分) Choose the best answer:
Each nation has many people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the U.S.A. often spend many hours as volunteers in the hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or rest homes.
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They
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paint, clean up or repair their houses, do their shopping or mow (割，修剪) their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers, there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and some other men take these boys to baseball games or fishing trips and help them get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games. Some of these clubs show films or organize short trips to the mountains or some places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to know the problems and needs of young boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.
( ) 1. In the United States you can often find volunteers ______. A. at a bus stop B. in a park C. in a hospital D. in a shop
( ) 2. Volunteers usually help those who are sick or old to ______. A. mow their lawns, do their shopping and clean up their house B. cook, sew or wash their clothes
C. tell them stories and sing and dance for them D. clean, wax and repair their cars ( ) 3. Big Brothers is ______. A. the name of a club B. the name of a film
C. an organization for boys who no longer have fathers D. a home for children who have no brothers
( ) 4. Big Brothers would like to help some boys to ______ that they usually learn from their fathers. A. take baseball games B. have fishing trips C. get to know things D. all the above
( ) 5. The boys’ and girls’ clubs use many high school and college students as volunteers because they ______. A. have a lot of free time
B. can still remember what they felt when they were younger C. know how to do the work D. like younger boys and girls
( ) 6. What do volunteers believe?
A. To make others happy, they have got to be unhappy.
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