八年级英语阶段性调研试卷

1 八年级英语阶段性调研试卷 2013.12 请将答案填写在答题卷上！ 一、单项选择（共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分） ( ) 1. It was __________ amazing day, but ___________ best part was the dancing party A. a; / B. /; the C. an; the D. an; a ( ) 2.That boy is a _________ student. He always does his homework _________. A. careless; careless B. careless; carelessly C. carelessly; carelessly D. carelessly; careless ( ) 3. Can you finish the work with ___________ money and ___________ workers? A. fewest, least B. the least, the fewest C. the fewest, the least D. least, fewest ( ) 4. The scientist is studying the changes _______ their numbers. A.at B. with C. on D. in ( ) 5. Would you please ________ the children ________ with snakes? A. to ask; not to play B. ask; not to play C. ask; not play D. ask; don’t play ( ) 6.— ______ does your cat weigh? —About 4.5 kilograms. A. How many B. How long C. How soon D. How much ( ) 7. When she grows ________, she will grow ________ a beautiful lady. A. up; up B. up; into C. into; into D. into; up ( ) 8. Female pandas usually have one or two babies ________. A. at times B. at one time C. at all times D. at a time ( ) 9. When I met Sandy at the station ______ the first time, she was in the waiting hall _____. A. for; alone B. at; alone C. for; herself D. at; by herself ( ) 10. There are _____ students in the playground and ______ the students is about 400. A. a number of; a number of B. the number of; the number of C. a number of; the number of D. the number of; a number of ( ) 11. --- There will be a new car factory in Zhenjiang. ---I'm glad to hear that. It'll _____ young people ____ work. A. provide; with B. provide; for C. give; to D. give; with ( ) 12.Work hard, ______ you won’t pass the test.. A. but B. then C. or D. and ( ) 13. It _______us more than 2 hours _______ our homework every day. . A. takes, to do B. spends , doing C. costs, to do D. takes , doing ( ) 14. Their living space is getting__________. They are in ______. A. less and less, dangerous B. fewer and fewer, danger C. less and less, danger D. fewer and fewer, dangerous ( ) 15. The doctor _____ me ______, because I am ill. A. prevents, to smoke B. stops, smoke C. stops, to smoke D. prevents, smoking ( ) 16. The number of students in our class _____ than that in Class 2. A. is fewer B. are less C. is smaller D. are larger 2 ( ) 17. There were a lot of people in the park on May Day. We had to take a rest, so we got very tired. A. everywhere B. somewhere C. nowhere D. anywhere ( ) 18. You can call me 0512-5123467 or email me lily@126.com. A. on, at B. at, on C. by, on D. on, on ( ) 19. This morning the young man took a taxi to work ______________ late again. A. in order to be B. in order to not be C. in order not to be D. not in order to be ( ) 20.—Oh, no! It’s raining hard outside. We can’t play football on the playground. —_________! A. What a pity B. Well done C. What a surprise D. How wonderful 二、完形填空 （共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） There was once a lonely girl who wanted love very much. One day while she was walking in the forests, she found two dying birds. She took them home and put them in a small __21__. She was happy to have two “friends”. She __ 22__ them with love and the birds grew strong. One day the girl happened to leave the door of the cage open. The larger and the___23___ of the two flew out of the cage. The girl was afraid that it would fly away. She caught it quickly, she felt glad that she caught the bird before it could fly away. Suddenly she couldn’t 24__ a sound from the bird. When she opened her hand, the bird was already dead. Her _ 25__ killed the bird! Then she noticed ___ 26__bird jumping up and down ___27__ the cage. She could feel its great need for freedom(自由) . It wanted to fly into the clear, blue __28___. So she lifted it from the cage and let it fly away highly. The bird circled once, twice, and three times. The girl __ 29 as the bird flew. She didn’t care about losing the bird any more. She wanted it to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the ___30__ song she had ever heard. The fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tightly, and the best way to keep love is to give it wings. ( ) 21. A. box B. basket C. cage D. bag ( ) 22. A. looked for B. looked at C. looked after D. looked over ( ) 23. A. stronger B. lazier C. weaker D. smaller ( ) 24. A. listen B. make C. describe D. hear ( ) 25. A. love B. joke C. luck D. wish ( ) 26. A. one B. the other C. another D. other ( ) 27. A. inside B. outside C. beside D. behind ( ) 28. A. sea B. hill C. forest D. sky ( ) 29. A. watched B. saw C. looked D. heard ( ) 30. A. worst B. oldest C. sweetest D. newest 三、阅读理解（共 10 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 20 分） 阅读下面短文, 然后从 31–40 各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。 (A) Come and see the new polar bears from Canada. The pandas are waiting to meet you, and the dolphins are waiting to swim for you. The cranes are waiting to sing for you and the mynahs are waiting to say hello to you. The snakes are waiting to dance for you. 3 Tickets Opening Time Grown ups: ＄3,00 Monday—Friday Children: Over 12: ＄2,00 10:00a.m.—3:00p.m. Under 12: Free(免费) Saturday ＆ Sunday Keep the zoo clean! 9:00 a.m.—4:00 p.m. Do not touch, give food or go near the animals. ( ) 31. Now Mrs Brown is in the zoo with her two daughters, one is 14 years old, the other is 10. How much are the tickets together? A.＄7,00. B.＄5,00. C.＄3,00. D.＄2,00. ( ) 32. You may not know the word “mynah”, but you can guess it is good at . A. singing B. dancing C. speaking D. listening ( ) 33. We can visit the zoo at . A. 8:30 a.m. Wednesday B. 9:30 a.m. Friday C. 5:00 p.m. Tuesday D. 3:00 p.m. Sunday (B) You may feel curious (好奇的) about students in other countries: Do they also have so much homework? What do they do in their free time? On April 8, a report came out on the lives of high school students in China, Japan, South Korea and the US. It surveyed(调查) around 6,200 students from the four countries last year. You will find the answers to many of your questions in this report. Who studies hardest? Chinese students spend the most time studying. Nearly half of Chinese students spend more than two hours on their homework every day. That’s much more than students of the US (26.4%), Japan (8.2%) and South Korea (5.2%). Who sleeps most often in class? Japanese students fall asleep in class most often. About 45% of them said they sometimes doze off in class. In South Korea, it’s 32%; in the US, 21%; and 5% in China. South Korean students don’t like taking notes. About 70% said they write down what the teacher says in class, many fewer than in Japan (93%), China (90%) and the US (89%). Who is the most distracted (分心的)? American students are the most active in class, but also the most distracted: 64.2% said they chat with friends in class; 46.9% said they eat snacks in class; and 38.9% said they send e-mails or read unrelated (无关的) books in class. What do they do after school? In their spare time, most Chinese students study or surf the Internet. Most American students hang out with their friends. Most Japanese students do physical exercises. Most Korean students watch TV. ( ) 34. The report is about . A .the countries B. the subjects C. the students’ lives D. the high schools ( ) 35. Who studies hardest? A. Chinese students B. Japanese students C .American students D. South Korean students ( ) 36. The underlined phrase doze off means . A. send emails B. get up C. eat snacks D. be half asleep 4 (C) The panda is one of the animals most in danger. There are about 1,000 pandas living in nature reserves today. Zoos and research centres look after about 160 pandas. Scientists are studying how they live and more baby pandas are born in the zoo. Pandas live in the forests and mountains of south-west China. They mainly live on bamboo, and each panda needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The area of bamboo is becoming smaller and smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. Pandas don't have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is becoming very serious. Our government is working hard to save pandas. There are more than 30 nature reserves to protect pandas but these are not enough. The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and bamboo will grow better. Then the pandas will have enough food to eat and enough places to live in. Pandas born in the zoos may go back to live in the nature reserves. Most people love pandas. The panda is one of the most famous animals in the world. It is the symbol(象征) for the World Wide Fund for Nature. The WWF works to protect all animals in danger, so the panda has become the symbol of all the animals in danger. There is still a long way to go to save the panda. Think of other animals in danger such as tigers. whales, turtles and elephants-we need to save the pandas, and we need to save them, too. ( ) 37. Paragraph 2 is mainly about____________. A. why pandas are in danger B. why baby pandas often die C. how to protect all animals D. how to plant more bamboo ( ) 38. The government is trying ______to help the pandas. A. to build more zoos B. to send more scientists C. to make bigger nature reserves D. to ask the WWF to work in China ( ) 39. ______ is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature. A. The tiger B. The panda C. The elephant D. The whale ( ) 40. The best title for this passage is ' ______'. A. Wild animals B. What is WWF C. Pandas in the world D. Pandas in danger 四、词汇运用（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分） A）根据句意及汉语提示，写出各单词的正确形式，每空填一词。 41. Every year, lots of ___ （旅游） come to Zhenjiang. 42. Wetlands are the _______________ （极好的）place for the wildlife. 43. My father will go fishing ___ （代替）of going shopping. 44. Many animals have ___ （厚的）fur to keep themselves warm in winter. 45. Two friends walked ____ （穿过）the forest and found the way to the village. 46. My English teacher always ________________（鼓励）us to speak English in class. 47. Last week they _____________ （接受）our invitation to visit our city. 48. We enjoy the _______________ (自然的) world. B）根据句意，用括号中所给词的正确形式填空。 49. There are many fish in the wetlands, and the birds can (easy) catch them for food. 50. Don’t worry about his ___________ (ill). He is getting better now. 5 51. The zookeeper told us ______ (not frighten) the birds. 52. Male ________ (wolf) will protect their families if there is danger. 53. It is necessary for everyone to know the ______________ (important) of wetlands. 54. It’s _____________(correct) to hunt or fish in nature reserves. 55. I hope you ______________ (not forget) to clean the blackboard next time. 五、首字母填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） Are you interested in birds? Do you want to learn about them? Go birdwatching. Birdwatching is a great h___56__. How to start it? To buy a bird book, a p__57___ of binoculars and a notebook. You can watch birds in parks or some nature r___58___. Morning is the b__59___ time to go birdwatching. Most birds sing songs and fly actively before 10:30a.m., w___60___ a few birds like to fly and hunt at night. Whenever you watch them, don’t make loud n___61____ to frighten them. Remember to take notes on the sizes of the birds and colours of their f__62__ when you watch them. Write down what you see. M__63__, you should take some water. Usually it takes h__64__ to watch the birds. You may get t__65__. 六、任务型阅读（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） 阅读短文，根据短文内容填空，每空一词。 (A) Two students wanted to do a report on traffic around the school. For the report, they decided to count the number of cars driving past the school during the day. It took the students seven days to collect the information for their report. They had to get help from other students to count the cars during free time at school. In the report, the students found most of the traffic was early in the morning or late in the evening. In the morning, parents drove children to school. In the evening, many people were coming home from work or going to other places. The teacher thought the report was very interesting. She gave the students a good grade. 根据以上信息，完成以下句子，每空一词。 66. The report is about __________ near the school. 67.__________ the cars was difficult for the two students, so they had to get help from other students. 68. Between 9:00 and 15:00, about seven __________cars passed the school. 69. The students spent one ___________in collecting the information for their report. 70. The heaviest traffic was in the __________ because many people were returning from work or going to other places. 6 (B) Stories of animals ①Bill Bowell, was suffering from depression(抑郁症). The doctor gave him some medicine, but it didn’t help, and he was unable to work for twelve years. Then he decided to swim with dolphins. “ My life has changed,” says Bowell. “ A dolphin named Simo looked into my eyes for a few minutes and started to cry. All my strong feelings came out suddenly like a volcano(火山). As I cried, Simo put his head on my chest(胸 部) kept very quiet.” After swimming with dolphins, Bowell says he has fully got well. ② In France, a man had to move to a new place two hundred kilometers away. He had a dog and a cat, and he loved them both. But he thought that the cat prefer to stay in the same house with the new owners. So he moved and took only the dog.. About three weeks later, the dog was suddenly lost. For several days, the man looked for his dog, but didn’t find him. Then, seven weeks later the dog came back but he was not alone. By his side was the cat. they were tired and hungry after their long trip, and there was something wrong with the cat’s paws(爪子). But they got well quickly and were never separated(分离) again. ③ people say that fish are cold, but this story shows that they have feelings, too. A friend was moving to another country, so I took her pet goldfish and put it in a bowl with our goldfish. They lived together for six months, and when the friend came back, we separated them again, and she took her goldfish home. I found that my goldfish was acting strangely, hitting against the side of the bowl. The next morning he was dead. Later that day, my friend phoned to say that her goldfish was also dead. I believe they died of a broken heart. 根据短文内容完成表格，每空一词。 Story① Story② Story③ Animals Dolphins A cat and a __71____ Two goldfish People a man__72___ Bill Bowell A man in France The writer and his friend Causes He was suffering from depression. A man moved to a new __73___ A friend moved to another country Results The dolphins helped the man get well. The dog came back with the cat. The goldfish __74___ of a broken heart 80. From the stories we know that animals have ___75___ just like humans. 七、书面表达(15 分) 上周末你去动物园参观，请根据你的所观所感写一篇短文。 内容提示： 1．有许多动物，如：猴子、老虎…… 2．有很多游客，你给老虎拍了照。当你给猴子喂食时， 动物管理员叫你不要喂食。 3．虽然动物在动物园有吃有住，但你认为动物并不快乐，它们应该在野外生存。 4. 知道了保护野生动物的重要性，动物是我们的朋友，我们应该采取行动保护他们。 因为保护动物就是保护我们自己。 要求：1．短文必须包含提示的内容，并作适当发挥。 2．词数 100 词左右，文章中不要使用真实的姓名、校名等。