八年级英语下册 期末试卷
【模拟试题】（答题时刻：90 分钟）
一、单项选择（共15 小题，每小题1 分，计15 分
1. —______ kind girl Nancy is!
—Yes, she is always ready to help others.
A. What
B. What a
C. How
D. How a
2. —What would you do if it_________ tomorrow?
—We have to carry it on, since we’ve got everything ready.
A. rain B. rains
C. will rain D. is raining
*3. —Are you on business here, Kate?
— No, _________. It’s my holiday today.
A. with pleasure
B. my pleasure C. for pleasure D.
much
pleasure
4. —Look! What a nice garden!
— Yes. It_________every day.
A. is cleaned
B. has been cleaned
C. is being cleaned
D. was cleaned
5. After the education reform ( 改革) in Shandong Province, the pupils
have _________time to relax and _________homework to do.
A. less; more B. more; less
C. fewer; more D. much; many
6. —_________do you prefer to study?
—I prefer to study in a group.
A. How B. Why C. When D. Where
*7. Since the villagers’ houses have been damaged in the earthquake,
the soldiers are helping them _________tents (帐篷).
A. put on
B. put off C. put up
D. put down
8. —This wine tastes a little bit strange.
—Yes. It’s made _________apples.
A. of
B. from C. by D. in
9. More and more kids become unhappy _________they have too many
activities to do.
A. but
B. or
C. because
D. so
*10. —How much time do you _________surfing the Internet every week?
— Less than an hour.
A. cost
B. pay C. take
D. spend
11. Many young people prefer the songs _________have great lyrics.
A. which
B. who
C. where D. whom
12. —Would you please help me with the questions?
— Sorry. You_________ go and ask Mary. She _________know the
answer.
A. must; can
B. can; may C. need; can
D. must; may
13. Loud noise may cause hearing _________for a short time or even for
ever.
A. results
B. questions
C. accidents
D. problems
14. —Look, it’s raining_________.
—That’s great. It’s too hot these days.
A. greatly
B. heavily
C. quickly
D. hardly
15. —How was your weekend, Mary?
— I had a busy_________. I did a lot of things.
A. it
B. this
C. one
D. that
二、完形填空（共10 小题，每小题1 分，计10 分）
Once there was a king who told some of his people to dig a pond (池
子).The king then told his people that one person
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each family had
to bring a glass of milk during the night and put it into the pond. So,
by the morning, the pond should be
17
of milk.
After
18
the order, everyone went home. As one man prepared his
milk, he thought that since everyone was bringing milk, he would just
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a glass of water and put that into the pond instead.
20
it was
dark at night, no one would notice it, so he quickly went and put the
water into the pond and
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home.
In the morning, the king went to visit the pond. To his
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, the
pond was only filled with water! What happened? Yes! Everyone had the
same idea
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that man. They all thought, “I don’t have to waste my
milk. Someone else will do it.”
Dear friends, when you plan to help poor people or people in trouble,
do not think that
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will take care of it. Instead, it starts with
you. If you don’t do it, no one else will, so change yourself and make
a
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.
16. A. at
B. from
C. on
D. with
17. A. filled
B. empty
C. crowded
D. full
18. A. giving
B. refusing
C. receiving
D. offering
19. A. hide
B. steal
C. waste
D. drink
20. A. If
B. Since
C. While
D. After
21. A. left
B. came
C. returned
D. arrived
22. A. surprise
B. satisfaction
C. joy
D. taste
23. A. with
B. to
C. as
D. of
24. A. others
B. the others
C. none
D. neither
25. A. face
B. mistake
C. living
D. difference
三、阅读明白得（共20 小题，每小题分，计30 分）
A
Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry
small radios with earphones and listen to music before class ，after
class，and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the
music loudly as they drive on the street.
Adult(成年的) drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive
to work. They also listen to the news about sports，the weather，and the
life of American people. Most of the radio programmers are music.
Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape
which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is
heard all over the country，young people buy his or her tape. Some of
the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever the singer
goes，all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has
become a national star.
There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One
is called folk(民间) music. It tells stories about the common life of
Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started
by cowboys(牛仔) who would sing at night to the cows they were watching.
Today，any music about country life and the love between a country boy
and his girl is called western or country music.
26. _________ kinds of music are mentioned(提到) in this passage.
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five
27. When pop singers ________，they will become national stars.
A. make much money
B. make a CD or tape
C. are loved by all the young people D. are wanted to sing on the
radio
28. From the passage we know that country music is about the ______.
A. common life of Americans B. country life and love stories
C. life of cowboys
D. school life in America
29. Which of the following is true according to this passage?
A. Most students in America like popular music
B. Students with cars in America like to listen to music while
driving.
C. Adult drivers in America listen to music all the time while
driving.
D. Everyone in America wants to meet pop singers wherever they go.
30. What would be the best title(题目) for the passage?
A. American music
B. Popular Music
C. History of Music
D. Western Music
B
All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help people to keep
healthy，happy and help them to live longer.
Sports change with reason. People play different games in winter and
summer. Games and sports often grow out of people’s work and everyday
activities. The Arabs use horses or camels in much of their everyday
life; they use them in their sports，too.
Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them.
Football for example，has spread around the world. Swimming is popular
in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.
Some sports or games go back thousands of years ，like running or
jumping. Chinese boxing ， for example ，has a very long history. But
basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years
yet. People are inviting new sports or games all the time.
People from different countries may not understand each other ，but
after a game they often become good friends. Sports help to train a
person’ s character. One learns to fight hard but fight fair ，to win
without pride and to lose with grace(高雅)。
to this passage we know that __________.
A. people began to play about one hundred years ago
B. About one hundred years ago people ran or jumped when they played
C. Basketball has a longer history than volleyball
D. Not all the games have long history
32. According to the passage，which of the following isn’t true?
A. Sports help to train a person’s characters.
B. People swim only because there are lots of rivers in their
country.
C. People from different countries may not be able to understand each
other before a game.
D. Sports and games can develop the friendship between peoples all
over the world.
33. The writer didn’t tell us in this passage that __________.
A. basketball was invented in America
B. sports change with the seasons
C. games and sports often grow out of people’ s work and everyday
activities
D. football is played all over the world
34. A lot of people have more free time from their work to enjoy sports
because ________.
A. they like sports very much
B. they want to live longer
C. they want to make a lot more friends
D. they don’t have to go to work on Saturday or Sunday as before
35. From this passage we can see that __________.
A. sports and games are unimportant things that people do
B. sports and games should be treated only as amusement
C. sports and games are only useful to the old
D. none of the above is true
C
There are 365 days in a year. We sleep 8 hours a day, so we have 122
days for sleeping. Then our work time has 243 days left ①. But there are
52 weekends in a year. Each weekend is two days. We lose another 104
days a year for work. It takes us about one hour to have breakfast and
supper. This comes to 15 days over a year. But we can’t work all that
time-we need a holiday. Let’ s say we have three weeks’ holiday. We
don’t work all day. Four free hours each evening takes up 61 days. We
have to remember that we get 2 days’ holiday at Easter ②, 3 at Christmas
and 1 at the New Year. There are also 4 Bank holidays. Take those 10
days away and we have 32 days for work. But then we have one and a half ③
hours’ lunch every day, and half an hour ④’s coffee break. That comes
to 30 days a year. This means that we have only a few days left for work
every year!
注释：
①243 days left：剩下243 天
②Easter：n.复活节
③one and a half：一个半
④half an hour：半小时
36. How many days do we sleep in a year? __________ days.
A. 365
B. 122
C. 8
D. 52
37. We spend 15 days on __________.
A. rest
B. coffee break
C. lunch
D.
breakfast
and
supper
38. Which of the following is true? __________
A. Each weekend is one day.
B. We have 61 days for free time.
C. We get 3 days’ holiday at Easter.
D. Coffee break takes us one hour.
39. According to the passage, we know that we don’t have __________
time to work every year.
A. much too
B. so many
C. too much
D. too many
40. The writer means __________.
A. we should know the numbers
B. time is important and we’d better not waste it
C. we need more holidays
D. a few days for work is enough
D
Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’ s not a lot
they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem. Whatever you do or
however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful,
reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.
I’ve seen my friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways.
One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should
stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open door and shake hands
like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling
himself on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the
loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more
than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed, “I don’t know what
to do with him these days,” she said, “He’s forgotten all the manners
we taught him” . He hasn’ t forgotten them. He’ s just decided that
he’s not going to use them. She confessed that she would like to come
up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.
Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the
furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like
your dress, it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven
out school. The other has left home.
“ Where did we go wrong?” Her parents are now very sad. Probably
nowhere much. At least, no more than the unfortunate parents.
41. This text is most probably written by ________.
A. a specialist in teenager studies
B. a headmaster of middle school
C. a parent with teenage children
D. a doctor for mental health problems
underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to _____.
A. the change from good to bad that’s seen in a child
B. the way that parents often blame themselves
C. the opinion that a child has of his parents
D. the advice that parents want their children to follow
43. The boy on the sofa would most probably he described as ______
A. lazy
B. quiet
C. unusual
D. rude
44. From the second example we can infer that the parents of the two
daughters _________.
A. pay no attention to them
B. are too busy to look after them
C. have come to hate them
D. feel helpless to do much about them
45. What is the author’s opinion about the sudden change in teenage
children?
A. Parents have no choice but to try to accept it.
B. Parents should pay still more attention to the change.
C. Parents should work more closely with school teachers.
D. Parents are at fault for the change in their children.
四、辞汇运用（共20 小题，每小题1 分，计20 分）
（一）依照句意，完成已给出首字母的单词。（10 分）
46. People think we look the same, but I can see that we have a few
small d____________.
47. In order to a____________ your dream, you must work hard.
48. I don’ t like young people who wears strange c____________ with
colorful hair.
49. J____________ is the first month of the year.
*50. She has made a d____________ to improve her English.
51. The flowers need to be w___________ every two days, or they will
die.
*52. There are many supermarkets here. It’s very c___________ for us
to do shopping.
53. Jane White is an h_____ girl. She never tells a lie.
*54. We all know the i______ of learning English at present.
55. The scientists were tired and hungry, so they l______ a fire for
breakfast.
*（二）依照短文意思，用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、完整(其
中有两个多余选项)。(10 分)
at, hard, change, up, before, win,
happen, down, choose, practise, come, part
Life is not easy, so I’d like to say “When anything (56) ,
believe in yourself!” When I was a young boy, I was too shy to speak to
anyone. My classmates often laughed (57) me. I was sad but could
do nothing. Later, something happened, and it (58) my life. It
was an English speech contest(竞赛). My mother asked me to take (59)
in it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak (60) all
the teachers and students of my school!
“Come on, boy. Believe in yourself! You are sure to (61) .”
Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I (62)
the topic “Believe in yourself”. I tried my best to remember all the
speech and (63) it over 100 times. With my mother’s great love,
I did well in the contest. I could (64)______ believe my ears when the
news came that I had won the first place. I heard the cheers from the
teachers and students. Those classmates who once looked (65) on
me, now all said congratulations to me.
五、任务型阅读（共5 小题，每小题2 分，计10 分）
When we think of harvests (收成), we usually think of plants. But can
you also harvest a liquid? Sure. Just think of rainwater. Best of all,
it is free, except for the cost of a way to collect it.
One way to harvest rainwater is with some technology developed by
International Development Enterprises. It is in the American state of
Colorado. It created the technology as a way for people in developing
countries to avoid having to drink polluted (污染) ground water.
The rainwater harvesting system ( 系统) created by International
Development Enterprises uses pipes (管子) to collect water from the tops
of buildings. There are pipes between the buildings and two-meter tall
storage tank ( 存储容器), which prevents dirt and leaves in the water
from falling inside the tank.
A cover sits over the tank. It protects the water inside the tank
from evaporating ( 蒸发). The cover also prevents insects ( 昆虫) from
flying into the water and laying eggs.
Inside the tank is a low-cost plastic bag that collects the water.
The bag sits inside another plastic bag. The two bags are supported (支
撑) inside the metal tank. In all, the tank can collect to 3,500L of
water.
International Development Enterprises says the bags inside the tank
may need to be replaced every two to three years. However, if the bags
are not damaged (损坏) by sunlight, they could last even longer.
The developers say one tank can provide a family of five with enough
rainwater to go through a five-month dry season.
66. Can people harvest rainwater according to the passage?
_________________________________________
67. What is the biggest advantage of storing rainwater with the
technology?
_________________________________________
68. How much water can the tank keep?
_________________________________________
69. What is the cover on the tank used for?
_________________________________________
*70. What’s the main idea of the passage?
_________________________________________
六、书面表达（共1 题，计15 分）
史密斯先生此刻在青岛市工作。他已经来那个地址三年多了，在工作中他结交
了许多中国朋友。他常说他很喜爱与中国人共事，他将一直在那个地址工作。直
到……
要求：一、词数在50-60 左右。
二、意思连贯、符合逻辑。
3、层次清楚，标点正确。
4 、必需利用下列单词：Mr. Smith, work, now, he, three years, make,
often, say
【试题答案】
一、单项选择
1-5 B B C A B 6-10 A C B C D 11-15 A B D B C
二、完形填空
16-20 BDCAB
21-25 CACAD
三、阅读明白得
26-30 B C B B A 31-35 DBABD 36-40 B DBCB 41-45 A A D D A
四、辞汇运用
46. differences
47. achieve 48. clothes 49.
January
50.
decision
51. watered 52. convinent
53. honest 54. importance
55.
light 56. happens 57. at 58. changed
59. part 60.
before
61. win 62. chose
63. practised 64. hardly 65. down
五、任务型阅读
66. Yes, they can.
67. It costs less money. / It’s cheap.
68. 3,500 L.
69. It is used to prevent the water from evaporating and being
polluted.
Or: It is used for preventing the water from evaporating and being
polluted.
Or: It is used to protect the water inside the tank from evaporating
and insects from flying into the water and laying eggs.
若是照抄原文：It protects the water……and laying eggs. 要扣掉分。
70. Introducing a practical way to store rainwater. / Introducing a way
to collect rainwater.
六、书面表达One possible version：
Mr. Smith is working in Qingdao now. He has been here for more than
three years, and he has made friends with lots of Chinese at work. He
often says he won’t stop working in Qingdao until he is too old to work
because he enjoys working with the people here very much.
