江苏盐城盐都区八年级上期末英语试卷

Gu Run, ______ Grade 9 student from Yancheng Middle School, is_____ winner of  Who’s Still Standing （《一站到底》）on December 11, 2014.

The book I bought yesterday is _____in the bookshop.

---There _____ a basketball match between Lakers and Bulls this evening.
---It must be wonderful.

This kind of coat looks _____ and sells _____ in the shop this year .

Don’t worry about me. I can take good care of ______.

How did you make him_____the housework _____ you ?

The boy hurt _____ , and it got even _____  these two days .

We should help our parents do some housework.The main structure of the sentence is _______.

I was doing my homework ________ my mother was cooking in the kitchen.

He looked ___________,but could see ____________.

You’d better_____ like that, or the teacher will be angry  .

My parents told me _____ at the old people, it’s impolite.

___of giant pandas is getting ___because their living areas are becoming farmland.

After a short rest, the workers kept on _____ till midnight.

---I plan to go to a movie. Would you like to go with me?
---_____. That’s my favourite.

完形填空（共10小题；每小题l分，计10分）
Last Wednesday night , it snowed      in our city . When people        up the next morning, they found that everything was covered with        . I decided to walk to school instead of     my bike. After having an egg, two pieces of bread and a bottle of milk, I       my warm clothes and gloves. I left home at 6:10 am. 40 minutes      than the time I usually go to school.
On my way to school, I saw some people cleaning the snow. I want to join them, but I did not have      . As you can imagine, it was not     for me to walk in the knee-deep snow. After walking for about 20 minutes, I was wet but I felt a little excited. When I finally        the school gate, some boys were fighting each other with snowballs. “Liu Tao, come and join us!” someone shouted to me. Oh, it was my classmate Wang Bin. “OK, Let’s make a snowman,” I suggested. “Good idea!” he sounded very excited at my suggestion. We played happily until the bell rang. What a       winter morning!

A．big B．heavy C．heavily D．large

A．sleep B．got C．went D．took

A．water B．leaves C．snow D．money

A．holding B．taking C．riding D．bring

A．put on B．put off C．put out D．put away

A．late B．early C．later D．earlier

A．money B．books C．time D．friends

A．hard B．important C．difficult D．easy

A．got to B．went C．arrived in D．reach

A．important B．wonderful C．happily D．sad

Which flight lost contact according the article?

How many people lost their lives in the two accidents?

The stampede took place _____________.

Both the two articles are talking about_____________.

We are most likely to read these articles in_____________.

Thousands of years ago much of our earth was covered with blocks（块）of ice．These ice blocks were as tall as high buildings in modern cities．Most of the ice was in the northern part of the world． Then the ice blocks started to move south．Cold and rain came with the ice．Animals and people had to move． At last, the ice began to melt （融化）．After half a million years, most of it had melted．More than half of the earth became covered with water．The climate became much warmer．Things began to grow．The earth began to look the way it looks today．
Thousands of years ago our earth was very ________．

What did animals and people try to do when the ice blocks moved south?

The melting ice may help to form___________.

The underlined word "climate" means ________．

Which of these things maybe happened because the Ice Age ended?
a．Forests grew
b．Food became harder to find
c．Fishing became easier
d．The temperature dropped．

任务型阅读（共10小题，每小题1分，计10分）
阅读下面一篇短文，根据短文内容完成表格信息，每空一词。
Our English teacher, Tom Jackson, has some good friends. They are Carl, Ann, Joe and Mary.
Carl is a train conductor (列车员). He is 49 years old now. He began to work at the age of 21. It is a good job for him because he likes people. Carl is very helpful and tries to make the passengers(旅客) comfortable（舒适的）. He often stops to talk with the passengers. He likes his work because he can travel to many different places.
Ann works in a hospital in a small town. She has been a nurse for four years. She likes her work very much. This month she is helping mothers with their new babies.
Joe has driven a taxi for 22 years. Most of the time, Joe likes his work. Famous people have ridden in his car. He has taken many film and television stars to the airport. He is cheerful and smiles a lot, and his passengers like him. He makes a good living and supports a family of four.
Mary is a teacher in a high school. She began to teach after she left college five years ago. She teaches Music. There are 15 boys and 18 girls in her class. She likes her students and her students like her. She is very kind and helps them a lot. She is always proud of being a teacher.
Title: Our English teacher’s    .

Name	Working years	Job	Information
Carl		A train conductor	He likes helping the passengers and tries to make them     . He often   with the passengers.
Ann	4	A	She is going to help mothers and their new  .
Joe	22	A taxi	He is    and always wears a  on his face.
Mary	5	A teacher	She teaches      in a high school. She likes her students. There are thirty-three   in her class.

词汇运用 (共20小题，每小题l分，计20分)
A. 根据句意和汉语提示写出单词，完成句子，每空一词。
When the earthquake happened , people ran in all___________(方向).
In the world park, I can learn different _________(文化)from different countries.
If you come, please let me know as soon as ______________ (可能).
The__________(每日的) life of Chinese people is becoming better and better.
In the past , the steel factory often put the ________(废料) into the river.
B. 根据句意用所给单词的适当形式填空，每空一词。
________(luck), I didn’t miss the early bus this morning.
No one wants to help the old man, so he feels ___________ ( help ).
When I got _______(marry) , I moved to Yancheng with my wife.
It’s very ___________(danger) for children to play with the fire at home .
If we have a plan, we should put it into __________(act).

首字母填空（共10个单词，每个单词1分，计10分）
What is this lovely animal? It has round eyes, round head, round ears, round body. It looks l  a bear, but It is not a bear. It is called koala(考拉).
People in Australia love koalas and take care of t . They have set up places for koalas to l  safely. No one can kill them for their pretty fur. When a baby koala is b , it weights only 5.5 grams. And it has no fur. But mother koala has a pocket in the f  of her body to protect the baby .The baby koala can go into this warm pocket. And it will stay there for about six m  .
Koalas could not live w a special kind of tree. It is eucalyptus(桉树). The tree gives them both home and food. In the daytime, koalas often s    in the tree，At n   they look for food . They may go miles to find it .They only like eating the bark(树皮) and the leaves，and they eat n   else. They eat more than two pounds(镑) each night! How lovely the koalas really are!

阅读一篇短文，根据短文内容回答问题（不超过5个词）。（共5小题，计10分）
Dear Mrs. Green,
I am Jack White’s father. I am writing to you to ask for three-day leave this week. Because we have to deal with some important family matters in Washington D.C. Jack’s grandfather is badly ill in hospital and he hopes we can go to see him. Maybe it will be the last time. We have already told Mr. Johnson, the schoolmaster, about it.
Could you please give Jack some homework to keep up with the class while he is absent? You can contact me on 88763568 if you would like to discuss the homework.
Thanks again for you help. We are very happy with Jack’s progress in study.
Sincerely
Mr. White
Who is Mr. Johnson?
How long will Jack be absent from school?
Where will Jack and his father go?
What does Mrs. White ask Mrs. Green to do for Jack?
Who wrote this letter?

书面表达(15分)
为了能提高中学生的英语口语表达能力，教育局举办了英语口语风采大赛，你的同学刘琳也积极参加了本次活动，她向你讲述了参加的经历。请你根据她所提供的信息，以李琳的身份写一篇短文。

要求：1.表达清楚，语句通顺、流畅，意思连贯。2. 文章必须包括表格所提供的信息，并作适当的发挥。3.词数不得少于80个词。