北京市西城区八年级上学期期末英语试卷

They arrived early at the airport, __________they had time to go shopping.

—I almost had an accident just now.
—Oh, you should drive __________.

—What’s the __________of China?
—More than 1.3 billion.

—Hi, Tony, which is __________street in London?
—Red Street. Many people go shopping there.

My father offered __________me to the zoo last weekend.

I think listening is just as __________as speaking in English learning.

Today my mother asked me __________the rooms with her.

Now computers are very popular and they are much __________than before.

Please __________your mobile phone when you are having a meeting.

I was drawing a horse when Jim __________to my house.

Everyone __________go through the security check（安检） when entering the Bird’s Nest stadium.

I think we all need to help animals live __________.

_________have a try again? I’m sure you can do it.

—Chris, could you help me __________my dog while I'm on holiday?
—Sure. I'll take good care of it.

Alice was playing in the park while I __________my homework at home.

完形填空。（共10分, 每小题1分）
阅读下面的短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选择最佳选项。
I used to hunt（打猎） and have killed a few deer. There was great excitement in _____and shooting（射击）.
One cold morning in winter, I went alone to a hillside. I carried my gun, a bottle of ______ and three thick sandwiches.
I found a natural hiding place, cleared the snow and sat down. It was pretty cold, but I had warm clothes on. I sat there waiting for about an hour. _____showed. I ate two sandwiches and drank a little coffee. The place was really quiet.
Suddenly, a big beautiful buck（雄鹿） appeared less than twenty feet away from me. There was no ______near to him. Surely I couldn’t miss. I waited for him to run with a start.
To my surprise, he came toward me! He was curious（好奇的）, I guess, or maybe he was stupid. For this was no youngster, but a fully grown-up one. He must have known about men and their guns. But this buck came _____, and I still waited. His big eyes never moved from my face. His wonderful head with a set of antlers was clear in the sight.
I was getting a bit ______now. A buck can do a lot of harm to me. Well, he walked right up to where I was sitting. Then he stopped and looked at me!
What happened next is hard to _____. But it all seemed quite natural. I reached up and scratched（挠） his head. And he enjoyed it! That big, wild, beautiful buck lowered his head and asked for ______!
I scratched his head again and his body. His nose touched my shoulder. I ______him my last sandwich.
Well, he finally went his way, down the hill. I just watched him go—a strong buck carrying a proud head.
I picked up my bottle and gun, and started walking back. I ______hunting from that day on.

A．standing B．waiting C．drinking D．driving

A．water B．tea C．milk D．coffee

A．Something B．Anything C．Everything D．Nothing

A．cover B．leaf C．snow D．stone

A．away B．back C．closer D．farther

A．excited B．nervous C．happy D．surprised

A．believe B．decide C．guess D．solve

A．food B．play C．more D．1ess

A．prepared B．fed C．carried D．showed

A．looked up B．picked up C．lifted up D．gave up

If someone is hurt, do you know what to do? Read about first aid for some medical problems.
If Someone Has a Nosebleed（流鼻血）...
●Using your fingers, press hard just under the bridge of the nose.
●Throw the head back if bleeding is not serious.
●Keep the patient（患者） quiet.
●Put ice around the patient’s nose.
●Place cotton（药棉） deep into the patient's nose.
If bleeding can’t be stopped, call for medical aid.

If Someone Faints（昏倒）...
●Place the patient on his back with his head lower than his feet.
●Keep the patient warm.
●Do not give the patient any food or water.
●Have the patient rest for at least l5 minutes.

If Someone Gets a Scorpion（蝎子）Sting（叮）...
●Place the patient on her back.
●Keep the patient calm. Do not allow the patient to walk or move, if unnecessary.
●Cover the patient with something warm.
●Put ice on the area of the sting.
●Call for medical help or take the patient to a doctor immediately.

There are ____________medical problems in this passage.

If a person faints we should ____________.

Ice is useful for ____________.

In most countries around the world, 16-year-olds have to wait for another two years to be able to drive a car. Not so for 16-year-old Max Verstappen. He will become the youngest ever F1 driver when he races for the Toro Rosso team next year. He will be 17 when he takes part in his first Grand Prix（汽车大奖赛）, with drivers like Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. Now the youngest F1 driver, Jaime Victor, is 19 years and 125 days. Verstappen will make his first show at the Australian Grand Prix. He said: “Ever since I was seven, F1 has been my career goal（职业目标）, so this chance is truly a dream come true. ”

The Toro Rosso team boss Franz Tost was very excited, saying: “We are happy to welcome Max into the Toro Rosso family...We think Max is one of the most skilled young drivers and we believe he has the ability to take on this challenge（挑战） successfully. It will now be up to us to offer Max a car to make him have the best possible start to his F1 career. ”Max is the son of the former F1 driver Jos Verstappen. He said: “First of all, thanks to my father, who has always been by my side, day and night, year after year. ”

44. Now Max Verstappen is ____________years old.

Max Verstappen will become ____________next year.

Max Verstappen will take part in his first Grand Prix with ____________.

Franz Tost believed Max could become a good driver because ____________.

I was a small boy of 8, and was having lunch in a restaurant with my mother and my grandma. I ordered a Salisbury steak, confident in the knowledge that under that wonderful name was a good hamburger. When brought to the table, it was with a plate of peas. I have always hated peas. I don’t know why anyone would like to eat peas. I never ate them before. And I certainly was not about to eat them now.
“Eat your peas, ”my grandmother said.
“Mother, ”said my mom. “He doesn’t like peas. Leave him alone. ”

My grandmother did not answer, but I saw something strong in her eyes. “I’ll pay you $5 if you eat them, ”she said.
I sat there still. In my mind, $5 was a huge, nearly unimaginable amount（数量） of money, and as terrible as peas were, only one plate of them stood between me and that $5. I began to eat them.
My mother was angry while grandma was pleased. My mother stared at（盯着） her mother and me. If there were a staring Olympics, she would win the gold medal. The stares made me nervous, and every single pea made me nearly throw up, but the image of $5 were in my mind, and I finally finished them.
My grandmother left for Aunt Lillian’s a few weeks later. That night, at dinner, my mother served a big bowl of peas. I, of course, said no at once. My mother looked at me coldly and then came the words that followed me for years.
“You ate them for money.” she said. “You can eat them for love. ”
Oh, despair（绝望）! Oh, my god! Now, too late, came the understanding that I’d drawn myself into something from which there was no way to run away.
What possible answer could I say against that?
I ate them. I ate them that day and every other time they were served. The five dollars were quickly spent. My grandmother passed away a few years later. But the story of the peas lived on, and the words became my forever nightmare（噩梦）, “You ate them for money, you can eat them for love. ”
What kind of person is the grandma according to the writer?

After the lunch, the mother continued to serve peas to her son because ____________.

The writer wanted to tell us that ____________.

阅读短文。根据短文内容。从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。（共4分, 每小题1分）
A ten-year-old girl saved about one hundred other tourists in 2004 by warning them that a Tsunami（海啸）, a huge ocean wave, was on its way across the sea. She knew what was happening. Why? _____.
“I was on the beach and the water started to go funny, ”Tilly Smith told the reporter from the newspaper. “There were bubbles（水泡） and the water went back suddenly. _____. I told Mum, ”she said.
____. They cleared people from the beach just minutes before a huge wave reached the land. Luckily, no one died.
____. “She’s a very clever girl... It is very lucky that our class were learning about this kind of tsunami just two weeks before Christmas, ”he told the newspaper.

E. Because she learnt about underwater earthquakes at school.

阅读短文, 根据短文内容回答问题。（共6分,每小题2分）
Mei Lanfang（1894-1961）, known as the great master of China’s dramatic arts, was the one who developed the modevn Beijing Opera.
Mei Lanfang was born into a family of Beiing Opera performers in Beijing. He made his first performance when he was just 10 years old. He was especially good at playing females, or the Dan role.
With a deep love for his people, he gave his whole life to the art of Beijing Opera. During his stage career（舞台生涯） of over 50 years, not only did he carry on the best of the traditional art of opera, but also kept searching for ways to improve his art and created many lively and unforgettable artistic images（形象） by studying and learning from the best of other local and national operas. He successfully put acting, singing and dancing together in his performing, and turned Beijing Opera into a colorful art of the highest stage effects（效果）. As a result, he developed his own style called the “Mei Lanfang School”.
Mei Lanfang was the first one who introduced Beijing Opera to the world and made successful tours to Japan（1919, 1924 and 1956） and the USA（1930）. He popularized the Chinese classical drama among foreign audiences and won international fame（声誉）. Through his performances Beijing Opera won the hearts of many foreign people and influenced（影响） foreign stages in return.
Mei Lanfang is the symbol of China’s performing arts, the hero of his people and country.
Was Mei Lanfang good at playing the Dan role?
What did he put together in his performing?
Why is Mei Lanfang the symbol of China’s performing arts?

完成句子。（共10分, 每小题2分）根据中文意思完成句子。
你看起来脸色苍白, 怎么了?
You look pale. ________________you?
克林特·邓普西因为进了2014年世界杯第一个球而成名。
Clint Dempsey  ________________scoring the first goal of the 2014 World Cup.
我太忙不能去看电影《星际穿越》了。
I’m  ________________go to watch the movie Interstellar.
为了保护濒危动物, 政府正计划建立更多的自然公园。
The government is planning to _____________more nature parks  _____________protect animals in danger.
这个问题我们讨论了两个小时, 最后他同意了我的观点。
It ______________talk about the problem, and finally he ______________me.

文段表达。
根据中文和英文提示, 写一篇意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于50词的回信。信的开头和结尾已给出, 其词数不计入所要完成的回信内。所给英文提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。
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