[江苏]2011～2012学年度江苏省镇江市八年级第一学期期中考试英语模拟试卷

______ exciting news it is!

______is another way of saying “fall”.

What      you      he is a true friend?

— Who did it better, Bill or Henry?      
— I think Bill did just _______ Henry.

He has poor eyesight _______computer work.

I’m so _______ at such a ______ book.

Lucy’s room is the same size ______ Lily’s but her bed is different ________ Lily’s.

I want to go to a _____________ to buy something for my son.

Today is Wednesday. He _______ be at home. He _____ be at school.

─             did they go to work last week ?     ─Once .

Do you think ________important ________ fit?    

Can you finish the work better with ______ money and ______ people?

─ Would you like to go camping with us this weekend? ─__________

Shanghai is bigger than _____ in Jiangsu and bigger than _______ in China.

I don’t like this pair of glasses at all. Please show me _________.

Lily and Lucy are twins and Lucy is ________ of the two.

John arrived _____ London _____ a cold morning.

We all know that doing morning exercises ______.

 Peter is ______honest boy and he often tells me ______.

It took Andy two hours ____ his homework yesterday evening and I spent ____ mine. .

Some people have very good memories and can easily learn quite long poem（诗歌）by heart. Some people have  51  memories and can only  52  things that they have said again and again.
The  53  English writer Charles Dickens said that he could walk down  54   street in London and then tell you the name of every shop on  55  sides of the street. Great men in the world have wonderful memories.
A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns  56 language by remembering what he hears  57  he is a small child. Some children live with their parents in foreign countries and they seem  58  two languages as  59  as one. In school it is not so easy to learn foreign languages  60  students have little time  61   it and they are busy with other subjects as well.
A man’s mind is quite like a camera but it 62  photos of what we see and it can also take photos of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo  63  a camera there is much work  64   before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends.  65   the same way there is much work to do before we can keep a picture forever in our mind.

A．wonderful B．better C．poor D．badly

A．speak B．study C．know D．remember

A．nice B．beautiful C．famous D．kind

A．any B．some C．many D．the

A．every B．each C．both D．all

A．her B．his C．one’s D．their

A．when B．since C．if D．as soon as

A．to keep B．to get C．to learn D．to take

A．badly B．hard C．easily D．happily

A．because B．why C．what D．when

A．like B．for C．to D．in

A．leaves B．takes C．gets D．receives

A．in B．by C．with D．through

A．to do B．to have C．to start D．to stay

A．In B．On C．With D．As

The Long Night was written by _________.

The story of Hard Work happened in _______.

From the passage we can see Tina is_________.

_______ is about a difficult journey.

The passage above is___________.

One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries.
The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost some time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, "My dear son, if you had bent down earlier to pick up that horseshoe. it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that anyone who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.
Who picked up the horseshoe at last?

The farmer bought _______ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.

When the son refused to pick up the horseshoe, the father _______.

The father dropped the cherries one by one, because _______.

From the story, we can learn that _______.

In the 13^th century, the famous Indian traveller, Marco Polo, travelled a long way to China. He saw many wonderful things. One of the things he discovered was that Chinese used paper money. In western countries, people did not use paper money until the 15^th century. However, people in China began to use paper money in the 7^th century.
A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper almost 2,000 years ago. He made it from wood. He took the wood from trees and made it into paper. He then put these pieces of paper together and made them into a book.
Now paper still comes from trees. We use a lot of paper every day. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth. If there are no trees, there will be no paper. Every day, people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting nearly 48,000 trees every day. Since it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow, we must start using less paper now. If we don’t, we will not have enough time to grow more trees to take the place of those we use for paper.
So how can we save paper? We can use both sides of every piece of paper, especially when we are making notes. We can also use cotton handkerchiefs（手帕） and paper ones. When we go shopping, we can use fewer paper bags. If the shop assistant does give us a paper bag, we can save it and refuse (拒绝) it later.
Everyone can help to save paper. If we all think carefully, we can help protect trees. But we should do it now, before it is too late.
When he was in China, Marco Polo __________ .

People in western countries first used paper money in the _________ century.

About ________ tons of paper are thrown away every day in our city.

Which of the following is the way of saving paper?

Which is the best title（题目） of the passage?

Everyone needs friends. Friends bring us happiness and hope in our lives. But the ability to make friends changes from person to person. To some people, making friends is easy, and to others it’s very difficult.
Making friends is a skill, and the first thing is to know how to get on with others.
If you have trouble in making friends, maybe I can tell you how to do it.
Realize your own good points. You have skills and talents(才能) that others will like.
Believe that you are a good person and have something nice to share with others.
Be humourous. Learn to laugh at yourself and your weakness. Remember to smile at others.
Respect(尊敬) the others. Everyone has his own idea. Learn how to listen to others’ ideas without trying to make them accept(接受) yours.
Be kind. If you are kind to others, they will usually be kind to you. There are hundreds of little things you can do to show your kindness. Open the door for someone. Wave to a friend and so on.
Don’t complain(抱怨). Learn to accept what you can’t change, and work hard to change what you can. No one is willing to hear your complaints all the time.
Never give up. Even if you are faced with some closed-minded people, never give up. And try to find someone who will understand you.
Why do we need friends according to the passage?

What’s the first thing we should learn in order to make friends?

Which of the following shows a sense of humour?

How many pieces of advice does the writer provide when we have trouble in making    friends?

What should we do when we have trouble in making friends?

词汇运用（本题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
The Yellow River is the __________（two）longest river in China.
He got a ___________ (bad) result in English this term than last term, he didn’t try his best.
Do you know which animal has two _____________(stomach)?
I would like to enjoy the ___________（beautiful）of the sunset.
Please ask him___________________(not watch) too much TV.
When I saw this photo, I_____________(think)of my uncle.
We didn’t enjoy ourselves at the _____________(begin) of the trip because of the heavy traffic.
Of us all, Kitty has _____________(little) money.
___________ (join) the school football team, he practises hard even when it rains.
Thank you for agreeing_______________(let) me go on the class trip, Mr Wu.

任务型阅读（本题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）
Life in the future will be different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place, but what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And Computer Studies lessons will be one of the most important subjects in schools then.
People will work _______ hours than they do now and they will have _____ free time for sports, watching TV and travel. Traveling will be much cheaper and easier. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead they will eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work will be done by robots. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.
在文中空格处填上适当的词 _____________ ______________
将划线句子译成汉语_________________________________________________
找出同义句: Every family will have one computer or more.
________________________________________________________________________
回答问题：What will be one of the most important subjects?
____________________________________________________________________
找出或写出本文的主题句_________________________________________________

缺词填空（本题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
Most children today go to a school where each class has its o  room. It was d  many years ago. Most children w to a one-room schoolhouse. In a one-room schoolhouse all the children learned in one room from the s  teacher. A fourth grader might have sat next to a n   grader. Possibly you have seen a one-room schoolhouse o  a television program.
There w  a good reason for many of the one-room schoolhouse. They were often in the countryside, where there were o ten to twenty children going to school. Then one room was big e for everyone! Today there are many m  children going to school. The one-room schoolhouse has just about disappeared.

根据汉语提示，完成短文，不少于80字。 要求：书写工整，语句通顺，有逻辑性。
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