江苏省苏州市工业园区八年级3月调研考试英语试卷

---Do your parents have the same hobby?
---No．My father likes playing____ football while my mother enjoys playing _____piano．

---Have you returned the book to the library _______?
---Yes, I have _______ retuned it.

When did your father _______ your mother?

We spend as much time as we can _______ English.

--- Can I see the headmaster at the moment, please?
--- I'm afraid not. He _______out. He _______ in 10 minutes.

The boy on the playground ____ be Tom, because he saw him in the library just now.

---Can I help you? 
--- I want to buy something _______ presents _______my mother.

---Is Mr Smith still in Shanghai?  
---Yes，he _______there for two months．

--- I’m flying to Hongkong this weekend. ---Wonderful ! _________.

Good to see you again  It's almost three years_____ we met last time

---Would you like to watch Painted Skin Ⅱ with me?
---Certainly. I don't mind seeing again although I_______ it twice.

There is __ homework for us to do .It’s ___ to finish it in such a short time. 

--When      your mother       you that computer?
---Oh, I have forgotten.

Last Sunday,when I got to the station,I      I had left my ticket at home.

---I am very tired these days because of studying for Maths.
---Why not      music? It can make you      .

The teacher stood before his class and was going to hand out the final exam papers. ‘I know how    you have worked to prepare for this test,’ he said. ‘And because I know you can do it well, I am willing to offer a B to those who prefer not to take the___.’
Many students thanked the teacher and left. The teacher looked at the remaining students and said, ‘Does anyone else want to get a ‘B’? This is your last       Two more students decided to go.
Seven students remained. The teacher then handed out the papers. There were only three sentences on the paper: Congratulations! You have just been      an ‘A’ in this class. Keep believing in        .
I never had a teacher like that, but I think it is a test that any teacher could give. Students who are not         in what they have learned are ‘B’ students at best (充其量).
The same is      in our daily life. The ‘A’ students are those who believe in what they are doing because they have        both successes and failures. They have learned life’s lessons, not only from normal education,       from events in their lives, and have become        people. You see, one should always believe in himself.

A．luckily B．terribly C．quietly D．hard

A．rest B．book C．test D．mark

A．chance B．trouble C．test D．idea

A．given B．sent C．discovered D．received

A．himself B．yourself C．themselves D．ourselves

A．confident B．lucky C．serious D．easy

A．unusual B．impossible C．true D．good

A．broken off B．dreamed of C．learned from D．cared about

A．and B．or C．but D．also

A．ruder B．braver C．worse D．better

Which of the following will help to improve your speech? 

Who will probably be interested in Quick & Easy Meals?

How many of the four short passages are introductions of books?

Reading is the key to school success and，like any skill，it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practicing until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. An excellent sportsman practices until he can play quickly, correctly and without thinking. Educators call it “automaticity(自动性)”.
A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and finding the meaning of the words. With practice, he stumbles less and less, reading by the phrase. With automaticity, he doesn’t have to think about the meaning of words, so he can give all his attention to the meaning of the text.   
It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found that automatic readers in the first grade not only read almost three times as fast as the others, but also got better results in exams.
According to Rossman, the key to automaticity is the amount(数量)of time a child spends reading, not his IQ. Any child who spends at least 3.5 to 4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will probably reach automaticity. It can happen if a child turns off TV just one night for reading at home.
You can test yourself by reading something new which is suitable for your level. If you read aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentences, you probably are an automatic reader. If you read brokenly, one word at a time, without expression or meaning, you need more practice.
“ Reading is the key to school success” means that reading______.

Children with “automaticity” can read faster because they______.

The underlined word “stumble” in the passage means “______” in Chinese.

The best title for the passage is “______”.

A girl complained to her father about her hard life．She didn't know what she had to do and wanted to give up．She felt tired of fighting and fighting．One problem had been finished but another came over．
Her father，a cook，took her into the kitchen．He poured water into three pans and boiled(煮沸) them．After boiling，in the first pan was put some carrots，the second was put some eggs and the last was put with coffee．
The girl waited impatiently (不耐烦的)，confused by what her father did．About 20 minutes later，her father took out the carrots and put them in a bowl．He took the eggs and put them in a bowl．After that the coffee was poured into a cup．“My sweet heart，what do you see？” he asked．
“Carrots，eggs and coffee，” she replied．
Her father told her to close her eyes and asked her to touch the carrots．She did so and felt that the carrots were soft．After that he asked her to take the eggs and break them．After peeling (剥开) them，she got the eggs，cooked and hard．The last，the father let her smell the coffee． She asked，“What did you do this for，Father？” He explained that each had the same unlucky experience—the boiling water，but each had a different result． The strong and hard carrots had become soft and weak．The fragile eggs became hard after being cooked． The coffee was very special，they could change water．“Who are you？” asked her father．“When bad luck knocks at your door，what is your decision? Are you carrots，eggs or coffee？”
The girl’s father took her to the kitchen to     .

After about twenty minutes,the carrots became        .

What can we learn from the passage?

单词填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据汉语提示或句意，写出句中所缺单词
There were no_______       _(工厂)in our hometown in the past
It is important for us to protect our __________(环境) in a right way.
I have to return the book tomorrow because I have ________(借) it for three days.
I go there for ____________(生意)，not for traveling.
We have to go to work every day __________(除了)on some important days.
What is he doing at present?  He’s _______     _ (采访)Mr. Green．
She’s ___________(写)five thousand books so far.
-- Life in a busy city is wonderful.
---_____________, the traffic and noise make me uncomfortable.
---Has he ever been __________?
---No. He hasn’t been to any foreign countries.
My cousin will come back to China by plane next Sunday, so I have to pick him up at the _________

句子翻译（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
我们已经习惯通过发邮件保持联系。
当我到达那里时，我忍不住拍起照来。
我从出生就一直住在这儿。
乘飞机去那花了我们三个半小时。
虎丘(Tiger Hill)你去过多少次了？

请以The changes to my hometown为题，写一写你的家乡在环境，交通方式等方面的变化，并谈谈你对这些变化的看法。要求：根据题目要求写全要点，字数80词左右，语句通顺，无语法错误。