江西省南昌市西湖区2022-2023学年八年级下学期期中英语试卷

2022-2023学年江西省南昌市西湖区八年级（下）期中英语试卷 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 第I卷（选择题） 一、单选题（本大题共8小题，共8.0分） 1. —What was he doing at 9：30 on Saturday night？ —He ____ a telephone call to his family.（　　） A. made B. was making C. makes D. is making 2. We are _______ when we hear the ________ news -we don't have classes tomorrow.（　　） A. exciting；excited B. excited，exciting C. excited；excited D. exciting；exciting 3. I will have three days____ next week.Maybe we can go camping in the mountains.（　　） A. on B. away C. off D. out 4. We should all realize the _____ of regular exercise.（　　） A. decision B. situation C. importance D. trouble 5. -I can't understand any word of the passage （文章）． -_______ can I． I really want to know what it says．（　　） A. Neither B. So C. Either D. Even 6. With the development of the Internet，it will___ change the way we live in the future.（　　） A. recently B. completely C. hardly D. usually 7. Whenever you do，you need to try your best ____ you can succeed.（　　） A. so that B. in order to C. in order D. such as 8. He ______ a worker in a factory two years ago， but now he is a pop star.（　　） A. was used to be B. used to being C. used to be D. was used to being 二、完形填空（本大题共15小题，共15.0分） Long long ago，there was a king.He loved animals very much.One day he got （1） ______ nice falcons （猎鹰） from his son.He had never seen such （2） ______ falcons before.He loved them so much and he ordered the best falconer（猎鹰者） to （3） ______ them to fly. After several months，the king came to see （4） ______ the training was going on.He found that one falcon had already been able to fly high in the sky，while （5） ______ was staying on the branch（树枝） of a tree quietly. The king called all his falconers together and ordered them to （6） ______ every way they could to make the other falcon fly.But none of them （7） ______ .One day，while the king was taking a walk in the forest，an idea came to his （8） ______ .Maybe someone who knew the natural environment well cou