黑龙江省龙东地区2024-2025学年下学期八年级英语期中考试卷

2024—2025年八年级下学期综合练习（一）

英语试卷

考生注意：

1. 考试时间90分钟。

本考场试卷序号（由监考填写）

2. 全卷共六道大题，总分120分。

第一部分  语言知识运用（共计65分）

Ⅰ. Multiple choice（本题共20分，每小题1分）

Choose the best answer from A, B or C according to the meaning of the sentence.

1. —What’s ______ matter with Sarah?

—She has ______ sore throat.

A. a; the B. the; a C. /; /

2. In the end, they came up with a good idea ______ the poor man.

A. help B. to help C. helping

3. Eating junk food is bad for your health. You should ______.

A. give it up B. give them up C. give up it

4. Parents always ______ the best things ______ their kids.

A. provide; to B. provide; for C. offer; with

5. It means ______ others who seem ______ trouble.

A. help; have B. helping; to have C. to help; having

6. —Could you please ______ computer games all the time, Tony?

—OK, Mom.

A. not playing B. not to play C. not play

7. My brother enjoyed ______ with his classmates in the park yesterday afternoon.

A. himself B. him C. themselves

8. We all think ______ important for us ______ healthy.

A. it’s; to keep B. it; keep C. it’s; keeping

9. Mario used to ______ to work, but now he is used to ______ his bike to work because he wants to keep fit.

A. drive; riding B. drive; ride C. driving; ride

10. Judy can’t go to Lucy’s party tonight, and ______.

A. I can’t, too B. neither can I C. so can’t I

11. —Listen! There is an old man shouting ______ help.

—Let’s go and help him right away.

A. at B. to C. for

12. The rainstorm came ______ Ann was looking for her pet dog on Center Street. ______ she found the dog, she was all wet.

A. when; While B. while; When C. while; While

13. His grandma lives ______ in a small village, but she doesn’t feel ______.

A. lonely; alone B. alone; lonely C. lonely; lonely

14. I have trouble________the work without your help.

A. finish B. to finish C. finishing

15. —What a nice day today!

—Yes. ______ go camping and relax ourselves?

A. Why don’t B. Why not C. What about

16. —How did the accident happen?

—You know, it was difficult to see the road clearly because it ______.

A. was raining B. rains C. is raining

17. ______ your English, you should join the English club at once.

A. Improve B. To improve C. Improving

18. —May I ______ your English dictionary?

—Sorry, I ______ it at home.

A. lend; forgot B. borrow; left C. borrow; lent

19. ______ the storm broke many things apart, ______ it brought families and neighbors closer together.

A. Although; but B. Although; / C. /; although

20. Sign ______ tells us that we can’t feed the animals here.

A.  B.  C.

Ⅱ. Cloze test（本题共15分，每小题1分）

Choose the best answer to complete the passage.

A girl told her father about her hard life. She was always worried ____21____ she had many problems in her life. And she didn’t know ____22____ she had to do.

Her father smiled and took her into the ____23____. He ____24____ three pots (锅) with water. And he put some sweet potatoes in one. In ____25____ one, he put some eggs. Sugar was in the third. Then he cooked them. The girl ____26____ why her father was doing that. She watched him and waited without ____27____ a word.

Twenty minutes later, her father took out the things and put the sweet potatoes on a ____28____, put the eggs in a bowl and put the sugar water in a glass. And then he turned back to his daughter and asked, “What do you see?” “Sweet potatoes, eggs and sugar water,” she answered.

Her father told her to close her ____29____ and touch them. She ____30____ and she felt the sweet potatoes were soft. Then she touched the ____31____. They were hard. Finally, her father asked her ____32____ the sugar water. “What do you mean, Dad?” the girl asked. The father ____33____, “Each of the things met with the same bad experience—they were all in the same boiling water, but they had ____34____ results. The sweet potatoes became soft, the eggs became hard and the sugar changed into sugar water. Which one will you want ____35____, a sweet potato, an egg or sugar? You decide.”

21. A. because of B. because C. so

22. A. what B. how C. why

23. A. kitchen B. living room C. bedroom

24. A. full B. put C. filled

25. A. the first B. the second C. the third

26. A. wondered B. knew C. agreed

27. A. to say B. saying C. says

28. A. bowl B. glass C. plate

29. A. mouth B. eyes C. hands

30. A. did B. does C. do

31. A. potatoes B. sugar C. eggs

32 A. tasting B. tastes C. to taste

33. A. found B. explained C. knew

34 A. same B. final C. different