牛津上海版八年级上英语期末综合练习

八年级上英语期末综合练习

          

Part Two  Vocabulary and Grammar

  （第二部分  词汇和语法）

I. Choose the best answer．（选择最恰当的答案）

22.The man with golden hair is from Greece, _________European country.

   A) a B) an C) the D) /

23.The architect was born_______the morning of May 2nd , 1978.

   A)  in             B) on             C)  at             D) of

24. Will you please do _________ a favour to pass the homework to the teacher?

  A) he B) his C) himself D) him

25.Tom is strong enough to climb the high mountain _______ he is an elderly man.

   A) but B) so C) although D) however

26. --- What do you think of the biscuit?

--- I like it very much. It tastes ______.

  A) good B) terrible C) well D) terribly

27. Having sports every day ________us to keep healthy.

  A) makes B) lets C) enables D) keeps

28. Would you mind _________forward a bit ?  It is too crowded here.

   A)  close      B) to close C) closed         D) closing

29. The foreigners _____________Shanghai for two weeks and they visited the bund last Saturday.

A) have been to B) have come to C) have arrived in D) have been in

30. Almost everyone agrees that driving a private car is ________than taking the underground.

  A) much expensive B) much more expensive C) expensive D) far expensive

31.No. MU5111 flight is put off (推迟)because of the heavy fog and haze(雾霾). We have to wait for __________ two hours.

  A) the other B) other C) another D) others

32. ________ good time the children are having in the Century Park!

A) How            B) What            C) What an         D) What a

33. During the lessons we saw Jim was_______ learner among the children.

A) quick          B) the quickest        C）quicker        D) the most quickly

34. ----Sorry, I don’t know the way, either. I’m new here.

----_____.

A) Not at all                       B) Thank you all the same   

C) That’s all right                   D) Yes, please.

35. --- Jane, would you like to join the reading club?

  --- _________________________

  A) Yes, please.                      B) I don’t know.

  C) OK. That’s very kind of you. D) Yes, I’d love to.

II. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once（将下列单词词组填入空格。每空格填一词，每词只能填一次）

A.program B.angrily  C.all the time   D.skiing E. excitedly

Afel was only a small boy when he first saw snow in a picture book. In the pictures he saw a lot of children playing in the snow.
    Afel didn't understand what snow was. But he dreamed about snow _____36_____. He dreamed of being able to fly across the snow.
    One day when he was twelve, Afel was watching TV at his uncle's house. The _____37_____ was full of snow. Not only snow — there were people flying across the snow.
    "Look! They are flying!" he shouted _____38_____.
    The snow, and the people… It was just like one of his dreams.
    "They're _____39_____. It needs snow," said his uncle, "it's the Winter Olympics. It takes place every four years."
 

F. until  G. himself  H. after  I. win  J. at all

 Afel found out that the next Winter Olympics would be in Sochi, Russia in 2014.
     "Perfect," he thought. "Enough time for me to become a good skier. I am going to the Winter Olympics, and _____40_____ the gold medal for skiing."
     "But there's no snow here!" people told him. "Where are you going to ski?"
     Afel made _____41_____ a pair of skis and skied across the sand. At first he couldn't move, but he practised and practised _____42_____ he could move quite quickly.
     "How will you go to the Winter Olympics?" people asked him. "Our country hasn't had a team _____43_____. Why not do athletics (田径) instead? We have lots of good runners. And we have won lots of medals at the Olympics."
     Now Afel is practising skiing down sand dunes (沙丘). He dreams that the yellow sand and brown earth of the desert (沙漠) is the white snow.

 

III. Complete the sentences with the given words in their suitable forms: (用括号所给的单词的适当形式填空)

44. How nice it is to study in our new school buildings. There are nine ___________ altogether.         (storey)
45. Some snakes are _____________, but people are still afraid of them. (harm)
46. Finally, Grace made up her mind to live abroad in her________.   (forty)
47. The Spring Festival is really important to our Chinese people because it is the ___________ of a lunar new year.   (begin)

48. The film “Lost in Thailand” _________ in attracting a lot of people last year. (success)

 

IV. Rewrite the following sentences as required: (根据所给要求，改写下列句子。每空格限填一词)

49. Cathy had a great time with her friends at the birthday party.   (改为否定句)

Cathy _________ __________ a great time with her friends at the birthday party.

50. My father plays badminton twice a week.    (就划线部分提问)

____________ __________ times a week does your father play badminton?

51. He ran to the school as quickly as he could.   (保持原句意思)

He ran to the school as quickly ____________ __________.

52. David has never read the book .（改为反意疑问句）

   David has never read the book, ______ ______?

53.Chinese, know , much , do , how , you,  about , history

   _____________________________________________________________________

 

 

Part Three  Reading and Writing

(第三部分 阅读和写作)

Ⅰ. Reading comprehension(阅读理解)

A. Choose the best answer (根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案)

    Miss Green was going to give a lecture on Monday afternoon. But on Sunday night she was told that she had to go to an important meeting the next day at the same time. “No one can be in two places at the same time. What shall I do?” she thought. But soon, she had an idea.

At five to three on Monday afternoon Miss Green went to the lecture room. There were about twenty students waiting there for her. “I’m sorry,” she told them, “I won’t be able to give my lecture today.” The students looked surprised. Miss Green explained that she had an important meeting. “However,” she went on, “though I can’t be with you myself, my voice can.” Then she put a small tape recorder on the desk. “You see, I’ve recorded