2015学年江苏南通海安县八年级12月阶段性测试英语试卷（带解析） Wap版

A．How heavy	B．What
C．How many	D．How much

3. Do it now. __________, it will be too late.

A．While

B．Otherwise

C．Yet

D．So

4. The structure of the sentence “She bought me a nice dress” is________.

A．S+V+DO	B．S+V+IO+DO
C．S+V+P	D．S+V+DO+OC

5. __________ interesting story it is, and I am so _____________ in it.

A．What , interesting	B．Howan , interesting
C．How , interested	D．What an, interested

6. —Did you get any information about this test?
— Well, I was trying to, but found________.

7. My mother_______ if she ________her work this week．

A．comes back；finishes

B．comes back；will finish

C．will come back；finishes

D．will come back；will finish

8. .---My brother fell off his bike and hurt himself. --- .

A．Don’t worry	B．It doesn’t matter
C．I’m sorry to hear that	D．He should be careful

9. He spent as much money as he could _______ a new iphone6.

A．buy	B．buying
C．to buy	D．Bought

10. The teacher told me _________when I left the classroom.

A．lock the door	B．to lock the door
C．to knock at the door	D．knock at the door

11. There ______ a large number of students in our school. The number of the students _______ over three thousand.

A．is, is	B．are, are
C．is, are	D．are, is

12. There is a test tomorrow. So Tom is busy _______ for it.

A．prepare	B．ready
C．preparing	D．get ready

13. The wetland can ________ food and shelter ______ plants and animals, including different kinds of birds.

A．provide…for	B．provide…with
C．make…for	D．provides…for

14. –-What do you think of _______ phone you bought last week?
---It’s really________ ideal one for me.

A． a; the	B．an; an
C．the; a	D．the; an

15. Environment(环境) is very________，but you don’t understand the_______ of it，you always drop litter everywhere．

A．important，important	B．important，importance
C．importance，importance	D．importance，important

1. There was once a lonely girl who wanted love very much. One day while she was walking in the forests, she found two dying birds. She took them home and put them in a small_____.She was happy to have two “friends”. She __ __them with love and the birds grew strong. One day the girl happened to leave the door of the cage open. The larger and the______of the two flew out of the cage. The girl was afraid that it would fly away. She caught it quickly, she felt glad that she caught the bird before it could fly away. Suddenly she couldn’t __a sound from the bird. When she opened her hand, the bird was already dead. Her_ ___killed the bird! Then she noticed _____bird jumping up and down _____the cage. She could feel its great need for freedom(自由) . It wanted to fly into the clear, blue _____. So she lifted it from the cage and let it fly away highly. The bird circled once, twice, and three times. The girl __ as the bird flew. She didn’t care about losing the bird any more. She wanted it to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the ____song she had ever heard.
The fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tightly, and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

1. Many centuries ago, Scotland was ruled by a king named Robert Bruce. He was a wise king and a brave soldier. When the English army invaded (入侵) Scotland, Bruce took up arms and led his people in defence of (保卫)his country.
Battle after battle was fought, Bruce led his little army against the enemy, and six times his men were beaten. His army was scattered, and he was forced to go into hiding——in the woods or in lonely places in the mountains. One rainy day, Bruce lay on the ground in a small house, listening to the sound of the rain on the roof .He was tired and sad, and ready to give up all hope. It seemed to him that it was no use trying to do anything more.
As he lay thinking, he saw a spider (蜘蛛) over his head, trying to spin a web (蜘蛛网). He watched as she worked slowly and with great care. Six times she tried to reach the opposite wall to fix her thread, but six times she failed.“Poor thing,” cried Bruce, “You ,too, know what it is to fail.”But the spider did not lose hope. With still more care, she tried for the seventh time. Bruce almost forgot his own trouble as he watched her swing herself out upon the thin line. Would she fail again? No, the thread was carried safely from one wall to the other.“I, too, will try a seventh time,” cried Bruce. He got up and called his men together. He told them his plans, and sent them out with message of cheer to his discouraged people. Soon there was an army of brave Scotsmen gathered around him. Another battle was fought. This time the Scots won and the English invaders were driven out of Scotland.
【小题1】 What happened to King Robert Bruce's country?

A． A civil war broke out.

B． The Scots did not support him

C． England broke away from it

D． It was at war with England

【小题2】Where did King Bruce hide after his army was defeated?
A. In the mountains in England.
B. In thick forests in England.
C. Both A and B.
D. In a secret place.
【小题3】How many battles were fought before the Scots won in the end?

A．Six.	B．Seven.
C．Eight.	D．Five.

【小题4】It was ____ who taught King Bruce a useful lesson.

A．the spider	B．the English
C．his army	D．his people

2. 任务型阅读。（5分）
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821 , and moved to New York City when she was ten years old . One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor . That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century（世纪） . After writing many letters to medical schools , she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia .So much did she want to study medicine , that she taught school and gave music lessons to make money for her school .
In 1849 , after graduation from medical school , she decided to further her education in Pairs .
Upon returning to the United States , she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman . By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister , also a doctor , opened a new hospital , the first for woman and children . Besides being the first woman doctor and setting up her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for woman .
【小题1】When did the Blackwells move to the United States?_______________________
【小题2】How did Elizabeth get the money for her education in medicine ?_______________________
【小题3】Where did Elizabeth decide to further her study after graduation?____________________
【小题4】Was it easy for women to start their practice in the nineteenth century?________
【小题5】What do you think of Elizabeth Blackwell?________________

3. The Biggest Tree
Do you know the biggest tree in the world? Its name is " General Sherman". General Sherman is growing on the slopes(斜坡） of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. General Sherman is about 11 meters across and about 35 meters round, this will give you an idea of General Sherman's size. General Sherman is also very tall. It is over 80 meters high. It began as a tiny seed（小种籽） many years ago. Imagine!（设想） It has been growing since about 2000 BC. It has been growing for almost 4,000 years and it still growing! General Sherman is as old as the Pyramids.（金字塔） It may live for another 2000 years. What will the world be like in 4000 AD（公元）?
【小题1】The biggest tree in the world is growing on the slopes of the Rocky Mountain in___.

A．the United States	B．China
C．Japan	D．France

【小题2】It has been growing for almost ______ years.

【小题3】It's as old as _______.

A． a little seed	B．the Rocky Mountain
C．the Tai Mountain	D．the Pyramids

4. A bumpkin (乡下佬) went to a big city for the first time. He went into an office building and saw a short and fat woman stepped into a small room. After her, the door closed and the light on the top flashed. After a while the door opened slowly, a young beautiful modern girl walked out of the small room.
The bumpkin opened his eyes wide in surprise. He said to himself in a low voice, “What a pity! I haven’t brought my wife here!”
【小题1】The bumpkin thought ____.

A．his wife was as beautiful as the young girl

B．his wife was more beautiful than the short fat woman

C．the short fat woman changed to a young girl in the room

D．He should also buy a room of that kind for his wife

【小题2】The room he saw was perhaps ____.

A．an office	B．a toilet
C．a lift	D．a helicopter

【小题3】 We can see that the bumpkin had no knowledge(知识) of ____.

A．farming or gardening	B．how to do farm work
C．how to live in a city	D．modern city life

1. 句型转换。（5分）
【小题1】Swans often fly together so that they will not get lost.(同义句转换)
Swans often fly together _______ ________ not to get lost.
【小题2】He feltvery coldwashing with cool water in winter.（划线部分提问）
________ ________ he feel washing with cool water in winter.
【小题3】She has to go home now.(改为否定句)
She _______ ______ to go home now.
【小题4】My father will be back from Nanjingin a week. （划线部分提问）
______ _______ will your father be back from Nanjing?
【小题5】Mum cooked me a nice meal yesterday. (同义句转换)
Mum ________ a nice meal________ me yesterday.

1. 根据中文意思、英文释义或句意，写出所缺单词。
【小题1】There is no_________(room) for people to park in the street at the weekend.
【小题2】The radio says that the _____________will drop below zero tomorrow.
【小题3】Nancy received a present yesterday, but she didn’t _________ (take something willingly) it.
【小题4】The__________(政府) should make laws to protect the wild animals.
【小题5】There is nothing__________(bad or dangerous). It’s just a little cold.

2. 短文填空（5分）
As we know, Liu Qian did wonderful jobs in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala（晚会）. Now many people are c__【小题1】_ about him. But how much do you know about him?
Liu Qian is a young magician from Taiwan. At the a___【小题2】__ of 7, Liu saw a cute magic（魔术）toy in a shop. At that moment he b__【小题3】___ to love and decided to learn magic. Liu didn’t go to any magic school. He practiced tricks every day to improve（提高）his skills, until one day he was a___【小题4】____ to put on a show for his class. He saw the surprise on everyone’s face, and he felt it was cool. He often did street shows for passers-by（路人）, police and farmers. He worked h__【小题5】____ at it. Now he is a famous magician（魔术师）.

1. 从方框中选择合适的单词，用其适当形式填空。

win care leave act nature

【小题1】Millie is a shy girl, she is __________ in class.
【小题2】If we don’t protect the wild animals, there may be none _________.
【小题3】After looking at the picture ___________, I found my father at last.
【小题4】We all know that milk is a kind of _________ food.
【小题5】The prizes on the desk are those ___________.Congratulations(祝贺) to them!

2. 从方框中选择合适的动词，用其适当时态填空。

plan rise practise drop rain

【小题1】The teacher told us that the sun _________ in the east.
【小题2】When I got home, my sister __________ playing the piano.
【小题3】Tom with his parents ___________ a trip to Huangshan next week, isn’t he?
【小题4】Look at the sky, there are so many clouds! It _____________, isn’t it?
【小题5】I ___________ my glasses on the ground and broke them. I had to buy a new pair.