南苑中学2014-2015学年度第二学期第二次独立作业测试

八 年 级 英 语

满分：100分 时间：100分钟 命题人：张晓野

一、听力（本大题共20分，每小题1分）

第一部分 听对话回答问题

1. Where are probably the speakers?

2. What is Mary doing?

3. When did the plane take off?

4. What’s the weather like now?

5. What’s wrong with the man?

A. He had a car accident.

B. He was badly hurt.

C. He was not careful with his wife and children.

6. What does Mr. Wang think of Miss Li?

A. She walks too fast.

B. She walks very slowly.

C. She can’t walk any further.

7. Where does the conversation most probably take place?

A. At home. B. In a car. C. At the doctor’s.

8. How long will the woman stay in the hotel?

A. For two days. B. For three days. C. For four days.

9. Where is the woman probably from?

A. Germany B. China. C. Australia.

10. Which floor is the woman on now?

A. The second floor. B. The third floor. C. The fifth floor.

第二部分 听对话和短文回答问题 听一段对话，完成第11-12小题。

11. What’s wrong with the woman?

A. She has a fever. B. She has a headache. C. She has a cold.

12. Why can’t the woman go to sleep these days?

A. She does a lot of sports.

B. She watches too much TV.

C. She studies for the Maths exam.

听第一篇短文，回答第13-15小题。

13. A. spring B. summer C. autumn

14. A. on foot B. by bus C. by coach

15. A. delicious B. expensive C. bad

听第二篇短文，回答第16-20小题。

16. What is this message mainly about?

A. Some team players.

B. A basketball club.

C. A sports TV programme.

17. How often do the members meet?

A. Twice a week. B. Three times a week. C. Once a week.

18. When are the matches for the team players?

A. On Sunday morning.

B. On Wednesday afternoon.

C. On Friday evening.

19. What should the player take to the hall?

A. A map. B. A sweater. C. A watch.

20. How much rent(租金) do the players pay each week?

A. ＄12. B.﹩15. C. ﹩9.

二、单项选择（本大题共15分，每小题1分）

21. They are able to talk openly to one another whenever of them feels hurt .

A. some B. all C. either D. both

22. —Has she had for the job?

—Yes, she has taught English for more than 10 years.

A. enough experience B. enough experiences

C. many experiences D. much experiences

23. In our country the old taken good care of.

A. be B. is C. are D. being

24. Do you have ________ to say about your work and study?  

A. else anything        B. else everything C. anything else     D. everything else

25. is necessary that you start training a few months before the walk.

A. This B. That C. What D. It

26. Mary lost her bag school.

A. on her way to B. on her way C. in her way to D. in her way

27. This road is about .

A. twenty metres tall B. twenty metres thick

C. twenty metres long D. twenty metres wide

28. For the present, I can’t afford ________ a car.

A. to buy             B. buy       C. buying            D. for buying

29. The boy is often made pictures for hours by his mother.

A. to draw B. to drawing C. draw D. drew

30. Barack Hussein Obama, the present president of the USA, ________ a naughty (调皮的) boy at school.

A. was used to be   B. was used to being     C. used to be       D. used to being

31. Forty-five per cent ________ the teachers ________ women in our school.

A. of; is                    B. of; are   C. 不填; are             D. 不填; is

32. It seems hopeless to get there on time because there is little time ________.

A. leaving             B. left                   C. to leave                  D. leaves

33. —Did Jack come to your birthday party yesterday?—No, he ________.

A. hasn’t invited       B. didn’t invite C. isn’t invited    D. wasn’t invited

34. You shouldn’t ____ your daughter at home. She can receive better ____ at school.

A. educate; educate             B. education; education 

C. educate; education           D. education; educate

35. —You look pale! ________?

—Nothing serious. I’m just feeling a bit uncomfortable.

A. What’s the matter            B. How are you

C. Why not                       D. What about you

三、完形填空（本大题共10分，每小题1分）

Hello, everyone! I’ m Caitlin. I’d like to tell 36 something about my story. Four years ago, I needed to pay for university 37 my parents couldn’t pay for it all. My teacher told me about Student Aid(助学金). I felt very excited, but I knew it wasn’t 38 to get the aid. After several minutes’ 39 , I decided to have a try. But I failed. I 40 a plan for my university. I asked my parents to pay for the first year. Then I tried my best to make 41 to pay for the rest.

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a 42 . I often asked my friends to do their homework and acted 43 a teacher. To make my dream 44 , I worked hard at university. Now , I become a 45 teacher. I want to tell you that there must be a way. You just have to find it.

36. A. him B . you C. her D. it

37. A. although B. so C. because D. or

38. A. easy B. useful C. hard D. enough

39. A. sleeping B. resting C. crying D. thinking

40. A. wanted B. asked C. told D. made

41. A. time B. money C. food D. advice

42. A. pilot B. nurse C. doctor D. teacher

43. A. to B. as C. with D. for

44. A. come in B. turn up C. come true D. turn on

45. A. serious B. poor C. kind D. real

四、阅读理解（本大题共20分，每小题2分）

A

In 1638, John Harvard donated some money and about four hundred books to a new university. This was the beginning of the library at Harvard University. The gift was so important that the university was named for John Harvard.

Thomas Bray began the first free lending library in the late 1600s. He set up more than 30 libraries in the American colonies. However, the idea for this kind of free library ended when Bray died in 1730. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and some friends started the first subscription library in the United States. In a subscription library people pay money to become members, but they may borrow the books without paying again.

In the United States, every child had a free education. This idea soon led to free libraries. One of the first libraries that used tax money to buy books was a library in Peterborough, New Hampshire. This library was set up in 1833.

46. The main idea of the second paragraph is________.

A. Franklin started the first subscription library

B. Bray and Franklin were important in the history of public libraries

C. in a subscription library people pay money to become members

D. Bray died in 1730 and Franklin died in 1833

47. The underlined word “borrow” means_______.

A. use for a short time and then return

B. read and write with no help from another person

C. like very much

D. lend

48. The passage does not say it, but we can guess that_______.

A. free schools and free libraries in the United States began at about the same time

B. there were free schools in the United States before there were free libraries

C. the library in New Hampshire also had a free school in it

D. there were free libraries in the United States before there were free schools

49. Harvard University began_______.

A. in 1731 B. in 1730 C. in 1638 D. in 1833

50. At the library that Franklin started, ________.

A. people could use books for no money at all

B. people paid a little money in the beginning but none after that

C. people paid a lot of money in the beginning but none after that

D. both A and B

B

Gladys Holm was a secretary . She worked in an office all her life. Gladys made about $15,000 a year. She died when she was 86 years old. And she left a big surprise—$18 million! She gave the money to a children’s hospital.

Gladys Holm never got married or had any children. But she always liked children, and she wanted to help them. When her friend’s daughter was ill in hospital, Gladys brought her a toy bear. After that, she visited the hospital many times. Every time she visited, she brought toy bears for those children. After that, people started to call Gladys the “Toy Bear Lady”.

Gladys always gave toys and other presents to her friends but no one knew she had a lot of money. She lived in a small house outside Chicago. Everyone was very surprised when they learned that she was a millionaire. One of her friends said, “She always gave us nice presents and things, but we didn’t know she was rich.”

How did Gladys get so much money? She asked her boss how to make more money, and she listened to what he said. She bought the stocks (股票) that he told her to buy, and she got very rich. Before she died, she talked to her friends about “giving something to the children’s hospital”. No one knew that the “something” was $18 million!

51. Gladys Holm often visited the hospital and gave children toy bears because______.

A. she had too much money

B. she had a lot of toy bears

C. she liked children very much

D. she had never got married and had no children

52. People started to call Gladys the “Toy Bear Lady”_______.

A. after she died

B. after she visited the children in hospital many times

C. before her friend’s daughter was ill

B. before she worked with his boss

53. Everyone was surprised that________.

A. Gladys lived such a long life

B. Gladys had so much money

C. Gladys lived in a small house outside Chicago

D. Gladys always gave her friends nice presents

54. ________, so she got rich.

A. Gladys made $15,000 a year as a secretary

B. Gladys did another job in the hospital

C. Gladys got the money from the boss

D. Gladys did what the boss told her to do

55. When Gladys Holm became a millionaire,________.

A. she spent most of the money on nice presents and things

B. she stopped working

C. she still lived in the same way

D. she could hardly wait to tell her friends and family

C

Bob Butler lost his legs in 1965 in Vietnam. Later he returned to the USA and began his life in wheelchair (轮椅). One day he was working in his yard when he heard a woman calling for help. He began moving towards the woman’s house, but something on the ground stopped his wheelchair going through the back door. So he got out of his wheelchair and started to crawl (爬行).

When Butler got through the back door of the house, he found there was a little girl in the pool. She had no arms and couldn’t swim. Her mother was calling for help crazily. Butler got into the pool and pulled the little girl out of the water. Her face was blue, and she was not breathing.

Butler did CPR (心肺复苏术) on her right away. As Butler continued doing CPR, he talked to the mother. “Don’t worry,” he said. “It’ll be OK. I was her arms to get out of the pool. I am now her lungs. Together we can make it.”

Soon the little girl coughed and began to cry. The mother asked Butler how he knew it would be OK. “I didn’t know,” he told her. “But when my legs were blown off (炸掉) in the war, a little girl in Vietnam said to me in broken English, ‘It’ll be OK. You will live. I’ll be your legs. Together we make it.’ Her kind words brought hope to me and I wanted to do the same for your little girl.”

(  )56. What did Butler hear when he was working in his yard one day?

A. He heard a little girl crying.       

B. He heard a woman calling for help.

C. He heard his neighbors arguing.

D. He heard someone calling his name.

(  )57. How did Butler get through the woman’s back door?

A. By bike.                       B. On foot.

C. By crawling.                D. By moving his wheelchair.

(  )58. What did Butler find when he got through the woman’s back door?

A. A little girl lost her legs.     

B. The woman was saving her kid.

C. The woman was in the pool.  

D. A little girl was in the pool.

(  )59. What does the underlined word “lungs” mean in Chinese?

A. 肺        B. 大脑       C. 肾      D. 肝脏

(  )60. What did the little girl in Vietnam say to Butler?

A. “I’ll be your legs.”         B. “I’ll be your lungs.”

C. “I’ll be your friend.”      D. “I’ll be your family.”

D

A concert under the theme of the 28-year-old charity song Let the World Be Filled with Love is set to bring 100 celebrated singers to perform in Quanzhou in southeast China’s Fujian Province next month. The concert is set to cover 10 cities including Beijing. Quanzhou is the first stop of the touring schedule.

The song Let the World Be Filled with Love was written by famous Chinese singer and songwriter Guo Feng. It was performed by a chorus (合唱团) of 100 singers during a concert for world peace that year. The song also made Guo Feng famous.

The concert is organized by China TV Artists Association. It aims to improve local charity programmes. The concert has so far received positive feedback (爱的回应) from some of the biggest names from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including Hollywood actor Jackie Chan.

It is well known that Jackie Chan has made great contributions to the music scene for years with songs like A Hero Never Dies and Don’t Go Home. He sang the theme song to the film Fairy Tale with Kim Hee Sun. Between shooting (拍摄) films and joining in public activities all over the world, it took Chan about a year to finish an album.

By joining in charity activities, Jackie Chan has provided scholarships for needy students and helped injured performers and their families. So far, he has been involved in over 100 public welfare (救济) projects in 52 cities in over 30 countries.  

(  )61. The charity song Let the World Be Filled with Love was written in _______.

A. 1986              B. 1988        C. 1992                       D. 1997

(  )62. Which of the following is NOT true about the charity concert?

A. It will be held in 10 cities in China.

B. Its aim is to improve local charity programmes.

C. It is organized by the famous singer Guo Feng.

D. Jackie Chan has decided to support it.

(  )63. How long did it take Jackie Chan to finish an album?

A. About half a year.   B. About one year.   

C. About one and half a year. D. About two years.

(  )64. Jackie Chan joined in charity activities in order to ________.

A. make a living                 B. raise money to help poor students

C. become famous               D. help other singers in need

(  )65. What does the underlined part “be involved in” in the last paragraph mean in English?

A. take part in                      B. be crazy about 

C. take care of                     D. get ready for

五、填空（每小题1分，满分10分）

A.根据句意、首字母或汉语意思完成单词。

66. They hoped to a their aims by the end of the year.

67. The football (a person who trains sportsmen for games) is popular among us.

68. My aunt is one of the best (秘书)of this big company.

69. The___(扩散) of the information has become much faster because of the Internet.

70. The country has __________(发展) so fast since five years ago.

B.用所给词的适当形式填空。

71. We should try our best to help the _______(able) people.

72. Is the long walk in the country________(organize) by Oxfam Hong Kong?

73. Mr Black’s son has come to China for__________(far) study.

74. Before you enter the company, you must have a _______(medicine) examination.

75. The doctor didn’t know what caused the boy’s __________(blind).

C. 选择适当的动词并用其正确的形式填空

76. The new waiters for their new jobs now.

77. The old man ill in hospital since last month.

78. A sports meeting in our school every spring.

79. All of the students have made up their minds English well.

80. I am used to up early every morning now.

六、任务型阅读 (本大题共5分，每小题1分)

The Spring Bud Project was organized by the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund(CCTF), under the leadership( 领导) of the All China Women’s Federation(联合会). The fund was started by Madam Zhou Jiebing, who donated 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

The purpose of the Spring Bud Project is to raise the quality of women’s education and ability from childhood. It has tried a lot to raise funds both at home and abroad and its aim is to help dropout girls in China’s poor, rural areas return to school.

In the past ten years, more than 10 million children in China have left schools because their families are too poor, and 70% of these dropouts are girls. In fact, girls’ education has become one of the most difficult problems in China. The CCTF wants to help hundreds of thousands of girls return to school, so it set up the Spring Bud Project.

Thanks to donations from so many people and organizations, by the end of 2009, the Spring Bud Project had raised 800 million yuan in total, built more than 1,000 Spring Bud schools, aided more than 2 million girls to return to school and provided technical training for more than 400,000 girls.

81. What is the Spring Bud Project organized by?

82. How many poor girls have left school in the last ten years in China?

83. What may the underlined word “dropout” mean in Chinese?

84. Can you think of another way of saying “thanks to” ? What is it?

85. What did the Spring Bud Project spend the donations doing?

七、短文填空（每小题0.5分，共5分）

根据短文内容及所给首字母提示，写出所缺单词，使短文完整、通顺。

A man came to my house on a very cold night. He told me, “I have a family w 86 eight children. They have no eaten for d 87 .” Later I asked him where the family was. I took some food with me and went out.

When I finally got to that family, I s 88 those little children were too hungry to say a word. There was no sadness in their eyes, just the deep pain of hunger. I g 89 the food to the mother. She divided it into two and went out. She c 90 half the rice with her. W 91 she came back , I asked her, “Where did you go?” She gave me this simple a 92 , “To my neighbors---they are also hungry!”

I was not surprised that she gave b 93 poor people are always very kind. But I was surprised that she k 94 her neighbors were hungry. Usually, when we are in t 95 , we always care about ourselves first, and we have no time for others.

八、书面表达 10分

根据以下提示，写一篇80词左右的短文。 开头已给出，不计入总次数。

1. Mandeep是印度一个贫困家庭的孩子。

2. 过去他们家太穷了，他没钱上学，只好在农场干活。每天早起晚归，十分辛苦。

3. 他多么希望自己能够上学啊！有一天， 一位UNICEF的工作人员来到他的村庄，了解了他家的情况后，给他提供了上学的钱。

4. Mandeep 现在在校读书， 他长大后也想成为一位UNICEF的工作人员，帮助更多贫困的孩子。

Mandeep is a child from a poor family in India.

南苑中学2014-2015学年度第二学期第二次独立作业测试

八 年 级 英 语 答 题 纸

满分：100分 时间：100分钟 命题人：张晓野

一、听力（每题1分，共20分）

二、选择题（每题1分，共15分）

三、完形填空（每题1分，共10分）

四．阅读理解（每题1分，共20分）

五、填空（每题1分，共15分）

66. 67. 68. 69. 70.

71. 72. 73. 74. 75.

76. 77. 78. 79. 80.

六、任务型阅读（每题1分，共5分）

81.

82.

83.

84.

85.

七、短文填空（每题0.5分，共5分）

86. 87. 88. 89. 90.

91. 92. 93. 94. 95.

八、书面表达（共10分）

Mandeep is a child from a poor family in India.

南苑中学2014-2015学年第二学期八年级英语第二次独立作业

答题纸

一 听力（每题1分，共20分）

二 选择题（每题1分，共15分）

三 完形填空（每题1分，共10分）

四．阅读理解（每题1分，共20分）

五． 填空（每题1分，共15分）

66. achieve 67. coach 68. secretaries 69. spread 70. developed

71. disabled 72. organized 73. further 74. medical 75. blindness

76. are training 77.has been 78. is held 79. to learn 80. getting

六． 任务型阅读（每题1分，共5分）

81． It is organized by CCTF .

82. Over 7 million girls.

83. 辍学

84. Yes. Another way of saying “thanks to “ is “ because of”.

85. It spent the donations building schools and providing technical training for those girls.

七． 短文填空（每题0.5分，共5分）

86. with 87. dinner 88. saw 89. gave 90. carried

91. when 92. answer 93. because 94. knew 95. trouble

八． 书面表达（略）（共10分）

江苏省启东市南苑中学2014-2015学年八年级下学期第二次月考英语试卷