八年级英语下学期第二次月考试题(无答案)人教新目标版

八年级英语下学期第二次月考试题(无答案)人教新目标版

八年级英语第二次质量检测试题

卷I

一．完形填空（20分）

A

Grandma Li lived alone in an old building. She was old and didn’t like noise at all. The young man and woman __1__ always made much noise every night, so she couldn’t __2__ .When the young man and woman moved out of the building, Grandma Li was very __3__. Another young man moved in and Grandma Li thought, “Well, he __4__ .”

But at three o’clock the next morning, when Grandma Li __5__ , some noise __6__ . She __7__ carefully. It was a dog. She thought, “There wasn’t any dog h ere before. It __8__ be the young man’s.” She __9__ him and telephoned the young man at once. Before the young man could say something, she stopped the call.

___10____ she answere d the phone, she heard, “I’m the man upstairs. I’m sorry to trouble you, bu t I want to tell you I don’t have a dog at all!”

1. A. upstairs B. up C. above D. higher

2. A. get to sleep B. sleep s C. slept D. falls asleep

3. A. sad B. pleased C. surprised D. worried

4. A. looked quiet B. looks quiet C. looked quite D. looks quite

5. A. was sleeping B. was falling asleep C. slept D. was getting to sleep

6. A. woke her up B. waked she up C. woke up her D. waked up she

7. A. heard B. listened C. was hearing D. listened to

8. A. can B. may C. must D. could

9. A. angry with B. angrier with C. is angry with D. was angry with

10. A. When B. After C. At D. Until

B

Someone says, “Time is money”, but I think time is _ 11___ important than money. Why? Because when money is spent, we can get it back. However, when time is ___12___ , it’ll never ____13___. Th at is ___14___ we must not waste time. It goes without saying th at the____15____ is usually limited. Ever a second is very important. We should make full use of our time to ___16____ useful.

But it is a pity that there are a lot of people who do not know the importance of the time. They spent their limited time smoking, drinking and ____17_____. They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own ___18_____ .

In a word, we should save time. We shouldn’t ____19_____ today’s work for tomorrow. Remember we have no time to ____20______.

八年级英语下学期第二次月考试题(无答案)人教新目标版

( ) 11. A. much B. less C. mush less D. even more

( ) 12. A. cost B. bought C. gone D. finished

( ) 13. A. return B. Carry C. take D. bring

( ) 14. A. what B. that C. Because D. why

( ) 15. A. money B. time C. day D. food

( ) 16. A. nothing B. something C. anything D. everything

( ) 17. A. reading B. writing C. playing D. working

( ) 18. A. time B. food C. money D. life

( ) 19. A. stop B. leave C. let D. give

( ) 20.A. lose B. save C. spend D. Take

二．阅读理解（30分）

A

Are you interested in country music? I like it very much !It will take me away for a while after I am tired .The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields.

Country music usually talks of every day life and feelings. It’s the spirit ofAmerica,easy to understand ,slow and simple.

Country music developed in the Southern United States. It was the folk music of American countryside. Many of songs tell about the lives of farmers .They talk about love, crops or death.

The life of the countryside can be hard, so the words in country music are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular later. In the 1920s,people played country songs on the radio, and they made them into records.

When people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took their music with them. Count ry music continued to change and became popular across America.

John Denver was one of America’s most famous c ountry singers in the 1970s.His song “Take Me home, Country Roads” is well-known and people still play it today.

21.Country music is usually about _______.

A. everyday life and feelings

B. farmer’s

feelings C. the lives of workers

22.Country music developed ________.

A. in John Denver’s city

B. in the Southern United States

C. in the Northem United States

23.People bagan to make country song records _______.

A. in the 1920s

B.

in 1920 C. in the 1970s

24.Why did Country music become popular in America?

A. Because city people liked the music.

八年级英语下学期第二次月考试题(无答案)人教新目标版

B. Because farmers moved to cities with their music and it continued to change.

C. Because country music talked about city people’s lives.

25.Who is famous fo r the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”?

A. A farmer in the countryside.

B.A person who moved to towns

C. John Denver.

B

On May 23, six pandas left an important panda base (基地) in Wolong, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, because of damaged (损坏的) shelters and food shortages after the May 12 earthquake, a local official said.

The pandas were taken by trucks from China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center to Ya’an, another baseless affected by the earthquake, said Xiong Beirong, an official of Sichuan Provincial Forestry Bureau (林业局).

Eight other pandas left for the Chengdu Research Base on May 18. They will be carried by China Southern Airlines (CSA) to Beijing, where they will stay at the Beijing Zoo, said Wolong director Zhang Hemin.

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