2014八年级下学期人教版初中英语竞赛

单项填空　

       Where’s Lily? We are all here 　　　　 her.

          A. beside                   B. about                    C. except                  D. with

I’m interested in animals, so I       every Saturday working in an animal hospital.

            A. pay                B. get          C. take               D. spend

We often have sports after class, and I like to play             basketball.

            A. a                    B. an                         C. the                        D.  /

Father gave me several pens, but I like ___ of them.

        A. none                   B. both               C. any             D. neither

---How much are these books?

       ---You don’t have to ___ . They are free.

       A. pay them              B. pay for them   C. cost them  D. spend them

You don’t need ___ it right now if you are busy.

       A. to finish                B. finish             C. finishing         D. finished

___ do you call that in English?

       A. How                    B. What            C. Who             D. which

Susan’s parents have bought a large house with a swimming pool. It      be very expensive.

  A. must                B. can                              C. mustn’t                 D. can’t

 Little Tom has           friends, so he often plays alone.

　　      A. more　                 B. a little　               C. many             　   D. few

---I called you yesterday evening, but there was no answer.

        ---Oh, I am sorry I           dinner at my friend’s house.

            A. have                     B. had          C. was having          D. have had

完形填空

     Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is   1   plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and men    2   make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and animals    3   Therefore(因此), animals and  men need plants in order to    4   This is the reason(原因) why we find that there are so many plants around us.

    If you look carefully at the plants around you   5    find that there are many kinds of plants. Some plants are large    6    others are small. Most plants are green..

    Some plants have many small leaves. Others have only   7   large leaves. There are many kinds of leaves. Leaves are of   8     shapes(形状) and colours.

    Leaves are also different in other ways. Some leaves have short leaf stalks(叶茎)while others have long leaf stalks. Still others have   9    stalks at all. The edges(边)of leaves are also different. Some leaves have smooth(光滑的)edges. Some have wave(波状的) edges     10     the teeth of saw(锯).

(   ) 1. A. why           B. because         C. how           D. that

(   ) 2. A. don’t          B. not             C. cannot         D. can

(   )3. A. too            B. either        C. also            D. already

(   )4. A. eat            B. live          C. have           D. get

(   )5. A. are going to     B. may         C. certainly        D. will

(   )6. A. when          B. yet          C. and          D. while

(   )7. A. a little         B. a few            C. little               D. few

(   )8. A. much          B. different         C. same              D the same

(   )9. A. not            B. none           C. neither            D. no

(   )10.A. like           B. as           C. as if                D. seem

阅读理解

The students were having their chemistry（化学）class. Miss Li was telling the children what water was like. After that, she asked her students, “What’s water?” No one spoke for a few minutes. Miss Li asked again, “Why don’t you answer my question？Didn’t I tell you what water is like？”

Just then a boy put up his hand and said, “Miss Li, you told us that water has no colour and no smell. But where to find such kind of water？The water in the river behind my house is always black and it has a bad smell.” Most of the children agreed with him.

“I’m sorry, children.” said the teacher, “Our water is getting dirtier and dirtier. That’s a big problem.”

1.The students were having their          class.

       A. English                   B. Chinese                  C. chemistry               D. maths

2. Miss Li was telling the children what           was like.

      A. water                     B. air                          C. earth                      D. weather

3. A boy said, “The water in the river behind my house is always           .”

      A. white                     B. black                            C. clean                      D. clear

4. Most of the children             the boy.

      A. agreed with             B. wrote to                 C. heard from                     D. sent for

5.The water in the river has colour and smell because it is getting              .

      A. more and more   B. less and less C. cleaner and cleaner     D. dirtier and dirtier

Wang was born into a rich family in America, but he was not a spoiled child. His parents made him practice violin for hours every day and he also learned Karate (空手道)! To make pocket money, Wang had to deliver (发送) newspapers.

At five or six every morning, Wang was already up. Even on cold winter days, he rode his bike to deliver newspapers to every home!

“When I went outside, other people were not up yet,” he said.

The best moment of his day, he said, was after he got home, tired and hungry, and ate sweet pies his mum had made.

1. The underlined word “spoiled” means            .

A. 富有的　　         B. 娇惯的　　          C. 勤快的　　         D. 聪明的

2. Why did Wang deliver newspapers?

A. Because he liked this job.  B. Because he wanted to make pocket money.

C. Because he was very poor.  D. Because his parents told him to do so.

3. We can tell from the story that           .

A. Wang’s parents don’t love him.B. Wang can play the violin very well.

C. Wang can make a lot of money by delivering newspapers.

D. Wang got up very early every day.

One of this summer’s hottest books is “That Guy Was Cool.” Sounds like a great book for kids, doesn’t it? But parents and teachers want to read this one, too. It can teach them something about the language of today’s kids.

So lots of people, young and old, went to see the book’s author, 19-year-old Korean girl Guiyeoni, on Saturday. She was in Beijing to sign books for her fans.

“Guiyeoni wrote a story that is near to us and goes to our hearts,” said a Junior 2 student in Beijing. “When I read it, I laughed and I cried.”

Like the “Meteor Garden” TV series, “That Guy Was Cool” tells an unusual story of love between two students. The girl is sweet, but she’s just average（一般的）. The boy is good-looking and has everything, but he is often unhappy because his father died when he was very young. They become close and help each other to be happy. In the end, they fall in love.

“The girl in the book is like me. She’s simple and moody,” said Guiyeoni.

Guiyeoni’s book doesn’t only use words. It also uses things like emotions. Emotions are small icons, like smiling faces, and they are used to show emotions. Kids know what these things mean, because they often use them when they talk on the Internet or send messages with mobile phones.

Guiyeoni said she wrote this way because of her young readers. “Writing with pictures is vivid（生动）and can say a lot of things,” she said.

Guiyeoni began writing the book’s story on the Web in 2001 when she was a Senior 2 （高二）student. Last year, she put that online story together to make this book. “That Guy Was Cool” has been made into a film, and it will come out in Korea next month.

This is Guiyeoni’s first of four books, and she hopes to keep writing as she goes through college.

She also has a message for young writers. “I think that if they try hard, lots of young people can do this.”

1. Guiyeoni is             .

A. a girl who falls in love with her classmate  B. the author of “Meteor Garden”

C. a young writer                        D. one of the emotions

2. Which of the following may Not be an emotion?

A. 8-)                  B. :-)                  C. See you.                D. :-(

3. The author used emotions to write the book because                 .

A. she really likes them      B. she wants her young readers to be interested

C. pictures can say lots of things

D. she was only a Senior student when she was writing the story

4. Which of the following sayings has the closest meaning to “I think that if they try hard, lots of young people can do this”?

A. Seeing is believing.             B. Time flies.

C. No news is good news.          D. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Mobile phone (手机) has become a problem for middle schools. Some middle schools in Australia have banned (禁止) students from carrying mobile phones during school hours.

Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts, and more students will want them. Mary Bluett, an official, said mobile phone use is a distraction (分心的事) to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams.

She said some schools had tried to ban mobile phones. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t get in touch with their children.

Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there was a good reason, they could leave their phones at school office. They also said there were many reasons why the students should not have mobile phones at school: they were easy to lose and were a distraction from studies.

Many people say that they understand why parents would want their children to have phones, but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.

1. We know from the passage that some children get mobile phones from              .

A. the makers and sellers                            B. the passers-by and strangers

C. their parents and friends                          D. some mobile phone users

2. What does the underlined word cheat mean in the passage?

A. 聊天                   B. 核对                    C. 查询                   D. 作弊

3. The passage tells us that                 .

A. students shouldn’t have mobile phones at school except for some special reasons

B. it is impossible to ban students from using mobile phones at school

C. some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t use their phones at school

D. parents should teach their children how to use mobile phones during school hours

词汇 ，根据汉语提示或句意写出所缺单词。

1. Do you think                   （十一月）is the coldest month in our country?

2. He wrote more than twenty novels                (在…期间) his life time.

3. One is never too old to _______________.

4. Please do not tell it to others. It is a ____________.

5. The __________ (附近的) market sells all kinds of fresh vegetables.

根据句意，找出合适的单词，并用其正确形式填入句中。

1. How                   it is raining outside!

2. Those             are very interested in the great places of interest of China.

3. Look at                in the mirror. How dirty your faces are!

4. French people speak English as their                 language.

5. English is much                      than Japanese.

用所给动词的适当形式填空。

1. A woman with her children                   in the park now.  (walk)

2. So far,  no one                  me about that. (tell)

3. Mary              a telephone call to her grandparents every week.  (make)

4. An American doctor                  Coca-Cola long ago.     (invent)

5. We ____________ (clean) out our classroom , so it is now very tidy and bright.

短文改错,对短文中标有题号的每一行作出判断，并改正错误：该句多一个词：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉；该句缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(＾)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词；该句错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边的横线上写出改正后的词。

My mother has done so many for me! She gets up                   1.                

early every morning to make a breakfast for me.                   2.                

And she often wake up in the middle of the night                 3.                

to see if I’m sleeping well. Once, when I am ill, I couldn’t         4.                

eat. Mum was so worried that she wouldn’t eat, too.                          5.                

智力测试

1. What's the man's job? You'll know with the help of the lettered pieces. ______________

2. The little boy ran until he was blue in the face. What does the Chinese for “blue in the face” here mean? ___________________

3. What letter should replace the question mark? ____________________

4. Once an old lady went to the market(市场)to sell eggs. She carried a basket of eggs. She sold her eggs to five people. The first bought half of the eggs and another half of an egg. The second, half of the rest and another half of the half left...The fifth took half of the eggs that the fourth person bought and another half of the half left. Then the old lady went back home with an empty basket. Do you know how many eggs the lady sold out and how many each of the five people bought?  ___________________

5. What comes next in the below sequence(次序)?

    A                B             C            D

书面表达

假如你叫李明，想应聘21世纪英文报21st Century.Teens的业余小记者。报社要求

你用英语写一篇短文，介绍自己的基本情况。短文应包括下表所列的全部内容。

注意：1、情况介绍必须采用短文形式；       　2、短文要通顺、连贯；

         3、词数60左右，短文的第一句已为你写好，不计入总词数。 4、提示：竞赛　contest

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