人教版英语八年级下册试题第三次月考试卷

第二学期

初二英语第三次月考试卷

一、 听力测试（27分）

A)请听下面8段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并将其填到答题卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读两遍。（每小题1分）

（ ）1.When did Cindy watch the film by Anna Lee? A. Yesterday.

B. Last weekend.

C. Last month.

（ ）2.Who bought the book Robinson Crusoe for the girl? A. Her mother.

B. Her sister.

C. Her friend.

（ ）3.What’s the relationship between the two speakers? A. Husband and wife.

B. Mother and son.

C. Father and daughter.

（ ）4.What kind of music does Bruce like? A. Pop music.

B. Rock music. C. Country music.

（ ）5.Who gave the Snow White doll to Helen last year? A. Her sister.

B. Her father.

C. Her mother.

（ ）6.Which country might Mrs Smith want to visit during the summer holiday? A. England.

B. America.

C. India.

（ ）7. What’s Tom’s favorite sport? A. Football.

B. Swimming.

C. Basketball.

（ ）8. What is the woman searching for online? A. Information about cats.

C. Information about birds.

B)请听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并将其填到答题卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前你将有30秒钟的时间阅读各小题。每段对话或独白读两遍。（每小题1分） （ ）9.Which movie did NOT James Cameron direct? A. Brave Heart.

B. Titanic.

C. True Lies.

B. Information about dogs.

（ ）10.How is the new film according to the man?

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A. Boring. B. Exciting. C. Funny.

请听第2段材料，回答第11至12小题。 （ ）11.When did the woman go to New York? A. One year ago.

B. Two years ago.

C. Three years ago.

（ ）12.Where does the woman advise the man to go ?

A. To the United Nations Headquarters. B. To the Central Park. C. To the Science Museum.

请听第3段材料，回答第13至15小题。 （ ）13.What does Alice Brown do? A. A writer.

B. A singer.

C. An actress.

（ ）14.Alice Brown was interested in _______ when she was five. A. music

B. writing

C. acting

（ ）15.What does Alice Brown like to do in her free time? A. To write stories.

B. To sing songs.

C. To write songs.

请听第4段材料，回答第16至18小题。 （ ）16.Which is the woman’s hobby? A. Playing games.

B. Playing cards.

C. Playing football.

（ ）17.How many sports does the man like? A. Two.

B. Three.

C. More than three.

（ ）18.What are they going to do first? A. See a film.

B. Search（搜索） online

C. Go to the museum.

请听第5段材料，回答第19至22小题。 （ ）19.How long did Tony live in Sanya? A. For five years.

B. For fourteen years.

C. For fifteen years.

（ ）20.Which is NOT the reason why Tony likes living in Sanya? A. Because the weather is nice.

C. Because the food is delicious.

（ ）21.Who taught Tony how to surf? A. His uncle.

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B. Because the waves are wonderful.

B. His mother. C. His father.

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（ ）22.The two speakers both like to __________. A. go surfing

B. go boating

C. go swimming

C）请听下面一段短文，根据短文内容完成5个句子，每个句子一空，每个空格不超过3个单词。将答案填写到答题卷的相应位置。听短文前你将有50秒钟的时间阅读有关句子。短文读两遍。（每小题1分）

23. The Sun Moon Lake is ____________ meters deep.

24. Half of the lake looks like_____ and the other half looks like the moon. 25. ____________ is the best season to visit the Sun Moon Lake. 26. Swimming in the Sun Moon Lake is very __________.

27. The Sun Moon Lake is becoming more and more ______ these days. 二、单项填空（8分）

请阅读下面各小题，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并将其填到答题卷的相应位置。（每小题1分） （ ）—Why did the boys shout with __________? —Because they won the football game. A. pressure

B. fairness

C. excitement

D. silence

（ ）29.Dreams are beautiful. However, to ______ them needs lots of time and hard work. A. hide

B. introduce

C. achieve

D. stop

（ ）30. —Who won the singing competition yesterday? —Betty. She has the sweetest _______. A. sound

B. voice

C. memory

D. speech.

（ ）31.Our grandparents were very angry because _________ came to the family party on time. A. somebody

B. nobody

C. anybody

D. everybody

（ ）32.The ruler on the teacher’s desk ________David. A. looks for

B. gets on with

C. belongs to D. takes in

（ ）33. —Where is Jack? We can’t find him anywhere —Perhaps he _______ home. A. has gone. （ ）34. You

B. is going

C. went

D. was going

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have such a big room. It is ______ than mine. A. three time big

B. three times big

C. three times bigger D. bigger three times.

（ ）35. The Yangtze River is _______ than other rivers in China but not _____ in the world. A. longer; the longest B. longer; longer

C. the longest; longer

三、完形填空（25分）

A)请先阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并将其填到答题卷的相应位置。（每小题1分）

Have you ever visited the Great Wall? As you know, it’s the 36 wall in the world . But do you know it’s a famous 37 of China, too? For hundreds of years, people around the world have been interested in 38 it.

The Great Wall has a long 39 of more than 2,000 years. You can’t imagine 40 magnificent（宏伟的）it is. 41 modern machines or developed skills ,people did all the 42 by hand. Although it was very hard and 43 a long time, clever Chinese succeeded in the end. Here are many 44 behind the Great Wall. Some might be sad like Meng Jiangnu Cries on the Great Wall. But most of the others 45 how smart and hard-working Chinese people were.

Nowadays the Great Wall is getting more and more 46 around the world. As the saying goes, “He who has 47 been to the Great Wall is not a true man.” The Great Wall is not only a great place to enjoy nature , but 48 the spirit of being

brave.

There are twenty families living in the KK Apartment: Everyone in the apartment has to follow the rules to have a quiet and comfortable living environment. Rule 1. Take out the rubbish on weekdays.(4:00 pm-8:00 pm) Rule 2. Turn down the TV after ten thirty in the evening. Rule 3. Children should not play in the house after 11:00 pm. Rule 4. The management（管理）center should be told first if there is a house-fixing activity. Rule5. Wash the clothes before 10:30 pm. Call Grace at 333-2345 if you need any help. D. the longest ; the longest

Almost every day, lots of 49 from all over the world visit and climb it.

In fact, it has become a 50 of the friendship between Chinese people and people from other countries.

（ ）36. A. heaviest

B. deepest B. fan

C. longest C. symbol

D. thickest D. condition

（ ）37. A. population

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（ ）38. A. leading （ ）39. A. history （ ）40. A. how （ ）41. A. With

B. forcing

C. buying C. journey C. when C. By

D. visiting D. letter D. where D. For

B. importance B. why B. Without B. work B. took B. meals B. raised B. popular B. always B. collects B. actors B. fan

（ ）42. A. travel （ ）43. A. had （ ）44. A. ideas

C. birth C. paid C. songs C. trained C. relaxing C. never

D. mark D. spent D. stories D. passed D. huge D. sometimes D. tours D. teachers D. bridge

（ ）45. A. showed （ ）46. A. freezing （ ）47. A. often

（ ）48. A. decides （ ）49. A. travelers （ ）50. A. stone

C. includes C. reporters C. land

B)请先阅读下面的文章，掌握其大意，然后用方框中所给的词的适当形式填空，并将答案填写到答题卷的相应位置。每个词限用一次。（每小题1分）

Long time ago, there was an old man. He（51）__________about two things—his long, white beard（胡子）and his ability（能力）to go to sleep（52）_______.

One day, his 3-year-old grandson asked him（53）_________he put his beard when he slept: Did it go under the blanket（毯子）or stay above it?

The old man never（54）________ about this before, and he said he didn’t remember that . He decided（55）____________.It was very cold that night. The old man got into bed and pulled（用手拉）the blanket over（56）____________. When he was about to fall asleep, he(57)_____________ remembered his grandson’s question.

He found that his beard was under the blanket. He lifted it from the blanket.. This made him feel that something was not quite right. So he put the beard under the blanket again.

But he soon felt it would be（58）_________if it was out. In and out went the beard: first under the blanket. Then above it , and then under it（59）________. The old man spent a sleepless night.

The next morning the (60)________ thing he did was cutting down his beard. His daughter was very happy because she didn’t want him to have a long beard at all. 四、阅读理解（40分）

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A)请阅读下面的内容，根据所给内容从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并将其填到答题卷的相应位置。（每小题2分）

A

（ ）61. Mrs Zhou is a businesswoman, and she usually comes home late. When is the best time

for her to wash clothes?

A. At a quarter past nine in the evening. B. At twenty to eleven in the evening. C. At ten past eleven in the evening. D. At midnight.

（ ）62.Jeff is taking out the rubbish after dinner, but there is no sign of the rubbish truck. What

day is it today? A. Tuesday.

B. Wednesday.

C. Friday.

D. Sunday.

（ ）. What are the rules for? A. A better job.

B. A better living environment.

D. Foreigners only.

B

In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday of November every year. In Canada, the harvest comes earlier in the year because Canada is on the north of the US, and it is much colder, So in Canada, people have Thanksgiving Day on the second Monday in October.

The harvest（收获） brings a lot of food to people. On Thanksgiving Day, people in Canada like to have a big meal with their friends and families together at home, just as Chinese people do at the Spring Festival. Many Canadians put flowers , vegetables and fruit in their homes on that day to show the harvest.

At a Thanksgiving Day dinner, most Canadians eat turkeys, potatoes and pumpkin（南瓜） pies. These are traditional food for Thanksgiving Day. Canadians celebrate Thanks giving Day to show their thanks to nature because it brings them harvest and food. Usually they have a good time on that day. （ ）. In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday of _______. A. January

B. October D. December

C. A beautiful future.

C. November

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（ ）65. Canadians have Thanksgiving Day earlier in the year because _________. A. they dislike flowers B. the harvest comes earlier

C. they want to be different

D. the weather there is warmer

（ ）66.Which of the following food do NOT Canadians eat on Thanksgiving Day? A. Roast bread.

B. Turkeys.

C. Potatoes.

D. Pumpkin pies.

（ ）67.What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Differences between Canada and the US. B. Thanksgiving Day in Canada. C. Table manners in Canada. D. How to cook turkeys.

C

Once there was a clever old woman who lived in the mountain. All the children came and asked her questions. She always gave the right answers.

One day a naughty（调皮的）little boy caught a small bird and held it in his hands . He said to his friends, “Let’s trick（戏弄）the old woman. I’ll ask her what’s in my hands. Of course, she’ll answer that I have a bird. Then I will ask her whether the bird is alive or dead. If she says the bird is dead, I’ll open my hands and let the bird fly away. If she says the bird is alive, I’ll quickly crush it and show her the dead bird. Either way, she’ll be wrong.”

The children agreed that this was a clever plan. So they went to the old woman’s house. “Granny, we have a question for you,” they all said. “What’s in my hands?” asked the little boy. “Well, it must be a bird,” answered the old woman. “But is it alive or dead?” asked the excited boy.

The old woman thought for a moment and then answered, “It is up to you, my child.” Sometimes it is up to us to make the decisions in life. So be careful of every step to go. （ ）68. About the old woman, which of the following is NOT mentioned? A. She was very clever.

B. She lived in the mountain.

C. She could answer many questions. D. She had many children.

（ ）69.If the old woman said ________, the little boy would let the bird fly away. A. the bird was dead B. the bird was alive

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C. it was up to you D. it was a bird

（ ）70. What does the underlined word “alive” mean in Chinese? A. 活着的

B. 毫无生机的

C. 安宁的

D. 安全的

（ ）71. From the old woman’s answer, we can infer（推断）that ______.

A. the little boy was not sure what to do B. the little boy was happy to see the woman C. the boys cheated the old woman D. the old woman was very clever

D

Sally Ride was born in California in 1951. She was the first American woman to travel into space. She loved to play tennis and wanted to be a tennis player when she was young. But after three months’ professional（专业的）training, she changed her mind. She went to Stanford University and started to study science. She studied stars and planets. She did researches at the university and got her PHD in astrophysics（天体物理学博士学位）after several years’ hard work.

In 1977, she took a test to become an astronaut. And then she was picked up from over 8,000 people. In order to realize her dream of going into space, she had to get different kinds of special and difficult training. She learned how to fly a plane, how to jump out of a plane as well as how to operate（操作）special machines.

Sally and four other astronauts flew a spaceship called Challenger on Jun. 18,1983. She became the first American woman to travel into space. Later, she taught at the University of California. Then she wrote seven books on space for children, encouraging（鼓励）children to study science unluckily ,she died in 2012.

（ ）72. What did Sally Ride want to do at first? A. She wanted to study stars.

B. She wanted to study science. C. She wanted to play tennis. D. She wanted to do researches.

（ ）73. When did Sally Ride go into space?

A. In 1951. B. In 1977. C. In 1983. D. In 2012. （ ）74.Which is NOT TRUE about Sally Ride?

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A. She learned how to fly a plane. B. She learned how to produce machines. C. She learned how to jump out of a plane. D. She learned how to use special machines.

（ ）75.Which is the best title for the passage? A. The First American Woman Writer

B. The First American Woman Astronaut C. The First American Woman Teacher D. The First American Woman Scientist

B)请先阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文的内容从下面方框内的七个选项中，选择五个适当的句子还原到原文中，使短文意思通顺、结构完整。（每小题2分）

Chinese people love to eat because they think having meals together is the best way to communicate（交流）. They think lots of dishes on the table show high life quality.(76)________ Now the Chinese government is asking the public not to waste（浪费）the food.(77)____________

Some restaurants are doing what they can to help people to reduce（减少）food waste.（78）_____ Wang Mei, a famous woman, said, “We shouldn’t order more food than we need, and sometimes we can order a half so that we won’t waste.” Once Wang Mei ordered half a Beijing Duck and some vegetables.（79）_________

Some people like eating up everything on their plates. We call it Cleaning the Plates. Wu Li did it for many years. She said, “(80)_______ However, many people throw away a whole chicken or fish.” Cleaning the Plates is not only to save food, but also to protect the environment and our health.

五、补全对话

A: Hi, Bill! We are going to read Tom Sawyer . 81 ? B: Not yet. What’s it about?

A: It’s about a boy who lives in the US. B: 82 ？

A: It’s really exciting. I like it very much.

B: Really ? I’d like to read it, but I don’t have the book. 83 ？ A: Sorry, I can’t . I have lent it to Julie. Maybe you can buy one.

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B: 84 ? A: You can buy it in Zhi Hui store.

B: OK, I will go there this afternoon. 85 . A: You’re welcome. 六、书面表达

大象正面临危险，你认为我们应该如何保护它们？写一篇70词左右的短文（题目已给出）（15分） 特征 己的重要工具 处于困境 采取措施 最后结果 美丽的象牙遭到人类捕杀；食物减少； 建立自然保护区，不去买象牙制作的物品 人与大象友好相处 What can we do to protect elephants 世界上最大的陆栖动物，重5000kilos,高350cm; 鼻子长，耳朵大，象牙是保护自提示词：陆栖动物 live on the land

象牙：ivory 大象保护区：elephant reserve

猎杀：hunt

由……制作 be made of……

A. But restaurants usually advice people to order more than they need. B. If customers（顾客）order more than they can eat, they will remind them kindly. C. There are still a lot of people who don’t have enough to eat. D. Restaurants are also joining in the action. E. Everyone has the duty to help hungry people. F. She believed that saving food didn’t mean losing face. G. So some people often order so many dishes that they can’t eat them up. Madeofcanruohanxing