2014-2015学年新目标八年级下册期中英语测试卷及答案

2014-2015学年新目标八年级下期中英语测试

Midterm Exam（Units 1~5）

Ⅰ．Choose the word whose pronunciation is different from the others. 各组单词中，有一个单词划线部分的读音与其他三个单词划线部分的读音不同，请选出。(每个1分，共5分)

Ⅱ．Choose the best answers. 单项选择题。(每个2分，共30分) 1．I hear she’ll be back ________ a week.

A. after

B. in

C. from

D. at

2．Did he give you anything else ________ the book?

A. but

B. besides

C. beside

D. except

3．My sister can’t cook, ________ .

A. either can my brother

B. nor my brother can

C. neither can’t my brother

D. my brother can’t, either

4．Every student in our class were out except ________ , because we had something else to do.

A. Li Ping and I

B. Li Ping and me

C. I and Li Ping

D. me and Li Ping

5．I ________ a candle and could see well by candlelight.

A. lights

B. light

C. lighted

D. lited

6．The old lady can’t hope to ________ her cold in a few days.

A. get away

B. get off

C. get out

D. get over

7．I don’t think he ________ here next week.

A. comes

B. came

C. will come

D. coming

8．It’s ten o’clock! Are you still ________ TV?

A. watch

B. watches

C. watching

D. watched

9．Can you tell me ________ at that time?

A. what were they doing

B. what they were doing

C. what are they doing

D. what they are doing

10．The teacher said light ________ much faster than sound.

A. traveled

B. travels

C. will travel

D. had traveled

11．If it ________ , I’ll go to the zoo.

A. won’t rain

B. don’t rain

C. doesn’t rain

D. rain

12．You’ll ________ .

A. late

B. later

C. are late

D. be late

13．I traveled ________ the world for a few years.

A. all

B. on

C. for

D. around

14．There is a blackboard ________ our classroom.

A. in front of

B. in front off

C. in the front of

D. the front of

15．We are all here ________ Tom, because he is ill at home.

A. except

B. beside

C. besides

D. excepts

Ⅲ．Cloze test. 完形填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文下面各小题所给的四个选项中选择一个最佳答案。(每个2分，共20分) Once(从前)there was a king. He was very rich(富有)and 1 great power(权力). But he wasn’t happy. He was 2 .It made him feel sad all the time. No doctor knew 3 was wrong with him. One day one of them 4 him, “After much thought and study, I have found out that there is only one way for you to get 5 .You must wear the shirt of a happy man. ”

So the king sent(派)his men to every part of his land 6 a happy man. First, they visited the rich and powerful(有权势的人). They asked these people if(是否)they were happy, 7 each of them