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2019 届八年级（下）半期测试

第二部分 基础知识运用 （共 30 小题；计 40 分）

六、选择填空（共 15 小题；计 20 分）

A.从各题的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出正确答案。（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分；计 10 分） ( ( (

)31. It’s unfair rule that my parents don’t allow me to shop with friends on weekends.

A. a B. the C. an ()32. I don’t like to hang out rainy days. I don’t want to get wet.

A. at B. in C. on )33. _you are a student, you should listen to teachers and finish homework carefully. A. Although B. Since C. Until )34. My teachers some of today’s homework because we have to prepare for

tomorrow’s Volleyball Competition. A. work out B. take out C. cut out )35. When children grow up, they have to live alone and learn to take care of .

A. themselves B. their C. they )36. Jim is so shy that he often feels to answer questions in class.

A. strong B. silent C. nervous )37. Junko Tabei is famous as a woman mountain in Japan.

A. terrorist B. member C. climber )38. It rained last night. I could hardly fall asleep.

A. recently B. heavily C. quickly )39. I the importance of having good habits after I had a talk with the best student in my class yesterday. A. realized B. returned C. repaired )40. While the serious snow A. died down

, I was playing the piano in the living room.

B. was dying down C. dies down

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B.补全对话。根据对话内容，从方框中选出适当的选项补全对话。并将选项中的编号字母依 次填在答题卡的相应位置。（共 5 小题，每小题 2 分；计 10 分） A: What’s the matter, Linda? You look worried.

B: I want to buy CDs of Taylor’s. 41 I only have five yuan. A: 42 They will lend money to you. B: My parents won’t help me. 43 A. Where can I sell the school things? A: I have a good idea. You could sell some school things B. Why not ask your parents for help? to save money.

C. But I don’t have enough money. B: Great! 44 A: At the school gate. We can sell them to other students D. They don’t think a student needs such

a thing. after school.

B:Sounds good. 45 E. But teachers won’t allow us to do so. A: Don’t worry. Let’s think about other ways.

七、完形填空。通读下面两篇短文，根据短文内容，从 A、B、C 三个选项中选出可以填入 空白处的正确答案（共 15 小题，A 篇每小题 2 分，B 篇每小题 1 分；共计 20 分） A

Once, a king loved music so much that he looked for the best instrument in the world. One day, a magic man 46 the king a harp(竖琴).

The king took it back to his palace, but when he played it, the harp sounded 47 . Many other people tried it. The result was the same. The king was so angry that he threw the harp out as 48 . A poor little girl later found the harp. Although she didn’t know how to play it, she decided to have a try. She played and played, for the whole day, the months and years. The music she played was never beautiful, but each time it sounded a little 49 . Then one day, the king was reading a book in his room while the girl was playing the harp. He called the girl to his palace. When he saw the girl playing the most beautiful sound with his old harp. The king 50 understood the harp could only be played well by someone who would continue learning and practicing. ( )46.A.controlled B. offered C. got ( )47.A.beautiful B. terrible C. clear ( )48.A.rubbish B. wood C. snack ( )49.A.better B. worse C. more ( )50.A.properly B. luckily C. suddenly

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You and your family are planning a picnic for tomorrow. But you want to 51 the weather forecast(预报) first to see if there will be rain or not. Your father turns on the television and the family listens to the 52 who makes the weather report.

“It will be partly cloudy tomorrow morning, 53 clearing by early afternoon. The high temperature tomorrow will be 25℃.”

Since there will be no rain, the whole family feels 54 . Without the weather forecast, you would not know this, and you would just have

to try your luck. But now you can plan your picnic 55 worrying if it will rain or not.

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The man you can thank for this is Cleverland Abbe. His nickname is “Old Probabilities”. He gave 56 weather forecast in the United States. People could know what the weather was like every day. Abbe began his weather report in 1869. They were based on weather 57 he drew. 58 their accuracy(精确性), the reports were popular.

The government became interested in Abbe’s weather reports. They made Abbe a meterorologist (someone who studies weather), and he 59 reporting weather forecasts three times a day. He was the 60 forecaster of the U.S. government. He is also known as the father of the weather forecast. ( )51.A.raise B. know C. organize ( )52.A.fireman B. postman C. weatherman ( )53.A.so B. but C. although ( )54.A.excited B. shocked C. stressed ( )55.A.without B. from C. against ( )56.A.fair B. polluted C. daily ( )57.A.maps B. situations C. space ( )58.A.Instead of B. Because of C. Make sure ( )59.A.began B. hated C. pushed ( )60.A.first B. last C. next

第三部分 阅读理解 （共 15 小题；计 30 分）

八、阅读下面对话，根据对话内容判断句子的正误。正确的写“A”，错误的写“B”。（共 5 小 题，每小题 2 分；计 10 分）

At the age of 16, Julia left school and worked at a restaurant. For many years, she was only interested in making money. Then one day she had a serious car accident which changed her life. “The terrible car accident took me 10 months to recover(康复). During that time, I realized I wanted to find a more meaningful reason for being here in this world,” said Julia.

As soon as she recovered, Julia gave up working at the restaurant and traveled to California. One day she found a big company wanted to cut down part of a forest. In the forest there were lots of redwood trees. One of the trees was more than 1,000 years old.

Then Julia learned a group called Our Earth was trying to save the redwood forest from the company. They decided to find someone to live in a redwood tree and hoped this would stop the company from cutting the trees down. Julia volunteered.

Julia lived in the tree for over two years without ever going down. It was cold and wet in a redwood tree. There were even very cold winters while Julia was in the tree.

Finally the company decided to protect(保护) the tree Julia lived in. They agreed never to cut down the big redwood tree or the tree around it. When Julia put her feet on the earth, she began to cry. But she thought it was so meaningful that she continued to do other things to protect the environment. ( )61. Making money was the only thing Julia took an interest in when she worked at a

restaurant.

( )62. After Julia recovered, she went to protect the environment at once.

( )63. Julia lived in the redwood tree to stop the company from cutting the trees down. ( )64. The life in the tree for Julia was comfortable and enjoyable.

( )65. Julia understood there were more meaningful things to do from her experiences.

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