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赣州市厚德外国语学校初中部2017-2018学年度第二学期周考1 八年级英语试题（实验班）

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Ⅰ、听力测试 根据独白内容完成下列句子，每个空格不超过3个单词。（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）

1. Gina lives in Australia now, but she was born _____________________. 2. They moved there _____________________ when her dad got a new job there. 密 封 线 内 请 勿 答 题 3. At first, she didn’t like the life in Australia because it was summer and it often ________________. 4. Things got better when she ___________________.

5. Now she enjoys living there. And she thinks Australia is ______________________. Ⅱ、单项选择（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） ( ) 1. Did you do ______________ in the park last Sunday?

A. something interesting C. anything interesting

B. interesting something D. interesting anything

C. strong enough D. strongly enough

( ) 2. The boy is ______________ to carry the heavy box.

A. enough strong B. enough strongly ( ) 3. I wonder _______________.

A. when and where shall we meet B. why you arrived late again C. how can we get there A. a few

B. few

D. which one did you choose C. a little C. someone A

One evening, three old men came to a house and knocked at the door. The hostess（女主人）opened the door. She didn’t know them, ___1___ she asked them to___2___ and have something to eat because she thought they must be ___3___. To the woman’s surprise, they were not willing to come into the ___4___ together. One of them explained, “We are called Wealth（财富）, Success and Love. You

have to choose___5___ of us.” “Go in and discuss with your___6___ which of us you want in your home,” added another old man.

The woman told the family___7___ happened. Her husband hoped to invite Wealth. He hoped their house would be full of___8___. But the woman___9___ Success better. Their daughter was ___10___ from one corner of the house. She jumped in with her own idea, “It would be___11___ if we invited Love. Our house will then be full of love!”

“Let’s listen to our daughter.” The husband finally made the decision. The woman went out and asked the three old men, “Which of you is ___12___? Come in and be our guest（客人）.”

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( ) 4. Only ________________ students know how to solve this problem.

D. little D. none

( ) 5. Not _______________ liked their English teacher. Some of them thought he was too strict. A. everyone B. anyone

III、完形填空（共25小题；每小题1分，满分25分）

Love ___13___ and started walking towards the door. The other two ___14___. Surprised, the woman asked, “I ___15___ invite Love, why are you coming in?”

The old men said together, “Wherever (无论哪里) Love goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, There is also Wealth and Success.” ( ) 1. A. but ( ) 2. A. leave ( ) 3. A. unhappy ( ) 4. A. office ( ) 5. A. some ( ) 6. A. son ( ) 7. A. what ( ) 8. A. health ( ) 9. A. refused ( ) 10. A. listening ( ) 11. A. more ( ) 12. A. Wealth ( ) 13. A. stood up ( ) 14. A. left ( ) 15. A. once

B. because B. walk B. thirsty B. house B. three B. husband B. when B. time B. liked B. reading B. cooler B. Health B. dressed up B. cried B. only

C. before C. come in C. angry C. cinema C. two C. family C. why C. love C. disliked C. playing C. better C. Success C. grew up C. followed C. always

D. so D. run D. hungry D. library D. one D. daughter D. where D. money D. remembered D. drawing D. safer D. Love D. put up D. laughed D. often

B）请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后用方框中所给的词的适当形式填空。每个词限用一次。 relax but plane age him something tell go doctor grade Mulin is a small boy from Hubei. He is an unlucky boy. His parents divorced（离婚）when he was two years old. He lived with his father and grandmother. At the ___16___ of 5, his father died of heart disease. He had to live with his grandmother. Unluckily, there was ___17___ wrong with his grandmother’s head. He looked after his grandmother well. At the same time, he got good ___18___ at school. When he was ten, he took his grandmother to see a ___19___ in Wuhan with some people’s help. They lived in Wuhan for a month. He had no time to go out because he had to look after his grandmother.

He called ___20___ a “Sunshine Boy”. He felt happy every day. But when the reporter asked him if he was really so happy, he said he wasn’t. He didn’t want to show his unhappiness to his grandmother. He ___21___ the reporter that when he was unhappy, he wrote the unhappy things on the paper with which he folded a model ___22___. When the plane flew away, he felt ___23___.

When the reporter asked him if he felt sorry to miss so many lessons because of ___24___ to Wuhan, he said the lessons he missed could be learned later, ___25___if his grandmother missed the best time to cure（治疗）, there would be nothing to get the chance back.

What a good boy! We should learn from him.

16. ___________ 17. ___________18. ____________19.___________20.___________ 21. ___________ 22. ___________23. ____________24.___________25.___________ IV、阅读理解（共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分）

A

Many people say that they are working too many hours. They don't have enough time to relax or to stay with their family.

Work hours are different from one country to another. In France, people spend about 1,646 hours a year at work. In Japan, however, people work about 2,159 hours a year. That means a Japanese worker works

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513 more hours a year than a French worker.

Why do people work so many hours? Some people work extra hours because they want to make more money. However, many companies don't pay overtime. Their workers don't get more pay for more work. Some people think it's their duty to work more hours. Some are afraid of losing their jobs if they don't work more hours.

Many people say that their vacations are too short. In France, people get five weeks of paid vacation a year. In Germany, they get four to six weeks, and in the United States, two weeks. One study shows fewer than half of workers used all their vacation days. In Great Britain, there is a saying, \makes Jack a dull (迟钝的) boy\( ) 1. A Japanese worker works _________ more hours a year than a French one. A. 513 A. 正常的

B. 1,646 B. 额外的

C. 2,159 C. 有用的

D. 3,805 D. 少量的

( ) 2. The underlined word \( ) 3. People in __________ get only two weeks of paid vacation a year. A. France

B. Germany

C. the United States D. Great Britain

( ) 4. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. No companies offer vacations to their workers. B. Many people say they have enough time to relax. C. Not all companies pay their workers for more work. D. More than half of workers use all their vacation days. ( ) 5. What can we infer (推测) from the passage? A. Many workers have to work long hours. B. Many people have vacations long enough. C. Work hours are the same around the world. D. There are a lot of dull people in the world.

B

The last Thursday of November is Thanksgiving Day. 6. _______ Usually, family members and friends get together for a dinner. People sometimes drive their cars a long way for a family reunion (团聚). 7. _______, because most Americans do not work on Saturdays and Sundays.

8. _______, when the first English settlers (定居者) reached the New World. 9. _______ But the American Indians helped the white men and taught them how to farm.

In the autumn after the English settlers came to America, they had a good harvest (收获). 10. _______ They decided to invite their Indian friends to dinner in order to thank them for their help.

As far as family reunion, Thanksgiving Day is even more important than Christmas or New Year's Eve to most Americans. A. They were so pleased. B. Thanksgiving Day is more important than Christmas. C. It is a holiday in the USA. D. Thanksgiving Day began in 1621 E. Many people also take Friday off and make it a long weekend holiday F. They learnt how to farm from the local people. G. They did not have enough food. 6. ________ 7. ________ 8. ________ 9. ________ 10. ________

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