八年级英语下学期竞赛试题
第一卷 （共60分）
一、听力部分（共25题；每小题1分，满分25分）
A) 根据录音选择相符的图画，每段材料读两遍。（5分）
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B）听录音，选择合适的应答句，每个句子读两遍。（5分）
6. A. I’d like to. B. Let me see. C. I don’t know French, either.
7. A. It doesn’t matter. B. Congratulations! C. Thank you.
8. A. He likes studying English. B. He looks like his father.
C. He looks at his book.
9. A. A French film. B. There is a bird. C. It’s on the ground.
10. A. Swimming. B. Physics. C. Basketball.
C) 根据录音中的对话，选择最佳答案，每段对话读两遍。（10分）
11. Where is the supermarket?
A. It’s to the left of the woman’s house.
B. It’s to the right of the woman’s house.
C. It’s between the woman’s house and the cinema.
12. What time is it now?
A. It’s 10:45. B. It’s 10:50. C. It’s 11:10.
13. Where are they talking?
A. At the doctor’s. B. In the shop. C. At the station.
14. How long hasn’t she received Mike’s letter?
A. Three weeks ago. B. Since three months ago. C. For three weeks.
15. How much did they pay for the house?
A. ￥203,000. B. ￥230,000. C. ￥2,300,000.
16. What’s Miss White looking for?
A. A coat. B. A cotton coat. C. A strong coat.
17. What is it made of?
A. New cotton. B. Thick glass. C. Strong paper.
18. What’s the matter with Tom?
A. His bike was broken. B. His leg was hurt. C. He feels much better.
19. What did the doctor ask Tom to do?
A. To worry about his lessons. B. To go home at once.
C. To stay in bed for a few days.
20. Who will help Tom with his lessons?
A. Ann. B. The doctor. C. Mary.
D) 根据所听到的短文选择最佳答案，短文读两遍。（共5分）
21. How many kinds of paper are there today?
A. Seven thousand. B. Less than seven thousand. C. Seven hundred.
22. What’s paper made from?
A. Rice, cotton, trees and other plants.B. Trees, cotton and other plants.
C. Cotton, rice, trees and others.
23. When was paper invented?
A. Before the second century. B. In the second century. C. We don’t know.
24. Where did people put the tree covering and old pieces of cloth before they were made into paper?
A. In the cloth（布）. B. In the tree. C. In the water.
25. When did the foreign countries know how to make paper?
A. After the war. B. In the nineteenth century. C. During the war.
二、单项填空 (共12小题；每小题1分，满分12分）
26. Where’s Lily? We are all here her.
A. beside B. about C. except D. with
27. I’m interested in animals, so I every Saturday working in an animal hospital.
A. pay B. get C. take D. spend
28. We often have sports after class, and I like to play basketball.
A. a B. an C. the D. /
29. Father gave me several pens, but I like ___ of them.
A. none B. both C. any D. neither
30. ---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
31. You don’t need ___ it right now if you are busy.
A. to finish B. finish C. finishing D. finished
32. ___ do you call that in English?
A. How B. What C. Who D. which
33. 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
34. Little Tom has friends, so he often plays alone.
A. more B. a little C. many D. few
35. ---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
三、完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is 36 plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and men 37 make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and animals 38 Therefore(因此), animals and men need plants in order to 39 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 40 find that there are many kinds of plants. Some plants are large 41 others are small. Most plants are green..
Some plants have many small leaves. Others have only 42 large leaves. There are many kinds of leaves. Leaves are of 43 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 44 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 45 the teeth of saw(锯).
( ) 36. A. why B. because C. how D. that
( ) 37. A. don’t B. not C. cannot D. can
( ) 38. A. too B. either C. also D. already
( ) 39 A. eat B. live C. have D. get
( ) 40. A. are going to B. may C. certainly D. will
( ) 41. A. when B. yet C. and D. while
( ) 42.A. a little B. a few C. little D. few
( ) 43.A. much B. different C. same D the same
( ) 44.A. not B. none C. neither D. no
( ) 45.A. like B. as C. as if D. seem
四、阅读理解（46-50每小题1分，51--60每小题2分，共25分）
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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.”
46.The students were having their class.
A. English B. Chinese C. chemistry D. maths
47. Miss Li was telling the children what was like.
A. water B. air C. earth D. weather
48. A boy said, “The water in the river behind my house is always .”
A. white B. black C. clean D. clear
49. Most of the children the boy.
A. agreed with B. wrote to C. heard from D. sent for
50.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
B
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.
51. The underlined word “spoiled” means .
A. 富有的 B. 娇惯的 C. 勤快的 D. 聪明的
52. 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.
53. 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.
C
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.”
54. 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
55. Which of the following may Not be an emotion?
A. 8-) B. :-) C. See you. D. :-(
56. 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
57. 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.
D
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.
58. 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
59. What does the underlined word cheat mean in the passage?
A. 聊天 B. 核对 C. 查询 D. 作弊
60. 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
第二卷(共34分)
五、词汇 （共15分）
A）根据汉语提示或句意写出所缺单词。（每小题1分，共5分）
61. Do you think （十一月）is the coldest month in our country?
62. He wrote more than twenty novels (在…期间) his life time.
63. One is never too old to _______________.
64. Please do not tell it to others. It is a ____________.
65. The __________ (附近的) market sells all kinds of fresh vegetables.
B）根据句意，找出合适的单词，并用其正确形式填入句中。（5分）
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66. How it is raining outside!
67. Those are very interested in the great places of interest of China.
68. Look at in the mirror. How dirty your faces are!
69. French people speak English as their language.
70. English is much than Japanese.
C) 用所给动词的适当形式填空。（5分）
71. A woman with her children in the park now. (walk)
72. So far, no one me about that. (tell)
73. Mary a telephone call to her grandparents every week. (make)
74. An American doctor Coca-Cola long ago. (invent)
75. We ____________ (clean) out our classroom , so it is now very tidy and bright.
六、短文改错（共５分）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 76.
early every morning to make a breakfast for me. 77.
And she often wake up in the middle of the night 78.
to see if I’m sleeping well. Once, when I am ill, I couldn’t 79.
eat. Mum was so worried that she wouldn’t eat, too. 80.
七、智力测试（IQ）: (共5小题，计5分)
81. What's the man's job? You'll know with the help of the lettered pieces. ______________
82. The little boy ran until he was blue in the face. What does the Chinese for “blue in the face” here mean? ___________________
83. What letter should replace the question mark? ____________________
84. 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? ___________________
85. What comes next in the below sequence(次序)?
A B C D
八、书面表达 （共14分）
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。
| 姓 名 | 李 明 | 出生年月 | 1990年3月 |
| 出生地 | 浙江杭州市 | 相关经历 | 有两年校报工作经验 |
| 获奖情况 | 2005年在全校英语竞赛中获一等奖 | ||
| 爱 好 | 看英文小说、集邮、篮球 | ||
| 特 长 | 英文写作、电脑 | ||
| 联系方式 | |||
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
My name is Li Ming.
八年级英语下学期竞赛试题
一、听力部分
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二、选择填空
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三、完型填空
| 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 |
四、阅读理解。
| 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 |
五、词汇
A 61.________ 62. ___________ 63. __________ 64. __________
65. ___________
B 66.________ 67. ___________ 68. __________ 69. __________
70 ___________
C 71.________ 72. ___________ 73. __________ 74. __________
75. ___________
六、短文改错
My mother has done so many for me! She gets up 76.
early every morning to make a breakfast for me. 77.
And she often wake up in the middle of the night 78.
to see if I’m sleeping well. Once, when I am ill, I couldn’t 79.
eat. Mum was so worried that she wouldn’t eat, too. 80.
七、智力测试
81 ____________________ 82 ____________________
83 _____________ 84 _________________ 85 ____________________
八、书面表达
My name is Li Ming.
八年级英语下学期竞赛试题
听力原文及参考答案
A) 根据录音选择相符的图画，每段材料读两遍。
1. W: Mike, your watch is very nice.
M: Thank you, Lucy. It’s my birthday present from my aunt.
2. M: Where do you live?
W: I like living in the countryside. I drive a car to work every day.
3. W: Will you be here at ten o’clock?
M: No, I’ll be there thirty minutes later.
4. W: Do you have books about computers?
M: Yes, we do. Here is one about the ABC of computers.
W: Thanks. How long may I keep it please?
M: Two weeks.
5. M: What are you going to do this afternoon?
W: I’ve no idea.
M: Shall we play basketball?
W: No. Let’s go to see a film.
M: OK. That’s a good idea.
B）听录音，选择合适的应答句，每个句子读两遍。
6. I don’t know French.
7. Sorry, I’m late.
8. What does he look like?
9. What’s on at the cinema now?
10. Do you like football or basketball?
C) 根据录音中的对话，选择最佳答案，每段对话读两遍。
11. M: Where do you live?
W: I live to the left of the supermarket.
12. M: Excuse me, what’s the time, please?
W: My watch says ten to eleven. But it’s five minutes fast.
13. M: What’s the trouble, Miss?
W: I’ve got a headache.
M: Do you have a high temperature?
W: Do I need to take some medicine, doctor?
14. M: Have you heard from Mike recently?
W: I haven’t heard from him since three weeks ago.
15. M: The Lees bought a new flat last month.
W: How much did it cost?
M: About 230,000 yuan. And they are going to move into it next month.
听下面一段对话，回答第16-17题。
W: I’m afraid I’ve lost my coat.
M: Is this yours, Miss White? It’s made of cotton.
W: No. Mine is made of paper, a kind of strong paper. It’s a new invention.
M: A paper coat! What’s it used for?
W: It’s used for keeping off the rain.
听下面一段对话，回答第18-20题。
W: Hello, Tom. What’s wrong with you?
M: Hello, Ann. I fell off the bike on the way home, and hurt my leg.
W: How are you feeling today?
M: Much better, thank you.
W: These flowers are for you.
M: Oh! How beautiful! You are so kind.
W: What did the doctor say?
M: Yesterday he said I must stay in bed for a few days.
W: Don’t worry about your lessons. I’ll help you when you come back to school.
M: Thank you very much.
D) 根据所听到的短文选择最佳答案，短文读两遍。
Today there are almost 7,000 kinds of paper. Paper is very useful. It is made from trees, rice, cotton and other plants.
The Chinese scientist, Cai Lun, invented the paper in the second century. He was a great inventor. At that time people put the outside covering of a tree and old pieces of cloth into water, and a few days later they took them out. Then they made these and other things into pieces of paper.
The Chinese kept their secret of how to make paper for a long time. In the ninth century there was a war between China and foreign countries. Soon after that the foreign countries knew the art of making paper.
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26-30 CDDAB 31-35 ABADC 36-40 B C A B D 41--45 D B B D A
46-50 CABAD 51-53 BBD 54-57 CCBD 58-60 CDA
61-65 November, during, learn, secret, nearby.
66-70heavily, visitors, yourselves, second, more useful
71-75 is walking, has told, makes, invented, have cleaned.
76. many →much 77. a breakfast → breakfast 78. wake→wakes 79. am→was 80. too →either
81. School teacher. 82. 精疲力尽。 83. W. It has 22 letters in the alphabet(字母表) before it, and three letters after it. 84. 31,16,8,4,2,1 85. D
My name is Li Ming. I was born in hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in March, 1990. I have worked for our school newspaper for two years. I like English writing and computer best and I am very good at them. Last year, I won the first prize in the school English contest. I enjoy reading English stories and collecting stamps. My favourite sport is basketball. My e-mail address is