八年级学生英语能力竞赛试题
2005．12
I. 单项选择 (Vocabulary and structure) (共20小题，计20分)
A) 选择能够替换划线部分的最佳选项。
1. Good habits help us keep in good health.
A. health B. unhealthy C. healthy
2. Please go to the doctor if you are ill.
A. look at the doctor B. help the doctor C. see the doctor
3. As the eldest child in the family, Tom has to help look after his little sisters.
A. look at B. look for C. take care of
4. Why not have a rest and enjoy every minute of it?
A. How to B. Why don't we C. Can we
5. They're talking about the movie star now.
A. at the moment B. just a moment C. now and then
B) 选出下列各题的最佳选项。
6、-- do you eat fruit? –-Every day.
A. How long B. How many C. How much D. How often
7、—What’s Sonja? —She has .
A. matter with, cold B. the matter with, a cold
C. the matter, cold D. matter, a cold
8、We are next Sunday.
A. going camp B. go camping C. going camping D. go to camping
9、— do you get to school? —By bus.
A. What time B. When C. How D. How often
10、I’m going to my cousin’s birthday party Saturday evening.
A. at B. in C. on D. of
11、—Can you come to my party? —Sorry, I .
A. can’t B. am C. can D. don’t
12、He usually there at 5:10.
A. gets to B. got C. got to D. gets
13、I like swimming. What you?
A. are B. with C. about D. do
14、I you feel better soon.
A. want B. hope C. hope to D. want to
15、Some students do homework three four times a week.
A. and B. with C. or D. of
C) 情景会话。
16. —Do you think he'll come back home this evening?
—_________
—Don't you miss him?
A. Maybe. B. So. C. Where? D. When?
17. —_________
—Nothing but a little sick.
—Take care of yourself, dear.
A. What's that? B. What's your name?
C. Is it wrong? D. What's the matter?
18. —Miss Lin, Tim broke his leg. So he can't come to school today.
—_________
A. You are too careless. B. I'm sorry to hear that.
C. Help yourself to some fish. D. You should go to school.
19. —A pair of glasses would be a good present for Dad.
—_________
—Then let's go and buy a pair for him.
A. Me, either. B. I like your idea.
C. Happy birthday, Father. D. Your glasses are so modern.
20. —Can you go to the concert with me?
—I'd love to. _________
A. But I'm too busy to go. Sorry. B. I'm afraid not.
C. Sorry about it. D. You can go alone.
II、单词拼写（10分）
21. My sister n
drinks milk, she says it makes her sick.
22. We’re going to Hawaii for va
.
23. I like to r
my bike on the weekend.
24. Mary is a funny girl. She always makes
me
gh.
25. It’s too dark（暗的）in the room.
Please t
on the light.
26. I have a
toothache. I need to go to the
tist.
27. I bel it’s
important to sleep eight hours a night.
28. Arthur is a
loving and k
grandfather. He spends his free time with his grandson.
29. Few students
took the
ot back to school yesterday.
30. Our school
team
on the football match yesterday.
21. n______ 22.va_______ 23. r_____ 24.______gh 25. t_____
26. ____ tist 27. bel_____ 28. k______ 29. _____ ot 30. __ on
III. 完形填空(Cloze)(共10小题，计10分)
Mike comes from the USA. But he lives in__31__ with his family because his parents work in Beijing. Mike is my classmate. He is only twelve years old, but he is ___32__ than any other boy in our class. So he sits at the back of the classroom. Mike usually comes to school by bike. Sometimes he _33__ to school. He likes playing football. So no one is as _34_ as him in our class.
Mike is very outgoing. He can _35__ English and French. And he knows _36_ Chinese, too. He often helps our English teacher _37__us English. After class we like talking with him_38__ English. It’s my 13th birthday today. After school I invite the _39__ boy and some _40__ students to my home. My mother cooks something delicious for us. All of us have a good time.
31. A. America B. England C. China D. Canada
32. A. longer B. taller C. shorter D. older
33. A. stops B. sits C. stands D. walks
34. A. athletic B. smart C. quiet D. funny
35. A. speak B. say C. talk D. tell
36. A. many B. a few C. little D. a little
37. A. teach B. to teaching C. teaches D. taught
38. A. to B. with C. in D. on
39. A. America B. American C. English D. England
40. A. other B. others C. another D. the other
IV. 阅读理解(Reading comprehension)（共20小题，计40分）
A
I am doing shopping with my mother. I usually go shopping with my friends
or 
classmates, but it is my birthday
and my mother wants to buy me some new clothes as presents. So we go to a shop
called Stradivarius. I really
like that shop. My mother starts to laugh as soon as we get there. She says,
“Almost all the clothes in the window are just like the things I wore when I was
young. Those flared trousers （喇叭裤） and very
short skirts.”
Back in the 1970s every Saturday morning my mother and her friends looked around the shops. Of course they did not always have money to buy the things they wanted. But they could decorate （装饰） their old jeans to make them look new. My grandmother was very good at sewing （缝补） and she helped my mother sew colored patches （小块的布） onto her old jeans.
My mother says she really likes these styles and so do I.
阅读短文， 根据其内容选择最佳选项完成下列各题。
41. _________, so I go shopping with her.
A. I want to buy myself some new clothes
B. I want to buy my mother some presents
C. My mother wants to buy some new clothes
D. My mother wants to buy me some new clothes for my birthday
42. Why does my mother laugh as soon as she sees the clothes in the window?
A. She thinks the clothes in the window are all strange and old.
B. The clothes look quite different from those she wore when she was young.
C. She is very happy to see that there are so many kinds of clothes.
D. They are nearly the same as the clothes she wore when she was young.
43. Could my mother always buy the clothes she wanted when she was young?
A. Yes, she could. B. No, she couldn't. C. Maybe. D. We don't know.
44. My grandmother helped my mother decorate her clothes by _________.
A. cutting them into pieces B. cutting them short
C. painting them colorful D. sewing some patches onto them
45. In a word, both my mother and I _________.
A. decorate our clothes by ourselves B. like those styles
C. never wear flared trousers D. want to change the style
B
Visit the Edinburgh Festival
Every year, thousands of people
come to Edinburgh（爱丁堡）, the
capital city of Scotland, to be part of the Edinburgh Festival. For three weeks
every August and September the city is filled with actors and artists from all
over the world. They come to Edinburgh for the biggest arts festival in
Britain. During this time the streets of the city are alive（具有活力的） with music and dance from early morning until late at
night. You can even see artists painting pictures on the streets. One of the
best parts of the Festival is the “Fringe”, where students do comedy shows in
small halls and cafés.
Tens of thousands of tourists come to the Festival to see new films and plays and hear music played by famous musicians. This year, you can see over five hundred performances with actors from more than forty countries.
The tickets for these performances are quite cheap and it is usually easier to see your favourite star in Edinburgh than it is in London. So come to Edinburgh next summer, but remember it can be difficult to find a room, so why not book your hotel now?
阅读上文，根据其内容对下列句子进行判断。正确的，请选择A；错误的，请选择B；文中没有提及的，请选择C。
46. The Edinburgh Festival is a month long.
47. You can hear music all day during the Festival.
48. More than ten thousand students come to the Edinburgh Festival every year.
49. It is expensive to see a play in Edinburgh.
50. It is usually more difficult to see famous actors in London than in Edinburgh.
C
The kinds of foods you eat and how much of those you eat are important to your
health. Scientists arrange （分配） foods in groups to help you choose a healthy diet. Each group has a different kind of food. Foods from all the groups together give you energy (能量), help you grow, help keep you from getting sick, and help make you strong.
The diagram（图表） shows six food groups and how
much food from each group you should eat each day. It is a good idea to think
about the food groups when you plan your meals at home and when you eat out.
Planning with the food groups will help you eat a well-balanced （搭配均衡的） diet that will help you stay healthy.
认真阅读图表和文章，根据其内容完成下列各题。
51. How many groups of food are shown in the diagram?
52. Which group of food should people eat most?
53. How can we get enough energy and keep healthy according to the passage?
D
Outside it was snowing heavily and the house was cold. I was alone 
and had been watching TV all
evening when the doorbell rang.
Feeling a little frightened, I went to the front door and called out, “Who is it?” There was no reply. I opened the door slowly. Through the thick snow, I saw the figure （轮廓） of a man standing in the doorway. The stranger was wearing a long, black coat and I could just make out his face. “I never saw this man in my life,” I thought.
“Can I come in? I will only stay for a short while.” he said. After I had thought about it for a moment, I let him in. “Thank you,” he said in a low voice. “I have been looking for you for years.”
I showed him into the living-room. In the bright light I suddenly recognized（认出） Billy, an old school friend I hadn't seen for thirty years.
阅读短文，根据其内容用文章中出现的单词的适当形式完成下列各句，每空格一词。
54. I was staying by myself in a _________ house on a dark and snowy evening.
55. I could only see the figure of the man because of the _________ _________.
56. I thought Billy was a _________ at first.
57. Thirty years ago, Billy and I were _________ _________.
E
Do you ever have trouble
remembering people's names? If you do, here are some ideas you can try to help
remember the names of people you meet. The best way to remember someone's name
is to repeat the name over and over. You can repeat the person's name while you
talk to them. Or, if you have a moment or two while they are not talking to
you, you can repeat their names in your mind. Repeating names in your mind is a
good way to remember several names if you meet lots of new people at the same
time.
Another way you can use to remember names is to connect the person's name to someone else. If your friend Tom introduces you to Mike, you can remember them together as “Tom and Mike”. Or you can connect the person's name to something about the person. If Sarah was wearing a red sweater when you met her, it might help remember her name as “Red Sarah”.
In case you forget someone's name, don't feel bad about asking him / her to tell it to you again. Everyone forgets names now and then. And after hearing it again, you'll probably remember it more easily.
阅读上面的短文，根据其内容回答下列各题，每题答案不得超过五个单词。
58. What is the best way to remember someone's name according to the passage?
59. We can connect names with many things. The writer gave us two examples in this passage. What are the two things the writer used in the examples?
60. What does the passage suggest (建议) if you forget someone's name?
V. 翻译(Translation)（共10小题，计10分）
A) 阅读短文，根据其上下文内容，将划线部分的句子翻译成汉语。
The History of the London Police
(61) Today there are policemen
everywhere, but in 1700 London had no policemen at all. Only a few old men
protected（保护） the city streets at night.
(62) About 300 years ago, London started to get bigger. The city was very dirty and many people were poor. There were many thieves in the streets. (63) People had to stay in their homes as much as possible.
In 1750, Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves. They were like policemen. Fifty years later there was a police force with 3,000 officers in London. (64) Most of them worked on foot, but a few rode horses.
Today, some policemen still ride horses. (65) And the pay for them is even better than it is for other policemen.
VI. 智力测试(IQ)（共5小题，计10分）
回答下列问题。
66. The little boy ran until he was blue in the face．
What does“blue in the face”here mean？Answer in Chinese.
______________________________________________
67．What part of London is in France？
______________________________________________
68. What letter should replace the question mark? ____________________
69.What comes next in the below sequence(次序)?
A B C D
70 .Teddy is up in the air because his uncle agreed to buy him an ice cream cone （蛋卷冰淇淋）!What does “up in the air” mean? Answer in English.
