江苏省海安县七校联考2015-2016学年八年级英语下学期期中试题（含听力） 牛津译林版

( )52. What kind of transportation will the tourists use during the trip? A. Train, bus and boat. B. Bus, train and plane. C. Horse, bus and bike. D. Boat, car and bus. ( )53. How many days will the trip probably last?

A. Only one day B. No more than three days. C. Exactly two days D. At least four days B

More and more people like bicycling and it is no surprise. It is fun, healthy and good for the environment. Maybe that’s why there are 1.4 billion bicycles and only 400 million cars on roads worldwide today.

Bikes can take you almost anywhere, and there is no oil cost!Get on a bicycle and ride around your neighbourhood. You may discover something new all around you. Stopping and getting off a bike is easier than stopping and getting out of your car. You can bike to work and benefit (受益) from the enjoyable exercise without polluting the environment. You don’t even have to ride all the way.

Folding (折叠) bikes work well for people who ride the train. Just fold the bike and take it with you. You can do the same on an airplane. A folding bike can be packed in a suitcase. You can also take a common bike with you when you fly. But be sure to look for information by getting on airline websites. Not all airlines are bicycle-friendly to travellers. Health Benefits of Bicycling: It helps to prevent heart diseases. Bicycling helps to control your weight.

A 15-minute bike ride to and from work three times a week burns off five kilos of fat in a year.

Bicycling can improve your mood (心情). Exercise like bicycling has been shown to make people feel better, more relaxed and self-confident

Bicycling is healthier than driving.

( )54. When you are riding your bicycle around your neighbourhood, you may . A. pollute the environment around B. find something you didn’t notice

C. go everywhere and use a little oil D. get off your bike and begin to work ( )55. One of the benefits from bicycling is that .

A. you can fold the bicycle B. you will be friendly to others C. you will be more relaxed D. you may get fatter and fatter ( )56. Which is TRUE according to the passage? A. Bicycling is enjoyable exercise for people. B. Driving cars is healthier than riding bikes. C. Riding a bike pollutes your neighbourhood. D. Common bikes are welcomed by all airlines. C Smoking in indoor public places including public working places, public transport vehicles and some other special outdoor working places has been banned(禁止)in China since January

2011.Let’s look at the following advantages of banning smoking. First, banning smoking will not only help in saving smokers from health problems and diseases, but will also be good for passive(被动)smokers. When the smoker is smoking in a restaurant, the people around him are sure to breathe in the smoke and suffer from the diseases an active smoker gets. If smoking is banned, spread of these diseases can be controlled.

Next, banning smoking will put stress on smokers to give up. Since

a smoker is prevented from smoking, he will learn how to live without smoking for long hours.

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When a smoker doesn’t smell or see anybody around him smoking, it might reduce his wish to smoke too. As a result, people have to give up smoking.

Smoking in public places influences non-smokers to start smoking, especially adolescents. When teens see people around them smoking, they will follow them easily. Thus the number of teen smokers will increase. Also asthma(哮喘)and other problems are often seen in children living around smokers. So if it is banned, these places will become safe for children and teenagers. Looking from the economic point of view, smoking should be banned to increase work productivity(生产率).Employees(雇员)who smoke usually take breaks to smoke while working. So the number of hours they put in their work is smaller.

If you see from the environment point of view, smoking should be banned. Smoking causes air pollution. If it is banned, it will help keep the environment from getting worse. ( )57.________ doesn’t belong to a non-smoking place.

A. A field B.A hospital C.A library D.A restaurant ( )58. The second paragraph mainly wants to tell us ______. A. banning smoking is good for restaurants B. banning smoking is good for non-smokers

C. banning smoking is good for spread of diseases

D. banning smoking is good for active smokers and passive smokers

( )59.According to the text, the underlined word “adolescents” means ____. A. men B. women C. adults D. teenagers ( )60. Which of the following statements in NOT true?

A. If smoking is banned, work productivity will increase.

B. If smoking is banned, the number of teen smokers will be larger. C. If smoking is banned, it will make the environment become better. D. If smoking is banned, smokers will learn how to live without smoking.

第II卷（非选择题， 共40分）

五、词汇（本题共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

A. 请根据句意或括号中的中文提示、英文释义，写出句中所缺单词，使句子通顺。 61. We ___________ (设法完成)to arrive there on time at last. 62. The trip to HongKong is a happy e____________ for me.

63. Tianjin has done a lot of ______ ( the activity of buying and selling) with many countries. 64. You’d better not start a ______ (a small talk) with others’ age,weight or money in England. 65. I have r_________ the importance of protecting the forests since then.

B. 请根据句意从方框中选择合适的词,并用其适当形式填空，使句子通顺. north lie forty angry rain 66. What bad weather! It has been ______ for over two weeks. 67. Jim’s mother will celebrate her ______birthday this Sunday.

68. The policeman looked ______at the young man and shook his head sadly. 69. Isn’t it strange that the cat is used to ______ beside the dog quietly?

70. His new flat lies in the ______part of the town. He and his family will move there next week.

C. 请根据句意从方框中选择合适的动词, 并用其适当时态填空，使句子通顺。 leave hear worry chat study 71. The designer ______ in Paris ,France for two and a half months last year. 72. Nobody except his good friends ______ from him since he went to Denmark. 73. –I’m sorry you have missed the bus. It _____just three minutes ago.

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- What a pity!

74. When something difficult ______ me, I always go to my English teacher for advice.

75. My grandpa has gone to Beijing.I with my parents______ with him on the Internet these days.

六、句型转换 （本题共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分) 76. He was an artist in the past. (改为同义句) He ______to ______an artist.

77. Jim went to Japan four years ago. (改为同义句) Jim has ______ ______ Japan for four years.

78. Jiangsu has changed a lot over the years. (改为同义句) There ______ ______ many changes in Jiangsu over the years. 79. Have you seen that film yet? （改为肯定句） We______ ______ seen that film.

80. My father told me to be more careful. He didn’t punish（惩罚）me for my mistake. （合并为一句）

My father told me to be more careful ______ ______ punishing me for my mistake.

七、短文填空（本题共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分)

After our ship crashed a____81____ the rocks, I swam as far as I c____82____ . By the time I finally felt the l____83___ under my feet, I was t___84_____ out. I f_85_____ down on the beach and went to sleep.

Many people like to travel by plane, but I don’t like it because an a__86____ is usually f__87___from the city. I have to get there e___88___and wait for hours for the plane to t__89____ off .I like cars. I can start my journey when I want to, and I don’t need to get to a railway station or a bus stop early. Also I can carry many things with me in a car. But sometimes there are more cars on the road, at the same time , I have to s__90____ more money on the car. 81_________ 82___________ 83___________ 84___________ 85__________ 86_________ 87___________ 88___________ 89___________ 90__________

八、阅读与回答问题（本题共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)

Why do people cry? Scientists say the body produces tears because they need them. One kind of tears is for the eye, the other is for the heart. They both work as cleaners. If something else like dust(灰尘) gets into your eye, tears also come into the eye to clean it out. If you are hurt by something, your strong feelings produce some poisonous chemicals(毒素) in your body, and at the same time, tears come out with them. If these poisonous chemicals are not cleaned out of your body as soon as possible, they will do harm to the heart sooner or later.

In the United States men have heart problems more often than women do. Doctors say heart problems have something to do with the pressures(压力) of living and working now. Perhaps men suffer more from these illnesses because they do not cry enough. They need to cry more.

In fact, you can find many ways of reducing the pressures to keep fit. Crying is a natural and physical one.

91. How many kinds of tears does the body usually produce? 92. What do tears do when dust gets into your eye?

93. Will the poisonous chemicals in the body do harm to the heart? 94. Why do men suffer more from heart problems than women?

95. What will you do to reduce the pressures of living and working to keep fit? Please give TWO examples.

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九、书面表达 （共10分）

以A Trip to Qingdao为题写一篇游记。

要求：1. 用完表格中所有信息，省略号部分自行发挥。 2. 词数不少于80词，注意书写。 When Where Who What How 去年暑假 青岛 我和父母 欣赏帆船运动，游泳，玩沙子，吃海鲜，看海豚表演，拍照片，买东西 ?? A Trip to Qingdao

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