甘肃省靖远县2017-2018学年八年级英语上学期期中试题 （考生注意：本卷满分120分，考试时间：100分钟 ）题号一二三四五六七总分得分I. 单项选择 （每题1分，共20分）（ ）1. She is very about the news . A.excited; excited B. exciting; excited C. exciting; excited D. excited; exciting（ ）2. My father some flowers yesterday morning.A. plant B. to plant C. planted D. planting（ ）3. I dont think its easy in a new place. A. live B. to live C. living D. living（ ）4.Fathers Day is on Sunday in June.A. third B. the third C. three D. the three（ ）5. The car Tom 30,000 dollars.A. spent B. paid C. cost D. took（ ）6. I walk a shop on my way to school.A. pass B. past C. cross D. through（ ）7. What she said made me very .A. angry B. to eat C. sadly D. happily（ ）8. Jimmy is than any other girl.A. funniest B .more funny C. the funny D. funny（ ）9. Youd better a taxi to school, or youll be late.A.take B. by C. takes D. taking（ ）10. His mother has so many good books .A.read B. to read C. reads D. reading （ ）11. Its nice you to give me a hand.A. for B. of C. with D. to（ ）12. I think there is with the computer.A. anything wrong B. wrong anything C. something wrong D. wrong something（ ）13. There a sports meeting next week.A.is going to have B. will have C. is going to be D. is（ ）14. I have fun .A. say B. speaking C. to speak D. to say（ ）15. His grandfather for twenty years.A. died B. has died C. has dead D. has been dead （ ）16. There is water on the floor.A.So many B. so much C. such many D. such much（ ）17. My mother advised me the smaller T-shirt. A. choose B. to choose C. choosing D. chooses（ ）18. -I dont know when she . -I will call you when she .A. will come; comes B. comes; comes C. will come; will come D. comes; will come（ ）19. it was raining, we stayed at home. A. Because; so B. Because; and C. So; because D. because; / （ ）20. We will have a holiday to celebrate the National Day. A. seven days B. seven days C. seven-day D. seven-daysII. 完形填空（每题1分，共10分） The bicycle is one of the simplest(简单的,单纯的) yet most useful inventions in the world. What the most surprising is that it was not 21 earlier, although the great inventor Lenardo da Vinci (达.芬奇)had drawn pictures for bicycles and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced(生产,制作) 22 long after he died.A person riding a bicycle uses 23 energy (能量,精力)to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution(污染) at all when you are riding. Even so, in developed(发展,揭露) 24 , most people dont travel to work by bicycle. It is because 25 cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes 26 to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work 27 their cars and, in this way, the situation (形式,处境,局面)is made more serious. 28 the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create (创造,产生)paths only for bicycles, and to make 29 so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to 30 their bicycles.（ ）21. A. invent B. inventing C. invented D. to invent（ ）22. A. before B. when C. since D. until （ ）23. A. much B. quite a lot of C. very little D. many （ ）24. A. world B. countries C. land D. earth （ ）25. A. the number of B. a number of C. this kind of D. all kinds of （ ）26. A. safer B. more dangerous C. much dangerous D. safe （ ）27. A. by B. in C. use D. drive （ ）28. A. Hardly B. May be C. Perhaps D. Nearly （ ）29. A. it B. them C. us D. uses （ ）30. A. use B. using C. to use D. uses III. 阅读理解（每题2分，共40分） A About fifty years ago, there was an old man in a village. He had a large farm. He wasnt kind to the workers and nobody would work for him. He and his wife and his children had to work on it. So they were tired all the time but got a lot of money. He had only one son,