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江苏省南通市
2019-2020 年下学期八年级英语期中试卷分类汇编
短文填空
江苏省南通市海安市八校 2019-2020 学年八年级下学期期中联考英语试题
七.短文填空
A)根据课文内容填写所缺单词
In the past, water ___71___ was a big problem. A steel ____72____ often put its ____73____
into the river.
Wall Street, the world-famous ___74___ centre, is here at the ____75____ end of Manhattan
Island. There are many big companies and _____76_____ banks here.
British people greet ____77____ and close friends with a kiss. They ___78___ subjects like
age, weight or money. In public, they always_____79_____. They think it’s rude to ____80____
in before others.
【答案】71. pollution
72. factory
73. waste 74. trade
75. southern
76. international
77. relatives
78. avoid 79. queue
80. push
【解析】
本文是根据课文内容填空,介绍了水污染、华尔街以及英国人的礼仪问题。
【71 题详解】
句意:过去,水污染是个大问题。由课文内容可知,此处缺少 pollution 污染;由“A steel 2
often put its 3 into the river.一家钢铁厂经常把污水排进河里”判断,此处指的是水污染。
故填 pollution。
【72 题详解】
句意:一家钢铁厂经常把污水排进河里。由课文内容可知,此处缺少 factory 工厂;此处是
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指钢铁厂(steel factory)。故填 factory。
【73 题详解】
句意:一家钢铁厂经常把污水排进河里。由课文内容可知,此处缺少 waste 废弃的;此处指
把污水排到河里。故填 waste。
【74 题详解】
句意:华尔街,世界著名的贸易中心,就在曼哈顿岛的南端。由课文内容可知,此处缺少 trade
贸易;此处是说华尔街是著名的贸易中心。故填 trade。
【75 题详解】
句意:华尔街,世界著名的贸易中心,就在曼哈顿岛的南端。由课文内容可知,此处缺少
southern 南部的;此处是介绍华尔街所在的位置。故填 southern。
【76 题详解】
句意:这里有许多大公司和国际银行。由课文内容可知,此处缺少 international 国际的;华
尔街是世界著名的贸易中心,所以这里有许多大公司和国际银行。此处填形容词。故填
international。
【77 题详解】
句意:英国人用“吻”的方式来问候亲戚和密友。由课文内容可知,此处缺少 relative 亲戚;
由后文的 close friends 可知,此处用复数形式。故填 relatives。
【78 题详解】
句意:他们回避年龄、体重或金钱等话题。由课文内容可知,此处缺少 avoid 避免;此段介
绍的是英国人的礼仪,所以年龄、体重或金钱等话题是他们回避的。时态为一般现在时,故
填 avoid。
【79 题详解】
句意:在公共场合,他们总是排队。由课文内容可知,此处指的是在公共场合,他们总是排
队。排队:queue,此处是一般现在时,用动词原形。故填 queue。
【80 题详解】
句意:他们认为在别人面前推搡是不礼貌的。由课文内容可知,此处缺少 push 推搡;be rude
to do sth.表示是“做某事是粗鲁/无礼的”。故填 push。
B)短文缺词填空。
缺词填空。
China is a large country with a long h___81___. Our ancestors(祖先) created(创造) excellent
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cultures for us. Once China was the s___82___ country in the world, especially in Tang Dynasty.
But for more than one hundred years China has fallen behind other countries for some r___83___.
Other countries s___84___ no respect(尊重) to our nation and even invaded(侵犯) China.
H___85___, Chinese people are hard-working and peace-loving. Under the lead of the
Communist Party of China. China is now the s___86___ largest country in economy(经济) in the
world. In the past 30 years, great changes have t___87___ place in our country. Whenever people
ask me a___88___ my feeling of China. I can say proudly, “I’m proud of being a Chinese.” As
s___89___, we should study hard to serve our country. The harder we study, the b____90____ we
can serve our country in the future.
【答案】81. history
82. strongest
83. reasons
84. show 85. However
86. second 87. taken
88. about 89. students
90. better
【解析】
试题分析:这篇短文讲述了中国的历史,以前中国是世界上最强大的国家,尤其在唐朝,但
后来中国开始落后于其他国家,并遭到侵略。但中国人民勤劳勇敢,在最近 30 年里发生了
巨大变化,现在又成为了经济大国。作为学生,我们应该好好学习将来能为祖国服务。
【81 题详解】
根据前后文,此句为:中国是有着悠久历史的大国。history 历史,名词。
【82 题详解】
根据前后文,此句为:曾经中国是世界上最强大的国家,尤其是在唐朝。strongest 最强大的,
是 strong 的最高级。
【83 题详解】
根据前后文,此句为:但是一百多年后,由于一些原因,中国落后其他国家。reasons 原因,
可数名词,注意用复数形式。
【84 题详解】
根据前后文,此句为:其他国家一点都不尊重我们国家甚至侵犯中国。show 展现;show respect
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to 尊重……。
【85 题详解】
根据前后文,此句为:然而,中国人勤劳并热爱和平。However 然而,表转折。
【86 题详解】
根据前后文,此句为:中国现在成为世界经济第二大国。second 第二,序数词。
【87 题详解】
根据前后文,此句为:在过去的三十年,我们国家发生了很大改变。take place 发生;句中
用了现在完成时,take 用过去分词 taken。
【88 题详解】
根据前后文,此句为:当有人问我对中国的感情。about 关于,ask sb. about sth.问某人某事。
【89 题详解】
根据前后文,此句为:作为学生,我们应该努力学习来报效祖国。students 学生,可数名词,
要用复数形式。
【90 题详解】
根据前后文,此句为:我们越努力学习,将来就能更好的为国家服务。better 更好,good 的
比较级。
如皋市外国语学校 2019~2020 学年度第二学期期中测试 八年级英语
七、根据首字母的提示完成短文, 每空一词。(本题共 5 小题,每小题 1 分,满分 5 分)
根据各题所给首字母提示,写出一个合适英语单词的完整、正确形式,使短文通顺。
Just as a teacher said in her letter, “The world is so big, I want to go outside and have a
look. ”
Last summer, I f 76 to Yunnan with my parents. I felt excited so much b 77 it
was my first time to take a plane. After three hours or so, we arrived at Kunming, the capital of
Yunnan. People c 78 it “the City of Spring”. On the first day, we visited Dianchi, the
largest lake in Yunnan. It’s fantastic to enjoy natural beauty there. Then we went to the flower
market and saw many kinds of colorful flowers there.
The next day we went to Lijiang. There are lots of small rivers t 79 the town, so it’s
called “Venice(威尼斯) of China”. We enjoyed the traditional Naxi music while r 80 a bike
around the old town, it was really fun. Of course we bought some pretty things as presents for our
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friends.
Now when I think of my tour of Yunnan, I still feel very happy. I really hope to go there
again in the future.
76.____________ 77.____________ 78.____________ 79._____________ 80.____________
答案:
76. flew 77. because 78. call 79. through 80. riding
江苏省南通田家炳中学 2019-2020 学年度初二下期中英语卷
短文阅读
Whenever we see something new, we wish to write it down in one form or another. We will
be happier if we share our experience with others. Then h 86 can we write better travel stories?
The following may be helpful
Memory and notes
Don't believe your memory. You may have a good memory, b 87 you cannot remember
everything well. You are seeing and hearing so much information while you're on a trip. When you
return to write about your travel stories, you may f 88 something. So you should make notes take
photographs, and if p 89 take videos. In this way, you can describe your travel and write it down w
90 missing anything
Photographs and your stories
Photographs are very useful for you to remember w 91 you have seen. As you see the
photographs, you can describe your experiences easily by remembering how you felt when you t
92 photos
When you are writing about your travel stories, make sure they are not too short as your
reader may not get the full impression(印象)of them and make sure they are not so l 93 that
the reader may get bored.
Popular factors(因素)
Make sure your stories have popular factors and the reader will find your travel stories not
only pleasant to read, but u 94 as well. Popular factors are food to eat, places to stay and the things
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to look out for while t 95 . They should also include what you've found useful and the things you
miss so much.
答案:
86.how 87.but 88.forget 89.possible 90.without 91.what
92.took 93.long 94.useful 95.traveling
江苏省南通市八一中学 2019-2020 学年八年级下学期期中测试英语试题
七、短文填空(10 分)
Knowing about yourself not only m 86 finding out what you're good at and what you
like, b 87 also means discovering what you're not good at and what you don't like. B 88
help you to see your aim in life.
Most students would be u 89 if they failed a very difficult physics examination, but
they have in fact learnt a lot about t 90 . They know that they should not become engineers
o 91 physical scientists. So failing can help a student to live a happier life if he l 92
something from it. They may then decide on their aims and choose the work they like and are s
93 for.
It's a good plan to try a 94 many ideas as possible when you are young. Then you will
find out w 95 your true interests are.
86________ 87_________ 88________ 89_________ 90________
91_______ 92_________ 93_________ 94_________ 95________
答案:
86-90 means but Both unhappy themselves
91-95 or learns suitable as what
南通启秀中学 2019-2020 学年下学期八年级英语期中测试
七、首字母填空(每小题 1 分,共 10 分)
Fifty years ago, China launched (发射) its first satellite (人造卫星) , Dongfanghong 1. To mark its
50th anniversary, China announced (宣布) the name for its Mars (火星) planetary exploration (探
测) program on April 24.
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The mission (任务), Tianwen (天问), g 91 its name from a long poem Tianwen written by Qu
Yuan, a famous p 92 of the Warring States Period. ln the poem, Qu raised a s 93 of questions
about the sky, stars, natural myths and the real world, showing his doubts on traditional ideas and
his pursuit (追求) of truth.
China has made great progress in space exploration. In 1970, China launched its first man-made
Earth satellite, becoming the f 94 country in the world to launch man-made satellite independently
(独立地) after the Soviet Union, the USA, France and Japan. O 95 the past few years, China's
missions, including the Shenzhou and Chang'e series were designed to explore outer space.
This time, the Tianwen series will c 96 out the first Mars exploration mission in 2020.Experts
consider it the start of China's exploration of Mars.
Tianwen represents (体现) Chinese people's p 97 of truth, the country's cultural inheritance (继承)
to explore nature and the universe, as w 98 as the unending explorations in science and
technology.
Indeed, with the name's deep roots (根源)in Chinese traditional culture (文化), it has been widely
accepted among the p 99 . Tianwen shows the determination (决心) and perseverance (坚持) of
Chinese people to move f 100 into deep space.