2021-2022学年江苏省宿迁市泗阳县八年级（上）期中英语试卷
一、单选题（本大题共15小题，共15.0分）
1.Millie likes playing baseball when she is free.（  ）
A. /    B. a    C. the    D. an
2.--- Mary can be a good singer. She has a good .
--- Yes. And she has good singing skills.（  ）
A. sound    B. noise    C. voice    D. mouth
3.- Suzy,you look unhappy.What happened？
- I asked some workers to decorate my new house.But they hit a pipe and filled my room water.（  ）
A. of    B. with    C. off    D. in
4.COVID-19 Corona Virus Disease 2019 and people all over the world are now still trying hard to fight against it.（  ）
A. waits for    B. stands for    C. prepares for    D. searches for
5.Our teachers advise our middle school students at least one hour exercise every day to keep healthy.（  ）
A. to spend；taking    B. spending；to take
C. spending；taking    D. to spend；to take
6.Ma Long is a（n） player and he is the defending championship（卫冕冠军） in table tennis.（  ）
A. excellent    B. excited    C. expensive    D. exciting
7.It's time for bed.You'd better computer games too much.（  ）
A. play    B. to play    C. not play    D. not to play
8.Students in China have weeks off for summer vacation than those in America.But they have homework than American students.（  ）
A. less；more    B. fewer；more    C. more；more    D. fewer；less
9.- Sandy,
- He is clever and humorous.（  ）
A. what does your new friend do？
B. what's your new friend like？
C. what does your new friend like？
D. how is your new friend like？
10.-Mum, the door,please.I feel a little cold.
-OK.（  ）
A. closes    B. close    C. opens    D. open
11.-Our school will go on an autumn outing to San Taishan Park next week.
-Really？I can't wait there.（  ）
A. go    B. to go    C. going    D. goes
12.- does it take from your home to Siyang Railway Station by bus？
- About twenty minutes.（  ）
A. How often    B. How long    C. How soon    D. How far
13.In my family,not only my mother but also my father good at cooking so I can always enjoy delicious food every day.（  ）
A. are    B. is    C. isn't    D. aren't
14.-Tom is taller than his twin brother Jack.
-You mean Jack is Tom.（  ）
A. as tall as    B. so tall as
C. not as tall as    D. not as tall so
15.- It's Sunday tomorrow.Why don't we go to the Mazu Temple？
- .（  ）
A. Yes,I would    B. I think so
C. That's all right    D. That sounds great
二、完形填空（本大题共15小题，共15.0分）
阅读短文，从短文后所给四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项.
On May 12，2008，a terrible earthquake happened in Wenchuan,Sichuan.Years later,people there have started their(16)lives.Let's see some of their stories.
On that day 13 years ago,a house (17) down.20-year-old Jiang Yuhang was in it.He (18)move his body and stayed under the house for 252 hours. (19)，some firefighters（消防员） from Shanghai saved him. "The firefighters gave me a second life.I wanted(20)one of them." Jiang said. (21) the end of 2018，his dream came true.Now Jiang is a (22)of the
same team in Shanghai.
Dai Guohong and his high school classmates were under their (23) classroom after the earthquake happened.He was saved at last,although（尽管） he lost his(24). (25)，most of his classmates died.After that,he used crutches（拐杖） to walk. (26)，he met a good teacher and learned (27)in 2009 to keep healthy.Later,he won many swimming games.In 2018.he became a volunteer in Chengdu.
Li Xinyun,a girl from Mianzhu,lost her (28) hand in the earthquake when she was 7 years old.She started to practice (29)with her left hand.And in just three months,she could write quite (30).She got 625 points（分数） out of 750 in last year's gaokao,and now she is a student in Central China Normal University.
Stay alive and work hard.While there is life,there is hope.
16. A. new    B. old    C. sad    D. unlucky
17. A. fall    B. fell    C. feel    D. felt
18. A. can    B. may    C. could    D. couldn't
19. A. Late    B. Later    C. After    D. Before
20. A. to    B. to be    C. be    D. to being
21. A. In    B. At    C. To    D. From
22. A. firefighter    B. teacher    C. worker    D. cook
23. A. break    B. broke    C. firefighterbroken    D. breaking
24. A. hands    B. arms    C. legs    D. neck
25. A. So    B. But    C. Because    D. However
26. A. Luck    B. Lucky    C. Luckily    D. Unlucky
27. A. swim    B. to swim    C. swam    D. swum
28. A. left    B. right    C. two    D. only
29. A. write    B. wrote    C. to write    D. writing
30. A. good    B. well    C. bad    D. badly
三、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共30.0分）
A
Boy and girls,good news for you!This winter we will welcome the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics（残奥会）- the first Winter Olympics to be held in China.Do you want to know more about it？Read the information below：
Emblem （徽章）：
Time：
Feb 4- 20：Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
March 4 to 13：The Winter Paralympics
Place：
Beijing；Zhangjiakou and Yanqing
Theme（主题）：
Together for a shared future
Mascot（吉祥物）：
Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon
31.The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will begin on ______ .