新目标八年级下学期期中笔试英语试卷

新目标八年级下学期期中笔试英语试卷内容摘要：

nd the world. We can not live without air. Planes can’t fly very high because as they go higher, the air gets thinner. If we go far enough away from the earth, we can find that there is no air. The sky is space. In this space there is nothing but sun, the moon and the stars. People always want to know more about other worlds in space. They have looked at them through telescopes (望远镜 ) and in this way they have known much. They know a lot about the moon now. But they want to know more about space. I’m sure they will go farther and farther until they know all about it. 根据短文内容选择正确答案（ 10 分） （ ） 6. It’s not really right . A. to answer questions about the sky B. to answer question about space C. to say that the sky is blue D. to say that the sky has no color （ ） 7. helps planes fly. A. The sky B. The air C. Space D. The sun （ ） 8. There is no air . A. around us B. around the world C. in the sky D. high enough in the sky （ ） 9. There is in the space. A. air B. nothing C. nothing but the sun, the moon and the stars D. nothing or the sun, the moon or the stars （ ） 10. With telescopes people can in space. A. know everything B. know nothing C. know much D. know all C 阅读短文，选出最佳选项。 （ 10 分） A lady wrote a long novel. She sent it to a famous editor (编 辑 ). After a few weeks the novel was returned to her. The lady was angry. She wrote back to the editor. “Dear sir, yesterday you sent back a novel of mine. How do you know that the novel is not good? You didn’t read it. Before I sent you the novel, I posted together pages 18, 19 and 20 . This was a test to see whether you would read the novel. When the novel came back yesterday, the pages were still posted together. Is this the way you read all the stories that are sent to you?” The editor wrote back: “Dear madam, at breakfast when I have an egg, I don’ t have to eat the whole egg in order to discover that it is bad.” ( ) 11. The title that can explain the story best is __________. A. A Letter Returned B. A Novel Given Back C. Testing Whether Reading or Not D. Reading Whil。