人教版新目标八年级英语上学期期中测试题2

人教版新目标八年级英语上学期期中测试题2内容摘要：

短 文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。 (10 分 ) Football is a popular sport. World Cup is a game that all the good players want（ 1） ______(play) most. It is held every four years. Only the best team can （ 2） ______(win) the last game. The 1998 World Cup was held in France. Hundreds of thousands of people （ 3） ______(go) to the games or watched them on TV day and night. They hoped that their favorite team would （ 4）______(bee) the world39。 s best one. Football is a team sport. There are eleven players in each team of a game. The earliest games of football in England （ 5） ______(be) not like what we know today. Games were played between two towns. Each team of the town （ 6） ______(have) more than five hundred players, and each team had to try （ 7） ______(carry) the ball to the other team39。 s town. Today some towns in England still （ 8） ______(play) games like that. VII. 阅读理解。 (10 分 ) People in many countries are learning English. Some of them are small children. Others are teenagers. Many are adults. Some learn at school, others by themselves. A few learn English by hearing the language over the radio, on TV or in films. One must work hard to learn another language. Why do all these people want to learn English? It is difficult to answer this question. Many boys and girls learn English at school because it is one of their subjects required (要求 ) for study. They study their own language and math and English. Some people learn it because it is useful for their work. Many people learn English for their higher studies, because at colleges or universities some of their books are in English. Some people learn English because they want to re。