上海市浦东新区20xx-20xx学年八年级英语下学期期中试题牛津上海版五四制

上海市浦东新区20xx-20xx学年八年级英语下学期期中试题牛津上海版五四制内容摘要：

school bus. I follow the local news and I also read the sports reports. 6 D) Fewer people care about important events in the world. 59. What is the survey mainly about? A) Public needs for news B) Habits of using the Inter C) Teens and the media D) The future of mass media the words or expressions and plete the passage.（ 选择最恰当的选项完成短文 )：（共 6分 ） Quicksand (流沙 ) Everybody is afraid of quicksand. In the films, people fall into quicksand. They are pulled down and down. They 60 ! No one sees them again! Can it really pull things down? No, it can’t. Quicksand cannot pull things into it. Quicksand is really loose(松的 ) and with a lot of water. The water makes the quicksand. It is 61 the sand on the beach. A person can walk on the beach but he cannot walk on quicksand. It is too loose. Falling into quicksand does not hurt. It is 62 like falling into water! Your body will go down but then it will e up. People can 63 in quicksand. However, they must not 64 in the sand. That would make them go down. They should move slowly when they are in quicksand. There is quicksand in many places. We can find it near the mouths of large rivers. The mouth of the river is 65 the river meets the ocean or the sea. There is quicksand on land too. In some places the water stays on the land. It does not drain (排放 ) or dry up. If there is sand around, the sand gets very wet. Then it bees quicksand. 60. A. appear B. vanish C. approach D. e up 61. A. similar to B. the same as C. different from D. difficult to 62. A. thoroughly B. almost C. never D. hardly 63. A. float B. walk C. speed D. travel 64. A. sleep B. walk C. fight D. sing 65. A. why B. how C. which D. where C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.（ 在短文的空格内填入适当的词 ， 使其内容通顺 ， 每空格限填一词 ， 首字母已给 )： （共 7分 ） The sports utility vehicle (SUV 多用途车辆 ) was invented in the early 1990s. It quickly became very popular in the United States. There are several r 66 for this. It is larger than most of cars. It can carry lots of people, bicycles, toys, dogs and other things. This makes it popular with families. It also has four doors and a big back door, so getting in or out is e 67 . Since an SUV is taller than most cars, the driver can see above other cars and have a better sight of the road. With a lot more p 68 , an SUV can go faster than most cars. It can also go on very rough roads where other cars cannot go. 7 The SUV is popular with many people, but other people do not like these cars. First, they are larger than most other cars. This means that drivers of other cars may not be able t o s e e t h e r o a d w 69 . Also, SUVs are very heavy. If an SUV gets into an accident with a small car, the small car may be in serious trouble. A__70___ problem with SUVs is that they are very expensive. They are expensive to buy about 50 percent more expensive than an average small car. They are also expensive to use, since they use a lot more gasoline(汽油 ) than smaller cars. There are two ways to solve these problems. One way is to change the way we think about them. Now they are sold as large cars. In the future, maybe they should be sold as trucks. Then people with just a car license(执照 ) could not d 71 them. They would have to get a truck license. These licenses are more expensive and difficult to get, so p 72 fewer people would buy SUVs. The other way to solve SUV problems is to make them differently. Some people think that car panies should make big SUVs smaller and less dangerous. They should also make SUVs with less powerful engines. Then they would not use so much gasoline. D. Read the passage and answer the questions.（根据短文内容回答下列问题 ): (共 7分 , 78题 2分 ) Langston Hughes was a famous poet and writer in the early 1930s. He became famous and was known as “ the voice of black people” . The subject of all his writing was about the lives of African Americans. Born in Joplin, Missouri, his family eventually moved to Ohio. He began writing poetry in eighth grade. Upon graduation from high school, he was voted the class poet. By the age of 18, Langston saw his first poem published. The title of the poem was “ The Negro Speaks of Rivers” . For a short while, he attended Columbia University. He decided to make a trip to Africa. He boarded a ship and traveled to many countries in Africa and Europe. He would later go on to get a college degree. One of his favourite things to do was to listen to jazz and blues music. This influence of music began to appear in his writing. He moved to Harlem, where he was editor. He gave a great part of his life to writing and speaking. He wrote over 16 poetry books, two novels, and 20 plays. He also wrote children’ s poetry, musicals, operas, biographies, radio and television scripts, and dozens of magazine articles. He was able to influe。