2024-2025学年上海市民办欣竹中学八年级（下）期中英语试卷 一、单选题：本大题共10小题，共10分。 1.This is _____ one-way street.Let's take another way.We must follow traffic rules.（ ） A. an B. the C. a D. / 2.The mutton tastes .Can I have more？（ ） A. good B. nicely C. bad D. badly 3.Remember _____ the TV.We are going to leave now.（ ） A. turning off B. turn off C. to turn off D. turned off 4.I _____ the book for two weeks．I must return it to the school library．（ ） A. borrow B. have borrowed C. kept D. have kept 5._____ important information we have got from the online post!（ ） A. What a B. How C. What D. How a 6.There's _____ milk left in the bottle.We need to go to the supermarket to buy some.（ ） A. a few B. few C. a little D. little 7.Children over 120 cm tall _____ pay the full entry price to the exhibition show.（ ） A. can B. may C. should D. must 8.Americans eat beans to celebrate the new year _____ they believe that beans will bring them good luck.（ ） A. but B. so C. if D. because 9.—Excuse me， will the next bus arrive？ —In about ten minutes.（ ） A. how much B. how long C. how soon D. how often 10.—Would you like to go on a family trip with us during the summer holiday？ —_____ .What about travelling together next year？（ ） A. Sounds great. B. Congratulations. C. I'd love to，but I've got something else on. D. I hope so. 二、完形填空：本大题共6小题，共9分。 Choose the words and complete the passage. Maybe it's my love of hockey that connects my great aunt Helen with me.She has always kept telling me her stories of playing hockey when she was in her twenties.The stories(11) me so much that I would like to listen to them over and over.She used to say， "Just go after what you want，Sarah.Don't be(12) of failing." Twenty years ago，Aunt Helen had been dreaming of winning a championship for her hometown.And one day，she got a chance to try out for a league （联赛）.This league was created to please hockey fans.But for my aunt，it was to follow her hockey(13).She pictured what it would be like to win a championship for her hometown!She(14) a large flag hanging in the hockey field with her name on it. Although she tried her best，she was still not sure about whether she could be accepted because all the candidates （候选人） played very well.A week later，Aunt Helen received a(15) from Chicago.She opened it and excitedly learned that she had been invited to join the main tryouts the next month! But as the days went by，Aunt Helen became more and more worried about traveling to Chicago alone.What if she went all that way and failed？When the day of the important tests came，she was finally too afraid to go. "I never tried my best to take it when the chance came and I regret it every day." Aunt Helen has spent the rest of her life(16) what would have happened if she had gone to those important tests.Because of this，she never missed another chance in her life. 11.A. interested B. upset C. relaxed ... ...
