2008年中考第一轮复习

初中英语八年级上册复习题

一. 单项填空

1.--____do you help the old man with the housework ?

 --once a week .

A. How soon        B. How long   C. How often    D. How many

2._____homework, we do our homework on Sundays.

A. As for.          B. As to.       C. As of.       D. As from..

3. The students exercise every day and they try ______ themselves healthy. A. keep.           B. keeping.     C. kept.        D. to keep.

4.She comes to school on time every day, and she is _____ late .

A .often .          B. usually.      C. never.       D. always.

5. I think you had better eat ____ meat and do ___ exercise.

A. less; much       B. more; many  C. less, more.    D. many; more..

6.You are too___, you should ___music.

A. stressed out; listen               B. stress out; hear 

C. stressed out; hear                D. stressed out; listen to

7.The meat is ___dear and eating ___meat is bad for you .

A. too much; much too              B. too much; too much

C. much too; too much              D. too many; many too

8.You look ___ your twin sister.

A. same as          B. same like     C. the same like  D. the same as

9.The policeman asked the child _____so that he could take him home.

A.where did he live  B.where he lived  C. how he live  D. where he lives

10. My dad ___ a lawyer.

A. wants me to be                   B. wants to me be 

C. want to be me                    D. want to me be

11.We should eat fruit and vegetables to ____healthy .

A.give           B. need           C. stay          D. have

12.---I bought a MP3 yesterday. It is only 100 yuan.

----Really? Mine is 200 yuan. It’s _______ than yours.

A . cheaper                        B. lower

C. more expensive                  D. less

13. He rushed into the fire to save the kid ___it was dangerous for him to do so.

A.unless         B. because        C. although       D. so

14. Most young people find ___exciting to watch a football match.

A. it             B. this           C. that           D. one

15. How long does it ___ you to wash all the dishes?

A. take          B. use             C. spend        D. took

16.---Did Lucy have a good time?

---Yes. She enjoyed ___very much.

A. himself       B. herself          C. themselves     D. itself

17. You can not imagine how much I ___on this dress. Is it beautiful?

A. paid          B. took            C. cost          D. spend

18 .---It is said that no one bought that kind of fruit.

---That is true. It tasted___.

A. good         B. terrible           C. well          D. terribly

19.Our parents often tell us not _____ alone in the river in summer.

A. swim         B. to swim          C . swimming     D. swims

20. Jim works hard on his Chinese and ___.

A. so Lucy does  B. so is Lucy         C. so does Lucy   D. so Lucy is

21.---Mr. Johnson asked me to remind you of the meeting this afternoon. Don’t forget it!

 ---Ok, I ___.

A. won’t        B. don’t             C. will           D.do

22---Do you know ___ she worked out the difficult problem?

---With the help of her mother. I think .

A. when        B. that              C. how           D. what

23. It took my daughter two weeks___ the novels___ by Yang Hongying.

A. read; written                      B. to read; written 

C. reading; to write                   D. to read; wrote

24. ___is the train station from the post office, do you know?

A. How much    B. How long         C. How soon      D. How far

25.In my class some students love music, ___ are fond of drawing and ___enjoyed reading.

A. some; the other                   B. others; the other 

C. others; the others                  D. some; others

二.完形填空

A

   Once there lived in our town a poor family.They were so poor that there was almost 1.____in the house but a pot under a table. In it there was a little rice 2.___ from their neighbour for the coming New Year. On New Year’s Eve, the wife had already fallen asleep, but the husband was 3.___in bed, worrying about their life. Suddenly he heard someone breaking into the room..

   “It must be a thief ,” he thought, “but it doesn’t matter.The thief can 4.___ nothing.”He didn’t shout or move. But he kept watching over the thief.

   The thief came into the house and was only<