八升九暑期英语测试题一. 用括号中所给的词的正确形式填空:1. When I was a child , I was ________ （interest）in music.2. The little boy is quite shy. He is _______（terrify）of speaking in public.3. Jane has got a warm and_______（outgo）personality.4. I heard such a_______（fun）joke last night.5. The local people there are very _______（friend）6. Her_______（big）problem is that she can't sleep well at night.7. My father always spends too much time_______（watch）TV.8. Do you like _______（paint）pictures?9. I _______（real）miss my friend Joan. She moved to another city.10. My partner used to be afraid of _______（be）alone.二、完形填空A篇Bill was a newspaper boy. He went from house to house 1 the day's papers to the neighbors. Each week he went to get his 2 . Bill kept a little book. In the book he wrote down who 3 him and who did not. Bill was keeping a record（记录）Men have been keeping records 4 very early time. How did they do this before they learned to write? Sometimes they made knots（打结）in different colored string(绳子）。

Indians in South America kept records in this 5 .Today we have machines for 6 and keeping records. Do you go to the grocery store? Does it have a cash register?The cash register keeps records. It adds up the things you 7 .It tells how much is sold in the store everyday. Many places have machines called computers. They 8 computers to keep all the records. Computers are 9 than knots in strings. Someday men may use _10 even better than computers.（）１ A. buying B. bringing C. brought D. bought（）２ A. cost B. job C. money D. papers（）３ A. took B. spent C. cost D. paid（）4 A. before B. from C. till D. by（）５ A. time B. place C. way D. message（）６ A. counting B. numbering C. having D . getting（）７ A. buy B. want C . borrow D lend（）８ A. let B. use C. keep D. make（）９ A. worse B. slower C. better D. bigger（）１０A. machines B. something C. someone D. someplaceＢ篇I had been in London for two years. During the time I was 1 there, my strong wish was to 2 instead of staying in the city I didn't know well. So when the day came for my 3 .I had a strange feeling and my mind was full of beautiful things in London------the tall trees around my 4 , the clean streets, the school library, the old church（教堂）near the school and so on. I was for the first time not sure 5 I reallywish to go. I was becoming good at spoken English and interested in the different way of living in London. Most important of all, I did not want to leave my 6 who were near and dear to me during the two long years. I felt like running into the head teacher's office and telling him that I really didn't want to go home. But on the second thought I stopped myself 7 the plan. My parents are quite old and I might have no time to see them again if I gave up this plan. At the airport, most of my teachers and friends came to see me off and quite a few gave me 8 .Many group photos were taken and before long the final moment came. Everyone shook hands with me and said goodbye to me. Their eyes 9 tears and I knew they were 10 at the moment.（）1.A.leaving B. working C. studying D. preparing （）2.A.stay there B. go back home C. change my room D. travel about （）3.A.new house B. new job C. sleeping D. leaving（）4.A.house B. bedroom C. bathroom D. kitchen（）5.A.where B. what C. whether D. how（）6.A.parents B. friends C. college D. sports ground （）7.A.making B. telling C. building D. waiting （）nguages B. medicine C. numbers D. presents （）9.A.seemed to be B. were filled with C. became colored D. opened wide （）10.A.thankful B. merry C. glad D. sad三、阅读理解A 篇I used to travel by air a great deal when I was a boy. My parents used to live in South America and I used to fly there from Europe in the holidays. An airhostess would take charge of me and I never had an unpleasant experience. I am used to traveling （习惯于某事）by air and only on one occasion have I ever felt frightened. After taking off, we were flying low over the city and slowly gaining height（逐步升高），when the plane suddenly turned round and flew back to the airport. While we were waiting to land, an air-hostess told us to keep calm(镇静的) and to get off the plane quietly as soon as it had touched down. Everybody on board was worried and we were curious to find out what had happened. Later we learned that there was a very important person on board. The police had been told （被告诉，得知）that a bomb had been planted on the plane. After we had landed, the plane was searched thoroughly（被彻底搜查）。