初二英语期中试题.doc

初二英语期中试题 一、单项选择 1.The workers keep ______ in order to make money for their living. A. working B. to work C. work D. works 2. On my way home, I stopped _______ some food. A. buy B. to buy C. buying D. bought 3. The artist said that he hoped ______ drawing the picture soon. A. his son to finish B. to finish C. finishing D. his son will finish 4. He coughed day and night. His wife asked him ____ smoking. A. giving up B. going up C. to give up D. to go on 5. Tony enjoys ______ music from the Internet. A. to listen to B. listen to C. listens to D. listening to 6. It _____ that the worker didn’t eat anything. A. seems B. seemed C. seeming D. seem 7. I like ________ TV but I hate listening to the radio. A. watching B. to watch C. watches D. watched 8. ----Can you answer the telephone? I am busy ______ the Internet. ---- Ok, I’ll get it. A. search B. to search C. searching D. searched 9. --- Can you see _______ there? ---- No. Let’s go and have a look. Maybe we can help them. A. what was happening B. what are they doing C. what were they talking D. what is happening 10. --- How about going to the park on Sunday? --- That ______ like a great idea. A. sound B. to sound C. sounding D. sounds 11. A stone from the mountain hit him _______ and he lost his life. A. in the head B. on the head C. in his head D. on his head 12. All of us are _____ at the ______ news. A. surprising; surprising B. surprising; surprised C. surprised; surprising D. surprised; surprised 13. We’ll go for a picnic if it ______ this Sunday. A. won’t rain B. isn’t rain C. doesn’t rain D. don’t rain 14. My mother _______ when I got home. A. cook B. cooks C. cooked D. was cooking 15. The pen dropped on the ground. A boy ______for him. A. picked up B. picked up it C. picked it up D. get it 16. Listen! Someone is ____ in the next room. A. playing the violin B. play the violin C. play violin D