精品解析：山东省潍坊市诸城市2019-2020学年八年级上学期期末英语试题

2019-2020学年度第一学期期末学业质量监测 八年级英语试题 （时间：90分钟 满分：90分） 阅读理解 阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A 1. What time do western people usually have dinner? A. After midday B. At 5: 00 in the afternoon. C. Before 7: 00 in the afternoon. D. Around 7 pm or even later. 2. What will a host（主人） probably say to a guest at the start of a meal? A. Can I help you? B. Eat slowly! C. Help yourself! D. Can you serve me? 3. Which of the following is helpful when you're in the west according to the poster? A. You can leave as soon as you've finished eating. B. The fork is held in your right hand and the knife in your left. C. If you don't know what to do just watch the others and do as they do. D. You can't eat chicken legs with your fingers. B It is most difficult for parents to decide to have a second child. Someone says that a single child is likely to be a lonely child. There are no other children in the family for the child to talk or play with. An only child is not able to get along well with children of his age. Some parents regretted（后悔）making the decisions to have only one child. But the number of parents choosing to have only one child is increasing in many parts of the world. In the US, for example, more than 14 percent of women between 18 and 34 plan to have just one child. The same can be seen in the UK. In Japan, the average number of children born per family had gone down to 1.42 by 1996. For some single child parents, especially who are busy working every day, time and energy seem to be overwhelming（势不可挡的） They don't have enough time and energy to share with more children. For other people, money is their first consideration（考虑）. Many couples in Japan choose not to have large families because the cost of supporting a child up to the age of 18 reaches around US $ 160,000. 4. According to the passage, why is a single child likely to be lonely? A. Because his parents don't love him. B. Because he doesn't have holidays. C. Because he doesn't have a brother or a sister to talk o