湖南省常德市2022-2023学年八年级上学期期末考试英语试题

2022年下学期期末考试八年级英语 （问卷） 时量: 90分钟 满分: 100分 命题单位: 常德市第十一中学 命题人: 戴莉 审卷人: 周芳 第一部分阅读技能 （共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分） 阅读下面材料, 从每题所给的A、B 和C三个选项中, 选出最佳选项回答问题或完成句子。 A Weather Idioms on cloud nine meaning: a person who is on cloud nine is very excited because something wonderful happens —I was on cloud nine when receiving a concert ticket of my favourite singer. heavens open meaning: When the heavens open, it suddenly starts to rain hard. —When we left school, the heavens opened and we got wet all over. in the dark meaning: If people are in the dark about something, they don`t know about it. —I kept my parents in the dark about the party. chasing rainbows meaning: A person chasing rainbows is trying to get something impossible for him. —He wants to become an actor but I think he is chasing rainbows. reach for the moon meaning: If you reach for the moon, you get something successfully even if it is difficult. —I am a hard-working person and sometimes I try to reach for the moon. 1. What does the idiom “heavens open” mean? A. It never rains. B. It rains heavily. C. The rain lasts for a long time. 2. Jason spent 15 years learning English and became the language doctor at last. People believed that he _________. A. was in the dark B. was chasing rainbows C. reached for the moon 3. We may find the passage in a _________. A. Children’s magazine B. travel guide C. story book B Do you like telling stories about your life to others? Jessii Vee does. She tells her stories on the Internet, and lots of people like watching her videos (视频). Jessii is from Ontario, Canada. She turns life into her work. “Every Sunday I think about what to film for my videos,” says Jessii. “Then, on Monday, I wake up early to start making the videos. Usually, a video takes just over an hour to make. I try to make five, so it takes most of my day. Then, from Tuesday to Friday, I edit (编辑) them.” Sometimes when Jessii goes out, her fans recognize her. “The other day I went to a coffee shop,” she