山东省烟台市招远市2023-2024学年上学期期末考试八年级英语试题

2023—2024学年度第一学期第二学段测试 初三英语（笔试）试题 温馨提示： 1.本试卷共8页，共90分；考试时间100分钟。 2.答题前，务必用0.5毫米黑色签字笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、座位号填写在试卷和答题卡规定的位置上。 3.选择题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。 4.非选择题必须用0.5毫米黑色签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题纸指定区域内相应位置；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不能使用涂改液、胶带纸、修正带。 5.在试卷上和答题纸指定区域外的答案无效。 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，根据短文内容从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 ( A ) Have you ever seen any special buildings in the world? Let's have a look! （ ）1. What's the most interesting part of the Basket Building? A. It is a seven-floor office building. B. It looks like a big basket. C. The people who work here sell baskets. D. People make baskets in the building. （ ）2. What can you do on the top of Dubai Frame? A. See the city. B. Have meals. C. Read books. D. Know about Dubai's history. （ ）3. Which of the following is TRUE? A. People start to build the Basket Building in 1997. B. The three buildings are from different countries. C. The Dubai Frame is 150 metres wide and 93 metres high. D. People can buy baskets and ice creams in the Basket Building. （ ）4. Why does the writer writes this passage? A. To show some strange buildings B. To tell us the history of some buildings C. To ask people to visit some buildings D. To make people buy more products from some buildings （B） How much do you know about the Silk Road？It is a historically important international trade route between China and the Mediterranean（地中海）.Itbegan during the Western Han Dynasty and has been a bridge between East and West for over 2，000 years. The ancient road started from Chang'an（now Xi'an）and ended in Eastern Europe，near today's Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea. It was about 6,500 kilometers long and went across one -fourth of the planet. The Silk Road got its name in the 19th century because Chinese silk used to be carried along this road.Silk，jade，ceramics and iron went west to Rome.And from the west came glass，gems and food like carrots. The Silk Road was very important to both China and the r