辽宁省阜新市实验中学2023-2024学年八年级下学期7月期末英语试题

2023-2024学年度（下）期末教学质量检测 八年级英语试卷 2024.7 (木式卷具45道9满分90分 考试时间90分钟) 考生注意：所有试题必须在答顺卡指定区域内作答，在本试卷上作答无效 第一部分选择题（共50分) 一、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题7分：满分40分) 刃一书阅读卜而语材料.从刊燃所给的A,B.C.D四个选项中选出致作选 A Some Fun and Interesting Facts Do you think what color oranges are?The common answer to this question is "Orangc".Ilowever.the first oranges from Southeast Asia were actually green.Up to now.oranges in warmer areas like Vietnam and Thailand still stay green when they are fully grown. Ihere was a man named John Chapman who planted thousands of apple trees.But the apples on those trees were much more bitter than the ones you'd find in the supermarket today.John didn't expect his apples to be eaten whole,but rather made into hurd upple cider(苹米酒). Like most four-legged animals,cats have five toes on the front paws ()but their back paws only have four toes.Scientists think the four-toe back paws might help them run faster.Do you know any other fun facts about cats? Walt Disncy might have been the first to put gloves on his characters, as the star Mickey Mouse in I929's The Opry House(《奥背里之3》).Besides being easier to interest,there's another reason why Disncy did so:"We didn't want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human." Disney once said. 1.What does the underlined word"they"refer to? 八年级英语试卷第1页（共8页) A.Warmer areas B Oranges in warmer arcas C.The first oranges D Pcople from Vieinam and Thailand 2.John cxpected his npples to he A known hy more people B.sold in the supermarket C caten only by himself D made into hard apple cider 3.Disney put gloves on Mickey Mousc in order to_ A.make him look morc human B prolect his hands C help him to run faster 1)make him fecl more comfortable 4 Which is NOT a fact occording to the information above? A.The first oranges weren't omnges. B.John's apples weren't sweet cnough C.Walt Disney put gloves on his characters to interest people. D.Cats have fewer tocs on their front paws than the ones on their back paws. B In 1987.a small company named Huawei was started in Shenzhen.After more than 30 years of development.the company has now beaten Applc and become the world's sccond-largest maker of smartphones behind Korea's Samsung.It has also become the world's largest supplier(供应商)of5G. But recently,Huawei faced some difficulties.The U.S.govemment ordered a ban() on its sales in America.American officials said Huawei gave information that it collected to the Chinese government.At the same time,the U.S.goverment planned to stop selling parts and services to Huawei,which was believed that Huawei's business would be hurt. "We have never received such a request from the Chinese government and we have never tried to get into other systems to collect information."Ren Zhengfei,Huawei's founder and president said."The ban from the U.S.would have little effect on our company.Huawei has enough ability to deal with the problems."Ren added. In an interview several years ago,Ren Zhengfei said,"I started Huawei with only f4.000 at the beginning,but now it has become a $100 billion company.The experience was not as romantic(浪海的)as you imagine." Facing the ban of the U.S.,Huawei is growing.Huawei's smartphone sales around the world rose 50 percent compared to a year earlier in the first three months of 2019.At the same time,sales from both Samsung and Apple fell.So far,Huawei has grown into the world's largest telecommunication equipment(电信设备)supplier,,selling in 170 countries.It may beat Samsung as the largest smartphone maker in the near future. 八年级英语试卷第2页（共8页）》 5.Which company is the largest supplier of sG in the world? A.Applc. B.Sainsung C Huawci D.Nokia 6.Why did the U.S.order a ban on Huawci? A.Huawei's sales in a Amcrica were growing faster than Apple B.Huawei refused to supply services to the UIS.government C.They didn't want Apple to sell parts and services to Huawei D.They thought luawci collected information for the Chinesc government. 7.The underlined sentencc in Paragraph 4 means A.Huawei's devcloping cxpcricnce was hard B.it is romantic to start a company with $4.000 C.the romantic expcricnce was a large amount of wealth D.people can understand Huawei's developing expericnce casily 8.What does the writer want to tell us in the last paragraph? A.Huawei will grow slowly. B.Huawei is full of hope. C.Huawei's sales will be doubled. D.Huawei is the largest smartphone maker. Do you want to be a newsreader or a presenter?By reading this you'll know how to take the first step to be one!Making a radio programme is fun. The most important thing you need to do is to decide what kind of programme you are going to offer.Have you always wanted to be a DJ just to play music?If so,what kind of music? And will others want to listen to the music you want to play? Maybe it's not music but information that you want to offer.You may want to do a talk show about a special subject.If so,great!Choosing something you're interested in will make it a great experience for you.If you'rc good at a subject,you'll be known as a great presenter. Or,maybe you would like to make a programme like an interview with others. Programmes like this are easy to listen to and always interesting to make because you'll never know what a guest is going to say and maybe your subject will change. 9.The writer thinks it's to make a radio programme. A.boring B.hard C.fun D.difficult 10.The most important thing you need to do is to decide A.when to offer B.what to offer C.how to offer D.where to offer 八年级英语试卷第3页（共8项） 11.What does the writer think of a programme like an intervicw with others? A.Easy to listen to and interesting to make. B.Hard to listen to but interesting to make. C.Easy to listen to but boring to make. D.Hard to listen to and impossible to make 12.What does the passage mainly talk about? A.The important thing of making a T'V programme. B How to practise your listening skills. C.The ways of listening to radio programmes. D.How to make your own radio programme. What did people do to communicate in ancient timnes?Herc are some very interesting answers to this question. Alphors(阿尔斯号角)were once used to communicate in the mountains in Switzerland,. They are very long and they are very heavy,too.So,alphorns are hard work to blow.Then why use them?Well,they make a loud sound which travels much further than the human voice. Herdsmen()used them to call cows in the distance for milking.At sunsct,alphorns were also used to send a message down to villagers that all was well.These days,they're mostly used as musical instruments. The people of La Gomera,an island in Europc,have their own special way of sending messages from mountain to mountain.They usc a whistled()language called el silbo, which comes from their language Spanish.Whistling can be heard within five kilometers, which means it can be used across much greater distances than shouting.El silbo can be used for all kinds of messages,including greetings and announcements.El silbo is used a lot less than it used to be,but primary school students in La Comera have to learn it. Did you know it's also possible to send messages without making a noise?This is called visual communication,and it includes the use of flags and even smoke.Long ago,soldiers along the Great Wall of China used smoke as a warning.If they noticed the enemy from their observatory(瞭望台)，they lit a smoky fire.When soldicrs in other observatories saw the smoke signal,they lit fires too.In this way.messages about the enemy's arrival could travel as far as 800 km in just a few hours. 13.What are alphoms mostly used for today? A.Communicating in the mountains. B.Calling cows for milking. C.Sending messages down to villagers. D.Playing a kind of music. 八年级英语试卷第4项（共8页） 14.Why do the pcople of La Gomera use el silbo to communicate? A.Because it can send messages to animals. B.Because it is different from their language. C.Because it can be hcard at a grcat distance. D.Because it is a subjcct for young students. 15.How didshWall get wamingmea betatories? A.By listening.B.By whistling.C.By shouting. D.By watching 16.Which of the following best shows the structure of the text?(P=Paragraph) ® A D 第二节阅读短文，从方框内所给的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。其中有 一项为多余选项。 No one wakes up feeling happy every day.Very happy people are not different.They never stop trying to be happy.Here are some of the habits of happy people. ◆They slow down. Sometimes we think too much.17Happy people know how to enjoy the taste of their meal,enjoy the world's colors,even just step outside to enjoy fresh air. ◆18一 Getting your body moving for as little as 10 minutes can make you happy.Happy people exercise regularly and follow through on it because they know it will help them get in good mood(情绪)and stay in good mood.. They spend money on other people. Research shows that spending money on others makes you much happier than spending it on yourself.This is especially true of small things that show effort,such as going out of your way to buy your fricnd a book that you know he or she will like. ◆They get cnough sleep 19Your energy,atention and memory all go down when you don't slep well. Happy people make sleep a first thing of all. They have decp conversations. 八年级英语试卷第5页（共8页) Happy people know that happincss and depth go hand-in-hand.Ihey avoid saying mean (刻薄的)hing5 about people.._2Q They talk with others on a deeper level.because they know doing it feels good and is an interesting way to lcam A.They cxercisc. B.Happiness makes you creative. C.We don't have time to look around. D.Instead,they focus on meaningful relationships. E.When you sleep.your brain restarts and cleans itself 二、完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）》 阅读短文，理解其大意，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的取佳选项。 Bike-sharing is a new choice for short journeys in cities.It is good to the 21. _development of the big cities.A 22. by a company found that shared bikes started the nation's 23.for bikes again.Now more and more Chinese peoplc are 24. bikes instead of cars to make short journeys in cities. An engineer of that company says that since the 25. of shared bikes,people have made fewer trips by car.The love for shared bikes is not only among 26. _people,who were bor in the 1980s and 1990s,but also among people over sixty. At weekends,the number of the riders in Shenzhen reaches the 27. of all cities. On weekdays,the number of people who use shared bikes to travel to work is 28. in Shanghai. It is said that bike-sharing will help 29. the cities'environment.It not only helps solve the traffic problems,but also will belp to make more use of 30. in cities.Take Beijing as an example.If more people choose shared bikes,an area of five Bird's Nest stadiums (体有场)will be saved. 21.A.slow B.healthy C.harmful D.sudden 22.A.rule B.plan C.report D.suggestion 23.A.search B.worry C.preparation D.love 24.A.choosing B.pushing C.repairing D.locking 25.A.end B.start C.control D.fall 26.A.strong B.weak C.old D.young 27.A.top B.side C.comer D.line 28.A.coming over B.putting off C.going up D.giving away 29.A.discover B.separate C.experience D.improve 30.A.air B.time C.space D.money 八年级英语试卷 第6页（共8页）》 第二部分非远择题（共40分） 三、语篇填空（共10小题，每小题1分：满分10分） 阅读知文，在空了1处填入·个话当的单或用话号内所给词的F确形式填学。作知 文逝顺、连月， Most plants will dic if they don't have cnough water.But one plant.31..(call)the resurrection (plant.scems to come back to life 32 thcy dic.This plant can still be there after a long time of terrible drought (becnuse it travels to look for water Many people say that onc difference between plants 33._ animals is that animals movc from place to place 34.(find)food and water,while plants cannot.But in the desert ( arcas of American West.the resurrection plant can move around to get what it necds. When there 35. _(be)lots of rain,the resurrection plant grows like any other plant. It sends roots (down into 36.ground and has green leaves.But when there is linle water.the resurrection plant pulls its roots back up and 37. (dry)up.It turns to a brown ball of seemingly dcad roots and leaves.This brown ball goes through the desert with the help of the wind. As soon as it touches water,the resurrection plant begins to act like a normal plant again.Its 38. (leaf)tumn grecn once more as it starts to grow.It is resurrected or brought back to life again in a new place.39.this plant can live a long time with no watcr,it 40.(become)a popular house plant until now.For anyone who always forgets to water his or her plants,the resurrection plant can be a fantastic gift 四、阅读与表达（共4小题，4143小题，每小题2分，44小题4分；满分10分) 阅读短文，然后根据内容回答问题。 Osmanthus()is onc of the most beloved autumn flowers.It is widely planted in China, with a very long planting history of more than 2,500 ycars.This famous plant even appeared in The Classic of Mountains and Seas(《山海经》)，And the city of Hangzhou,Suzhou,and Guilin see the flower as their city flower, The namc“osmanthus"comes from the Greck(希腊话)word osma,mcaning“sweet'”and anthos,meaning "flower".Since the ancient times,osmanthus has been a symbol of good things,like peace,love and happiness. Legend()has it that there is an osmanthus trec on the moon.A man named Wu Gang is ordered to cut it down.However,the tree can grow.Wu has to keep on cutting it again and again on the moon. 八年级英语试卷第7项（共8项) Osmanthus flowers betwcen September and October,and it is when the Mid-Autumn Fexivalisrd.So osmanthus has becomc the best flower for pople tonjoywith a full moon.It has becn loved by many pocts,including Li Qingzhao and Yang Wanli from the Song Dynasty Yang wrote that the sweetness of osmanthus is so clean and rich that it's hard to believe it comes from nature and not the moon in heaven. The Chinese people's love for osmanthus has become a part of their food culture Osmanthus winc and tca are popular traditional Chincse drinks.For thosc who have a sweet tooth,there are many different kinds of food made with osmanthus flowers.The fower of osmanthus can also be collected to make honcy and jam. 根据短文内容同咨下列各题。 请在答题卡上把你的答案写在相对应的题号后的指定以域内 41.How long have Chincse people planted osmanthus? 42.Why is osmanthus considered the best flower to enjoy with a full moon? 43.What drinks can osmanthus flowers be made into? 44.What flower do you like best?Why?Write 30 words or more. 五、书面表达（满分20分） 45.良好的习惯对于青少年的成长与成功发挥着亚大的作用。学校论坛正在就此话题在 同学中展开调查。请你写一篇英语短文，向该论坛投稀，描述你的一或两种个人习惯， 并谈谈它（们）给你的成长与成功带来怎样的能响。 写作要求： 1文中不得出现真实的人名、校名和地名： 2.语言准确.行文连贯，层次清晰，书写规范： 3.词数在80-100左右 八年级英语试卷第8页（共8页）