上海市进才中学北校2023-2024学年八年级下学期期末考试英语试题

2023学年度第二学期初二年级期末素养分析英语学科 （满分：100分 时间：90分钟） Part 1 Listening(25 分) Ⅰ. Listen and choose the right picture(根据你听到的句子,选出正确的图片)(共6分) 1. ________ 2. ________ 3. ________ 4. ________ 5. ________ 6. ________ Ⅱ. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear( 根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案)(共8分) 7. A. By bus. B. By car. C. By bike. D. On foot.. 8. A. Tom. B. John. C. Jack. D. Mike 9. A. Work in a restaurant. B. Have dinner at home. C. Go to a restaurant. D. Earn some money. 10. A. In a supermarket. B. In a bookstore. C. In a library. D. In a ticket office. 11. A. 87623519. B. 87362519. C. 87632519. D. 87635219. 12. A. It'll be hot. B. It'll be dry. C. It'll rain. D. It'll be cloudy. 13. A. 38 dollars. B. 98 dollars. C. 136 dollars. D. 60 dollars. 14. A. Mother and son. B. Patient and doctor. C. Teacher and student. D. Hotel clerk and customer. Ⅲ. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false(判断下列句子是否符合你听到的短文内容，符合用“T”表示，不符合用“F”表示)(共5分) 15. Nowadays, more and more people are unhappy. 16. Happiness is always around you if you look for it. 17. When we have trouble at school, only our classmates will encourage us. 18. Happiness is everywhere, but most people can't find it. 19. You will be happy if you play beautiful music Ⅳ. Listen to the passage and complete the following sentences (听短文,完成下列句子，每格限填词) (共6分) 20. Tim wants to go to ________ cause he likes to see wonderful paintings and hopes to have a ________ 21. Alice hopes to go to ________ Her biggest worry is that it's so ________ to get there and stay there. 22. Tim is ________ that they’ll ________ the exchange programme. Part 2 Vocabulary and Grammar (40 分) Ⅰ. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案): (20%) 1. The second Sunday of May is _______ Mother's Day. It's _______ special day for children to show their love for their mothers. A. a，the B. the，a C. ／，a D. ／，the 2. Is there any difference between your idea and ________? A. him B. she C. his D. her 3. Can you tell me ________ she is waiting for? A. why B. whose C. who D. how 4. The experiment was easier than we had expected. A. more B. much more C. much D. more much 5. The farmers are pleased ________ their harvest through a year’s hard work. A. with B. to C. of D. for 6. In the past few years there ______ great changes in my hometown. A. have been B. were C. had been D. are 7. —It’s raining! When did it start? —I don’t know exactly. In fact, the weather report says that it ________ for two days. A. lasts B. has lasted C. lasted D. will last 8. We must do everything we can ________ our earth cleaner and safer. A. made B. to making C. make D. to make 9. You look quite tired. You’d better ________ a good rest. A. stop to have B. stop having C. to stop to have D. to stop having 10. —I haven’t decided ________ my holiday. —Why not go to China with us? A. where will I spend B. how will I spend C. how I’ll spend D. where to spend 11. I won’t go to the concert this evening. I ________ watch NBA on TV. It’s more exciting. A. had better B. would rather C. ought to D. have to 12. You ________ clean the room now. You ________ do it after supper. A. won’t; must B. don’t have to; may C. needn’t; must D. should; can 13. －What shall we do now? －_______ it’s raining hard, let’s stay at home. A. So B. Since C. Though D. If 14. Now more and more people are ________ the danger of driving after drinking. A. tired of B. aware of C. fond of D. proud of 15. --Listen! Someone is playing the piano. --Wow! beautiful music! I like it very much. A. What B. How a C. What a D. How 16. It’s more important to give ________. A. than to receive B. so as to receive C. when to receive D. for us to receive 17. Bill won't make any progress ________ he studies harder than before. A. if B. when C. because D. unless 18. Sandy feels unhappy because nobody seems to ______ her progress. A. notice B. look C. watch D. read 19. —I am going to have a job interview tomorrow morning. —Well. ________ A. Have a good time! B. Good luck! C. I’m happy to hear that. D. Congratulations! 20. —Tom, be careful not to drive too fast. ________. —Thank you for your advice. A. It’s better to be safe than sorry B. Too many cooks spoil the broth C. Many hands make light work D. Every dog has its day Ⅱ Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can be used once(将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每次只能填一次) (5分) A. system B. records C. stood for D. even if E. written F. writing Does using pictures instead of letters for writing sound like fun to you? That’s what the people in Egypt did a long time ago. This ancient ____21____ of writing is called hieroglyphics (象形文字). In the old Egyptian system, each picture ____22____ an idea. These picture words were carved on temple walls and in other places where people gathered. They told stories about the Egyptian gods and rulers. They told stories about animals. The picture words were also used to keep ___23___ of taxes and other business information. You might find it hard to read Egyptian hieroglyphics ____24____ you understood the pictures, because the picture words were ____25____ from right to left. Ⅲ. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms(用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子) (5分) 26. This Japanese cartoon is so ________ that most teenagers enjoy it. (attract) 27. Daniel sat on the sofa ________ and went to sleep at once. (comfortable) 28. We were without ________ for three hours, but it’s on again now. (electrical) 29. The boy doesn’t show good manners to others. He is ________ (polite) 30. I think you were correct to ________ the offer. (rejection) Ⅴ. Rewrite the following sentences as required (根据所给要求, 改写下列句子。每空格限填一词): (2*5=10分) 31. The little child read Peppa Pig alone at the bedside last night. (改成一般疑问句) ________ the little child ________ Peppa Pig alone at the bedside last night? 32. It’s only twenty minutes’ walk from my home to school. (划线部分提问) ________ ________ is it from my home to school? 33. If you are careless, you won’t get good marks in the coming final exams. (同义句) ________ ________, or you won’t get good marks in the coming final exams. 34. Did they have a pleasant and exciting journey? Do you know? (两句合并成一句) Do you know ________ they ________ a pleasant and exciting journey? 35. destinations, Paris, is popular, tourist, the, most, in the world, one of, (连词成句) ______________________________________________________________. Part 3 Reading and writing (35分) Ⅰ. Reading comprehension (阅读理解) A. Choose the best answer (根据短文内容, 选择最恰当的答案, 用 A,B,C,D 等表示) (6分) Most countries have medals for brave soldiers. But what about brave animals? Many animals go to war: horses, dogs, cows and pigeons, to name a few. Are there any awards for them? In fact, there is one. It’s called the Dickin Medal, and it’s given to animals who show bravery and devotion to duty while serving with the armed forces (武装部队) or civil emergency services (民事紧急服务). The award was created by and named after Maria Dickin in 1943. She had previously set up the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA)-an organization that took care of injured animals. During the Second World War, many animals were given the Dickin Medal, including one cat, three horses,18 dogs and 32 pigeons. Pigeons? You ask. Yes, pigeons. OK, they may seem unlikely to receive a bravery medal, but they were very important to the war effort. During the Second World War, communications weren’t what they are today. There was no internet, no-mail, no mobile phones and no satellites. So, on many occasions, soldiers had to use homing pigeons to pass on messages. These pigeons are born with an ability to find their way home, even if they are quite far away. During the war, homing pigeons were used to carry messages. These messages were usually written on small pieces of paper and were tied to their legs. One of the most famous pigeons to win the medal was Paddy. He was an Irish pigeon, and one of the first pigeons to return to base out of hundreds launched. He was bringing news of the successful D-Day landings in Normandy (诺曼底). He crossed the English Channel in just 4 hours and 5 minutes (a record). Another famous pigeon was G. I. Joe. He worked for the United States Army Pigeon service. G. I. Joe saved the lives of the villagers and allied (同盟的) soldiers of the village of Calvi Veccia, Italy. The village had been captured by allied soldiers. But the air force didn’t know this and was about to bomb (轰炸) it. G. I. Joe was given a message to take, and it arrived just in time to avoid the bombing. 36. The Dickin Medal is an award given to ________. A. brave and devoted soldiers B. brave and devoted animals C. honest and diligent soldiers D. honest and diligent animals 37. Pigeons were important during the Second World War because ________. A. they were very brave B. they helped to carry messages C. they saved many people’s lives D. they knew how to find their way home 38. The pigeon Paddy was given the Dickin Medal because ________. A. he was an Irish pigeon B. he was the first pigeon to return to base C. he succeeded in carrying an important message D. he set a record by crossing the English Channel in a short time 39. What would happen if G. I. Joe didn’t send the message in time? A. G. I. Joe would have died. B. The allied soldiers would have lost the war. C. The air force would have killed the pigeon. D. The villagers and allied soldiers would have died in the bombing. 40. The underlined word “capture” probably means ________. A. take control B. complete C. save D. block 41. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. The pigeons Paddy and G. I. Joe worked for the same army. B. The Dickin Medal was created by Maria Dickin, an animal lover. C. Pigeons carried messages with their mouth while passing on news. D. No cats were given the Dickin Medal during the Second World War. B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词组, 完成短文, 用A, B, C, D 表示) (6分) Is there life on other planets? We do not know for sure. In 1997, the American spaceship Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were sent into space. The spaceship carried messages of greeting for any intelligent life forms. There was a difficult question to answer before the messages were sent. How could you “talk” to an alien on another planet? How could aliens understand human life on Earth? ____42____, how should the messages be presented? Many people were surprised when scientists decided to send music ____43____ words or pictures. The scientists decided it was easiest to communicate through music. As a result, a message disc with nearly 88 minutes of music was sent. Why was music ____44____? Music is an easily understood art form. All people, young or old, can enjoy it. When people hear a piece of music, they usually link it with a ____45____. A piece of music can make you feel sad, angry, calm or joyful. Every culture, from the past to the present, has ____46____ its own music to express its sadness, pain and happiness. Different pieces of music were chosen for variety. Traditional songs and music from many countries were selected for the disc. Modern rock ‘n’ roll and Western classical music were also ____47____. Perhaps one day we will receive a similar disc from another planet! 42. A. In other words B. In fact C. After all D. By the way 43. A. besides B. instead of C. together with D. according to 44. A. heard B. chosen C. invited D. followed 45. A. language B. story C. word D. feeling 46. A. played B. found C. created D. taught 47. A. made B. included C. tested D. described C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给) (7分) Lois Gibson will never forget that day. One evening nearly 45 years ago, a man broke into her house. He asked Gibson to give him all her money. After Gibson r____48____ the man almost choked(使窒息) her to death. Fortunately, Gibson was finally released. She was too f____49____ to call the police. The second day, Gibson turned onto a wrong street while driving. There, she happened to see her attacker being arrested (逮捕). Suddenly, Gibson saw a reason to return to school and learn more about a____50____. Four years later, Gibson became a forensic artist (犯罪素描师). Now 68, the artist has drawn thousands of suspects. About 30 percent of these drawings have led to an arrest. No one in the world has done better. Gibson still remembers the first time she tried to draw a s____51____, she talked to a young man who had seen a murder. The man was too emotional and Gibson couldn’t finish her drawing. The suspect looked like he was eating a lemon. However, just a day later, a detective told Gibson that her drawing had helped solve the case. “I thought, if that terrible drawing could stop a bad guy-like the man who tried to kill me-I’m never going to s____52____. ” Gibson says. There is never a day that goes by when Gibson isn’t drawing a suspect. The artist says she wants to help people feel better about something they are never going to f____53____. “When they see the drawing, they see h____54____ the bad guy is more likely to be brought to justice,” she says. D. Read the passage and answer the questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题)(6分) Don’t view people like me as dinosaurs. Yes, we are living in the Information Age, but I have no shame in saying I can’t give up newspapers. Every morning, I read The Seattle Times, The New York Times and USA Today. I used newspapers to raise my kids. No, I am not joking. During my eldest son's teenage years, he wouldn’t listen to me no matter what I said or how I said it. So I used newspapers. “If you don't believe me, just read the paper,” I would say. I saved for my kids any good story with life lessons. I made my points through words in black and white. The printed words worked like magic. Immediately, there were no more debates or fights. Reading newspapers opened my kids’ minds in different areas. There were, of course, areas I had no knowledge of or things that would never cross my mind to teach. I was amazed that my kids, at a young age, understood very complex problems. Every day, they could find reliable stories covering many different topics in newspapers. Reading newspapers _______________________________. My 85-year-old aunt never graduated from elementary school. However, she always enjoys reading newspapers and learns a lot every day. “How did you know that?” I would ask her when she would throw one latest scientific discovery at me. “I read about it in the newspaper,” she would always reply. We are in the Information Age, but I believe newspapers still play an important role in “educating” people of all ages. 55. When does the author read The Seattle Times every day? _______________________________________________________________ 56. What would the author do when her eldest son didn’t listen to her? _______________________________________________________________ 57. How could the author’s children understand very complex problems at a young age? _______________________________________________________________ 58. Fill in the blank in paragraph 4? Reading newspapers __________________________________________________ 59. Do you like reading newspapers? Why or why not? _______________________________________________________________ Ⅱ. Writing (10分) 60. Write at least 60 words about the topic “China is calling”. (以“中国在召唤”为题，写一篇不少于60字的短文，标点符号不占格。) 中国这些年来发生了很多的变化，科技发展突飞猛进，人民的幸福指数也上升了。我们的国家发生了哪些改变呢？你的生活又发生了哪些改变呢？请结合自己的亲身经历写出你自己的感想吧。 1. What do you think of your motherland? 2. What can tourists/you see in China? 3. What can tourists/you do in China? (注意：1.短文中不得出现考试姓名/校名等个人信息，否则不与评分。2.照抄阅读语篇不得分。) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2023学年度第二学期初二年级期末素养分析英语学科 （满分：100分 时间：90分钟） Part 1 Listening(25 分) Ⅰ. Listen and choose the right picture(根据你听到的句子,选出正确的图片)(共6分) 1. ________ 2. ________ 3. ________ 4. ________ 5. ________ 6. ________ Ⅱ. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear( 根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案)(共8分) 7. A. By bus. B. By car. C. By bike. D. On foot.. 8. A. Tom. B. John. C. Jack. D. Mike 9. A. Work in a restaurant. B. Have dinner at home. C. Go to a restaurant. D. Earn some money. 10. A. In a supermarket. B. In a bookstore. C. In a library. D. In a ticket office. 11. A. 87623519. B. 87362519. C. 87632519. D. 87635219. 12. A. It'll be hot. B. It'll be dry. C. It'll rain. D. It'll be cloudy. 13. A. 38 dollars. B. 98 dollars. C. 136 dollars. D. 60 dollars. 14. A. Mother and son. B. Patient and doctor. C. Teacher and student. D. Hotel clerk and customer. Ⅲ. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false(判断下列句子是否符合你听到的短文内容，符合用“T”表示，不符合用“F”表示)(共5分) 15. Nowadays, more and more people are unhappy. 16. Happiness is always around you if you look for it. 17. When we have trouble at school, only our classmates will encourage us. 18. Happiness is everywhere, but most people can't find it. 19. You will be happy if you play beautiful music Ⅳ. Listen to the passage and complete the following sentences (听短文,完成下列句子，每格限填词) (共6分) 20. Tim wants to go to ________ cause he likes to see wonderful paintings and hopes to have a ________ 21. Alice hopes to go to ________ Her biggest worry is that it's so ________ to get there and stay there. 22. Tim is ________ that they’ll ________ the exchange programme. Part 2 Vocabulary and Grammar (40 分) Ⅰ. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案): (20%) 【1题答案】 【答案】C 【2题答案】 【答案】C 【3题答案】 【答案】C 【4题答案】 【答案】C 【5题答案】 【答案】A 【6题答案】 【答案】A 【7题答案】 【答案】B 【8题答案】 【答案】D 【9题答案】 【答案】A 【10题答案】 【答案】C 【11题答案】 【答案】B 【12题答案】 【答案】B 【13题答案】 【答案】B 【14题答案】 【答案】B 【15题答案】 【答案】A 【16题答案】 【答案】A 【17题答案】 【答案】D 【18题答案】 【答案】A 【19题答案】 【答案】B 【20题答案】 【答案】A Ⅱ Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can be used once(将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每次只能填一次) (5分) 【21~25题答案】 【答案】21. A 22. C 23. B 24. D 25. E Ⅲ. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms(用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子) (5分) 【26题答案】 【答案】attractive 【27题答案】 【答案】comfortably 【28题答案】 【答案】electricity 【29题答案】 【答案】impolite 【30题答案】 【答案】reject Ⅴ. Rewrite the following sentences as required (根据所给要求, 改写下列句子。每空格限填一词): (2*5=10分) 【31题答案】 【答案】 ①. Did ②. read 【32题答案】 【答案】 ①. How ②. far 【33题答案】 【答案】 ①. Be ②. careful 【34题答案】 【答案】 ①. if##whether ②. had 【35题答案】 【答案】Paris is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world Part 3 Reading and writing (35分) Ⅰ. Reading comprehension (阅读理解) A. Choose the best answer (根据短文内容, 选择最恰当的答案, 用 A,B,C,D 等表示) (6分) 【36~41题答案】 【答案】36. B 37. B 38. C 39. D 40. A 41. B B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词组, 完成短文, 用A, B, C, D 表示) (6分) 【42~47题答案】 【答案】42. A 43. B 44. B 45. D 46. C 47. B C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给) (7分) 【48~54题答案】 【答案】48. (r)efused 49. (f)rightened 50. (a)rt 51. (s)uspect 52. (s)top 53. (f)orget 54. (h)ope D. Read the passage and answer the questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题)(6分) 【55~59题答案】 【答案】55. In the morning. 56. She would ask him to read the newspaper she gave him. 57. Through reading reliable stories covering many different topics in newspapers every day. 58. is not only for kids; they are for adults, too. 59. Yes, I do. Because it can broden my views. (本题是一道开放性试题，答案言之有理即可) Ⅱ. Writing (10分) 【60题答案】 【答案】例文 China is calling China, which is also known as “the Divine Land”, is located in Asia continent of the earth. It has become one of the largest modern and international contries in the world. With the development of the economy, you can see that transportation in China is becoming increasingly convenient, and high-speed trains can be seen everywhere. All Chinese welcome you to visit China. If you enjoy shopping, you should visit Hong Kong. It is called “Shopping Paradise” in China. You won’t feel bored if you walk in this city and many goods will attract. If you enjoy eating delicious food, don’t forget to visit Xi’an and Chongqing where a lot of local snacks will wait for you there. I will always be in love with my motherland—China! 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $