江苏省连云港市灌云县2023-2024学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题

2023-2024学年度第一学期期中学业质量检测 八年级英语试题 考试时间：100分钟 分值：120分 第I卷（选择题，共65分） 一、单项选择（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 1. Jon Fosse got the Nobel Prize on ________ fifth of November, 2023. A. an B. a C. / D. the 2. Many players from different countries arrived ________ Hangzhou to join in the Asian Games. A. on B. in C. at D. to 3. Andrew, please read the ________ carefully before putting up a bookshelf by yourself. A. Internet B. invitations C. interest D. instructions 4. I like reading the newspaper Sunshine Teenager because it teaches me a lot of ________ lessons. A. useful B. careful C. useless D. careless 5. Look, they are ________ Huawei Mate 60. With it, they can chat on the Internet from all all parts of the world. A. talking B. chatting C. discussing D. looking 6. The Belt and Road brings us all together and helps build a much ________ world than before. A. good B. better C. well D. best 7. —How was your trip to Yunnan province? —Wonderful. We enjoyed ________ and saw many kinds of mushrooms there. A. ourselves B. ourself C. us D. ours 8. Amy says that she wants to be a table tennis player like Sun Yingsha when she ________. A. turns up B. pulls up C. grows up D. gives up 9. The teacher often says that we had better ________ late and we must have at least eight hours of sleep. A not going to bed B. not to go to bed C. go not to bed D. not go to bed 10 —Shall we watch 30000 miles in Chang'an in Wanda theatre? —________ It brings some famous poets in Chinese history to life. A. Good news. B. I dislike it. C. I don't have time. D. That sounds good. 二、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，共15分） Jim and Jack came from a small town. They were ceramic (陶瓷) ___11___ and good at making pots (罐子). They heard city people liked pots, ___12___ they decided to sell their pots to a big city. Through more than ten years of hard work, they made the ___13___ pots in the town. They hired a ship to take all the pots to the ___14___. Unluckily, the ___15___ met a strong rain on the way. After the rain, the ship landed (着陆). All the pots were ___16___ . The two men’s ___17___ of becoming rich was broken along with the pots. Jim said that they should ___18___ in a hotel for the night and walk around the city to enjoy the sights the next day. Jack looked at Jim sadly and asked, “You still want to go ___19___ the city? Don’t you show any care to these pots? We worked so hard to make ____20____ ! ” “We are unlucky enough to ____21____ the pots. We will be more unlucky if we lose happiness,” Jim said. Jack ____22____ for a while and nodded. The next day, he followed Jim around the city and had a good time for a few days. During their stay in the city, they found by accident that people there ____23____ their walls with things that looked like what they used to make pots. So Jim and Jack used the broken pots to make mosaic tiles (马赛克瓷砖) and ____24____ them to the city people. In this way, they made much money and returned home ____25____. 11. A. farmers B. artists C. doctors D. teachers 12. A. so B. because C. or D. and 13. A. good B. better C. well D. best 14. A. city B. town C. capital D. country 15. A. car B. bus C. ship D. train 16. A. great B. sorry C. broken D. lucky 17. A. secret B. dream C. smile D. activity 18. A. stay B. leave C. buy D. tell 19. A. behind B. from C. to D. around 20. A. it B. them C. they D. their 21. A. leave B. have C. lose D. own 22. A. searched B. answered C. asked D. thought 23. A. repaired B. decorated C. hit D. paid 24. A. sold B. bought C. borrowed D. lent 25. A. angrily B. sadly C. happily D. afraidly 三、阅读理解（共20小题，26-45每小题2分，共40分） A How to write a secret message Do you want to write a message only for a person? The other people can’t see the message on the paper. Only that person knows how to make the message appear (出现). Here’s a way to write it. You’ll need * half a lemon *a cup * four spoons of water *a cotton swab (棉签) * white paper *a light bulb What to do 1. Squeeze (挤) some lemon juice into water. Mix the water and juice. 2. Put the cotton swab into the mixture and make it wet. 3. Use the wet cotton swab to write some words on the paper. 4. Let the paper dry. Show it to someone and ask if he or she can see the words on the paper. 5. Hold the paper close to a light bulb to heat it. Ask him or her again. Let me explain it! Lemon juice has chemicals that have carbon. The chemicals break down easily when they are heated. And the carbon makes them turn into a dark color. 26. What do we need to write a secret message? A. An orange. B. A glass. C. White paper. D. Three spoons of water. 27 How many things do we need to do if we want to write a secret message? A. Five. B. Four. C. Three. D. Two. 28. Where is the text probably taken from? A. A storybook. B. A fashion newspaper. C. An advertisement D. A science magazine. B Dorothy works very hard in the kitchen. She remembers Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas. She remembers her friends the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. She’s very sad and she often cries. At night she goes to see the lion. The Witch doesn’t give him anything to eat or drink, so Dorothy takes him food and water from the kitchen. Then she lies down next to him, puts her head on his warm body and sleeps until the morning. The Witch watches Dorothy all the time. She’s waiting for the right moment to take the silver shoes. Dorothy wears them all the time. She loves them. The only time she takes them off is when she has a bath. The Witch doesn’t like water so she’s afraid to go near the girl when she is in the bath. One day Dorothy is cleaning the kitchen and she slips on the wet floor. She falls over and one of the silver shoes comes off. The Witch is watching. She picks it up quickly and puts it on. “Give me back my shoe!” Dorothy says. “No! It’s my shoe now,” the Witch replies. “You’re a wicked woman!” Dorothy shouts. “I want my shoe!” There’s a bucket of water near the door. The girl picks it up and throws the water over the Witch. “Aarrgh!” the Witch cries. “Water is the end of me!” and she starts to disappear in front of Dorothy’s eyes. “I'm going,” she says. “Going, going, going.” In another minute there’s just a big brown puddle of water on the kitchen floor. Dorothy quickly takes her shoe, puts it on again and runs outside. “The witch is dead!” she shouts. The Winkies look at her in surprise. They are also the Witch’s slaves. “We’re all free now!” she says to them. They start cheering and shouting. “The wicked Witch is dead! We’ re free! Thank you, Dorothy!” —Taken from The Wizard of Oz 29. When does Dorothy take off the silver shoes? A. When she sleeps. B. When she has a bath. C. When she feels sad. D. When she stays alone. 30. What does the underlined word “disappear” mean in the article? A. Become surprised and interested. B. Become hard to go away. C. Become impossible to see. D. Become very friendly. 31. What is the right order of the following things? ①Dorothy falls down on the wet floor in the kitchen. ②Dorothy takes some food to the lion. ③Dorothy pours water on the witch and kills the wicked witch. ④The witch picks up the shoes and puts on the shoes. A. ①④②③ B. ①②④③ C. ③①④② D. ②①④③ 32 What do you think of Dorothy? A. She is kind, clever and brave. B. She is polite, helpful and hard-working. C. She is cute, shy and careful. D. She is patient, generous and careless. C Can middle school students be “teachers”? How will they teach? Li Ziqi, a 13-year-old boy from Chengdu Xichuan Middle School, Sichuan, volunteered to teach school students in a village. Li joined a teaching activity in Xichang county, Sichuan, last summer. “I read the news that teachers were not enough in the village, so I wanted to give some classes to the kids there,” said Li. His parents helped him get in touch with the school. “My third-grade students have subjects like Chinese and English every day, so I wanted to teach them chess,” Li said. Li carefully gave 10 chess lessons with rules and real games. “Chess can help with kids' logical (逻辑的) thinking. They love the chess class very much,” said Li. “They now know that there are many ways of learning, not just learning from books. I feel so happy!” Before leaving, Li Ziqi visited his students’ homes. One father went to town to buy tea drinks for him. “I was so moved by these people when I saw the drinks. I know it is a kind of expensive thing for the family,” Li said. Li also learned important life lessons. “The kids there live a hard life, but they are hopeful about the future. That helps me get over hard things in life,” Li said. 33. Why did Li go and teach at a village school? A. Because he wanted to be with children. B. Because it is a teaching activity of his school. C. Because the school doesn’t have enough teachers. D. Because he likes the small village. 34. What does the word “that” refer to (指代) in the last paragraph? A. The kids are hopeful about the future. B. Those poor kids need more books. C. He wants to be a teacher there. D. They give him many presents. 35. What does the fourth paragraph tell us about Li? A. He learned a lot from the kids. B. He feels happy about his work. C. He is a famous chess player. D. He will go back there next summer. 36. What is the story about? A. Li Ziqi’s life in middle school. B. Li Ziqi’s hometown. C. Li Ziqi’s volunteer work. D. Li Ziqi’s favorite children. D When you go to the park, you may notice many older people listening to audio books (有声书) instead of reading paper books. Audio books become quite popular these days. Why are more and more people choosing audio books? Is listening to an audio book just as helpful as reading a book? Reading needs us to find time and places to sit down and read. However, you can listen to audio books anytime and anywhere you like, and it gives your eyes a break, too. But the big question is, can we learn as much from listening to a book as we do from reading one? People did an experiment to find the answer. They asked volunteers in group I to listen to an audio book and volunteers in group 2 to read a book. It showed that they remembered the same amount (量) of information, when they listened to it and read it. Another study further supported the result above. In the study, they scanned people's brains when they listened to and read books. The result showed that listening to audiobooks activates (激活) almost the same parts of the brain as reading does. However, some people still believe that they learn better from reading paper books. One reason might be that when we listen to audio books, we need to finish more work. “If you're trying to learn while doing two things, you' re not going to learn as well,” Daniel Willingham said. 37. What are the audio book users freer in than paper book users? A. Age and place. B. Time and place. C. Price and time. D. Price and age. 38. What can we know about the audio books? A. They are very popular these days. B. Everybody should buy an audio book. C. We need to find a place to read the audio book. D. We should always listen to the audio book at school. 39. From the study, which is better, listening to an audio book or reading a book? A. Listening to an audio book. B. Reading a book. C. Both are good. D. Both are useless. 40. Which is the best title of this article? A. The History of Audio Books B. The Advantages of Audio Books C. The Future of Audio Books D. The Introduction of Audio Books E 从短文后所给的选项中选出能填入短文空白处的最佳选项，使短文通顺连贯，其中有两项是多余选项。 Now, more middle school students go to the farm to know more about crops. A fun farming class took place in the fields! ___41___ From the day on, they learned something about farming. At the grain base (粮食基地), teachers talked about grains with students and answered their questions. ___42___ They touched the wheat and learned that people usually harvest (收获) the wheat at the end of September. “I wrote down all the nutrients like proteins (蛋白质) in millet in my notebook, ” said Dong Guangye. ___43___ He also planned to ask his parents to eat more millet in daily life, Other students also learned something new. “I knew about soybeans only from textbooks. ___44___ ” said Fang Weiqian. Before this, Ling Mingze thought that farming was something old. ___45___ “I saw really cool farming machines, and they showed me how farming changes and gets better,” said she. A. Most people like eating vegetables and fruit. B. He learned that eating millet can be good for people’s health. C. On Sept 15, Grade 8 students from Jinan No 34 Middle School went on a field trip. D. We want to be farmers when we grow up. E. This time, I saw real ones and learned how they grow. F. But this trip changed her ideas. G. The students saw millet and soybeans (小米和大豆). 第II卷（非选择题，共55分） 四、词汇（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 根据上下文和首字母提示，写出合适的单词。 Zhang Yufei was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province on April 19, 1998. She is one of the most famous s___46___ in the world now. Her parents found she was interested in water, so they c___47___ to let her learn to swim at the age of 3. When she was 13 years old, she entered Jiangsu swimming team. From then on, she practised harder and w___48___ many swimming competitions. Now, as a member of the Chinese swimming team, she is very c___49___ about swimming. She spends lots of time practising swimming every day. Her hard work brings her a lot of s___50___ from others. She is not only polite but also very h___51___ . She often tells funny jokes. What’s more, she is helpful and she often o___52___ help to her team members. She likes visiting places of interest d___53___ her free time. She thinks it can make her feel great. She also likes climbing and she is an excellent c___54___ . It is good for her to make her life more colourful. As a fan of her, I am c___55___ that she will be better in the future. 五、选词填空（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分） 从方框中选择恰当的词或短语并用其正确的形式填空。（每个词或短语只能用一次） lucky; join their trip; end early; learn more about; put in; take place; get on; not give up; slim; look through 56. —Did you listen to Sa Beining’s song Father at the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala? —Of course, it ___________ on September 30 this year. 57. Because of the Double Reduction policy (双减), our school ___________ than usual. 58. It’s time ___________ the bus. We will take the bus to mountain areas to help poor students there. 59. Messi was born in a poor family. ___________, he made his football dream come true and got his eighth Golden Ball Award on October 26, 2023. 60. If you go to France one day, you ___________ the beautiful language French. 61. My brothers invited me ___________ to Guizhou to watch Cun Chao matches there. 62. My father spent only five minutes ___________ a brighter light in my bedroom. 63. —Where are the exchange students now? —They ___________ the newspaper to learn Chinese tea culture. 64. Wang Xinling is 41 years now, but she is even ___________ and more beautiful now. 65. —David, I am afraid that I can’t do well in the mid-term exam. —Please ___________ and keep trying. I believe you can do it. 阅读与表达，每小题答案不超过5个单词。 In the Dynasty of Han, there was a young boy called Kuang Heng. He was born in a poor family. He liked reading books very much. He needed to work at daytime, so he had to read books during night. But he was too poor to buy a candle. One day, he found his neighbour had candles, but the light couldn’t go through his room. So he dug a small hole on the wall so that he could use the light to read books. From that day, he read books every night until the light went out. However, he finished reading all his books and there were no books for him to read. Then he went to a rich man’s house and worked for him without asking for money. The rich man asked, “Why don’t you want the money?” Kuang Heng said, “Because I only want to borrow books.” The rich man agreed. Kuang Heng read the books one by one. Finally, he became a great scholar (学者) in Chinese history. 66. Which dynasty did Kuang Heng live in? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 67. What did Kuang Heng like doing very much? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 68. Why couldn’t he buy a candle? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 69. When Kuang Heng went to a rich man’s house, what did he really want to do? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 70. What do you think of Kuang Heng? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 七、书面表达（本题满分25分） 71. 同道为朋，同志为友。在八年级伊始，能够遇到好朋友，是一种缘分，也是一种幸运。请根据下面的思维导图和图片，用英文介绍一位你八年级新交的好朋友 Millie。 注意：1. 词数90左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数； 2. 内容必须包括表格中的要点，可适当发挥，使短文完整、流畅。 I made a new friend Millie at the beginning of this term. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2023-2024学年度第一学期期中学业质量检测 八年级英语试题 考试时间：100分钟 分值：120分 第I卷（选择题，共65分） 一、单项选择（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 【1题答案】 【答案】D 【2题答案】 【答案】B 【3题答案】 【答案】D 【4题答案】 【答案】A 【5题答案】 【答案】C 【6题答案】 【答案】B 【7题答案】 【答案】A 【8题答案】 【答案】C 【9题答案】 【答案】D 【10题答案】 【答案】D 二、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，共15分） 【11~25题答案】 【答案】11. B 12. A 13. D 14. A 15. C 16. C 17. B 18. A 19. D 20. B 21. C 22. D 23. B 24. A 25. C 三、阅读理解（共20小题，26-45每小题2分，共40分） A 【26~28题答案】 【答案】26. C 27. A 28. D B 【29~32题答案】 【答案】29. B 30. C 31. D 32. A C 【33~36题答案】 【答案】33. C 34. A 35. B 36. C D 【37~40题答案】 【答案】37. B 38. A 39. C 40. D E 【41~45题答案】 【答案】41. C 42. G 43. B 44. E 45. F 第II卷（非选择题，共55分） 四、词汇（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 【46~55题答案】 【答案】46. (s)wimmers 47. (c)hose 48. (w)on 49. (c)razy 50. (s)upport 51. (h)umorous 52. (o)ffers 53. (d)uring 54 (c)limber 55. (c)ertain 五、选词填空（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分） 【56~65题答案】 【答案】56. took place 57. ends earlier 58. to get on 59. Luckily 60. will learn more about 61. to join their trip 62. putting in 63. are looking through 64. slimmer 65. don’t give up 【66~70题答案】 【答案】66. The Dynasty of Han. 67. He liked reading very much. 68. Because he was too poor. 69. He wanted to borrow books. 70. He was hard-working/excellent… 七、书面表达（本题满分25分） 【71题答案】 【答案】例文： I made a new friend Millie at the beginning of this term. She has a round face and big eyes. With long straight hair, she looks very beautiful. She is very polite and generous. She always donates money to the poor in need. She is also the member of Buddy club. Moreover, she often reads many books from the library, which has a big influence on me. She has many hobbies, such as travelling and DIY. For example, she used to visit the famous spot—the Great Wall. And she made a birthday card by herself. This is my best friend. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $