广东省广州奥林匹克中学2024-2025学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题

广奥教育集团2024学年第一学期期中联合教学质量监测 八年级英语 本试卷共四大题,8页,满分90分。考试时间100分钟。 注意事项: 1.答卷前,考生必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的学校、姓名、班级、座 位号和考生号填写在答题卡相应的位置上,再用2B铅笔把考号的对应数字涂黑。 2.选择题每小题选出答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑 如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案;不能答在试卷上。 3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答,答案必须写在答题卡各题目指 定区域内的相应位置上;如需改动,先划掉原来的答案,然后再写上新的答案 不准使用铅笔或涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4.考生必须保证答题卡的整洁,考试结束后,将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 一、语法选择(共15小题:每小题1分,满分15分) 阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,从各题所给的A、 B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。 Lu Xun was one of the most famous Chinese writers in our history. He was very 1__, and there was 2_ secret to his success. He was good at 3_ full use of time. He was the 4 son of his parents. When he was twelve years old, his father was very sick. So he 5care of him, looked after his two little brothers and helped his mother do 6housework. He didn't want to do 7than others in studies, so every day he tried to get enough time to study. He had 8interests. For example, he was interested in reading, writing and drawing and he did well in all of 9_. He got seriously ill 10_he didn't have a good rest every day. He stayed up very 11 to study and work every night. Lu Xun thought that time was 12 important as life and that 13 should waste time. He once said, "Time is just like the water in the sponge(海绵) and you 14 always get it if you visit it." Lu Xun's story encouraged me to be much 15 . C.success B.successful 1. A. succeed D. successfully C. the B.an 2.A.a D./ C.making 3.A.make B. makes D.made C.two B.first 4.A.one D.the second C. take B. takes 5.A.took D. to take C. some B. any 6.A.little D. few C. badly B. bad D. worse 7. A. worst B. many C.more D. most 8. A. much B. they C. themselves D. their 9. A. them C. however D.or 10.A.but B.because C. later D.lately 11.A.late B. latest C.as B.so D.very 12.A.too _ _ 13. A. no one C. someone B. everyone D.anyone 14. A. are B. will C. were D.must 15. A.hard-working B. less hard-working C. most hard-working D.more hard-working 二、完形填空(每小题1分,共10分) 阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从16-25各题所给的A、B、C、D项中,选出 最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑 There was once a bad king in a small country. He didn't 16 his people, al the people in the county disliked him very much One day when he was swimming alone in a river, his leg suddenly hurt. He went up and down in the water. He was so 17 that he cried, "Help! Help!"At that time, two 18 were working nearby. They ran over 19 , jumped into the water and got him out. They didn't know he was the king 20 he was pulled out of the water The king was happy, he said to the farmers, "You 21 my life. Now you may anything, and I'll give it to you." One of the farmers said, "We are very poor and my son can't get any 23 Please send him to a good school." The king 24 . Then he asked the other one. "And what about you, old man?" But the old man didn't say a word. The king was surprised and asked him again. "I don't want 25 . Please don't tell others that we saved you." The old man answered 将来 C. care about B. hear about 16. A. worry about D. talk about 17. A. glad B. excited D. afraid B. servants 18. A. drivers D. farmcrs B. fast 19. A.slowly D. angrily C. nt B. but 20. A. because D. during C. shared B. accepted 21. A. saved D. touched C. loofor B. askfor 22. A. send for D. prepare for B. money 23. A. job D. education B. ned 24. A. refused D. leff B. something C. anything 25. A. everything D. nothing 三、阅读理解(共两节,满分35分) 第一节阅读理解(共15小题,每小题2分,满分30分) 阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从26-40各题所给的A、B、C、D项中,选出 最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 (A) Two men were sitting together in an airplane. They were on a long journey. One of the men was a teacher. The other was a cook 2 C They sat without talking for a while, then the cook said, "Let's do something to kill the time." "What do you want to do?" the teacher asked. "We can ask each other riddles (迷语),"the cook said."You start." "Let's make the rules first, "the teacher said. "To make the game more interesting we play it for money. If we don't know the answer to a riddle, we have to pay a dollar:": The cook thought about it and said, "That's not fair (公平的). You are a teacher an educated man. You know more things than I do. I am iust a cook." "That's true, " the teacher said."What's your suggestion?""If you don't know the answer to a riddle, you need to pay me $1o0. If I don't know the answer to a riddle. I'll pay you $5o,"the cook said. Thinking for a while, the teacher said, "OK. That's fair. Who'll go first?" "I will. " the cook said. "Here is my riddle. What has three legs when it walks but only two legs when it flies?" The teacher repeated the riddle, "What has three legs when it walks, but only twc legs when it flies? Mm, that's a good one. I'm afraid I don't know the answer." He gave the cook $lo0, then he said. "What's the answer?""I don't know too." the cook said and gave him $50 。 26. Which word is similar to the underlined word "kil" in Paragraph Two? A.die. B. pass. C.lose. D. end. 27. Who got the CORRECT answer to the riddle? A. The teacher. B. The cook. C. Neither of them D. Both of them 28. How much money did the cook get at last? C.$100. B.$50. A.$1. D.$150. 29. What is the CORRECT order of the following statements? a. The cook showed his riddle b. The cook made the rules fair c. The teacher paid the cook money d. The teacher made the rules for the game. B.b-d-a-c C.d-c-a-b A. d-b-a-c D. b-c-a-d (B) Helen Keller was a great writer. She was born on June 27. 1880 in Alabama America. When she was only 19 months old. she experienced a serious illness, which left her deaf and blind. For the first few years of her life, she was only able to communicate with her family through a small amount of signs. However, unable to communicate properly, she was considered to badly behave, for example, eating from the plates of anyone on the table with her fingers In 1886,-Helen was sent to see a yourig woman, Anne Sullivan, Sullivan was aged only 20 and with no experience. She set about teaching Helen how to communicate 33 In the beginning, Keller did not understand what Sullivan was giving. However, after a month, Keller picked up on Sullivan's system of hand signals through understanding the word "water", Sullivan poured water over Keller's left hand and wrote out on her right hand the word "water". This helped Helen to fully understand. Keller made rapid progress. Helen and Anne remained a long relationship of 49 years. About their relationship, Helen said, "Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on. the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul (灵魂) free. Once I knew only darkness and stillness. Now I know hope and joy. 30. When did Helen Keller become deaf and blind? A. When she was about 19 months old. B. When she was about 10 months old C. When she was about 9 months old D. When she was about 6 months old 31. Why was Helen Keller considered to badly behave? A. Because she couldn't laugh. B. Because she couldn't communicate properly. C. Because she was not educated at home. D. Because she liked to eat from the plates of anyone with fingers. 32. What does the underlined part (划线部分) mainly want to tell us? A. Anne saved Helen's life. B. Helen once lived a hard life C. Life could give people hope and joy D. Anne made Helen's life full of hope and joy 33. What's the passage mainly about? A. How Helen Keller learnt to communicate _ B. How Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller C. Helen Keller D. Anne Sullivan (C) Emergency (紧急情况)Numbers in Different Countries Emergencies always happen every day in every country. What will you do if you meet with an emergency? If you don't know what to do, just remember some emergency numbers. When an emergency happens, stay calm (冷静的), take out your mobile phone, and call the emergency number you need. Different countries have different emergency numbers. The USA In the USA, remember to call 911 when you are in an emergency. The number 911 connects callers to emergency services (服务). It can tell the place of the caller's mobile phone. The UK In the UK, people call the number 999 when they are in an emergency. Each call centre has interpretation (翻译) services with I 70 languages South Korea The emergency number 112 is only for police in the country. Most of the telephone operators (接线员) speak Korean. But there are some operators who speak English, Chinese or Russian. They can offer better service for foreigners China In China, 110 is a 24-hour emergency number. Each telephone operator answers 800 to 1. ooo emergency calls every day. Operators should work on an emergency cal in 57 seconds. The police need to get to the scene (现场) in five minutes in cities. In the area which is far away from the town or city, it is 10 minutes 34. In South Korea, the telephone operators can speak some languages EXCEPT __. B. English C. German A. Chinese D. Russian 35. In China, how soon should the police get to the scene in the city? A. In 5 minutes. B. In 10 minutes. C. In 15 minutes. D. In 20 minutes 36. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Four countries' emergency numbers are mentioned in the passage. B. The mumber 911 can't tell the position of the caller's mobile phone C. In Britain, call centres have interpretation services with 100 languages D. In China, operators should work on an emergency call in 30 seconds 37. What can you do if you meet with an emergency and don't know what to do? A. Stay calm and just take a deep breath. B. Remember to call the emergency number you need C. Call the number 119 at once. D. Call your friends for help at once (D) Flying like a bat B2 is a robot made to understand bat flight. The strength of flying made by the bats' wings comes from a strong piece of skin. If you want to make a flying robot, said Science Focus, don't copy bats. But B2 has very thin “skin"made of silicone(硅嗣). It flaps its wings and does sharp drops and turns, just like a real bat Walking with Cockroaches' sticky feet It has four legs s instead of six, but this 4.5-centimeter-long cockroach(螂)robot can walk and climb walls iust like real cockroaches which have sticky (有粘性的) feet. The robot uses electricity to stickto walls. The tiny robot can look around inside engines because humans can't go there 1 German scientists used magnets (磁铁) to move a 3D-printed guppy(孔雀鱼) around. The magnetic robot rolled around under the fish tank. It copied the speed and direction of a fish partner, who thought the printed gupp was real. The team now use the robotic fish to better understand group actions in guppies. 38. How is the robotic cockroach different from a real one? A. It only has four legs. B. It can't climb walls C. It can't go into an engine D. It is made of silicone 39. What would be the best sub-heading for the third piece of news? A. Printing beautiful guppies. B. Copying guppies' speed and direction. C. 3D-printed guppy moving around by magnet D. Rolling around guppies. 40. In which section of the newspaper can we read the news? A. Animal World B. Science Study. C. Culture Corner D. School Time 第二节阅读填空(共5小题;每小题1分,满分5分) 阅读短文及文后A~E选项,选出可以填入41~45各题空白处的最佳选项,并在 答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Do you know these fun facts? More than 3 billion. people use the Internet: more than 20o billion emails are sent every day: the first computer mouse was made of wood. 41 They can do Maths, store information, or play music. You can use a cor puter to write or to play games. What do you know about the history of computers? The first computers were very big. They were the size of a room! 42 Early computers could also do simple Maths, like a calculator. In the 1945s, Alan Turing had the idea for a computer you could program to do different things ln 1958, Jack Kilby invented the microchip. Microchips are tiny but can store lots of information. They helped make computers smaller. 43 In the 198os, computer games were very popular. Lots of people bought computers just to play games. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, which is a way to organize information on the Internet. 44 Today people can use smartphones to play games, email, and go on the Internet. In the past, a simple computer was the size of a room. 45 ,n C A. Computers can do lots of jobs. B. Now it can go in your pocket C. In the i97Os, computers were smaller and cheaper, so people started to use them at home. D. They were so big that people didn't have them at home E. Now people all over the world can look for and share information on websites 四、写作(共三节,满分30分) 第一节语篇填词(共5小题;每小题1分,满分5分) 根据短文的内容及首字母提示或音标写出文中所缺单词。 There is a bookshop in the countryside. The bookshop was very special and it had many different books, i 46 magazines, storybooks and encyclopedias. A student found a useful book in the shop, but he r 47 the price was too high for him. So every afternoon, he went to the shop to read a little a time. He usually took a notebook with him and copied down some useful information from the book. The bookshop was open for 24 hours, so he could go there 48/'enitamm/. One day, h 49 , he couldn't find the book from its usual place. "Maybe the bookshop sold it this morning," the student thought and was leaving. S 5o, he heard a voice. He turned around and saw an assistant smiling at him. To his surprise, the assistant pointed to the book in a corner and said, "I put the book there so that you can find it easily." 第二节完成句子(共5小题,每题2分,满分10分) 根据所给的汉语内容,用英语完成下列句子。(每空限写一词 51. 目前,500多种动物溯临灭绝的危险 At present. more than 500 species of animals are in danger of 52. 科学家们想依靠数据,而不是猜测。 Scientists want to figures guessing. 53. 为了得到最好的信息,他们将使用更受欢迎的无人机。 ln order to get information. they will use drones 54.一些科学家在忙于搜集信息,其他的在严肃地讨论中。 scientists are busy collecting information; are discussing in a serious way 55. 野生动物的数量不如以前多了。这必定对人类是一个巨大的挑战 Wild animals are not it used to be. It must be a big to humans! 第三节书面表达(15分) 发明改变了世界,改变了人们的生活。最近你和同学在校园里做了一项关于 “我最喜爱的发明”的调查,以下是喜爱度排名前三的发明,请你写一篇英语短文 , 报告此次调查的结果, 并谈谈你心中最喜爱的发明和理由。 Inventions Your favourite invention? computer air-conditioner car Numbers 45% 30% 21% of students # ...calculate... ... temperature... ..faster... Reasons ..comfortable... ...convenient... ...anywhere... 要求: (1)短文应包含图示要点,可适当补充。(2)词数70-100词左右,短文的开头 己给出,不计入总字数,文中不得出现个人信息。 参考词汇:温度 temperature;调查 survey There are many inventions in history and some of them have greatly changed the world. Recently, we did a survey on "my favourite invention" in our school. C