上海市实验学校2023-2024学年八年级上学期12月月考英语试题

2024上海实验西校八上第二次月考英语试卷 （第二部分语音、词汇和语法） II. Choose the best answer. （选择最恰当的答案）（16分） 1. Which of the underlined part is different from others in pronunciation? A. crossed B. used C. carried D. turned 2. How to read 322,597 in English? A. Three hundred and twenty-two thousands five hundred and ninety-seven B. Three hundred and twenty-two thousand and five hundred and ninety-seven C. Three hundred twenty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-seven D. Three hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-seven 3. My sister, Mary, was ________ 11-year-old girl. A / B. a C. an D. the 4. When did the terrible accident ________? A. take off B. take out C. take place D. take up 5. I have a coin in my right hand and a ticket in my ________ hand. A. another B. others C. the other D. other 6. I have no idea about the animals in France. Will you please ________ in the encyclopaedia for me? A. look for them B. look after them C. look up them D. look them up 7. I think one of the ways to keep healthy is to ________. A. eat as little junk food as possible B. exercise as more as possible C. eat as little soft drinks as possible D. eat as more vegetables as possible 8. Subtract 10 ________ 30, you will get 20. A. to B. by C. from D. and 9. The pilot ________ any help. He can manage it himself. A. doesn’t need B. needn’t C. didn’t need D. needs 10. The students of Class one had an autumn outing ________ Tom because he was ill. A. beside B. besides C. except that D. except 11. We bought a beautiful scarf ________ our mother as her birthday present. A. / B. on C. of D. for 12. — Pass me the encyclopaedia, ________? — Sure, with pleasure. A don’t you B. will you C. do you D. shall we 13. I will tell him the good news as soon as he ________. A. will return B. returns C. returned D. is returning 14. ________ useful language English is! A. What an B. How C. What a D. What 15. This pair of shoes is a bit small. Could you show me ________ pair? A. other B. another C. the other D. others 16. —Would you like me to help you with the luggage? —________ A. It doesn’t matter. B. That’t very kind of you. C. Yes, I’d love to. D. I don’t like the luggage. III. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once. （5分） 将下列单词或词组填入空格，每空格限填一词，每词仅填一次 A. safety check B. In fact C. are alone D. on the way E. stand up F. Instead of You are doing your homework and waiting for your parents to come back. The doorbell rings. You ___17___ and look through the keyhole. Two strangers! Should you open the door at once? ___18___ opening the door immediately, you should ask who is there with the door locked. Don’t tell them that your parents are away. To ignore (忽视) the doorbell is not a good idea. Sometimes bad guys ring doorbells to see if anyone's at home. ___19___ there are many things that you should watch for when you are at home just by yourself. ●Keep the door locked when you ___20___. ●Keep handy a list of phone numbers to call for help—110 or a nearby friend. ●Be careful with gas. Make a ___21___ before going to bed. ●Never go out with someone you don’t know, no matter how nice the person seems. IV. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括号中所给单词适当形式完成下列句子, 每空格限填一词）（8分） 22. Do you know who invented the wheels? I really think it’s a great ________. (invent) 23. Is a wooden ball falling as _________ as an iron ball? (gentle) 24. He was the ________ one to come into the hall. (five) 25. Without a ________, new ships aren’t able to sail across this area safely. (navigate) 26. The fish smelt ________ than anything else. (badly) 27. Scientists from all around the world want to know why all ________ things died at the end of the Cretaceous period (白垩纪). (live) 28 There are some deep ________ on the unexplored planet.(valley) 29. The sudden ________ of the man made his wife cry day and night. (die) 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）（10分） 30. Jack has already finished his report. (改为一般疑问句) ________ Jack finished his report ________? 31. The sports meeting will be held in a month. （对划线部分提问） ________ ________ will the sports meeting held? 32. Smoking is harmful to people’s heath as well as to others. （保持句意不变） Smoking is ________ ________ people’s health as well as to others. 33. He’s never been late for school. （改为反义疑问句） He’s never been late for school, ________ ________? 34. in, two thousand years, thinker, Greece, the, ago, about, lived, famous ____________________________________________________. Part 3 Reading and Writing（共 36分） V. Reading comprehension（阅读理解）（共26分） A. Choose the best answer. （根据短文内容, 选择最恰当的答案）（6分） In Mexico children often have pinatas on their birthday. The child’s parents put chocolates and other sweets into the pinata and hang it on a tree. Then the children hit the pinata with a stick. It breaks and the sweets fall out onto the ground. In China, people celebrate weddings with an eight-course meal, because the word eight sounds like the word for good luck. The last dish of the meal is always noodles. The noodles are long and thin. You have to eat them in one piece, you can’t cut them. In Chinese culture, long noodles are lucky. Long noodles mean you will have a long life. A business birthday shows that a company is successful. Many businesses in the USA celebrate important birthdays, like 10, 50 or 150 years. Companies hold parties and send cards. Companies sometimes make TV advertisements. It is a particular opportunity to advertise the business. As well as a birthday, many people in Southern Europe also celebrate their name days. In Greece, name days are more important than birthdays. People have big parties and open their houses to anybody who wants to come. People bring small gifts, often flowers or a box of sweets. 35. Parents usually hang pinatas _________ in Mexico. A. on a tree B. on a door C. on a stick D. on a wall 36. People celebrate weddings with an eight-course meal is because _________. A. it is a tradition B. people like to have meals C. the number is a lucky number D. the amount of each meal is small 37. The long noodles mean _________ in Chinese culture. A. a long life B. a healthy life C. a happy life D. a rich life 38. The underlined expression “particular opportunity” means “a special time of _________ to do something”. A. leaving it safe B. making it possible C. getting it ready D. keeping it fast 39. In Greece, anybody can _________. A. clean their home in name days B. receive many small gifts from their families C. celebrate their birthdays rather than name days D. attend a stranger’s name day celebration party 40. The text above is written to _________. A. introduce some celebrations B. sell different kinds of food C. encourage us to learn about more festivals D. share information about several countries 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）（6分） It was a cold November morning several years ago. My alarm clock had just gone off. but I was having trouble getting out of bed. My dad had died a few weeks before. I felt sad and depressed. Tough (结实的) and strong, my dad had worked so hard all of his life to ___41___ us. He had a temper (急性子) and would sometimes shout at my brothers and me, but I always knew that he loved me. Still, he had been raised in a ___42___ way and raised us that way, too. I couldn’t remember for example, ever being hugged by him. When my mom and grandma passed away, my dad moved into grandma’s home right up the road from where I lived. I was so ___43___ to have him close by. I would often visit him and just talk with him about life. But we still rarely touched and never hugged. Later, his health began to ___44___ fail and within a few months, he left us. It was a cold morning when we had his service, but I was too cold and numb (麻木的) inside myself to feel it. I couldn’t remember when we’d had our last hug. I sighed (叹气) and got out of ___45___. I turned on the light and walked into the hallway. I saw my son JJ walking down the hall to meet me Suddenly, he opened his arms and gave me a heartfelt hug. And just ___46___ he did it. I heard my dad’s voice deep inside of me say, “Joey, this hug is from me!” I cried and smiled at the same time. In that moment, in the place where heart, mind, and spirit all meet, I felt loved. I felt loved by my dad. I felt loved by life. 41. A. meet B. support C. have D. encourage 42. A. successful B. traditional C. careful D. popular 43. A. happy B. worried C. nervous D. frightened 44. A. slowly B. quickly C. hardly D. immediately 45. A. office B. house C. dream D. bed 46. A. though B. before C. as D. since C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（7分） 在短文的空格内填入适当地词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给 A dinosaur embryo (胚胎) has been found inside a fossilized (变成化石的) egg in Ganzhou, southern China. It’s amazing that the embryo has been kept in p___47___ condition. The embryo, named “Baby Yingliang”, is believed to be at least 66 million years old and is one of the best-kept dinosaur embryos ever found. A team of researchers from different universities s___48___ the embryo and published their findings in the journal iScience. They discovered that the fossil belonged to a group of dinosaurs which is s___49___ to birds with feathers. They lived in what is now Asia and North America. The embryo was very close to hatching (孵化) and was found in a curled (蜷缩的) position with its legs raised and its head between its toes (脚趾). This behavior is common in birds that are about to hatch, but this is the f___50___ time it has been seen in dinosaurs. The discovery of Baby Yingliang shows that this pre-hatching position in birds may have evolved (进化) from dinosaurs millions of years ago. The fossil was first discovered in the year 2000 by Yingliang Group, a mining company. It was forgotten for 15 years, u___51___ Yingliang staff were looking through a collection of fossils that had been found over the years. They noticed some bones coming out of the egg. At that moment researchers r___52___ there might be an embryo inside. Baby Yingliang is still p___53___ covered by rock. The team hopes to examine it further by using scanning techniques to create an image of its full body. D. Answer the questions. （根据短文内容回答下列问题）（7分） Huang Daopo was one of the most famous women in the Chinese textile industry (纺织工业). The woman, however, had an unhappy childhood. Huang was born in Wunijing today’s Huajing Town in Xuhui, Shanghai -about 700 years ago. Her family was very poor. At the age of ten, she was sold into marriage. Unable to bear her parents-in-law, Huang ran away from home and was accidentally brought to Yazhou-today’s Sanya in Hainan. Yazhou was famous for its cotton. The Li (黎族) people there had started a textile industry. Huang stayed with Li women for more than 30 years and learned spinning (纺纱) and weaving (织布) from them. Around 1285, Huang returned to Shanghai and stayed in Songjiang. She taught local villagers to spin and weave. Meanwhile, she improved weaving machines and tools, allowing people to work faster and produce better-quality textiles. With Huang’s efforts, Songjiang saw its textile industry develop quickly. The spinning and weaving techniques then spread across the city. Soon, Shanghai became one of China’s most famous cotton processing centers. Therefore, Huang was highly respected by people in Shanghai. After she died, the locals built a temple in her hometown to remember her. They also created many ballads (民谣) about her. Now, a new memorial hall (纪念堂) for Huang Daopo has been built in Huajing, Shanghai. The hall has a collection of more than 300 exhibits. Visitors can learn more about Granny Huang and the history of Shanghai’s textile industry. They can even try their hands at making cotton products like scarves and cloth bags. 54. Huang Daopo didn’t have a happy childhood, did she? _______________________________________________ 55. When was Huang Daopo sold into marriage? _______________________________________________ 56. Did Huang Daopo learn spinning and weaving from Li women in Yazhou or local villagers in Songjiang? _______________________________________________ 57. Why could people work faster and produce better-quality textiles? _______________________________________________ 58. How did the locals remember Huang Daopo? _______________________________________________ 59. Will you visit the new memorial hall for Huang Daopo? Why? _______________________________________________ VII. 81. Write a passage of at least 60 words on the given information. （根据以下情境写一篇不少于 60个词的短文, 标点符号不占格。）（10分） 60. 我校即将举办少代会 (the Youth Congress)，学生处需要征集提案 (proposal)，以下是具体要求：请以“A proposal for ________ ”为题，从以下三个方面展开你的提案。 1. 你认为学校的哪一方面需要改进？校园设施 (比如篮球场the basketball court、自行车停车棚the bike shed)，午餐 the school lunch，或者其他？ 2. 为什么需要改进这一方面？请陈述理由。 3. 请就如何改进这一方面展开你的建议。 A proposal for ________ I am a student from Grade 8. I would like to make a proposal to the Youth Congress. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2024上海实验西校八上第二次月考英语试卷 （第二部分语音、词汇和语法） II. Choose the best answer. （选择最恰当的答案）（16分） 【1题答案】 【答案】A 【2题答案】 【答案】D 【3题答案】 【答案】C 【4题答案】 【答案】C 【5题答案】 【答案】D 【6题答案】 【答案】D 【7题答案】 【答案】A 【8题答案】 【答案】C 【9题答案】 【答案】A 【10题答案】 【答案】D 【11题答案】 【答案】D 【12题答案】 【答案】B 【13题答案】 【答案】B 【14题答案】 【答案】C 【15题答案】 【答案】B 【16题答案】 【答案】B III. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once. （5分） 【17~21题答案】 【答案】17. E 18. F 19. B 20. C 21 A IV. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括号中所给单词适当形式完成下列句子, 每空格限填一词）（8分） 【22题答案】 【答案】invention 【23题答案】 【答案】gently 【24题答案】 【答案】fifth 【25题答案】 【答案】navigation 【26题答案】 【答案】worse 【27题答案】 【答案】living 【28题答案】 【答案】valleys 【29题答案】 【答案】death 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）（10分） 【30题答案】 【答案】 ①. Has ②. yet 【31题答案】 【答案】 ①. How ②. soon 【32题答案】 【答案】 ①. bad ②. for 【33题答案】 【答案】 ①. has ②. he 【34题答案】 【答案】The famous thinker lived in Greece about two thousand years ago Part 3 Reading and Writing（共 36分） V. Reading comprehension（阅读理解）（共26分） A. Choose the best answer. （根据短文内容, 选择最恰当的答案）（6分） 【35~40题答案】 【答案】35. A 36. C 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. A 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）（6分） 【41~46题答案】 【答案】41. B 42. B 43. A 44. B 45. D 46. C C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（7分） 【47~53题答案】 【答案】47. (p)erfect 48. (s)tudied 49. (s)imilar 50 (f)irst 51. (u)ntil 52. (r)ealized 53. (p)artly D. Answer the questions. （根据短文内容回答下列问题）（7分） 【54~59题答案】 【答案】54. No, she didn’t. 55. At the age of ten. 56. Li women. 57. Because Huang Daopo improved weaving machines and tools. 58. By building a temple in her hometown to remember her. 59. Yes, I will. Because I can learn about Granny Huang and the history of Shanghai's textile industry. VII. 81. Write a passage of at least 60 words on the given information. （根据以下情境写一篇不少于 60个词的短文, 标点符号不占格。）（10分） 【60题答案】 【答案】例文： A proposal for the school lunch I am a student from Grade 8. I would like to make a proposal to the Youth Congress. I think the school lunch needs further improvement. As is known to all, students need to replenish their energy through lunch after a morning of learning and activities. A nutritious lunch is not only related to students’ physical health, but also affects their afternoon learning situation. I suggest that the school lunch should first ensure the hygiene and safety of the food, which is the most important thing. Secondly, in the selection of dishes, attention should be paid to balanced nutrition. Also, I hope the dining environment in our school can be more comfortable. Finally, I hope my proposal will be adopted. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$