重庆市合川中学2024-2025学年八年级下学期开学考试英语试题

合川中学初2026级第四学期开学定时训练

英语试题

出题人：陈春馨    审题人：杨梅

 (满分100分)

Ⅰ. 语法填空。 (每题1分，共10分)

When I was in middle school, my classmate Teddy ____1____ reading English storybooks. He had a really cool way of reading. When ____2____ met new words while reading, he didn’t look them up ____3____ the dictionary or turn to the reading pen right away. I was really confused and asked him why. He said, “ ____4____ I stop to look up every new word, it will break the nice feeling of reading the story. Also, I’ll depend (依赖) too much on the dictionary.”

I didn’t get it at that time. Later we had ____5____ English test. When I was doing the reading part ____6____, I got into big trouble. There were quite a few ____7____ I didn’t know in the paper, so I read slowly and lost a lot of time. But Teddy did a really ____8____ job!

After that, I understood something important. Learning English is like sailing on the sea. There will always ____9____ small problems, like little waves hitting your boat. But don’t let them stop you. Just keep ____10____ and you’ll get better and reach your goal.

1. A. love B. loved C. loves

2. A. he B. him C. his

3. A. on B. at C. in

4. A. If B. Before C. Because

5. A. a B. an C. the

6. A. careful B. carefully C. care

7. A. word B. words C. words’

8. A. good B. better C. best

9. A. be B. is C. are

10. A. to go B. go C. going

Ⅱ. 完形填空。 (每题1. 5分，共15分)

People have many friends in the world. They make people’s lives more interesting and colourful. Dogs are people’s honest friends. Cats, elephants, camels, horses and cows are people’s ____11____ friends. Do you think that computers are people’s friends, too? Now let me tell you ____12____ about it.

 We live in the “computer age”. People, ____13____ scientists, teachers, writers and even students, use computers to do all kinds of work. But about 40 years ago, ____14____ couldn’t do much work. They were big and expensive. ____15____ few people were interested in them and knew how to use them. Today computers are smaller and ____16____ . And they can do a lot of work. Many people like to use them. ____17____ people have them at home.

 Computers became very important because they can work ____18____ than men and make fewer mistakes. Computers can help people do a lot of work. Teachers use them to help teaching.

Students use them ____19____ and children use them to play games. Computers are very useful and helpful. It is _____20_____ that computers are our good friends. Computers have changed people’s lives. They make people’s lives better and better.

11. A. colourful B. beautiful C. helpful D. careful

12. A. anything B. something C. nothing D. everything

13. A. about B. for C. as D. like

14. A. scientists B. teachers C. students D. computers

15. A. Very B. Still C. Even D. Much

16. A. cheap B. cheaper C. expensive D. more expensive

17. A. More and more B. Fewer and fewer C. Less and less D. More or less

18. A. slowly B. more slowly C. fast D. faster

19. A. study B. to study C. studying D. studied

20. A. honest B. real C. true D. good

Ⅲ. 阅读理解。 (21-23小题，每题1分，24-39小题，每题2分，共35分)

A

What will happen when light (光) passes different materials (材质)?

Light can’t pass from air through water in a straight line. When light hits water, it gets refracted.

____21____

When we look at a straw (吸管) in a glass of water, light rays traveling through the water *refract and trick our eyes into  thinking the straw looks *bent.	____22____
Glass will refract light, too. Thick glass will cause light to bend and that’s how eyeglasses work.	____23____

* refract v. to make light change direction

* bent adj. not straight.

A.  B.  C.  D.

B

How would you like to pay when you go shopping? Cash payment? Mobile payment? People in China may pay by WeChat on the phones. We don’t use paper money very: often.

While WeChat Pay is now a part of life in our, country, this way of paying also appears in other countries. A lot of foreign companies and traders have to accept it. According to Xinhua News, about 13 foreign countries have; WeChat Pay services for Chinese travellers.

Is it good or bad to use WeChat Pay? Will people no longer use paper money in the future? Some. discussions appear on the Internet.

“I don’t think so. Nearly half of Chinese people live in: the countryside. People there. can’t enjoy: it without good Internet service. And . most. old people like. to, use paper money, ” said Winnie.

Steven said, “WeChat Pay is convenient and safe. We needn’t tell if the money is real or fake. But paper money is just the opposite. We should encourage people to use WeChat Pay more. ”

“For a long time, people will use different payment ways; ” said Sunshine. “Traders should allow people to choose the ways they like to pay. ”

Will paper money disappear in the future? . What’s your opinion about it?

24. When we pay by WeChat, we need to use, our ________.

A. wallets B. phones C. paper money D. ID cards

25. The underlined word “fake” in Paragraph. 5 may mean “________”.