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兴宁一中2023-2024八年级下期英语第二次月考试题 2024. 05 二、语法选择（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） Music plays an important part in our daily life. My early memory of music is the songs my mother used to sing for me ____1____ I was about three or four. We used to have music lessons ____2____ school, too. When we were very young, we had singing lessons, but we also played musical instruments like the drums ____3____ the teacher was playing the piano. My mother wanted me to take up ____4____ violin, but I didn’t like it at all. I gave it up after three months. When I was eight, my ____5____ record was bought with some of my birthday money. As I got older, my music taste ____6____. When I was a teenager, I used to go to clubs ____7____ to rock and pop music. AI that time, I didn’t like classical music at all. Later, when I went to university, I really got into classical music, and started ____8____ to classical music concerts. Nowadays, I listen to all kinds of music, but I’m not keen (喜欢) on loud rock music. On the whole, I think classical music and opera sound ____9____, but I still listen to pop music in my car. I haven’t been to ____10____ concerts for ages, but I always get a CD at home. Music is still an important part of my life. 1. A. before B. after C. when 2. A. off B. at C. without 3. A. while B. unless C. because 4. A. an B. a C. the 5. A. one B. the first C. first 6. A. changing B. changed C. change 7. A. listen B. listened C. to listen 8. A. went B. going C. go 9. A. well B. best C. better 10. A. some B. all C. any 【答案】1. C 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. B 7. C 8. B 9. C 10. C 【解析】 【导语】本文主要讲述了作者从童年到成年对音乐的经历和感受的变化。 【1题详解】 句意：我对音乐的早期记忆是我三四岁时妈妈为我唱的歌。 before以前；after以后；when当……时候。根据“my mother used to sing for me...I was about three or four.”可知，是当我三四岁时妈妈为我唱歌，用when引导时间状语从句。故选C。 【2题详解】 句意：我们过去在学校也上过音乐课。 off离开；at在；without没有。根据“We used to have music lessons”可知，是在学校上音乐课，at school“在学校”。故选B。 【3题详解】 句意：当我们很小的时候，我们上过唱歌课，但当老师弹钢琴时，我们也会演奏鼓等乐器。 while当；unless除非；because因为。根据“but we also played musical instruments like the drums...the teacher was playing the piano.”可知，两个动作同时进行，用while连接。故选A。 【4题详解】 句意：我妈妈想让我学小提琴，但我一点也不喜欢。 an一个，修饰元音音素开头的单词；a一个，修饰辅音音素开头的单词；the定冠词表特指。空处修饰violin，乐器前面加定冠词the。故选C。 【5题详解】 句意：当我八岁的时候，我的第一张唱片是用我的一些生日钱买的。 one一，基数词；the first第一，序数词，定冠词the修饰；first第一，序数词。空处修饰名词record用序数词修饰，空前有my修饰，不加冠词。故选C。 【6题详解】 句意：随着年龄的增长，我的音乐品味发生了变化。 changing改变，现在分词；changed改变，过去式；change改变，原形。根据“got”可知，时态为一般过去时，谓语动词用过去式。故选B。 【7题详解】 句意：当我十几岁的时候，我经常去俱乐部听摇滚和流行音乐。 listen听，原形；listened听，过去式；to listen不定式。根据“to go to clubs...to rock and pop music.”可知，是去俱乐部听音乐，用不定式表目的。故选C。 【8题详解】 句意：后来，当我上大学的时候，我真的迷上了古典音乐，开始去听古典音乐会。 went去，过去式；going去，动名词；go去，原形。start doing sth“开始做某事”，空处用动名词。故选B。 【9题详解】 句意：总的来说，我觉得古典音乐和歌剧听起来更好，但我仍然在车里听流行音乐。 well好，原级；best最好，最高级；better较好的，比较级。根据“I think classical music and opera sound..., but I still listen to pop music in my car.”可知，此处是两者相比较，觉得古典音乐和歌剧更好，用比较级。故选C。 【10题详解】 句意：我已经很久没去听任何音乐会了，但我总是在家里买一张CD。 some一些，用于肯定句；all所有；any任何，用于否定和疑问中。根据“I haven’t been to...concerts for ages”可知，是很久没去过任何音乐会了，否定句中用any。故选C。 三、完形填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） Before graduating from college, Nancy began to look for a job. She aimed at a famous company, but the ____11____ for such jobs was very strong. The company that Nancy chose planned to employ only one person, but more than twenty people applied for the job. ____12____, Nancy was one of the three people who were invited for the final interview. The interview was very ____13____. The interviewer asked just a few questions and it was all over in less than 10 minutes. Then the interviewer said to them, “All of you are very excellent. Please go home and ____14____ our response.” Three days later, Nancy received a text message saying she would not be ____15____ the job. She felt deeply disappointed. That evening, however, she received another ____16____. This time it said that she got the job. Nancy later found out that the first message sent to her phone was part of the interview—a ____17____ to see if she was suitable for the job. All the three people received the ____18____ text but only Nancy’s reply ____19____ the company. Of the three, one did not reply. The other said “Goodbye” and Nancy said “Thank you”. This reply showed that Nancy was a(n) ____20____ person, so the company offered her the job. 11. A. exam B. work C. competition D. plan 12. A. Luckily B. Unluckily C. Hopefully D. Immediately 13. A. long B. strict C. interesting D. simple 14. A. pick up B. wait for C. deal with D. think of 15. A. offered B. returned C. refused D. shown 16. A. letter B. email C. call D. message 17. A. guide B. conversation C. test D. lesson 18. A. same B. other C. second D. whole 19. A. reached B. satisfied C. helped D. surprised 20. A. brave B. clever C. polite D. honest 【答案】11. C 12. A 13. D 14. B 15. A 16. D 17. C 18. A 19. B 20. C 【解析】 【导语】本文讲述了Nancy在大学毕业前寻找工作的经历。 【11题详解】 句意：她盯上了一家著名的公司，但是寻找这类工作的竞争非常激烈。 exam考试；work工作；competition竞争；plan计划。根据“more than twenty people applied for the job”可知，寻找这类工作的竞争非常激烈。故选C。 【12题详解】 句意：幸运的是，Nancy是被邀请参加最终面试的三人之一。 Luckily幸运地；Unluckily不幸地；Hopefully有希望地；Immediately立即。根据“Nancy was one of the three people who were invited for the final interview”可知，这是幸运的事情。故选A。 【13题详解】 句意：面试非常简单。 long长的；strict严格的；interesting有趣的；simple简单的。根据“The interviewer asked just a few questions and it was all over in less than 10 minutes”可知，面试非常简单。故选D。 【14题详解】 句意：请回家等待我们的回复。 pick up捡起；wait for等待；deal with处理；think of想到。根据“Please go home and…our response”可知，应该等待回复。故选B。 【15题详解】 句意：三天后，Nancy收到短信称她不会得到这份工作。 offered提供；returned返回；refused拒绝；shown展示。根据“she would not be…the job”可知，她不会被提供这份工作。故选A。 【16题详解】 句意：那天晚上，然而，她收到了另一条消息。 letter信件；email电子邮件；call电话；message消息。根据“Nancy received a text message…she received another”可知，这里指的是另一条消息。故选D。 【17题详解】 句意：Nancy后来发现，发送到她手机上的第一条消息是面试的一部分——这是一次测试，看看她是否适合这份工作。 guide指南；conversation对话；test测试；lesson课程。根据“a…to see if she was suitable for the job”可知，这是一个测试。故选C。 【18题详解】 句意：三个人都收到了相同的短信，只有Nancy的回复让公司满意。 same相同的；other其他的；second第二；whole整个的。根据“All the three people received the…text”可知，他们收到了相同的短信。故选A。 【19题详解】 句意：三个人都收到了相同的短信，只有Nancy的回复让公司满意。 reached到达；satisfied使满意；helped帮助；surprised使惊讶。根据“This time it said that she got the job.”可知，她的回复让公司满意。故选B。 20题详解】 句意：这个回复表明Nancy是一个有礼貌的人，因此公司给了她这份工作。 brave勇敢的；clever聪明的；polite有礼貌的；honest诚实的。根据“Nancy said ‘Thank you’”可知，她是一个有礼貌的人。故选C。 四、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，每小题2分，共30分） A Students always choose some part-time jobs to experience life during their holidays nowadays. Do you want to get one? What kind of job do you want to get? Here are some jobs for you to choose from. Babysitter (临时保姆) needed We need a babysitter to look after our two boys aged 5 and 7 after school from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p. m., Monday to Friday. Salary (薪水): $100 a week． If interested, please call Vicky at 6783-4521. Rose Hotel part-time work We are looking for part-time workers to work in our hotel on Saturdays. Come in (from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.) or call Mina at 6123-8745 (after 6 p.m.). Holiday job Do you want to make some money this summer? Can you speak another language? We need French, Spanish or German speakers to work in the City Museum Shop from Tuesday to Saturday. Send your CV (简历) to citymuseum＠shopjob. lkj. Newspaper delivery (递送) We need young people to deliver newspapers on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. The newspaper delivery takes 30 minutes in the village of Clanbrook. You must deliver the newspapers before 7:30 a.m. and you must have your own bike. Interested? Ask for more information at Clanbrook Post Office. 21. If Joy wants to get the job in Rose Hotel, she can call Mina at ________ A. 8 a.m. B. 10 a.m. C. 5 p.m. D. 7 p.m. 22. What can we know about the holiday job? A. You can’t get any pay from the job. B. You needn’t provide your CV for the job. C. If you have got it, you needn’t work on Monday. D. If you want to get it, you must speak three languages. 23. If Harry takes the newspaper delivery job, he must ________. A. work three mornings a week B. use the bike of the post office C. finish the work before 7:00 a.m. D. be interested in the newspapers 24. If you are only free on weekends, you can apply for ________. A. Babysitter B. Rose Hotel part-time work C. Holiday job D. Newspaper delivery 25 You can find this information in _________. A. a guide B. a review C. a report D. a newspaper 【答案】21. D 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. D 【解析】 【导语】本文介绍了几种适合学生在假期期间选择的兼职工作。 【21题详解】 细节理解题。根据“Rose Hotel part-time work”和“call Mina at 6123-8745 (after 6 p.m.)”可知，如果Joy想申请玫瑰酒店的工作，可以在下午6点后打电话。故选D。 【22题详解】 细节理解题。根据“Holiday job”和“We need French, Spanish or German speakers to work in the City Museum Shop from Tuesday to Saturday.”可知，做这份假期工作周一不需要上班。故选C。 【23题详解】 细节理解题。根据“Newspaper delivery (递送)”和“We need young people to deliver newspapers on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. ”可知，做报纸递送工作一周要工作三个早上。故选A。 【24题详解】 细节理解题。根据“Rose Hotel part-time work”和“We are looking for part-time workers to work in our hotel on Saturdays.”可知，只有周末有空可以申请玫瑰酒店的兼职工作。故选B。 25题详解】 推理判断题。本文主要是几则招聘兼职工作的广告，这类信息通常会出现在报纸上。故选D。 B On weekends and holidays, when many Chinese teenagers learn things like painting and piano, kids at the same age in the United States like playing sports. According to Time for Kids, more US teenagers have joined many sports clubs in recent years. Families spend over 10 percent of their money on their children’s sports careers(事业). The youth sports economy(经济) in the US has grown by 55 percent since 2010, according to Winter Green Research. Ales Stearns is an eighth-grader at Mercy High School in Connecticut. The 16-year-old boy has been playing baseball since kindergarten. He plays it every day. He told TEENS that his family spends over $1,200 on his equipment(装备) and $300 on training each year. Tristan Silveira, 16, from Los Gatos in California, also plays baseball. He plays for the All Star Academy, a club that has fostered(培养) many Major League Baseball players. Silveira pays around $50 for every private lesson he takes. His family has supported him a lot. “My mom drives me to every practice and every game,” he said. Playing sports can bring many benefits. Teenagers can take parts in competitions. The top players in these competitions usually get full athletic scholarships(奖学金) for college. However, there are negative things about playing sports. Studies show that early learning sports increase the risk of injury and depression. Rising costs are a big burden(负担) for poor families, reported Time for Kids. 26. What can we learn from the second paragraph of the passage? A. Kids didn’t like playing sports in 2010. B. Sports clubs are always full of teenagers. C. Playing sports can cost a large amount of money. D. Kids shouldn’t play sports. 27. Stearns and Silveira are the same EXCEPT that __________ . A. their mothers drive them to every game. B. they both play baseball. C. they are both 16 years old D. they both like playing sports 28. It is mentioned in the passage that playing sports _________. A. can be good for teenagers who don’t want to study B. may help some students get scholarships for college C. will injure teenagers’ bodies and harm their studies D. decreases the risk of injury and depression 29. The underlined word “negative” probably means “__________” in English in this passage. A. valuable B. popular C. unpleasant D. happy 30. The best title of this passage is__________. A. School P.E. Class in the US B. Youth Sports in the US C. Scholarships for Going to College D. Benefits for Doing Sports 【答案】26. C 27. A 28. B 29. C 30. B 【解析】 【导语】本文主要介绍了在周末和节假日，当许多中国青少年学习绘画和钢琴等东西时，他们在美国的同龄人都在进行体育活动，文中告诉我们体育运动可以带来很多好处，但它也有消极的一面。 【26题详解】 细节理解题。根据文中第二段“Families spend over 10 percent of their earnings on their children’s sports careers.”以及其他的举例说明可知，第二段主要讲述小孩从事体育运动会花费很多钱，故选C。 【27题详解】 细节理解题。根据文中第四段“My mom drives me to every practice, every game.”可知，Silveira的妈妈会开车送他去参加比赛，而此信息在Stearns的相关内容中未提及，故选A。 【28题详解】 细节理解题。根据文中第五段“The top players in these competitions usually get full athletic scholarships for college.”可知，在比赛中的获胜者通常可以获得大学的奖学金，故选B。 【29题详解】 词义猜测题。联系划线单词所在段落，从后文中“increases the risk of injury and depression”可知，此处在说运动给青少年带来的不好的影响，结合四个选项可推测出C项最符合此处语境，故选C。 【30题详解】 最佳标题题。联系整篇文章，文中无论是举例还是后文中分析做运动带来的好处和坏处，都是针对美国青少年的运动方面，故选B。 C 配对阅读。左栏是五个人的困惑或需求，右栏是专家给出的七条解释或建议，请为每个人选择一条符合其需求的信息。 ____31____ Robert has been in America for only two weeks. He has many American classmates. When he talks with his classmates, he doesn’t understand some of their body language, such as rubbing (摩擦) stomach and shrugging (耸肩) shoulders. ____32____ Niki is a middle school student. She sometimes doesn’t want her parents to know what she is talking with her friends. She wants a special language so that no one else will understand her and her friends. ____33____ Eden likes pets. He keeps a dog and he knows a lot of his dog’s body language. For example, he knows the dog wags its tail slight (轻微的) more to the right when it is happy. Recently, he has bought a guinea pig. But he doesn’t know why the guinea pig hops (跳来跳去). ____34____ Sun Yang is a middle school students. He is talented in learning a second language. He won second prize in the 2013 National English Proficiency Competition. He will share his experience of giving a speech successfully. ____35____ Anne notices the Chinese Internet buzzwords, which is a kind of Internet language. For example, she knows “prehistoric powers (洪荒之力)”. But she doesn’t understand “thin blue mushroom”. A. You might notice that your guinea pig sometimes hops straight up in the air repeatedly. This is called “popcorning”. In means that your guinea pig is feeling particularly happy, excited or playful. B. It will be interesting for beginners to learn English on the website called www. languageguide. org. It is a perfect start for learning English and many other languages, because it starts with the alphabet and letters’ pronunciation. C. They mean “sad and feeling like you want to cry” in English. When they were first spoken by a young man who experienced a sad story of love, the words sounded similar to “lan shou xiang gu”. D. Be relaxed and confident when giving a speech. Make eye contact with the judges. This shows that you are confident. And keep speaking even if you make a mistake. Being smooth during a speech is very important. E. Body language is one way to find out what is really going on inside someone’s head. If someone rubs their stomach they are feeling sick or they are hungry. Shrugging shoulders means “I don’t know” or “I am not bothered”. F. Try learning a bit of sign language. It can be a secret language between you and your friends. Being a cool second language to learn, sign language can help kids with their spelling tests at school. G. Have you noticed that your rabbit is constantly shaking? Rabbits shake because they are aware that they are constantly at risk of being caught. 【答案】31. E 32. F 33. A 34. D 35. C 【解析】 【导语】本文是根据五个人的困惑或需求匹配专家给出的解释或建议。 【31题详解】 根据“Robert has been in America for only two weeks. He has many American classmates. When he talks with his classmates, he doesn’t understand some of their body language, such as rubbing (摩擦) stomach and shrugging (耸肩) shoulders.”可知，他不理解他们的一些肢体语言，比如摩擦肚子和耸肩。选项E“肢体语言是了解某人内心真实想法的一种方式。如果有人摩擦肚子，那意味着他们感到不舒服或饿了。耸肩意味着‘我不知道’或‘我不在乎’。”符合，故选E。 【32题详解】 根据“Niki is a middle school student. She sometimes doesn’t want her parents to know what she is talking with her friends. She wants a special language so that no one else will understand her and her friends.”可知，她希望有一种特殊的语言，这样就没有其他人能理解她和她的朋友们了。选项F“试着学一点手语。它可以成为你和朋友们之间的秘密语言。手语是一门很酷的第二语言，可以帮助孩子们通过学校的拼写测试。”符合，故选F。 【33题详解】 根据“Eden likes pets. He keeps a dog and he knows a lot of his dog’s body language. For example, he knows the dog wags its tail slight (轻微的) more to the right when it is happy. Recently, he has bought a guinea pig. But he doesn’t know why the guinea pig hops (跳来跳去).”可知，最近，他买了一只豚鼠。但他不知道为什么这只豚鼠会跳来跳去。选项A“你可能会注意到你的豚鼠有时会反复直跳空中。这被称为’爆米花跳’。这意味着你的豚鼠感到特别高兴、兴奋或好玩。”符合，故选A。 【34题详解】 根据“Sun Yang is a middle school students. He is talented in learning a second language. He won second prize in the 2013 National English Proficiency Competition. He will share his experience of giving a speech successfully.”可知，他将分享自己成功演讲的经验。选项D“演讲时要放松和自信。与评委进行眼神交流。这表明你很有自信。即使犯了错误也要继续说下去。在演讲中保持流畅非常重要。”符合，故选D。 【35题详解】 根据“Anne notices the Chinese Internet buzzwords, which is a kind of Internet language. For example, she knows ‘prehistoric powers (洪荒之力)’. But she doesn’t understand ‘thin blue mushroom’”可知，她知道“洪荒之力”。但她不理解“蓝瘦香菇”。选项C“它们在英语中意味着‘悲伤到想哭’。当这些话首次由一个经历过悲伤爱情故事的年轻人说出时，听起来与‘蓝瘦香菇’相似。”符合，故选C。 五、短文填空(本题共15分，每空1. 5分) win solve play still many deal part though about in problem he As the old Chinese saying goes, “Humanity’s most fundamental relationship is with what we eat (民以食为天). ” Although food has ____36____ an important part in Chinese culture for years, hunger had been a huge problem in the country until the 1970s. However, the Chinese scientist Yuan Longping helped to ____37____ with this problem. On Sept. 8, Yuan, together with two other scientists, ____38____ China’s 2018 Future Science Prize. Even on his 88th birthday on Sept. 7, he took ____39____ in the International Development Meeting of Rice Production in Hunan Province. ____40____ he was recovering from an illness at the time, he was happy to talk to the reporters ____41____ his latest work with seawater rice. And thanks to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路倡议), Yuan’s hybrid (杂交的) rice is helping to solve food ____42____ around the world. With a rising reputation (名气) around the world, Yuan made a speech ____43____ English at the 9th Shandong High-Level Talents Forum in Qingdao last year. But in spite of ____44____ great knowledge, Yuan understand that even the wisest people should ____45____ be open to learning new things. “The farmers of our country have rich experience in planting rice,” he told Xinhua. “We should learn from them.” 【答案】36. played 37. deal 38. won 39. part 40. Though 41. about 42. problems 43. in 44. his 45. still 【解析】 【导语】本文通过讲述袁隆平的事迹，展现了他对中国乃至全球粮食安全的巨大贡献。 【36题详解】 句意：尽管多年来食物在中国文化中发挥着重要作用，但直到20世纪70年代，饥饿一直是这个国家的一个大问题。根据“Although food has…an important part in Chinese culture”可知是指食物在中国文化中发挥着重要作用，play an important part in“在……方面发挥重要的作用”，结合空前的has，需用动词的过去分词，构成现在完成时。故填played。 【37题详解】 句意：然而，中国科学家袁隆平帮助解决了这个问题。根据“the Chinese scientist Yuan Longping helped to…with this problem”可知是指袁隆平帮助解决了饥饿问题，deal with“解决”符合句意，结合空前的to，需用动词原形。故填deal。 【38题详解】 句意：9月8日，袁隆平与其他两位科学家一起赢得了2018年中国未来科学奖。根据“Yuan, together with two other scientists,…China’s 2018 Future Science Prize”可知是指袁隆平与其他两位科学家一起赢得了2018年中国未来科学奖，win“赢得”符合句意，需用动词的过去式，构成一般过去时。故填won。 【39题详解】 句意：甚至在9月7日他88岁生日那天，他参加了在湖南省举行的国际水稻生产发展会议。根据“Even on his 88th birthday on Sept. 7, he took…in the International Development Meeting of Rice Production”可知是指袁隆平参加了会议，took part in“参加”。故填part。 【40题详解】 句意：尽管当时他正在疾病康复中，但他很高兴与记者们谈论他最新的海水稻工作。根据“he was recovering from an illness at the time, he was happy to talk to the reporters”可知是指尽管他正在康复中，但仍然很高兴与记者们谈论，though“尽管”符合句意。故填Though。 【41题详解】 句意：尽管当时他正在疾病康复中，但他很高兴与记者们谈论他最新的海水稻工作。根据“he was happy to talk to the reporters…his latest work with seawater rice”可知是指袁隆平与记者们谈论他最新的海水稻工作，about“关于”符合句意。故填about。 【42题详解】 句意：多亏了中国的“一带一路”倡议，袁隆平的杂交水稻正在帮助解决世界各地的粮食问题。根据“Yuan’s hybrid rice is helping to solve food…around the world”可知是指袁隆平的杂交水稻正在帮助解决世界各地的粮食问题，problem“问题”符合句意，此处用复数表泛指。故填problems。 【43题详解】 句意：随着在世界各地的声誉不断提高，袁隆平去年在青岛举行的第九届山东高层次人才论坛上用英语发表了演讲。根据“Yuan made a speech…English at the 9th Shandong High-Level Talents Forum”可知是指袁隆平用英语发表了演讲，in后接语言，表示“用英语”符合句意。故填in。 【44题详解】 句意：但是尽管他有丰富知识，袁隆平明白即使是最聪明的人也仍应该对学习新事物持开放态度。根据“in spite of…great knowledge, Yuan understand that even the wisest people should”可知是指他的丰富的知识，his“他的”修饰空后名词knowledge，符合句意。故填his。 【45题详解】 句意：但是尽管他有丰富知识，袁隆平明白即使是最聪明的人也仍应该对学习新事物持开放态度。根据“even the wisest people should…be open to learning new things”可知是指即使是最聪明的人也仍应该对学习新事物持开放态度，still“仍然”。故填still。 六、读写综合 (本大题分为A、B两部分，共25分） 回答问题 Reading should be part of our life. But the problem is that there’s too much to read and we have too little time to read these days. If we want to read more books and get more information by reading books, we should try to learn some reading skills. Here are some skills. If the passages are long and hard, we can preview (预览). Previewing is very useful for getting the main idea of long articles and reports quickly. We can read the first two paragraphs and the last two paragraphs carefully, and then we can only read the beginning of the other paragraphs. If the passages are short and easy, we can skim (略读). Skimming is a good way to get the main idea of popular magazines or the sports, stars and movies of daily papers (日报). While skimming, get our eyes to move fast and sweep them across each line. We can pick up only a few key words in each line. Everybody skims differently. We may not pick up the same words when we are skimming the same news, but usually we can get the same ideas of it. 46. What’s the problem in reading these days? _______________________________________ 47. How many reading skills does the passage talk about? _______________________________________ 48. Which part do we still need to read after reading the first two and the last two paragraphs when previewing? _______________________________________ 49. What is a good way to get the main idea of a popular magazine? _______________________________________ 50. What should we get our eyes to do when we are skimming? _______________________________________ 51. 书面表达 请根据要求完成短文写作。 假设你叫李明，你打算向学校的英语网站投稿，倡议全校同学多读书。请你根据以下内容提示用英文写一篇短文。 内容包括： (1)读书有哪些益处？ (2)学生的读书现状如何？ (3)发出倡议。 注意： (1)不能照抄原文；不得在作文中出现真实校名、地名和考生的真实姓名。 (2)语句连贯，词数80左右。作文的开头已经给出，不计入总词数。 参考词汇： knowledge知识 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 【答案】46. The problem is that there’s too much to read and we have too little time to read these days./There’s too much to read and we have too little time to read these days. 47. The passage/It talks about two/2 reading skills./Two/2 (reading skills). 48. We still need to read the beginning of the other paragraphs./The beginning of the other paragraphs. 49. Skimming (is a good way to get the main idea of a popular magazine). 50. We should get our eyes to move fast and sweep them across each line./Move fast and sweep them across each line. 51. 例文 Reading is one of the most important parts of our life. By reading a lot of good books, we can get all kinds of knowledge and open our eyes. Besides, it is a good way to know about the world. However, as we can see, students spend most of their free time listening to music, watching TV, playing computer games and so on. They hardly ever read books. As students, it’s time for us to read more books, especially classics. Books are our real and best friends. They can make our life more colorful and more enjoyable. Let’s start reading now! 【解析】 【导语】本文主要讲述了阅读的重要性及阅读技巧。 【46题详解】 根据“But the problem is that there’s too much to read and we have too little time to read these days.”可知，现在的问题是要读的东西太多了，而我们的阅读时间却太少了。故填The problem is that there’s too much to read and we have too little time to read these days./There’s too much to read and we have too little time to read these days. 【47题详解】 根据“If the passages are long and hard, we can preview (预览).”及“If the passages are short and easy, we can skim (略读).”可知，文章提到了预览和略读亮哥哥阅读技巧。故填The passage/It talks about two/2 reading skills./Two/2 (reading skills). 【48题详解】 根据“We can read the first two paragraphs and the last two paragraphs carefully, and then we can only read the beginning of the other paragraphs.”可知，预览时除了阅读前两段和后两段，还需要阅读其他段落的开头部分。故填We still need to read the beginning of the other paragraphs./The beginning of the other paragraphs. 【49题详解】 根据“Skimming is a good way to get the main idea of popular magazines or the sports, stars and movies of daily papers (日报).”可知，略读是获取流行杂志主要内容的好方法。故填Skimming (is a good way to get the main idea of a popular magazine). 【50题详解】 根据“While skimming, get our eyes to move fast and sweep them across each line.”可知，略读时应该让眼睛快速移动并扫过每一行。故填We should get our eyes to move fast and sweep them across each line./Move fast and sweep them across each line. 【51题详解】 [总体分析] ①题材：本文是一篇材料作文； ②时态：时态为“一般现在时”； ③提示：根据提示内容进行写作，可适当增添细节，注意行文连贯并突出重点。 [写作步骤] 第一步，介绍读书的好处； 第二步，介绍学生的读书现状； 第三步，发出倡议，号召大家多读书。 [亮点词汇] ①all kinds of各种的 ②know about了解 ③and so on等等 [高分句型] ①Reading is one of the most important parts of our life. (动名词作主语) ②Besides, it is a good way to know about the world. (动词不定式作后置定语) 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ 兴宁一中2023-2024八年级下期英语第二次月考试题 2024. 05 二、语法选择（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） Music plays an important part in our daily life. My early memory of music is the songs my mother used to sing for me ____1____ I was about three or four. We used to have music lessons ____2____ school, too. When we were very young, we had singing lessons, but we also played musical instruments like the drums ____3____ the teacher was playing the piano. My mother wanted me to take up ____4____ violin, but I didn’t like it at all. I gave it up after three months. When I was eight, my ____5____ record was bought with some of my birthday money. As I got older, my music taste ____6____. When I was a teenager, I used to go to clubs ____7____ to rock and pop music. AI that time, I didn’t like classical music at all. Later, when I went to university, I really got into classical music, and started ____8____ to classical music concerts. Nowadays, I listen to all kinds of music, but I’m not keen (喜欢) on loud rock music. On the whole, I think classical music and opera sound ____9____, but I still listen to pop music in my car. I haven’t been to ____10____ concerts for ages, but I always get a CD at home. Music is still an important part of my life. 1. A. before B. after C. when 2. A. off B. at C. without 3. A. while B. unless C. because 4. A. an B. a C. the 5. A. one B. the first C. first 6. A. changing B. changed C. change 7. A. listen B. listened C. to listen 8. A. went B. going C. go 9. A. well B. best C. better 10. A. some B. all C. any 三、完形填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） Before graduating from college, Nancy began to look for a job. She aimed at a famous company, but the ____11____ for such jobs was very strong. The company that Nancy chose planned to employ only one person, but more than twenty people applied for the job. ____12____, Nancy was one of the three people who were invited for the final interview. The interview was very ____13____. The interviewer asked just a few questions and it was all over in less than 10 minutes. Then the interviewer said to them, “All of you are very excellent. Please go home and ____14____ our response.” Three days later, Nancy received a text message saying she would not be ____15____ the job. She felt deeply disappointed. That evening, however, she received another ____16____. This time it said that she got the job. Nancy later found out that the first message sent to her phone was part of the interview—a ____17____ to see if she was suitable for the job. All the three people received the ____18____ text, but only Nancy’s reply ____19____ the company. Of the three, one did not reply. The other said “Goodbye” and Nancy said “Thank you”. This reply showed that Nancy was a(n) ____20____ person, so the company offered her the job. 11. A. exam B. work C. competition D. plan 12 A. Luckily B. Unluckily C. Hopefully D. Immediately 13. A. long B. strict C. interesting D. simple 14. A. pick up B. wait for C. deal with D. think of 15. A. offered B. returned C. refused D. shown 16 A. letter B. email C. call D. message 17. A. guide B. conversation C. test D. lesson 18. A. same B. other C. second D. whole 19. A. reached B. satisfied C. helped D. surprised 20. A. brave B. clever C. polite D. honest 四、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，每小题2分，共30分） A Students always choose some part-time jobs to experience life during their holidays nowadays. Do you want to get one? What kind of job do you want to get? Here are some jobs for you to choose from. Babysitter (临时保姆) needed We need a babysitter to look after our two boys aged 5 and 7 after school from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p. m., Monday to Friday. Salary (薪水): $100 a week． If interested, please call Vicky at 6783-4521. Rose Hotel part-time work We are looking for part-time workers to work in our hotel on Saturdays. Come in (from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.) or call Mina at 6123-8745 (after 6 p.m.). Holiday job Do you want to make some money this summer? Can you speak another language? We need French, Spanish or German speakers to work in the City Museum Shop from Tuesday to Saturday. Send your CV (简历) to citymuseum＠shopjob. lkj. Newspaper delivery (递送) We need young people to deliver newspapers on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. The newspaper delivery takes 30 minutes in the village of Clanbrook. You must deliver the newspapers before 7:30 a.m. and you must have your own bike. Interested? Ask for more information at Clanbrook Post Office. 21. If Joy wants to get the job in Rose Hotel, she can call Mina at ________ A. 8 a.m. B. 10 a.m. C. 5 p.m. D. 7 p.m. 22 What can we know about the holiday job? A. You can’t get any pay from the job. B. You needn’t provide your CV for the job. C. If you have got it, you needn’t work on Monday. D. If you want to get it, you must speak three languages. 23. If Harry takes the newspaper delivery job, he must ________. A. work three mornings a week B. use the bike of the post office C. finish the work before 7:00 a.m. D. be interested in the newspapers 24. If you are only free on weekends, you can apply for ________. A. Babysitter B. Rose Hotel part-time work C. Holiday job D. Newspaper delivery 25. You can find this information in _________. A. a guide B. a review C. a report D. a newspaper B On weekends and holidays, when many Chinese teenagers learn things like painting and piano, kids at the same age in the United States like playing sports. According to Time for Kids, more US teenagers have joined many sports clubs in recent years. Families spend over 10 percent of their money on their children’s sports careers(事业). The youth sports economy(经济) in the US has grown by 55 percent since 2010, according to Winter Green Research. Ales Stearns is an eighth-grader at Mercy High School in Connecticut. The 16-year-old boy has been playing baseball since kindergarten. He plays it every day. He told TEENS that his family spends over $1,200 on his equipment(装备) and $300 on training each year. Tristan Silveira, 16, from Los Gatos in California, also plays baseball. He plays for the All Star Academy, a club that has fostered(培养) many Major League Baseball players. Silveira pays around $50 for every private lesson he takes. His family has supported him a lot. “My mom drives me to every practice and every game,” he said. Playing sports can bring many benefits. Teenagers can take parts in competitions. The top players in these competitions usually get full athletic scholarships(奖学金) for college. However, there are negative things about playing sports. Studies show that early learning sports increase the risk of injury and depression. Rising costs are a big burden(负担) for poor families, reported Time for Kids. 26. What can we learn from the second paragraph of the passage? A. Kids didn’t like playing sports in 2010. B. Sports clubs are always full of teenagers. C. Playing sports can cost a large amount of money. D. Kids shouldn’t play sports. 27. Stearns and Silveira are the same EXCEPT that __________ . A. their mothers drive them to every game. B. they both play baseball. C. they are both 16 years old D. they both like playing sports 28. It is mentioned in the passage that playing sports _________. A. can be good for teenagers who don’t want to study B. may help some students get scholarships for college C. will injure teenagers’ bodies and harm their studies D. decreases the risk of injury and depression 29. The underlined word “negative” probably means “__________” in English in this passage. A. valuable B. popular C. unpleasant D. happy 30. The best title of this passage is__________. A. School P.E. Class in the US B. Youth Sports in the US C Scholarships for Going to College D. Benefits for Doing Sports C 配对阅读。左栏是五个人困惑或需求，右栏是专家给出的七条解释或建议，请为每个人选择一条符合其需求的信息。 ____31____ Robert has been in America for only two weeks. He has many American classmates. When he talks with his classmates, he doesn’t understand some of their body language, such as rubbing (摩擦) stomach and shrugging (耸肩) shoulders. ____32____ Niki is a middle school student. She sometimes doesn’t want her parents to know what she is talking with her friends. She wants a special language so that no one else will understand her and her friends. ____33____ Eden likes pets. He keeps a dog and he knows a lot of his dog’s body language. For example, he knows the dog wags its tail slight (轻微的) more to the right when it is happy. Recently, he has bought a guinea pig. But he doesn’t know why the guinea pig hops (跳来跳去). ____34____ Sun Yang is a middle school students. He is talented in learning a second language. He won second prize in the 2013 National English Proficiency Competition. He will share his experience of giving a speech successfully. ____35____ Anne notices the Chinese Internet buzzwords, which is a kind of Internet language. For example, she knows “prehistoric powers (洪荒之力)”. But she doesn’t understand “thin blue mushroom”. A. You might notice that your guinea pig sometimes hops straight up in the air repeatedly. This is called “popcorning”. In means that your guinea pig is feeling particularly happy, excited or playful. B. It will be interesting for beginners to learn English on the website called www. languageguide. org. It is a perfect start for learning English and many other languages, because it starts with the alphabet and letters’ pronunciation. C. They mean “sad and feeling like you want to cry” in English. When they were first spoken by a young man who experienced a sad story of love, the words sounded similar to “lan shou xiang gu”. D. Be relaxed and confident when giving a speech. Make eye contact with the judges. This shows that you are confident. And keep speaking even if you make a mistake. Being smooth during a speech is very important. E. Body language is one way to find out what is really going on inside someone’s head. If someone rubs their stomach, they are feeling sick or they are hungry. Shrugging shoulders means “I don’t know” or “I am not bothered”. F. Try learning a bit of sign language. It can be a secret language between you and your friends. Being a cool second language to learn, sign language can help kids with their spelling tests at school. G. Have you noticed that your rabbit is constantly shaking? Rabbits shake because they are aware that they are constantly at risk of being caught. 五、短文填空(本题共15分，每空1. 5分) win solve play still many deal part though about in problem he As the old Chinese saying goes, “Humanity’s most fundamental relationship is with what we eat (民以食为天). ” Although food has ____36____ an important part in Chinese culture for years, hunger had been a huge problem in the country until the 1970s. However, the Chinese scientist Yuan Longping helped to ____37____ with this problem. On Sept. 8, Yuan, together with two other scientists, ____38____ China’s 2018 Future Science Prize. Even on his 88th birthday on Sept. 7, he took ____39____ in the International Development Meeting of Rice Production in Hunan Province. ____40____ he was recovering from an illness at the time, he was happy to talk to the reporters ____41____ his latest work with seawater rice. And thanks to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路倡议), Yuan’s hybrid (杂交的) rice is helping to solve food ____42____ around the world. With a rising reputation (名气) around the world, Yuan made a speech ____43____ English at the 9th Shandong High-Level Talents Forum in Qingdao last year. But in spite of ____44____ great knowledge, Yuan understand that even the wisest people should ____45____ be open to learning new things. “The farmers of our country have rich experience in planting rice,” he told Xinhua. “We should learn from them.” 六、读写综合 (本大题分为A、B两部分，共25分） 回答问题 Reading should be part of our life. But the problem is that there’s too much to read and we have too little time to read these days. If we want to read more books and get more information by reading books, we should try to learn some reading skills. Here are some skills. If the passages are long and hard, we can preview (预览). Previewing is very useful for getting the main idea of long articles and reports quickly. We can read the first two paragraphs and the last two paragraphs carefully, and then we can only read the beginning of the other paragraphs. If the passages are short and easy, we can skim (略读). Skimming is a good way to get the main idea of popular magazines or the sports, stars and movies of daily papers (日报). While skimming, get our eyes to move fast and sweep them across each line. We can pick up only a few key words in each line. Everybody skims differently. We may not pick up the same words when we are skimming the same news, but usually we can get the same ideas of it. 46. What’s the problem in reading these days? _______________________________________ 47. How many reading skills does the passage talk about? _______________________________________ 48. Which part do we still need to read after reading the first two and the last two paragraphs when previewing? _______________________________________ 49. What is a good way to get the main idea of a popular magazine? _______________________________________ 50. What should we get our eyes to do when we are skimming? _______________________________________ 51. 书面表达 请根据要求完成短文写作。 假设你叫李明，你打算向学校的英语网站投稿，倡议全校同学多读书。请你根据以下内容提示用英文写一篇短文。 内容包括： (1)读书有哪些益处？ (2)学生的读书现状如何？ (3)发出倡议。 注意： (1)不能照抄原文；不得在作文中出现真实校名、地名和考生的真实姓名。 (2)语句连贯，词数80左右。作文的开头已经给出，不计入总词数。 参考词汇： knowledge知识 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$