江苏省苏州市草桥中学校2024-2025学年八年级下学期4月期中英语试题

2024-2025学年第二学期草桥中学期中测试卷 八年级英语学科 2025.4 一、听力（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分） A）本部分共有10道小题，每小题你将听到一段对话，选出你认为最合适的答案，每段对话听两遍。 1. How will the girl go to Nanjing? A. B. C. 2. What did Max see last week? A. B. C. 3. What's the boy's favourite book? A. B. C. 4. What does the girl want to do tomorrow? A. B. C. 5. Where did the man go just now? A. To the office. B. To the museum. C. To the post office. 6. What does the boy mean? A. He is good at climbing high. B. It is not high at all. C. He may fall and hurt himself. 7. How long will the man stay at the hotels? A· For 2 days. B. For 3 days. C. For 4 days. 8. What will Peter do tomorrow? A. Go to the theatre. B. Have an exam. C. Do the housework. 9. How many people will go for the picnic tomorrow? A. One. B. Two. C. Three. 10. How much should the woman pay for the tickets? A.64 yuan. B.72 yuan. C.96 yuan. B）听第一段对话，回答第11—12小题。 听一段对话，回答下面两个小题。 11. How do they go to Hoody's for lunch? A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. By underground. 12. How long has the underground been in use in Nanjing? A Since 2005. B. Since 2015. C. Since 2004. 听第二段独白，回答第13—15小题。 听一段独白，请根据短文内容，选择正确答案，完成信息记录表。 Mr. Lin's Trip How often He takes a trip 13 _______ Why He enjoys travelling a lot because 14_______ How long Mr. Lin plans to travel 15_______more years if possible. 13. A. once a year B. twice a year C. three times a year 14. A. he likes taking a lot of photos B. he likes making friends with many foreigners C. he thinks travelling is a good way to know the world 15. A.30 B.50 C.80 听第三段独白，回答第16—20小题 听一段独白，回答下面5个小题。 16. How many public beaches are there in Hong Kong? A. About fifty. B. About forty. C. About fourteen. 17. Where can you reach by bus? A. All the public beaches. B. Only one public beach. C. Most of the public beaches. 18. What can't you see in most of the beaches? A. Clothes shops. B. Shops for food and drink. C. Changing rooms. 19. How many instructions are mentioned in the passage? A.2. B.3. C.4. 20. What does a blue flag mean? A. Women should not swim there. B. Children should not swim there. C. Nobody should swim there. 二、单项选择（共8小题，每小题1分，满分8分） 1. ________ good advice he gave me ________ how to make a speech! A. What, on B. What a, on C. How a, about D. How, on 2. Miss Zhang ________ spicy (辣的) food, and now she ________ sweet food. A. used to eat; is used to eat B. used to eat; is used to eating C. is used to eat; used to eating D. is used to eating; used to eat 3. I don’t know ________ my worries because I’m too shy to communicate with others. A. how to deal with B. how can I deal with C. what to deal with D. how to do with 4. —________ I do my homework now? —No, you ________. You ________ have a rest first. A. Must; don’t have to; may B. Must; needn’t to; must C. Must; mustn’t; can D. Shall; may; may 5. It’s almost eight years we saw each other last time. A. since B. before C. after D. when 6. Mary ________ to Singapore a few times, and now she ________ there for a meeting again. A. has been; has been B. has been; has gone C. has gone; has gone D. has gone; has been 7. — Excuse me， __________ is it from our school to the underground station? — Let me see. It’s about 10 minutes’ bus ride. A. how long B. how far C. how much D. how often 8. —Thank you so much for driving me to the airport in such bad weather. —________. I hope you have a great trip. A. My pleasure. B. With pleasure. C. Never mind. D. It’s nice of you. 三、完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） One day Susie Smith came home from school. As soon as she came into the living room, she cried. “What’s the matter, my dear?” said her mother, drawing her daughter to her side and smiling. “All our class must ___9___ in compositions (作文) tomorrow, but I never can write one. I know I shall have to go to school without a composition, for I won’t copy one from a book, or ask you or Papa to write one for me,” sobbed (抽噎着说) Susie. “That is right, my dear,” said her mother. “You will be far ___10___ with a poor composition, if it is all your own, than with a fine one written by somebody else. But cheer up. You have not ___11___ right. Run into the garden and play. I will call you in half an hour. Don’t think about your composition but have a good time,” said Mrs. Smith. It seemed a few ___12___ to Susie before she heard her mother’s voice calling her. She went into the house at once— her hands full of sweet flowers, and her ___13___ red with exercise. “Now, Susie,” said her mother, “I want you to sit by the window and write something about what you can ___14___ .” Susie thought her mother’s request (要求) was ___15___ , but she followed. She took the paper and pencil, and sat by the window. She saw the birds flying ___16___ the window outside. ___17___ , words began to flow (流动) from her mind onto the paper. She wrote about the sunset clouds, the flowers and the birds. Just as she had reached the bottom of the page, her mother came in. “Well, Susie,” said her mother, “how does that composition come on?” “A composition! Is that a composition?” Susie asked in surprise. Mrs. Smith read what Susie had written. She said, “There, Susie, that’s a very nice composition, ___18___ .” Then she added, “I’m sure it will please your teacher, as it does me. You see, it’s easy enough to write a composition if you have anything interesting to write about.” 9. A. push B. take C. hand D. get 10. A. crazier B. happier C. shyer D. luckier 11. A. begun B. finished C. continued D. improved 12. A. seconds B. minutes C. hours D. days 13. A. hair B. knees C. face D. eyes 14 A. hear B. touch C. learn D. see 15. A. strange B. rude C. polite D. serious 16. A. into B. through C. across D. past 17. A. Certainly B. Mainly C. Usually D. Suddenly 18. A. indeed B. moreover C. instead D. otherwise 四、阅读理解（共12小题；每小题2分，满分24分） 请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A 、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Treehouse? Why Not a Tree Mansion? The Murray Company Tree Mansion is the best treehouse available today. All the materials you need are included in the kit to help you create a play area that’s as big as your imagination. This diagram shows the different parts of the Tree Mansion and the space you’ll need to build it. 19. How large is the Tree Mansion? A. It is 2.4m high. B. It is 1.8cm wide. C. It weighs 23kg. D. It covers 3.24m². 20. How can a child of 25kg go up to the Tree Mansion? A. B. C. D. 21. Where is the text most probably from? A. A storybook. B. A science report. C. A travel magazine. D. A shopping poster. B Do you like exercising in the sun? How much sunlight do you get every day? How much time do you spend in the sun? As we all know, enough sunlight is good for our health. It gives us strong bones and good eyesight. It makes us happy and sleep better. Now scientists find out that it can even make us smarter. Scientists do tests on mice. They give mice lots of sunlight. After that, mice produce a special thing in their bodies. Its name is glutamic acid (谷氨酸). Glutamic acid is good for our body. It can improve some of our abilities, such as learning and remembering things. It is OK to enjoy some sunlight for about an hour every day. But you should be careful when in summer. The sun is very strong around the noon. Keep yourself away from the sun around the noon, or it may burn your skin. It is best to enjoy sunlight in the morning or before sunset. What about going out and enjoying the sunlight with your family or your best friends? I’m sure you can be smarter soon. 22. The sunlight can help us in the following EXCEPT ________. A. being smarter B. being happy C. sleeping worse D. becoming stronger 23. Scientists do tests on mice ________. A. to find out if sunlight can make them smarter B. to find out why mice are smarter than people C because they want to make the mice smarter D. Because they have a special thing in their bodies 24. What can we do to make ourselves smarter? A. Spend an hour in the sun every day. B. Do tests on mice. C. Enjoy sunlight only around noon. D. Stay away from the sun. C Two months after returning to England, Gulliver sets sail on a ship, travelling to the Cape of Good Hope. On the way a strong storm draws the ship off course and the ship finally arrives at an unknown land mass. Gulliver sees a giant following the boat. He runs away, and when he stops, he is on a hill. He is greatly surprised to see that the grass around is about twenty feet high. He walks down a path through a field but cannot see anything over a crop because it is forty feet high. He tries to climb a set of steps into the next field, but he cannot climb over them because they are too high. When he sees another giant, Gulliver hides from him, but the giant calls for more people to come, and they begin to cut the crop with scythes (镰刀). Gulliver lies down and feels sad about his situation, thinking about how unimportant he must be to these giant creatures. A giant finally notices him, and picks him up between his fingers to get a closer look. Finally the giant puts him in his pocket and begins to walk toward his master. The giant’s master, the farmer of these fields, takes Gulliver from his man and watches him more closely. He asks the other men if they have ever seen anything like Gulliver, and then puts him onto the ground. They sit around him. Gulliver begins to speak as loudly as he can. He gives a purse full of gold to the farmer, but the farmer cannot figure out what it is. 25. Why does Gulliver arrive at the land mass? A. Because he is amazed at the natural beauty. B. Because a storm draws the ship off course. C. Because he finds the giants there interesting. D. Because a giant leads his ship to the land mass. 26. What stops Gulliver stepping into the next field? A. The high crops. B. The hard steps. C. The scythes. D. The high hill. 27. Which of the following can be the correct order of the story? ①A giant catches Gulliver and puts him into his pocket. ②Gulliver tries his best to communicate with the giant. ③Gulliver hides from the giant. ④The farmer puts Gulliver onto the ground. ⑤Gulliver sets sails on a ship, travelling to the Cape of Good Hope. A. ①⑤③④② B. ⑤③①④② C. ③①②⑤④ D. ⑤④①③② D Autonomous driving is becoming an important part of future transportation, but it still faces many challenges with technology and infrastructure (基础建设). A report from China Youth Daily explains that there are two main types of self-driving systems today: those that use cameras and those that use LiDAR (激光雷达). Each system has its own problems. For example, Tesla’s system uses cameras and deep learning, without high-precision (高精度的) maps. It works well in clear weather but has trouble in bad conditions like heavy rain or fog. Other companies, like Xpeng Motors, use LiDAR technology, but it is expensive, around 7,000 yuan for each system, making it hard to use widely. Another problem is keeping the cars safe from hackers (黑客). Hackers can break into the car’s system and take control of it using the internet. This could cause accidents or lead to the hackers asking for money. Self-driving cars can have problems when something unexpected happens. For example, if a traffic light stops working, the car might not know what to do because it is only trained to follow the light. Also, if a child runs into the street, the car needs to react fast, but sometimes its sensors might not see the child in time. Besides these technical problems, the infrastructure for autonomous driving is still in the early stages of exploration, said the BBC. Many cities don’t have a clear plan for their traffic systems. Self-driving cars need to share data quickly and have powerful computers. Making cars and roads work together needs a lot of teamwork. But right now, many cities don’t have the technology to send data fast enough. “Even though self-driving cars perform as well as or even better than humans in some situations, it will still take time before they can be widely used,” said Zhang Yongwei, an electric vehicle (电动汽车) expert. 28. What is one big challenge for Tesla’s self-driving system? A. High cost of built-in cameras. B. Trouble working well in bad weather. C. Difficulty in using deep machine learning. D. Dependence on high-precision maps. 29. What does Paragraph 3 say about self-driving cars? A. They don’t break down often. B. They can protect themselves from hackers. C. They can be hacked and controlled. D. They can deal with accidents by themselves. 30. Why is the current infrastructure a problem for using self-driving cars? A. Not all roads have traffic lights. B. Data is not shared quickly enough. C. Many cities may not have enough computers to process data. D. Self-driving cars can only run on straight roads. 五、从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中的两项为多余选项。（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Recently, the term “carbon neutral (碳中和)” has been often used at some important meetings. Many countries have put forward the goal of being carbon neutral. ____31____. What can we do to protect the environment and live a low-carbon life? Here are some suggestions. ●Travel in a green way. Now, more Chinese people have cars of their own. It has brought us a lot of benefits but has created some serious problems as well. ____32____. By doing so, we can save energy and reduce pollution. ●Cut down white pollution. We should reduce the pollution of plastic bags. When you go to the supermarket, bring your own shopping bags. ●____33____. Lack (缺乏) of water resources will affect the ecological (生态的) environment. So please turn off the tap after using it. ●Classify (分类) the rubbish. ____34____. ●Use both sides of the paper. The paper production process uses a lot of trees. Now is the time that we should take up our responsibility. We should do what we can in our daily life to protect our environment from being polluted. If all of us take action immediately, ____35____. A. Save water B. So we’d better do more walking, cycling and less driving C. Doing rubbish classification in a right way can turn waste into wealth D. it is necessary to use e-textbooks instead of paper books E. Turn off the power F. we will make the world a better place to live in G. China is expected to be carbon neutral by 2060 六、词汇检测（共13小题；每小题1分，满分13分） A）请根据下列句子所给汉语注释或首字母，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。 36. I ________ (收到) my brother’s letter last week. 37. Which one do you think is the _________ (丑陋的) of the two paintings? 38. The girl has travelled _________ (到国外) with her parents recently. 39. We went to Suzhou Museum _________ (除……之外) Daniel last Friday, because he was badly ill. 40. It is amazing that a cow has four ________ (胃). 41. If we _________ (继续) cutting down trees, birds will have nowhere to live. 42. The problem of air _________ has become more and more serious in recent years. 43. Everyone was t_________ out when reaching the top of the mountain. B） 选词填空 请认真阅读下面短文，从方框中选择适当的单词或短语，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，填入其正确形式。每个单词或短语仅用一次。 patient protect bad happen fly high into One day, a baby snail found that he had to carry a big and heavy shell at any time. He asked his mother, “Why was I born with a shell? It grows so hard and heavy.” His mother said, “Because we don’t have bones to support us. We move slowly, so we need a shell to protect us.” The baby snail asked again, “The caterpillar (毛毛虫) has no bones either, and she can’t move quickly. Why can she live without a shell?” The mother snail answered ___44___. “That’s because she will become a butterfly. She can ___45___ sky which can protect her.” The baby snail then cried, “We are so poor? We have no ___46___ like that!”His mother smiled at him, “That’s why we have a shell. My dear, imagine if we don’t have the shell, what ___47___ to us? Our bodies will be dried out by the hot sun and we’ll have nowhere to sleep. What’s ___48___, we’ll die in the heavy rain. We don’t depend on the sky. We should depend on ourselves.” 七、短文填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 阅读下面的短文，在空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。 Nezha 2: The Demon Child Battles the Sea is really popular this Spring Festival. It’s a ___49___ (wonder) Chinese animated movie made ___50___ Jiaozi. The story goes on after the first one. Nezha and Ao Bing are still alive after the Heavenly Tribulation, but their bodies are not in good ___51___ (condition). Taiyi Zhenren, who is ___52___ (real) worried about them, tries to save them with the magic Seven-Colored Lotus. But this brings some unexpected problems. Nezha, with a strong ___53___ (feel) of responsibility, makes an alliance with Ao Bing. They start a long and hard trip to save the world. The movie’s best part is its great pictures. The sea battle scenes look ___54___ lively that you may feel like you are right there. The new looks of the characters are also quite cool. Nezha’s new clothes have special Chinese-style patterns. Besides, the movie tells us ___55___ deep story. It shows Nezha’s fight ___56___ fate (命运) and discusses friendship and responsibility. All in all, Nezha 2: The Demon Child Battles the Sea is a great movie. It makes us ___57___ (feel) the magic of Chinese stories and the power of believing in ___58___. Don’t miss it! 八、阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共3小题，79题1分，80题和81题各2分，满分5分） My family has always had family dinners, as far as I can remember. Since I was a little boy, my mother has insisted (坚持) that we attend family dinners at least once a week. Every Sunday, my mother would prepare a lot of food and bring it to my grandma’s house. We would wait for more family members to come before eating together at the table, my grandma’s dinner table. I used to feel that was a silly little tradition. But now I find it’s fantastic to get together as a family to talk about anything and everything after a long week of school and work. Every time I sit at the dinner table, my grandma’s dinner table, I look around and find so many people who truly love me. It’s a love that feels so good. For me, dinner is not just a meal, but a chance to reconnect with each other. I finally realize the true meaning of this tradition. It’s not about the dinners or activities. It’s about family, a group of people who care about each other. All the memories (记忆) around my grandma’s dinner table will last forever. Now, I’m always expecting Sunday to arrive. 59. How often do the writer’s family members get together for dinner?（不超过5个词） ________________________________ 60. What does dinner mean to the writer?（不超过10个词） ________________________________ 61. Why is “my grandma’s dinner table” mentioned several times in the text?（不超过10个词） ________________________________ 九、书面表达（共1题；满分15分） 62. 学校的英语校刊正在开展“畅享阅读”征文活动。请你根据下面的提示，用英文写一篇短文投稿。 1. Why should we read? (for fun, ...） 2. What are your reading habits? (how often …） 3. What’s your favourite book?（name, type, content内容） 4. What can you learn from your favourite book? (1-2 点） Reference (参考): Gulliver’s Travel Alice in Wonderland Treasure Island Journey to the West Harry Potter series The Long March... 根据上面所给提示，适当发挥； 词数90左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数； 文中不得出现真实姓名和校名。 I often read books in my free time. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2024-2025学年第二学期草桥中学期中测试卷 八年级英语学科 2025.4 一、听力（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分） A）本部分共有10道小题，每小题你将听到一段对话，选出你认为最合适的答案，每段对话听两遍。 1. How will the girl go to Nanjing? A. B. C. 2. What did Max see last week? A. B. C. 3. What's the boy's favourite book? A. B. C. 4. What does the girl want to do tomorrow? A B. C. 5. Where did the man go just now? A. To the office. B. To the museum. C. To the post office. 6. What does the boy mean? A. He is good at climbing high. B. It is not high at all. C. He may fall and hurt himself. 7. How long will the man stay at the hotels? A· For 2 days. B. For 3 days. C. For 4 days. 8. What will Peter do tomorrow? A. Go to the theatre. B. Have an exam. C. Do the housework. 9. How many people will go for the picnic tomorrow? A. One. B. Two. C. Three. 10. How much should the woman pay for the tickets? A.64 yuan. B.72 yuan. C.96 yuan. B）听第一段对话，回答第11—12小题。 听一段对话，回答下面两个小题。 11. How do they go to Hoody's for lunch? A. By bus. B. By taxi. C. By underground. 12. How long has the underground been in use in Nanjing? A. Since 2005. B. Since 2015. C. Since 2004. 听第二段独白，回答第13—15小题。 听一段独白，请根据短文内容，选择正确答案，完成信息记录表。 Mr. Lin's Trip How often He takes a trip 13 _______ Why He enjoys travelling a lot because 14_______ How long Mr. Lin plans to travel 15_______more years if possible. 13. A. once a year B. twice a year C. three times a year 14. A. he likes taking a lot of photos B. he likes making friends with many foreigners C. he thinks travelling is a good way to know the world 15. A.30 B.50 C.80 听第三段独白，回答第16—20小题 听一段独白，回答下面5个小题。 16. How many public beaches are there in Hong Kong? A. About fifty. B. About forty. C. About fourteen. 17. Where can you reach by bus? A. All the public beaches. B. Only one public beach. C. Most of the public beaches. 18. What can't you see in most of the beaches? A. Clothes shops. B. Shops for food and drink. C. Changing rooms. 19. How many instructions are mentioned in the passage? A.2. B.3. C.4. 20. What does a blue flag mean? A. Women should not swim there. B. Children should not swim there. C. Nobody should swim there. 二、单项选择（共8小题，每小题1分，满分8分） 【1题答案】 【答案】A 【2题答案】 【答案】B 【3题答案】 【答案】A 【4题答案】 【答案】A 【5题答案】 【答案】A 【6题答案】 【答案】B 【7题答案】 【答案】B 【8题答案】 【答案】A 三、完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 【9~18题答案】 【答案】9. C 10. B 11. A 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. A 16. D 17. D 18. A 四、阅读理解（共12小题；每小题2分，满分24分） 请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A 、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A 【19~21题答案】 【答案】19. D 20. B 21. D B 【22~24题答案】 【答案】22. C 23. A 24. A C 【25~27题答案】 【答案】25. B 26. A 27. B D 【28~30题答案】 【答案】28. B 29. C 30. B 五、从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中的两项为多余选项。（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分） 【31~35题答案】 【答案】31 G 32. B 33. A 34. C 35. F 六、词汇检测（共13小题；每小题1分，满分13分） A）请根据下列句子所给汉语注释或首字母，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。 【36题答案】 【答案】received 【37题答案】 【答案】uglier 【38题答案】 【答案】abroad 【39题答案】 【答案】except 【40题答案】 【答案】stomachs 【41题答案】 【答案】continue 【42题答案】 【答案】pollution 【43题答案】 【答案】(t)ired B） 选词填空 【44~48题答案】 【答案】44. patiently 45. fly high into 46. protection 47. will happen 48. worse 七、短文填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 【49~58题答案】 【答案】49. wonderful 50. by 51. condition 52. really 53. feeling 54. so 55. a 56. against 57. feel 58. ourselves 八、阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共3小题，79题1分，80题和81题各2分，满分5分） 【59~61题答案】 【答案】59. At least once a week./Every Sunday. 60. It is a chance to reconnect with each other. 61. Because it is the place full of family love. 九、书面表达（共1题；满分15分） 【62题答案】 【答案】例文 I often read books in my free time. Reading brings me both pleasure and knowledge. I enjoy exploring different worlds and ideas through books. I read almost every day. I usually spend 30 minutes before bedtime enjoying a good story. I have a habit of taking notes while reading to remember important points and sometimes I draw mind maps to understand complex ideas better. This helps me appreciate the books more and learn effectively. My favorite book is Harry Potter. It’s a fantasy novel about a boy named Harry who discovers he is a wizard and begins his magical journey at Hogwarts. From this book, I learned the power of courage and friendship. Harry and his friends face challenges together, which teaches me that teamwork can overcome any difficulty. Reading makes my life colorful! 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$