北京市东直门中学2024-2025学年八年级下学期期中考试英语试卷

1 / 8 北京市东直门中学 2024-2025 学年度第二学期期中考试 初二英语 2025.4 命题人：初二英语备课组 审题人：罗晓柟 考试时间：90 分钟 总分 60 分 班级 姓名 学号 第一部分 一、单项填空（共 8小题，每题 0.5分，共 4分） 1. My sister and I like basketball. ________often play it together at weekends. A. I B. We C. You D. They 2. We planted some trees _________the park last Sunday. A. on B. to C. in D. of 3. Mary often_________ her grandparents in the countryside at weekends. A. visits B. visited C. will visit D. has visited 4. — Hello, can I speak to Mary? — Sorry, she_______ a meeting next door. A. has B. is having C. will have D. was having 5. Tom ________the sports meeting with his friends after school yesterday. A. talked about B. will talk about C. is talking about D. has talked about 6. This coat is nice, ______it doesn’t look good on me. A. so B. or C. but D. for 7. — Peter, what were you doing at seven last night? — I __________dinner for my parents. A. cooked B. will cook C. is cooking D. was cooking 8. Lily is my best friend. We _________each other since she came to our class. A. know B. knew C. have known D. will know 二、完形填空（共 8小题，每题 1 分，共 8分） My children went back to college after being home for the summer. I took the dogs for a walk. When I passed the Korean Tofu House, the smell made me hungry. “Why don’t we eat here tonight?” I thought. Then I realized that I was ___9___. My children and I had been here together just a week before and we had a great time talking about coming back here again. Thinking about that, I couldn’t help ___10___. 2 / 8 When I got back home, the house was dark and quiet. It had been full of laughter and songs all summer when the kids were at home. We cooked and ate together. We went hiking in the hills and took the dogs to the beach. It was just like it had been in the good old days, before my kids had grown up and gone away. The next morning, I got up and decided to make pancakes; the kids love blueberry pancakes. Then I realized they weren’t there, so I lost my ___11___ and took the dogs for a walk without having breakfast. When I was walking along the road, an old lady looked at my dogs, smiled warmly and asked if she could pet my dogs. As she petted the dogs, she told her story. “I once had a golden dog, Chunky, and he lived to 15. I had never worried about ___12___ him, because he was never sick a day in his life till the end. He wouldn’t eat so I put gravy on my finger for him to eat. But the doctor said to me, ‘You’ve got to let him go’.” She looked up to the sky and back at my dogs and said, “So I did. I let him go…But I’ve never had another dog after that.” She put her hand over her heart and her face expressed her ___13___ as she said, “It hurts.” Before I said anything, she gave my dogs one more loving pet. She smiled bravely and said in a ___14___ tone, “Whatever, let bygones be bygones.” Then she thanked me and walked away, relaxed. Letting go. Yes, I know that’s what we have to do. As I sat alone in the quiet house, I thought about the old lady and how she faced the loss of her dog through death. I suddenly realized I was a little ___15___ crying over my loss, which is just a natural part of human development, not life and death. In this kind of loss, we can ___16___ ourselves by celebrating the growth of our children, feeling the satisfaction of having done our best to prepare them to face the challenges in their lives. We can be glad that they are where they need to be, and grateful for our role in letting them go. 9. A. new B. alone C. busy D. full 10. A. arguing B. complaining C. crying D. regretting 11. A. interest B. memory C. mind D. courage 12. A. losing B. hugging C. controlling D. forgetting 13. A. anger B. fear C. pain D. doubt 14. A. critical B. light C. curious D. cold 15. A. confused B. bored C. nervous D. silly 16. A. promise B. praise C. respect D. comfort 3 / 8 三、阅读理解（共 13 题，每题 2 分，共 26 分） A A The stamp Museum Would you like to make stamps? Join us now! You can create a stamp with your own design, mail a postcard, and learn about the history of stamps. B The Air and Space Museum If you enjoy programs about air and space, please come here. You can make and fly your own paper airplane, watch an IMAX movie, and climb into a real airplane. C The Science Museum Are you interested in science? Have fun with us! You can experience video arts and computer technology，play VR games and talk with robots. D The Building Museum Do you enjoy designing? Come and join us. You can go on field trips to some famous buildings, and build small houses with soft blocks (木块). 17. ________ My dream is to be a pilot. I hope to climb into a real airplane and experience flying. 18. ________ Science is my favorite subject. I want to learn something about future technology. 19. ________ I’m interested in collecting stamps and I want to create stamps by myself. B Colin Boyle was born in 1973 near Dublin, Ireland. While he was ill in hospital at age 10, his uncle gave him an old violin. He loved it right away. After he left the hospital, he practised at his school every day after class. One day in 1987, John Leaf, the manager of several successful musicians, came to Colin’s school. He was having a meeting with the head teacher when he heard Colin practising. After the meeting, he found Colin and invited him to appear in one of the concerts he was organising (组织) that year. Colin, however, didn’t accept Leaf ’s invitation because just then he was preparing for some important school exams. Years later, Colin made it to college to study. At college he met Kim O’Malley, who was studying chemistry (化学). Kim was also good at music. Being students, they didn’t have much money and they usually worked in a restaurant at weekends. One evening in April 1992, while Colin and Kim were at work, they heard that there would be no live (现场演出的) music in the restaurant that night because the singer could not come. Colin and Kim asked the owner of the restaurant to let them play. Everyone was surprised to hear how good they were. After that, they worked hard together and improved greatly in music. 20. Colin got an old violin from _______. 4 / 8 A. his teacher B. his uncle C. an old friend D. a famous musician 21. Why didn’t Colin accept Leaf ’s invitation? A. Because he was not interested in concerts. B. Because he was busy with his exams at that time. C. Because he had to take care of his father at that time. D. Because he was afraid that he couldn’t do well in the concert. 22. What is the best title for the passage? A. Colin's school life B. Colin's work in the restaurant C. Colin's love for music D. Colin and his friends C As we know, diseases such as colds or flu can move from one person to another. But do you know that feelings, like being stressed (压力), can be passed on too? Sometimes we feel very busy and stressed not only because of our own work but also because of the feelings and problems of people we are close to. The psychologist Stephanie Preston from the University of Michigan led his team to design a study. They wanted to check if stress was passed on. In the study, people were asked to give a speech to a group of watchers. Those watchers didn’t show any feelings during the speech. That made the speakers even more stressed than if they got bad comments (评价). After a while, even the researchers started feeling stressed from just watching the speeches. This made them curious, so they decided to study more. They looked at spit samples (唾液样本) to see the stress hormone—cortisol (皮质醇激 素). While speakers were stressed and had a lot of cortisol, watchers were stressed too and had a lot of cortisol as well. They named this effect (效果) “physiological resonance”. It means the speakers’ stress was passed on to the watchers. Though they prove that stress can move from one person to another, there is still one question. Studies have looked into the speakers’ voices and faces, but they haven’t figured out how someone’s behavior causes another’s stress. When we talk or hang out with other people, we notice different signs showing their feelings. Those help us know if there’s something wrong around us. If our neighbor seems stressed, we should watch out as it might affect (影响) us too. This ability to sense stress comes from our long history of living in groups. It is not just humans who do this; animals can also tell when others around them are stressed. For example, if a deer senses stress in its pack, it may run away to avoid (避免) danger. So quickly spotting (发现) stress in others can help us. It keeps us away from problems before they get worse. 23．How did Preston’s team find that stress could move from one person to another? A．By looking at faces. B．By listening to voices. 5 / 8 C．By talking about feelings. D．By checking cortisol in spit. 24．What can we learn from the passage? A．People feel stressed only because of their own work. B．Only humans can sense when someone else is stressed. C．Researchers feel stressed when preparing for the research. D．Noticing stress in others early may help us avoid trouble. 25．Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A．Can Stress Help Us Avoid Trouble? B．Can Stress Move from One to Another? C．How Does Action Cause Others’ Stress? D．How to Give A Speech without Stress? D 3D Printing Will Improve Our Food Choices In early summer 2016, Londoners were treated to a new trend (潮流) in dining. Food Ink, the world’s first 3D printing restaurant, opened to a special group of customers who dined on a nine-course meal prepared right before their eyes using 3D printers. Even the restaurant’s tables and chairs, lamps, cups, and plates were created with 3D technology. With London just the beginning, Food Ink plans to bring its restaurant form to other cities around the world. Like other 3D applications, printing food is a process that builds layers (层) upon layers of material on top of each other. Each layer is pushed through a print head to form an object with a desired shape, texture, size, and so on. Unlike other 3D printing, which uses spool (绕线轮) to create objects out of plastic, food materials (材料) in 3D printing are put into a syringe-like container (注射器形状 的容器) which are then pressed into the shape required. Any food materials that can be pureed (煮成 糊状) or turned into a paste can be used in 3D food printing. Fine dining is only one aspect of how the food industry is going to be improved by 3D printing. Researchers have been exploring ways to use 3D printing to deal with world hunger. Mass production of food using powdered (粉末状的) nutritional ingredients (营养成分) could help feed a growing population. The 3D-printed food would have the advantage of being produced cheaply and having a long shelf life. This is especially important with the world population projected to be 8.5 billion by 2030. The technology will also enable consumers to quickly make meals with ingredients to suit their special health needs. Take the example of feeding elderly people, who often need to have their food pureed because they have problems with swallowing and chewing (咀嚼). Many elderly people did not like their food like pureed food and they don’t eat it. The Netherlands Organization for applied scientific research is turning to 3D printing to mash up peas, cabbages, and carrots to produce 3D- 6 / 8 printed versions of the vegetables. These are easier to chew but keep their shape because of the addition of a gelling agent (胶凝剂). The 3D-printed vegetables are being served throughout nursing homes in Germany very soon. It seems that there is no end to the potential (潜力) of 3D printing. In 2013, NASA offered a large amount of money to develop a functional 3D food printer. The printer aims to create nutritional food to feed astronauts on long space missions. From creating special restaurant meals, to improving nutrition, to potentially feeding the world, 3D food printing is creating exciting new possibilities for food. 26．What can we learn about 3D food printing? A．3D food printing is developing for astronauts on space missions. B．3D food printing ends world hunger with its cheaply-produced food. C．3D food printing is being widely applied in fine dining restaurants. D．3D food printing differs from other 3D printing in the process of building layers. 27．The words “desired” in Paragraph 2 probably mean “________”. A．improved B．discovered C．avoided D．expected 28．What does Paragraph 4 mainly tell us? A．3D food printing solved the elders’ eating problems with pureed food. B．Consumers can use 3D food printing quickly to make healthy meals. C．The Netherlands Organization is doing research on 3D food printing. D．3D food printing technology will meet people’s special health needs. 29．What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage? A．To explain how 3D food printing works. B．To discuss what 3D food printing has brought us. C．To show the possibilities created by 3D food printing. D．To stress the importance of 3D food printing to the world. 第二部分 四、阅读表达 ( 30 题 1 分，31-32 每题各 2 分, 33 题 3 分, 共 8 分 ) 阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。 Smile to the Lost Present The one who has never gained something will never experience the pain of losing whatever that something is. That is pretty clear. But I consider the absence of the joy of “having” to be more miserable (痛苦的) than that of having lost something after having once had it. When I was six years old, a lovely doll caught my eye. My mom refused to buy it for me, so I took a “job”, my first, selling sweets in a park. Holding the doll which had been earned by myself, I 7 / 8 was the happiest girl in the world. However, the doll ended up losing during a family trip. My tears couldn’t bring it back. In Grade Nine, my closest friend became estranged (疏远) from me. We had shared our innermost (内心深处的) secrets with each other and supported one another through difficult times. At the time she kept me at a distance, I was very disappointed and even wished I had never known her. Accustomed (习以为常的) to our friendship and her company, I didn’t know what to do without her at one time. Recalling the past, I’m not that sad about those lost treasures now. Instead, I am thankful for them for making my life colorful. I am proud of the persevering little girl who managed to acquire her coveted (梦寐以求的) doll. And the memory of my ex-friend’s warm smile continues to encourage me from time to time. How much would I have missed in life if I hadn’t bought that doll or hadn’t befriended that girl? Experiences are of great importance to our lives. The world is so changeable that nothing is able to last forever. Nothing actually belongs to us except our own feelings. How much regret do you think exists in this unfilled blank which we create for ourselves when we give up on our reasonable wants just because of our fears of potential (潜在的) loss? For me, nothing could be more miserable than a risk-free but boring life in which you have the constant desire for something but have not the courage to make it your own! Face peacefully the fact that, while the treasure itself is gone, the memories are still very much alive. Walk out of the shadow (阴影) and accept the new present that is being delivered to you. Let these wonderful past moments shine like stars in the night sky. Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it once happened. 30. What did the writer do after her mom refused to buy the doll for her? _________________________________________________________________________________ 31. How did the writer feel when her closest friend became estranged from her? _________________________________________________________________________________ 32. Why is the writer thankful for the lost treasures? _________________________________________________________________________________ 33. Do you agree with the writer? Why or why not?（Please give two reasons.） _________________________________________________________________________________ 五、完成句子（共 8小题，每题 1 分，共 4分） 34.爱好可以促使你成长。 Hobbies can ________________________________ as a person. 8 / 8 35.你出门最好带上雨伞。 You ________________________________ the umbrella with you when you go out. 36.这里太安静了，我甚至能听到鸟儿在唱歌。 It's so quiet here and I can even ________________________________. 37.从植物上拽掉叶子是不对的。 ________________________________ leaves off plants. 六、文段表达 (共 10 分) 根据所给提示，完成一篇不少于 50 词的英语文段写作。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。 所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。 假设你是李华，上周五你们学校在中心公园(Central Park)组织了一次露营活动。请你写一 封邮件，和你的外国好友 Peter 分享本次露营的经历，包括露营前你们做了哪些准备，你们在 本次露营活动中做了什么以及你对本次露营的感受。 提示词语：tent, food and drink, cook, excited 提示问题: 1. What did you prepare for it before this camping trip? 2. What did you do during this camping trip? 3. What do you think of this camping trip? Dear Peter, How’s everything going? _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Hope to hear from you soon. Yours, Li Hua 1 / 3 北京市东直门中学 2024-2025 学年度第二学期期中考试 初二英语答案 2025.4 第一部分 一、单项填空（共 8 题，每题 0.5 分，共 4 分） 1.B 2.C 3.A 4.B 5.A 6.C 7.D 8.C 二、完形填空（共 8 题，每题 1 分，共 8 分） 9. B 10. C 11. A 12. A 13. C 14. B 15. D 16. D 三、阅读理解（共 12 题，每题 2 分，共 24 分） A 篇 17-19 答案：BCA B 篇 20-22 答案：BBC C 篇 23-25 答案：DDB D 篇 26-29 答案：ADDC 第二部分 四、阅读表达（共 4 题，30 题 1 分，31-32 题每题 2分，33 题 3 分，共 8 分） 30. She took a job selling sweets in a park./She sold sweets in a park. 只答 she took a job 给 0.5，多答不扣，语法和人称有错误扣 0.5，不叠加扣分 31. She felt disappointed. / Disappointed 语法和人称有错误扣 1，不叠加扣分，多答不扣 32. She is thankful for the lost treasures for making her life colorful. / They made (make) her life colorful. 语法和人称有错误扣 1，不叠加扣分，多答不扣 33. Yes, I do. Because we will have more courage to face the challenges in our life and we will have a happier future. 第一小问表达了自己的立场（同意与否）即可，不写 yes/no 不额外扣分；第二 小问需言之有理，必须表达自己对作者的观点（经历过但失去比不去经历要更 好）的看法。 五、完成句子（共 4 题，每题 1 分，共 4 分） 34.爱好可以促使你成长。 2 / 3 Hobbies can make you grow as a person. 35.你出门最好带上雨伞。 You had better take the umbrella with you when you go out. 写’d 也给分 36.这里太安静了，我甚至能听到鸟儿在唱歌。 It's so quiet here and I can even hear the birds singing. Bird 写单数也给分 37.从植物上拽掉叶子是不对的。 It's wrong to pull leaves off plants. Pull 后加 the 不扣分 六、文段表达（共 10 分） 作文评分标准： 先定档再给分，作文题目共三大要点：第一、二要点一般过去时，第三要点 过去时和一般现在时均可，只要上下文衔接顺畅就可以。 第一档 9～10 分，要点都齐全，语言较好，无任何语言错误给满分。只要有 错误，不给满分，1～3 处错误根据语言可给 9 分。 第二档 8～6 分，要点都全，语言错误 3～6 处可给 8～7 分，少要点最高 6 分，要点都全，错误很多，但依然不跑题，字数不少于 45 词，即使没什么对 的句子也可给到 6 分。 第三档 5～3 分，字数不够 45，少要点且错误较多，根据情况给分。 第四档 0～2 分，对一个词给 1 分，对一句话给 2 分，完全抄问题或卷子其他 题不给分，给 0。有的学生开头不提学校组织了露营活动，直接说准备了什 么，整体给分后减 1 分。 Dear Peter, How’s everything going? How are you? I’m excited to share my recent camping trip with you. Our school organized it to help us improve life skills and teamwork. 3 / 3 We met at the school gate at 8:00 a.m. last Friday. Before the camping trip, we prepared some necessary things. We prepared a tent, warm clothes and a sleeping bag as well as food and drink. During the camping, we worked together to set up tents and cooked meals over the campfire. We also played games and shared stories at night. I had so much fun with my classmates. This trip is great! I think that such activities are not only fun but also help us learn how to be more independent. Hope to hear from you soon. Yours, Li Hua