广东省广州市南沙朝阳学校2024-2025学年八年级下学期期中考试英语试卷

2024-2025学年第二学期广州市南沙区朝阳学校期中考

八年级英语

总分90分，考试时间100分钟

一、语法选择(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

When I was twelve years old, my family lived next to a forest. Every evening, mockingbird（知更鸟）would come and rest in the trees and sing. I enjoyed the singing    1    much that I decided to catch a young bird. In this way, I    2    hear it sing for me every day.

I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in    3    cage. At first, the bird was very frightened, so it fluttered（扑腾）in    4    new home all the time. Several days later, it was used to    5    in this new home.

The next day, the little bird’s mother flew to the cage with    6    food in her mouth. The baby bird looked very happy and ate everything that the mother    7    to it. I was so happy to see this, certainly the mother knew how to take care of her baby well.

But    8    the next morning, I found it died. I was   9   surprised and cried at once. I didn’t know     10     happened.

Arthur Wayne, my father’s friend, was a famous ornithologist（鸟类专家）. She     11     my father at that time.     12     she knew the whole thing, she explained to me. If a mother mockingbird finds her baby     13     in a cage, she will bring it poison berries（毒莓）. She thinks it’s     14     for her baby to die than to lose freedom.

Since then I     15     any living animal in a cage. All living things have a right to live free.

1. A. such B. too C. so D. very

2. A. could B. had to C. must D. should

3. A. a B. an C. the D. /

4. A. it’s B. its C. it D. its’

5. A. live B. lives C. lived D. living

6. A. any B. some C. much D. many

7. A. brought B. have brought C. brings D. bring

8. A. in B. for C. at D. on

9. A. true B. truely C. truly D. truth

10. A. what B. how C. why D. where

11. A. visit B. have visited C. is visiting D. was visiting

12. A. If B. When C. Because D. Although

13. A. keeps B. is keeping C. kept D. is kept

14. A. good B. well C. better D. best

15. A. haven’t caught B. won’t catch C. don’t catch D. didn’t catch

 

二、完形填空(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

I almost messed up “big time”.

My 5-year-old son and I were coming back from school when we saw a(n)     16     man on the side of the road. I wanted to give the man some money, but I didn’t have any cash (现金). My son Justus noticed the man as well. And then it happened...

Justus insisted on giving the man the 30 cents he had in his pocket. I was more than happy that he wanted to do this with     17    . But honestly I was hesitant (犹豫不决的), I didn’t want to give this man who clearly needed all the help he could get, just 30 cents. My own pride and thoughts about how the homeless man might react to     18     just two coins were holding me back.

I quickly realized that I was the only problem in this situation. I almost showed my son, through my inaction, that what he had wasn’t enough. I almost made him believe that what he saw as a good thing—and what was truly a good thing—wasn’t enough to make a     19     in someone’s life. I almost taught him that pride mattered more than helping another person. Thank goodness I quickly     20     that foolishness.

I rolled down the window and said, “I’m sorry, man. I don’t have any cash on me, but my son back here wants to give you everything he     21     right now. He just turned five.”

The smile on that man’s face lit up the crossroad, and he said to Justus, “Thank you so much!”

The only thing that     22     the brightness of that stranger’s smile after that moment was the even bigger smile on my boy’s face!

I also believed that a chain reaction of     23     started behind us that day, as other people rolled down their windows to help him too.

My little boy, without even     24     it, reminded me once again through his actions that it was always about the heart. What truly     25     is not how much you have, but the love and sincerity you give.

16. A. old B. strange C. ordinary D. homeless

17. A. joy B. surprise C. curiosity D. patience

18. A. losing B. receiving C. keeping D. finding

19. A. promise B. decision C. difference D. wish

20. A. pick B. catch C. drop D. forget

21. A. believes B. wants C. has D. knows

22. A. matched B. lightened C. explained D. described

23. A. confidence B. kindness C. trust D. courage

24. A. refusing B. guessing C. remembering D. realizing

25. A. works B. counts C. helps D. means

 

三、阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

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Welcome to www. chineseculture. com! Here are some introductions about the Chinese traditional skills. You will not only enjoy beautiful work of art, but also learn something interesting.

	Chinese lantern, you will know it is a symbol of China. The warm light provided by a Chinese lantern will make you understand why they’re so popular and well known. Chinese lantern was invented in Western Han Dynasty (202 B. C. —A. D. 8) (公元前202年—公元8年), which is more than 1,800 years ago. Every fifteenth day of first Chinese lunar month on Chinese Lantern Festival, people will hang red lantern, which means gathering of family.
	Chinese paper cutting is one of the oldest handicrafts in China, and it’s a hollow-out(挖空) art. Paper cutting appeared during the Northern Dynasty(A. D. 386—A .D. 581). It has a history of more than 1,500 years. Paper was not created at that time, so people did this hollow-out art in cloth, leather, gold foil and other materials. The content varies from the animals and plants to the vividly daily life scenes. Some are cut into many creatures in the world on one sheet with great imagination.
	Kite is a symbol of the Chinese handicraft. It is from the Warring States Period (475 B. C. —221 B. C. ). Lu Ban was said to be the inventor. Flying a kite is a very popular activity in all generations in China. It is easy to find the scene that when in the holidays, there are large numbers of people gathering to the squares and holding lines to control beautiful kites in the blue sky.