上海市浦东新区第四教育属2023-2024学年八年级下学期英语期末试卷

英语（八）

2024.6

（考试时间：100分钟 满分：100分）

Part 1  Listening（第一部分  听力  共25分）

I. Listen and choose the right picture.（共5分）

根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片。

A.     B.     C. D.     E.     F.

1. ________    2. ________    3. ________    4. ________    5. ________

II. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear（根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案）（共6分）

6. A. The fish.    B. The soup.    C. The meat.    D. The chicken wings.

7. A. A doctor.    B. A teacher.    C. A secretary.    D. A nurse.

8. A. At 10:00.    B. At 10:10.    C. At 10:20.    D. At 10:30.

9. A. By car.    B. By air.    C. By train.    D. By coach.

10. A. One.    B. Two.    C. Three.    D. Four.

11. A. Teacher and student.    B. Doctor and patient.

C. Father and daughter.        D. Boss and secretary.

III. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false.（共6分）

判断下列句子是否符合你听到的内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示。

12. It is a story about how to talk with your parents.

13. It will make talking easier if you try to start your talk with something fun.

14. You should never ask your parents questions about their health and their work.

15. If you have something to say, your parents should let you finish.

16. Your parents always understand you after you have a talk with them.

17. It tells us five pieces of advice on how to talk with our parents.

IV. Listen to the passage and complete the following sentences.（共8分）

听短文，完成下列句子，每空格限填一词。

18. When Jessica Cox was born, she had ________ ________, which shocked her parents.

19. Jessica learned to tie her shoes, ________ ________ and take a bath at an early age.

20. Being called “________ ________ ” and “Captain Hook” made Jessica quiet and sad.

21. Jessica overcame her greatest fear—flying and became a pilot ________ ________.

Part II  Vocabulary and Grammar（第二部分  词汇和语法）

V. Choose the best answer（选择最恰当的答案）15%

1. The soup is tasteless. Pass me ________ salt over there, please!

A. a B. an C. the D. /

2. Nowadays many people like to keep in touch with ________ friends online.

A. they B. them C. their D. theirs

3. We should learn how to care ______ others and how to respect all living things.

A. with B. for C. by D. of

4. We plan to visit Beijing ________ February and we’re going to stay there for five days.

A of B. on C. at D. in

5. It starts to become much ________ for tourists to stay here.

A. dangerous B. more dangerous C. most dangerous D. the most dangerous

6. The woman felt so ________ that she wanted to make new friends in her neighborhood.

A. happily B. friendly C. lonely D. badly

7. Students ________ to be careful when they do chemical experiments in the lab.

A. should B. must C. ought D. may

8. Pansy considered ________ an article about history on the computer last week.

A. write B. to write C. to writing D. writing

9. She was holding a pair of scissors in her right hand and a sheet of red paper in her _________ hand.

A. another B. other C. the other D. others

10. Scientists say it may be a few years ______ it is possible to test the new medicine on

patients.

A. because B. after

C. since D. before

11. Miss Li’s aunt ______ in the fast food shop since she moved to the small town.

A. worked B. has worked C. works D. will work

12. City Walk, a new type of traveling, actually ________ in Shanghai a long time ago.

A. starts B. started C. has started D. had started

13. He plans to have a good rest ________ he’ll have enough energy to continue his work.

A. as soon as B. in order to C. so that D. now that

14. The English novel is quite easy for you. There are ________ new words in it.

A. a little B. little C. a few D. few

15. —Sir, could you tell me ________ for the coming test?

—As many as possible. 1600 words at least.

A. how many words do we have to learn B. how many words did we learn

C. how many words we have to learn D. how many words we learned

VI. Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each can only be used once. （共8分）

将下列单词填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次。

A. beat     B. power     C. only     D. reply     E. luckily

We’re hearing a lot these days about something called AI, or artificial intelligence. Put simply, AI is intelligence that is displayed by machines. In the beginning of computer technology, machines were quite stupid. They could ___16___ do what people told them to do, and computers didn’t have the ___17___ to do anything complex. Slowly, that began to change. In 1989, two AI programs, HiTech and Deep Thought, showed advanced problem-solving skills after they ___18___ human masters in the game of chess. It was then that people began to see the true potential (潜能) of AI.

Today, AI can be used at work in our factories, online, and in our daily lives. Siri, the iPhone’s digital assistant, is a good example. Users can say almost anything to Siri and get a surprisingly humanlike ___19___.

A. situations     B. operate     C. amazing     D. recently     E. amazed