宁夏固原市泾源县2024-2025学年八年级上学期开学测试英语试题

八年级（上）英语试卷

一、完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

What will the future be like? No one knows what will happen in the future ___1___ I believe life in the future will be much better than it is now.

Every person will have a computer. They can ___2___ information they need on the Internet. Students won’t go to school anymore. They will stay at home with a virtual (虚拟的) teacher and have lessons on ___3___ own computers every day.

Everyone will have robots at home. They will help people with ___4___, such as cleaning, cooking or washing. They will be ___5___ to look after the kids. When something ___6___ happens, the robots will protect (保护) the kids.

People will have more free ___7___ to do their favorite things in the future. They will travel more, but they won’t travel ___8___ car. Everyone will use electric (电动的) buses and trains with robot drivers. These green buses and trains are good for the ___9___. People will go on holiday to the moon. Traveling to space (太空) will ____10____ be popular in the future.

1. A. if B. but C. because D. although

2. A. look for B. hope for C. care about D. worry about

3. A. her B. our C. his D. their

4. A. peace B. pollution C. housework D. homework

5. A. able B. close C. similar D. important

6. A. boring B. exciting C. dangerous D. interesting

7. A. food B. time C. work D. clothes

8. A. by B. at C. with D. in

9. A. medicine B. education C. relationship D. environment

10. A. probably B. carefully C. seriously D. comfortably

二、阅读理解（共两节，20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

第一节（共16小题；每小题2分，满分32分）

A

School clubs are important. Students can learn and have fun in them.

English Club

Bike Club

Come to learn English together! Here you can watch English movies, sing English songs and act out English stories. Time: on Mondays (5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.) Place: Room 204 Email: learningenglish@happymail.com	Do you have a bike? Let’s ride to get close to nature and have fun! You must be over twelve years old. When you ride, you need to wear cycling (骑行) clothes. Time: on Sundays (8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.) Place: Room 305 Email: bicyclefun@happymail.com
Yearbook Club The yearbook is a book with pictures of all the students and the year’s most important things. You can make a yearbook here. Time: on Tuesdays (5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.) Place: Room 503 Email: yearbook@happymail.com	Drama Club Join us to learn to act and sing. At the end of the term, you can put on a show and ask your parents to come to watch it. Time: on Fridays (5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.) Place: Room 602 Email: maxdrama@happymail.com

 

11. John has time on Monday. He can join the ________ Club.

A. English B. Bike C. Drama D. Yearbook

12. What can members do in the English Club?

①watch movies    ②sing songs    ③write stories    ④act out stories

A. ①②③ B. ①②④ C. ①③④ D. ②③④

13. The members of the Bike Club meet at ________.

A. 8:00 a.m. B. 5:00 p.m. C. 5:30 p.m. D. 8:00 p.m.

14. Linda wants to make a yearbook. She needs to go to Room ________.

A. 204 B. 305 C. 503 D. 602

B

A king (国王) gave his daughter a nice hat. But the daughter lost it during a trip. To find the hat the king said to his people, “If someone finds it, I will give him much money.”

To get the money, David started to look for (寻找) the hat.

He went to the mountains, the river and the forest, because the king’s daughter visited these places. But he found nothing. When he planned to go home, he was excited to see the hat in a river. He tried to catch the hat but he couldn’t. He felt down.

An old man passed by and saw the unhappy David. He asked, “What happened?” Then David told him about the hat. “Why not look up?” the old man advised.

When David looked up, he found the hat was on a branch (树枝) of the tree. The “hat” in the river was the reflection (映像) of the real hat.

15. To find the hat, the king asked ________ for help.

A. his daughter B. his people C. his son D. another king

16 The king’s daughter didn’t visit the ________.

A. sea B. river C. forest D. mountains

17. David felt ________ when he saw the hat in the river.

A. relaxed B. bored C. excited D. afraid

18. ________ gave David some advice.

A. An old man B. An old woman C. A young man D. A young woman

C

Once, Giant had a garden. It was a lovely garden with green grass and beautiful flowers. There were twelve peach trees in the garden. They blossomed (开花) in spring and bore (结果实) delicious fruit in autumn, and birds in the trees sang sweetly. Children in the village liked playing there.

One day, Giant came back from his trip. He drove away the happy children and said, “I won’t allow (允许) you to play in my garden.” Then he built (建造) a high wall to keep the children out of it.

The next spring came. But it was still winter in the garden. Birds didn’t sing and the trees forgot to blossom. Only the North Wind, the Frost (霜) and the Snow danced about through the trees.

19. There weren’t ________ in Giant’s garden.

A. flowers B. apple trees C. peach trees D. birds

20. Giant stopped children from going into his garden by ________.

A. building a high wall B. singing songs for them

C. playing with them outside the garden D. asking them to pay for the tickets to the garden