浙江省杭州市钱学森学校2025-2026学年八年级上学期期中英语试卷

2025学年第一学期八年级期中教学质量检测

英语试题卷

1. 本科目试卷分试题卷和答题卷两部分。满分120分，考试时间100分钟。

2. 答题前，考生务必用黑色水笔或签字笔填写学校、班级、姓名、座位号、考号。

3. 所有答案都必须做在答题卷规定的位置上，务必注意试题序号和答题序号相对应。

4. 考试结束后，上交试题卷和答题卷。

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）

第一节：听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

1. What does Andy think of the trip?

A. Terrible.   B. Interesting.   C. Exciting.

2. Who does more chores at home?

A. Mary.   B. Bob.   C. Ben.

3. Which city did Nick go to?

A. New York.   B. London.   C. Beijing.

4. What is Diana like?

A. She is quieter than Kate. B. She is not so popular as Kate. C. She is not smarter than Kate.

5. Why can the plants live in the desert?

A. Because they can keep water in their bodies.

B. Because they need a lot of water.

C. Because the water is dirty.

第二节：听下面2段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。（共5小题，每小题1. 5分，满分7. 5分）

听对话，回答以下各小题。

6. What is the tallest plant in the school garden?

A. The rose.   B. The sunflower.   C. The bamboo.

7. What is the most interesting thing about sunflowers?

A. They are the most colorful. B. They always face the sun. C. They grow the fastest.

听对话，回答以下各小题。

8. Who is Sally’s sister?

A. Tina.   B. Lily.   C. Linda.

9. Who is more outgoing?

A. Sally.   B. Linda.   C. Tina.

10. What do they have in common?

A. They’re both beautiful.   B. They’re both thin.   C. They’re both tall.

第三节（共5小题，每小题1. 5分，满分7. 5分）

听独白，回答以下各小题。

11. How long did it take David’s family to get to Changsha?

A. About two hours.   B. About three hours.   C. About four hours.

12. What is David’s father?

A. A guide.   B. A farmer.   C. A teacher.

13. What did David do on the second day?

A. He visited a museum.   B. He climbed a mountain.   C. He went to a park.

14. Where is the young man David helped from?

A. The UK.   B. The USA.   C. Canada.

15. What did the family buy for David’s grandma?

A Oranges.   B. Flowers.   C. Tea.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列内容，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

A

Hundreds of years ago, ideas like flying to another city through the air sounded like dreams. Yet now scientific study has made them real. Could other fairy tales come true someday?

Sleeping Beauty Could anyone sleep for 100 years? Probably not. The daily cycle of sleep and waking is set in your body. But animals like bears can hibernate (冬眠) through the winter until it warms. If scientists can work out how animals hibernate, maybe one day people could hibernate too. It would be great for astronauts to sleep through the long space journey. But hibernating animals still grow older, so a future Sleeping Beauty might wake up as a Sleeping Grandma.

Talk to Animals Talking to animals isn’t quite easy. But scientists are trying. Tiny cameras and microphones have collected thousands of hours of animal conversations. Powerful computer programs study animal sounds and match them with possible meanings. Soon they may let us talk back. But there are still challenges. Many animals communicate with smells, body language, and sounds that humans can’t hear. And animals don’t think like people. So, when we think they’re giving directions to the castle, they’re more likely to be saying “This is my tree!”

Let Down Your Hair Rapunzel lowers her long hair to let visitors in. But could hair really hold up a prince? Surprisingly, yes! A scientific study has found out that a single hair can hold 3 ounces, the weight of a small tomato. And a common head has about 100,000 hairs. All those together could hold up a couple of elephants. A prince? No problem. However, Rapunzel would also need a shorter tower. Human hair only grows a few feet long. The longest hair ever recorded is about 18 feet long—pretty short for a tower.

 

1. If astronauts could hibernate, they would ________.

A. stop growing completely B. sleep through space travel

C. need more food and water D. communicate with animals

2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Animals think like people in giving directions.

B. Scientists have succeeded in talking back to animals.

C. A common person’s hair could hold up a giant panda.

D. Rapunzel in the fairy tale has the longest hair in history.

3. What is the main purpose of this passage?

A. To discuss new inventions for space travel.

B. To tell us how scientists influence fairy tales.

C. To compare different animals’ talking habits.

D. To show scientific possibilities behind fairy tales.

B

Inside the hall, the door was shut, and the key lay on the glass stand. Poor Alice, who was about one foot high after taking some drink, found a cake on the floor. She went up and soon ate all the cake.

“How strange, how tall I am”, said Alice. She looked down at her feet— they seemed so far off. In fact, she was now over nine feet high, which meant she still couldn’t get through the door. She sat down and had a good cry till there was a large pool all around her.

Suddenly, she heard the sound of feet not far off. It was the Rabbit that had come back, with a fan in his hand. Alice felt so in need of help from someone that when he came near, she called out, “If you please, sir...” The Rabbit