江苏省南通市第二初级中学2025-2026学年八年级上学期12月月考英语试题

南通市第二初级中学 2025-2026学年第一学期第二次学情调研 八年级英语 （时间：150分钟 总分：150分） 第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共95分） 一、听力（本大题共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分） 第一部分 听对话，回答问题。 1．What does Lily like best in the zoo? A． B． C． 2．What does the woman want to borrow? A． B． C． 3．What are they looking at? A． B． C． 4．What will Lucy take part in? A． B． C． 5．When will Helen go to bed today? A．At 9:30 p. m. B．At 9:40 p. m. C．At 9:50 p. m. 6．What would Dad like to do? A．To see a film. B．To go fishing. C．To go shopping. 7．Who runs the fastest among the three girls? A．Sandy. B．Amy. C．Millie. 8．Why didn’t the woman enjoy the sights that day? A．Because it was foggy. B．Because it was rainy. C．Because it was windy. 9．What is Mum doing now? A．She is writing an e-mail. B．She is helping her son. C．She is calling her boss. 10．Which flat did Sandy buy? A．A new flat near the city. B．A new flat of low price. C．An old flat of high price. 第二部分 听对话和短文回答问题 听对话，回答各小题。 11．Why does Linda look so tired these days? A．Because she burnt her hands. B．Because she knocked off the glass. C．Because she has to look after her son in the hospital. 12．What does the man think the little boy should do first? A．He should ask his dad for help. B．He should keep the hands in cold water. C．He should learn something about safety at school. 听短文，回答各小题，完成信息记录表。 The introduction of a storybook Name Emma and Jerry Contents ·It has 10 short stories. They are 13______. ·The exercises include vocabulary, grammar and 14 _______. ·There is a cartoon picture to match each story. Pages & price It has 15________ pages and costs 9.9 yuan. 13．A．difficult B．exciting C．interesting 14．A．writing B．reading C．speaking 15．A．145 B．155 C．175 听短文，回答各小题。 16．How old is the writer’s grandmother this year? A．79. B．80. C．81. 17．What was Grandmother good at when she was young? A．Making dolls. B．Taking photos. C．Drawing pictures. 18．What did the writer make for his grandmother? A．Some pictures. B．Some flowers. C．A photo album. 19．How long did the writer spend making the present? A．Less than an hour. B．About three hours. C．More than four hours. 20．Which of the following is true? A．The writer has an elder sister. B．Grandma still sees things clearly. C．Grandma enjoys growing flowers. 二、单项选择（本题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 1. After winning the singing competition, Sara’s heart was full of ________ . A. discouragement B. happiness C. patience D. curiosity 2. To ________ the difficulty bravely, we need a great deal of courage. A. change B. take C. wonder D. face 3. The baby ________ 3 kilograms when she was born. Do you know her ________ now? A. weighs; weight B. weighed; weight C. weight; weigh D. weighed; weighs 4. Mr Right had to sell the house even though it was ________ his original intentions (最初的打算). A. below B. over C. against D. under 5. —What’s that sound upstairs? —Maybe someone ________ a cup on the ground. A. lost B. dropped C. fell D. filled 6. We should stop the person from ________ in public. A. smoking B. to smoke C. smokes D. smoked 7. Tom got up very late this morning. ________, he couldn’t get to school on time. A. As long as B. After all C. Above all D. As a result 8. Which of the following words can we add “in-” as a prefix? A. Comfortable. B. Correct. C. Possible. D. Patient. 9. We know from the advertisement that Phitt Tea ______. A. costs nothing B. tastes sweet C. includes no sugar D. has no fat 10. —Did you hear that there’s going to be a heavy rain this Saturday? —________ I know you are preparing for the Jinji Lake Running Race. A. No problem. B. I agree. C. That’s a pity. D. All right. 三、完形填空（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分） On a snowy evening a rich lady was standing by the road. She was very worried. Her ____11____ had broken down (抛锚了). Just then a poor man named Robert came. He was on his ____12____ back home from work as usual. The lady wondered, “Is the man going to ____13____ me? He looks very cold and hungry.” But to her surprise, ____14____ stopped and said with a smile, “Can I help you, Madam?” After forty ____15____, the car was at last fixed by Robert. The lady wanted to pay him. “No, that’s ____16____, Madam,” he said. “I was just helping someone in ____17____. If you really want to pay me back, I hope ____18____ you see someone in need, you should give him a hand.” A few minutes later, the lady ____19____ a shabby (破旧的) house by the road. She remembered Robert’s words, so she stopped. The hostess (女主人) warmly asked her ____20____. The lady could see that it was a ____21____ family and that they needed help. When the hostess was making tea in the kitchen, the lady ____22____ 500 dollars on a table and went away quietly. Robert came home later than before, thinking how ____23____ their life was. His wife was pregnant (怀孕) and the baby would be born the next month but there was not ____24____ money. His wife went up to him, gave him a kiss and said softly, “Don’t worry, dear. Everything’s going to be all ____25____. A stranger has helped us out.” Let’s always be ready to help others because helping others is helping ourselves. 11. A. bike B. motorbike C. bus D. car 12. A. room B. way C. road D. life 13. A. help B. save C. kill D. find 14. A. she B. he C. I D. they 15. A. days B. hours C. minutes D. years 16. A. nothing B. something C. everything D. anything 17. A. picture B. rain C. need D. danger 18. A. whatever B. whenever C. however D. whichever 19. A. saw B. heard C. smelt D. felt 20. A. out B. away C. in D. along 21. A. terrible B. sad C. rich D. poor 22. A. dropped B. forgot C. lay D. left 23. A. exciting B. hard C. happy D. interesting 24. A. many B. some C. enough D. few 25. A. right B. wrong C. glad D. well 四、阅读理解（本大题共20小题，每小题2分，共40分） A）阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Boys and girls, let’s do an experiment (实验) in today’s lesson. Materials: Instructions: (1) Fill the glass or jug about 2/3 full with water. (2) Drop the egg carefully into the glass and watch it going down towards the bottom (3) Take the egg out and add about 5 spoons of salt. Test to see if your egg goes up. (4) Add more salt if the egg is still at the bottom. The science behind it: Things go down in the water when they are denser than the water, and by adding salt we make the water denser. Once the water is denser than the egg, it goes up. You can also try other things to see if you can have the same result. 26. What kind of lesson are the students having? A. Maths. B. Biology. C. Physics. (物理) D. Geography. 27. Which of the following is the result you can see after adding salt in water? A. B. C. D. 28. What does the underlined word “denser” in Part 3 probably mean? A. Faster. B. Slower. C. Lighter. D. Heavier. B January 20, 2025, a Chinese tech company named DeepSeek made a new AI called DeepSeek-R1. This smart program can solve math problems, write code (代码), and answer questions like top models such as OpenAI’s GPT-40, but it costs much less to build. The team spent only $5.58 million (1/70 of OpenAI’s cost) and used 2,048 computer chips for two months. This shows that good ideas can beat big money. DeepSeek-R1 learns by trying many times and getting better, like how students practice maths. Other AIs need lots of prepared examples, but R1 improves by itself. For example, in a global math test, it got 79.8% right, slightly higher than OpenAI’s model. A simple version of R1 can even run on low-cost computers, helping schools and small companies. DeepSeek-R1 is free to use and change. On its first day online, over 19,000 programmers worldwide started projects to study it. A German scientist said experiments with R1 cost $10 instead of $300 with other AIs. Even Meta (a famous U.S. tech company) top scientist said, “This kind of free AI could change the world.” U.S. tech companies are worried. Meta plans to spend $65 billion more on AI research. Experts say China is catching up fast. A report in Nature magazine called R1 a “big step forward”, proving that smart ideas beat expensive tools. As a DeepSeek engineer said, “We want AI to be a friend, not something only rich people can use.” With R1, China shows the world that great things come from new ideas and hard work, not just money. 29. DeepSeek-R1 can do all the following EXCEPT (除了) ________. A. solving math problems B. writing computer code C. replacing human scientists D. answering questions 30. What makes DeepSeek-R1 different from other AIs in learning methods? A. It needs more prepared examples. B. It improves by itself through practice. C. It can only solve math problems. D. It requires expensive computers. 31. Why are U.S. tech companies like Meta worried about DeepSeek-R1? A. Because it is too expensive. B. Because it works worse than their AIs. C. Because only Chinese people can use it. D. Because it is cheap and free, changing the race of AI. 32. What is the best title for this passage? A. “The High Cost of AI Development” B. “DeepSeek-R1: A Smart and Free AI” C. “Why U.S. Tech Companies Are Worried” D. “How to Build an AI Like GPT-4” C Students who learn language often think they have memory problems. They worry because they can’t remember words. In fact the problem usually isn’t with their memory. The problem is with how they study. To remember words better, you need to understand how memory works. There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. When you see, hear or read something, it goes first into short-term memory. But short-term memory lasts for only a few seconds. You will only remember something longer if it goes into long-term memory. Your long-term memory is like a very big library with many, many books. It’s organized. When you put away a book or memory—you can’t just leave it anywhere. You have to choose a place where you can find it again. How can you do this with vocabulary? The answer is to work with the word and think about the word in new ways. You can do this by writing new sentences that include it. Even better, you can invent a little story about the word with people or places that you know. Another way is to make a picture in your mind with the word. For example, if the word is height, you can think of the tallest person you know and try to guess his or her height. All of these activities are good ways to think about words. They make the meanings of words stronger in your long-term memory. And they give a way to find a word when you need it. 33. In the writer’s opinion, students can’t remember words because ________. A. they have memory problems B. they are too worried C. they don’t use a proper way D. they don’t like to study 34. Which is TRUE about memory according to the passage? A. Short-term memory is seldom used. B. What we see goes into long-term memory first. C. We will forget a word soon if it goes into short-term memory. D. We will never forget a word if it goes into long-term memory. 35. The underlined part in Paragraph 2 means long-term memory ________. A. keeps many books like a large library B. works like a well-organized library C. gives you any book D. leaves memory anywhere 36. This passage mainly tells us about ________. A. Students’ language problems in study B. how to make the meanings of words stronger C. short-term and long-term memory D. ways to remember words better D “Do you really have no place to go?” Jan looks up and shakes her head. “Then come with me. You can stay at my house tonight.” Jan gets up and follows Tom without saying any word! Jan looks up at the night sky. It’s clear and there are thousands of stars shining above her. “How strange!” she says. “Where are the aeroplanes (飞机)?” “Aeroplanes?” Tom looks surprised. “Yes. The planes landing and taking off at the airport.” “What airport?” “Apsworth, of course.” Jan can see that Tom doesn’t know what she’s talking about. She knows she’s in Port Prime but everything looks different. Maybe she’s in the future. “That’s it! “ she thinks. “This is the future.” She looks around her and thinks: “If this is the future, it’s very different from the future in my dream.” “There aren’t any tall buildings. There aren’t thousands of people and lots of different colours. And there aren’t any taxis flying in the sky. Maybe there was a war. The war destroyed (摧毁) the airport and my home.” She looks at Tom. “Don’t laugh at me, Tom. Do you promise (保证)?” “I promise.” “I think I’m in the future.” Tom laughs. “I’m sorry. So you think you’re in the future.” “Yes. But everything’s different. Was there a war?” “Yes, there was a war…but it was a long time ago.” “I think my house disappeared in the war.” Five minutes later they arrive outside Tom’s house. They walk up to the house and Tom opens the front door. Jan notices that the front door isn’t locked. As they walk into the front hall a voice calls out from the front room. “Tom? Is that you?” “Yes, dad,” Tom replies. —Adapted from The Time Capsule 37. Where does Jan stay at night? A. At Apsworth. B. Tom’s house. C. Under the tree. D. Her own house. 38. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Tom knows what the airoplanes are at last. B Tom doesn’t laugh at Jan after he promises. C. Jan thinks she is in the future in this chapter (章). D. Jan’s house was destroyed (破坏) in the storm. 39. Which one won’t appear from the future in Jan’s dream? A. Some tall buildings. B. Thousands of people. C. Lots of different colours. D. Some planes in the sky. 40. What might be the correct order of what happened in the story? a. She knows she’s in Port Prime but everything looks different. b. Jan gets up and follows Tom silently! c. Jan notices that the front door isn’t locked. d. Five minutes later they arrive outside Tom’s house. A. b-a-c-d. B. b-a-d-c. C. a-b-d-c. D. a-b-c-d. B）阅读短文，从短文后多给的六个选项中选出五个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Spring is here. The sky is bright blue and the air smells sweet. You can see the smiling faces and hear the laughter (笑声) of people in the street in spring. ____41____ First of all, in spring we can enjoy more daylight hours than in the winter. ____42____ It’s called serotonin (血清素). Even if we do nothing but only put our heads out of our windows, we’re often happier during this time of the year. ____43____ The nice weather encourages us to get outside more often. Even when we are indoors, we often open windows and doors to allow the cool, fresh air to come in. ____44____ because the air in our rooms starts getting moved around. Finally, spring means colorful flowers and singing birds. ____45____ According to a study of hospital patients, having flowers in their rooms can make people feel less anxious (焦虑的). Another study shows that people feel happier when they see many birds in their communities. Good times always pass quickly. Let’s enjoy this beautiful season to the fullest. A. You can wear beautiful clothes, B. Our minds get clear as well, C. Sunlight helps produce a special thing in our bodies. D. They can make us feel happier. E. Second, the higher temperatures make us more active. F. Why does this season make us so happy? 第Ⅱ卷（非选择题 共55分） 五、词汇运用（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 阅读下面的短文，在空白处填入适当的单词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。 We Can’t Live Without Bees Imagine you go to the supermarket in ____46____ (you) area, but there are almost no fruits, vegetables, honey, milk, eggs or chocolate. How would you feel? ____47____ (disappoint)? Angry? Sad? At this moment you realize people, plants, and animals are all connected. We need each other to live, and bees are one of the best ____48____ (example) of this connection. Bees are very hard-working animals, and their greatest work is pollination. On one trip, they often visit 50 to 100 flowers. As they fly from one flower ____49____ another, they take pollen with them. This action helps plants ____50____ (grow). In fact, ____51____ their work, about 80 percent of the plants in the world cannot grow. For this reason, many scientists believe that bees are the ____52____ (importance) animals on this planet. Bees are also one of the most interesting animals in the world. For example, they work hard together to make their homes. In order to store honey, they create honeycombs. Another interesting thing about bees is ____53____ they communicate. When a bee finds new food, it uses a dance ____54____ (tell) the others where and how far away the food is. Bees play ____55____ important part in the ecosystem of our planet. However, the number of bees is dropping, and scientists are worried. Bees need our help, and there is a lot we can do. Think about what you can do to protect one of the most amazing animals on earth. 六、短文填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 请认真阅读下面短文，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，写出一个合适的英语单词完整、正确形式，使短文通顺。 Students are used to speaking Putonghua both at home and school. H____56____, some students from a primary school of Hunan have chosen to learn the local dialect (方言) in the classroom. According to China Daily, the dialect c____57____ is offered on Friday afternoon in an after-school service class. And teachers from universities come to guide these students. Besides listening, speaking, reading and writing, students can learn about the idioms, nursery rhymes (童谣), figures of speech (修辞手法) and culture b____58____ the dialect, according to Luo Xinru, one of the teachers from a related university. “It’s meaningful to the children when they grow up,” she said. “As the country has been spreading Putonghua, many young l____59____ do not know how to speak local dialects. Some old people still have difficulty making t____60____ understood by the young. To solve this, we should e____61____ students to speak dialects. When kids visit their grandparents, they can chat more smoothly and closely, i____62____ of feeling distant because of language problems. What’s more, dialects are actually a simple way to show the traditional culture, helping children better understand the local history. As a r____63____, the country has started to preserve (保护) different language resources in recent years,” she said. Ms. Luo believes that spreading the u____64____ of Putonghua and dialects is not contradictory (相互矛盾的). “Protection of dialects is a future trend (趋势), and the languages can carry different cultures and values. They should not, and will not, disappear,” she said. We hope that more young people will love and learn their local d____65____ in the future. 七、阅读与回答问题（本大题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分） Different weather makes us feel different. It influences our health, feelings and intelligence (智力). In August, it is very hot and wet in the southern part of the United States. People there have some health problems during this month. In the Northeast and the Middle West, it is very hot at some times and very cold at other times. People in these states have more heart trouble after the weather changes in February or March. The weather also has a strong influence on people’s feelings. Winter may be a bad time for thin people. They might feel unhappy during cold weather. But fat people may have a hard time in hot summer. They feel hot and get angry easily. The weather can also influence intelligence. For example, in a scientific report, the IQ (智商) of a group of students was very high when a very strong wind came, but after the strong wind, their IQ was 10% lower. The wind can help people have higher intelligence. Very hot weather, on the other hand, can make it lower. Students in many schools of the United States often get worse grades on exams in July and August, the hottest months of the year. 66. What’s the weather like in the southern part of the United States in August? __________________________________________ 67. How might thin people feel during cold weather? __________________________________________ 68. Who may have a hard time in hot summer? __________________________________________ 69. When was the IQ of the group of students high in a scientific report? __________________________________________ 70. What do you learn from the passage? __________________________________________ 八、书面表达（本大题共20分） 71. 假设你是阳光中学的李华，一位野生动物爱好者。你登录了Wildlife Conservation Society（野生动物保护协会）网站。要求你用英文写一封加入协会的申请信。 1．What is your information? 2．What can you do to protect animals? 3．How can you encourage more people to join and help? 注意事项： 1．文中不能出现真实姓名、校名等信息； 2．文章必须包含所有要点，可适当发挥，使短文连贯、通顺； 3．词数：80词左右。 Dear Sir/Madam, I am a student from Sunshine School and a wildlife enthusiast. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Best regards, Li Hua 南通市第二初级中学 2025-2026学年第一学期第二次学情调研 八年级英语 （时间：150分钟 总分：150分） 第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共95分） 一、听力（本大题共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分） 第一部分 听对话，回答问题。 1．What does Lily like best in the zoo? A． B． C． 2．What does the woman want to borrow? A． B． C． 3．What are they looking at? A． B． C． 4．What will Lucy take part in? A． B． C． 5．When will Helen go to bed today? A．At 9:30 p. m. B．At 9:40 p. m. C．At 9:50 p. m. 6．What would Dad like to do? A．To see a film. B．To go fishing. C．To go shopping. 7．Who runs the fastest among the three girls? A．Sandy. B．Amy. C．Millie. 8．Why didn’t the woman enjoy the sights that day? A．Because it was foggy. B．Because it was rainy. C．Because it was windy. 9．What is Mum doing now? A．She is writing an e-mail. B．She is helping her son. C．She is calling her boss. 10．Which flat did Sandy buy? A．A new flat near the city. B．A new flat of low price. C．An old flat of high price. 第二部分 听对话和短文回答问题 听对话，回答各小题。 11．Why does Linda look so tired these days? A．Because she burnt her hands. B．Because she knocked off the glass. C．Because she has to look after her son in the hospital. 12．What does the man think the little boy should do first? A．He should ask his dad for help. B．He should keep the hands in cold water. C．He should learn something about safety at school. 听短文，回答各小题，完成信息记录表。 The introduction of a storybook Name Emma and Jerry Contents ·It has 10 short stories. They are 13______. ·The exercises include vocabulary, grammar and 14 _______. ·There is a cartoon picture to match each story. Pages & price It has 15________ pages and costs 9.9 yuan. 13．A．difficult B．exciting C．interesting 14．A．writing B．reading C．speaking 15．A．145 B．155 C．175 听短文，回答各小题。 16．How old is the writer’s grandmother this year? A．79. B．80. C．81. 17．What was Grandmother good at when she was young? A．Making dolls. B．Taking photos. C．Drawing pictures. 18．What did the writer make for his grandmother? A．Some pictures. B．Some flowers. C．A photo album. 19．How long did the writer spend making the present? A．Less than an hour. B．About three hours. C．More than four hours. 20．Which of the following is true? A．The writer has an elder sister. B．Grandma still sees things clearly. C．Grandma enjoys growing flowers. 二、单项选择（本题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 【1题答案】 【答案】B 【2题答案】 【答案】D 【3题答案】 【答案】B 【4题答案】 【答案】C 【5题答案】 【答案】B 【6题答案】 【答案】A 【7题答案】 【答案】D 【8题答案】 【答案】B 【9题答案】 【答案】C 【10题答案】 【答案】C 三、完形填空（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分） 【11~25题答案】 【答案】11. D 12. B 13. A 14. B 15. C 16. A 17. C 18. B 19. A 20. C 21. D 22. D 23. B 24. C 25. A 四、阅读理解（本大题共20小题，每小题2分，共40分） A）阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A 【26~28题答案】 【答案】26. C 27. A 28. D B 【29~32题答案】 【答案】29. C 30. B 31. D 32. B C 【33~36题答案】 【答案】33. C 34. C 35. B 36. D D 【37~40题答案】 【答案】37 B 38. C 39. D 40. B B）阅读短文，从短文后多给的六个选项中选出五个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 【41~45题答案】 【答案】41. F 42. C 43. E 44. B 45. D 第Ⅱ卷（非选择题 共55分） 五、词汇运用（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 【46~55题答案】 【答案】46. your 47. Disappointed 48. examples 49. to 50. grow##to grow 51. without 52. most important 53. how 54. to tell 55. an 六、短文填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 【56~65题答案】 【答案】56. However##owever 57. course##ourse 58. behind##ehind 59. locals##ocals 60. themselves##hemselves 61. encourage##ncourage 62. instead##nstead 63. result##esult 64. use##usage##se##sage 65. dialects##ialects 七、阅读与回答问题（本大题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分） 【66~70题答案】 【答案】66. It is very hot and wet. 67. They might feel unhappy. 68. Fat people. 69. When a very strong wind came. 70. Different weather influences our health, feelings and intelligence. 八、书面表达（本大题共20分） 【71题答案】 【答案】例文 Dear Sir/Madam I am a student from Sunshine School and a wildlife enthusiast. I am writing to apply for membership in the Wildlife Conservation Society. I love nature and animals. To protect them, I participate in tree planting activities, volunteer at local animal shelters, and promote wildlife protection through social media and public events. I plan to organize educational activities at schools and communities to raise awareness about the importance of wildlife conservation. I hope that by doing so, I can inspire more people to join our efforts to protect animals. Thank you for considering my application. Best regards, Li Hua 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $