辽宁鞍山市华育外国语实验学校2025-2026学年八年级下学期6月阶段学情检测英语

2025 2026学年华外八年学科竞赛（2） （本试卷共45道题 满分90分 考试时间90分钟） 注意：所有试题必须在答题卡上作答，在本试卷上作答无效 第一部分 选择题（共50分） 一、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分；满分40分） 第一节 阅读下面语言材料。从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A If you are a sports fan, don’t miss the following wonderful shows! From rugby matches to diving challenges and crazy cross-sport experiments, take a look and pick your favourite sports show! 1. Wales and Australia are going to compete with each other in ________. A. golf B. baseball C. rugby D. ice-hockey 2. Viewers can watch ________ on US Adventure at 8:30. A. Daniel swimming with sharks in the deep sea B. a woman cycling in America’s biggest mountains C. surfers challenging the ocean’s biggest waves in Hawaii D. all of the above 3. Alice wants to get fit and do exercise at home, so she will probably watch ________. A. Small white ball B. Basic gymnastics C. Cycling D. Snow idea 4. Where is the text probably taken from? A. a review of sports matches. B. a TV guide for sports channels. C. a news report on sports worldwide. D. a timetable for a school sports meeting. B More than a Full Trunk (后备箱) Every time the Chinese New Year holiday comes to a close, many people across China pack their bags and head out on a journey full of fresh hopes. In 2026, I chose to drive back to Beijing after the holiday, which gave me the chance to join the annual (一年一度的) “trunk-filling competition” that took place at the end of the Spring Festival. The night before I left, my parents were busy planning how to maximize the space in my car’s trunk. They carefully chose and packed things they thought I would need or enjoy back in the city. From homemade dishes like meatballs prepared during the holiday to fresh vegetables and fruit from local farms, they filled every part of the trunk. They even included condiments (调味品) which they thought would be hard to find in Beijing. On my return trip, almost every expressway (高速公路) service area was crowded with cars. As drivers opened their trunks, the colorful packages inside caught my eye. One driver, Xiaohao, who was returning to Tianjin, said his car was filled with all kinds of fresh vegetables grown by his family. “It’s not that I can’t buy them in the city. It’s that this shows my family’s love,” he explained. Later, while surfing the Internet, I found that many people were also joining the “trunk-filling competition” and sharing photos of their trunks. These trunks were mostly filled with local specialties (特产), farm products and homemade foods. Someone online said, “No matter how large the trunk is, my parents can fill it up.” Driving back with a trunk full of homemade foods, I couldn’t help but feel a deep sense of gratitude (感激). The items packed so carefully by my parents were not just things—they were pieces of home, signs of love, and sources of comfort for the year ahead. 5. Which of the following is TRUE about the writer? A. Beijing is not his hometown. B. He was prepared to join the competition. C. He hopes more people can go to Beijing. D. He enjoyed road trips during holidays. 6. What does the underlined word “maximize” mean in paragraph 2? A. Empty out. B. Protect well. C. Make the most of. D. Measure carefully. 7. What did the writer feel when driving back with a full trunk? A. Excited to give the gifts to friends. B. Unhappy with too much food in the car. C. Thankful for the love and comfort from home D. Worried about the heavily loaded (满载的) car. 8. What can we infer (推断) about the “trunk-filling competition”? A. It shows the love in Chinese families. B. It is only popular in certain provinces. C. It can cause traffic problems on highways. D. It is a new fashion started by young people. C ① The Three Gorges Dam (三峡大坝), lying on the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, is one of the largest and most amazing engineering projects in the world. It stands proudly between the beautiful mountains of Xiling Gorge, showing the wisdom and hard work of the Chinese people. ② The Yangtze River, China’s longest river, often caused serious floods in the past, bringing disasters to millions of people. To solve this problem and create clean energy, the Chinese government decided to build a huge dam. ③ People began to build the Three Gorges Dam in 1994. And it took over 12 years to complete. Thousands of workers used modern machines and technology to make this dream come true. They moved mountains, changed the river’s path (路径) to build the dam, which is about 2.3 kilometers long and 185 meters high—as tall as a 60-story building! ④ Today, the dam plays a key role in China. It has greatly reduced flood risks, protecting cities and farmlands. The dam’s power stations make clean electricity for millions of homes and factories, helping reduce air pollution. Its communicating‐vessels system (连通器系统) helps ships pass. Ships enter a lock (水闸), and gates close. Water level inside the lock rises or falls to match the next section. When the water levels become the same, gates open, and the ship moves to the next lock. ⑤ The Three Gorges Dam is not just a dam—it’s a symbol of China’s courage and creativity. Visitors from around the world come to see this modern wonder. Students learn about its scientific achievements and the spirit of teamwork behind it. The dam teaches us that with determination, humans can overcome even the most difficult challenges of nature. 9. What are the uses of the Three Gorges Dam according to the passage? ① Controlling floods ② Making clean energy ③ Creating new tourist places ④ Improving ship transportation A. ①②③ B. ①②④ C. ①③④ D. ②③④ 10. What physics principle (原理) allows ships to pass through the dam’s gates smoothly? A. B. C. D. 11. Which is the right structure of the passage? A. B. C. D. 12. What’s the writer’s main purpose of writing the text? A. To list the dam’s benefits to society. B. To describe challenges in building the dam. C. To explain why Chinese people built the dam. D. To praise Chinese people’s wisdom and creativity. D When Xiong Fei was a child, he loved chasing butterflies. He lived in a small village called Jiangcun in Sichuan Province. The village had many trees, which made it a great home for butterflies. Back then, many people in his village caught butterflies to sell. His father learned how to raise them, and Xiong Fei often helped him. But raising butterflies was not easy. They had to protect the butterflies from spiders and diseases at every stage of their life cycle. In early 2008, a heavy snow broke their butterfly sheds (棚) and all the butterflies died. But his father didn't stop. He started all over again with only nine butterflies from the wild. Later, fewer people wanted to buy butterflies, so the family business faced hard times. Xiong Fei was then working in a factory in the city. That was when he had an idea: “Why not sell butterflies online?” In 2012, he started looking for customers on the Internet. To his surprise, he received a very large order. This success made him feel hopeful again. So in 2013, he left his city job and returned home to manage the butterfly farm. Now, people call Xiong Fei the “Butterfly King”. His farm has grown very large and has become the main way his family makes money. He sells many things, such as living butterflies, pupae (蛹), and butterfly specimens (标本), to parks, museums, and even weddings (婚礼). He also works with scientists to help protect rare butterfly species. Xiong Fei is successful, but he has even bigger dreams. He hopes to integrate (融入) the butterfly farm into tourism and education in the future. This way, more people can see and learn about these beautiful insects better. 13. Why did the family butterfly business face hard times? A. Because Xiong Fei left to work in the city. B. Because fewer people wanted to buy butterflies. C. Because there were not enough butterflies to sell. D. Because the cost of raising butterflies became too high. 14. Which of the following does Xiong Fei NOT sell? A. Butterfly pupae. B. Living butterflies. C. Photos of butterflies. D. Butterfly specimens. 15. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about? A. The challenges of running a butterfly farm. B. Xiong Fei’s future dreams for his butterfly farm. C. The work Xiong Fei did to protect the butterflies. D. Xiong Fei’s new goals for setting up a big company. 16. Which of the following is the best title for the text? A. Butterflies Make the Way to Success B. The Dangers of a Heavy Snow for Insects C. How to Raise Butterflies in a Small Village D. Selling Butterfly Specimens Online Is Easy 第二节 阅读短文，从所给的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，其中有一个多余的选项。 Face recognition (识别) is an amazing technology that helps computers tell the difference between people’s faces. We can use this technology in many different places. ____17____ How Does a Machine Learn to Recognize You? Step 1: Finding a Face The camera looks for basic parts of a face—two eyes, a nose and a mouth. At first, the computer only finds a shape that looks like a face. It doesn’t know whether it is a real person’s face. Step 2: Mapping Facial Features (特点) Once a face is found, the system carefully checks the key features. It studies how far the two eyes are apart, where the nose is, and how the mouth looks. All these form a person’s information. ____18____ Step 3: Turning Faces into Data (数据) After your key features turn into numbers, the face becomes a set of data. Computers are good at processing numbers, so this data of your face is stored on the machine or compared with a large database (数据库). If the new data matches the saved one, the system knows who you are. Step 4: Learning with AI With the help of AI technology, the computer studies thousands of face photos. ____19____ Smiling, wearing glasses or growing older will not fool the system. Step 5: Matching and Decision-Making Instead of giving a direct yes or no, the system offers a similarity score. A high enough score means a successful match, allowing your phone to unlock or letting you enter. Today, face recognition is widely used to unlock phones and organize photos. Airports also use it to check important lists. ____20____ Luckily, scientists and engineers are trying hard to improve it. They hope to make it safer and more useful for everyone. A. It can tell how people feel from their faces. B. However, the technology still has some problems. C. It slowly learns which parts of the face never change. D. For example, we can see it from smartphones to airport safety systems. E. The information is turned into numbers, creating a special “Faceprint” for each person. 二、完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分；满分10分） 阅读短文，理解其大意，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 Shanya, a middle school student from California, won a science award for designing a fire detection (探测) system that is better than the old ones. Shanya’s ____21____ came after a fire destroyed (摧毁) a restaurant in her neighborhood during the summer of 2022. “I never really ____22____ something like that,” she talked about the early morning’s fire happening at the restaurant, which started in the kitchen. “They had smoke detectors (探测器), yet finally it still burned down,”she ____23____. She spent more than a year ____24____ a fire detection system that could prevent the fire. Smoke detectors sense active fires from the smoke in the air. Shanya ____25____ the thermal imaging device (热成像设备) to stop fires from happening. Her system has two ____26____, a thermal camera and a tiny computer. The device detects a heat source (来源) which stayed unnoticed for ten minutes and sends a text message alarm. “I had two designs, and my first design completely ____27____. It was a really big problem I had to ____28____ .” she said. The final device is useful in speed and correctness. Shanya wants to bring the costs down to $60 to make it even cheaper than smoke detectors. “Shanya saw a ____29____ and tried to solve it. That's what I ____30____ all young people to do.” said a scientist. 21. A. view B. goal C. idea D. dream 22. A. forgot B. experienced C. invented D. feared 23. A. added B. repeated C. argued D. replied 24. A. using B. breaking C. drawing D. developing 25. A. designed B. forced C. left D. organized 26. A. roles B. points C. uses D. parts 27. A. failed B. succeeded C. missed D. appeared 28. A. get along B. get into C. get over D. get across 29. A. plan B. chance C. choice D. problem 30. A. allow B. encourage C. cause D. order 第二部分 非选择题（共40分） 三、语篇填空（共10小题，每小题1分；满分10分） 阅读短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内所给词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺、连贯。 We spend so much time dreaming of being at a different stage of life. How often one hears children hoping to grow up ____31____ old people are hoping to turn back the clock. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the ____32____ (happy) person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless worries. Childhood is a time when there are few ____33____ (duty). If a child has good parents, he gets food, care and love, no matter what he does, he will never again in his life get so much without doing anything ____34____ return. Also, life always presents new things to the child, but older people do not find these things ____35____ (interest). However, a child's parents always worry about his safety. They keep ____36____ (tell) him not to do this or that. When the young man starts to make ____37____ (he) own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live ____38____ (comfortable). If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he ____39____ (go) hungry. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have ____40____ chance to build his own place in society. 四、阅读与表达（共4小题，41～43小题，每小题2分，44小题4分；满分10分） 阅读短文，然后根据内容回答问题。 Recently, a Chinese film with low cost called Dear You (also known as Love Letters to Grandma) has become an unexpected box office hit. Filmed almost all in the Chaoshan dialect (方言), this touching story has moved millions of people, especially young viewers. The story is about a family secret. A grandson goes to Thailand to find out why his grandfather left China many years ago and never came back. There, he finds a touching secret: a Thai-Chinese woman kept secretly writing letters and sending money to his grandmother in his grandfather's name for 18 years. She did this to keep a promise. In Chinese history, these letters with money inside are called Qiaopi (侨批). For the families left behind, they were both money help and a way to feel connected to their loved ones. The film has received high praise for its true social background. It beautifully shows Chaoshan traditions, such as Gongfu tea and the colorful Yingge Dance. But what really makes audiences (观众) cry is the strength of the women in the story. They showed deep love that could go across oceans. Today, many young people live a fast life and often talk to each other through short messages. This movie encourages them to slow down and listen to the stories of older people. As one viewer said, “It reminds us that behind every old person, there was once a story of youth, care and deep love.” 41. Why did the Thai-Chinese woman secretly write letters to the grandma? ______________________________________________ 42. What is Qiaopi according to the text? ______________________________________________ 43. How does the movie make the audience cry? ______________________________________________ 44. In the movie, a woman kept a promise for 18 years. What promise do you want to keep for someone you care about, and why is this promise important to you? ______________________________________________ 五、书面表达（满分20分） 45. 你所在的学校将举办“自然灾害安全日”（Natural Disaster Safety Day）活动。作为校报编辑请在校报上介绍该活动并邀请同学们前来参加。 内容包括： （1）活动的时间和地点； （2）活动的内容：如观看视频、听报告、演练（practice activity）等； （3）同学们可以从中学到什么。 注意： （1）词数80～100，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数； （2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； （3）文中不能出现真实姓名及学校名称。 Dear schoolmates, To help us better protect ourselves, our school will hold a Natural Disaster Safety Day activity. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We hope everyone can come and take part. Let's stay safe together! 2025 2026学年华外八年学科竞赛（2） （本试卷共45道题 满分90分 考试时间90分钟） 注意：所有试题必须在答题卡上作答，在本试卷上作答无效 第一部分 选择题（共50分） 一、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分；满分40分） 第一节 阅读下面语言材料。从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A 【1~4题答案】 【答案】1. C 2. C 3. B 4. B B 【5~8题答案】 【答案】5. A 6. C 7. C 8. A C 【9~12题答案】 【答案】9. B 10. C 11. C 12. D D 【13~16题答案】 【答案】13. B 14. C 15. B 16. A 第二节 【17~20题答案】 【答案】17. D 18. E 19. C 20. B 二、完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分；满分10分） 【21~30题答案】 【答案】21. C 22. B 23. A 24. D 25. A 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. B 第二部分 非选择题（共40分） 三、语篇填空（共10小题，每小题1分；满分10分） 【31~40题答案】 【答案】31. while 32.  happiest 33. duties 34. in 35. interesting 36. telling 37. his 38. comfortably 39. will go 40. a 四、阅读与表达（共4小题，41～43小题，每小题2分，44小题4分；满分10分） 【41~44题答案】 【答案】41. To keep a promise. 42. They are letters with money inside. 43. By showing the strength of the women in the story. 44. I want to promise to visit my grandparents every week because it shows my love and care. 五、书面表达（满分20分） 【45题答案】 【答案】 例文 Dear schoolmates, To help us better protect ourselves, our school will hold a Natural Disaster Safety Day activity. It will be held in the school hall next Friday afternoon. During the activity, we can watch videos about disasters and listen to experts’ reports carefully. There will also be some exciting practice activities to teach us how to escape safely. Through this meaningful activity, we can learn useful skills to protect ourselves in dangerous situations. It is really important to know what to do when earthquakes or fires happen suddenly. Please arrive on time and don't miss this chance. All students are welcome. We hope everyone can come and take part. Let’s stay safe together! 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $