安徽省合肥市蜀山区第五十四中学2025-2026学年上学期八年级英语期中试卷

英语练习

第一部分  听力（共四大题，满分16分）

Ⅰ. （共3小题；每小题1分，满分3分）

在下列每小题中，你将听到一个或两个句子并看到供选择的A、B、C三幅图画。选出与你所听句子内容相匹配的图画。

1. A.     B.     C.

2.     B.     C.

3. A.     B.     C.

Ⅱ. （共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

听下面五段对话。每段对话后都有一个问题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

4. What is Frank curious about?

A. Plants.    B. Space.    C. Electricity.

5. Who will Amy go to the museum with tomorrow?

A. Her dad.    B. Her mum.    C. Her brother.

6. What is Henry afraid of?

A. Going to social events.    B. Being in crowded places.    C. Seeing the doctor.

7. What will Mark do for his mum?

A. Write a poem.    B. Do a painting.    C. Sing a song.

8. What did Emily use to make the toy house?

A. Plastic blocks.    B. Paper waste.    C. Wood waste.

Ⅲ. （共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）听下面长对话或独白。每段长对话或独白后有几个问题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听下面一段材料，回答第9至第10题。

9. When was the invention competition?

A. Last Tuesday.    B. Last Friday.    C. Last Sunday.

10. What was Jack’s invention?

A. A mask.    B. A wig.    C. A surfboard.

听下面一段材料，回答第11至第13题。

11. Where did Neal and Jim go last Sunday?

A. To the zoo.    B. To the park.    C. To the cinema.

12. Who is Mr White?

A. Jim’s neighbour.    B. Jim’s teacher.    C. Jim’s grandpa.

13. How long has Neal known Jim?

A. For about 3 years.    B. For about 6 years.    C. For about 9 years.

Ⅳ. 听下面一段材料，填出所缺单词。每空仅填一词（共3小题；每小题1分，满分3分）。

A Young Inventor
background	Tom loves science. He thinks it can change people’s    14   .
At 10	He learned how to    15    his bicycle from a TV show.
At 13th birthday	He got his first robot.
At 16	He saw on the news that many people got hurt. He wanted to help.
At 18	He 16 in making the light.

第二部分  英语知识运用（共两大题，满分25分）

Ⅴ. 单项选择（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. In Chinese culture, water is a symbol of good _______ . It is soft but strong, and always finds a way to keep moving forward.

A. objects B. views C. products D. qualities

2. The leatherback turtle (棱皮龟) is the largest of all living turtles, with some ________ over 900 kilograms.

A. sensing B. weighing C. bringing D. covering

3. —What do you think of the hotel near the beach in Sanya?

—Quite good. I ________ in it for a week last summer.

A. have stayed B. will stay C. stayed D. stay

4. —The artist used ________ colors in her picture to make it look happy and full of joy.

—True, these colors are all warm ones, like red and yellow.

A. dark B. normal C. bright D. cold

5. — I like the Three - Body Problem very much. The story is so amazing!

— I agree with you. Its writer, Liu Cixin, is very ________. He created the whole magical world and it amazed his

readers.

A. imaginative B. stressed C. common D. strict

Ⅵ. 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）

A

The idea for this braille (盲文) reader came to Mehta during a visit to his grandfather in India. His grandfather ____6____ a special school. It was for blind students. While there, Mehta learnt that ____7____ in school had an electronic braille reader—it was too expensive (昂贵的) to afford, $3,000 each! Mehta wanted to make a ____8____. He wanted to help those students!

Mehta had ____9____ interest in science and technology. As a result, he was excited to have a ____10____ immediately after the visit. He wanted to create a cheap braille reader and ____11____ help these students. His first ____12____ was challenging: to create a reader costing less than $50. Finally, he built two kinds: a small one costing $20 and a larger one costing $35. He made it!

The journey to create the readers was not easy. Mehta ____13____ many problems. Yet he never got worried. Mehta’s grandfather ran the school so Mehta could ask blind students to ____14____ some advice after trying out (试用) the readers. With the students’ advice, he improved them. He had so many difficulties, but he ____15____ his hope. In the future, maybe he will change “nobody had a reader” into “everybody has a reader”.

“I hope to help people in need all over the world with my invention!” Mehta said.

6. A. ran B. closed C. left D. painted

7. A. somebody B. anybody C. nobody D. everybody

8. A. trip B. joke C. difference D. conclusion

9. A. great B. little C. no D. many

10. A. break B. meal C. trip D. try

11. A. truly B. nearly C. surprisingly D. impossibly

12. A. goal B. chance C. exhibition D. character

13. A. hated B. hid C. avoided D. faced

14. A. follow B. offer C. receive D. refuse

15. A. gave up B. stuck to C. worried about D. suffered from

B

Home is like a warm hug on a cold night, comforting me and making me feel safe.

Last Friday, I had a big argument with my friend Macy. ____16____ I tried to talk to her, she didn’t listen. I