天津市新华中学2026-2027学年度第一学期八年级英语 阶段学情自测 （10月）

2026-2027学年度第一学期八年级月练习 （2026.10） 一、单项选择（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分） ( ) 1. My brother is reading ________ article now. ________ article is about how to keep fit. A. a; The B. an; An C. an; The D. /; an ( ) 2. The teacher used many stories and games to make her class more ________, so all the students were very interested. A. living B. live C. alive D. lively ( ) 3. My parents ________ mat my grandparents who live in the countryside tomorrow. A. hope me to B. hope to C. hope that D. hope for ( ) 4. My brother plans ________ in Tianjin tomorrow. A. to arrive B. arrives C. arrived D. arrive ( ) 5. Our PE teacher is ________ and he looks very strong. A. 1.90-meters-tall B. 1.90-meters-tall C. 1.90-meter-tall D. 1.90-meter-tall ( ) 6. There is ________ in the fridge. We need to go shopping. was A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing ( ) 7. Our physics teacher told us to keep ________ the experiment (实验) carefully until it was finished. A. watch B. watched C. watching D. to watch ( ) 8. When we watched the new film about the doctors fighting against the disease, all of us were deeply ________ by their spirit of dedication (奉献) A. move B. moving C. moved D. moves ( ) 9. ________ Tom is not good at math, he never gives up practicing it. ________, he got an “A” in the final exam. A. Although; However B. However; Although C. Although; Therefore D. As long as; Although ( ) 10. — How long ________ your uncle ________ in this city? — He ________ here in 2018. that is, for seven years. A. has; lived; came B. did; live; has come C. has; lived; has come D. did; live; came ( ) 11. I________ this scarf for six years and it looks very beautiful. A. bought B. will have C. have had D. have bought ( ) 12. Be careful when you drive along this ________ road. There isn’t enough space for two cars to pass at the time. A. wide B. narrow C. long D. short ( ) 13. — Would you like to go to Bayi Square with us tomorrow? — I’d love to, though I ________ there many times. A. visit B. was visited C. will visit D. have visited ( ) 14. — Does Mr Miller love his dog? — Yes. ________ he goes out, he takes it with him. A. Whoever B. Whenever C. Whatever D. However ( ) 15. — Can you play football with us this morning? — ________. I have to study for tomorrow’s test. A. No problem B. I’d love to C. I’m afraid not D. Sounds good 二、完型填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） Some artists are often not famous during their lifetime. Vincent van Gogh (梵高) was such an artist. People did not pay much attention to his 16 He began to think he was not a very good painter. But he did not give up painting. He was 17 in what he was painting he did not want to stop. He would even to 18 eat! 19 , his paintings were dark. He used pencils or charcoal sticks (炭条) to make them. Then he 20 colour. He used lots of brown and dark green. Later, Vincent moved to France. He wanted to learn from the artists who 21 there. They were trying new 22 of painting. In France, Vincent began using bright colours. He used oil paints (油画颜料) to create his art. He painted both the countryside and people. He 23 painted self-portraits (自画像) . He created more than 30 portraits of himself! Vincent completed more than 2,000 paintings in his life. 24 people hardly bought his paintings during his lifetime, his paintings sell for a lot of money today. People think his paintings are masterpieces (杰作). For example, the painting Sunflowers is very 25 all over the world. ( ) 16. A. trips B. paintings C. villages. D. music ( ) 17. A. wrong B. lucky C. interested D. tired ( ) 18. A. forget B. start C. hope D. agree ( ) 19. A. At last B. Once again C. At least D. At first ( ) 20. A. helped B. added C. missed D. guessed ( ) 21. A. worked B. sang C. danced D. cooked ( ) 22. A. facts B. stories C. ways D. reports ( ) 23. A. never B. hardly C. perhaps D. also ( ) 24. A. Before B. Though C. If D. When ( ) 25. A. Humorous B. polite C. famous D. quiet 三、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，每小题2分，共30分） A In China, when you refuse someone, he or she might say he or she eats a bowl of door-closing thick soup. In Chinese, it is called “吃闭门羹”. What is the story behind this idiom? It is said that during the Tang Dynasty, there lived a beautiful woman named Shi Feng, Many young men wanted to marry her. But Shi was hard to please. She asked her admirers (追求者) to write poems and show them to her. She did this to see how talented (有天赋的) they were. If Shi liked someone’s poems, she would agree to meet him. If she didn’t, she wouldn’t meet him. But then, to be polite, she would at least give him a bowl of “geng” to eat. “Geng” is a kind of thick soup. It is usually made with grain, fruit or vegetables. As time passed, “eating a bowl of thick soup” came to mean “being refused”. The dish was also nicknamed “door-closing thick soup”, since Shi would not open her door for the people who received the dish. ________ But there is a twist (转折) to this story. “Door-closing thick soup” was said to be so delicious that more people started coming to She’s door---not to marry her, but to have a taste of the soup! 26. She would agree to meet men who were ________. A. honest B. good-looking C. rich D. talented 27. The underlined word “this” refers to “________”. A. asking her admirers to read poems B. asking her admirers to write poems C. asking her admirers to help write poems D. helping her admirers write poems happily 28. Shi’s admirers would get a bowl of “geng” to eat if ________. A. Shi liked their poems B. Shi refused them C. they were polite enough D. they wanted to marry Shi ( ) 29. Why did more people come to Shi’s door later? A. Because they hoped to marry her. B. Because they wanted to taste the soup. C. Because they planned to write the poems for her. D. Because they wished to visit her house. ( ) 30. The passage is mainly about A. an ancient beauty named Shi Feng B. how to make “door-closing thick soup” C. how ancient people refused others D. the story behind the idiom “吃闭门羹” B I’m Amy and I have many hobbies. When I was young, I loved paper cutting. I started to learn it at the age of ten. As I grew up, I became busy and didn’t have much time for it. Later, I stopped doing it. However, the news touched my heart and changed my mind. A little girl from Guangdong was practising lion dance when a lion dance performance (表演) team passed by. As soon as they saw the girl practising, they started to beat the drums and gongs (锣) for her and quickly she did lion dance in return, People around all cheered for her. Her love for the ancient Chinese art form evoked my strong memories of paper cutting. I remembered the happy times of making paper cuttings with my teacher and friends in the club. Our teacher, Mrs Zhang was very talented. With a pair of scissors and a piece of paper, she could make lively works. And we learned much from her. We created lots of works, including animals, flowers and things about Chinese history. Every time we held a paper cutting show, our works attracted many visitors. The girl in the news encouraged me to go on with paper cutting: I want to be an inheritor (继承人) of this ancient Chinese art form. Together with other inheritors, I hope to pass down (传承) our excellent culture. ( ) 31. What was Amy’s hobby when she was young? A. Playing football. B. Collecting stamps. C. Singing songs. D. Paper cutting. ( ) 32. What did the little girl do after the team began to beat the drums and gongs for her? A. She watched them quietly. B. She gave them some gifts. C. She did lion dance in return. D. She made a paper cutting. ( ) 33. What does the underlined word “evoked” mean in Paragraph 2? A. 唤起 B. 拿走 C. 远离 D. 加强 ( ) 34. Whom did Amy learn paper cutting from? A. Her mum. B. Mrs Li. C. Her grandma. D. Mrs Zhang. ( ) 35. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Amy never stops making paper cuttings. B. Amy practises lion dance every day. C. Amy forgets the happy times of making paper cuttings. D. Amy wants to be an inheritor of the Chinese culture. C Do you know why you get angry so easily, but your friend smiles all the time? It’s because you have different personalities. Then what is personality? It’s about how people think, behave and react to everything around them. So what makes people think and behave in certain ways? Part of the reason is that people are born like this. A baby gets his or her genes (基因) and blood type (血型) before birth. These may help decide what the baby will be like. But one’s personality doesn’t stop here. Family life. school learning and life experiences can also make you the person you are. But this doesn’t mean you can’t change your personality. You can always by to make yourself better. Don’t get too worried if you don’t have a good personality. ▲ There are some good ways to start making changes. For example, if you don’t know how to make friends, find out why. Is it because you’re too shy? If so, tell yourself to smile at people. Start talking to people kindly. But don’t give yourself a hard time about it all. After all, it’s not easy to change lifelong habits in one night. Just keep trying, one day you will see that you can turn over a new leaf and be a new you! ( ) 36. Personality is about the following except ________. A. what people look like B. how people think C. how people behave D. how people react to something ( ) 37. Which of the following can be put in “ ▲ ”? A. Just change everything in one night. B. Just be yourself and stay alone. C. Just face it and take action. D. Just give yourself a hard time. ( ) 38. What can help decide a person’s personality? ①The blood type. ②Genes. ⑧Family life. ④School learning. ⑤Height. ⑥Life experiences. A. ①②③④⑤ B. ①②③④⑥ C. ①②④⑤⑥ D. ①②③⑤⑥ ( ) 39. From the last paragraph, we can learn that ________. A. it’s hard for a shy person to make friends B. there is no way to change lifelong habits C. people can change themselves in a short time D. people can change themselves by keeping trying ( ) 40. Which can be the best title for the passage? A. Facts about genes B. Be a new you C. Personality decides life D. Personality is important 四、词汇（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，共15分） （一）根据音标和句意写出所缺单词 41. Jenny’ s not here. Can I take a ________ /'mesɪdʒ/? 42. I tried to discuss it with her but only ________ /sək'siːdɪd/ in making her angry. 43. Have you invited all your friends and ________ / rela'tɪvz/ to your birthday party? 44. Tony is good at swimming and his dream is to be an Olympic ________ /'æθli:t/. 45. My grandpa worked as a ________ /'gʌvəmənt/ official in his fifties. （二）根据句意和所给中文完成句子，每空限填一词 46. The little girl received a________ (无价的) gift from her grandma on her birthday. 47. The temperature is above________ (零). It’s getting warmer. 48. My parents are ________ (满意的) with my progress in English this term. 49. We usually have a 15-minute break to rest our________ (大脑). 50.________ (最近), I have boon busy with the exams. （三）用所给词的适当形式填空 51. These ________ ________ (strawberry) look very fresh. I want to buy some for my parents. better. 52. A new student ________ ________ (name) Maddie arrived in our class on a cloudy morning. 53. I ________ ________ (true) hope everything goes well with you. 54. You should be proud of ________ ________ (you) for your progress. 55. Don’t feel too ________ ________ (stress) about the test. 五、完成句子（本大题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分） 根据所给中文意思完成句子，每空限填一词。 56．我感觉我开心报了。 I ________ ________ I’m on top of the world. 57．今天我们不吃米饭，而是吃面条。 Today we’ll eat noodles ________ ________ rice. 58．很遗憾恐惧阻碍了她实现自己的梦想。 It was a pity that fear ________ her ________ from her dreams. 59．我讨厌练习，但还是坚持了下来，现在我演奏得很好。 I hated practicing, but I ________ ________ it and now I can play pretty well. 60．他的梦想是有一天能登上银幕。 His dream is to be on the ________ ________ one day. 61．鸟儿们四处飞期，欢快地歌唱。 The birds ________ ________ and sang with joy. 62．去年，这家人就谁应该继承房产而争吵。 The family ________ ________ who should inherit the house last year. 63．我们决定拆掉一面墙使厨房变大。 We decided to ________ ________ one of the walls to make a bigger kitchen. 64．她给了我们食物和衣服，没有要求任何回报。 She gave us food and clothing and asked for nothing ________ ________. 65．这条河被选为这两个城市的分界线。 The river was chosen as a ________ ________ between the two cities. 六、综合填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） Everyone likes to feel that he or she is special. However, many of us grow up believing that we’ re not special at all. Our parents often c ________ (66) us with others. They try to encourage us to do better. They mean well, but the message we often get is that we’ re not good e ________ (67). We begin to b ________ (68) that in order to be special, we have to be better than someone else. H ________ (69), we are often disappointed (失望的). There will always be s ________ (70) out there who is better than we are at something. It is I ________ (71) to be better than everyone else all the time. We all want the things that will make us a better person But we don’t realize that we have a ________ (72) had the very things that we want inside us. These things make us different f ________ (73) others. When we are growing up, our parents sometimes f ________ (74) to tell us that we are different and good enough. As a result, we should remind them that each of us, in our own way, is s________ (75). 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $