湖南株洲市枫叶中学2026年下学期期中学业质量监测试卷 八年级英语学科(无答案)

株洲市枫叶中学2026年下学期期中学业质量监测试卷

八年级英语学科

本试卷总分100分，时间100分钟

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分20分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，计5分）

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。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读两遍。

1．What does Peter like?

A．Books. B．Animals. C．Bikes.

2．What is the boy going to do first?

A．Sweep the floor. B．Take out the rubbish. C．Make the bed.

3．How was the weather yesterday?

A．Sunny. B．Rainy. C．Cloudy.

4．When did Lisa return the book?

A．Last Friday. B．Last Saturday. C．Last Sunday.

5．What did the girl do on the weekend?

A．She went camping.

B．She visited the museum.

C．She stayed at home.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

听下面6段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第六段材料，回答第6至7题。

6．What musical instrument can the boy play?

A．The accordion. B．The piano. C．The guitar.

7．Where will they go to attend this party?

A．At the park. B．At Lily’s home. C．At their school.

听第七段材料，回答第8至9题。

8．How does Tom feel now?

A．Disappointed. B．Surprised. C．Excited.

9．What do we know about the garden?

A．The plants all died. B．They planted 130 plants. C．Only 30% of the plants grew.

听第八段材料，回答第10至11题。

10．Who did Mike climb the mountain with?

A．His friends. B．His parents. C．His grandparents.

11．How long did it take them to climb to the top?

A．About 3 hours. B．About 4 hours. C．About 5 hours.

听第九段材料，回答第12至14题。

12．Why does Tom like doing the housework?

A．He thinks it is relaxing.

B．He can get some money.

C．He thinks it’s good exercise.

13．When does Tom clean the bathroom?

A．On Wednesday. B．On Saturday. C．On Sunday.

14．How often does Tom do the housework?

A．Every day. B．Twice a week. C．Four times a week.

听第十段材料，回答第15至17题。

15．What does the girl think of Mary?

A．Outgoing. B．Shy. C．Quiet.

16．What does Mary look like?

A．She has long hair. B．She has black hair. C．She has straight hair.

17．What does the girl want to do with Mary?

A．To play chess. B．To play tennis. C．To play badminton.

听第十一段材料，回答第18至20题。

18．How many animals are there in Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo?

A．About 3,000． B．About 6,800． C．About 8,300．

19．What animals did Billy see first?

A．Red pandas. B．Monkeys. C．White tigers.

20．What did Billy learn from his visit?

A．How to take care of animals.

B．How important it is to protect animals and their homes.

C．How to train wild animals.

第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共11小题；每小题2分，满分22分）

阅读下列材料，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

China has a long history. So, there are a lot of famous places with amazing stories. On this page, you will read something amazing in China.

The Grand Canal（大运河）

The Grand Canal is a man-made waterway with a history of more than 2,500 years. It is 3,200 kilometers long! It’s the longest man-made canal in the world. It has three parts and the longest part is about 1,794 kilometers long.

The Longmen Grottoes（龙门石窟）	The Longmen Grottoes are in Luoyang. One of the biggest groups of statues（雕像）is in the Fengxian Temple. They show us what art was like in the Tang Dynasty（朝代）.
The Erlitou site（二里头遗址）	The Erlitou site, in Henan, was the capital city of the Xia Dynasty. It is important for finding out how Chinese culture began and how people built their homes.
The Yellow River	The Yellow River lies in the northwest of Zhengzhou. It’s about 20 kilometers away from the city. It is the second longest river in China. And it shows the wonderful sights.

21．How long is the Grand Canal?

A．About 1,794 km. B．About 3,200 km. C．About 2,500km.

22．When did people build The Longmen Grottoes?

A．Tang Dynasty. B．Xia Dynasty. C．Song Dynasty.

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

A．The Grand Canal has four parts at all.

B．The Yellow River is the longest river in China.

C．We can find out how people built homes in The Erlitou Site.

B

In one short video on the Internet, a young woman is walking a silver robot dog in People’s Square in Shanghai.

Named G01, the robot was made by Chinese start-up Unitree in June 2021. According to Chen, a manager of Unitree, the robot costs about 16,000 yuan and it can run at a speed of 4.7 metres per second. It is only about 12 kilograms and you can take it wherever you go.

Although sometimes people think that they are soulless（没有灵魂的）machines and that they can never compare with real dogs who love their owners, there are still many advantages（优点）of robot dogs. Xinaomei, a college student with a robot dog, said, “They can calm（使……镇静）me down and help me relax after a busy day’s work. But they don’t need any food, and I don’t need to clean up after them, so I don’t have to spend time with them if I am busy.”

Wang Xingxing, the CEO of Unitree, first developed a robotic dog during his post-graduate（研究生）studies. He named it XDog. Later, he started his company in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in 2016．So far, the company has made robotic dogs B1．AllenGo and Laikago, and the consumer-grade（消费级）G01, AI and BenBen.

AllenGo and AI are sold online for around 400,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan. The two models are mainly used