广东江门市第一实验学校2026-2027学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题(无答案)

八年级英语

一、语法选择(本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分)

请通读下面短文，掌握其大意，根据语法和上下文连贯的要求，从每小题所给的三个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡上将对应选项涂黑。

Last month, when I was ready to leave a shopping centre in Manhattan, the US, a woman suddenly came up to me. She said, "I love your hat! It's so beautiful and I just want    1    you that." As an Australian,    2    surprised I was at the moment!

   3    I spent months in America, I found that people here always praise others. But we Australians don't usually do this. However, I must say    4    small thing like this can easily influence people.

A study    5    that saying nice words to others makes them happy since some scientists made surveys. And Lisa Williams, a social psychologist (心理学家), said that the giver of praises also feels    6    than usual. She's not wrong.    7    fact, saying nice words to other people may do more for you than you think. Many scientists are studying the    8    of this kind of social behaviour.

Of course, this doesn't mean you should go out and praise everyone you meet. Praise    9    not always be welcome. For example, talking about a woman's body or age might make    10    unhappy. It's better to say something nice about her clothes or job.

1. A. tell B. telling C. to tell

2. A. What a B. What C. How

3. A. Whenever B. After C. If

4. A. a B. an C. the

5. A. shows B. will show C. is showing

6. A. happy B. happier C. the happiest

7. A. In B. On C. At

8. A. importantly B. important C. importance

9. A. should B. may C. must

10. A. she B. her C. hers

二、完形填空(本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分)

请通读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡上将对应选项涂黑。

Sean Brown has a big plan—to record the sounds made by every bird in Ireland. He wants people to learn more about birds,    11    those in danger.

Sean is a bird lover. He got his    12    from his father and grandfather. He grew up in Ireland, and spent much time watching birds from his kitchen and writing their names in a notebook. By the age of 14, he was    13    to tell most birds by their sounds.

His bird-recording project began in 2018 when he was living in Barcelona, Spain. He started it because there were so many different birds there, and he soon wanted to    14    what he found with others.

Then Sean went back to Ireland and decided to record every bird there.

So far, he has recorded nearly 200    15    of birds in Ireland. The sounds of three birds, like the red-breasted merganser (红胸秋沙鸭), are still not in his collection—these birds are very    16    to find.

Sean says 63% of birds in Ireland could    17    because of the problems they face. This    18    him, but he said that people's praise for his work made him more    19   . He said, "It is important to tell people about the problems we are facing, but also the    20    and the wonder of birds."

11. A. finally B. especially C. probably D. luckily

12. A. interest B. money C. answer D. problem

13. A. afraid B. ready C. lucky D. able

14. A. give B. take C. share D. keep

15. A. sizes B. prices C. colours D. kinds

16. A. hard B. easy C. glad D. ready

17. A. look out B. go out C. die out D. take out

18. A. helps B. worries C. excites D. saves

19. A. afraid B. worried C. tired D. hopeful

20. A. danger B. trouble C. beauty D. noise

三、阅读理解(本大题共15小题，每小题2分，共30分)

请阅读A、B两篇短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案，并在答题卡上将对应选项涂黑。

China's Team at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games ——A Guide for Fans

Time: Sept.19-Oct.4, 2026

Team in numbers Total delegation (代表团): 1,274 members Sports players: 815 Average age: 24 First-timers: 548 sports players (nearly two-thirds) are making their Asian Games debut Events:38 sports,369 events

The "633" Strategy (策略)——12 sports in three groups Six traditional strengths: diving, gymnastics, weightlifting, shooting, table tennis, badminton Three foundational sports: athletics, swimming, water sports Three major ball sports: football, basketball, volleyball

Why it matters: China wants to build itself into a sports powerhouse and to prepare for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

21. How long will the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games last?

A. About one week  B. About two weeks

C. About three weeks  D. About a month

22. How many sports players does China send to the Asian Games?

A. 1,274 B. 815 C. 548 D. 369

23. Which of the following belongs to the "Six traditional strengths"?

A. Swimming B. Football C. Table tennis D. Athletics

24. What does the underlined word "debut" in the passage mean?

A. first appearance B. final match C. training plan D. great success

25. Who is this passage mainly written for?

A. Chinese athletes  B. Sports lovers

C. Sports coaches  D. Foreign reporters

B

阅读下列短文及文后A-E选项，选出可以填入26-30各题空白处的最佳选项。

For hundreds of years, a simple question has puzzled people: which came first, the chicken or the egg? It sounds like a silly question, but science has now given us an answer.    26  

The key to the puzzle is that animals change slowly over time. The chicken we know today is the result of thousands of years of small changes.    27    People started to keep these birds about 8,000 years ago, and each new generation brought small changes.

So there was never a single moment when the" first chicken" suddenly appeared.

But if we really must draw a line somewhere, scientists say it would be inside an egg.    28    The bird growing inside was close enough to be called a chicken. So that egg existed before the chicken that hatched from it.

   29    Scientists say that animals began laying eggs about 540 million years ago—long before any chicken walked on the earth.

To sum up,    30    Look at the long story of life on our planet: the egg appeared in this story hundreds of millions of years before the chicken. It also shows that nature is a slow process.

A. The egg is part of a very old story of life.

B. Its wild ancestors were birds from Southeast Asia.

C. According to the best research, the answer is the egg.

D. Actually, eggs have a much longer history than chickens.

E. At some point, two non-chickens (还不算鸡的鸟) produced an egg with new DNA.

C

配对阅读。左栏五位同学的情况介绍，右栏是关于音乐的好处的介绍。请为每位同学选择最合适的一项，并在答题卡上将对应选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。