广东红岭实验学校等学校2026-2027学年第一学期期中质量检测八年级英语试题

2026-2027学年第一学期期中质量检测

八年级  英语

说明：1.答题前，务必将自己的姓名、学号等填写在答题卷规定的位置上。

2.考生必须在答题卷上按规定作答：凡在试卷、草稿纸上作答的，其答案一律无效。

3.全卷共6页，考试时间70分钟，满分75分。

第一部分  选择题(50分)

Ⅰ.完形填空(10分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上相应的字母编号涂黑。(共10小题，每小题1分)

Tom used to finish his homework in ten minutes. He just typed the questions into an AI app, and the answers came out at once.

Tom thought the app was so ___1___ that it could answer any question. He ___2___ it for everything. “Why should I spend hours on homework?” he often said. His teacher, Mr. Li, ___3___ him that the app could not learn for him, but Tom did not listen.

One Friday, Mr. Li gave a test, and no phones were allowed. Tom looked at the first question, but his mind went blank. He could only ___4___ a few words on the paper.

After class, Mr. Li asked him to stay. “The app can give you answers, but it cannot think for you,” he said. “Try to solve the problems by yourself first, and use the app only to ___5___ your answers.”

Tom decided to follow Mr. Li’s ___6___. At first, it was hard. Some maths problems took him nearly an hour. Instead of asking the app, he discussed the hard problems with his classmates. They were happy to share their ___7___ with him. Slowly, his attitude (态度) towards learning became more ___8___, and he began to enjoy finding answers on his own.

At the end of the term, Tom’s marks went up ___9___, from 65 to 92. Mr. Li smiled and said, “Now the knowledge is really yours.”

Digital tools bring us many ____10____, but we should not let them think for us. Like a map, they can show us the way, but we still have to walk the road by ourselves.

1. A. tiny B. modern C. original D. intelligent

2. A. paid for B. laughed at C. depended on D. agreed with

3. A. warned B. ordered C. challenged D. interviewed

4. A. add B. avoid C. write D. notice

5. A. copy B. check C. count D. create

6. A. record B. advice C. symbol D. message

7. A. snacks B. effects C. laptops D. opinions

8. A. calm B. brave C. friendly D. positive

9. A. sharply B. exactly C. currently D. completely

10. A. doubts B. systems C. benefits D. challenges

Ⅱ.阅读理解(40分)

第一节  阅读选择

阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将相应字母编号涂黑。(共15小题，每小题1.5分)

A

What do you do when you meet a new Chinese character? Many of us look it up in the Xinhua Dictionary. The dictionary goes back to 1953. Over the past 70 years, editors changed and improved it more than ten times. It is one of the best-selling books in China, with over 700 million copies. In 2026, its 13th version (版本) came out, and it is different from the old ones in many ways.

The new version keeps up with the times. The editors added some new words, meanings and examples. At the same time, they took out some obsolete ones. One of them was the name of an old law. China stopped using that law in 2021, so the dictionary no longer needed it.

The new version is also friendly to students. Some of the new characters come from school textbooks, such as a hard character in a famous poem by Li Bai. All the characters are still in alphabetical order by their pinyin, so they are easy to find.

What’s more, the dictionary works well with phones. Every page has a QR code (二维码). Use it and you can hear how to say a character, watch how to write it stroke (笔画) by stroke and learn more about it. Without the book, the Xinhua Dictionary app or its WeChat mini program also helps you look up words.

A dictionary may look small, but it records the big changes of a country. Next time you meet a new word, why not look it up and learn something new?

11. What do we know about the Xinhua Dictionary from Paragraph 1?

A. It first came out in 2026.

B. Its editors changed it every year.

C. There are over 700 million copies.

D. It is the best dictionary in the world.

12. What does the underlined word “obsolete” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A. No longer used in daily life. B. Wrong in spelling or meaning.

C. Hard for young students to read. D. Too long for a small dictionary.

13. What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

A. The editors care about students’ needs.

B. Li Bai’s poems are too hard for students.

C. Pinyin is the easiest way to find characters.

D. Students don’t use paper dictionaries anymore.

14. How can students learn to write a character according to Paragraph 4?

A. By checking its pinyin first. B. By reading the notes about it.

C. By asking friends on WeChat. D. By using the QR code on its page.

15. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The steps to use a dictionary app.

B. New words in a Chinese dictionary.

C. The history of Chinese dictionaries.

D. The new version of the Xinhua Dictionary.

B

In July 2026, Wang Hong received the Fields Medal (菲尔兹奖), one of the greatest honours in maths. Together with Deng Yu, she became one of the first two Chinese winners of the prize and only the third woman in history to win it. Her road to success was far from easy, but her deep love for maths kept her going.

Wang’s love for maths began when she was very young. Her parents, who were both teachers, let her learn in her own way. She usually read her new textbooks before each term started. She also went to bookshops to look for harder maths problems that she could work on alone. A problem about seven trees once made her fall in love with