1、 八年级上学期英语期末考试八年级上学期英语期末考试 一、语法选择（共两部分一、语法选择（共两部分, 15, 15 小题小题; ;每小题每小题 1 1 分分, , 满分满分 1515 分）分） 语法选择。阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D项中选出最佳选项。 It is important to exercise your brain. For example, you 1 do new things and change your daily habits. If you walk a different way to school or tak
2、e a different bus, you 2 your brain active. You can try to memorize 3 new. You can try a Maths puzzle. You can also try to learn new skills or study a foreign language. Your brain gets lots of regular exercise if you do any of these things. If you live a healthy life, your memory will work 4 . You m
3、ust have a balanced diet. You must give your brain enough time to rest. 5 you get enough sleep every night, you will not remember things well. 1Awill Bcan Cused to Dhave to 2Akeep Bare keeping Chave kept Dwill keep 3Aanything Bsomething Cnothing Deverything 4Abetter Bbest Cthe best Dgood 5AIf BWhen
4、CBecause DUnless 语法选择。阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D项中选出最佳选项。 I want to share my life in China. I have been a doctoral student in the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 6 2017. My study in China gives me a chance to explore a country which is 7 from the one Ive lear
5、ned from TV and books. I am very happy with my decision to come to study here. However, things didnt go as 8 as I expected in the beginning. The first difficulty was the Chinese language. When I 9 in China I felt lonely and had trouble with the language. Later on, my Chinese friends introduced me 10
6、 a rich culture during the Spring Festival. Some numbers such as six and eight are believed to be lucky by Chinese people. While 11 like the number four and fourteen are disliked by people. For example, 666is seen as an excellence and a wish for good luck in China. In daily life, I was impressed by
7、Chinas transportation system. It is worth 12 by other countries, especially shared bicycles and electric motor bikes. 13 addition, China is one of the countries with the largest number of smartphone users. Internet is widely used everywhere. It is said that the phone is 14 sense for every Chinese. I
8、 15 a great time in China for these years. I can only pray for a long stay in this country and hope for more chances to learn about the fantasy land-China. 6Ain Bfor Cfrom Dsince 7Adifference Bdifferent Cdifferently Ddifferences 8Awell Bgood Cbetter Dbest 9Ahave arrived Barrives Carrived Darriving 1
9、0Awith Babout Cto Dof 11Aanother Bother Cthe other Dothers 12Ato learn Blearning Clearn Dlearns 13AOn BAt CIn DFrom 14Athe six Bthe sixth Csix Dsixth 15Ahave Bhad Chave had Dare having 二、完形填空（共二、完形填空（共 1010 小题小题; ;每小题每小题 1 1 分分, , 满分满分 1010 分）分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项。 A long time
10、ago in ancient China, there lived an emperor and his wife. The emperor built his wife a very beautiful garden. She 16 much of her time there, sewing and chatting with her ladies in waiting. One day, 17 she was in her garden, a cocoon fell into her tea. She was just about to pour the tea away when sh
11、e noticed something 18 ! The cocoon was unraveling（解开）! It seemed to be a thread. She 19 fished it out of her teacup and called for her dressmaker. Together, they found that the thread could be made into soft, strong cloth. It was very beautiful. Everyone 20 silk to wear. But it took time for silkwo
12、rms to make enough silk thread. To save the silkworms, the emperors wife asked the emperor to ell the people that 21 could only be worn by the royal family. No one knows if the story is true, but it is true that only the royal family could wear silk clothes for a very long time. Later, nobles（贵族）beg
13、an wearing silk but businessmen and farmers were still not 22 to wear silk. Silk became a 23 product for trade. Emperors, princes, queens and nobles all wanted silk. They were 24 to pay a very high price to get it. Even people from around the world traded it for gold and silver. In order to protect
14、the skill, the ancient Chinese did their best to keep it a 25 for many years. 16Awasted Bspent Csaved Dlost 17Awhen Bafter Cunless Dif 18Asilly Bamazing Cstupid Dusual 19Ahardly Bfinally Ccarefully Dsuddenly 20Abought Bmade Cwanted Dgot 21Acocoon Bthread Cdress Dsilk 22Aallowed Bintroduced Cordered
15、Dchosen 23Avaluable Blucky Cheavy Dcheap 24Aunhappy Bglad Ceasy Dangry 25Atruth Bstory Cfact Dsecret 三、阅读理解（共三、阅读理解（共 4 4 篇篇, , 每小题每小题 2 2 分分, , 满分满分 3030 分）分） 阅读下列短文，从各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项。 The topic of this years English Week was Learning about Writers. Each class chose a famous writer as the k
16、ey topic of the English Week, so a series of English Week activities were also related to the work of this writer. English Week highlights: 1 Mr. Green, a British famous writer, visited us again to bring wonderful stories to the children. 2 Dress up Friday, children took the chance to go into the wo
17、rld of the book, and acted as characters in the work of their class selected writer, enjoying a special and exciting day. 3 There were also different interesting competitions, such as Reading photography competition, English cartoon competition, etc. Visit of a famous foreign writer We invited Mr. G
18、reen to share his reading experience with all teachers and students on November 6th and 7th. At the same time, he also gave a speech on reading for parents on November 6th, with the title of Why we need to read aloud to children and how to do it well. Interesting English Week activities Photo compet
19、itionWe invited parents to take a picture of their children while they were reading a book. It must be one of the works of their classs elected writer. The more creative the photo was, the more likely it was to win. Dress up competitionAll the students dressed up as characters in a novel written by
20、the writer chosen by their class. On Friday, we also presented the best costume award and the best class achievement award. There were many other wonderful activities during English Week, such as English cartoon competition and English speaking competition. We hope every student enjoyed the fun of l
21、earning English through this wonderful English Week activity, and will continue to fall n love with English reading. 26Which activity could you take part in if you were interested in acting? ADress up Friday. BPhoto competition. CEnglish speaking competition. DEnglish cartoon competition. 27What doe
22、s the underlined word It in Paragraph 4 refer to? AThe book. BThe picture. CThe speech. DThe photo competition. 28Why does the writer write the passage? ATo introduce English reading. BTo introduce Mr. Green. CTo introduce Dress up Friday. DTo introduce English Week. 阅读下列短文，从各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项
23、。 Wang Yaping is chosen to take part in the Shenzhou-13 crewed mission, with the spaceship launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Oct. 16th. She becomes the first woman to enter Chinas space station core module Tianhe. Wang was born in 1980 in Shandong Province. She
24、loved jogging and was a basketball player in the school team. When I was young, my world was small, Wang recalled. My dream was much more simple: to go out of the village and to pay back all that my parents had given me. Her space dream started in 2003 when China sent its first taikonaut Yang Liwei
25、into space. I watched the bright rocket set on fire on TV, and an idea came into my mind: China now has a male taikonaut, when will there be a female one? Wang said. At that time, she has been a transport aircraft pilot for two years in the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force. After finishing safe fli
26、ghts for 1, 600 hours over nine years, Wang was chosen into the second batch of Chinese taikonauts in 2010 and became a strong candidate（候选人） for Chinas first flight as a female taikonaut. However, she did not pass her final tests and Liu Yang was named the first female taikonaut. Wang did not lose
27、heart but trained even harder. The candidate always ran three circles more than others in physical courses, and she asked to train in the pressure room for extra 30 minutes each time. Her efforts finally came to success. Wang became a crew member of the Shenzhou-10 space mission in 2013, and she ear
28、ned the title of Chinas first space teacher after giving a lesson to students from an orbit more than 300 km above the Earths surface. Wangs ponytail, smiling face and soft-spoken voice attracted millions of hits on social media, where she has been known as a space heroine. 29In what order did the f
29、ollowing events take place? a. Wang took part in the Shenzhou-10 space mission. b. Wang joined the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force. c. Wang gave a lesson to students from space in 2013. d. Wang became a crew member of the Shenzhou-13 crewed mission. e. Wang became a member of the second batch of C
30、hinese tikonauts. Ab-e-a-c-d Bb-a-e-d-c Ca-b-e-c-d Da-b-c-e-d 30What can we know about Wang Yaping from the passage? AWang Yaping was named the first female taikonaut. BWang Yaping was born in a city in Shandong Province. CWang Yaping has taken part in the Shenzhou mission twice. DWang Yaping took p
31、art in the Shenzhou-13 mission when she was 37. 31What does the underlined word extra in paragraph 5 mean? Aabout Bfewer Cmore Dless 32What can be the best title of the passage? AThe first female taikonaut BWang Yaping and Liu Yang CA space heroine-Wang Yaping DThe Shenzhou-13 crewed mission 阅读下列短文，
32、从各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项。 Smartphones are popular among middle school students, who use them mainly to surf social media platforms, according to a research made by China Youth Daily. More than 93% of parents had given smartphones to their children in middle schools for daily use and 57% of responde
33、nts said they used them to visit social media. Keeping in touch with teachers came in at 48% and the same number of students used them to play online games, while 47% watched videos and listened to music, the research said. More than 30% of parents said they failed to guide their children on the rat
34、ional use of the devices and 39% said childrens smartphone use was opposite to their original intentions. Last year, a report found that 175 million minors regularly used the Internet. It noted that 94%went online with mobile phones, while 57% also used TV sets. Desktops came in at 45%, with laptops
35、 at 32% and tablets at 29%. The report, based on a research of 34, 661 middle school students, found that 33%of the students had surfed the Internet before school age and 65% of young Internet users had taught themselves the necessary skills. Online games and novels have become important social topi
36、cs with young students and they do not want to be left out among their peers, Sun said. The reason some parents fail to control their childrens smartphone use is that they also use them too much, she added. (To be continued) 33What do over half of the middle school students use smartphones to do? AP
37、lay online games. BSurf social media platforms. CWatch videos. DKeep in touch with teachers. 34What can we learn about middle school students from the passage? AThey spend more time listening to music than watching videos. BThey spend more time watching videos platforms than playing online games. CT
38、hey spend more time keeping in touch with teachers than surfing social media platforms. DThey spend the same amount of time playing games as communicating with teachers. 35How did most middle school students go online according to the report? ABy using TV sets. BBy using laptops. CBy using smartphon
39、es. DBy using desktops. 36What may be talked about in the next paragraph of the passage? AAdvice for parents. BThe developments of smartphones. CThe advantages of using smartphones. DThe disadvantages of using smartphones. 阅读下列短文，从各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项。 Ever since ancient times, its been importan
40、t to keep in mind proper gift-giving manners when giving presents to your Chinese friends or family. If you dont know much about traditional Chinese gifting customs, t could end up making you, or the receiver, feel bad. So, what should you pay attention to when choosing the right gift? To begin with
41、, there are a few key factors to consider（考虑）. Firstly, because mianzi (giving and saving face) is important in Chinese culture, its necessary to consider the cost of the gift wont make the receiver feel uncomfortable Secondly, you should choose a useful gif. Thirdly, avoid gifts that are considered
42、 unlucky, like clocks, umbrellas and pears. In Chinese, to give a clock sounds like to attend a funeral, umbrella sound like split up, and pear sounds like to leave. In addition, its important to understand the types of gifts that are usually exchanged in China. The first is fresh fruit and flowers.
43、 Fruit and flowers are popular in most situations. The second common gift is tea in an attractive tin or wrapper（包装）. The third common gift is red envelopes filled with cash. These are often given out for birthdays, weddings and the Spring Festival. Six, eight and nine are considered lucky numbers i
44、n China, while four is considered unlucky because it sounds like death. The fourth common gift in China is plants. If your Chinese friend just moved to a new home or spends a lot of time in their office, a plant is a good choice for a gift. Finally, its important to be mindful when choosing the colo
45、r of your gift. During happy occasions, Chinese people prefer the color red because it means cheer, fortune and good luck. During funerals, white and black colors are used to express remembrance and respect. If youre planning to give a gift to a Chinese person, keep in mind the above as a helpful gu
46、ide. No matter what kind of gift you give, its always the thought that counts. 37Which of the following is the proper gift for visiting a friend in China? AA beautiful clock. BSome fresh fruit and flowers. CA red envelope with ￥444 in it. DSome tea without a tin or wrapper. 38What can we learn from
47、the passage? AYou can send a plant to your friend when he moves to a new home. BPears are bad choices because pear sounds like to attend a funeral CChinese people prefer red because it means cheer, good luck and respect. DRed envelopes with cash are often given for funerals, birthdays and the Spring
48、 Festival 39What neednt we pay attention to when choosing the gift? AThe price of the gift. BThe type of the gift. CThe colour of the gift DThe size of the gift. 40In which part of a magazine will you probably read this article? AHistory. BEducation. CCulture. DTravel. 四、阅读填空（共四、阅读填空（共 5 5 小题小题; ;每小
49、题每小题 1 1 分分, , 满分满分 5 5 分）分） 阅读填空 This happened two years ago but remains a lively memory. We sang My Motherland and Me before a huge stage in Beijing Grand Theater. It was my first time in a gathering attended by local officials. 41 I was so excited. 42 I was on a local bus when I first heard it. I
50、 couldnt understand the words but I could follow the tune from memory. 43 We just practised My Motherland and Me until we could remember the Chinese words. The day of the event we all wore red and stood on stage. 44 Our performance would be followed by a group of children who sang Be Brave, a pop so
