1、 八年级下学期英语期末试卷一、单项填空(本题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分)1Have you tried _ new dish Chocolate Planet in Sunny Restaurant? Yes, it was wonderful and I like it. AaBanCtheD/2Do you know throwing beanbags? Its a traditional Chinese game for kids. It _ interesting. Can we play it right now?AfeelsBsoundsClooksDtastes3Will
2、Messi go to MCI or PSG next season? _. He will stay in FCB.ABothBEitherCNeitherDNone4I need a piano. You see, its my _ to be a musician. Oh, you can ask your parents to buy one for you and take courses. AdreamBhobbyCvalueDlesson5Im afraid that I wont pass the exam. Take it easy! Just look on the _ s
3、ide. AprivateBcrazyCcoolDbright6I have got a stomach ache, doctor.Can you _ the painful area?Apoint outBpull fromCmake upDtake up7Chinese scientist Yuan Longping _ his students to do lots of researches on hybrid rice. Yes, he is such a great scientist that people around the world respect him. AledBc
4、reatedCformedDtreated8The cartoon Stand by Me Doraemon 2 is on these days. I think its the best one. Really? I _ it. I cant wait to see it.Adidnt seeBwont seeCdont seeDhavent seen9Have you heard of the accident in Nanjing? I want to know _. Last Saturday. Ahow it happenedBwhen it happenedCif anyone
5、got hurtDwhy the man was so crazy10I saw a video about Dingzhen on Weibo._. This video is popular on the Internet.ANot reallyBWhat a pityCI knew thatDIm afraid not二、完形填空(本题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分)阅读下面短文，掌握大意，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。Mike is a cameraman who works for SFX News. It was the second time this w
6、eek that his boss, Mr. Frank, was 11 with him.Mike walked slowly into the office. Mr. Frank threw a video at the door. Well, this isnt 12 . Go away and film something that hits me here. He put his hand on his 13 . This is your last chance, Mr. Frank said.Mike walked slowly out of Mr. Franks office.
7、He 14 a newspaper, seeing a photo of a volcano*in Hawaii. Later that day, He took a plane to Hawaii. But as the plane got closer, the sky got very dark. At the airport, some reporters were 15 Hawaii, getting on a plane in panic*. A girl told him the volcano was erupting*and asked him to go with her,
8、 16 he said he had to film exciting news. Well, look out for my friend Jenny who has big blue eyes, telling her to leave the island. said the girl.After two long hours, Mike was on the volcano. He filmed the smoke and the fire. A big rock nearly hit him but he filmed it. Suddenly, he saw 17 moving b
9、ehind a rock. He went to the rock and found a young woman with blue eyes, who couldnt move her leg under the rock. He thought she must be Jenny. He pushed the rock hard and saved her 18 .When they were off the volcano, Mike thought he 19 his last chance because he had left his camera on the volcano.
10、 However, he 20 thought Jenny was more important than his camera. To his surprise, Mr. Frank called him to work and watched the film on TV. Mr. Frank said, This video hits meright here!11AangryBcrazyCnervousDsatisfied12AvideoBnewsCtreasureDstudio13AheadBheartCfaceDshoulder14Atook upBwoke upCtidied u
11、pDpicked up15AenteringBmissingCleavingDpassing16AandBorCsoDbut17AanythingBsomethingCeverythingDnothing18AactivelyBcompletelyCsuccessfullyDseriously19AlostBcaughtCwonDwasted20AhardlyBstillCalreadyDsuddenly三、阅读理解（本题有15小题, 每小题各2分，共30分)阅读理解Helping others is a great thing to do. You can learn new things
12、and have fun. You can help people, animals or the environment. It can make you feel good too! How can you help?VolunteeringVolunteering is when you give your time to help others. Some ways of volunteering are:visiting old people to talk to them or help themwalking dogs at an animal sheltercleaning u
13、p a park.FundraisingFundraising is when you collect money to help others. Some ways of fundraising are:making cakes or cookies to selldoing a sponsored activity. For example, family and friends give you money if you finish a long walk.DonatingDonating is when you give your things to help others. Som
14、e ways of donating are:giving your old toys or clothes to a charity*that helps sick children or poor peoplegiving your old books to a library.21How many kinds of ways of helping others are mentioned in the passage? AThree.BFour.Cfive.DSix.22What does sponsored activity mean in Chinese? A志愿活动B义卖活动C捐物
15、活动D赞助活动23Which of the following can be a way of volunteering? AGiving your clothes to a charity.BOffering help in a library.CDoing some cleaning at home.DMaking dumplings to sell.阅读理解Everyone loves a holiday! A little time off for some rest can be perfect. Thats said, if youre trying to choose your
16、next place to visit, dont waste time thinking, let your blood decide.Today more and more people are interested in finding out their family origins. By the start of 2019, 26 million people had taken an ancestry DNA test, according to a report by MIT Technology Review. They believe by 2021this number
17、will have risen to 100 million.Some travel companies have noticed this. So they are trying to provide a service that both allows people to find out the history and traditions of their family origins and travel to the places their ancestries come from.Airbnb, an online home-stay marketplace, is worki
18、ng with 23& Me, a DNA testing company, to encourage travellers to walk in the footsteps of their ancestries. And they arent the only ones. Helen Kelly in the Shelnourne hotel in Dublin gives advice to help guests find their line of family origins using the results of DNA tests. This allows them to f
19、ill in the empty part of their ancestry, she said. The Conte Club, another travel company, offers people travel plans with their DNA tests. These experiences are about exploring deeper into who we really are, says Conte Club CEO Rebecca Fielding. It might be the most meaningful trip we can take. So
20、next time you think of going on vacation, why not take a DNA test first? Once you know how far your family has come, take the time to holiday back.24What does the underlined word this in Paragraph 3 refer to? AEveryone wants to have a perfect holiday.BPeople choose the place to visit by their blood.
21、CThe number of people to find out family origins is rising.DMore and more people are interested in taking a vacation.25_can help if you want to take an ancestry DNA test. AAirbnb.B23 & Me.CThe Shelnourne hotel.DThe Conte Club.26What can we know from the words of Rebecca Fielding? APeople need to tak
22、e a DNA test before taking a trip.BPeople can surely find out who they are by taking a trip.CPeople wont regret taking a trip to find out the family origins.DPeople have interests in doing DNA tests to find out who they are.27Which of the following can be the best title? AHave an Ancestry TripBTake
23、a DNA TestCRun a Travel CompanyDChoose a Travel Service阅读理解The sun seems to be a quiet and helpful star. It brings the world light and helps plants grow. However, our nearest star is really a super hot ball of gas, with a stormy surfacetemperature of 11, 000.The sun is 93 million miles away. Even so
24、, the stormy solar weather can cause problems on Earth. Solar storms can cut off electricity, and phone service. Even the satellites will get out of their way because of the solar storms. Scientists want to know more about how the sun causes these problems. Luckily, they have a lot of help from some
25、 amazing space probes.Since December, 1995 the SOHO probe has been going around the sun. SOHO takes close-up photos of the sun. And it has discovered the gas that is deep inside the sun. The gas may help explain the suns 11-year cycle. Every 11 years the number of sunspots and flares on the sun incr
26、eases. Sunspots are cooler patcheson the suns surface. They look like dark spots. Flares are energycoming from the sun and then goes into the space. Sunspots and flares can cut off communications on Earth. They can be also harmful for astronauts in space.The ACE probe is also giving information to E
27、arth. ACEs job is to search the solar wind by following it. This is a group of particles that come out from the sun. The particles are 2, 000, 000! The solar wind changes weather on all the planets, including Earth.Scientists have learned much about the sun. The star is more than just a silent one.
28、We thought the inside of the sun was simple in the past, says scientist John Harvey. But that was before we were able to see into it.28When solar storms happen, people can _ without any problems. Awatch TVBmake phone callsCgo onlineDread newspapers29The ACE probe is a machine that _. Atries to find
29、the solar windBtakes photos of the earthChas worked for nearly 26 yearsDdiscovered the gas inside the sun30What can we learn from the passage? AThe sun is a quiet star with light and plants.BStormy solar weather has 11 cycles every year.CSunspots and flares can cause problems on Earth.DThe solar win
30、d has a high temperature of 11, 000.31According to the passage, we know that scientists _.Aknow more about the sun than beforeBgot many ways to look into the sun in the pastCthink the sun is as simple as they thought beforeDbelieve there is no need to take a look at the sun阅读理解Bella was a young woma
31、n of great beauty, and even more beautiful when she was smiling and laughing. She fell in love with James and then married him. James was a painter who was already famous for his art. And he was always studying and working. The great love of his life was his work and his painting.His beautiful young
32、 wife was playful, full of life and light and smiles, as loving as a child when they just got married. But later Bella began to worry and she didnt like anything about painting because it kept him away from her, hour after hour.So it was a terrible thing for Bella when James said he wanted to paint
33、a picture of her. But she agreed because she loved him and wanted to please him.For many weeks she sat in a dark high room where the light from above fell onto the painting and onto her. Day after day，Bella sat in silence, not moving, not speaking. But she went on smiling and smiling because she saw
34、 that James loved his work so much.James painted hour after hour, not speaking a word, thinking only of his work. People who saw the painting looked and said softly. It is your finest work. Oh, you do love your wife dearly! We can see this in the painting. And it was true. But James did not look at
35、Bella now. He went on working, thinking and dreaming only of the painting and never of his wife. Day by day Bella looked more and more unhappy, and finally lost her hope that her husband would have a look at her. Bellas face and body were now thin, but James did not see it. James took the warm colou
36、r from Bellas face, and painted it into the face in his painting - but he could not, he would not see it.After many weeks, James finished the painting of Bella. One last touch of paint on the mouth, a last touch to the eye. He stood back and looked at the painting of Bella. How wonderful it was! He
37、cried out with a loud voice, This is LIFE itself She LIVES in this painting!. And he turned suddenly to look at the woman he loved. She was dead!32What was the terrible thing for Bella? AShe had to marry the painter.BShe was more beautiful than others.CJames offered to paint a picture of her.DJames
38、painted in a dark high room.33Which of the following best show the changes of Bella? AHappy-worried-silent-hopeless.BHappy-silent-angry-hopeless.CHopeless-worried-silent-happy.DHopeless-silent-angry-happy.34What did James mean by saying This is LIFE itself She LIVES in this painting!? ABella looked
39、pale in the painting.BHe was really thankful to her wife.CBella should have a life of painting.DHis painting was perfectly true to life.35What do you think of James in the story?四、词汇运用(本题有15小题，每小题1分，共15分)用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。每词限用一次。avoid kilometer invite herself sour36How many is Wenzhou from Cangnan?37I
40、 always encourage my daughter to feel sure of .38The milk has gone overnight, so you can not drink it.39Try to going to crowded places because of coronavirus.40I dont know if Lucy will come to my birthday party, although I her twice.根据短文内容和所给中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式，每空词数不限。George always wanted to have a h
41、oliday in space. He planned to pay millions of 41 (美元) to make his dream come true. Before his travel, he tried to be in excellent 42 (状况)because he had to be ready for the changes in space. A machine made him turn round and round until he felt 43 (极讨厌的, 极坏的). And he had to run in a small room that
42、did not have much air. His special training 44 (持续) three months.When he with two astronauts took the rocket and 45 (到达) the space station safely, all his family and friends felt really 46 (自豪的) of him. One thing he loved on the station was looking at Earth from space. It looked so beautiful that he
43、 wanted 47 (发送，派遣) a message from space. He wanted people to think about how important the environment is for everyone on the earth. He 48 _(期盼) people to take care of the earth as well.One day, 49 (可能，也许) more people will go for a space holiday. Scientists are working hard on it. There could be a 5
44、0 (宇宙飞船) for short trips, then people could see the Earth, the Moon and stars from space.五、书面表达(本题有1小题，共15分)51学期即将结束，你校英语校报举行“我的期末小结”征文比赛，旨在总结自己在学习、生活、友谊方面的收获或改变，请你选择其中两个方面写一篇100词左右的短文并投稿。要求：1）开头已给，不计入总词数;2）文中不得出现真实的人名、校名、地名等。How time flies! This term is drawing to an end. 答案解析部分1【答案】C2【答案】B3【答案】C4【
45、答案】A5【答案】D6【答案】A7【答案】A8【答案】D9【答案】B10【答案】C【答案】11A；12B；13B；14D；15C；16D；17B；18C；19A；20B【答案】21A22D23B【答案】24C25B26C27A【答案】28D29A30C31A【答案】32C33A34D35He loved his work more than his wife. (或者 He didnt love his wife at all. / He only cared about his work and himself.) Because when he was working, he only t
46、hought of the painting but didnt notice the changes of his wife. His wife was so unhappy that she died at last. 【答案】36kilometers/kilometres37herself38sour39avoid40have invited【答案】41dollars；42condition；43awful；44lasted；45reached；46proud；47to send；48expected；49perhaps/maybe；50spaceship/spacecraft51【答案】How time flies! This term is drawing to an e
