2020-2021学年上海市浦东新区南片十五校联合体八年级下学期期末英语试题（学生版）

2020-2021学年上海市浦东新区南片

十五校联合体八年级（下）期末英语试卷

Part 2 Phonetic, Vocabulary and Grammar（第二部分语音、词汇和语法）共40分

I. Choose the best answers（选择最恰当的答案）（16分）

1. A drop of water travelled a long way and ran into ________ Huangpu River.

A. a B. an C. the D. /

2. Some students have shared their travel experiences. Would you like to share ________?

A. you B. yourselves C. your D. yours

3. There is little ________ we can use.

A. information B. suggestion C. choice D. chemical

4. Paris is one of ________ in the world.

A. the most beautiful city B. beautiful cities C. the most beautiful cities D. more beautiful cities

5. ________ terrible mess it is outside!

A. How B. What a C. What an D. What

6. Be careful ________ the colourful worms. They are harmful.

A. for B. with C. to D. on

7. The museum is just 500 metres ahead. You ________ go by taxi.

A. mustn’t B. can’t C. needn’t D. oughtn’t to

8. They agreed ________ another meeting in one week’s time.

A. to hold B. holding C. held D. hold

9. ________ everyone is here let’s start our work.

A. Until B. Now that C. Although D. So that

10. The reporter asked the children ________.

A. how many trees they have planted B. how many trees had they planted

C. how many trees have they planted D. how many trees they had planted

11. The piece of music sounds so ________ that the baby falls asleep.

A. beautifully B. nicely C. nice D. well

12. I woke up when my alarm clock ________.

A. went out B. went off C. went up D. took off

13. I feel like ________ out in such a pleasant day.

A. going B. went C. to go D. gone

14. He took out a pair of stockings. One was white, but ________ was black.

A. other B. the other C. others D. another

15. The mountains ________ with trees in a few years.

A. are covered B. are covering C. will cover D. will be covered

16. ________ spread your wings and visit France?

A. Why don’t B. How about C. What about D. Why not

II. Choose the proper words and expressions to complete the passage（8分）

将下列单词填入空格，每空格限填一词，词只能填一次，用A，B，C，D或E表示。

It was a bright Saturday and we were sitting in a modern restaurant. We were all students together many, many years ago. We had finished the noodles at the end of the ___17___, when the monitor said, “Let’s take it in turns to ___18___ our experiences.”

Cathy started, “I have travelled a lot. I have visited many ___19___ because of my work. I have seen the River Amazon and seen the snow in Canada. I’ve also been riding on a camel in the Arabian Desert.”

Joyce said, “I have been very ___20___ and am rich. I have opened many businesses, worked hard and had plenty of good ideas. So if you need help in doing business, I’ll always be glad to give you a hand.”

“Well, I have done a lot of good things. I ___21___ people in hospital, raised money for the hospital’s services and helped people.” said Ricky.

Next was Ken. Once he was a ___22___ little boy. Now he was a serious older man with heavy glasses and not much hair. “I have worked in a science research center. I have been busy in my laboratory day after day. I have always been thinking about the future and helping us ___23___ it. Then there was silence.

“So what about you, Mary? ”

Mary smiled ___24___. “I have done everything you have done.” “How can that be?”

“I have travelled all around the world and into space and into the past and many other wonderful things all through the world of books...”

III. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms.（用所给单词的适当形式填空, 每空格限填一词）.（6分）

25. Electricity is a good ____ but a dangerous one. （serve）

26. The factory will ____ electric cars in the future. (product)

27. My parents were very ____ with my work. They praised me a lot. （pleasure）

28. The new technology ____ us to drive without drivers. (able)

29. I made a ____ to further study abroad. (decide)

30. Our leader showed the foreign guests around the company ____.（personal）

IV Rewrite the sentences as required.（按要求改写句子, 每空格限填一词）：（10分）

31. Tom could hardly believe his luck when he won the game. (改反意疑问句)

Tom could hardly believe his luck when he won the game, ____?

32. The latest mobile phone is my class teacher’s. (保持句意基本不变)

The latest mobile phone ____ my class teacher.

33. Do you know? How do trees communicate with one another? （合并为一句）

Do you know ____ trees ____ with one another?

34. Jenny’s skirt is the most fashionable of the three. (对划线部分提问)

____ skirt ____ the most fashionable of the three?

35. hard, is, to imagine, it, without electricity, the life （连词成句）

__________________________.

Part 3 Reading and writing（第三部分 阅读和写话）共35分

V Reading comprehension（阅读理解）：

A. Choose the best answer（根据短文内容, 选择最恰当的答案。）：（5分）

Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big job. Every day, trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can not eat or use. If we kept these things, we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.

In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of a city to a dump. Often the city dump is a place where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places.

To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or school may be built there, and then you’d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.

In other cities, the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where they are slowly changed into something called humus(腐殖质), which looks like black earth. It is rich with the kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow.

36. You can most probably read the passage in ________.

A. a newspaper B. a TV guide C. a history book D. a note book

37. The underlined word “dump” in the passage means ________.

A. 水厂 B. 填埋场 C. 发电厂 D. 游乐场

38. When fire is used to burn rubbish, everything is burnt and ________.

A. nothing is left B. everything disappears C. metal is left D. black earth is left

39. According to the passage, humus can be used to ________.

A. feed plants B. feed animals C. make machines D. build a house

40. The main idea of the passage is to ________.

A. let us know taking away the rubbish is a big job

B. explain the need for rubbish collection

C. tell people to take useful things out of rubbish

D. introduce different ways to treat rubbish

B. Choose the best answer and complete the passage.（6分）

根据文章内容，选择最恰当的答案。

A man feared his wife wasn’t hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need a ___41___. So one day he discussed it with his family doctor. The doctor told him about a simple test he could use to get a better idea about her hearing loss.

“Here’s what you do,” said the doctor. “Stand about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal conversational speaking tone(语调) see if she ___42___ you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet and so on until you get a ___43___.

That evening, the man’s wife is in the ___44___ cooking dinner, and he is in the yard. “I’m about 40 feet away,” he says to himself in a low voice. “Let’s see what happens.”

Then in a normal tone, he asks, “Honey, what’s for dinner today?” No response.

So the husband moves ___45___, about 30 feet from his wife and asks again, “Honey, what’s for dinner today?” Still no response.

Next he moves into the dining room where he is about 20 feet from his wife and asks, “Honey, what’s for dinner today?” Again, he got no response.

He walks up to the kitchen door about 10 feet away. “Honey, what’s for dinner today?” Again there was no response.

He walks right up behind her. “Honey, what’s for dinner today?”

“James, for the ___46___ time, chicken!”

41. A. stick B. hearing aid C. glasses D. knife

42. A. sees B. touches C. hears D. defeats

43. A. reply B. newspaper C. gift D. rest

44. A. living room B. study C. kitchen D. garden

45. A. farther B. closer C. faster D. earlier

46 A. second B. third C. fourth D. fifth

C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.（7分）

根据首字母填空，每空格限填一词。

As we grow up, we gradually have a set of our own values. They are influenced by society, our family, the education we receive and so on. Once this value system is set up, it is not easy to c___47___ later in life. According to our different values, financial（金融的）experts put us in t___48___ groups. They are the ant, the cricket（蟋蟀）and the snail（蜗牛）.

The ant—work first

Just like ants who work very hard in summer in order to store food for w___49___, these people don’t care about enjoying the moment. They work hard and save money. They will have enough money to enjoy life when they get old.

The cricket—f___50___ first.

The cricket wants to enjoy everything now and doesn’t think too much about the future. They even b___51___ money when they really want something but they are short of money. Many young people now are in this group. These people have little savings. When they get old they might have no money to live c___52___. They should learn to save and buy insurance.

The snail—living under pressure.

The snail refers to people who make life difficult for themselves. They take big long-term loans（贷款）from the bank in order to buy things such as expensive houses. Sometimes they can’t afford it. This can cause p___53___ in the future. They should plan more carefully.

D. Answer the question（根据短文内容, 回答下列问题）：（7分）

 Eyes are die mirrors of the soul. It is very important to protect our eyesight. Listed below are some tips for you:

• The easiest way to protect our eyesight in daily life is to do eye exercises, which can allay (减轻)the tiredness of your eyes.

• Get yourself enough sleep and don’t stay-too late at night, for lack of sleep will result in pseudomyopia (假性近视).

• Don’t watch TY work on the computer, play electronic games or read books for too long a time. You have to get your eyes rest in every one or two hours.

• Going out for activities regularly. Looking to the distance from a high place will get your eye muscles relaxed, which can prevent myopia. Keep close contact with the nature, where its green mountains and rivers can bring you joy and relax. So let’s get out, get health.

• Get balanced nutrition. Eat some foods which is good for your eyes in the right amount, such as animal livers, vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin A.

Every time I look into the night sky,

I saw hazy stars,

Someone told me it is hazy beauty,

But when I put on my glasses,

The very night sky _______

With stars twinkling and moon smiling,

My world was lighted up.

54. Protecting our eyesight is very important, isn’t it?  

___________________

55. What is the easiest way to protect our eyesight in daily life?

___________________

56. Why staying too late at night is bad for our eyesight?

___________________

57. According to the passage, what foods are good for eyes?

___________________

58. Complete the sentence.

The very night sky _________.

59. How do you protect your eyesight? Please introduce your two methods.

___________________

VI Writing（共10分）

60. Write at least 60 words on the topic：A Change in me

花开花落，岁月如梭。我在成长的过程中历经了不少变化。请描述自己的一次亲身经历，以“我的变化”为题，写一篇不少于60个单词的短文，要求内容适切，意思连贯，标点符号不占格。

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