广东省广州市南武集团2022-2023学年八年级上学期期中英语试题

2022学年第一学期广州市南武教育集团八年级英语科联合练习题

本试卷共8页，四大题，满分90分。考试用时100分钟。

注意事项：

1、答卷前，考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名、试室号、座位号，再用2B铅笔把对应这两个号码的标号涂黑。

2、选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需要改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。不能答在试卷上。

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4、考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

一、语法选择（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下列短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯性，从1~15小题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

One sunny Monday, I decided to go for a walk with my husband. I was wearing a special diamond ring that day. It was my    1    birthday gift from my grandmother.

As we were walking in the park, I unintentionally (无意地) looked down at my hand and    2    the diamond on my ring was missing. I was really worried, so I went back to look for    3   . I knew how small the chance of finding it was, but I still wanted    4    a try.

As I was fixing my eyes on the ground, 1 ran into (撞到) an old gentleman by accident.

“What’s the matter, love?” he asked    5   .

“Sorry that I ran into you,” I said. “But I lost something. I’m really    6   .” I explained about the missing diamond.

“That’s not going to be easy to find it,” he said. “   7    you what, love, I take a walk here every day. I    8    my eyes open for it.”

I thanked him, expecting    9   . However, a few days later, my husband and I met    10    old man again in the park.

“Guess what,” he said. “I found your diamond !”

I    11    believe what I saw when the gentleman handed the diamond back to me. The old man could have easily kept the diamond or sold it, as it’s worth several thousand dollars.    12    he didn’t.

Now thanks to this man, I’ll spend more time    13    to do something equally nice for other people. All I have to do is to look    14    my ring and remind (提醒)    15    that there are still kind and generous souls out there.

（    ）1. A. twenty-one B. twenty-first C. twentieth-one D. twentieth-first

（    ）2. A. find B. found C. has found D. will find

（    ）3. A. it B. its C. it’s D. itself

（    ）4. A. have B. had C. to have D. having

（    ）5. A. nice B. ni C. nicest D. nicely

（    ）6. A. worried B. worrying C. worries D. worry

（    ）7. A. telling B. Told C. Tell D. To tell

（    ）8. A. keep B. kept C. am keeping D. will keep

（    ）9. A. anything B. nothing C. everything D. something

（    ）10. A. the B. an C. a D. /

（    ）11. A. needn’t B. mustn’t C. couldn’t D. shouldn’t

（    ）12. A. Because B. Or C. So D. But

（    ）13. A. try B. trying C. to try D. tried

（    ）14. A. at B. in C. out D. up

（    ）15. A. I B. my C. mine D. myself

二、完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~25 小题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

Before electric lights were invented, people often relied on the moon as the main source of light at night. Maybe that’s why people everywhere noticed marks on the moon’s    16    and came up with stories to explain them.

The story of the Moon Rabbit, for example, first    17    over two thousand years ago in ancient China. The rabbit lived with the moon goddess Chang e and prepared    18    that gave people long life.

In a Japanese tradition, a rabbit    19    offered itself to feed a hungry beggar. The beggar was actually the Old Man of the Moon. Touched by the rabbit’s kindness, he carried the good    20    back to the moon to live with him.

An old German legend tells of a man who collected firewood on a Sunday instead of going to church. He was  21    by being sent to the moon. He is said to still be there, collecting wood every night and serving as a warning to others.

There are also many    22    stories about the moon. In several Asian countries, children are told not to point at the moon, or their ears would be cut off by a moon spirit. This is because pointing at the moon is considered    23   .

A British belief held that the moon was made of silver. If you bowed to the new moon while turning over the silver coins in your pocket, you could    24    your money. For the same effect, you could stand under the full moon, open your wallet, and repeat the phrase “   25   ” nine times.

Clearly, the moon has a main role in cultures everywhere. What does the moon mean in your culture?

（    ）16. A. surface B. center C. top D. bottom

（    ）17. A. made B. appeared C. lost D. died

（    ）18. A. food B. drinks C. clothing D. medicine

（    ）19. A. carefully B. luckily C. kindly D. angrily

（    ）20. A. tree B. beggar C. house D. animal

（    ）21. A. encouraged B. punished C. developed D. discovered

（    ）22. A. common B. strange C. dangerous D. popular

（    ）23. A. important B. impossible C. impolite D. comfortable

（    ）24. A. double B. lend C. make D. collect

（    ）25.A. give it in B. find it out C. clean it up D. fill it up

三、阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）

第一节 阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从26~40小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

A

Every year, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies from Canada and the United States fly 5,000 kilometers to Michoacan in central Mexico. They arrived at the forest in Michoacan in late October and spent the next five months clustering together in the trees or the ground. The forest are orange and black in those months because of the large number of the butterflies. Sometimes, there are so many of them in a single tree that the tree branches bend or even break.

The forest are now protected by law, and the breathtaking views of the butterflies attract a great many visitors every year. However, the number of monarch butterflies is continuing to reduce mainly due to human activities.

Illegal logging (非法采伐) is one of the major threats to monarch butterflies as it destroys their homes. In 2015, some people cut down trees in a central area in the forests. They had cleared nine hectares(公顷) of trees before being stopped and taken to the police station. However, they were set free only hours later, though they should have been put in prison for five to eight years according to the law.

Another major threat to the butterflies is the use of herbicides (除草剂). Herbicides kill the milkweed--a kind of plant. A monarch butterfly grows on it, from an egg to an adult.

The number of monarch butterflies in Mexico has fallen by more than 80 percent over the past 20years. If we don’t do anything to protect the butterflies, we are likely to lose one of the greatest natural wonders in the near future.

（    ）26. What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?

A. The sights in Michoacan.

B. Introduction about monarch butterflies.

C. The monarch butterflies’ colour.

D. The food that monarch butterflies eat.

（    ）27. What does the underlined word “breathtaking” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Simple. B. Boring. C. Amazing. D. Common.

（    ）28. What mainly causes monarch butterflies in danger?

A. The climate change.  B. Illegal logging

C. The use of herbicides.  D. Both B and C.

（    ）29. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To ask people to protect monarch butterflies.

B. To call on people to visit Michoacan.

C. To describe the dangerous situation of all butterflies.

D. To tell about a great place to watch monarch butterflies.

B

Owls(鹰) are active mainly at night. They search for food when it’s completely dark. Most of us work in the daytime. We hardly ever see owls，but many of us like these night birds very much. Our love for owls has a long history, and it’s in all cultures. There are always some types of artworks or stories about owls. We can also find owls on company logos, in children’s books, etc. So, what is it about owls that makes them so popular?

Some bird researchers believe owls’ popularity largely lies in their “cool” looks. Owls’ eyes are unusual. Both of their eyes can only face the front, so they cannot move their eyes. However, they can turn their heads 240-270 degrees freely. They are far-sighted. That means they can see very well far away, but they can’t see up closely very well. Because of these, they can see things around from far away and search for food easily.

Owls also use sound to search for food. Their cars are lopsided--the left ear is a bit higher than the right ear. A noise goes in one ear before it arrives in the other. This helps owls tell which direction a sound is coming from. To make their sense of hearing even better, the owl’s face acts like a satellite dish for sound waves. Their mouths are small so that they won’t get in the way.

Thanks to such unusual looks and abilities, owls become known as mysterious(神秘的) animals. Many cultures believe that owls are unusually wise. Over the centuries, lots of stories about them have been create              D. These stories have made more people become interested in owls and made these birds become more popular.

（    ）30. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Some stories about owls.

B. Why owls are so popular.

C. Some information about owls’ looks.

D. What the special abilities of owls are.

（    ）31. How does the writer develop Paragraph 2?

A. By telling stories.  B. By listing numbers.

C. By asking questions.  D. By giving examples.

（    ）32.What is true about owls according to the passage?

A. Their eyes are like a satellite dish.

B. Their ears are not the same height.

C. They do better in hearing than in seeing.

D. They can see things clearly from far and near.

（    ）33. In which section of the newspaper would you probably read this passage?

A. Environment. B. News. C. Animals. D. History.

C

（    ）34.What is TRUE about Eric Klabel?

A. He likes eating ice lollies very much.

B. He lives in the world’ s tallest building.

C. He has created a Guinness World Records title.

D. He has built a house in the shape of a pyramid.

（    ）35.What project did Magic Forest start?

A. Tansuo-1 scientific research ship.

B. Using Negev Desert as a training ground.

C. The tallest building made of wooden sticks.

D. Pouring seeds over areas in the south of Croatia.

（    ）36.Why was Israel’s Negev Desert used for Mars training?

A. Because it’s much warmer in the desert.

B. Because Israel has the most astronauts.

C. Because its terrain looks like that on Mars.

D. Because its landscape is very beautiful.

D

Like the light bulb, there are different stories about cars inventing. It largely depends on how exactly the word “automobile” means. The very first vehicle that could transport people, which was powered by steam, was built by a French engineer and army captain named Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. However, it would not be exactly to call it a car, since it was used to transport heavy army equipment. Here, then, is a very clear look at the history of the motor vehicle.

Though the automotive industry was early controlled by American companies, the first gas-powered car was actually created by a German, Karl Benz, in 1885. About ten years later, Ferdinand Porsche invented the first hybrid vehicle. It used both electricity and gas. Interestingly, at that time, electric vehicles were more common than those which ran on gas. There was a problem with them, though. Their high cost put them out of reach of the middle class, and they were considered something expensive. That all changed with Henry Ford’s Model T car, which appeared in 1908 in America. His use of the assembly line (生产线), which he also invented, made it possible to quickly and, even more importantly, cheaply build cars. This enabled Ford to sell his gas-powered cars at a price that was popular with the general public.

Other American car-makers began to successfully copy Ford’s inventions and techniques, resulting in a huge, profitable(有利润的) automobile industry in the United States. Over the years, however, the quality of American-made cars began to decline, leaving the industry easily harmed or hurt in competition from other countries, especially Japan. Japanese car-makers began capturing (占领) the car market in the 1970s because their cars were strong, cheap and saving oil. Since 1980, Japan has been one of the largest producers of automobiles in the world. As for China, it is surely the largest producer of automobiles in the world nowadays.

（    ）37. What can we learn from Paragraph 2?

①In 1885, the first hybrid vehicle was invented.

②The first gas-powered car was created by Karl Benz.

③Vehicles which ran on gas were more common than electric ones.

④The automotive industry was early controlled by Americans.

A.①② B.②④ C.①③ D.②③

（    ）38. How did Henry Ford change the automotive industry?

A. He improved the technology of hybrid cars.

B. He created the first car that was powered by gas.

C. He came up with a cheaper way of producing cars.

D. He helped make electric vehicles popular in America.

（    ）39. Which country produces the most automobiles now?

A. America. B. Germany. C. Japan. D. China.

（    ）40. What may the best title for the passage be?

A. The history of the automobile

B. The advantages of the automobile

C. The importance of the automobile

D. Different ways of making automobiles

第二节 阅读填空（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容将下面五个选项中的句子还原到文中，使短文意思通顺，结构完整。

Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. However, her real life began one day in March of 1887, when she was almost seven years old. 41. _____________________. It was the day when Annie Sullivan came to be her teacher. Sullivan didn’t leave Helen until her death in 1936.

Helen wanted to go to college when she was a little girl. In 1900, she entered Radcliffe College and graduated from there as a good student in 1904. Then she became the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. 42. _________________________.

When she was still at Radcliffe, Helen Keller began the writing career. 43. ______________. In addition to The Story of My Life, she wrote 11 other books and numerous articles on blindness, deafness(聋) and women’s rights.

44. _________________________. She was a visitor to a number of organizations which were operated by IHB (Industrial Home for the Blind). She called on people around the world to focus on the problems of the blind. 45. _____________________________.

四、写作（共3小节，满分30分）

第一节 语篇填词（共5小题，每题1分，满分5分）

阅读短文，根据上下文和所给的首字母写出所缺单词。注意使用正确形式，每空限填一词。答卷时，要求写出完整单词。

The Internet is widely used in our daily life. Now China has more than 1 billion Internet users. This is the largest 46. n________ of users in the world. Today, 66% of Chinese netizens are teenagers. They 47. s________ about 13 hours on the Internet every week.

One of the main reasons why teenagers surf the Internet is to search for information. It can help students with their homework and widen their knowledge. There is a lot of useful information on the Internet. Some helpful lessons about different subjects like science and history on the Internet are 48. p________. Many students like them and learn a lot from them. In 49. ________, students can use the Internet to write 50.l________and send emails to their friends who live far away from them.

第二节 完成句子（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据所给的汉语内容，用英语完成下列句子。（每空限填一词）

51. 我女儿在国外留学期间通过微信来和我保持联系。

My daughter ________ ________ ________ ________ me through WeChat when she was abroad for further study.

52. 你的成功取决于你所付出的努力。

Your success ________ ________ how hard you work.

53. 警察正在四处调查以查清这次车祸的真相。

The police are searching hard to ________ ________ the truth of the ________ ________.

54. 他很粗心，可能留意不到这样一个细微的变化。

He is so careless that he may ________ ________ ________ such a ________ change.

55. 我期待看到当我把礼物扑通一声放在妈妈桌前时，她会喜笑颜开。

I ________ ________ ________ ________ mum smile when I plop the gift before her.

第三节 书面表达（共1题，满分15分）

假设你是Betty，你的好友Tracy打算暑假去海边度假，她有两个目的地----威海和厦门，但是她无法确定，故而向你求助。请你根据以下表格的信息，给她写一封邮件，给出去哪里度假的建议，并阐明原因。内容提示如下：

要求：

1. 可在内容提示的基础上适当拓展信息；

2. 词数80词左右(短文的开头已给出，不计入词数)；

3. 不得透露学校、姓名等任何个人信息，否则不予评分。

Dear Tracy,

I’m so glad to hear from you.

In my opinion, ________ is a better choice for you. _____________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours

Betty

2022学年第一学期广州市南武教育集团八年级英语科联合练习题答案

一、语法选择 1-15 BBACD  ADDBA  CDBAD

二、完形填空 16-25 ABDCD  BBCAD

三、阅读理解 第一节 26-29 BCDA  30-33 BDBC  34-36 CDC  37-40 BCDA

第二节46-50 BADEC

四、写作

第一节 46. number   47. spend   48. practical / popular   49. addition   50. letters

（每空一分，漏写复数扣0.5分）

第二节

51. kept in touch with（每空0.5分）

52. depends on（每空一分，depend 给0.5分）

53. find out, car accident（每空0.5分）

54. be unaware of; tiny（每空0.5分）

55. look forward to seeing（每空0.5分）

第三节 书面表达（参考答案）

Dear Tracy,

I’m so glad to hear from you.

In my opinion, Weihai is a better choice for you. Here are some reasons.

You need to pay 1500 yuan for a return air ticket to Weihai. It costs 800 yuan more than taking a high-speed train to Xiamen for a round trip. But the hotel there costs only 50 yuan per night. It is much cheaper than living in Xiamen because the hotel in Xiamen costs 300yuan a night. In addition, There is a lovely beach only 2 kilometers away from the hotel in Weihai. It is 8 kilometers nearer than the one in Xiamen. Above all, the sea food there is delicious and cheap but the sea food in Xiamen is just so-so. It is much better than eating in Xiamen. So I advise you to go to Weihai and I hope you can have a good time there.

Yours

Betty