（教研室提供）山东省烟台市芝罘区（五四制）2022-2023学年八年级下学期期末考试英语试题

这是一份（教研室提供）山东省烟台市芝罘区（五四制）2022-2023学年八年级下学期期末考试英语试题，共5页。


初 三 英 语

阶 段 检 测 练 习 题

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第一部分 阅读理解(共两节, 满分35分)
第一节 (共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30分)
阅读下列短文, 从短文后每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项。
A
Celebrate beauty of Lantern Festival
Many traditional Chinese festivals remind us of the special foods. As zongzi are to Dragon Boat Festival and mooncakes are to Mid-Autumn Festival, yuanxiao—sweet dumplings made of sticky rice flour—are special to Lantern Festival.
Lantern Festival falls on the 15th of the first lunar month, marking the end of the Spring Festival celebrations.
Apart from the round-shaped yuanxiao, another beloved part of the celebration is the lanterns, which come in almost every possible size and shape. In old times, riddles(谜语) were pasted onto them so that people could try to solve them while looking at the beauty of the lanterns. However, both tradition and handicraft have become less popular among young people.
Lantern Festival was at its height in the Tang and Song dynasties. It was a day of great fun back then. In the evening, people went into the streets with all kinds of lanterns, watching lion or dragon dances, eating yuanxiao and setting off firecrackers.
The festival also provided a chance for unmarried young girls to go out freely in search of their true love, since they weren’t normally allowed to do so. The famous Song Dynasty poet Ouyang Xiu recorded this romantic tradition with the well-known line: “Atop the willow tree hangs the moon; my date comes in the evening soon.”
1. Besides eating yuanxiao, what other tradition is popular during Lantern Festival?
A. Setting off fireworks. B. Solving riddles on lanterns.
C. Watching movies. D. Eating mooncakes.
2. During which dynasties was the Lantern Festival most popular?
A. Tang and Song. B. Ming and Qing.
C. Qin and Han. D. Sui and Tang.
3. Why did unmarried young girls go out during the festival in ancient times?
A. To admire their stars. B. To become a poet.
C. To search for true love. D. To enjoy nice food.
4. How do you translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?
A.月上柳梢头,人约黄昏后。 B.床前明月光,疑是地上霜。
C.海上生明月,天涯共此时。 D.明月几时有,把酒问青天。
B
Cameron Patterson, a British student, spent his childhood in China. He has seen many great changes in the country over the past 15 years, especially trains.
At the age of 8, Patterson moved from Wales to join his father in Shanxi. In the following years, he and his parents lived in a few cities. They also travelled a lot during holidays. However, traveling itself wasn’t always relaxing. When his family moved from Jiangsu to Guangdong, they took the old green train and spent one and a half days on the trip.
Now with high-speed train, life become much easier. Long and boring trips in the past have become shorter. Also, the modern trains are more comfortable. “A coin (硬币) wouldn’t move at all on the table of a fast moving train.” He said excitedly.
Patterson was glad to see these changes in China, but he also wondered how they happened. When he read a poem about China’s role model Jiao Yulu in 2015, he got the answer. Jiao was seriously ill at that time, but still kept working to help people till the end of his life. Jiao devoted (献身) himself to improving people’s life. “He was really great. I learn a lot from him,” said Patterson.
Patterson now works as a Confucius Institute(孔子学院) volunteer at Lancaster University. “I’m proud to act as a bridge between the UK and China and help the two peoples know about each other’s cultures better.”
5. From the first two paragraphs, what do we know about Patterson?
A. He moved to China at an early age.
B. He didn’t feel any changes in China.
C. He took great interest in China’s history.
D. He was always excited when taking the old green train.
6. The writer shows the modern trains are more comfortable by _______.
A. playing a trick B. asking a question
C. giving an example D. showing a picture
7. Why does Patterson mention (提及) the story of Jiao Yulu?
A. To ask readers to study harder.
B. To tell readers to read poems.
C. To make foreign readers learn Chinese.
D. To show that people like him help China become stronger.
C
Sick while in motion(运动)
As the weather gets warmer, there are few things that are better to do than travel. But traveling might not be that fun for everyone, especially for those who have motion sickness.
Motion sickness is also called travel sickness. It is a common experience for many people. Depending on how you travel, it can be called carsickness or seasickness. People with motion sickness feel very uncomfortable while they are in motion. They feel sick and dizzy, like the room around them won’t stop spinning.
It is generally believed that motion sickness happens when your senses(感知) become confused(困惑) with each other, Scientific American reported.
We use different parts of our body to sense movement. Our eyes tell us if we are moving. The inner ears contain a special liquid that helps us sense our direction and balance. Our muscles react to movement.
When you move around, these body parts work well together. But when you are in a car or an airplane, they get confused. Your inner ear signals that you’re moving, but your eyes say you’re sitting still because you can’t see that you’re moving. This mismatch gives us motion sickness.
But some people are less sensitive(敏感的) to motion sickness. This may be because they have certain genes that prevent mismatching senses, Bethann Hromatka, a genetics expert from the US, told the Atlantic.
Although there are many ways to deal with motion sickness, scientists believe that the key is to simply try to adapt to it. For example, some astronauts do special exercises that give them mild motion sickness. After a week or two, the astronauts become used to it and don’t feel uncomfortable anymore, Sam Puma, a NASA flight doctor, told the BBC.
8. People with motion sickness feel very uncomfortable while they are ________.
A. sleeping B. driving
C. in motion D. in bed
9. According to paragraph 3, if your senses become confused with each other, ________.
A. you may have cold B. you may have motion sickness
C. you cannot drive D. you should sleep
10. The special liquid in the inner ears can sense________.
A. movement and sickness B. direction and balance
C. movement and balance D. direction and movement
11. What’s the purpose of the passage?
A. To introduce motion sickness. B. To introduce sickness.
C. To introduce gene. D. To introduce the parts of body.

D
Type in "A cat wants to go to space" and ask the robot to write a bedtime story. Just one second later, you'll get the story of Max, who clawed his way past many difficulties to sing among the stars.
This robot writer is real. It's called ChatGPT. US company OpenAL developed it to generate（生成）human-like texts. It can translate languages, talk with people and write songs, poems and even jokes. It's one of the most powerful AI of its kind, with the complete writing range（范围）of a real person!
People around the world have tried ChatGPT and posted their results on social media. Some used it to write history essays(论文）,some asked it to take notes of presentations, and some even generated advice on how to interact（互动）with people at a party.
The power of ChatGPT lies in its speed and understanding of complicated (复杂的）matters. We may spend hours researching, understanding and writing an article on the theory of evolution(进化论). But ChatGPT can produce a well-written one in seconds. Another good thing about it is that if you ask dark, harmful questions, such as how to make weapons(武器),it will not give you an answer.
ChatGPT comes along at a time when AI is becoming increasingly able to do creative tasks. The materials they create are difficult to tell from those made by humans. This causes many issues(争论点）. These are the things that depend on humans to solve.
12. The cat story was written to__________.
A. show what creative work ChatGPT can do
B. introduce a cat that wants to go to space
C. introduce a series of bedtime books
D. show how robots create stories
13. What do we know about ChatGPT according to paragraph 2 ?
A. It is the most powerful kind of AI.
B. It is still under development.
C. It can write almost anything a human can write.
D. People cannot tell the difference between texts from ChatGPT and humans.

14. Paragraph 3 is mainly about___________.
A. the disadvantages of ChatGPT
B. the most popular use of ChatGPT
C. what people think about ChatGPT
D. how ChatGPT has helped people so far
15. Compared with human writing, ChatGPT is_________.
A. faster B. safer
C. more complicated D. more accurate(精确的）
第二节 (共5小题; 每小题1分, 满分5分)
阅读下面短文, 从短文后的选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。
After work, you go back home, open an app, place your order and wait for your food to be delivered (投递) to your home. This is how many young people eat in China these days. There is the latest report from the China Internet Network Information Center. 16 That’s just half of the total number of Internet users in China.
Which group of people is ordering food online the most? 17 A recent report by Meituan(美团), a food delivery service, showed that 86. 3% of the service’s users are between 20 and 34 years old. These people are the main force driving the development of the food delivery industry (产业).
Small families depend largely on food delivery services. 18 In 2002, only 7.7% of families have only one person. But this number increased to 15. 6% in 2017. Two-person families rose from 18. 4% in 2002 to 27. 2% in 2017. For small families, cooking always takes a lot of time and energy. 19
The improvement of China’s food delivery services has also made more customers interested. According to Meituan’s report, the average (平均的) time it takes to make a food delivery dropped from 38 minutes in 2016 to 29 minutes in 2020. 20 Delivering products, like fruit, vegetables, medicine and even flowers, is also the service of these apps. As their services continue to improve, it’s certain that the food delivery industry will keep growing in the future.

A. For sure, it is mainly young people.
B. So, ordering food online has become more popular.
C. Many delivery apps are also offering more services.
D. You can never imagine how many people are using these apps.
E. 421 million Chinese people use online food delivery services.
F. Chinese families have changed in size over the past fifteen years.

16. ________ 17. ________ 18. ________ 19. ________ 20. ________
第二部分 语言知识应用 (共两节, 满分25分)
第一节 完形填空(共10小题; 每小题1分, 满分10分)
阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Long long ago, there lived a teacher in a small village. He often 21._____ his students in special ways. One day he sent four of his students to go to a small farm to see apple trees in 22. _____ seasons. The first student went in winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the last in autumn.
After the four students 23. _____, the teacher called them together. They shared their 24. _____ with the teacher. The first student said that there were no leaves on the trees. It made him feel very disappointed(失望的). The second student 25. _____, “What are you talking about? My eyes were full of light green. It made me feel hopeful.” The third one couldn’t wait to say 26. _____, “How pretty the trees were! I felt so relaxed. The sweet smell of the 27. ______ spread here and there, attracting many bees and butterflies.”
Hearing these words, the last one shook his head. He said he got a strong feeling of 28. _____ when he saw a lot of apples on the beautiful trees. The teacher smiled and told his students 29. _____ of them were wrong, but each just saw one season. He continued, “The trees are not the same in different seasons. You can’t judge a tree by seeing only one season.” Everything has different sides in our life. Don’t 30. _____ to make a conclusion in a hurry before you see the whole of it.

21. A. warned B. taught C. asked D. called
22. A. beautiful B. special C. different D. warm
23. A. stood back B. handed back C. thought back D. came back
24. A. feelings B. trips C. surveys D. interviews
25. A. explained B. nodded C. cried D. disagreed
26. A. excitedly B. angrily C. sadly D. nervously
27. A. flowers B. trees C. apples D. leaves
28. A. sadness B. satisfaction C. loneliness D. interest
29. A. all B. both C. every D. none
30. A. stop B. forget C. try D. refuse
第二节 语法填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分, 满分15分)
阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Last week, my father and I went back to my hometown —Zibo　 31　 （try）Zibo barbecue(烧烤). Recently, the local food has become 　32 　 popular that people all over China travel there to taste it.
One the way to Zibo, my father told me 　 33　 unusual story. Last year during the COVID﹣19 pandemic,　 34　 （thousand）of college students were stuck in Zibo. The local government helped students and offered a great barbecue dinner when the quarantine(隔离) was over. The government officers also invited the students to come 　35 　 to Zibo again when spring came. They would give the students a warm welcome. I 　 36　 （move）when I heard this.
At 5 p.m., we arrived at the restaurant. My father had booked a table two days
37 (early). Or there wouldn't be any seats for us. People in the restaurant
didn't know each other before. But we just talked 　 38　 （natural）about daily life and sang together. Some local people even put off 　39 　（they）orders when they heard there weren't enough seats. They wanted tourists from other places to have the chance to eat.
After eating the delicious food, I kept thinking why Zibo became popular. Is it the promise 　 40　the government and the college students? Or the special tasty food, or the warmhearted people?

31._______ 32.________ 33._________ 34.__________ 35._________

36._______37._________38._________ 39.__________ 40._________
第三部分 书面表达(共两节, 满分30分)
第一节 阅读表达(共5小题；每小题2分, 满分10分)
阅读下面短文, 完成短文后的问题。
‘Made in China’ means quality(质量)
For a long time, “made in China” made people think of cheap, low-quality goods. China was just the world’s factory. But now Chinese brands are going global and being well-known.
Time magazine recently made a list of the 100 most influential companies in the world. Several Chinese companies were included, such as tech giants Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent, DJI(大疆), TikTok and DiDi Chuxing.
These companies are shaping the world with advanced(先进的) technology. Time reported that DJI holds 70 percent of the global drone market(无人机市场). This year, it launched a new drone with a set of glasses that give users a first-person view of their drone’s flight. TikTok has become one of the most popular apps in the US with its never-ending stream of videos. Some 50 million US users spend an average of 46 minutes on it every day.
Chinese fashion has also attracted global consumers. In 2011, Chinese sneaker brands Feiyue, Huili and Li-Ning gained international attention. More recently, Shein has become one of the most popular Chinese fast fashion brands overseas. In 2020, its operating income reached over 10 billion dollars, an increase of 100 percent over the previous year, Global Times reported. Many European buyers say Shein is affordable, fashionable and of high quality.
In the future, Chinese brands will continue to develop. Thanks to a bigger market, improved supply chains and efficient manufacturing(高效的产能), “this is the best era for the development of local brands,” Yan Qiang, a partner with Beijing-based Hejun Consulting, told Global Times.
41. What will come to people’s minds when we mention “made in China” in the past?
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42. How did many Chinese companies shape the world and enter the Time’s list?
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43. What’s DJI’s new drone like?
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44. What do many European buyer think of Shein? _____________________________________________________
45. Why will Chinese brands develop quickly in the future?
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第二节 写作(满分20分)
请根据下面的提示，以“How I’ve Changed!”为题，写一篇英语短文。
提示：1. 可以从学习状况、人际关系、个人习惯等方面选取，谈谈你过去与现在的变化；
2. 是什么促使你做出改变？他人的帮助还是不寻常的经历？
3. 现在的你是什么样子？你的感悟是什么？
要求：1. 注意时态的转换；
2. 词数80左右；
3. 题目与开头已给出，不计入总词数。
How I’ve Changed!
My life has changed a lot in the last few years. _______________________
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