江苏省常州市第二十四中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期10月考英语试卷

2023-2024常州24中八年级10月考英语试卷

一、单项选择(15题，每题1分，共15分)

1. He was very ________, but now he is trying to meet different people.

A. shy      B. generous      C. humorous      D. patient

2. Every museum now has a website (网站) and you can use it to ________ the information about it.

A. look like     B. look through   C. look after      D. look around

3. ---The number of the new students is ________.  ---Yes, ________ new babies are being born.

A. fewer; fewer   B. less; less      C. smaller; less    D. smaller; fewer

4. ---_________________.    ---He is kind and helpful.

A. What is he like   B. What does he like  C. What is he      D. What does he do

5. Your ________is as important as what you say.

A. noise     B. sound      C. voice       D. words

6. Other problems, like how to keep healthy, still ________ me.

A. worry     B. worries      C. worries about     D. worry about

7. ---Tom, what do you think of the school?  ---Oh, no other school is ________ in the city. It's ________ one.

A. better; a better    B. the best; the best   C. better; the best     D. the best; a better

8. Al singers are not ________ people, but they sing ________ well.

A. real; real     B. real; really     C. really; real      D. really; really

9. Not everyone can ________ himself a perfect (完美) person by working hard.

A. make     B. do       C. plan        D. fit

10. Smokers seem not to ________ the danger of smoking.

A. look for     B. help with      C. prepare for      D. care about

11. He says hello to all the people with a ________ and everyone likes his ________ face.

A. smile; smile   B. smiling; smile    C. smile; smiling     D. smiling; smiling

12. Tom is different from ________ student in his class.

A. any      B. any other      C. any one       D. the other

13. If you like snacks, have the ones with the ________ fat.

A. least     B. fewest      C. little       D. few

14. She brought ________ to many people through her music.

A. happy     B. sad       C. joy        D. interesting

15. ---Our team will go to the competition next week.  --- ________.

A. Good luck!    B. Congratulations!   C. It's OK.       D. Glad to hear that.

二、完形填空（10 题，每题1.5分，共15分）

During the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Yangzhou in Jiangsu was a center for business (商业) and culture (文化). Many (16)__________ lived there because rich business people liked to buy their paintings. There was a special group of eight painters. Their painting styles were different from those of other painters. They were born into poor families (17)__________ their paintings often showed (18)__________ common (普通的) people lived.

The mainstream (主流的) painters (19)__________ them. They called the eight painters "Yangzhou baguai". Some (20)__________ used the word "ugly (丑)” and called (21)__________ "choubaguai". But common people still liked their paintings and they became very (22)__________. Their nicknames (绰号) have been used ever since. We still use “Yangzhou baguai” for the eight (23)__________. But “choubaguai” gradually (逐渐) (24)__________ its original (最初的) meaning and now is used to talk about ugly (25)__________.

16. A. artists     B. farmers      C. teachers      D. kings

17. Α. or      B. and       C. because      D. but

18. A. what      B. when      C. how       D. why

19. A. disliked     B. liked      C. trusted      D. enjoyed

20. A. never      B. even      C. just       D. almost

21. A. him      B. those      C. that     D. them

22. A. generous     B. famous      C. dangerous     D. humorous

23. A. visitors     B. players      C. painters      D. workers

24. A. lost      B. found      C. heard      D. got

25. A. paintings     B. artists      C. masters      D. people

三、阅读理解（15 题，每题2分，共30分）

A

There are certain things you never imagine yourself saying. “I just saw a worm (虫子) there!” is one of them. And I screamed (尖叫) it, actually.

The family was all here and we were in the garden when I saw a worm nearby. I asked my 6-year-old grandson to come and take away the worm. He picked up the worm, studied it quickly and then threw it into the air.

The worm flew and quickly fell on my face near my left eye. That's when the screaming and jumping started.

The most important thing in all this is that my grandson said he was sorry to me.

I was just reading a book about parents doing the slow and hard work of teaching manners (礼仪) to children. Table manners, language manners and even manners in dress, all show levels of self-control (自制力). Having self-control makes what we say and how we do things in a right way, making many of us appear (呈现) better than we really are. Manners are what civilize us---around our tables, in our families, homes and our neighborhoods.

So when a little boy has the courage (勇气) to apologize to a grandma who is screaming and jumping up and down, at least we know that our years of teaching young people manners are paying off (回报).

26. What's the relationship (关系) of the two persons in the story?

A. Grandfather and grandson.      B. Grandmother and grandson.

C. Father and son.         D. Mother and son.

27. What can we learn about the writer's grandson?

A. He was very afraid of worms.     B. He always made trouble for others.

C. He didn't want to make his grandma afraid.  D. The boy left the worm in tie garden at first.

28. What has the writer learned from the book?

A. Teaching manners to children is slow but easy.  B. Manners make men different from animals.

C. Parents can control their children after reading it. D. Good manners help us appear better.

29. What does the underlined word "apologize” mean in the last paragraph?

A. tell the truth about something     B. say sorry to somebody

C. give a hand to somebody      D. give somebody a surprise

30. In the story, the writer mainly tries to ____________.

A. tell the importance of having good manners  B. share a story about her and her grandson

C. tell parents how to teach their children   D. talk about how the boy apologized to his grandma

B

Could you imagine (想象) sitting in a car driven by a computer, not a human? From August, self-driving taxis can run on roads in Wuhan, Chongqing and Shenzhen.

Why do we make self-driving cars?

Self-driving cars give us many benefits (好处). They use computers to sense the things around them and make better use of space. This means fewer traffic jams (堵塞) and better parking (停车) of cars. For disabled (残疾的) people, self-driving cars can also help them get around more easily.

According to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year, more than1.35 million people are killed on roads around the world. Many more get hurt. Self-driving cars could reduce (减少) road accidents (事故) by 90 percent and save governments (政府) a lot of money, said the website TechDim. Most of the car accidents are caused (引起) by men. By using computers, self-driving cars don't make wrong decisions or lose focus (注意力) like humans do.

But self-driving cars aren't perfect. If something unexpected on the road happens (发生), self-driving cars can't react (反应) as fast as a human driver could. Also, during bad weather like heavy snow, self-driving cars would not see the lines on the road clearly. There might be an accident. The car's inside-computer could also get hacked (非法入侵) by someone, making it crash or change its destination (目的地).

It's clear that there is a lot of work to do to make self-driving cars common and safe on our roads. And China is taking the lead (领先) in making this happen.

31. What is a self-driving car?

Λ. A car driven by a man.         B. A car driven by a computer.

3. A car driven by a disabled person.      D. A car driven by a taxi driver.

32. What is a benefit of self-driving cars?

A. They don't need parking places.      B. They react faster than humans in bad weather.

C. They help disabled people to travel more easily.  D. They cost less money to make and fix

33. Why can self-driving cars help reduce road accidents?

A. Because they can save governments much money.  

B. Because their computers can predict (预测) a Hl road, accidents.

C. Because their computers don't “lose focus” like humans do.

D. Because there will be fewer traffic jams.

34. What is Paragraph 5 mainly about?

A. The weaknesses of self-driving cars.     B. The benefits of having a human driver.

C. How road accidents usually happen.     D. How the computers in self-driving cars work.

35. What do we know from the last paragraph? 

A. Many countries are working together to make self-driving cars.

B. Self-driving cars need clean and safe roads to run.

C. People in every city of China can see self-driving cars run on the roads now.

D. China is trying to make self-driving cars safer and more common.

C

For the first time in 74 years, a Chinese ballet dancer takes center stage in a New York dance group.

The Chinese ballet dancer Chun Wai Chan (陈镇威) once again amazed the people from all over the world in the show The Nutcracker (《胡桃夹子》).

The 30-year-old Chan became a dancer in New York City Ballet in 2021 and the next year the first Chinese principal (首席) dancer.

Chan loved dancing when he was a child. To get his parents’ support, Chan wrote a seven-page letter to say that he decided to study dance.

In 2020, Chan chose to come back to China. In a Chinese talent show, Dance Smxsh (《舞蹈风暴》), he did a good job. Many Chinese knew his name from the show. He became famous quickly. Ballet seemed more interesting to the Chinese because of Chan’s work.

This year, the 30-year-old young man became the first Chinese principle (首席) dancer at New York City Ballet in May. Now he started to tell Chinese stories to the West. He made the Chinese story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai into a ballet show. He performed it at Lincoln Center in New York, US, in September.

“This is a love story from China,” Chan said. “I hope that the Americans will enjoy wonderful Chinese culture.”

36. When did Chun Wai Chan become a principle dancer at NYCB?

A. In 1974    B. In 1992.   C. In 2020.    D. In 2022.

37. How did he get his parents’ support?

A. He wrote a long letter to them.     B. He showed them his wonderful dancing.

C. He went to New York to study dance.   D. His teacher talked to them.

38. What made Chan famous in China?

A. He danced in the show Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.

B. He wen to New York to learn dancing.

C. He took part in Dance Smash.

D. He became a principal dancer at NYCB.

39. Which of the following is the right order?

①He danced in The Nutcracker. 

②He wanted to study dance and his parents agreed.

③He came back to China.

④He danced in Dance Smash.

⑤He adapted a Chinese story.

A. ①②③④⑤   B. ②①③④⑤  C. ②①④③⑤   D. ①②④③⑤

40. How can we describe Chan’s dancing?

A. It is a traditional style of Chinese dance.   B. It is more popular in China than in the US.

C. His dancing is only about love stories.   D. It bridges Chinese and Western cultures.

四、六选四(4题，每题2分，共8分)

In the modern world, people have to remember passwords for everything from their email, to online banking and Internet shopping.

So it's easy to understand that many of us would pick something simple and easy for our passwords.

A leaked (泄露的) Yahoo database showed that the most popular passwords are still "123456" and "password". (41)_____________

Other top passwords include "welcome”, "sunshine” and "ninja”. Many more used simple combinations (组合) of their name, age, or birthday.

(42)_____________ But they are also making it easy for hackers (黑客) to break into their accounts, experts warned.

Researchers from UK's Lancaster University, as well as Peking and Fujian Normal universities in China, did a test on passwords. They tried to guess passwords from people's different personal information.

They guessed passwords for more than 73 percent of ordinary users' accounts. Hackers could even break (破解) a third of the harder passwords in 100 guesses, reported the Daily Mail.

    (43)_____________ Researchers from Bloomberg Businessweek have some tips (建议) for you.

Upper-casing (大写) your password is a good start. Putting numbers and/or symbols into your password can also be of great help. Choose a nine-letter password with numbers and/or symbols. (44)_____________

Never use personal information as a password. Use different passwords for different accounts (账户). Experts suggest that a user should change their password every 90 days to keep hackers guessing.

A. Passports are important for everyone of us in daily life.

B. This would take a hacker's computer hundreds of years to break!

C. Easy ones like "qwerty" and "abc123" are also among the top 10, reported the Daily Mail.

D. So how can you make your passwords safer?

E. These people are trying to make life easy for themselves.

F. You may need different passports for different accounts.

五、短文填空(10题，每题1分，共10分)

What do you _____45______ (usual) do with empty plastic (塑料) bottles? Do you put them in recycling (回收) bins _____46______ take them to the waste collector?

Whatever you do, there _____47______ (be) now a new way to recycle plastic bottles. A new device (设备) named the “plastic bottle cutter”, made by two inventors. _____48______ (help) you make different kinds of plastic _____49______ (bottle) into long, thin ropes (绳).

The device is made of _____50______ knife, a wooden handle and a cutting guide. It is only pocket-size, _____51______ it is easy to carry. _____52______ (use) the device, you first have to cut off the bottom of a plastic bottle, and then the tool will slice (切成薄片) the rest of it into a long rope.

The rope is quite strong---it could be used to pull (拉) a car. "The rope from a Coca-Cola bottle with the _____53______ (weigh) of around 10 grams can take a thing of 7 kg." the inventors _____54______ (say) to the reporter on April 2nd.

六、根据所给词的正确形式填空（12题，每题 1分，共12 分）

(A) 根据所给中文，用单词的正确形式填空

55. Drink when you feel ______________ (口渴) during exercise.

56. The two friends shared everything-they didn't have ______________ (秘密).

57. John teaches ______________ (法语) at the local school.

58. She is an ______________ (杰出的) worker and I will recommend ber to you.

59. Tom, are you sure you did the exercises by ______________ (你自己)?

60. Be ______________ (耐心). You can do nothing but wait.

(B) 根据所给单词的正确形式填空

61. To get a whole picture of this thing, we need some ______________ (far) information.

62. We talk about the problems in the ______________ (week) meeting and hope it works.

63. To be honest, it is the ______________ (bad) book I have ever read.

64. "I'm sorry I always get things wrong," said Mr. Green ______________ (unhappy).

65. We ______________ (choose) to go by train but he didn't agree.

66. I spend half an hour ______________ (write) this travel log every time I go to a new place.

七、完成句子（5 题，每题 2 分，共 10 分）

67. 吉姆很有幽默感，因此我和他在一起从不觉得无聊。

Jim ________________________________________________________________________.

68. 你觉得学外语有趣吗?

Do you think ________________________________________________________________?

69. 我的朋友约翰总是认真倾听我的问题并主动向我提供帮助。

My friend John _______________________________________________________________.

70. 读书比看电视重要得多。

______________________________________________________________________________.

71. 中国学生的暑假放假天数比英国学生多。

Chinese students have ___________________ for __________________ than ________________.

答案：

一、单项选择：ABDAC  ACBAD  CBACA

二、完形填空：ABCAB  DBCAD 

三、阅读理解：BCDBA  BCCAD  DACBD

四、六选四：CEDB

五、短文填空：usually; or; is; will help; bottles; a; so; To use; weight; said

六、词汇填空：thirsty; secrets; French; excellent; yourself; patient; farther; weekly; worst; unhappily; chose; writing

七、完成句子：

has a good sense of humor so I never feel bored with him

it is fun to learn foreign languages

always listens to my problems carefully and offers me help

Reading is much more important than watching TV

more days off; the summer holiday; British students