04，江苏省连云港市海宁中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期12月月考英语试卷

这是一份04，江苏省连云港市海宁中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期12月月考英语试卷，共8页。试卷主要包含了听力，单项选择，完形填空，阅读理解，词汇运用，选词填空，阅读表达等内容，欢迎下载使用。
（满分：150分 考试时间：100分钟）
出卷人：许星星 审核人：杨振秋
一、听力（1-10每小题1分，11-20每小题2分，计30分）
第一部分：听对话回答问题。本部分共10小题，每小题你将听到一段对话，听两遍。
1. Which bird des the wman like best?
A． B． C．
2. Where will the man g this summer hliday?
A． B． C．
3. What will the weather be like at the weekend?
A． B． C．
4. What will the girl be when she grws up?
A． B． C．
5. What time did Sandy wash her face this mrning?
A．At 6:00. B．At 6:05. C．At 6:15.
6.What can we learn abut dlphins frm the dialgue?
A．They travel in grups.
B．Their fd isn't fish.
C．They ften make sunds abve water.
7. Wh is the best at hsting?
A．Lucy. B．Bill. C．Vivien.
8. What des Mary think f Singapre?
A．Wnderful and safe. B．Relaxing and peaceful. C．Beautiful and cmfrtable. 试卷源自 每日更新，汇集全国各地小初高最新试卷。9. What is the wman ding?
A．Driving a car. B．Watching the cars. C．Walking n the street.
10. Hw much des ne pair cst if the wman buys five pairs?
A．Three yuan. B．Tw yuan. C．Ten yuan.
第二部分：听对话和短文答题。你将听到一段对话和两篇短文，各听两遍。
听一段对话，回答第11～12小题。
11. Where are the tw speakers talking?
A．At a turist ffice. B．At the airprt. C．At hme.
12. Hw lng will the man prbably stay in Australia?
A．Abut 2 weeks. B．Abut 3 weeks. C．Abut 4 weeks.
听第一篇短文，回答第13～15小题。请根据短文内容，选择正确答案，完成信息记录表。
13. A．6:00 B．6:30 C．7:00
14. A．Maths B．Chinese C．English
15. A．friends B．father C．mther
听第二篇短文，回答第16～20小题。
16. What was the main reasn fr peple t have dgs in the past?
A．T make mney. B．T make them safe. C．T help them wrk.
17. What is a dg fr a child?
A．A teacher. B．A helpful brther. C．A playing friend.
18. Whse helper is a dg?
A．A blind man. B．A pr man. C．A driver.
19. Why d ld peple keep dgs?
A．Because dgs can play with them.
B．Because dgs are their friends.
C．Because they treat their dgs as their children.
20. What des the speaker mainly talk abut?
A．Where t keep dgs.
B．Hw t keep dgs.
C．The reasns fr keeping dgs.
二、单项选择（共10小题，每小题1分，计10分）
21. It’s _______ pity that many wild animals are nw in danger. Please have _______ pity n them since they are part f ur big family.
A. a; /B. a; aC. /; aD. /;/
22.—What’s the weight f yur daughter at birth?
—She ______ abut 2.5 kg.
A. weightB. weighedC. weightsD. weighs
23.—Will Anna g t the mvies with us tnight?
—She ______ g, but I’m nt sure.
A. mayB. canC. mustD. shuld
24. What a ______ day! Luckily, I bring an umbrella t prtect myself frm the sunlight and heat.
A. windyB. snwyC. rainyD. sunny
25. The teacher tld us ______ t much nise because the ther students were having an exam.
A.t nt makeB. nt t makeC. nt makeD. nt making
26.—Mum, I dn’t quite understand the Chinese saying.
—Dear, dn’t wrry. ________ the years g by, yu will get t knw it.
A. AsB. WhileC. SinceD. Until
27. Nw the Chinese gvernment has made laws peple smking in sme public places like schls.
A. prtectB. preventC. t prtect D.t prevent
28. He isn’t gd at English. ________, he tries t read stries in English in his free time.
A. MreverB. OtherwiseC. HweverD. While
29. His cusin is a humrus man. He makes us ________ all the time.
A. laughsB. laughingC.t laughD. laugh
30. ______f giant pandas is getting _____because their living areas are becming farmland.
A. The number; less and less B. A number; larger and larger
C. The number; smaller and smaller D. A number; mre and mre
三、完形填空（共15题，每小题1分，计15分）
There was a man wh was ging thrugh hard times. His wife 31 him. His business failed after nly ne year. He wrked very hard, 32 failure was all that he saw. He didn’t knw what t d, s he left 33 behind and went int the frest. There, he 34 an ld man. He lived there fr a lng time. He 35 his stry with the ld man. “Can yu give me ne gd 36 nt t give up?” He asked the ld man.
“Lk,” the ld man said, lking at tw 37 . “D yu see that flwer and bamb there?”
“Yes,” the man 38 .
“When I planted the flwer and bamb seed(种子), I tk very gd care f them. In a shrt perid f time, the flwer 39 grew frm the earth, ” the ld man went n.
“The bamb did nt sprut (发芽), althugh I 40 it and tk care f it fr years. There was n 41 f grwth. But I did nt give up the bamb and went n lking after it. In the 42 year, a small sprut came ut f the earth. And after six mnths, the tree grew fifty feet tall.”
“The little bamb tree was grwing undergrund fr the past fur years. It develped a rt (根) strng enugh fr its grund grwth in the next year. If it didn’t d this, it wuld nt be as 43 as it is nw. S yu knw, all the time yu were wrking 44 , in fact, yu were grwing strng rts, ”the ld man said.
After 45 the ld man’s wrds, the man knew what t d next. Keep n ging, and all the effrts(努力) will pay ff.
31．A．left B．paid C．jinedD．helped
32．A．befre B．but C．sD．because
33．A．everything B．nthing C．smethingD．anything
34．A．taught B．met C．studiedD．checked
35．A．prvided B．shared C．discussedD．filled
36．A．letter B．decisin C．reasnD．mment
37．A．flwers B．plants C．chairsD．hands
38．A．understd B．replied C．describedD．agreed
39．A．slwly B．quickly C．luckilyD．exactly
40．A．killed B．watered C．saw D．missed
41．A．meaning B．feeling C．ideaD．sign
42．A．furth B．fifth C．sixthD．seventh
43．A．rare B．strng C．weakD．thick
44．A．hard B．late C．carefullyD．easily
45．A．listening B．saying C．hearingD．speaking
四、阅读理解（共20题，每小题2分，计40分）
A
46. can shw yu the histry f Sunset Island.
A. Rsetwn ReserveB. Turist Infrmatin Centre
C. The Victria RestaurantD. Prt Gerge Museum
47.Accrding t the article, what d we knw abut Sunset Island?
A. Yu can’t swim n Sunset Island.B. Yu can find sme wildlife at Rsetwn Reserve.
C. There is nly ne restaurant n Sunset Island.D. Turist Infrmatin Centre is pen every day.
48.The article is mst prbably frm a .
A. reading reprt.B. shpping list.C. travel guide.D. science magazine.
B
The panda is ne f the animals mst in danger. There are abut 1,000 pandas living in nature reserves tday. Zs and research centers lk after abut 160 pandas. Scientists are studying hw they live and mre baby pandas are brn in the z.
Pandas live in the frests and muntains f suth-west China. They mainly live n bamb, and each panda needs t eat a lt f bamb every day. The area f bamb is becming smaller and smaller fr many different reasns, s pandas have less and less land t live n. Pandas dn’t have many babies, and baby pandas ften die. The situatin is becming very serius.
Our gvernment is wrking hard t save pandas. There are mre than 30 nature reserves t prtect pandas but these are nt enugh. The gvernment has made a new plan t help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and bamb will grw better. Then the pandas will have enugh fd t eat and enugh places t live in Pandas brn in the zs may g back t live in the nature reserves.
Mst peple lve pandas. The panda is ne f the mst famus animals in the wrld. It is the symbl (象征)fr the Wrld Wide Fund fr Nature. The WWF wrks t prtect all animals in danger, s the panda becmes the symbl f all the animals in danger. There is still a lng way t g t save the panda. Think f ther animals in danger, such as tigers, cranes and elephants— we need t save the pandas, and we need t save them, t.
49. Paragraph 2 is mainly abut_______.
A. why pandas are in danger B. why baby pandas ften die
C. hw t prtect all animals D. hw t plant mre bamb
50. What is the gvernment trying t d t help the pandas?
A. Build mre zs fr pandas. B. Send mre scientists t help.
C. Make bigger nature reserves. D. Ask the WWF t wrk in China.
51. What is the symbl fr the Wrld Wide Fund fr Nature?
A. The tiger. B. The panda. C. The elephant.D. The crane.
52. Why des the writer write this article?
A. T describe and recrd pandas.B. T ask peple t prtect pandas.
C. T tell the ways t save pandas. D. T intrduce WWF t peple.
C
I knw I’m nt an rdinary (普通的) ten-year-ld kid. I mean, sure, I d rdinary things. I eat ice cream. I ride my bike. I play ball. I play vide games. Things like that make me rdinary, I guess. Als, I feel rdinary inside. But I knw rdinary kids dn’t make ther rdinary kids run away screaming in playgrunds. I knw rdinary kids dn’t get stared at (被盯着) wherever they g.
If I fund a magic lamp and I culd have ne wish, I wuld wish that I had a cmmn face that n ne ever nticed at all. I wuld wish that I culd walk dwn the street withut peple seeing me.
But I’m used t(习惯于) hw I lk nw. I knw hw t pretend (假装) I dn’t see hw implite sme children are when they see me. We are all pretty gd at that kind f thing: Mm and Dad, my elder sister Via, and me. Actually, I shuld take that back: Via is nt s gd at it. She can get really angry when peple d smething implite t me. Fr example, ne time in the playgrund, sme lder kids saw me and made sme nise. I dn’t even knw what the nise was exactly because I didn’t hear them myself, but Via heard them and she just started shuting at thse kids. That’s the way she is. I’m nt that way.
Via desn’t see me as rdinary. She says she des, but I knw if I were rdinary, she wuldn’t feel like she needs t prtect me that much. Mm and Dad dn’t see me as rdinary, either. They see me as special. I think nly I myself knw I am just rdinary.
My name is August, by the way. I wn’t describe what I lk like t yu. Whatever yu’re thinking, it’s prbably wrse than yu think.
53. What will August d if ther kids d implite things when they see him?
A. He will shut at the kids.B. He will ask his parents fr help.
C. He will make sme nise.D. He will act like he sees nthing.
54. Why des August think he is nt rdinary frm Paragraph 1?
A. Because he eats ice cream just like ther children.
B. Because he likes riding a bike n his way hme.
C. Because he ften plays vide games at schl.
D. Because his lks makes ther kids run away.
55. What kind f persn d yu think Via is accrding t the passage?
A. Via is rude and ften shuts t thers. B. Via is kind and lves her brther very much.
C. Via is impatient and always gets angry easily. D. Via is special and sees her brther as rdinary.
56. What can we infer frm the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?
A. August may have a very special lk. B. N ne knws what August lks like.
C. August is nt gd at describing things. D. August is a shy by and likes staying alne.
D
There’s nthing quite like falling sund asleep after a full day f wrk. Like peple, animals need t rest after wrking hard. Sme animals sleep in water. Others dig hles under the grund. Sme even sleep high in trees r under leaves. But they all find a way t rest.
Sme animals in the sea sleep in strange ways. Fish sleep with their eyes pen. They seem t lk ahead far int the sea while they rest. Sea tters smetimes sleep in beds f the plants that grw in the sea. This keeps them frm mving away. Parrtfish blw smething frm their muths when they are ready t sleep. Then a bubble (气泡) will be frmed arund them. The bubble prtects them frm harm while they sleep.
Sme animals sleep under the grund. Chipmunks (花栗鼠) sleep curled up (蜷缩) in a ball. Their beds are made f leaves and grass. In winter, they sleep fr tw weeks and wake up t eat the stred fd. Then they g back t sleep fr anther tw weeks befre waking up again. Sme desert frgs dig undergrund hles during the ht, dry seasn. A frg may stay in its hle fr mnths.
High abve the grund, mnkeys find leafy places in trees each evening befre they sleep. The tall trees help t keep mnkeys safe during the night. Sme insects even sleep under the leaf that will be their next meal. A bee may climb dwn int a flwer t rest. When it climbs ut the next mrning, it is rested and ready fr wrk.
51. What animals blw bubbles when they sleep?
A. Sea tters. B. Mnkeys. C. Desert frgs. D. Parrtfish.
52. What d we knw abut chipmunks accrding t the text?
A. They rest with their eyes pen.
B. They never sleep curled up in a ball.
C. They wake up nw and then in winter.
D. They dn’t eat any fd during the winter.
53. What des the last paragraph mainly talk abut?
A. The frest where mnkeys sleep safely.
B. The animals that sleep abve the grund.
C. The reasn why bees climb dwn int flwers.
D. The ways that keep animals away frm danger.
54. What is the structure f the passage? (P=Paragraph)

55. What’s the best title fr the text?
A. Where animals live? B. Why animals mve?
C. Hw animals sleep? D. What animals feed n?
E
Many kinds f birds live in the United States. 61 One f the leading reasns is the grwing number f pet cats. By keeping yur pet cats in yur hmes, yu can help give birds a better pssible chance t live.
62 Of the 90 millin pet cats in this cuntry, abut tw-thirds can g utside. These cats kill hundreds f millins f birds each year as well as billins f small animals such as rabbits and field mice.
63 Sme animals live in peple's yards. Cats may als make them sick, and further weaken(使变弱) the health f the natural ppulatins.
Ging utside is bad fr cats t. If pet cats can g utside, it is nt just bad fr birds r wildlife. It is bad fr the cats themselves t. 64 They may be in danger because f traffic and ther animals. In fact, utdr cats usually dn't pass the age f five, while indr cats ften live t be 17 r lder. 65 It’s gd nt nly fr yur cats, but als fr ther animals and the nature.
五、词汇运用（每小题1分，共10分）
There are many kinds f amazing animals in the wrld. Have yu ever watched ne f them Canada geese(雁)? They can teach us a (66)l______ abut teamwrk.
In autumn, Canada geese have t fly t the (67)w______ suth t get away frm cld winter. When they leave the grund and rise int the air, they quickly frm a V shape(形状), and ne bird (68)l______ the grup.
The V shape can help Canada geese (69)s______ energy. The head bird mves its (70)w______ up and dwn. As a result, the air helps lift(抬起) the next bird. Each bird will d s until they get t the suthern part. The bird at the head f the grup has the mst (71)d________ jb. Anther bird mves t the frnt, when the head bird gets (72)t______, s it can have a rest. By (73)s_______ this jb, the grup can travel a lng way.
By flying in a V shape, Canada geese can fly seventy percent farther than the birds flying (74)a_______.
(75)D______ the lng flying jurney, Canada geese talk with ne anther. They cheer ne anther up while flying in the air.
We shuld als learn t wrk tgether like Canada geese!
六、选词填空（每小题1分，共10分）
76. The gvernment shuld make laws t stp peple hunting wild animals _________.
77. The new glasses make me see the wrds n the whitebard___________than befre.
78. His carelessness___________ sme mistakes in the English test yesterday.
79.We shuld d everything we can___________ wild birds.
80. They were late fr schl___________ the heavy rain this mrning.
81.___________imprtant sentences in class will help me learn English well.
82. Take a map with yu, r yu___________ in this strange city.
83. He tld us______________________ in the library just nw.
84. The reserve______________________ ver 4, 000 square kilmeters.
85. It is imprtant fr us t prtect the______________________ wrld.
七、阅读表达（每题2分，共10分。答案不超过5个单词）
Penguins(企鹅) live tgether, but each pair has a little piece f grund f their wn. When a penguin wants t walk thrugh its neighbr’s grund, it must ask fr permissin(允许). If it des nt, it will have t fight. Penguins cme and g all day. They hunt fr fish and lk after their children.
All penguins are gd parents—the male(雄性) penguins may be the best parents in the wrld. They chse their wives in the dark by hearing them. Then the female penguins lay(下蛋) their eggs and g away fr abut tw mnths. The males lk after the eggs. If the eggs get cld, the babies may die. There is n fd. The snw falls and the wind blws—smetimes at 150 kilmeters an hur. The penguins d nt mve.
When the females return frm the sea, they will nt remember their husbands. It desn’t matter. Only ne thing— their eggs. Male penguins never fight. They nly fight when a penguin leaves its baby fr a minute because they all want it. They are strange and wnderful birds.
86. What will a penguin d if it desn’t ask fr permissin t walk thrugh its neighbr’s grund?
________________________________________________
87. Hw d male penguins chse their wives in the dark?
________________________________________________
88. Hw lng d the female penguins g away after laying eggs?
________________________________________________
89. Why d male penguins fight?
________________________________________________
90. What d yu think f penguins?
________________________________________________
书面表达（共25分，其中卷面分5分）
你校英语俱乐部即将举办题为“Lve wildlife, lve nature”的英语演讲比赛活动，请你根据以下提示写一篇演讲稿，参加比赛，宣传保护野生动物，热爱大自然的理念。
The imprtance f wildlife and nature
Ways t prtect:
Gvernment/ Sciety/ Yu can…
Lve wildlife, lve nature
…
The danger they are facing
Gd mrning, ladies and gentlemen,
It’s my pleasure t be here t give yu a speech.___________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I hpe we can wrk tgether t prtect wildlife and nature. Lve wildlife, lve nature. Tmmy's Sunday
At __13__ in the mrning
He gets up.
At 9:00
He helps Sandy with ___14__.
At 12:00
He has lunch with his parents.
At 3:00 in the afternn
He plays ftball with his __15___.
At 10:30 in the evening
He ges t bed.
A. Cats can bring illness.
B. Keeping a cat is gd fr yu.
C. Outdr cats can get sick very easily.
D. Peple shuld nt keep cats as their pets.
E. Cats kill many birds and small animals every year.
F. Hwever, the birds are becming fewer and fewer.
G. If yu raise a yung cat, yu’d better let it play inside.
clear; get lst; cver an area f; because f; write dwn;
nature; right away; lead t; prtect ; nt shut;