+2022-2023学年江苏省无锡市八年级下学期英语期末试题模拟（含答案）

2023年春学期无锡市初中学业水平抽测

八年级英语试题模拟(培优卷)

第I卷 客观题（共60分）

一、单项选择 在A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（本大题共10小题, 每小题1分, 共10分）

1. The sky suddenly turned dark and the rain began to beat heavily _________ the windows.

A. below               B. across           C. through         D. against

2. I don’t know how to use the robot without reading the ________ on how to use it.

A. introductions    B. instruments     C. instructions    D. inventions

3.­—When will the women's football match between China and South Korea begin on TV?

—Oh, it __________ for ten minutes, ending in 4:3. China won the game.

A. has finished       B. has been on      C. has been over       D. has begun

4. —Song of Autumn by Liu Yuxi describes autumn in a different way.

—I agree. Most poets describe this season to ________a feeling of sadness, but in Liu's eyes autumn is full of life and hope.

A. excuse          B. expect           C. explain           D. express

5.—Could you tell me how to work out this Maths problem?

—Sorry, I can’t remember ________ what Miss Wang told us.

A. exactly    B. correctly    C. really   D. properly

6. —Don't punish him. He's only two years old.

—A kid is never_________ learn good manners.

A. too old to        B. too young to     C. old enough to       D. young enough to

7. —My feelings for you have not changed .

—But you have changed .You are not as you          .

1. are         B. used to be           C. will be          D. have been

8. —My parents and I plan to watch the animal migration(迁徙) in Africa this summer.

—Wow,! Bet it           be an unusual experience !

A. may             B. can           C. need              D. must

9. —Mr Wu, I’m sorry to make so many mistakes. I promise I will spend more time on English.

—Tom, remember that ________. You should really do what you say you will do.

A. every dog has its day B. actions speak louder than words

C. it never rains but it pours D. many hands make light work

10. — I hope you won't mind a little friendly advice.

—__________. A true friend is the one who tells you the truth about yourself

1. Not at all   B. With pleasure    C. You're welcome      D. My pleasure

二、完形填空先通读下面的短文, 掌握其大意, 然后在每小题所给的四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（本大题共10小题, 每小题1分, 共10分）

The room in the workhouse where the boys were fed was a large stone hall. At one end, the master, in his cook’s uniform, and two women prepared the ____11____. This included a bowl of thin soup three times a day with a piece of bread on Sundays. The boys ate everything and were always hungry. The bowls never needed ____12____. The boys polished（擦亮）them with their spoons until they shone. After this continued for three months, one of the boys told the others that he was so ____13____ that one night he might eat the boy sleeping next to him. He had a wild hungry eye and the other boys ____14____ him. After a long discussion they decided that one of them should ask for more food after supper that evening and Oliver was ____15____.

The evening arrived: the soup was ready and the ____16____ were empty again in a few seconds. Oliver went up to the master, with his bowl in his hand. He felt very ____17____, but also helpless with hunger.

“Please, sir, I want some more.”

The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale. He looked at the little boy in front of him in ____18____. Nobody else spoke.

“What? ” he asked at last, in a low voice. “Please, sir.” replied Oliver, “I want some more.” The master ____19____ him with a big spoon then caught Oliver’s arms and shouted for the beadle（执事）. The beadle came quickly, heard the terrible ____20____, and ran to tell the board at once.

11. A. gift B. award C. food D. table

12. A. washing B. tidying C. buying D. changing

13. A. hungry B. angry C. lonely D. sleepy

14. A. accepted B. punished C. hated D. believed

15. A. allowed B. chosen C. noticed D. found

16. A. plates B. bowls C. hands D. rooms

17. A. excited B. proud C. tired D. afraid

18. A. danger B. place C. trouble D. surprise

19. A. hit B. greeted C. fed D. warned

20. A. voice B. question C. news D. sound

三、阅读理解 (共15小题，每小题2分,计30分)

A

Have you ever noticed that a number is so amazing? Do you want to get some magic fun from a number? Just take a look and see what it is.

21. From the text, the digits of multiples of 9 always finally add up to ________.

A. 4 B. 5 C. 8 D. 9

22. We can learn from the text that ________ while playing the number trick.

A. it’s necessary to prepare a calculator

B. it’s important to write the number that will add up to 9

C. the friend can write in the first and second rows

D. the friend can only write down the same number

23. The text is mainly about the ________ of the number 9.

A. magic power  B. different meanings     C. fun history D. interesting tricks

B

My father and I were both angry. “Never set foot in this house again!” shouted my father. With tears in my eyes, I rushed out to the street.

I walked aimlessly. A young father who held a child in his arms walked past me I seemed to see my childhood from another space: happy.

But now ... I don’t know whether it is because I have grown up or because my dad is getting old. We have different ways of thinking. He always puts his opinions on me. We are just like two people coming from two different worlds. It feels like there is an iron door between us that can never be opened.

I walked in the streets. My heart was cold on this hot summer night. As I walked on, there were fewer and fewer people in the streets, until I had only the street lights with me. When I finally reached the building where I lived, I saw that the light was still on.

I thought to myself: “Is my father waiting for me, or is he still angry with me?”

In fact, it was nothing. Perhaps, my dad was throwing away some of his old stamps. Perhaps he thought they were useless. I never had the courage to tell him that I liked collecting stamps. All the lights were off except my father’s.

Dad was always like this. Maybe he didn’t know how to express himself. After shouting at me, he never showed any moments of regret. However, after an argument he has the habit of tucking me underneath the covers (掖被子) while I am sleeping.

This was how he always was. He has been a leader for so long that telling everyone else what to do has become his second nature.

The light was still on. “Am I wrong?” I whispered, maybe ... With the key in my hand, I was as nervous as I had ever been. At last, I decided to open the door. As soon as I opened the door, tears ran down my cheeks. I suddenly realized that there wasn’t the iron door that I had imagined between us at all. Love — it’s second to none.

24. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The father didn’t like his son’s stamp collecting.

B. The son and his father needed communication.

C. The father opened the door for the son when he came back.

D. The boy fully understood why he and his father had different thinking.

25. Which is the best order of the following according to what happened in the passage?

a. I opened the door and entered the house. 

b. Sadly I ran out into the street.

c. I reached the place where I lived and saw my home still brightly lit.

d. I thought of my father’s kindness towards me.

e. I walked about in the street without any aim.

A. b, e, c, d, a   B. b, e, d, c, a   C. b, e, a, c, d   D. b, e, c, a, d

26.What conclusion can you come to after reading the passage?

A. The father treats his son in an unfair way.   B. The father is neither kind nor rude to his son.

C. The father loves his son very much in fact.  D. The father is always finding his son wrong.

27.This passage is mainly about________.

A. where the boy went     B. why the boy left home

C. what made a father angry      D. how the boy understood his father’s love

C

The Chinese language differs from Western languages in that, instead of an alphabet

(字母表), it uses characters(汉字) which stand for ideas, objects or deeds. Chinese words

are formed by putting together different characters. In many cases, a single character can

also make up a word. As one kind of the most ancient characters, Chinese characters have played an important part in the development of Chinese culture. At first, ancient Sumerian and ancient Egyptian symbols existed (存在), but only Chinese characters are still in use today. The history of the Chinese language can be examined by looking at how these characters developed.

Chinese writing began thousands of years ago. According to an ancient story, a man named Cang Jie invented Chinese writing. One winter day while he was hunting, he saw the footprints of animals in the snow and noticed that the appearance of each one was different. Then he had the idea that he could use different shapes to represent different objects. The first Chinese characters were drawings of physical objects. Some characters have been simplified (简化) and others have been made more difficult over time.

However, as a whole, the characters have developed from drawings into standard forms. The character for a mountain was at first three mountaintops together. This became one mountaintop and three lines, and over time turned into the character used nowadays.

Sometimes to express ideas, some characters were made by putting two or more characters together. For example, “rest” was made up of the characters for a man and a tree. The character “prisoner” was formed with a “man” inside a square. Other characters were developed for directions and numbers. It is easy to distinguish (区别) their meanings by looking at them, for example, the characters for “up” and “down”, which are opposites of each other.

Though these kinds of characters show meanings, one of their shortcomings is that they do not show how they should be pronounced(发音). Therefore, a way was developed to have one part of a character represent the meaning and the other suggest the pronunciation. Many Chinese characters used today were made this way.

In the 1950s the Chinese government introduced simplified Chinese characters in the hope to make learning to read and write more understandable to a large number of people, which would increase literacy (读写能力) across the country. And now they have widespread use in China’s mainland.

28. The writer introduced the Chinese characters by       .

A. giving examples            B. providing causes    

C. expressing opinions            D. comparing(比较) facts

29. The following sentence would best be placed at the beginning of        .

Not all characters were developed from drawings of objects.

A. Paragraph 5       B. Paragraph 4        C. Paragraph 3     D. Paragraph 2

30.Which Chinese character used the underlined (下划线的) way?

A.            B.             C.           D.

31.What might be the best title for the passage?

A. The difference between Chinese and Western language        

B. How to form Chinese characters

C. The development of Chinese characters                    

D. The history of the Chinese language

D

Many countries in the world are now facing major problems related to waste collection, especially in big cities. Technology could play an important role in dealing with these problems, for example, through the development of better tools to gather and collect garbage(垃圾).

With this in mind, researchers at Vishwakarma Government Engineering College in India have recently created a cheap and useful system for automatic garbage detection and collection, which they refer to(指的是) as AGDC. Their system uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms (计算程序) to detect and locate waste, then picks it up with a robotic arm.

The waste management system is made up of a robotic body and several machine learning algorithms. The system uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect garbage on the ground. Once it detects a piece of garbage, it works out its position with the help of pictures collected by a camera. Then, another algorithm judges the distance between the robot and the garbage, while also giving instructions for the robot to reach the target location. The position of the garbage and these instructions are then sent to a microcontroller, which controls the robot’s movements. When the robot finally reaches the garbage detected by the CNNs, it uses a robotic arm to collect it and drops it into a container.

The researchers have already developed a prototype(原型) of their waste detection system, which can now collect up to 100-200g of garbage. In their future work,                , so that it can collect two to three kilograms of garbage. In addition, the team is thinking of developing and training a new CNN model that would allow AGDC to detect several pieces of garbage at the same time.

32. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

1. Reducing waste.                     B. Dealing with pollution.

C. Using technology to collect waste.       D. Making full use of big cities.

33. What are CNNs used to do?

A. Pick up the garbage.                        B. Detect the garbage.

C. Drop the garbage into a container.             D. Control the robot’s movement.

34. How does Paragraph 3 mainly develop?

A. By making a comparison.                     B. By giving examples.

C. By presenting research findings.                D. By showing the process.

35. Which of the following should go in the empty box in Paragraph 4?

A. researchers plan to improve this prototype    B. researchers plan to advertise this prototype

C. researchers plan to produce this prototype    D. researchers plan to give up this prototype

第 II卷 主观题（共40分）

四、词汇运用 根据句意和汉语注释.在答题卡对应题号的横线上, 写出单词的正确形式。（本大题共10小题, 每小题1分, 共10分）

36. This is the ___________ (自豪) moment that I have ever experienced.

37. I don’t like the man who ____________ (乱扔垃圾) in our beautiful school.

38. My cousin has a sweet tooth and ___________ (特别) loves chocolate cakes.

39. If you have lots of _______ (背景) information, it will be easier for you to understand the article.

40. The two gardens are ___________ (隔开) by a wall. They are full of beautiful flowers.

41. Behaving               (礼貌地) costs nothing, but it brings a lot.

42. Everyone isn't____________（允许）to smoke in the office.  

43. Chinese isn’t _____________ (类似) to English.

44. Please tell your father that too much drinking is __________ (有害的) to the health.

45. What’s the ______________ (符合习俗的) way to greet people in Africa?

五、综合阅读

第一节 阅读下面短文，在空白处根据所给首字母填入一个单词或括号内单词的正确形式。(本节共10小题，每小题1分，共10分)

Joshua Williams, a college student, is the president of Joshua’s Heart Foundation (JHF). JHF is a non-profit(非盈利的) organization and it provides clothing, furniture and food for poor people and families in the US and around the world. JHF 46_____________ (raise) over 3 million dollars so far.

Joshua started to help the hungry when he was just 5. He was in his mother’s car when they passed a homeless young man. Joshua asked his mother to stop and he gave him $20. “It was my pocket money. I just wanted to help him,” Joshua recalled(回忆). One year 47___________ (late), he started JHF 48__________ the help of his mother and Francine Hanna, a local businesswoman. “He thought that was 49___________ he wanted to do,” his mother said. “Nothing could stop him.”

Earl lost his job and didn’t manage 50___________ (get) a new one. Without money, he was 51_________ (able) to pay for the flat and had to live on the street. Thanks to Joshua’s Heart Foundation, he could at least have something to eat every day. “Joshua is an angel(天使) from God,” he said.

Now there are about 64,000 volunteers in JHF, 52___________ (include) children, teenagers and adults. And the 53___________ (young) volunteer in JHF is only four years old. Joshua has done a lot to help the poor already, 54_____________ he still thinks it is far from enough.“We will keep on 55____________ (find) ways to help people in need,” Joshua said. “Also, we hope more young people can join us.”

第二节 阅读下面短文，然后根据短文内容回答问题 (本节共5小题，每小题2分，共10分)

Have you ever tasted a kind of snack, which is also of the traditional Chinese of forms of art—sugar painting.

Sugar painting started from the Ming Dynasty and became popular in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, many people made a living through sugar painting, setting up stalls(货摊)in crowded streets, in front of theatres and busy public places. And now it can still be found in many areas of China.

The sugar painters usually sit before a wooden table. On the side, there is a wooden plate with a revolvable arrow(可旋转箭头)on it. The plate is painted with different pictures such as a dragon, a bird, a flower and so on. After paying, the customers turn the arrow and wait till it stops. The picture pointed by the arrow is the one the painters will make.

Sugar painting is very different from normal painting. The sugar painters use syrup(糖浆)as the material, a spoon as the “paintbrush”, and a smooth slab(台面)as the “paper”. To make the syrup, they have to make sugar hot before painting. Since the syrup may become solid(固体的)if it cools, the painters have to produce the work very quickly. They move the spoon full of the syrup up and down, left and right. Soon a sugar painting of an animal, a flower or a bike is done.

The number of sugar painters is getting smaller. However, some of them still insist on this art. They make their efforts to hold different activities such as offering classes and giving speeches. Now, sugar painting has already been listed as National Non-Material Culture Heritage.

根据上面短文的内容回答问题（每个答案不超过6个单词）

56. Did sugar painting become popular in the Ming Dynasty?

____________________________________________________________

57. Where do the sugar painters usually sit?

____________________________________________________________

58. When do the customers turn the arrow?

____________________________________________________________

59. How do sugar painters make the syrup before painting?

____________________________________________________________

60. Why do some of the sugar painters hold different activities?

____________________________________________________________

六、书面表达（本大题共20分）

61. 有人说，人与自然的交流才能开启生命的智慧。人要像保护眼睛一样保护自然环境，要像对待生命一样对待自然环境。作为中学生，我们也可以做出自己的努力。请你用英语写一篇以Going green为题的演讲稿，文章必须包括以下要点。

要求：

1.内容须包含所有要点，语句通顺，意思连贯，可适当发挥；

2.词数90个左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数；

3.表达中请勿提及真实校名及姓名。

Going green

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

As we all know, our hometown Jingyin has become more and more beautiful than before. However, there are many things we can do to protect the environment and build a green home.

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That’s all. Thanks a lot for your attention.

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二、CAADB    BDDAC

三、DBA      BACD      ACDC       CBDA

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    politely        allowed      similar         harmful           proper

五、has raised       later          with            what        to get

    unable          including       youngest       but          finding

1. No.

2. Before a wooden table.
3. After paying.
4. By making sugar hot.
5. To insist on this art.

六、 Dear ladies and gentlemen,

As we all know, our hometown Jiangyin has become more and more beautiful than before. However, there are many things we can do to protect the environment and build a green home.

First of all, we can save water by taking shorter showers and turning off the tap when we brush our teeth. Secondly, in order to save power, we should turn off the lights when we leave a room. Then, we are starting to use energy from the sun, wind and water. These new types of energy cost very little and will never run out. If we want to keep our home clean and tidy, we shouldn’t drop litter everywhere. Lastly, the air pollution is a serious problem, too. I call on you and your parents to take the bus more and drive less.

If we try our best to build a green home, our home will become a better place to live in.

That’s all. Thanks a lot for your attention.