上海市马陆育才中学2020-2021学年八年级下学期期中英语试卷（含答案无听力部分）

2020-2021学年第二学期八年级英语质量监测
（满分100分，完卷时间90分钟）
考生注意：本卷7大题，共80小题，试卷均采用连续编号，所有答案务必按照规定在答题纸上完成，做在试卷上不给分
Part 1 Listening（第一部分 听力）
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Part 2 Phonetics, Vocabulary and Grammar
（第二部分 语音、词汇和语法）
II. Choose the best answer.（选择最恰当的答案）（共15分）
22. Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation
A. puzzled B. until C. pump D. publish
23. Have you found ______ detective book they talked about yesterday
A. an B. a C. / D. the
24. More and more young people go for an outing with their family ______ spring.
A. at B. in C. on D. to
25. The child is lively ______ healthy, so everybody likes to play with him.
A. as well as B. as well C. too D. also
munity service workers help others and make everyone ______ better.
A. feeling B. feel C. to feel D. feels
27. Enough clean air and water are needed to keep all the living creatures ______ .
A. living B. alive C. live D. lively
28. Our Earth will be ______ if we go on cutting down millions of trees every year.
A. in great danger B. danger C. dangerous D. out of danger
29. I’ve ordered some flowers for Grandma and they ______ in two hours.
A. will arrive B. arrived C. have arrived D. had arrived
30. Hurry up! There’s only ______ time left.
A. few B. a few C. little D. a little
31. The doctor gave my uncle a thorough examination before telling him the problem. The underlined part means “______”.
A. real B. complete C. lucky D. strange
32. We must save water. Please ______ taps when you leave the bathroom.
A. turn on B. turn down C. turn off D. turn up
33. Stop ______ about the haze（炫耀）. Just think about what we can do to improve it.
A. complain B. to complain C. complaining D. complained
34. Mr. King didn’t know ______ yesterday evening.
A. when does his son come home B. when his son comes home
C. when did his son come home D. when his son came home
35. --- ______ I go to the shop for a packet of dried mushrooms now
--- No, you ______. You can buy it on your way home tomorrow.
A. May, mustn’t B. May, needn’t C. Must, mustn’t D. Must, needn’t
36. --- Excuse me, where is the No. 2 canteen of the university
--- ______. I’m a new comer. You can ask somebody else for help
A. No problem. B. Sony, I have no idea.
C. What’s wrong with you D. Enjoy your meal there
Ⅲ. Complete the following sentences with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once.（选词或词组填空，每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次）（共5分）
A. special B. quietly C. communicate with D. quickly E. pleasant F. protect
We talk every day. When we have good news, we like to share it with our good friends. When something terrible happens, we will make it known to others soon. But can you imagine that a tree can talk and share news too Of course, no tree moves lips（嘴唇）and says words just as people do. Strange as it may sound, though, some trees manage to ___37___ each other.
Willow（柳树）trees are the best-known of these trees. When insects begin nibbling（叮咬）a willow tree, the tree sends out a ___38___ smell at once. This smell tells the other willows that harmful insects are coming near. All of them ___39___ make a chemical in the leaves. This chemical is bad to the insects. The insects do not like it and they fly away soon. In this way, the willow trees ___40___ themselves from the insects.
The next time when you take a walk in the woods, maybe the trees are “talking” to each other ___41___. And when someone says that trees cannot “talk”, please tell him that even trees give messages to each other, too.
plete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms. （用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成句子，每空格限填一词）（共8分）
42. Look, the ______ girl from the left is our monitor. (five)
43. We are going to have a speech about air ______ (pollute) in China.
44. I looked at him until he ______ in the distance. (appear).
45. My husband and I love pets. We decided to buy ______ a white dog. (we)
46. Some developing countries are in great need of ______ care for children. (medicine)
47. The students greet the teachers ______ with a smile at the school gate every morning. (polite)
48. Having done enough revision, Joe is sure that he’ll ______ in the final exam. (success)
49. When you feel tired or ______, you can look for something interesting to do. (happy)
V. Rewrite the following sentences as required. （根据所给要求，改写下列句子，每空格限填一词）（12分）
50. Jack did lots of housework with his mother yesterday.（改为否定句）
Jack ______ ______ lots of housework with his mother yesterday.
51. That TV program is very interesting!（改为感叹句）
______ ______ interesting TV program it is!
52. People should stop celebrating festivals with fireworks to reduce pollution.（对划线部分提问）
______ ______ people stop celebrating festivals with fireworks
53. The boy is so young that he cannot dress himself.（保持原句意思不变）
The boy is ______ young ______ dress himself.
54. The government will build more parking places for car owners this year.（改为被动语态）
Many parking places for car owners ______ ______ built by the government this year.
55. taking notes, to, editor, be responsible for, the, him, asked（连词成语）
___________________________________________________________________________
VI. Reading comprehension（阅读理解共25分）：
A. Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）（6分）
Three students are choosing a course at The West Midlands College of Technology.
Clara At first I thought about the Sports Studies Course because I really enjoy swimming and football, but in the end I decided that the Leisure（休闲）and Tourism Course is better for me. You see, I like meeting people and I’d really like to work abroad for a few years, maybe as a tour guide; or in a hotel, maybe in Spain.
Taka I’d really like to do a course in art because I’m very interested in art, but I have to think about my job. I work as a fashion designer and when I go back to Japan I want to use a computer to design clothes, so I’m going to the Information Technology Course. I can study art and photography（摄影）in my free time!
Ben Yeah, well, I want to have a good time at college, you know, meet lots of people and I don’t want to work too much! I like computers a lot and I might do a job with computers one day in the future, but at the moment I’m really interested in music, you know. I’m in a rock band, so I’ve decided to do the Performing Arts Course. Then in the first year I can do music and in the second year I’ll probably do a course in singing. Then my friends in the band and I can be rich and famous!
56. Clara wishes to become a ______ after leaving college.
A. footballer B. swimmer C. hotel manager D. tour guide
57. We can learn from the passage that Clara is a(n) ______ person.
A. patient B. active C. gentle D. traditional
58. From Taka’s introduction we know that she is from ______.
A. Spain B. Britain C. Japan D. Thailand
59. Taka wants to learn _______ with computers from the Information Technology Course.
A. how to design clothes B. how to make photos better
C. how to draw well D. how to design indoor decoration
60. Ben would like to ______ during his study at college.
A. study more on computers B. set up a new rock band
C. do more part-time jobs D. focus on music and singing
61. Besides the Performing Arts Course, ______ might be another good choice for Ben.
A. the Leisure and Tourism Course B. the Sports Studies Course
C. the information Technology Course D. the Fashion Designing Course
B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）：（共6分）
On a cold and wet night, I had just left a local club to travel home when I lost control of my car. I crashed into a car, then ___62___ a tree. The force was so great that it knocked the parked car several meters forwards. I was badly injured! Even worse, I had no idea that a fire had started under the engine of my car. It then set the tree on fire.
A young man was driving behind me. I later found out he was called Jared. He saw the accident happen and ___63___ to help me out of the burning car. He put his own life in danger when he got into the back seat to try to untie my seat belt. This wasn’t easy ___64___ I had hit the car on my driver’s side and my seat belt was squeezed into the console（操纵台）.
With my seat belt untied, Jared then broke the driver's window to drag me out as I had still not regained consciousness（意识）. He ___65___ did this while my car and the tree were burning. After I was woken by the crash, the homeowners came out to investigate. Jared told them to ring ___66___ services. I was rushed to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in a serious condition, five bones broken.
I spent a few weeks in hospital and Jared visited me. He also continued to contact me after I returned home. He said he didn't believe that he had done anything ___67___. On that, I disagreed with him and I was very glad that he didn't get hurt in the process.
Today, nearly seven years later, Jared and I still keep in touch and often talk about the events of that night. Jared is my angel and my friend as well.
62. A. climbed B. cut C. hit D. burned
63. A. failed B. stopped C. forgot D. hesitated
64. A. if B. because C. after D. unless
65. A. bravely B. usually C. hardly D. mainly
66. A. transport B. public C. travel D. emergency
67. A. special B. difficult C. creative D. probable
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通须。每空格限填一词，首字母己给）：（共7分）
Two men walked through the countryside toward another village. As they come to the edge of a river, they saw an old woman sitting there upset because the bridge was d___68___ by the storm, and she was too weak to walk across the stream. The first man said right away, “We are tall enough, we can carry you a___69___.” The second man thought it troublesome, but he agreed reluctantly（不情愿的）. So the two men joined hands, lifted her between them and carried her across the river. When they got to the other side, they set her down and she went on her way g___70___. After they had walked another mile or so, the second man began to complain, “My back began to hurt for lifting her.” The first man j___71___ smiled and nodded without a word.
The second man complained every other mile, his back pain got more and more s___72___. On the 5th mile, he couldn't stand it any more and fell down on the grass. “My back is hurting me so badly. I can’t go any farther because of the pain and it is all because we had to carry that silly woman across the river!” Out of control, he asked, “Why aren’t you complaining about it Doesn’t your back hurt ”
Of course not," the first man r___73___, “You have been carrying the woman since we left the river bank. But I set her down five miles ago.
We are often like that second man who keeps on complaining and can’t get over the pain of p___74___. Years later, we will still be carrying the burdens, worn out, and can’t go any further.
68. d______ 69. a______ 70. g______ 71. j______
72. s______ 73. r______ 74. p______
D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）：（共6分）
Nowadays, people with serious heart problems can have a heart transplant - in other words, another heart is put into their body to replace the heart with problems.
Christian Barnard was the surgeon（外科医生）who performed the first human heart transplant operation. Barnard was born in 1922, in his native South Africa. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town and graduated in 1953. Then he went to the USA and studied at the University of Minnesota. He returned to the University of Cape Town in 1958 to teach surgery. No one knew very much about him - but in 1967, he became world-famous.
On 3 December, Barnard transferred the heart of a 25-year-old woman into the body of Louis Wahkansky, a 55-year-old grocer. Unfortunately, Washkansky died 18 days later. Barnard did a second transplant, on 2 January 1968, for a man called Philip Blaiberg - this was a lot more successful, as Blaiberg lived for over 18 months after the operation.
Barnard was not the usual picture of a surgeon. Young and handsome, he spent as much time in nightclubs as he did in operation rooms. He met the Pope（教皇）in Rome and President Lyndon Johnson in the USA. He knew many beautiful film stars of the time, but all three of his marriages failed. He also performed free surgery on hundreds of very sick people.
He died in September 2001, aged 78.
75. When was Christian Barnard born
76. In which two countries did he study
77. What did Barnard do at the University of Cape Town in 1958
78. How long did Philip Blaiberg live after his heart transplant
79. What kind of person do you think Barnard was And give your reasons.（2分）
Ⅶ. 80. Write at least 60 words according to the given topic “Water in our life”.（以“生活中的水”为题，写一篇至少60个单词的短文，要求语句通顺，内容连贯。）（共10分）
Use the following points for reference.（以下问题仅供参考）
1. Is water important Why
2. What do we use water to do
3. How can we save water
参考答案
II. Choose the best answer.（选择最恰当的答案）（共15分）
22~26 BDBAB 27~31 BAADB 32~36 CCDDB
Ⅲ. Complete the following sentences with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once.（选词或词组填空，每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次）（共5分）
municate with; 38. special; 39. quickly; 40. protect; 41. quietly
plete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms. （用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成句子，每空格限填一词）（共8分）
42. fifth; 43. pollution; 44. disappeared; 45. us
46. medical; 47. politely; 48. succeed; 49. unhappy
V. Rewrite the following sentences as required. （根据所给要求，改写下列句子，每空格限填一词）（12分）
50. didn’t do; 51. What an; 52. Why should; 53. too to; 54. will be
55. The editor asked him to be responsible for taking notes.
VI. Reading comprehension（阅读理解共25分）：
A. Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）（6分）
56~61 DBCADC
B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）：（共6分）
62~67 CBBADA
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通须。每空格限填一词，首字母己给）：（共7分）
68. damaged; 69. across; 70. gladly; 71. just; 72. seriously; 73. replied; 74. past
D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）：（共6分）
75. In 1922.
76. In South Africa and the USA.
77. He taught surgery.
78. 18 months.
79. I think he is helpful because he performed free surgery on hundreds of very sick people.
Ⅶ. 80. Write at least 60 words according to the given topic “Water in our life”. 略