期末专题组合练 阅读理解+短文填空+书面表达（含解析） 八年级英语上学期 牛津上海版（试用本）

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期末专题组合练 阅读理解 短文填空 书面表达 八年级英语上学期 牛津上海版（试用本）
一、阅读理解
（2022上·江苏扬州·八年级统考期末）
There are more than 50 billion honeybees flying around our farms and neighborhoods every summer. We take care of them so that they can take care of us by helping many of our crops grow.
But honeybees aren’t the only bees in town.
People from England brought the first honeybees to North America in 1622. But those European honeybees arrived to a land that was already filled with wild bees, more than 4,000 kinds of them. Some of those wild bee kinds are bumblebees (大黄蜂). Bumblebees are probably our most famous wild bees, and they are the same as honeybees in many ways. They live in groups and they are active all summer long. But most wild bees are pretty different. Many of them live their lives alone. In these kinds, each female is a hardworking single mom who builds her own nest, usually in a wood tunnel or underground cave, lays her own eggs, and works alone to feed her babies.
More than 80% of all plant kinds depend on animals to move their pollen (花粉) from flower to flower. This way, called pollination, is how these plants grow.
All kinds of animals play an important role in pollination: butterflies, moths, flies, ants, even birds and bats, but bees are the best pollinators out there.
And while honeybees get most of the attention, wild bees can be just as useful, sometimes even more so.
Some of these relationships have developed over millions of years, and the survival of each partner depends on the other.
1．What is Paragraph One mainly about
A．Honeybees are everywhere in the U. S. all year round.
B．The farmers in the U. S. are bored with too many honeybees.
C．Honeybees are useless to the farmers in the U. S.
D．Lots of honeybees in the U. S. help with the crops’ growth.
2．What does the underlined word “they” refer to
A．European honeybees. B．American bumblebees.
C．American honeybees. D．European wild bees.
3．Which animal can help move the pollen most
A．Butterflies B．Bats. C．Bees. D．Moths.
4．From the passage, we know that ________.
A．bees are active all summer long
B．the first honeybees were from North America
C．male wild bees are the most hardworking
D．most plant kinds move their pollen on their own
（2022上·江苏镇江·八年级统考期末）Have you ever wondered what animals are talking about With the development of AI, we may be able to understand their languages!
In Professor Karen Bakker’s new book, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants, she talks about how AI is helping us to make an animal version (版本) of Google Translate, then we can understand animals better.
All around the animal kingdom, there are sounds that we can hardly pick up and decipher (破译). Elephants, for example, talk with each other using infrasound (次声波)—far below our human hearing range. Coral in the ocean also sends sound waves to attract (吸引) baby coral to safer areas to grow. This is surprising because coral doesn’t have any ears! Scientists have placed listening equipment (设备) into these environments to pick up the sounds that humans cannot hear.
After the sounds are recorded, AI can study their meaning, according to the news website Vox. For example, Israeli researchers used AI to translate bats’ 15,000 calls. They found that more than 60 percent of the sounds were arguments (争吵) about four things: food, sleeping ways, the loss of personal space, and unwanted disturbance (打扰).
This technology can not only understand the animals but communicate back to them. For example, bees use dances to communicate with each other. A research team in Germany, therefore, put the bee language AI system into a robot bee. They asked the robot to create a dance routine (路线) to tell the bees where the nectar (花蜜) was, Vox reported.
5．Karen Bakker’s new book shows us that ________.
A．why AI can help people research animals
B．why animals need help from human being
C．how AI helps people do translations better
D．how AI helps people better understand animals
6．What do we know about the sounds made by animals
A．They can help animals get used to their environments.
B．Most communications among animals are infrasound.
C．Some of the sounds cannot be heard by humans directly.
D．More than 60 percent of the animal sounds are arguments.
7．How did scientists tell bees where the nectar was
A．By asking a robot bee to teach them a new language.
B．By training other bees and showing them the way there.
C．By making a new sound with the AI system to help them.
D．By making a robot bee to tell the bees the route by dancing.
8．What is the best title of the passage
A．Listening to animals B．Talking to animals
C．Picking up animal sounds D．Recording animal sounds
二、短文填空
（2022上·江苏盐城·八年级校考期末）根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。（每空一词）
An elephant and a monkey lived in the s 9 forest. They were good friends, but b 10 of them were very proud. The elephant was proud because he was s 11 and the monkey was proud because he was very quick.
At last they asked the owl (猫头鹰) to judge (裁判) which was b 12 — to be strong or to be quick. The owl asked them to do w 13 he said. He asked them to go to the island and bring him some bananas.
The elephant crossed the river, but the monkey couldn’t because the river ran too fast. The elephant got there, but the bananas were too h 14 to reach.
The elephant had to come back. He asked monkey to get on his back.
As soon as they got there, the monkey quickly c 15 up the tree and threw some bananas to the elephant. The elephant caught them with his n 16 .
Then they came back to the owl and gave him the fruit. The owl said the elephant couldn’t get bananas by himself, and the monkey couldn’t e 17 . They could get the bananas only when they h 18 each other.
（2022上·江苏盐城·八年级盐城文港路初级中学校考期末）根据短文内容和首字母提示，填写所缺单词，完成短文。(每空一词)
Winter is cold in some places. Many plants stop g 19 during the winter and some plants die. Snow and ice may cover the ground. It can be d 20 for animals to find food during the winter. Animals get through this time in many ways.
Birds and butterflies can fly. Many of them do not stick around for the winter. They go to a place w 21 warm weather. Then they come home in spring. Migrating (迁徙) is a good way to avoid the cold.
A 22 good way to keep away from the cold is to sleep through it. Many animals sleep during the winter. Their bodies slow down in order to save their energy. They n 23 eat anything. They get energy from their fat. They do so till their f 24 comes back. We call this hibernation (冬眠).
Some animals keep food in their homes. They do not sleep all winter, but they do much less. They live on w 25 they save in summer and fall. Other animals do not leave or hide. They may try to live during such cold days. Sometimes nature h 26 them out. Some animals grow thicker coats in winter. Other animals change c 27 . The article fox is brown in summer but his coat turns white in winter.
Winter may be pleasant. It is nice to see snow on the tree. But it is dangerous too. People also face such a p 28 . How do you beat the winter Do you wear a thick coat Do you stay inside Or do you live somewhere warm
三、书面表达
29．（2022上·江苏扬州·八年级统考期末）Tom是一名中学生，今年寒假他想参加Sunshine Middle School组织的冬令营，需要Mr White通过电子邮件向对方主席提交一封推荐信。内容如下：
基本信息 男，15 岁，八年级学生，强壮又健康
个性 幽默；乐于助人
爱好 1. 喜欢阅读，因为…… 2. 痴迷于DIY。 (举一例) 3. 喜爱动物，观鸟社团的一员，每年都帮助记录和描述鸟的变化
其他 最爱春天，放风筝，……
梦想 ……
要求：1. 必须包括所有要点，并适当发挥；
2. 表达清楚，语法正确，上下文连贯；
3. 词数100左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
Dear Chairperson,
I would like to recommend Tom.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Mr. White
30．（2022上·江苏宿迁·八年级统考期末）John是一名中学生，今年寒假将参加由TESL机构组织的去美国的冬令营，Mrs White需要通过Email向对方主席提供一份他的介绍。内容如下：
基本信息 男，15岁，八年级二班学生，健康又强壮；
个性 诚实；勤奋；乐于助人；
爱好 喜欢打篮球； 最喜欢地理，了解不同的文化； 是观鸟社团的成员，每年都去自然保护区帮助数鸟和描述鸟类；
其它 最喜欢的季节是冬季；堆雪人，用胡萝卜做鼻子……
将来愿望 ……
Dear Chairperson,
I would like to introduce John.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. White
31．（2022上·江苏扬州·八年级统考期末）每年4月1日为“国际爱鸟日”，鸟类是与人类共生共荣的“空中精灵”。学校将开展以“爱鸟始于心，护鸟始于行”为主题的演讲比赛，请你以“Creating a bird-friendly garden or balcony”为题，根据表格中的要点写一篇英语演讲稿，呼吁大家用自己的创造力来表达对鸟类的欣赏和关爱。内容如下：
Reasons 1.You: love nature... 2.People: keep birds as pets... 3.Birds: the number...
Actions Create a bird-friendly garden or a balcony: 1. a right place... 2. provide food... 3. cover... 4. water...
Purposes (目的) ……
参考词汇：create (创造) feeder (喂食器) food sources (食物来源)
要 求：（1）表达清楚，语法正确，上下文连贯；
（2）必须包括提示中的所有信息，并按要求适当发挥；
（3）词数：100词左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）；
（4）不得使用真实姓名、校名和地名等。
Creating a bird-friendly garden or balcony
Good afternoon, everybody!
I’m very glad to share my topic with you. I’m Li Lin from Class 1, Grade 8. Today I’d like to talk about creating a bird-friendly garden or a balcony.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
That’s all. Thank you!
参考答案：
1．D 2．B 3．C 4．A
【导语】本文主要讲述了蜜蜂有助于农作物的生长，尤其介绍了野生蜜蜂也发挥着很重要的作用。
1．主旨大意题。根据“We take care of them so that they can take care of us by helping many of our crops grow.”可知，本段主要讲述蜜蜂能促进农作物生长。故选D。
2．词义猜测题。根据“Bumblebees are probably our most famous wild bees, and they are the same as honeybees in many ways.”可知，they指代前句的大黄蜂。故选B。
3．细节理解题。根据“but bees are the best pollinators out there.”可知，蜜蜂是最好的传粉者。故选C。
4．细节理解题。根据“They live in groups and they are active all summer long.”可知，蜜蜂整个夏天都很活跃。故选A。
5．D 6．C 7．D 8．B
【导语】本文主要讲述的是如何利用人工智能与动物交流。
5．细节理解题。根据“In Professor Karen Bakker’s new book…she talks about how AI is helping us to make an animal version (版本) of Google Translate, then we can understand animals better.”可知，她的新书是关于AI是如何帮助人们更好理解动物的。故选D。
6．细节理解题。根据“Elephants, for example, talk with each other using infrasound (次声波)—far below our human hearing range”可知，有些声音不在人类的听力范围，所以人类不能直接听到。故选C。
7．细节理解题。根据“A research team in Germany, therefore, put the bee language AI system into a robot bee. They asked the robot to create a dance routine (路线) to tell the bees where the nectar (花蜜) was, Vox reported.”可知，是通过蜜蜂机器人来创造一个舞蹈路线告诉蜜蜂花蜜的位置。故选D。
8．最佳标题题。本文主要讲述的是如何利用人工智能与动物交流。选项B“和动物交流”符合内容。故选B。
9．(s)ame 10．(b)oth 11．(s)trong 12．(b)etter 13．(w)hat 14．(h)igh 15．(c)limbed 16．(n)ose 17．(e)ither 18．(h)elped
【导语】本文主要讲述了大象和猴子让猫头鹰做裁判，看他们俩谁更好。猫头鹰让他们去岛上摘香蕉回来，通过这件事，他们明白了要互相帮助。
9．句意：一只大象和一只猴子住在同一片森林里。根据下文“They were good friends”以及空格前的定冠词the可知，他们住在同一片森林里，the same意为“相同的”。故填(s)ame。
10．句意：他们是好朋友，但他们都很骄傲。根据下文“The elephant was proud because he was strong and the monkey was proud because he was very quick.”可知，他们都有自己的骄傲之处，both of意为“两者都”。故填(b)oth。
11．句意：大象很骄傲，因为他很强壮，猴子很骄傲，因为他很敏捷。根据第二段“to be strong or to be quick”可知，这里指大象很强壮。故填(s)trong。
12．句意：最后，他们让猫头鹰来判断哪个更好——是强壮还是敏捷。根据“to be strong or to be quick.”可知，是指判断哪个更好，两者做比较，用比较级，better意为“更好”。故填(b)etter。
13．句意：猫头鹰要求他们照他说的去做。what he said在句中作宾语，意为“他说的（事）”。故填(w)hat。
14．句意：大象到了那里，但是香蕉太高了，够不着。根据“ the bananas were too...to reach.”可知，是指香蕉太高，大象够不着，故填(h)igh。
15．句意：他们一到那里，猴子就迅速爬上树，扔了一些香蕉给大象。根据“...up the tree”可知，是指爬上树，该句为一般过去时，所以climb“爬”也要用过去式。故填(c)limbed。
16．句意：大象用鼻子接住了它们。根据“The elephant caught them with his”可知，大象只能用鼻子接物品，nose意为”鼻子“，故填(n)ose。
17．句意：猫头鹰说大象自己拿不到香蕉，猴子也拿不到。根据“the elephant couldn’t get bananas by himself, and the monkey couldn’t”可知，是指大象拿不到，猴子也拿不到，否定句末的“也”用either。故填(e)ither。
18．句意：他们只有互相帮助才能得到香蕉。根据“...each other”可知，是指互相帮助，句中的could是过去式，所以help“帮助”也要用过去式。故填(h)elped。
19．(g)rowing 20．(d)ifficult 21．(w)ith 22．(A)nother 23．(n)ever 24．(f)ood 25．(w)hat 26．(h)elps 27．(c)olors/(c)olours 28．(p)roblem
【导语】本文介绍了动物们过冬的几种方式。
19．句意：在冬天，很多植物停止生长，还有一些会死亡。根据“some plants die”结合常识可知有些会停止生长，grow“生长”，stop doing sth.“停止正在做的事情”，此处用growing。故填(g)rowing。
20．句意：在冬天，对于动物们来说寻找到食物是困难的。根据“Snow and ice may cover the ground.”可知大地被冰雪覆盖，动物们很难找到食物，difficult“困难的”。故填(d)ifficult。
21．句意：它们会去天气暖和的地方。根据“They go to a place w... warm weather.”可知是去有暖和天气的地方，用with表示“有”。故填(w)ith。
22．句意：另外一个远离寒冷的好方法是睡觉。根据“Migrating is a good way to avoid the cold.”可知此处是另外一个方法，another“另一个”。故填(A)nother。
23．句意：它们从不吃东西。根据“They get energy from their fat.”可知他们在冬天从不吃东西，never“从不”。故填(n)ever。
24．句意：它们这样做直到它们的食物回来。根据“They n... eat anything. They get energy from their fat.”可知此处和食物有关，food“食物”。故填(f)ood。
25．句意：它们依靠在夏天和秋天储存的食物生活。此处为宾语从句引导词，并且在宾语从句中作save的宾语，用what。故填(w)hat。
26．句意：有时候，大自然会帮助它们。根据“Some animals grow thicker coats in winter.”可推出是大自然有时候会帮忙，help“帮助”，nature后接第三人称单数形式。故填(h)elps。
27．句意：另一些动物改变颜色。根据“The article fox is brown in summer but his coat turns white in winter.”可知这是颜色的改变，此处用复数。故填(c)olors/(c)olours。
28．句意：人们也要面对这个问题。根据“How do you beat the winter Do you wear a thick coat Do you stay inside Or do you live somewhere warm ”可知人们也面临这样一个问题，problem“问题”，a后接单数。故填(p)roblem。
29．例文
Dear Chairperson,
I would like to recommend Tom. He is a 15-year-old boy. He is in Grade 8. He is strong and healthy.
He is humorous. He often tells funny jokes. He is also helpful enough to help others.
He loves reading, because he can learn a lot from books. Time seems to go faster when he is reading books. He is crazy about DIY. He spends hours doing DIY at weekends. Also, he loves animals. He is a member of Bird-watching Club. Every year, he helps count and describe the changes of birds. Spring is his favourite season. It is the perfect time to fly kites and smell the flowers.
Being an excellent teacher is his dream. I hope his dream comes true.
Yours,
Mr. White
【详解】[总体分析]
①题材：本文是一篇应用文；
②时态：时态为“一般现在时”；
③提示：写作要点已给出，考生注意不要遗漏“要点”中汤姆的梦想，注意不要遗漏要点。
[写作步骤]
第一步，介绍汤姆的基本信息、个性；
第二步，介绍汤姆的爱好，以及他最爱春天、放风筝等；
第三步，介绍汤姆的梦想，并表达自己希望他的梦想实现。
[亮点词汇]
①tell jokes讲笑话
②seem to do似乎做某事
③be crazy about着迷于
④come true实现
[高分句型]
①He loves reading, because he can learn a lot from books. (because引导原因状语从句)
②Time seems to go faster when he is reading books. (When引导时间状语从句)
30．例文
Dear Chairperson,
I would like to introduce John. He is a fifteen-year-old boy. He is in Class Two, Grade Eight. He is very healthy and strong.
Simon is an honest boy. He never tells lies and we all trust him. He is hard-working and helpful. He often helps us with our lessons. He has many hobbies. He often plays basketball in his free time. His favourite subject is Geography. He likes travelling and learns different cultures. He is also a member of the Birdwatching Society. Every year he goes to nature reserves to help count and describe the birds.
John’s favorite season is winter. He can make snowmen and uses carrots for their noses. He thinks it’s exciting to have big snowball fights. John wants to be a teacher when he grows up. He likes to work with children.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs White
【详解】[总体分析]
①题材：本文是一篇应用文，为电子邮件；
②时态：时态为一般现在时；
③提示：本文的大部分要点已给出，还有部分要点不全，需要自己补充，注意本文是介绍他人，要用第三人称介绍。
[写作步骤]
第一步，总述写作目的；
第二步，详细介绍其基本信息和爱好；
第三步，介绍他的其他方面及他的愿望。
[亮点词汇]
①a fifteen-year-old boy一个15岁的男孩
②tells lies说谎
③in his free time在他闲暇时光
[高分句型]
①He thinks it’s exciting to have big snowball fights（宾语从句）
② John wants to be a teacher when he grows up.（when引导的时间状语从句）
31．例文
Creating a bird-friendly garden or balcony
Good afternoon, everybody!
I’m very glad to share my topic with you. I’m Li Lin from Class 1, Grade 8. Today I’d like to talk about creating a bird-friendly garden or a balcony.
Birds play an important role in nature. They bring nature to life and I love nature. Some people keep birds as pets, which prevents them from flying freely. The number of birds has also decreased dramatically over the years. So let’s create a bird-friendly garden or balcony.
First, find a right place on the balcony and make a house for the birds. Second, use feeders to provide birds with the food they like. When they are hungry, they will come to your balcony. Third, cover the balcony with their favorite plants. Fourth, put some water on the balcony. If they are thirsty, they may come to drink. In a word, if you want to create a bird-friendly balcony, try to offer the birds something they’re looking for, then they’ll be much more likely to come to visit. In this way, the living environment of birds can be greatly improved.
That’s all. Thank you!
【详解】[总体分析]
①题材：本文是一篇演讲稿；
②时态：时态为“一般现在时”；
③提示：写作要点已给出，考生应注意不要遗漏，适当添加细节，并突出写作重点。
[写作步骤]
第一步，根据文章开头，说明要保护鸟类的原因；
第二步，具体阐述如何创建一个适合鸟类的花园或阳台及其目的。
[亮点词汇]
①play an important role起重要作用
②prevent sb. from doing sth.阻止某人做某事
③the number of……的数量
④in a word总之
⑤look for寻找
[高分句型]
①When they are hungry, they will come to your balcony.（when引导的时间状语从句）
②If they are thirsty, they may come to drink.（if引导的条件状语从句）
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