2024-2025学年浙江省宁波市镇海蛟川书院八年级（下）开学考试英语试卷（含答案）

2024-2025 学年浙江省宁波市镇海蛟川书院八年级（下）开学考试英语试卷
small hills and 18 of them had broken doors or windows. My job was to help the local people to 19 their houses.
The workdays were long and hot, 20 it was really good to see the houses taking on a new look day by day.
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The kids there were also different. They seemed to enjoy every moment in life though they were poor. The
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small things could make them 21 . I couldn’t find words to describe their joy when they received an ice cream, a
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ball or 22 a hug(拥抱). The community was like a big family. Everyone knew each other and was ready
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to 23 help.
3.考试结束后，本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 What a wonderful 24 I had in Gary! I truly learned the 25 of what my mother said. You don’t need to do much
to make a difference to others’ lives.
一、单选题：本大题共 10 小题，共 10 分。
1.There ________ a folk music concert in Xinjiang Opera Theater next month.
11.A. love B. success C. interest D. pain
A. are going to be B. will have C. have D. is going to be
12.A. had a look B. made a decision C. played a part D. made a mess
2.I can’t stand ________ talk shows because it’s boring to watch people talking all the time.
13.A. mind B. compare C. agree D. repeat
A. watch B. watching C. to watch D. watches
14.A. difficulty B. safety C. traffic D. influence
3.It’s necessary for you ________ your ideas with others and learn from others.
15.A. finally B. badly C. suddenly D. recently
A. share B. to share C. sharing D. shared
16.A. doubted B. checked C. discovered D. imagined
4.We couldn’t buy anything because _________ of the shops were open.
17.A. dangerous B. crazy C. brave D. lucky
A. all B. both C. nothing D. none
18.A. much B. many C. few D. none
5.Jack’s car was broken and he had to make ________ way on foot.
19.A. sell B. choose C. share D. repair
A. he B. him C. himself D. his
20.A. unless B. though C. but D. since
6.As teenagers, we are not allowed ________ mobile phones into school so that we can focus on our schoolwork.
21.A. upset B. polite C. excited D. bored
A. bring B. to bring C. bringing D. brought
22.A. even B. also C. ever D. still
7.In order ________ the earliest flight, my sister forced herself to get up early this morning.
23.A. accept B. avoid C. refuse D. offer
A. not to miss B. not missing C. to miss D. missing
24.A. experiment B. competition C. experience D. conversation
8.I will have three days ________ next week. Maybe we can go camping in the mountains.
25.A. ability B. meaning C. reason D. skill
A. on B. away C. off D. out
9.The ________ pressure you put on yourself, the ________ you will do in the exam.
A. more; worse B. less; worse C. most; worst D. least; worst
三、阅读理解：本大题共 15 小题，共 30 分。
10.The Little King is ________ interesting ________ many people are interested in it.
A. such; that B. so; that C. too; to D. as; as
A
二、完形填空：本大题共 15 小题，共 22.5 分。 The world is full of amazing nature, buildings, technology and discoveries. Some are man-made and others happen
My mother had a great influence on my life. When I was a child, she always told me, “Sharing 11 is a simple act. naturally.
You don’t have to do much to make others happy.” I didn’t fully understand it until my friend Helen told me about
her amazing trip to a small town called Gary. Then, I 12 to go there, too.
However, my parents didn’t 13 at first when knowing my plan. They said I didn’t know much about the
place. They worried about my 14 there. After I explained my plan to them in detail(详细地), they 15 said yes.
After arriving in Gary, I 16 the town was so different from where I lived. There were few stores or
restaurants in the town, so you would be 17 enough to find a place to buy food or drinks. Houses were built on
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Musical road I consider that family travel is like childbirth. Painful, loud, messy, sort of terrible, actually, but also
In Japan, there are roads that play music as cars travel over wonderful. You only get lost in the wonderful memories—until you’re back on a plane and your kids fight over who
gets the aisle (通道) seat. Then you remember the bad stuff.
them. Grooves (沟) are carefully cut into the surface of the road.
Last weekend, my kids and I flew to Texas for a trip. With a big hotel and wonderful views, we would have
The spaces between the grooves make different music as cars
nothing to complain about (抱怨). And yet, we found things to complain about. The pool was bigger in that other
touch them. The closer the grooves are, the louder the music will
hotel! Why do you get to shower first They call this coffee Luckily, I’ve learned to put my invisible armor (隐形
be.
Bicycle in the tree 盔甲) on as soon as we land somewhere, and it forces complaints to bounce off me and land at my feet.
On Vashon Island, Washington, a bike is seen high up in a Everyone had a good time for three days, and annoying complaints were not heard until it was time to catch a
plane and fly home. Unluckily, our flight was canceled and we spent hours finding a hotel room. We hit the hotel
tree. The bike is not hanging on a branch (树枝)— it is fixed in the
pool before bed and swam well into the night, my kids making up songs and laughing so hard at their silly words and
tree and the tree has continued growing upwards. The tree grows
their crazy good fortune to be swimming at 10:30 on a school night.
around the bike instead of pushing it over, making it part of its That was when it hit me that family travel is everything I said before and much more. It’s taking your kids to parts of
growth. the world that will open their eyes and finding that, actually, yours need opening, too. It’s remembering that joy and
Underground city memories are where you make them, not where you find them.
In Cappadocia, Turkey, a man knocked down a wall of his 29.The underlined word “uncanny” in paragraph I means “________”.
A. unknown B. uncertain C. unusual D. unexpected
home and discovered a huge underground city. It has many
30.What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 3 mean
tunnels (隧道), rooms and wells. Thousands of shafts (通风井)
A. She can deal with the complaints properly.
bring air to even the deepest levels. The city is huge enough for
B. She doesn’t get angry with kids’ complaints.
200 people and their animals to live in. C. She stops the kids’ fighting thanks to the armor.
D. She turns complaints into a way to educate kids.
26.According to the passage, the musical road plays music because ________. 31.From the writer’s experience in the passage, we can learn that ________.
A. the road is huge enough A. a family vacation is a waste of time
B. cars are running very fast B. nothing but joy is left after the journey.
C. cars touch the spaces between the grooves C. complaints are the most difficult to forget
D. there is a piano on the road D. more time is needed on housework after the trip
27.What makes the tree so amazing 32.The passage is probably written to ______.
A. It’s high up in the sky. A. ask people not to worry about small things
B. It pushes a bike over. B. advise people to make a plan before a travel
C. A bike hangs on its branch. C. describe an unforgettable family vacation
D. It continues growing with a bike inside. D. remind people to enjoy life in the moment
28.In which part of a magazine can we most probably read this passage C
A. Travel. B. Technology. C. Education. D. Health.
Housing officials say that they have recently noticed something different: students seem to lack both the will and the
B ability to deal with common conflicts (冲突). “We have students who are angry with each other, and they text each
Travelling with kids is 90 percent reminding yourself to live in the moment and 10 percent making up your mind to other in the same room,” says a teacher. “So many of our conflicts are because kids don’t know how to solve a
never again leave your house. I have an uncanny ability to forget this as soon as we return home from a trip, and I’ve problem by proper discussion.”
finished washing piles of dirty clothes in our luggage and cleaning all the mess caused by the kids. Extremely tired As any pop psychologist will tell you, bottled feelings can lead to silent discontent (不满) that might boil over
and annoyed, I would begin to miss the place we just left! into sadness and anger. At the University of Florida, feelings-related fights take place about once a week; the
university’s director of housing education says, “Over the past five years, roommate conflicts have risen. Students
don’t have person-to-person discussions and don’t know how to deal with them.” The problem is most surprising
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among freshmen; housing professionals say they see improvement as students move toward graduation, but some “The fact that they can understand any language at all is amazing. It’s like a testament (证明) to their attention,
never seem to improve, and they worry about how such students will face conflicts after college. learning ability, and adaptability as clever animals because they don’t have anything like that in their natural system,”
Administrators guess that dependence on smartphones and the Internet may have made it easier for young says Alexandra Horowitz, a professor at Barnard College.
people to stay away from uncomfortable meetings. Why express anger in person when you can act out in a text But what about the idea that dogs and other animals actively communicate back to their owners through
“Things are posted on someone’s wall online like: Oh, my roommate kept me up all night studying,” says Dana Pysz, buttons Are they really able to “speak” back Rossano and his team are looking into that question next. Now that
an assistant director at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It’s a different way to express their conflict with they’ve proven that pets can understand the words they’re hearing, the researchers are working on a big science
each other, so even more conflicts will be created as conflicts go public.” In recent focus groups at North Carolina project. It includes about ten thousand dogs, seven hundred cats, and some horses, goats and pigs.
State University, dorm residents said they would not even deal with noisy neighbors on their floor. One can only hope that this line of research may one day get us closer to answering the question: Do our pets want to
Administrators point to parents who have fixed their children’s problems all their lives. Now, in college, these communicate with us
children have lost the skills to solve even the smallest conflicts. Some parents continue to interfere (干涉) on 37.Why does Bunny push the “paw” button
campus. A. To show her pain. B. To express her hunger.
33.Why do conflicts between roommates rise C. To ask for a walk outside. D. To catch her owner’s attention.
A. They can’t get used to shared rooms. 38.What did the study find about the dogs
B. They don’t experience a lot at their age. A. They remember simple words quickly.
C. They are loved at home and self-centered. B. They seem to understand certain words.
D. They are poor in discussing and solving problems. C. They can only communicate with their owners.
34.What can we learn from paragraph 2 D. They are good at learning people’s body language.
A. Freshmen are the easiest to get into conflict with others. 39.What can we infer from Alexandra Horowitz’s words
B. Some students still can’t solve conflicts when they graduate. A. Dogs are more clever than we think.
C. Roommate conflicts are falling in American universities now. B. Dogs are born to understand language.
D. Teachers need to have more person-to-person talks with students. C. Dogs can hardly fit in with new environments.
35.What does Dana Pysz think of roommates expressing conflicts on social media D. Dogs can be trained to do more things for people.
A. It makes things worse. B. It is worth trying. 40.What will Rossano and his team study next
C. It is surprising. D. It is useful. A. How people can get along with dogs.
36.What does the writer hope parents do B. Whether dogs understand other animals.
A. Help deal with their children’s problems. C. How animals develop their language skills.
B. Pay more attention to their children’s feelings. D. Whether animals can communicate with humans.
C. Keep in touch with their children to offer help. 四、任务型阅读-多任务混合：本大题共 1 小题，共 10 分。
D. Teach their children the skills to solve conflicts. 41.阅读下面材料，从方框中所给的 A~E 五个选项中选择正确的选项（其．中．一．项．是．多．余．选．项．），将其序号填
D 入第 1~4 小题，并回答第 5 小题。
Bunny is a dog famous for seeming to communicate with her owner through buttons on a soundboard on the ground. Getting English Language Learners to Put Down the Books and Have Some Fun
When pushed, the buttons say words like “outside”, “play” and “ouch”. In a video, Bunny pushes the button for Even if there’s so much about English that can be learned from a book or even in a traditional classroom
“ouch”. Then the owner asks, “Where’s your ‘ouch’ ” Then Bunny pushes the button for “paw”. There happens to be setting, a lot of the language can still be learned best in more relaxing situations where students are having fun. Here
a piece of wood in her paw that is causing her pain. are some suggestions.
This seems like it could be true communication — but before scientists can answer that question, they have to ★Communicate with strangers. If you live in an area filled with English speakers, get students out of the
take a step back and answer another question: Can the dogs even understand the words they hear as each button is classroom. 1. _____ Students may not speak to strangers, but they’ll hear conversations taking place and may begin
pressed A study of about 60 dogs found that dogs seem to understand words like “play” and “outside”— whether to understand how the words learnt in the classroom are actually used in everyday speech.
those words are spoken by their owner or come from a button. The dogs figured out the words without seeing ★Let their guard down. One difficult thing for learners is confidence (自信) when they speak English. Fun
people’s body language, and even if their owner wasn’t there. activities, especially those outside of the classroom, give students a chance to feel relaxed. 2._____ It may take a bit
of time at the beginning, but once students get into it, they’ll start to get confidence.
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★Make use of English media (媒体). Most recorded language instruction is pretty boring and it can get tiring With hard work and a bit of luck, nothing is 8 (不可能的). By following these plans, I 9 (相信) my life will
hearing the same voice repeat the same phrases. 3. ______ They will hear common expressions and more everyday be 10 (充满) with joy and happiness.
conversations in the movie. If they’re not sure about something they hear, it can turn into a more formal lesson once
back in the classroom. 44.Last summer, I decided not to stay home doing nothing. Instead, I wanted to help out, so I 1 (volunteer) at an
★4. ______Casual (随意的) conversations give learners the chance to hear or use English in situations. They animal hospital. I met many sweet animals there, but one dog named Kelly stood out. She had cute, curly hair and
can talk all they want about expressions to use while dining out or informal words to use with friends, but it takes a was super friendly. Kelly used 2 (live) as a street dog before someone brought her in for care. Hoping to find her
trip to McDonald’s or a picnic in the park for many of those expressions to truly set in. a loving family, we put up some 3 (sign) that said, “Funny-looking dog, very sweet, needs a family to love her.”
A．You can let students go to a movie in English. Several days later, a young man came to see us. He mentioned (说到) that Kelly looked like his grandpa’s old
B．Put them among other English speakers. dog that had 4 (recent) passed away. His grandpa was feeling sad, and he thought Kelly might cheer him 5 .
C． They may hate to speak English. However, he wasn’t sure if they would get along. After hearing his story, we agreed to take Kelly to meet his grandpa.
In just 30 minutes, we arrived at the old 6 (man) house, where he was using a wheelchair. As soon as he saw
D．Hear or use English in situations.
Kelly, he got 7 (excite) right away. Though he had great difficulty 8 (move), he carefully held her in his
E. They will speak more freely.
arms. It was clear Kelly liked her new owner, too. She kept licking (舔) his face and wagging (摇摆) her little tail.
(1)A. A B. B C. C D. D E. E
(2)A. A B. B C. C D. D E. E With a big smile, the old man said, “She’s my Kelly!”
(3)A. A B. B C. C D. D E. E Watching them together, I could tell 9 much they meant to each other. And it made me realize that even small
(4)A. A B. B C. C D. D E. E acts of 10 (kind) could make a big difference.
(5) How do you learn English (回答不多于 10 个单词)
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五、选词填空-短文：本大题共 1 小题，共 10 分。
42.
final/ pour/ in/ prepare/ a spoon of
Many children like ice-cream and it is one of the most popular foods in summer. 1 fact, it is not difficult
to make ice-cream.
Before starting, you need to 2 fifteen to twenty strawberries, some honey, a bottle of yogurt and some
small ice-cream molds (模具). First, cut up the strawberries and get as much juice as you can. Next, add 3 honey
and some yogurt to the juice. You can add more honey if you like it sweeter. Then 4 the juice into your molds.
Don’t fill the molds too full.
5 , put the molds into the fridge. Wait about three hours and then you can share them with your family.
六、阅读填空：本大题共 2 小题，共 20 分。
43.Hello, I’m Gina. I’m an English girl. When I was a little girl, I 1 (陷入) in love with writing. Till now, I still
love it. I think I’ll be a writer in ten years.
To make my dream come true, I will read and write every day, filling papers with my words. I’ll live in the
countryside because it is so 2 (宁静的) and beautiful. I’ll live in a big house with my best friends, and we can
keep many cute pets as 3 (部分) of our family. To add colour and life to our home, I also plan to 4 (种植)
some flowers and vegetables in my garden. I’ll 5 (大概) run every morning and play tennis with my friends
twice a week to keep myself in good 6 (体形). On weekdays, I’ll work hard, but I’ll take 7 (假期) or sleep
late during weekends.
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1.【答案】D 43.【答案】【小题 1】
2.【答案】B fell
3.【答案】B 【小题 2】
peaceful
4.【答案】D
【小题 3】
5.【答案】D
part
6.【答案】B
【小题 4】
7.【答案】A
plant
8.【答案】C
【小题 5】
9.【答案】A probably
10.【答案】B 【小题 6】
11~25.【答案】A、B、C、B、A、C、D、B、D、C、C、A、D、C、B shape
26~28.【答案】C、D、A 【小题 7】
vacations
29~32.【答案】C、B、D、D
【小题 8】
33~36.【答案】D、B、A、D
impossible
37~40.【答案】A、B、A、D 【小题 9】
41.【答案】【小题 1】 believe
B 【小题 10】
【小题 2】 filled
E 44.【答案】【小题 1】
【小题 3】 volunteered
A 【小题 2】
【小题 4】 to live
D 【小题 3】
【小题 5】 signs
I learn English by reading a lot.（答案不唯一） 【小题 4】
recently
42.【答案】【小题 1】 【小题 5】
In up
【小题 2】 【小题 6】
prepare man’s
【小题 3】 【小题 7】
a spoon of excited
【小题 4】 【小题 8】
pour moving
【小题 5】 【小题 9】
Finally how
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【小题 10】
kindness
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