2020-2021学年上海新复兴八上英语期中考试卷-含答案

Part 2Phonetics, Grammar and Vocabulary
（第二部分语音、语法和词汇）
IV. Choose the best answer （选择最恰当的答案）
1. Which of the underlined parts is pronounced /ɔ:/
A. trouble
B. stare
C. downstairs
D. postcard
2. ________ January 2020, these nurses have helped to save many people's lives.
A. On
B. In
C. Since
D. To
3. Before the thief tried to swim to ________ side of the river, the police caught him.
A. the other
B. the others
C. another
D. other
4. She didn't sound ________ as we expected when she heard the news.
A. more exciting
B. as exciting
C. more excited
D. as excited
5. At least four ________ people have been infected with the COVID-19.
A. millions of
B. million of
C. million
D. millions
6. He ________ be hungry for he has just had a hamburger.
A. must
B. can
C. can't
D. mustn't
7. I'd rather ________ with my parents this Saturday.
A. not to go to the movies
B. not to go to movies
C. not go to movies
D. not go to the movies
8. Do you remember ________ me the same question the other day?
A. asking
B. asked
C. to ask
D. ask
9. You won't find paper cutting difficult ________ you keep practicing it.
A. as much as
B. as long as
C. as hard as
D. as early as
10. Sorry, I didn't notice anyone ________ the motorcycle when I passed the parking lot.
A. stealing
B. stole
C. robbing
D. robbed
11. How many players is each football team ________?
A. consist of
B. made up of
C. made up
D. consist
12. ________ unusual weather many areas experienced yesterday!
A. What a
B. What an
C. What
D. What the
13. Some of the audience didn't laugh ________ the talk show was funny.
A. because
B. although
C. if
D. when
14. He is ________ that you'd better not leave him alone at home.
A. very young
B. too young
C. young enough
D. so young
15. A: ________ will you find the solution to the problem?
B: In about fifteen minutes.
A. How long
B. How soon
C. How much time
D. How fast
16. Which is right?
A. Excuse me, Miss Guo. ↗When are we going to have the autumn outing? ↘
B. Excuse me, Miss Guo. ↘When are we going to have the autumn outing? ↘
C. Excuse me, Miss Guo. ↗When are we going to have the autumn outing? ↗
D. Excuse me, Miss Guo. ↘When are we going to have the autumn outing? ↗
V. Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each can only be used once（将下列单词填入空格。

每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次）
Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death and that the soul would return to the body. One requirement was the preservation（保存）of the body. To achieve this, Egyptians __1__ a process called mummification（木乃伊化）. However, it was not only humans who were mummified. Animals were also mummified and placed in tombs（坟墓）to __2__ provide company（陪伴）for the dead or serve as a sacrifice（祭品）to gods.
Egyptian animal mummies look like little more than bundles of（成捆的）cloth. It was __3__ for scientists to know much about them beyond what animals they were -- until now.
A team of researchers led by engineer Richard Johnston from Swansea University, UK, have used new technology to examine the remains（遗骸）of a snake, a bird and a cat that lived over 2,000 years ago.
According to Science Daily, the researchers used X-ray micro CT scanning to digitally（数字化地）unwrap and dissect（解剖）the mummified animals without causing damage. The scans were very __4__, down to the animal's smallest bones and teeth.
VI. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括号中所给单词的
适当形式完成下列句子，每空格限填一词）
1. He had to make a choice between staying with his parents and going ________.
2. The students are doing experiments with some ________.
3. The little boy looked ________ around for her father.
4. Edison's most well-known ________ included（包括）the electric light bulb.
5. She didn't tell us, but we learnt it from a friend of ________ later.
6. ________, I didn't feel nervous at all on the stage.
7. Andrea Ghez became the ________ woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.
VII. Rewrite the following sentences as required（根据要求改写句子）
1. He was responsible for the farm after his father's death.（句意不变）
He ________ ________ of the farm after his father's death.
2. The path is wide. We can walk side by side.（句意不变）
The path is ________ ________ for us to walk side by side.
3. Kitty's brother failed to get into art college, ________ ________?（反意疑问句）
4. The robber had dark brown hair and he wasn't very tall.（划线提问）
________ ________ the robber like?
5. The police had to break up the crowd.（改为否定句）
The police ________ ________ to break up the crowd.
6. Most girls are not keen on rough games.（句意不变）
Most girls do not ________ ________ for enough games.
7. the chance, about 15 percent, have, to, the students, of, the interview, can, go for（连词成句）____________________________________________________________________________.
Part 3 Reading and Writing （第三部分阅读和写话）
VIII. Reading comprehension（阅读理解）
A. Choose the best answer（选择最恰当的答案）
It's good to have friends that we can talk to and share our thought and opinions with. More importantly, they're people we can ask for help or advice. But recently it seems, many of us are
developing a new relationship with a person that we'll never meet!
I'm talking about virtual（虚拟的）assistants or bots. These are pieces of software（软件）that we can talk to and it can talk back to us. Example include Apple's Siri, Google's Assistant, Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana. It might be on your phone or computer or even a smart speaker in your home. They are changing the way we interact（互动）with technology - instead of typing on a computer keyboard or tapping on an IPad, we can now speak and a voice will answer.
The people behind these voices are called conversation designers. Tom Hewitson is one of them. He said, "this is kind of changing computers into like an agent. They are taking an active part in the interaction and guiding you to make the right decision." So he's saying this technology has the ability to think for itself and make its own decisions.
It is a frightening thought that this virtual voice can think for you --will it stop us from thinking and will we lose the ability to write things down or type? They are certainly clever, helping you to book train tickets, give you the latest weather news or even tell you a joke. But are they really your new best friend?
One thing we can't do yet is to make small talk with it. We have to change the way we speak. As Tom Hewistson says "We will develop our own kind of language for speaking with machines that will be different from how we speak to other people ... Very few words are used but to the point."
But there's no doubt this technology will soon be commonplace in our lives. In 2018 Google Duplex came out, described by the company as artificial intelligence (AI) "for managing to finish real-world tasks over the phone". It's a type of chat-hot that will allow you to, for example, chat to your hairdresser about when they can fit you in for a cut. Other companies are working on almost the same things. But before they make this new technology perfect, don't forget who your real friends are!
1. According to Paragraph 2, how do you communicate with a virtual assistant?
A. By typing on a computer keyboard.
B. By tapping it.
C. By using your voice
D. By using a smart speaker.
2. According to the passage, what can't this new technology do for you at present?
A. Booking train tickets
B. Making small talk with you
C. Chatting to your hairdresser to book a haircut
D. Telling you the latest weather news.
3. What does the "They" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Conversation designers
B. Agents
C. Your voices.
D. Computers.
4. According to the passage, what is the writer afraid of?
A. This technology manages to finish real-world tasks over the phone.
B. There is no difference between the ways we speak to other people and machines.
C. We may finally stop using our brains.
D. This technology can write things down or type for us.
5. According to the last sentence of the passage, what does the writer probably mean?
A. We should never give up interacting with our real friends.
B. When this technology is perfect, the virtual assistants or bots can be our new best friends.
C. We can make this technology perfect with our real friends
D. Our real friends are perfect and we should stay away from this technology.
B. Choose the words and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词，完成短文）
We know it's good to learn another language. It opens doors, gets you a good job, helps you make new friends, and it's fun too. But to make our linguistic（语言的）skills better, many of us have to stand hours of school lessons or evening classes, with our heads buried in textbooks. Then technology seems to be __1__ a better and easier way of learning.
There is surely a huge need for language learning, and having a smart-phone means you can have a virtual（虚拟的）teacher with you wherever you go. Many app developers are __2__ making money on the need, and there are lots of learning apps. One of many popular apps, Duolingo, offers 91 courses in 30 languages and has more than 300 million users.
Some educational（教育的）apps provide languages not __3__ enough to be taught at evening classes, or at most universities. And others offer 'invented" language lessons in Esperanto, Elvish and Star Trek's Klingon -- lessons you might not find in a traditional classroom. Whatever you want to learn, apps allow you to go at your own pace and promise you some other good things. But they're not perfect --you might not understand the grammar well and will lose the support from real people, which you could get in a classroom environment.
So, does technology mean the __4__ of traditional classrooms and teachers? Guy Baron, head of modern languages at Aberystwyth University, thinks not. He says that apps aren't opposite to traditional teaching. But should be used together with classroom methods. And he adds: "The apps are very conversational ... they're not designed for __5__, but they could be useful tools."
Of course technology is going to help in and outside the classroom, __6__ attending a real lesson, facing a real teacher probably make you willing to be more hard-working.
Motivation（动机）can be a problem when using an app. But if you have a strong hope to learn another language, you will certainly be able to keep going.
1. A. changing B. offering C. teaching D. realizing
2. A. interested in B. worried about C. afraid of D. responsible for
3. A. exciting B. modern C. good D. popular
4. A. mistake B. use C. end D. help
5. A. money B. degrees C. interest D. culture
6. A. but B. because C. if D. after
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，是其内容通顺，每空格限填一次，首字母已给）
My 11-year-old daughter. Miriam, holds her iPhone like a newborn. It's always with her. During the social isolation（社交隔离）brought on by the pandemic, it has also saved her.
TikTok（抖音）is her favorite activity after she finishes home-schooling. She feels most cheered, pleased and safe in the TikTok world. "Why don't you red a book?" I suggest. "Mom," she sighs（叹着气说）, "everything is making me so sad, I need TikTok. I need to get away and e__1__ that world right now."
Who could say that was wrong? I want to escape, too.
As a professor of child and youth studies at Brock University, who has studied girls' culture for over 20 years, I have c__2__ watched Miriam using TikTok with a growing interest since the pandemic. I have just looked at Miriam laugh and dance all by herself with curiosity（好奇）and envy（妒忌）. What was I missing?
TikTok provided my daughter with an escape, b__3__ at also offered her information, like-minded people, connection and a way to get rid of daily stress（压力）. Miriam showed me
TikToks that expressed different feelings about COVID-19. Young people were speaking to each other about how to "get through this". And then there were the dances. In each dance the TikTok-er needs to do d__4__ but interesting moves in a perfect way, hit the beat and know the lyrics（歌词）to the songs. Mriam was a dancing queen.
I wanted a piece of the feeling that filled her with such joy. I wanted to laugh like she did and dance as if no one was watching. I wanted Miriam to take me into her world.
"Show me," I finally said. "Show me how to do one of the dances."
She put her phone up a__5__ the computer screen in my tiny home office. Suddenly, I was no longer the professor doing research. I was a TikTok-er, and I wanted to get this right.
I don't know if I would lose myself again in a TikTok dance with my daughter or the state of the world, but I heard the words catch in my t__6__ as I replied: "Sweetheart, I think we have the time of our lives."
D. Read the passage below and answer the following questions（根据文章内容回答下列问题）
"Work" and "play" have long been seen as enemies（敌人）. When you're preparing for an exam or meeting a deadline, every minute spent on anything other than studying seems to be a waste of time. Going to a movie or playing basketball with friends? Out of the question.
Javad Alizdeh, a PhD student at the University of Manitoba, Canada, used to have the same belief. And it turned out that he was wrong.
In an article published in Nature magazine on April 29, Alizadeh shared his experience of letting go of both his hobbies --soccer and violin -to make room for his studies. And yet he finally found himself in a rather uncomfortable condition: "more worried and tired, but less productive（生产力高的）", he wrote. And that was when he decided to bring "play" back into the picture.
In fact, many big companies have seen the importance of "play" in their employees' productivity（生产力）and well-being.
Google, for example, has gyms（健身房）that open 24/7, which shows the company's idea "to create the happiest, most productive workplace in the world". And at Amazon, employees are allowed to bring their dogs to work. "If I need to take a break after an intense（紧张的）meeting, I'll take my dog out for a walk," Anna Jentoft, an employee at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle,
told Time. "It makes me comfortable and relaxed."
It seems that these people don't see "work" and "play" as the two ends of a scale（天平）--when one and goes up, the other is certain to go down. To them, "work" and "play" are more like two pieces of jigsaw puzzle（拼图）, which co-exist（共存）with and complete each other.
So next time when you prepare for an exam, try to take a break from "work" once in a while, and let "play" ________________.
1. According to Paragraph 1, what do people think of "play" before an exam?
2. Javad Alizadeh fainlly let go of both his hobbies to make room for his studies, didn't he?
3. Why does Google have gyms that open 24/7 in the company?
4. Why does the writer use the examples of Google and Amazon?
To tell the readers ________________________________________________.
5. According to the passage, what is the relationship between "work" and "play"?
6. Complete the last sentence in the passage.
So next time when you prepare for an exam, try to take break from "work" once in a while, and let "play" ________________________. (No more than 5 words)
X. Writing
上文Javad Alizadeh 博士的经历告诉我们：有了适度的玩乐，我们才能更好地投入到学习中。

请以“Play hard, work hard（愉快玩耍，认真学习）”为题，分享你的经历或感悟，写一段不少60字的短文，标点符号不占格。

1. 文中不得出现考生姓名、校名等个人信息，否则不予评分。

2. 照抄阅读语篇不得分。

参考答案
part 2
IV. 1. D 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. C 6. C 7. D 8. A 9. B 10. A 11. B 12. C 13. B 14. D 15. B 16. B
V. 1. B 2. D 3. E 4. C
VI. 1. abroad 2. chemicals 3. worriedly 4. inventions 5. hers 6. Strangely 7. fourth
VII. 1. took charge 2. wide enough 3. didn’t he 4. What，was 5. didn’t have
6. go in
7. About 15 percent of the students can have the chance to go for the interview.
Part 3
V. 1. C 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. A
B: 1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B 6. A
C: 1. enter 2. carefully 3. bat 4. different 5. against 6. throat
D: 1. They think it’s a waste of time.
2. No, he didn’t.
3. To create the happiest, most productive workplace in the world.
4. Many big companies have seen the importance of “ play”.
5. Their employee’s productivity and well-being.
6. help you feel relaxed。