上海市民办华育中学2018-2019学年八年级上学期期中英语试题(原卷版)

英语试卷
Part I Vocabulary and Grammar
I.Choose the best answer.20%
1.Be careful not to wake the baby.
A./keə’fl/
B./kiə’fl/
C./’keəfl/
D./’kiəfl/
2.Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from others?
A.She was standing on one foot.
B.I won’t leave until you come back.
C.She was unable to contain her excitement.
D.Who will pay the electricity bill?
3.A little boy wrote________“u”and________“n”on the wall.
A.a;an
B.an;a
C.an;an
D.a;a
4.I have lost my pen.I must buy________today.
A.it
B.this
C.one
D.that
5.You’ve got so many books.Could you please lend me________to read?
A.anything
B.any
C.something
D.some
6.They’ve taken everything with________.
A.them
B.themselves
C.they
D.their
7.She had to borrow a new________in order to attend the party.
A.cloth
B.clothes
C.clothing
D.dress
8.________useful information board you have made!
A.How
B.What
C.How a
D.What a
9.I am not sure how long Oliver________.
A.has joined the army
B.has joined in the army
C.has served the army
D.has served in the army
10.What is the chemical symbol________water?
A.about
B.of
C.on
D.for
11.________a father,she has a younger brother to support.
A.Beside
B.Besides
C.Except
D.Except for
12.I hate to admit it,________I think I was wrong.
A.and
B.but
C.or
D.so
13.He’s an________engineer,he can deal with________problems.
A.electricity,electrical
B.electrical,electrical
C.electrical,electric
D. electrical,electricity
14.History________repeat itself.
A.needs not
B.need not
C.doesn’t need
D.need not to
15.What did you________about water pollution at the meeting?
A.talk
B.say
C.speak
D.tell
16.In the past few years,________great changes in Shanghai.
A.there were
B.there have had
C.there had been
D.there have been
17.Joyce suggested________.
A.them talk it over among themselves
B.them talked it over among themselves
C.they talk it over among themselves
D.they talked it over among themselves
18.Where do you think________Tonny________the jacket?
A.did,buy
B.did,bought
C.has,bought
D./, bought
19.Which sentence is correct?
A.I wonder where you have gone.
B.I wonder where they visited.
C.I wonder when you have finished the task.
D.I wonder what is the matter with you.
20.—John and I will celebrate our fortieth wedding anniversary next month.
—Oh,________!
A.cheer up
B.well done
C.go ahead
D. congratulations
II.Fill in the blanks with the proper forms of the words:7%
21.They have both behaved________than before and I am very hurt.(bad)
22.You can reduce these long________to simple charts or diagrams.(explain)
23.In________cold weather,everything seems to be frozen.(freeze)
24.Our government is trying to take________to prevent and control pollution.(measure)
25.My father exercises________because he doesn’t have enough time.(regular)
26.They do not have the________to apologize for their actions.(encourage)
27.A friend is a living treasure,and if you have one,you have one of the________gifts in life. (value)
III.Fill in the blanks with the verbs in their proper forms:7%
28.Such negative thoughts and feelings make some people feel like________up.(give)
29.I didn’t know a thing about the verbs,for I________my lesson.(not study)
30.The miners________alive when the tunnel collapsed.(bury)
31.Look!Jerry________and he belongs to a ski club.(ski)
32.I hope you________the secret of how to be happy.(find)
33.I don’t think Renee saw us.She________a watch for her father.(choose)
34.Let us hold our hands and________the environment.(not pollute)
IV.Rewrite the sentences as required:6%
35.Daisy was told not to eat sweets any more.（反意疑问句）
Daisy was told not to eat sweets any more,________________?
36.The doctor took good care of the wounded.（改为被动句）
The wounded________________good care of by the doctor.
37.I don’t know if I will go with you tomorrow.（同义句转换）
I don’t know________________go with you tomorrow.
38.Life in our cities will be inconvenient without electricity.（划线提问）
________will life in our cities________________without electricity?
39.Benny wanted to trick his sister.（同义句转换）
Benny wanted to________________________________his sister.
40.machine,makes,kinds,works,it,goods,the,of,that,all（连词成句）
________________________________.
V.6%
Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box.Each word or phrase can only be used once.
A.to
B.for
C.on
D.with
E.ever since
F.so for
G.further
H.knowing
More Than a Ride to School
The National Education Association claims,“The school bus is a mirror of the community.”They further add that,unfortunately,what appears on the exterior does not always reflect the reality of a chosen community.They are right—sometimes it reflects more!Just ask Liesl Denson. Riding the school bus has been more than a ride to school for Liesl.Bruce Hardy.school bus driver for Althouse BUS Company has been Liesl’s bus driver since st year when Liesl’s family moved to Parkesburg,____41____her bus went by her new residence,she requested to ride the same bus.
This year Liesl is a senior and will enjoy her last year riding the bus.She says,“It’s been a great ride____42____!My bus driver is so cool and has always been a good friend and a good listener.Sometimes when you’re a child,adults do not think that what you have to say is important. Mr.Hardy always listens to what you have to say and makes you feel important.”Her friends Ashley Batista and Amanda Wolfe agree____43____what Liesl said.Bruce Hardy has been making Octorara students feel special since1975.This year he will celebrate40years working for Althouse Bus rry Althouse,president of the company,acknowledges Bruce Hardy’s outstanding record,“You do not come by employees like Bruce these days.He has never missed a day of work and has a perfect driving record.He was recognized in2000by the Pennsylvania School Bus Association for driving350,000accident-free miles.Hardy’s reputation is made
____44____evident through the relationships he has made with the students that ride his bus.”
Althouse further adds,“Althouse Bus Company was established70years ago and has been
providing quality transportation____45____.My grandfather started the business with one bus. Althouse Bus Company is delighted to have the opportunity to bring distinctive and safe service to our local school and community and looks forward to continuing to provide quality service for many more years to come.”
Three generations of business is not all the company has enjoyed.Thanks____46____ drivers like Bruce Hardy,they have been building relationships through generations,Liesl’s mother Carol also enjoys fond memories of riding Bruce Hardy’s bus to the Octorara School District.
Part II Reading and Writing
A.Choose the best answer5%
The Exploding Lakes of Cameroon
What comes to mind when you think of a lake?You probably imagine a pretty scene with blue water,birds,and fish.For the people in the northwestern Cameroon,however,the image is very different.For them,lakes may mean terrible disasters.In1984,poisonous gases exploded out of Lake Monoun and came down into the nearby villages,killing thirty-seven people.Two years later,Lake Nyos erupted a cloud of gases rolled down the hills and into the valleys and killed 1,700people.
Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun are crater(火山口)lakes.They were formed when water collected in the craters of old volcanoes.The volcanoes under Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun are not active anymore.However,poisonous gases from the center of the earth continue to flow up through cracks in the bottom of the lake.This is normal in a crater lake.In most crater lakes,these gases are released often because the water“turns over”regularly.That is,the water from the bottom of the lake rises and mixes with the water at the top,allowing the gases to escape slowly.
However,in Lakes Nyos and Monoun,there is no regular turning over.No one knows the reason for this fact,but as a result,these lakes have more gases tapped at the bottom than other crater lakes.In fact,scientists who have studied Lakes Nyos and Monoun have found16,000times more gases.When a strong wind,cool weather,a storm,or a landslide(滑坡)causes the water to turn over suddenly,the gases escape in a violent explosion.
In the past,no one knew when the gases might explode,so there was no way for the villagers to escape disaster.Now scientists from the United States,France,and Cameroon have found a way to reduce the gas pressure at the bottom of Lake Nyos.They stood a672-foot plastic pipe in the middle of the lake,with one end of the pipe near the bottom and the other end in the air.Near the top of the pipe,the team put several holes that could be opened or closed by a computer.Now, when the gas pressure gets too high,the holes are opened and some of the gas-filled water shoots up through the pipe into the air like a fountain.With less pressure,a disastrous explosion is much less likely.However,the scientists are not sure that one pipe will be enough to prevent explosions. They hope to put in others soon and they plan to install a similar pipe and a computer system at Lake Monoun as well.
To protect people nearby until all of the pipes are in place,the scientists have installed early warning systems at both lakes.If the gas pressure rises to a dangerous level,computers will set off loud sirens(警报)and bright lights to warn the people in the villages.That way,they will have time to escape from the dangerous gases.
47.What will happen when Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun explode?
A.Water will flow down the hills.
B.Poisonous gases will be released suddenly.
C.A strong wind will rise from the lakes.
D.The volcanoes will come to life.
48.Which of the following statements about Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun is true?
A.They were formed in1984.
B.They are at the top of two active volcanoes.
C.They are not like most other crater lakes.
D.Water in them turns over regularly.
ke Nyos and Lake Monoun explode because________.
A.the gases rise to the top and mix with air
B.people from the villages turn over the water
C.scientists have put in a computer system
D.they have more gases trapped at the bottom than other crater lakes
50.A team of scientists has________.
A.erected a pressure-releasing pipe in the lake
B.identified the gases at the bottom of the lake
C.built a beautiful fountain near the lakes
D.removed all dangerous gases from the lakes
51.What do we learn from the last paragraph?
A.Scientists are planning to install pipes in all crater lakes
B.Scientists still do not know how to prevent gas explosions
C.Explosion disasters could be avoided in the future
D.Warming systems have been set up in the villages nearby.
B.Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage.8%
It was just getting dark;there was a touch of fog and I was on a lonely stretch of road.But I was going along cheerfully,thinking about the dinner I would eat when I got to Salisbury.
I was going along quietly at about thirty-five miles an hour when suddenly I heard a scream,
a woman’s scream-“Help!”I looked round,but the only____52____of life was a large,black, rather suspicious-looking(看起来可疑的)car just turning a bend in the road about a hundred yards away.That was____53____the cry had come from:I____54____speed and went after it.I thought the driver saw what I was doing,for he did the same and began to draw away from me.As I drew near,the girl’s voice came again,a lovely voice but trembling(发抖)with fear.
“Let me go,you fool;you’re hurting me.Oh!Oh!”
I felt my blood____55____.The fog was coming down thicker now,the countryside was lonelier.The man in the car had no____56____noticed this.Again,came a cry.
“Drop the knife,fool.Oh!”Then a cry and a groan.
If I was to save her,it was now or____57____.Perhaps even now I was too late.But if I couldn’t save the girl,I would____58____try to bring the murderer to the police station.The car was only a couple of yards away now.I drove the bike right across its path,and its brakes screamed as the driver tried to pull it over and crashed into the ditch(沟渠)on the side of the road.The door of the car was pushed open angrily and a dark,evil-looking fellow stepped out, mad with anger.
“Fool!”he shouted____59____he came towards me with his fist raised to hit me.But I was quicker than he.I put all I knew into a blow that would have knocked out Joe Louis.It caught him right on the ground without a sound.I rushed to the car,pulled the door and peered inside.There was no girl there.Suddenly from the back of the car came a voice.
“You have been listening to a radio play.Murder in Hollywood,with Mae Garbo and Clark Taylor.The news will follow immediately.”
52.A.person B.sign C.figure D.form
53.A.how B.when C.what D.where
54.A.put aside B.put up C.put down D.put on
55.A.boil B.run e D.freeze
56.A.sign B.effort C.doubt D.troubles
te B.then C.ever D.never
58.A.at most B.at least C.at last D.at first
59.A.before B.after C.as D.while
C.6%
Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.
A Chimps(黑猩猩)will cooperate in certain ways,like gathering in war parties to protect their territory.But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings,they have little instinct(本能)to help one a____60____.Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves.Even chimp mothers regularly decline to share food with their children,who are able from a young age to gather their own food.
In the laboratory,chimps don’t naturally share food either.If a chimp is put in a cage where he can pull in one plate of food for himself or,with no great effort,a plate that also provides food for a neighbor to the next cage,he will pull at random—he just doesn’t care whether his neighbor gets fed or not.Chimps are truly selfish.
Human children,on the other hand are extremely cooperative.From the earliest ages,they desire to help others,to share information and to participate in a____61____common goals.The psychologist Michael Tomasello has studied this cooperativeness in a series of experiments with very young children.He finds that if babies aged18months see a worried adult with hands
f____62____trying to open a door,almost all will immediately try to help.
There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help,inform and share are not taught, but n____63____possessed in young children.One is that these instincts appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train children to behave socially.Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded.A third reason is that social intelligence d____64____in children before their general cognitive(认知的)skills,at least when compared with chimps.In tests conducted by Tomasello,the children did no better than the chimps on the physical world tests,but were considerably better at understanding the social world.
The core of what children’s minds have and chimps’don’t is what Tomasello calls shared intentionality.Part of this ability is that they can infer what others know or are thinking.But
b____65____that,even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose.They actively seek to be part of a“we”,a group that intends to work toward a shared goal.
D.5%
Read the following passage and answer the questions.
Being an astronaut sounds cool,doesn’t it?In space,they can do some pretty amazing things, like floating in zero gravity.
However,there are also plenty of things that astronauts can’t do because of their weightless environment,and that’s very sad.What’s worse,they can’t even let their sadness show—because it’s impossible to cry in zero gravity.
Of course,astronauts can still have tears.But crying is much more difficult in space.Without gravity,tears don’t flow downward out of the eyes like they do on the earth.This means that when you cry in space,your tears have nowhere to go—they just stick to your eyes.
In May2011,astronaut Andrew Feustel experienced this during one of his spacewalks.“Tears,”he said,“don’t fall off your eyes.They just stay there.”Besides making your vision unclear,this can also cause physical pain.Back on the earth,tears are supposed to bring comfort to the eyes.But that’s not the same in space.The space environment dries out astronauts’eyes,and when tears suddenly wet the eyes,it can cause pain rather than comfort.“My right eye is painful like crazy”Feustel told his teammate during the walk.
Since gravity doesn’t work in space astronauts need some extra help to get rid of the tears.
Feustel chose to rub his eyes against his helmet(头盔)to wipe the tears away.Another choice is to just wait—“When the tears get big enough,they simply break free of the eye and float around”,astronaut Ron Parise said.
There are lots of small things—things like crying that we are so used to on the earth.We usually take them for granted,until they become a problem in a completely different environment, like space.There,astronauts can’t talk to each other directly.They can’t eat or drink in normal ways;They can’t even burp(打嗝)because there is no gravity to hold the food down in their stomachs.If they do burp,they just end up throwing up(呕吐)everything in their stomachs,
according to the UK National Space Center.
Thus perhaps it’s only space explorers who can honestly say:“Gravity,you’re the best.”66.Crying isn’t more difficult in space than on the earth,is it?
_______________________________
67.Who experienced that the tears in space caused pain rather than comfort?
_______________________________
68.How do astronauts get rid of the tears in space?
_______________________________
69.Why can’t astronauts burp in space?
_______________________________
70.In the last paragraph,the writer says:perhaps it’s only space explorers who can honestly say:
“Gravity,you’re the best.”Do you agree with the writer?Why or why not?
_______________________________
E.Writing10%
71.Write a passage of at least60words on the topic.“The fun of learning________ (English/painting/to play the piano/to play basketball…”
Necessary points:
1.What’s your experience of learning________?
2.Why do you think learning________is fun?
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