江苏省扬州市梅岭中学教育集团2024-2025学年八年级上学期10月月考英语试题

江苏省扬州市梅岭中学教育集团2024-2025学年八年级上学期
10月月考英语试题
一、单项选择
1．—The film called The Avengers is, I have to say, very wonderful.
—Yes, it’s ________ excellent film and I never see ________ better one.
A．a; an B．an; the C．an; a D．a; the
2．Uighur (维吾尔族) dance has a strong ________ of rhythm (节奏), sometimes fast while sometimes slow.
A．sense B．sign C．sport D．secret
3．—Can you give us some advice on having a test?
—Sure. I think you should ________ the whole test paper first.
A．look through B．look after C．look for D．look at
4．—________ do you spend on your homework every day, boys?
—About two hours.
A．How much time B．How often C．How much D．How soon 5．—Most girl students think Physics is ________ Geography.
—I agree. I am weak in Geography but I am good at Physics.
A．much difficult than B．as difficult as C．less difficult than
D．more difficult than
6．The number of the students ________ getting ________ because each family has fewer children than before.
A．are; fewer and fewer B．are; more and more C．is; larger and larger
D．is; smaller and smaller
7．________ of the twins is Lucy.
A．The pretty B．The prettier C．More pretty D．The most pretty 8．—________?
—He is tall and thin.
A．How does Simon like B．What does Simon like
C．What is Simon like D．How does Simon look like
9．—Both Cai Xukun and Li Chen join Running Man, right?
—Yes. Cai is in ________ programs than Li because Cai has to spend ________ time on music creation.
A．less; more B．fewer; less C．fewer; more D．more; fewer 10．Your school library looks as modern as ________. Can you show me around?
A．we B．us C．our D．ours
11．The road is usually very busy, especially ________ the rush hours.
A．during B．on C．while D．among 12．Thank you for ________ me funny jokes. I never feel ________ with you.
A．telling; bored B．telling; boring C．speaking; bored D．saying; boring 13．— Angela usually comes to school earlier than ________ students in our class.
— The early bird catches the worm. She studies better this term.
A．another B．the other C．any other D．any
14．Let’s hurry up. There is ten minutes left ________ before the class begins.
A．at first B．at last C．at least D．at most 15．—How about making a model plane for your little brother?
—________ It’s a piece of cake.
A．No problem.B．Why me again?C．I hope not.D．You’re welcome.
二、完形填空
Hu Ming, a Guizhou University teacher, whose 85-year-old mother has Alzheimer’s disease (阿尔兹海默症), has to take his mother to class with him. And he has done this for years.
Maybe you will say he can have some other people take care of his 16 . Indeed, he has sisters. But they 17 do it because his mother only knows him. And she 18 him wherever he goes. He also tried a nurse but failed.
“My mother’s illness was 19 . She drank dishwater, and she mistook washing powder (洗衣粉) for salt or sugar,” explained 58-year-old Hu. “I couldn’t imagine (想象) she stayed at home without me and that always made me 20 , so I began to take her with me to class.”
“With my mother sitting 21 in class, I was able to pay more attention to teaching,” Hu added. But still, there are many different voices. Then Hu told a 22 .
A son took his mother, old and 23 , to a restaurant for dinner. While eating, the mother dropped the food 24 , on her shirt and trousers, the table, the chair and the floor.
25 people watched her in disgust (厌恶) while the son was calm.
When the mother 26 eating, the son quietly took her to the washroom, cleaned the food on the clothes, smoothed her hair and fitted her glasses. When they came out, all the people were 27 them. Without saying anything or watching anybody, the son walked directly to 28 the bill and started walking peacefully out with his mother.
At that time, an old woman called out to the son and asked him, “Don’t you think you left something behind you?”
The son thought for a few seconds. “No, madam, I didn’t,” he replied.
The old woman said, “Yes, you did! You gave a lesson to every son and 29 to every mother.”
“To care for those who once 30 for us is our duty. I am a son, and what’s wrong with being the hope for my mother?” Hu said.
16．A．student B．sister C．mother D．teacher 17．A．mustn’t B．can’t C．shouldn’t D．needn’t 18．A．catches B．carries C．follows D．watches 19．A．usual B．hopeful C．serious D．famous 20．A．worried B．surprised C．interested D．excited 21．A．noisily B．quietly C．sadly D．patiently 22．A．joke B．lie C．story D．truth 23．A．humorous B．friendly C．kind D．weak 24．A．everywhere B．somewhere C．anywhere D．nowhere 25．A．The other B．Other C．Others D．Another 26．A．started B．remembered C．finished D．kept 27．A．welcoming B．watching C．greeting D．teaching 28．A．spend B．take C．cost D．pay 29．A．money B．hope C．room D．advice
30．A．cared B．looked C．waited D．took
三、阅读理解
What your children can do at Day Camp:
●For children aged 8-12Paint, dance and play games.
●For children aged 13-16
Play sports, make special projects and take field trips.
If you want to apply for the camp, you have to: ●Pay in full.
●First come, first served.
31．When will the Day Camp begin?
A．On July 2, 2024.B．On June 20, 2024.
C．On July 8, 2024.D．On June 30, 2024.
32．What activity can you take part in if you are 15 years old?
A．Painting.B．Playing games.C．Dancing.D．Playing sports. 33．How can you find more information about the camp according to the passage?
A．By visiting the website.B．By reading newspapers.
C．By asking your teachers.D．By making a telephone call.
The Chinese tea ceremony (仪式) is a practice of preparing, serving, and enjoying tea. It might start in the Tang Dynasty or even earlier and it reached its greatest time in the Song Dynasty. The traditional Chinese tea ceremony is usually held in important situations to welcome guests (客人).
Main steps:
✲Prepare a tea set. To hold a Chinese tea ceremony, a full tea set is needed, including a teapot, a serving bowl, cups, plates, etc.
✲Heat the tea set. This step can help tea fully give off its nice smell.
✲Put tea leaves into the teapot. Use the teaspoon, not the hand, to place some tea leaves into the teapot.
✲Wash tea leaves. Pour the hot water into the teapot and keep it for a few seconds, and then pour out water quickly.
✲Brew tea. Refill the teapot with hot water of a proper temperature (温度), cover it and wait for a few minutes to keep the pleasant smell of the tea soup.
Manners (礼仪) and rules:
If you are the host (主人), please:
✲Serve the tea with both of your hands.
✲Do not fill the teacup fully, since the hot tea soup might hurt the guests.
✲Keep an eye on the teacups of your guests and fill them in time.
If you are the guest, please:
✲Receive the teacup with both hands when being served with tea.
✲Show your admiration and thanks to the host when smelling or drinking the tea soup.
✲Take a small mouthful of tea soup every time instead of drinking it up at a time.
✲Dress properly to attend the tea ceremony.
34．What should you do before putting tea leaves into the teapot?
A．Clean tea leaves.B．Dry tea leaves.C．Cool the tea set.
D．Heat the tea set.
35．Which of the following is thought to be good manners?
A．The host fills the guest’s teacup fully.
B．The host keeps an eye on the guests.
C．The guest receives the teacup with his right hand.
D．The guest drinks the tea slowly to show his politeness.
36．What is the best title for the text?
A．The kinds of tea leaves.B．Chinese tea culture.
C．The future of tea culture.D．The history of tea leaves.
It was my first day at school. It was also Miss Caroline’s first day to be a teacher.
Miss Caroline began the day by reading us a story about cats. Then she started to teach us the alphabet (字母表).
When Miss Caroline found that I was literate (有读写能力的), she said, “Tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading and writing with a fresh mind.”
After supper that night, Atticus sat down with the paper and called, “Scout, ready to read?”
I told Atticus I didn’t feel very well and didn’t think I’d go to school any more if it was all right with him.
“You never went to school and you do all right, so I’ll just stay home too. You can teach me like Granddaddy taught you.”
“No, I can’t,” said Atticus. “I have to make a living. Besides, they’d put me in prison (坐牢) if I kept you at home. Now what’s the matter?”
I told him what happened at school. “Miss Caroline said you taught me all wrong, so we can’t ever read any more. Please don’t send me back, please sir.”
“First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of people. You never really understand a person until you think from his point of view—”
“Sir?”
“—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,”
Atticus continued, “You learned many things today. Miss Caroline learned some things herself. We could not expect her to learn all our ways in one day, and we should understand her
when she knew no better.”
“But if I keep on going to school, we can’t ever read any more...”
“That’s really worrying you, isn’t it?”
“Yes, sir.”
When Atticus looked at me, I saw the look on his face that always made me expect something. “Do you know what a compromise (妥协) is?” he asked.
“Breaking the law?”
“No, an agreement (协议). It works this way,” he said. “If you promise (承诺) me to go to school, we’ll go on reading every night as usual. Is it OK?”
“Yes sir!”
37．What happened to Scout on her first day at school?
A．She was not able to read the alphabet.B．She lost interest in reading and writing.
C．She couldn’t follow Miss Caroline in class.D．She was asked to stop learning from Atticus.
38．What does the underlined part in Paragraph 11 mean?
A．To play a small trick on him.B．To walk hand in hand with him
C．To tell him about your thoughts.D．To think from his point of view.
39．What did Scout agree to do towards the end of the story?
A．Go to school.B．Stay at home.C．Teach herself.D．Make a living. 40．What can we infer (推断) from the passage?
A．Scout didn’t trust Atticus.B．Scout didn’t like reading.
C．Atticus was a clever father.D．Atticus was angry with Scout.
After the haircut
It’s getting hot. You go to have your hair cut. The barber Tony cuts off part of your hair and sweeps it away, but your hair’s journey is not over after the haircut.
Have you ever thought of planting your old hair after it’s cut off? Some farmers do! What comes up? Not wigs (假发), but bigger and tastier crops. Hair is full of nitrogen (氮) that helps plants to grow. When cut hair is mixed into soil, the hair breaks down, slowly letting out nitrogen, so it can help ________.
If you’ve got a wool sweater on, you’re wearing a sheep’s haircut. Sheep grow fine curly (弯曲的) fur called wool. All those curls make air pockets that trap heat, keeping the sheep warm. Farmers shear the sheep in summer, so the sheep don’t feel too hot. And we use the hair to make warm clothes, socks, and hats. Wool can even take in rain without feeling wet. Wool also doesn’t catch fire easily.
What does your hair say about you? Even many years after it has been cut, hair can tell surprising secrets. Because hair is made from bits of old cells, it has trace (微量) of chemicals (化学物质) that were in the body when the hair grew. When people are kept in the situation of dangerous chemicals, these traces remain (停留) in the hair, even long after they have disappeared from the body itself. Testing hair can help doctors know if there are dangerous chemicals in the food and water. Hair can tell another important secret-whose hair is it? This can be used to help solve crimes.
Hair does so many things for us. It keeps us warm and cool, helps farmers, shows mysteries, and provides endless styling fun. One thing is for sure, it’s not just for wigs any more. 41．Which of the following sentence can we put in the ________ in Paragraph 2?
A．test dangerous chemicals in the food and water B．keep us warm and cool
C．flowers and vegetables get big a little faster D．the police find something important 42．How does hair help plants to grow?
A．It is full of nitrogen.B．It breaks down soil.
C．It takes in rainwater.D．It lets out a smell.
43．What does the underlined part “shear the sheep” mean?
A．Give enough food to the sheep.B．Wash the sheep many times.
C．Find living place for the sheep.D．Cut the wool off the sheep.
44．What’s the main idea of Paragraph 4?
A．Hair helps keep warm.B．Hair testing is important.
C．Hair can tell secrets.D．Hair helps solve crimes.
45．How is the passage organized?
A．①/①①①/①B．①/①/①①①C．①①①①/①D．①/①①①①
四、单词拼写
46．The bright blue bag over there is one of the (swim).
47．The boy was so sad, he couldn’t get a free ticket because of his (high).
48．For many things, we can only hope for the best, and prepare for the . (bad) 49．Jack always does his homework (careful), so he doesn’t pass this exam.
50．Mary is my best friend. When something (worry) me, she always comes to me. 51．The average (平均) number of steps of each person is 4961. (每日的)
52．Italian is one of the most beautiful in the world. (语言)
53．After the traveller drank a can of cola, he felt even (口渴的).
54．Never (信任) a person who always tells lies.
55．Jim often plays with his friends after school. (棒球)
五、任务型阅读
阅读短文并根据短文回答问题。

（每题答案不超过10个词）
Little Women is a novel by an American writer, which was published in 1868 and 1869. The novel tells about the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March from childhood to womanhood. These four sisters live with their mother. Their father Mr. March was away with the Union armies. Meg and Jo March, the elder sisters, both work outside the home for money to raise the family. Meg teaches four children in a nearby family, while Jo helps her grand-aunt March, who is very rich. Beth helps with the housework, and Amy attends school. Their nearest neighbor is a rich man whose grandson lives with him. The sisters introduce themselves to the handsome shy boy, Laurie, who is the age of Jo.
…
Meg is the beautiful sister; Jo is the tomboy (假小子); Beth is the musician; and Amy is the artist with the golden curly hair. Jo is easy to get angry. One of her challenges (挑战) in the growing up is to control (控制) her anger. Laurie enjoys his neighbors, joining the family often in play. His grandfather, Mr. Laurence, is charmed (吸引) by Beth, and gives her the piano used by Laurie’s late sister.
—Taken from Little Women
56．How many members are there in March’s family?
57．What does Little Women tell about?
58．What is Amy?
59．Who is Laurence?
60．What do you think of Laurie?
六、短文填空
根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词，使短文完整。

（每空一词）During my first year of high school, I was a skinny boy who weighed just 55kg. I d 61 of being a football star, so I played very hard, but I spent most of my time on the bench. Over that summer, I found a special d 62 that bodybuilders used to build muscles (肌肉).
D 63 a lot of whole milk, eating proper amount of meat, fish etc. and lifting weights every day added an extra 11 kg of muscles on my body.
By the time the football season started, I felt ready. I soon felt very s 64 when I saw that I was still smaller and slower than most of the other boys. I found myself on the bench again.
That was to change during one of our first games of the season. We had built up a lead and the coach felt safe enough to send me in for a while to play halfback (前卫). I was so e 65 . On the very first play, I met with challenges. When the quarterback (四分卫) handed the ball off to me, I thought it was my time to show off. However, I was soon hit by three of the other team’s p 66 . They hit me hard to the g 67 . I got up and walked off the field, back to the b 68 .
Over the years, I had thought of t 69 of times achieving (获得) something, only to find that the world had other plans. I hated this for a long time. It was not until I became a football commentator (解说员) that I finally realized that maybe the world’s plans for me were b 70 than my own. Just as a saying goes, “When the Lord closes one door, somewhere else he opens a
window.”
七、翻译
71．这个寒假我们比以前多放几天。

72．当他走过我的课桌时，经常把我的眼镜撞到地上。

73．老师们倾听了我的问题并给我提供了一些建议。

74．Amy坚持用英语写日常生活之事。

75．当我们读书时，时间似乎过起来更快。

八、书面表达
76．青少年杂志决定举行以“My best friend”为题的英语征文比赛。

假如你的最好的朋友是李明，请结合以下的要点写一篇100字左右的短文：并适当发挥。

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要求：
1) 表达清楚，语法正确，上下文连贯；
2) 必须包括所有相关信息，并适当发挥。

My best friend
I am writing to introduce my best friend. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________。