2022-2023学年湖南省长沙市青竹湖湘一外国语学校八年级下学期入学考试英语试题

2022-2023学年湖南省长沙市青竹湖湘一外国语学校八年级下学期入学考试英语试题
Make a Rainbow (彩虹)
Keep the mirror in the water glass
We all love the rainbow after the rain. So, it’s a better idea to make a rainbow by ourselves. We need water, glass, a small mirror and sunlight. Steps:
* Make sure it’s a sunny day.
* Fill the glass with water.
* Place a table in a dark room in front of narrow (窄的) sunshine.
* Now put the water glass on the table so that sunlight can pass through the water. * Now, keep the mirror in the water glass on the table.
*Set the right angle (角度) between the mirror and the light to get a beautiful rainbow on the wall.
1. To make a rainbow, you need to have a mirror, sunlight and _______.
A．a rainbow B．a glass of water C．some rain 2. Which of the following is TRUE (真的)?
A．We can make the rainbow on rainy days.
B．Setting the angle right is very important.
C．We must do all the steps in a bright room.
A Friend like Henry?
A．Her teacher. B．Her friend. C．Her parents.
4. Which book can you read if you want to learn about Chinese history?
A．Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea .
B．The Romance of the Three Kingdoms .
C．The Little Prince .
5. What is the main purpose (目的) of the chart?
A．To introduce their favorite books.
B．To show the books they have collected.
C．To tell others the best seller of the year.
It was the last evening of the year. A poor little girl carried matches (火柴) in her hand. No one had bought any all day long. The girl walked along the street with no shoes, cold and hungry.
In a corner, she sat down. She was afraid to go home. She didn’t make a coin (硬币), and perhaps her father would beat (打) her. Her home was almost as cold as the street.
She struck (划) one match, and held her hands over the flame (火焰). She wanted to warm her small hands. Surprisingly, she found herself sitting before a large stove (火炉). How warm it was! As the child wanted to warm her feet, the flame died down, and the stove disappeared.
A second match was lighted. She saw a table full of delicious food. The roast goose (烤鹅) jumped down from the dishes, and came to the poor child. But when she wanted to eat it, the match was burned out (熄灭).
She struck another match. This time, her dea d grandmother came up. “Grandma!” cried the child, “Oh, take me with you! I know that you will leave me as soon as the match goes out.” She lighted all the matches hurriedly. She would like to stop her grandmother disappearing. Her grandmother took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew high together, until they were in that place where there is neither cold, nor hunger, nor pain.
6. Why did the little girl walk along the street?
A．To sell matches. B．To look for food. C．To meet grandma.
7. The girl struck the first match to _______.
A．warm her feet B．warm her hands C．light a stove
8. What’s the meaning of the underlined phrase “died down” in Para.3?
A．慢慢枯死B．恢复光亮C．逐渐消失
9. Which is NOT true according to the last three paragraphs?
A．When she lighted the third match, she saw a big goose.
B．She lighted all the matches to keep her grandmother stay.
C．She saw the goose and the stove because she was hungry and cold.
10. From the passage, we infer that _______.
A．the poor little girl might die in the end
B．the grandma took the little girl back home
C．the matches make all the girl’s wishes come true
People all know dogs can smell very well, so people usually use dogs to look for missing people, and to find out drugs (毒品) and even disease (疾病). But scientists weren’t sure if stressed (有压力的) people had a special smell. And if they did, they weren’t sure whether dogs could find out that smell. It shows that the answer to both questions is “yes”.
Wilson is a scientist who worked with four dogs. He taught the dogs to use a special smell-testing thing with three open boxes. Then he used meat to train (训练) the dogs to find the right box. Over time, he gave the dogs harder and harder smelling jobs. The final goal (目标) was to see if they could smell stress from a person.
With the help of other scientists, Wilson got 36 samples (样本) from different people. He got them when the people were stressed, and also when they were not. Then the dogs had to find out the stressed one. In all, the dogs did 720 of these tests. To his surprise, the dogs could find out the stressed one about 94% of the time.
The results (结果) show that stress does have a smell and dogs can know. Wilson says the news could be very useful in training service dogs, because their job is to help make that stress lower.
11. What can’t dogs do from paragraph 1?
A．Look for drugs. B．Cure (治疗) disease. C．Find missing people.
12. What are the right order (顺序) about Wilson’s dog training?
a. He taught dogs to smell special boxes.
b. He gave dogs harder smelling jobs.
c. He used food to train the dogs.
d. Dogs could smell the stress.
A．a-b-c-d B．a-c-b-d C．a-d-c-b
13. Which of the following is TRUE according to Para. 3?
A．Wilson got 720 samples from stressed people.
B．Scientists all felt very sorry to know the result.
C．Dogs could find out the stressed sample most of the time.
14. Why does Wilson think the news is useful?
A．Because it helps people to cure stress diseases.
B．Because more dogs can be used to look for people.
C．Because people can train dogs to make people less stressed.
15. Where can we see this passage?
A．In a story book. B．In an art magazine. C．In a science newspaper.
阅读下面短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

每个选项仅使用一次。

Every new school year comes with a fresh start. What are you going to do differently and better? 16 .
Go to class every day. When you miss a day, or even a class, it’s easy to fall behind. 17 ! If you have to miss a class, make sure you meet with your teacher to find out what you missed.
Ask questions. 18 . Believe it or not, most teachers want you to learn and they are always there to help you. If you aren’t comfortable asking questions in front of the class, go to talk to the teacher after class.
19 . Like it or not, homework is an important part of school. There’s not much you can do to get around (逃避) it. Make it a habit to do your homework at the same time every day. If possible, you can find a study partner and do homework with him or her.
Try new things and get new friends. Try a new sport, something you think you will be good at. 20 . Keep your old friends, but get some new ones, too. Making friends with someone is easier when you join a club.
There’s a school in Buchen Village, Anhui Province. The only teacher here is a 95-year-old man, Ye Lianping. He began to teach left-behind children (留守儿童) without getting any money in 2000.
Teaching is always an important part of Ye’s life. To help children learn more about the outside world and have their own dreams, he began to offer (提供) students English classes. He first set up a classroom in his own house. Later, the local government (当地政府) gave him another two classrooms, where more children can get education.
Ye lives a very simple life. As he has no children of his own, he lives with his wife in a small house built 30 years ago. Children far away from home can also spend the night there. Over the past years, Ye has helped more than 2,000 children, and Yang Hongyan is o ne of them. “Without Grandpa Ye’s help, I may have stopped learning.” says Yang.
“It must be a lie to say that I’m not tired. But I think the meaning of life is doing something for others, and that’s the most important thing of life.” says Ye. People called him “the candlelight of the village, burning forever”. But he said, “I’m just a firefly (萤火虫), a little firefly (making little light), not as much light as a candlelight can give.”
21. When did Ye start teaching children for free?
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22. Why did he teach students English?
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23. Where can students far away from home stay at night?
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24. Did Yang Hongyan stop learning?
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25. According to Ye, what is the most important thing of life?
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Once upon a time, a young man saw a spring (泉水) of clear water in a desert. The water was very sweet, and he ______ his leather container (皮革容器) so that he could bring some water back to his ______.
After 4 days, he gave the water to his teacher. The old man took a ______, smiled warmly and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went back to his hometown happily. After a while, the teacher let a second student taste the ______. He spat (吐) it out, saying it was ______. It was clear that the water had become ______ fresh sweet because the leather container was so old. The student questioned his teacher, “Teacher, the water tasted strange. Why did you still like it?” The teacher answered, “You simply tasted the water ______ I tasted the gift. The water in the container was an act of love and kindness and nothing could be ______.”
After reading the story, we can understand that when we receive a chocolate from a child, we get more than the chocolate itself. What we should do properly is to ______ him or her because we love the idea in the gift. Gratitude (感谢) doesn’t always come nat urally. ______, many people like only the thing but not the love in it. We should remind ourselves and teach our children about the feelings of beauty and the feeling of gratitude.
26.
A．covered B．filled C．took
27.
A．teacher B．man C．father
28.
A．breath B．drink C．look
29.
A．container B．water C．sand
30.
A．sweet B．tasty C．terrible
31.
A．no longer (不再) B．hardly ever C．even more
32.
A．and B．so C．but
33.
A．sweeter B．hotter C．colder
34.
A．give advice to B．look forward to C．be thankful to
35.
A．Unluckily B．Happily C．Carefully
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Chinese calendar comes from the movement (移动) of the moon and the sun. It has a history of more than 4,000 years. Each Chinese calendar year has to do 36 a zodiac sign (生肖), 12 or 13 months and each month has 29 or 30 days. If there are 12 months, there will be 353—355 days in a year; if 13 months, there 37 (be) 383—385 days. China uses the Gregorian calendar (公历) for some business 38 (activity). The Chinese calendar is also widely used to define (定义) 24 solar terms, 39 (tradition) holidays. It advises people 40 (choose) a lucky day before important activities such as weddings (婚礼), moving into a new house, etc. So Chinese people can see both of 41 (they) in daily life.
42 does the Chinese calendar work? Each time the moon moves into a line with the earth and the sun, the 43 (begin) of a new month arrives and this is called “Chu Yi” or “Shuo Ri”, meaning 44 first day of a lunar month (太阴月). When the full moon appears, it is the middle of the month. But why does one month have 29 days or 30 days? 45 the time of a full moon circle (循环) is a little more than 29 days. Just as the Gregorian calendar has a leap year (闰年), the Chinese calendar has a leap month, which means there are 13 months in some years.
阅读下面的短文，将划线部分译成英文或中文。

When I was 9, I left my home in Los Angeles and arrived in London on a gray morning. Without my favorite beaches and blue-sky days in LA, I felt at a loss. 1. I didn’t love this city until I found a good place to go skateboarding.
It is Southbank, the center of skateboarding (滑板) in London. My new friends are all local skaters (滑冰者). 2. We often go there so that we can play with different people. We speak our own language: “Safe”. Safe means cool. It means hello. It means don’t worry about it. When I fall over, my friends come over: “Safe, man. Safe”. When I finish the landing trick (技巧), they beat their boards loud, shouting: “Safe! Safe!” And that means a lot to me. 3. 因为这是成为一名滑板玩家的第一步。

I have to stop this sport after moving to Washington. In the following years, 4 我总是盼望着回到伦敦。

In 2004, I went to Southbank again. Weaving (穿梭) among the kids, I felt I’ve traveled back to my childhood. Then a thin boy sat next to me, “Do you wan t to learn? 5. Try it and you will love it!” I smiled and told him, “I was a local skater here 20 years ago,” Then, slowly, he began to nod his head, “Safe, man, Safe.” “Yeah,” I said, “Safe”.
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50. _____________________________________________________________________________
51. 假如你是李华，你的好朋友Steven邀请你下个周末去参加他举办的生日派对。

可是下个周末，你很忙。

请根据表格内容委婉地拒绝Steven的派对邀请，并在最后祝贺他生日快乐。

(1) 条理清晰，语句通顺，语法正确，书写规范：
(2) 文中不得出现真实人名和学校名；
(3) 80词左右（开头和结尾已给出，请抄至答题卡。

不计入总词数）。

Dear Steven,
Thank you for inviting me to your birthday
party.____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ _______________
Yours,
Li Hua。