广东省天河外国语学校2022-2023学年八年级上学期期末考试英语试题(含答案)

这是一份广东省天河外国语学校2022-2023学年八年级上学期期末考试英语试题(含答案)，共10页。试卷主要包含了语法选择，完形填空，阅读，写作等内容，欢迎下载使用。


注意事项：
本试卷分全卷满分 90 分，100 分钟内完成，闭卷。
本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。
答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名，准考证号填写在答题卡相应的位置。
全部答案应在答题卡上完成，答在本试卷上无效。
第 I 卷
一、语法选择（共 15 小题：每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从 1～15 各题所给的A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Deep in the frest lives David, wh lves bks. As sn as he reads ne bk, he brings
hme 1 . Sn the huse 2 bks. His wife, Alice, is angry. “Yu 3 d smething!”
David thinks hard and has 4 idea. “I can bring my bks int the faraway hills and share 5 I have with the children.”
Every week, David sets ff acrss the cuntryside t faraway villages with his tw dnkeys. Early 6 a sunny mrning, David and his dnkeys stp at a river 7 . Then, frm deep in the shadws, a bandit(山贼) jumps ut! “Please let us pass,” David says. “The children 8 .” The bandit takes ne bk and shuts, “Next time I want 9 !”
They mve n until at last, David sees sme huses belw. The children run t meet
10 . David reads them a stry first. 11 the stry ends, it's time fr everyne t chse a bk. The children hld their bks clse as they say gdbye and run hme 12 . David and his dnkeys head back, ver and arund the hills, and int the sunset.
At hme, Alice feeds her hungry husband and the dnkeys. But then, instead f 13 , David picks up his bk, 14 reads deep int the night. And far away in the hills, candles and lanterns burn as the children read brrwed bks deep int their night, 15 .
with
B.anther
B.filled with B.culd
C.the ther
C.is filled with C.wuld
D.the thers
D.was filled with D.may
4.A.a
B.an
C.the
D./
B.wh
C.why
D.hw
B.n
C.at
D.fr
B.drinking
C.drinks
D.t drink
B.waited
C.are waiting
D.have waited
二、完形填空 (共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分)
"What is the meaning f life？" It is a questin that I have asked myself many times ver the years. The 16 answer I ever fund was "The meaning f life is t give life meaning."
When I was a yung by, I gave my life meaning by 17 playing，running， swimming，laughing, and riding my bike.
When I went t schl, I gave my life meaning by learning, studying hard, getting gd grades and trying t 18 my mm and dad prud.
In cllege, I fund meaning by 19 what I wanted t study and what career（职业） I wanted t prepare fr.
When I was wrking as a 20 ，I fund meaning by helping pen yung minds t new ideas and ld wisdm. I help the students becme better nes.
When I gt married, I fund meaning in prtecting, prviding fr, and watching ver thse I lved. And when I fund ut that bth f my sns were brn with mental （精神的） illnesses, I fund meaning in lving them, 21 them, and learning frm them abut lve, patience, faith, and jy.
As I gt 22 , I began t realize that meaning isn't smething that cmes and ges. We can give meaning t every 23 f ur lives here. We can bring meaning t the thughts we think. We can bring meaning t the things we d. We can bring meaning t the 24 we tuch. We are respnsible fr 25 ur wn meaning. All we have t d is t lve urselves and thers. It is lve that gives life meaning. It is lve that makes life wrth living.
mney
B.any mney
C.sme mneys
D.any mneys
B.his
C.him
D.himself
B.When
C.If
D.Because
B.cheerful
C.cheerfully
D.mre cheerful
B.slept
C.sleeps
D.sleeping
B.but
C.r
D.s
B.neither
C.als
D.t
A. easiest
A. hardly
B. shrtest
B. ever
C. hardest
C. even
D. best
D. simply
18. A. bring
B. make
C. add
D. win
19. A. cvering
B. slving
C. deciding
D. believing
20. A. dctr
B. teacher
C. prgrammer
D. engineer
21. A. lking ver
B. lking ut
C. caring f
D. taking care f
22. A. sadder
B. taller
C. lder
D. pener
23. A. mment
B. year
C. mnth
D. week
24. A. hearts
B. hands
C. brains
D. heads
25. A. csting
B. creating
C. wasting
D. placing
三、阅读（共两节，满分 35 分）
第一节阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
(A)
Resting her phne n a stand and making the light mre suitable, 49-year-ld Liu Min started her livestreaming sessin — her daily jb during the COVID-19 utbreak. Dressed in a qipa, a traditinal Chinese dress, Liu started the livestreaming sessin frm her wrkshp at 10 in the mrning, sharing the art f making Chinese knts with many handicraft( 手工艺) lvers. Liu, an inheritr(继承人) f the art f making Chinese knts, which is listed as an intangible( 非 物 质 ) cultural heritage, became a livestreaming hst.
“Thugh the sales f Chinese knts have drpped a lt, I’m still cnfident that I can get ut f the truble brught by the utbreak. I can make full use f this perid t imprve my skills and develp this traditinal handicraft nline,” she said. Liu is quite new t the wrld f livestreaming, having bught all the necessary equipment(设备) after fllwing her friends’ advice. She practices livestreaming every day and recrds a large number f educatinal vides. She thinks livestreaming classes can meet mre Chinese knt lvers’ needs t learn the handicraft.
She has integrated the anti-epidemic spirit （抗疫精神） int her wrks, expressing the determinatin(决心) and cnfidence f the Chinese peple t win against the COVID-19. “I lve Wuhan, where I shwed my wrks in 2019. Chinese knts are ppular amng many lcal peple, and I made lts f friends there,” Liu said. She designed a special Chinese knt t express her thanks t the medics wh were sent t supprt Wuhan several mnths ag.
She has mre than 200 fllwers right nw. There are mre and mre Chinese knt lvers n her nline platfrm. She is using a length f clred string and determinatin(决心) t keep this traditinal art f Chinese knts alive nline and help mre peple understand the culture.
The underlined wrd “livestreaming” in Paragraph 1 is clse t “ ”. A．sending ut while happeningB．equipment fr recrding vides C．sending ut after recrdingD．equipment fr making handicrafts
What des Liu Min think f the future f Chinese knts?
A．Unexpected.B．Hpeful.C．Difficult.D．Dubtful.
What’s the best title fr the passage?
A．Having nline classes during the utbreak B．Intrducing an intangible cultural heritage C．Livestreaming the art f making Chinese knts D．Expressing thanks t the dctrs and nurses
(B)
Harry and Peter lived in the same village. They were bth hard-wrking and had a happy life with ther villagers.
But that year, a serius drught happened in their village. Their fields were all dry and their crps were dying. They culdn't get enugh water fr their crps until a visitr frm a village nearby came. The visitr tld them that there was a spring n the muntain near their village and it had a large amunt f water t water their fields. S Harry went t find it with tw big buckets at nce and later he began t carry water fr his field every mrning. He carried water frm mrning t night, but that wasn't enugh fr his field.
Peter als went t find the spring with Harry, but he didn't carry water the next day. He als left the village in the early mrning and then came back at night. Three days passed. Many villagers didn't see Peter in the daytime s they began t ask him where he went. Peter smiled and just tld them t wait fr his gd news. Then the next day, at nn, Peter and a line f pieces f bamb appeared in frnt f his field. When he jined the last piece f bamb frm the muntain with anther ne's end, water ran alng them int his field. With Peter’s help, all the ther fields gt water by jining pieces f bamb and the fields were saved. And Harry needn’t carry water with tw heavy buckets, either.
There's n dubt that being hard-wrking is a gd quality, but hard wrk with gd ideas is much better.
What is true abut Harry and Peter?
A.They were brthers.B. They wrked tgether. C.They lived in the same place.D. They lived an unhappy life.
What is the crrect rder f the fllwing events?
a.A visitr came t the village.b. Peple went t find the spring.
c. The crps were dying.d.The fields were saved.
e. Peter used bamb t get water.
A. dabecB. acdbeC. cabedD. ebacd
What can we infer（推断）frm the passage?
With Harry carrying water, his field was saved.
Bamb was used as a tl t carry water by Peter.
Peter nly saved his wn field.
Other villagers did nthing fr saving their fields.
What is the main idea f the passage?
A. N pains, n gains.B. A friend in need is a friend indeed. C.Practice makes perfectD. Wrk hard and think cleverly.
(C)
Many peple enjy biking. But there is a lt t think abut befre yu buy a bike. There are many kinds f bicycles t chse frm. And it is gd t ask an expert befre yu buy a bike.
Different bicycles are designed t d different things. Sme f them are made t be ridden n smth rads. Others are designed t be ridden n rcky rads, and sme bikes can be ridden n bth.
If yu want a bike, yu need t get the right kind f bike. First, ask yurself where yu plan t ride it. On city streets? On muntain trails? Or bth? Chse the bike fr yur needs.
Next, be sure yu get the right size f bike fr yurself. Prfessinal bicycle stres will take time t measure (测量) each custmer. Then they put the measurements in a cmputer. The cmputer will suggest a gd size.
Besides the kind f bike and size, yu als need the right fit. This means yu need t chse things like handlebars and a seat.
Finally yu need t knw hw t ride yur bike. Yu need t sit the right way, and psitin(放置) yur bdy crrectly. Yu shuld be cmfrtable when riding. A prfessinal shp assistant in a bike stre can help yu with these things. Then yu will be ready t hit the rad.
We can prbably find this article frm a
A. magazine B. strybkC. ntebk D. encyclpaedia
What will yu think abut first befre yu buy a bike accrding t the passage?
The kind f bicycle yur friends have.
The clr f bicycle yu wuld like.
The right way t ride bicycle crrectly.
The place yu want t ride the bicycle in.
The underlined wrd “them” in Paragraph 2 means .
A. bicyclesB. kindsC. radsD. plans
What is the best title f the passage?
A. Hw t ride a bicycle.B. Hw t chse a bicycle.
C. When t buy a bicycle.D. Where t ride a bicycle.
(D)
Herman planted the ht peppers (胡椒) in his five-hectare （五公顷） field in his twn. The 36-year-ld man put up a sign reading “Africa Hema Village” in Chinese, English and his native language. His first harvest（收成） will start this mnth.
After his 7-year further study in China, he returned t Rwanda （ 卢
旺达）in 2018 with his wife, Yang Hng, wh is frm China, and started his wn business. Hema Xiansheng CEO Hu Yi visited Rwanda t find quality prducts t bring t the Chinese market. Ht peppers were ne f his discveries. The cuple helped Hu’s team, frm research t field trips, testing prductin prcesses (加工) and s n.
Hu’s research and develpment team fund ut transprting fresh ht peppers t China was difficult because it was hard t keep them fresh during shipping. S the fresh peppers can’t be directly imprted ( 进 口 ) int China. Then Hu’s team decided t perfrm basic prcessing ( 加 工 ) in Rwanda befre shipping. Prcessing requires a careful balance. T
much salt will make the peppers less delicius. T little, and the peppers may g bad. Because plastics mustn’t be used in Rwanda, they had t find prper ways t carry the pepper
sauce (胡椒酱) . The materia（l 材料）they first used culdn’t stand the lng flights. Nw Hu
Yi is happy t see that the pepper sauce has sld well in Hema’s ffline and nline stres.
Herman pinted ut that few lcal farmers grw ht peppers because the market is s small that abut half the harvest is wasted every year. A yung man in Rwanda will nly make 10 yuan ($1.4) a day by wrking in the cities, but if they grw ht peppers because f Hema’s rders, they can make 50 t 60 yuan a day. Herman expressed his willingness t intrduce mre peple t make mre mney by farming, rather than wrking fr lwer incmes（收入）, when e-cmmerce (电子商务) can bring greater needs and sales.
“It’s a chance fr Rwandan peple t jin the new field and change their lives,” Herman
said, “Thrugh building mre Hema Villages, Rwanda has the chance t becme a cuntry f digital agriculture.”
“Africa Hema Village” in Paragraph 1 is a place .
A．called Hema in AfricaB．where Herman’s wife was brn C．prviding ht peppers fr HemaD．fr Africans t buy ht peppers 38．Why shuld the peppers be prcessed befre shipping t China? Because .
A．a balance is needed when the prcessing is dne B．fresh ht peppers mustn’t be imprted int China
in Rwanda, peple are nt allwed t use plastics
during shipping, fresh ht peppers are easy t g bad
39．If a yung man in Rwanda grws ht peppers fr Hema, he may get abut .
A．10 dllars a weekB．1,600 yuan a mnth
C．500 dllars a yearD．16,000 yuan half a year 40．What can we learn frm the passage?
Many types f prducts have been ffered in Africa Hema Village.
Ht peppers frm Africa have a large market all arund the wrld.
Hema Xiansheng paid fr Herman’s seven-year educatin in China.
Herman hpes t d smething t imprve peple’s lives in Rwanda.
第二节 阅读填空（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 5 分）
阅读短文及文后选项，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We lk at the sun every day. 41.
On Sept. 2nd, 2021, China’s Fengyun-3E satellite tk its first pht f the sun. 42. The pictures taken are very clear. The satellite was sent int space n July 5th. And by the end f 2021, China released an album f phts taken by the satellite.
One f the satellite’s sides faces the sun all the time. 43. Why is watching the sun s imprtant?
Clear pictures f the sun can help scientists study it mre deeply. Fr example, scientists can better study slar strms. These may affect the weather n Earth. 44. An astrnaut wuld be in great danger if he r she was n the mn during the strm.
45. .
It used China’s slar space telescpe(望远镜) t d the jb.
By watching the sun clsely, we can take actins t prtect urselves.
Big slar strms may als make ur phnes stp wrking.
But d yu knw what the sun really lks like?
It can watch the sun’s activity withut stpping.
第 II 卷
四、写作（共三节，满分 30 分）
第一节语篇填词（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 5 分）
根据下面篇章及所给的首字母写出所缺单词。在填写答卷时，要求写出完整单词。
（每空只写一词）
Midi Music Festival is ne f the mst (46) p music festivals in China. It's mre than just a festival t me because I played the pian n stage in the festival this year. It made me (47) t f my pian learning experience.
I learnt t play the pian when I was (48) y . My father prmised t buy a pian fr me n my twelfth birthday. At first, I didn't shw any artistic (49) a . And I culdn't play the sngs crrectly. But my dad always encuraged me and said that I was as intelligent as Beethven. S I challenged myself t many difficult sngs and practiced playing the pian whenever I can. And I wn a lt f prizes in cmpetitins. Then I realized I culd play the pian well thrugh hard (50)w . Frm then n, I fell in lve with music. I can't imagine living in a wrld withut music.
第二节完成句子（共 5 小题：每题 2 分，共 10 分）
除非你努力学习，否则你不能成功地通过考试。
Yu can't the exam yu study hard.
昨天我们在公开场合表演了这场英语剧。
We the English play yesterday.
目前为止，这是一次难忘的经历。
It an unfrgettable experience .
我的书包跟你的不一样重。
My schlbag is yurs.
我们都期待着在春节吃团年饭。
We are the reunin dinner at the Spring Festival.
第三节 书面表达 ( 共 1 小题，满分 15 分 )
来自英国的 Eric 到你校交流学习，他参加了你们学校上周的“英语周”活动后很兴奋。请你根据以下提示内容，帮助他完成一封家书，向他的父母介绍上周“英语周”的相关情 况。
要求：
80-120 词（给出部分不计入总词数）；
要点齐全，可适当发挥；
条理清晰，语句通顺，意义连贯，书写规范；
文中不得出现真实姓名和校名。
Dear mum and dad,
It has been tw weeks since I left the UK. I have experienced a lt in the middle schl in China. Last week, I tk part in the English Week. It gave me a deep impressin( 印 象 ). Nw let me tell yu smething abut it.
Best wishes!
Yurs,
Eric参考答案
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ABC CCBD DDAB CDBD
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