山东省淄博市博山区第六中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题

这是一份山东省淄博市博山区第六中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题，共8页。试卷主要包含了听力部分，完形填空，阅读理解，选词填空，语法填空，阅读表达，书面表达等内容，欢迎下载使用。

（一）听短对话回答问题(共5小题，每小题 1 分, 满分 5 分)你将听到五组对话，每组对话听一遍。
()1.Where is Eric used t reading?
A. At hme.B. In the library.C. On the subway. ()2.Hw ld is Betty nw?
A. 7 years ld.B. 8 years ld.C. 15 years ld. ()3. Why is Paul under pressure?
A. His mther is ill.B. He will have a rest.C. He can’t sleep well. ()4.What is Jack ging t d next?
A. Study fr an exam.B. Clean the rm.C. Play cmputer games. ()5. What was Jane ding at 9:00 last night?
A. Ding her hmewrk.B. Reading picture bks.C. Playing with her sister.
（二）听对话, 选择正确答案。每段对话读两遍(每小题 1 分, 共 5 分）
() 6.When will the party begin?
A. At 10:30 am.B. At 12:30 pm.C. At 5:30 pm.
() 7. Wh is gd at making cakes?
A. The by’s aunt.B. The by’s grandma.C. The by’s friend. ()8.What is the wman busy ding ?
A. Cleaning the huse.B. Cking the fd.C. Ding the dishes. ()9.What kind f party will they have ?
A. A birthday party.B. A New Year party.C. A husewarming party. ()10.Hw might the wman feel at last?
A. WrriedB. RelaxedC. Angry
（三）听短文, 选择正确答案。短文读两遍(每小题 1 分, 共 5 分)
11. Where was Evelyn Sharp frm?
A.England.B. America.C. Australia. 12.Wh draws a mn n the kite?
A. Jerry’s sisterB. Jerry’s friendC. Jerry’s brther 13.Hw ld is Jerry?
A. SevenB. TenC. Fifteen 14.When can the kite fly in the sky?
A. In the mrningB. In the afternnC. At night
What des the speaker think f the stry?
A. ScaryB. InterestingC. Educatinal.
二、完形填空 （10 分）
Once upn a time, there was a clever man. He used t g t the seaside t d his writing.
He had a habit f walking n the beach befre he began his 16 .
One day, as the man was walking alng the shre(海滨), he 17 the beach and
saw smene mving like a 18 . As he gt clser, he nticed that it was a yung man. Instead f dancing , he was reaching dwn t the shre, picking up small bjects and thrwing them int the cean.
“Gd mrning! May I ask what yu’re ding?”the clever man called ut. The yung man 19 , lked up and said, “Thrwing starfish int the cean.” “ I must ask, then,
20 ?”the clever man asked.
T this, the yung man replied, “The sun is up and the tide(潮汐)is ging ut. 21 I dn’t thrw them in, they’ll die.” The man was surprised and said, “But, yung man, there are miles and miles f beach and there are starfish all amng every mile. Yu can’t 22 make a difference!”
At this, the yung man picked up yet anther starfish, and threw 23 int the cean.
He said, “As it 24 the water, it made a difference fr that ne.”
S, I encurage yu t take the time t d smething that will make a difference t smene else’ s life. It desn’t have t be much and they dn’t need t knw. Just take a mment and d smething 25 , the universe(宇宙)will knw and that’s enugh.
三、阅读理解 （32分）
A
()16.A. trip
()17.A. tk ff ()18.A. maker
()19.A. stpped
B. wrk
B.tk up
B. fan
B. replied
C. exam
C. lked thrugh
C. dancer
C. cnsidered
D. training
D. lked dwn D.prince
D. succeeded
()20.A. hw
B. why
C. when
D. where
()21.A. If
B. S
C. Unless
D.Because
()22.A. luckily
B. finally
C. suddenly
D. prbably
()23.A. him
B. it
C. her
D. them
()24.A. met
B. hid
C. parted
D. carried
()25.A. hnest
B. bright
C. unusual
D. weak
A yung man ges n a tur t a faraway place. After sme days, he finds himself in a barren(贫瘠的)village.
The yung man wants t find sme water. Just then, he meets a shepherd(牧羊人). The
shepherd prvides him with sme water. The shepherd’s sheep are eating grass. The yung man finds that the shepherd cares little abut his sheep. He is digging hles. And in each hle he plants an acrn（橡子）. The shepherd tells the yung man that he is planting trees. He says, “I’ve planted ne hundred thusand. Of the hundred thusand, twenty thusand have spruted(发芽). Of the twenty thusand , half will die because f bad weather. And nly the ther half will grw int big trees.”
The next day, the yung man ges away frm the village. Five years later, he cmes back.
He is surprised t see a land full f trees. He says t himself, “The shepherd des ‘magic’ n the land.”
()26. What d we knw abut the yung man ?
A.He asks the shepherd fr sme water.B. He helps the shepherd dig sme hles.
C.He ges n a tur t find the shepherd. D. He thinks the village is a gd place t visit. ()27.Hw many trees des the shepherd think will grw int big trees at last?
A.100,000B. 80,000C.20,000D.10,000
()28.What happens t the village five years later?
It has mre visitrs.B.It becmes green.
C .It becmes famus.D. It turns int a rich place.
B
Ink brushes(毛笔)play an imprtant part in Chinese culture. They are widely used in Chinese paintings and writings.
Xu Wenyi, 62, is frm Wenzhu. He runs an ink brush shp with his tw brthers. Xu’s father learned hw t make the ink brush at 13, and ran the shp when he was ready. Xu als began t learn the skill at the same age. Xu and his brthers are the third generatin( 代 ) t take care f the family shp.
There are abut 40 steps t make an ink brush. The first thing is t chse the hair. Every winter, when animal hair is the best, Xu Wenyi ges t ther cities t rder the hair. Next, Xu and his wrkers make the hair tidy. It may take days, even a week, t get a small strand(缕)f brush hair. After that , they cut the hair in different sizes. When the hair is finally ready, they think abut ther parts f an ink
These days , the brthers try many new things. They make lanug writing brushes(胎毛笔)and many new parents enjy these brushes. The brthers als shw hw t make brushes
in their shp. They smetimes bring their brushes t take part in cultural festivals and send them t culture lvers. They shw great interest in the skill itself.
“We’re happy t make gd brushes fr peple,”said Xu. “We want t pass n (传递)the skills as lng as there are peple writing with ink brushes. And we believe we can make better brushes by imprving the skill.”
() 29. What des Paragraph 2 mainly talk abut? A.Xu Wenyi gt a lt f help frm his family.
Xu Wenyi has rich experience in making ink brushes.
Ink brushes mainly cme frm family shps in Wenzhu.
Xu’s family passes n brush making skills thrugh generatins. ()30. What can we learn abut making ink brushes?
It’s nt an easy jb.
Chsing the hair is the easiest part.
Xu usually rders the hair in Wenzhu. D.Winter is the best seasn t make ink brushes.
()31. Which f the fllwing d the brthers try?
①Painting with their ink brushes ②Making lanug writing brushes
③Shwing the skills in the shp④Ging t culture festivals
①②③ B.①③④C. ②③④D. ①②③④
()32. What can we learn frm Xu’s wrds in the last paragraph?
He will run mre shps t sell ink brushes.
He will advise mre peple t use ink brushes.
He will imprve and pass n the brush making skills.
He will make the ink brush ppular in the wrld.
C
阅读还原 5 选 4
根据短文内容，从短文后面的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项是多余。
Once upn a time, there was a lazy man wh always tried t lk fr an easier way t feed himself.
One day, while he was searching fr smething t eat, he saw a fruit farm. 33 . But as sn as he walked int the farm, a farmer saw him and started running t him with a stick. The lazy man gt afraid and ran twards a nearby frest t hide himself.
After sme time, he felt it was safe t cme ut. While walking, he saw a fx with nly tw legs. He thught, “Hw can this fx stay alive in such a cnditin?”
Suddenly, he saw a lin cming twards the fx with a piece f meat in its muth. All the animals ran away. The fx, hwever, stayed there alne. 34 . The lin put the meat n the grund fr the fx and then left!
The lazy man thught that Gd must have had smething planned fr him t. S he left that place and sat dwn smewhere, waiting fr smene t feed him. 35 . Finally, he was s hungry that he std up t lk fr fd. On the way, he met a wise man and tld everything t him. The man gave him sme fd. After finishing everything, he asked the wise man, “Gd is s kind t the fx, but why is Gd s cruel(残忍的) t me?”
The wise man said with a smile, “It’s true that Gd has a plan fr yu, but yu tk his sign in a wrng way. He didn’t want yu t be like the fx. 36 .”
He quickly decided t steal sme fruit.
He wanted yu t be like the lin.
What happened next surprised the lazy man.
The lin killed the fx and ate it.
He waited there fr tw days withut eating anything.
D
阅读 D 部分的材料，将五则新闻报道与五位同学当时的活动及相关评论 A-E 进行匹配。
( )37. These days, a red machine named Mr G Pizza appears n the street f Rme. Buyers can use it t chse frm fur different kinds f pizzas. They cst frm 5.2 t 7.2 dllars . Peple can watch the pizza ck behind a small glass windw and get freshly cked pizzas in three minutes.
( )38. Japan’s gvernment(政府)plans t encurage firms(鼓励企业)t let their wrkers chse t wrk fur days a week instead f five. It hpes t imprve the balance( 平衡 )between wrk and life fr thse wh need t care fr the family fr need mre time t learn new skills.
( )39. T help slve the prblems with cars, Archer Aviatin in the US made the first flying taxi named Maker. It can carry tw passengers. It desn’t have a driver. It can fly 100 kilmeters at ne time. It des nt need much space. Archer Aviatin wants t start selling flying taxis in 2024.
( )40.31 twns in the UK are already part f the gvernment’s e-scter rental trials( 电 动滑板车租赁试行计划).This can make peple learn mre abut the risks and benefits(好处)f e-scters. The gvernment believes these things can encurage peple t leave their cars at
hme by giving them anther way t get arund.
( )41. China hpes t becme a museum pwerhuse( 强 国 )by 2035. T make the dream cme true, it plans t develp 10 t 15 museums int wrld-class museums. At the same time, the cuntry will als try its best t help medium-sized and small-sized museum develp.
I was talking with my cusin nline when she shared the news with me . I think e-scters are dangerus t ride and peple will prbably leave them arund.
I was watching TV when my dad arrived at hme and tld me that he culd take three days ff a week. I’m very happy t have mre time t be with my dad.
I was shpping when I heard f the machine. I even bught ne pizza frm the machine. It lked gd but it was much smaller than that in the restaurant.
I learned the gd news frm my histry teacher. We were having histry class at that time. I want ur cuntry t have mre and mre excellent museums.
I felt very excited when reading the news nline. The flying taxi lks s cl and runs s fast. I’m lking frward t ging t wrk by flying taxi!
四、选词填空（共10小题，满分10分）
members s prper cntinue int smiling began with herself but wrng recently
根据短文内容，选择适当的单词填空，使短文意思完整，每个选项只用一次，有两项剩余。
16-year-ld Pat Tullch has a special hbby. She enjys making cheese n the family
farm in Australia.Pat 42 making ygurt with Mm when she was little. Then she started watching her father’s wrkers make cheese. At age ten, she made sme by_ 43 fr the first time. “It wasn’t great,” Pat says, “but the wrkers tld me what I was ding 44 and that helped me t slwly get better.”Pat and ther 45 f her family make different kinds f cheese. They wn a prize fr ne f them 46 .“We are s excited,”Pat says, 47 . “Last mnth we started selling cheese in New Zealand.Peple there read abut ur prize in a fd magazine. Certainly, we still need t find ther 48 ways t make mre peple knw abut us.”Pat’s next idea is t pst (上传)sme nline recipes(食谱
)fr cking 49 cheese. But right nw Pat is still at schl. “Making cheese is fun and
winning a prize fr it is great, 50 ding well in my studies matters mre fr nw,”she says.
It’s very gd t have a hbby. Why dn’t yu take up a new hbby r 51 an ld ne?
五、语法填空
Lng ag, there was a turtle that enjyed taking walks arund the lake.
While 52 (walk)ne day, the turtle met a rabbit.” I think slw-mvers shuld nt use the rad,” said the rabbit, laughing.”Let’s have a race, and I’ll tell yu why.”The turtle
was under a lt f 53 (press), but she agreed at last.
The next day, all the animals came 54 (watch)the race. When the race started, the rabbit ran 55 the wind. The turtle was mving behind.
Minutes later, the rabbit nticed carrts beside the rad. “Oh, 56 (I) favrite! I didn’t have breakfast tday,”said the rabbit. “I’ll eat these delicius carrts and rest fr a while.The turtle is still t far frm me!” Then he fell 57 (sleep).
The hard-wrking turtle never tk 58 (break). When she was clse t the finish line, the animals were shuting and cheering. She kept running 59 she was really tired. The rabbit wke up. He culdn’t believe his eyes: the turtle was almst at the finish line! He tried t run 60 (fast) but he culdn’t, because he was t full. The turtle crssed the finish line and wn the race.
The rabbit 61 (understand) he was wrng. He felt srry fr making fun f the brave turtle.
六、阅读表达
Every child in China grws up hearing the stry abut Sun Wukng. Nw there is a Peking Opera film named Havc in Heaven fr yu. In it, we can see hw Sun Wukng turns frm a happy mnkey int the great Mnkey King.
The directr(导演) f the film is Cheng Lu. Cheng grew up in a Peking Opera family in Fujian. At age nine, he started t learn Peking Opera at schl. He used t be a Peking Opera artist at the Fujian Peking Opera Theater. “It’s a big challenge t make such a Peking Opera film. It’s really different frm the cmmn films we watch,” Cheng said.
Fur yung actrs play the rle f Sun Wukng in different parts in the film. Fr Zhan Lei, 37, ne f the fur actrs, taking part in Havc in Heaven made his childhd dream cme true. He is a big fan f Sun Wukng, and Jurney t the West is his favrite bk. He wants t be a brave man like Sun Wukng.
Peking Opera is nt strange t Chinese peple. Dingjun Muntain(1905), the first
Chinese mvie, was a Peking Opera film. And Peking Opera films were really ppular in the 1960s and 1970s. Thrugh Peking Opera films, we can enjy bth the stry and the charm( 魅力) f Peking Opera.
What is the film Havc in Heaven abut?
What did Cheng Lu d befre being a directr？
What des Cheng think f making the film Havc in Heaven?
What kind f persn des Zhan Lei want t be?
When was the first Chinese mvie made?
七、书面表达（18 分）
目前，许多中学生利用周末和节假日上课外补习班，对此人们有不同的看法。请根据下表内容，用英语写一篇短文。要求：文章须包含所有内容要点，要求语句通顺，意思连贯；词数 80 词左右（开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数）
Nwadays, many middle schl students are taking all kinds f after-schl classes at weekends r during the hlidays. There are tw different pinins abut it.
赞成者的观点
1.能够学的更好，上更好的高中；2.避免花太多时间看电视和上网
反对者的观点
1.学生需要时间休息；2.太多压力不利于发展
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