2024-2025学年辽宁省大连市高新园区八年级下学期期中英语试题及答案

这是一份2024-2025学年辽宁省大连市高新园区八年级下学期期中英语试题及答案，共10页。
(本试卷共45 小题 满分90 分 考试时长90分钟)
注意事项：
1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。
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3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分 选择题 (共50分)
一. 阅读理解(共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分)
第一节 阅读下列语言材料，从每题所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
D yu like t spend yur weekend at schl differently? These are sme fun activities fr yu t enjy.
1. If Lin Qiang wants t g t DIY wrkshp, he must get t schl .
A. befre 2:00 P. m. B. at 11:00 a. m.
C. befre 10:00 a. m. D. after 12:00 p. m.
2. The Pet Shw will be held .
A. in the schl's activity rm B. in the schl library
C. n the schl playgrund D. n the schl field
3. Students will .
A. invent things with their parents at the DIY wrkshp.
B. write stries and buy sme bks at Stry Time.
C. play with their pets while ding the utdr games.
D. play utdr games fr three hurs this Saturday.
4. We can find this passage .
A. in a stry bk B. in a schl magazine
C. n a science website D. in an English dictinary
B
New Year was cming. I tld my mther that the nly gift I wanted fr the New Year was aPg Stick (弹簧单高跷). Hwever, my mther said that they were s expensive that we culdn't affrd ne.
On a Saturday befre New Year, my family went shpping tgether. While my mther and Iwere picking ut the gifts, my dad said, “I'll be back sn. I need t see smething in the tl area.” A mment later, he came back with a lng bx. I was wndering if there was a Pg Stick in it.
When we arrived hme, my dad put the bx in the garage(车库). While my parents were busy with their husewrk,I quietly walked ut t the garage and fund the bx. I was s happy because I thught as lng as I pened that bx, my bright Pg Stick wuld appear! T my surprise, inside the bx there was nly an ugly ld brm(扫帚).
On New Year mrning,I gt sme nice gifts, but I didn't get the present that I really wanted.After cleaning up the rm after dinner, my dad went ut. When he came back in, he was carrying a beautiful Pg Stick. I culdn't believe it! Where did my dad hide it? He kept it t himself and my parents prbably gt quite a laugh frm the jke they played n me.
Althugh we didn't have much mney, my parents gave me the mst imprtant gift f all:lve and happiness.
5. What's the right rder accrding t the text?
a. My family went shpping tgether.
b. My parents gt a laugh frm the jke.
c. My dad put the bx in the garage.
d. I fund an ld brm inside the bx.
e. I wanted t get a Pg Stick.
A. e-a-c-d-b B. e-a-b-c-d C. b-d-e-c-a D. a-e-d-c-b
6. The writer felt a little after he pened the bx in the garage?
A. lucky. B. excited. C. unhappy. D. enjyable.
7. Which f the fllwing is TRUE accrding t the text?
A. The writer gt his favrite gift finally.
B. The writer's family culdn't buy a Pg Stick
C. The writer Just gt a brm as a gift.
D. The writer's parents usually play jkes n him.
8. What's the best title fr the passage?
A. A special festival B. The gift f lve
C. A big day fr New Year D. A funny jke
C
January 20,2025,a Chinese tech cmpany named DeepSeek made a new AI called DeepSeek-R1. This smart prgram can slve math prblems, write cde, and answer questins like tp mdels(模型) such as OpenAI's GPT-4, but it csts much less t build. The team spent nly$5. 58 millin (1/70 f OpenAI's cst) and used 2,048 cmputer chips (芯片) fr tw mnths.This shws that gd ideas can beat big mney.
DeepSeek-R1 learns by trying many times and getting better, like hw students practice maths. Other AIs need lts f prepared examples, but R1 imprves by itself. Fr example, in a glbal math test, it gt 79.8% right, higher than Open AI's mdel. A simple versin(版本) f R1can even run n lw-cst cmputers, helping schls and small cmpanies.
DeepSeek-R1 is free t use and change. On its first day nline, ver 19,000 prgrammers(程序员) all ver the wrld started t study it. Even Meta (a famus U. S. tech cmpany) tp scientist said, “This kind f free AI culd change the wrld.”
US tech cmpanies are wrried. Meta plans t spend ver $65 billin n AI research.scientists say China is catching up fast. A reprt in Nature magazine called R1 a“big step frward”, prving(证明) that smart ideas beat expensive tls. This will make a real difference t ur life.
As a DeepSeek engineer said, “We want AI t be a friend, nt smething nly rich peple can use.” With R1, China shws the wrld that great things cme frm new ideas and hard wrk, nt just mney.
9. What d the underlined wrds“Gd ideas can beat big mney” mean in paragraph 1?
A. DeepSeek-Rlcst t much mney.
B. DeepSeek-R1 cst little but can d much.
C. It's a gd idea t use DeepSeek-R1.
D. DeepSeek-R1 nly wrks with expensive tls.
10. Which is TRUE abut DeepSeek-R1?
A. It cst mre than $ 65 millin.
B. It can slve all the math prblems.
C. It becmes better by practising by itself.
D. It can't be used and changed fr free.
11. What is Paragraph 3 and 4 mainly abut?
A. DeepSeek-R1 is the best AI mdel all ver the wrld.
B. Mre and mre freign peple like using DeepSeek-R1.
C. Expensive AI mdels make many mistakes.
D. DeepSeek-R1will change the wrld in sme way.
12. The passage is written t .
A. explain hw cmputer chips wrk.
B. intrduce a lw-cst AI mdel frm China.
C. encurage students t becme prgrammers.
D.cmpare different AI mdels.
D
①Cllecting is ne f peple's hbbies and Peple cllect things fr different reasns.
②Sme peple cllect because they want t make mney. We call them business cllectrs.This culd be called an instrumental(工具性) reasn fr cllecting. They'll lk fr antiques(古董, 古玩) that they can buy cheaply and sell at a higher price. But there may be a psychlgical thught, t— buying cheap and selling dear can give the cllectr a sense f achievement(成就感).
③Anther reasn fr cllecting is the desire (渴望) t find smething special, such as an early recrding by a famus singer. Sme may spend their whle lives lking fr this.Psychlgically (心理学上), this can give a purpse (目的) t a life. There is a danger, thugh,that if ne is lucky enugh t find what he is lking fr, he may feel empty, because the gal that drve him n has gne.
④If yu think abut cllecting stamps, anther reasn is its educatinal value (教育价值).Stamp cllecting pens a windw t ther cuntries, and t the plants, animals, r famus peple shwn n their stamps. In the 19th century, many cllectrs cllected fssils(化石), animals and plants frm arund the wrld and their cllectins prvided much infrmatin abut the natural wrld. Withut thse cllectins, ur understanding f the wrld wuld be far behind what it is.
⑤Nt all cllectrs are interested in learning frm their hbbies. Sme peple cllect because f the need fr a sense f cntrl (控制). Stamp cllectrs, fr example, place their stamps in albums very neatly accrding t their favurite rder.
13. Accrding t the passage, business cllectrs cllect things t .
A. have fun B. make mney C. meet their interest D. shw t thers
14. What des the underlined wrds“he may feel empty” mean in paragraph 3?
A. He may feel hungry.
B. He may feel hpeless abut his hbby.
C. He may lse the gal f life.
D. He may cllect mre expensive things.
15. Which is TRUE accrding t Paragraph 3 and 4?
A. Many singers like cllecting things.
B. Cllectins can pen up the wrld t the cllectrs.
C. Mst cllectins nw are frm the 19th century.
D. A cllectr must travel arund the wrld fr his cllectins.
16. What's the structure f the passage?
A. ①/②③④⑤ B. ①/②/③④/⑤
C. ①/②③④/⑤ D. ①②③④/⑤
第二节 阅读短文，从方框内所给的选项中选出填入空白处的最佳选项，有一个多余的选项。
E
Have yu ever dreamed f flying t Mars? A teenager called Alyssa Carsn has a big dream fr her future. If her dream cmes true, she'll fly int space. But she desn't want t rbit(环绕……运行) the earth n the space statin r g t the mn. Alyssa wants t travel t Mars, the red planet.
S, is this just a dream? N. Alyssa had this dream when she was three years ld because the idea was exciting and“n ne's been there!” After that, she read lts f bks n Mars and entered her first space camp when she was seven. (17) It's an expensive trip and it needs many years f training. This is a prblem fr Alyssa's family, but her parents try help her because she has tried her best t make her dream cme true. Alyssa believes that the missin(飞行任务) t Mars will help us get t knw the planet better.
Mre than 100,000 peple have already applied (申请) fr a jurney t Mars.(18)It's better if they have a similar kind f experience. Alyssa has a certificate(证书) in scuba diving(潜水) and is already wrking n her pilt's license. Bth these things, as well as a certificate in skydiving are imprtant fr an astrnaut's training. (19) Alyssa speaks Spanish,French, Chinese and sme Turkish, s this shuld be enugh!
Only a few peple can g n the first Mars missin. The flight t Mars wn't be easy. They will spend hundreds f days tgether in a very small space!(20) Yu wuld live in an very small space called a“pd” and yu wuld wear a space suit all the time. If yu made a phne call hme, it wuld take half an hur fr the sund t reach the earth! Als, if yu gt ill, there wuldn't be any hspitals. Life wuldn't be as easy, that's fr sure! But it wuld be really exciting.
二.完形填空 (共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
阅读短文，理解其大意，从A，B，C，D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I put dwn Charlie and the Chclate Factry. But I kept ging ver the (21) stry in my mind. The bk was full f magic. But Charlie's happy (22) was the mst magical part f the stry.
Charlie's hme was a small huse at the side f a big twn. His family was very pr. His fur grandparents stayed in the nly bed in the huse. The family never had enugh (23) .They always ate watery cabbage sup fr dinner. In winter, the(24) wind swept acrss the flr all night lng.
T my surprise, the family were happy tgether. In the evenings, Charlie (25) with his grandparents in bed and listened t their stries. Charlie's parents ften (26) in. Every night, the rm became a happy place. The whle family (27) abut their pr life.
This (28) me greatly. In sme peple's minds, happiness cmes frm things like mney. But lve, in fact, is the (29) t happiness. Oscar Wilde nce said, “Keep lve in yur heart. A life withut it is like a sunless garden...” There are s many reasns t be happy. Ithink lve is the mst (30) ne. It can mve us, change us and give us a life full f happiness.
21. A. funny B. exciting C. bring D. shrt
22. A. grandparents B. parents C. hliday D. family
23. A. bks B. time C. sleep D. fd
24. A. warm B. ht C. freezing D. sft
25. A. sat B. std C. jumped D. explred
26. A. jined B. tk C. lked D. gt
27. A. talked B. wrried C. frgt D. thught
28. A. thanked B. tuched C. tld D. called
29. A. rad B. way C. key D. dr
30. A. imprtant B. beautiful C. interesting D. cmfrtable
第二部分 非选择题(共40分)
三.语篇填空(共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分)
阅读短文，在空白处填一个适当的单词或用所给词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺，连贯。
The first cartns appeared in newspapers. They tld stries using pictures.(31)first phtgraphed cartn film (in 1906) was abut humrus faces. In the film, an(32)(art) drew pictures f tw faces n a blackbard: The faces came t life. They smiled and a small dg jumped thrugh a ring.
There were lts f (33)(animal) in early cartns. One famus early cartn character was Felix the Cat. All the peple at that time liked (34)(it) name.
Walt Disney started t make films (35) the 1920s. Sme f his earliest films were abut a famus stry, Alice in Wnderland,(36) in Disney's films it was calledAlice in Cartn Land. Amng all the Walt Disney's characters, the (37)(famus)cartn character was Mickey Muse. He (38) (appear) in 1928, first in a black-and-white film withut sund, then very sn after that in a talking film and later in clrThe Mickey Muse film with sund became (39)(real) ppular.
Cartns (40)(be) ppular with peple f all ages fr ver a hundred years.They will prbably be ppular fr many mre years in the future.
四.阅读与表达(共4小题，41-43小题，每小题2分，44小题4分；满分10分)
阅读短文，然后根据内容回答问题。
“Welcme t English drama (剧) class! Tday, we are ging t play Cinderella!” said LinXia, ne f the vlunteer teachers frm Shenzhen University. In frnt f her, there were 45cuntry schl fifth graders listening excitedly.
In respnse (响应) t the gvernment's call fr the revitalizatin (复兴) f cuntryside educatin, the Vlunteer Teaching Prgram was set up in 2021. Fr fur years, vlunteers like Lin have spent their summers teaching in Shangba Village, Ganzhu City, where these educatinal imprvements(教育改善) are expected t happen.
As the captain, Lin arrived in Ganzhu with her team n July 10, 2023. Althugh the living cnditins were terrible, she believed the experience was valuable in making the lives f lcal students better.
During the teaching, Lin fund that students in village schls are ften shrt f interest inEnglish because f few materials (材料) and chances t use the language. T increase their interest in English, Lin and her team planned special English drama curses t encurage children t express themselves bravely. “It is better fr village students t learn English thrugh acting,because they will have mre fun,” Lin explained. During rehearsals (排练), Lin helped the children understand the stryline, practise wrds ver and ver again, and build cperatin (合作)amng them. She discvered a big change in the students'attitudes (态度) nw, with manybecming interested in English.
One summer may nt bring much changes t the children, but Lin hpes ne summer's hard wrk can at least make a difference t China's cuntryside educatin.
41. Hw lng has the Vlunteer Teaching Prgram lasted?
42. What did Lin and her team d t increase the students' interest in English?
43. What des Lin hpe fr their summer vlunteer teaching prgram?
44. What d think f Lin and her team? Why d yu think s?(30 wrds r mre)
五.书面表达 (满分20分)
45.强健的体魄和健康的心理对中学生尤为重要。因此你们学校本届英语节演讲比赛的话题定为“Hw t Lead a Healthy Life”。假设你是李华。请你结合所学知识和你的经验写一篇演讲稿，为演讲比赛做准备。
内容要点：1.健康生活的重要性；
2.保持健康的几点建议；
3.发出号召。
注意事项：1.词数：80-100词；开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.文中不能出现真实姓名及学校名称。
Dear fellws,
It's my hnr t talk abut healthy living with yu all.
Wish yu all the best!
Lve frm,
Li Hua
参考答案
一．阅读理解
A. CCDB
B. ACAB
C. BCDB
D. BCBA
E. DEBA
二．完形填空 BDDCA ACBCA
三．语篇填空 The, artist, animals, its, in, but, mst famus, appeared, really, have been
四. 阅读与表达
41. Fr fur years. / Since 2021.
42. They planned special English drama curses (t encurage children t express themselves bravely).
/ They made their lessns fun by having special English drama curses.
She hpes it can make a difference t China’s cuntryside educatin.
44. (Any acceptable answer) I think they are kind and helpful because they spent their summer time t teach children in the cuntryside as vlunteers and helped them t live a better life. They are als smart because they made students get interested in English by having English drama classes.
五．书面表达
DIY Wrkshp
D yu enjy inventing things with yur wn hands?(DIY— D It Yurself)
D yu like being hands--
n?
Jin us fr a DIY wrkshp in the schl's activity rm this Saturday.
Time: 10:00 a.m.—12:00 a.m.
Stry Time
D yu lve stries?
D yu enjy reading?
Cme t ur strysessin (故事会) and read stries in theschl library this Sunday.
Time:2:00 p.m.—4:00 p.m.
Pet Shw
D yu have a pet?
D yu want t shw it
ff?
Jin in ur pet shw n
the schl playgrund this Saturday andSunday.
Time: 11:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.
Outdr Games
D yu like
playing games?
D yu want t have fun utdrs?
Jin us fr sme utdr games n the schl field this Saturday.
Time: 1:00 p. m.—4:00 p. m.
A. S, if yu were an astrnaut n Mars, what wuld life be like?
B. It's necessary t speak several languages if smene wants t be an astrnaut.
C. The Missin t Mars is s exciting that mre and mre peple are interested in it.
D. Since then, she's learned a lt abut travelling t ther planets.
E. If they pass the tests, they will start a training prgram.