北京市西城区近五年八年级英语第一学期期末试卷分类汇编-任务型阅读

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近五年八年级英语第一学期期末试卷分类汇编-任务型阅读

北京市西城区2019-2020学年度第一学期八年级英语期末试卷

阅读短文, 根据短文内容回答问题。

Butterflies at Risk

What's causing problems for these beautiful insects?

Something is harming the monarchs. One of the largest butterflies in North America, monarchs are famous for their long migrations（迁徙）covering thousands of miles. Yet the number of monarchs is dropping. Bad weather conditions, putting the butterfly population in danger. Some butterfly experts say that the number of monarch butterflies has been cut by 25 percent. In recent years, unusually cold temperatures and rain have caused monarchs to die in large numbers. These conditions have also caused new butterflies not to hatch（孵化）.

Will they return?

Monarchs are very sensitive（敏感的）to change because of the long distances they travel. They cover thousands of miles each year, flying between their winter homes in Mexico or Southern California and their summer homes in the Midwest. Other animals also migrate. And many travel much farther. A bird called the Arctic tern goes round trip between the Arctic and the Antarctic every year. Like the Arctic tern, a type of gray whale has a long migration. It travels 12,400 miles from Baia California in Mexico to waters off Alaska and back. The longest migration ever recorded is by the sooty shearwater. Every year this bird flies 40, 000 miles from New Zealand to the northern part of the Pacific Ocean to find food.

The monarchs don't travel as far as animals like the Arctic tern and the sooty shearwater, but their journey isn't safe. Every year as many as 100 million monarch butterflies leave Mexico for the first leg of the migration. It's hard to imagine that such a large number might be in danger. Yet many scientists tell us that the danger is very real.

In Mexico people are destroying the natural environment. They cut down the trees where millions of monarchs. spend the winter and use chemicals to kill the milkweed, the monarch's favourite food. Monarchs spend the winter in Mexico and California. In both places, development is destroying these winter homes. Unless steps are taken to protect their habitats, the monarchs' migration could become a thing of the past.

"If we lose the whole migration, we lose one of the nation's most magnificent phenomena, " said Chip Taylor, a professor at the University of Kansas. These butterflies are the symbol of richness of biological diversity（生物多样性）.

39. Are monarch butterflies famous for their long migrations?

40. What are putting the butterfly population in danger?

41. Where are monarchs' winter homes?

42. In Paragraph 2, what animal has the longest migration?

43 What can people do to protect monarch butterflies?

【答案】39. Yes, they are.   

40. Bad weather conditions.   

41. In Mexico or Southern California   

42. The sooty shearwater.   

43. People can protect monarch butterflies' habitats.

北京市西城区2018-2019学年度第一学期八年级英语期末试卷

阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。

Knitting(编织) is a popular craft in the United States. Knitters use needles and yarn to make garments such as scarves, gloves, hats, and sweaters. Some people prefer to knit by themselves. Other knitters enjoy getting together with others who love to knit, so they form a knitting circle—a club whose members chat and knit at the same time. If you want to start a knitting circle, planning is easy.

First, you should invite people to join your knitting circle. Ask your friends if they are interested in being part of the group. You only need two people to start your circle, but as the saying goes, “The more, the merrier!”

Next, you need to decide when and where to meet. A time in the evening or on the weekend might be the most convenient. You could get together at a member’s home, a local coffee shop, or a community(社区) center.

After you have decided on a time and place, tell the other members of the circle when and where you will meet and what they should bring. You might want to ask them to bring their own yarn and needles—and extra to share! Knitting circle members often lend and borrow materials (材料).

At your first meeting, you should discuss your long-term plans for the club. How often do you want to meet? Do you want to take turns to bring food and drinks to the meeting? Do you want to give things your group knits to a charity (慈善机构)?

Starting a knitting circle does not need much work. With some successful planning, after a few meetings, your group can become a close-knit community; in other words, a happy knitting family!

31. What is a knitting circle?

32. How many people do you need at least to start a knitting circle?

33. When is a good time for members of a knitting circle to get together?

34. What is the passage mainly about?

【答案】31. It’s a club whose members chat and knit at the same time.   

32. Two. / 2.   

33. A time in the evening or on the weekend.   

34. What a knitting circle is and how to start one.

北京市西城区2017-2018学年度第一学期八年级英语期末试卷

阅读短文，根据短文内容问题。

Spring is the time when Qinghai Lake awakes from its icy, long winter. On the northern bank of the lake are the Naren Wetlands, which are home to tens of thousands of birds, and many of them are in danger.

Forty-two-year-old Jia Wu Cai Rang is a Tibetan. His family is living in the Naren Wetlands. People there need a peaceful place to live. But unluckily, from the 1990s, some poachers (偷猎者) came, breaking the peace of the lake, where they began to make a living by killing, catching and selling birds.

To protect the birds, in 1985, Cai Rang became a volunteer（志愿者）for the Wetlands. His main job is to tell people to give up poaching, and if they keep on doing so, Cai Rang is to take action against them, such as writing down their car numbers or calling the police. “I feel really angry with those people who kill the birds, because I think the birds live in their own world and we should not trouble them. "

In 1997, Qinghai Lake became a state-level natural reserve. This gave the resources of the Naren Wetlands full protection. Cai Rang says he is not only protecting the wetland and its birds, but also taking care of hurt birds as they can return to Mother Nature at an early date.

Cai Rang sees the birds as his family members. Whenever he has time, he goes to the reserve to visit his friends. He sometimes feeds the birds in the fields to help them because they don't have enough food.

During the past 26 years, Cai Rang has treated and cured（治愈）more than 10 water-fowls. In the Qinghai Lake area, birds species（物种）have grown from 164 in the 1990s to 191 now. In the best seasons, tens of thousands of birds make the place a heaven for birds.

Among many local people, Cai Rang is called' the guardian（守护者）of birds’. “Birds have their own languages. I can make different sounds of birds. I use this way to talk with them. "

43. Did poachers begin to kill, catch and sell birds from the 1990s?

44. How many birds species are there in the Qinghai Lake area now?

45. Why is Cai Rang called' the guardian of birds'?

【答案】

43. Yes. /Yes, they did.

44. 191. / There are 191 birds species in the Qinghai Lake area now.

45. Because he is not only protecting the wetland and its birds, but also taking care of hurt birds.

北京市西城区2016-2017学年度第一学期八年级英语期末试卷

阅读与表达

The Winter Olympic Games

The Winter Olympic Games are a big international sports event. The Games take place every four years. The first Winter Olympics, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were in Chamonix, France. There were some ice sports such as skiing, skating, ice hockey, ski jumping and speed skating.

The 24th Winter Olympic Games will be held in Beijing. It will be from 4 to 20 February, 2022. There will be three zones （区域） for the Games: Beijing, Yanqing, and Zhangjiakou.

The Beijing zone will be for the opening and closing ceremonies （仪式） and ice sports. Yanqing zone will be mainly used for skiing competitions. Zhangjiakou zone will be for the snow sports. Both Yanqing and Zhangjiakou zones are on the north-west of the Beijing zone, near the Yanshan Mountain. With pleasant temperatures and a perfect environment, these two places are good choices for the snow sports of Beijing 2022.

The high-speed railway can take people to the three zones and make the travel time shorter between the Beijing and Zhangjiakou zones, only 50 minutes (station to station). Within each zone, the convenient public transport can take players to the stadiums or fields within 5 to 15 minutes from the Olympic Villages. In 2008, the 28th Summer Olympics were held in Beijing. In 2022, Beijing will become the first city to hold both the summer and winter Olympics.

The IOC（国际奥委会）said. "Beijing plans to use the Games to help with the development of winter sports, culture and tourist areas as well as people's interest in winter sports."

34. When did the first Winter Olympics take place?

___________________________________________

35. How many zones are there for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games?

___________________________________________

36. What will the Winter Olympic Games bring to Beijing?

___________________________________________

【答案】34. In 1924.   

35. Three.   

36. Development of winter sports, culture and tourist areas as well as people's interest in winter sports.

北京市西城区2015-2016学年度第一学期八年级英语期末试卷

七、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题（每小题2分）

People have always wanted to know what our future will look like. Go on reading this text, and you will know what will happen in the next fifty years.

How can we know what the future will look like? To be able to understand the future, you have to know the past, what has taken us to where we are today and what has changed along the way? The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but people are driven by the same basic needs as they were 150 years ago. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.

What inventions have really made a different in the last 150 years? In the past years, the inventions that have changed most people’s everyday life are telephone, radio, television, computer, the car and the internet. Then we of course have a lot of inventions that have made life easier, like new medicine, faster cars, trains, etc. In general, people have been working hard in the last 150 years to make inventions that will make the world a better place. Since there is still much to do in the area, this will be important for at least the next 150 years.

Why do we need to guess the future? Guessing the future is important for two reasons: First, we need to start to think about what kind of future we would like for ourselves and our children. And then we need to know what decisions we need to make today that will give us the best future.

43. Do people want to know what our future will look like?

44. What do people have to know if they want to understand the future?

45. Why did people work hard to make inventions in the last 150 years?

答案：Yes, they do.

答案：They have to know the past.

答案：They want to make the world a better place.