2024年4月16日发(作者：)

2022-2023

学年广东省广州市海珠区八校联考八年级下学期期中英语试题

1. The host told a joke at the party and made the guests a lot.

A

．

laugh B

．

laughing C

．

to laugh D

．

laughed

2. Would you mind ________ my pet cat when I’m on holiday?

A

．

to take care B

．

taking care of C

．

to take care of D

．

taking care

3. The government has built some natural parks__________ protect pandas.

A

．

to help B

．

help C

．

helped D

．

helps

4. __________ the museums __________ a good way to learn about local culture.

A

．

Visiting; are B

．

Visit; are C

．

Visiting; is D

．

Visit; is

5. The kite __________ in China more than 2000 years ago.

A

．

was invented B

．

invented C

．

is invented D

．

was invent

6. If everyone is ready for the work, it __________ easily.

A

．

will be finished B

．

is finished C

．

are finished D

．

will finish

7. They hurried to leave ________ catch the last bus.

A

．

so that B

．

in order that C

．

in order to D

．

so to

8. I want to know __________ tomorrow.

A

．

where will meet B

．

where to meet C

．

where meet D

．

where meeting

9. —Do you have any plans for the holiday?

—Yes. ________

A

．

I’m planning to travel to Beijing.

C

．

I have been to Shanghai twice.

B

．

I was visiting Guangzhou Museums.

D

．

I was visiting Chimelong Safari Park.

10. —How nice the weather is! What about going out for a picnic?

—__________

A

．

I am sorry to hear that.

C

．

What a pity!

11. Every Saturday, Wang Weifang puts on a play with his friends in a small town near Xi’an. The

audience can hear them, ______ they cannot see them. That is because they are putting on a shadow

puppet play.

B

．

That sounds great.

D

．

Congratulations!

Shadow puppets ______ hard leather. The leather is cut out ______ the shape of a person, an animal

or an object. Each puppet ______ in bright colours and put on a stick. Some puppets have ______

arms and legs.

1.

A

．

and

2.

A

．

is made of

3.

A

．

for

4.

A

．

is printed

5.

A

．

move

12. Miya Peyregne and her ______ sister Tiffany were in the swimming pool in the back garden of

their house in Grandville, Michigan, USA. Their father David was with them. It was a lovely day.

There wasn’t a ______ in the sky.

Suddenly David shouted. He was in trouble. It was his legs. His legs weren’t right. He was in

______ . Then he was under the water. The girls weren’t afraid but they were worried. Was it just a

joke or was he really in trouble? Twenty seconds ______, he was still under the water. Now Miya

was afraid. There was no time ______. Miya was under the water with her father in seconds. ______

he was heavy, with the help of the water she was able to pull him to one side of the pool. Now his

head was out of the water. He was alive but he wasn’t conscious (

有意识的

). There was a mobile

phone in ______ house. Tiffany called the emergency services. ______ ambulance came soon. And

their father was conscious again. David still doesn’t know what was the matter ______ his legs that

day. But he knows that his daughters were heroes and thanks them every day for ______ his life. He

is a very proud father.

1.

A

．

six-years-old

2.

A

．

cloud

3.

A

．

pains

4.

B

．

pain C

．

painful D

．

pained

B

．

clouds C

．

cloudy D

．

clouded

B

．

six-year-old C

．

six year old D

．

six years old

B

．

movement C

．

movable D

．

moved

B

．

is printing C

．

are printed D

．

printed

B

．

on C

．

at D

．

in

B

．

is made from C

．

are made of D

．

are made from

B

．

or C

．

but D

．

so

A

．

early

5.

A

．

waiting

6.

A

．

If

7.

A

．

his

8.

A

．

/

9.

A

．

of

10.

A

．

save B

．

saved C

．

saving D

．

saves

B

．

with C

．

for D

．

at

B

．

The C

．

A D

．

An

B

．

he C

．

him D

．

himself

B

．

Because C

．

Although D

．

Unless

B

．

waited C

．

to wait D

．

waits

B

．

earlily C

．

late D

．

later

13.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的

A

、

B

、

C

和

D

项中

,

选出最佳选项，并

在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Every school day, we use schoolbags to carry all of our things to school. They are big parts of our

lives. But have you ever thought about the _______ of the schoolbag?

In Han Dynasty(

汉朝

), students used bamboo boxes to carry books to school. People thought that

the bamboo box was the _______ schoolbag. There were usually two or three layers(

层

) in the box.

Kids put different things, like books, brushes, ink stones(

砚

) and _______ in the boxes. You can see

the bamboo box in many TV shows. _______ , in the Legend of White Snake(

白蛇传

), Xu Shilin

carries a bamboo box to the capital to take an exam.

Hundreds of years later, people _______ a new kind of schoolbag called “budai”, or “hip-pocket”.

The budai was lighter than the bamboo box. With the founding(

建立

) of China, military

rucksacks(

军用帆布包

) became popular. Ask your grandparents or parents about these bags. Maybe

they can tell you about their _______ of carrying them when they were at school.

A new kind of schoolbag has _______ in recent years. Many of them have colourful and fashionable

_______ on them, such as pictures of cartoons or pop stars. And they are more comfortable to use.

Some students pull wheeled bags _______ with heavy books.

Schoolbags are still ________. Can you imagine what future schoolbags will be like?

1.

A

．

year

2.

B

．

history C

．

shape D

．

colour

A

．

most famous

3.

A

．

football

4.

A

．

However

5.

A

．

suffered

6.

A

．

experiences

7.

A

．

produced

8.

A

．

people

9.

A

．

covered

10.

A

．

growing

14. In Ireland, scientists studied a group of 42 cats. They gave them three tasks. One was to give

them some delicious food out of a plate. They found that the male cats preferred to use their left paw,

and the female cats preferred to use their right paw.

Being left-handed or right-handed can also include eyes, ears, claws and even tails. In Italy,

scientists discovered that dogs wag their tails to the right when they see something that they like.

When they see something that they don’t like, their tails go to the left.

There are lots of fun examples. Left-handed dolphins swim in a different direction around the pool.

Elephants like to swing their trunks(

象鼻

) in one direction. Even snakes prefer to curl up(

蜷缩起来

)

only one way.

Many people believe that polar bears are left-handed. They say that polar bears cover their black

nose with their right paw, which helps them hide in the snow when they are hunting. Then they can

sneak up(

慢慢靠近

) on an animal, and their left paw will be free to catch it.

Scientists, however, disagree. Some have watched polar bears for thousands of hours. They never

saw the bears cover their nose during a hunt. They also saw no evidence(

证据

) that they were left-

handed. Without taking any notice of this, many websites continue to say that polar bears are left-

handed.

B

．

changing C

．

disappearing D

．

using

B

．

filled C

．

carried D

．

poured

B

．

wheels C

．

words D

．

patterns

B

．

came C

．

appeared D

．

lost

B

．

pictures C

．

ideas D

．

dreams

B

．

shook C

．

invented D

．

caught

B

．

For example C

．

That is D

．

Moreover

B

．

food C

．

clothes D

．

paper

B

．

most beautiful C

．

finest D

．

earliest

Scientists are still learning about animals and their body languages. If you see an animal the next

time, try finding out yourself which it prefers—left or right.

1. The study in Ireland shows that ________ cats like to use their right paws.

A

．

male B

．

female C

．

both male and

female

D

．

neither male nor

female

2. When the dogs see something they like, their tails go ________.

A

．

to the right B

．

to the left C

．

up D

．

down

3. Writers use some examples in paragraph 3 in order to show that ________.

A

．

the male animals are left-handed

B

．

all animals are left-handed

C

．

being left-handed or right-handed can also include eyes, ears, claws and even tails

D

．

when animals see something that they don't like, their tails go to the left

4. ________ kinds of animals are mentioned in the passage.

A

．

Four B

．

Five C

．

Six D

．

Seven

5. Which of the following is TRUE?

A

．

Being left handed or right-handed is only limited(

受限于

) to the arms or legs.

B

．

Snakes like curling up in different ways.

C

．

The scientists agreed that polar bears are left-handed.

D

．

Many scientists keep on learning about animals and their body languages.

15.

A few years ago in August, there were many people in the countryside near London. Some people

were there at 4:30 in the morning. They were there to help James May to build a house. But it was

not a common house. It was a Lego house. 1,200 people used 3.3 million Lego toy bricks to make a

real house.

It was a part of a TV show called Toy Stories. In this programme, James used traditional toys to

make “real” things. Why Lego? Well, because when James was young, he loved Lego and played

with it all the time.

The people finished building the house on September 17th, almost seven weeks after they started.

Everything was Lego. All the ways, doors and windows were Lego. There was a Lego bedroom and

a Lego bed. There was a Lego bathroom with a Lego toilet and a shower. And they all worked! In