广东省广州市真光中学2024-2025学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题（含答案）.docx

2024 学年第一学期期中初二英语练习卷
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一、语音（共 5 小题；每小题 0.5 分，满分 2.5 分）
从 1～5 各题所给的 AB、C 和 D 项中选出划线部分的发音与其他单词划线部分不一致的选项。

1. A. realize
B. company
C. type
D. wise
2. A. produce
B. computer
C. human
D. understand
3. A. lamp
B. practical
C. ability
D. passenger
4. A. inch
B. challenge
C. machine
D. check
5. A. century
二、句子选择（共
B. special
5 小题；每小题
C. even
0.5 分，满分 2.5 分）
D. develop
阅读下面句子，根据句子意思，从 6～10 各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳选项。
6. When somebody is born, .

A. he or she leaves parents B. parents send him or her to see a doctor

C. he or she lives with parents for a long time D. he or she comes out of mother’s body

7. Benny’s friends live in the countryside. That means .

A. they live inside the city B. they live outside the city

C. they live in the centre of the city D. they live in the city

8. When you ask a wise person for help, .

A. you want her or him to give you something to eat B. you want her or him to give you good advice

C. you want her or him to give you some money D. you want her or him to do nothing

9. When we make a machine work, .

A we cannot use it B. we can see it C. we can sell it D. we can operate it

10 The swimming pool is open during the day. .

第 9页，共 10页

A. We can swim anytime B. We can swim in the evening

C. We cannot swim anytime D. We can only swim in the daytime
三、单项选择（共 5 小题；每小题 0.5 分，满分 2.5 分）
按照句子结构的语法性，从所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
11. —Do you know of students in your school, James?

—I don’t know the exact number, but I know there are of them.

A. the number the number B. a number, a number

C. the number, a number D. a number, the number

12. Allen spent time but did work than Tony.

A. little; much B. less; most C. little; more D. less; more

13. Last month, students took part in the sports meeting in our school.

A. two hundreds B. hundreds of C. two hundred of D. hundred of

14. Many middle school students go abroad for study.

A. farther B. further C. the farthest D. the furthest

15. Mike always works very hard, so he can earn twice I can.

A. as much money as B. as many money as C. much as money D. many as money as
四、语法选择（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下连贯的要求，从 16~25 各题所给的 A、B、C 和
D 项中选出最佳选项。
Now, we live in the 21st century, many changes have taken place in people’s life in the past 40 years. English is becoming one of 16 subjects, but some students often have trouble learning English. They say the subject takes up 17 of their time. They have to read many passages, 18 new words in the dictionary and do lots of exercises. Even though they work hard, they still cannot get good grades on tests. “Why?” they ask. “How can I enjoy success?” The story of Chinese astronaut Deng Qingming might help answer their questions.
Deng was chosen as 19 astronaut trainee (实习生) in 1998. That was long ago—you readers hadn’t

even been born yet. From then on, he has spent almost all of his time training hard to become an astronaut. Over the years, Deng has seen his fellow trainees go into space one after 20 . He, however, was always a backup
(后备人员). Sometimes he even cried. Deng still tries his 21 for the dream. Although he is now in his

22 , he keeps training hard. “I must be ready whenever the chance comes to me.” he once said. Finally,

23 the night of November 21, 2022, he and two other astronauts boarded the Shenzhou 15 aircraft and flew into space. Deng had waited 24 years for that very moment.
So, if you want to give up learning English or 24 , think about Deng’s story. Your efforts might not succeed at once. But be patient, try to improve your methods and keep 25 . You probably won’t have to wait many years for that moment like Deng. One day, success will knock at your door.

16. A. important
B. more important
C. most important
D. the most important
17. A. too many
B. too much
C. much too
D. too little
18. A. look up
B. looked up
C. looking up
D. to look up
19. A. a
B. an
C. the
D. /
20. A. other
B. others
C. another
D. the other
21. A. good
B. well
C. best
D. better
22. A. fifty
B. fifties
C. fiftieth
D. the fiftieth
23. A. on
B. in
C. at
D. before
24. A. something else
B. else something
C. anything else
D else anything
25. A. go
B. to go
C. going
D. gone
五、完形填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 26~35 各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项。
On a winter afternoon, I was walking in a garden in the warm sunshine. I felt warm and 26 . Suddenly, an apple tree caught my eye. I walked 27 towards it, searching for a perfect apple.
However, the apples were red and big. I couldn’t wait to pick one. It was the 28 in my eyes. In order to enjoy it, I took a little bite, but bitterness (苦涩) quickly spread through my mouth. At this moment, I knew that beautiful 29 didn’t mean the beauty inside and that the beauty inside was much more important than the outside, I walked to the dustbin and prepared to throw it away. After much hesitation (犹豫), I 30
throwing it away. I thought I chose it and I should eat it up though it was really 31 to eat. I must be

responsible for my 32 .

After eating it up, I turned round to the apple tree, 33 that since the beautiful apples didn’t taste good, the ugly one must be delicious. When I got ready to pick the apple which I was not happy with, I doubted whether
it was delicious. Then a boy rushed out behind me and picked the apple. I saw him eating the apple. I knew that it must be very delicious for his big 34 . I lost a delicious apple because of my hesitation.
Life is like picking apples. When we decide to do something, we should begin without any hesitation or we

may 35 the chance.

26. A. comfortable
B. surprised
C. nervous
D. cold
27. A. strangely
B. weekly
C. secretly
D. slowly
28 A. smallest
B. worst
C. best
D. greenest
29. A. smell
B. appearance
C. mind
D. energy
30. A. kept on
B. worried about
C. gave up
D. found out
31. A. hard
B. good
C. fresh
D. expensive
32. A. opinion
B. voice
C. work
D. choice
33 A. showing
B. thinking
C. suggesting
D. working
34. A. smile
B. pain
C. jokes
D. tears
35. A. create
B. get
C. lose
D. meet
六、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 36～50 各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项。
(A)
A young man went to an expert on gems (宝石) and wanted to learn from him. The expert shook his head. He worried that the young men wouldn’t have the patience to learn. In his opinion, they were always in a hurry.
The young man asked the expert many times to let him have a try. Finally the expert said, “Be here tomorrow.”

The next morning the expert put a jade (翡翠) stone in the man’s hand and told him to hold it. The expert then went on his work, cutting, weighing and setting gems. The man sat and waited excitedly. The following morning the expert again placed the jade stone in the man’s hand and told him to hold it. On the third, fourth, and fifth day the expert repeated the action.
On the sixth day the young man still had to hold the jade stone, but he could no longer stand the silence. “Sir,” he asked “when am I going to learn something?”
“ ▲ ,” the expert replied.

Several more days went by. The man became more and more impatient. However, when the expert placed a stone in his hand one morning, the young man shouted without looking at it, “This is not the same jade stone!”
“You have begun to learn,” the expert said with a smile.

36. How long did the man hold the jade stone without asking anything?

A. For three days. B. For five days. C. For seven days. D. For half a month.

37. Why did the expert ask the man to hold a stone for days?

A. It was a way of learning. B. He was too busy to teach the man.

C. It was the most valuable gem he had. D. There was no other work for the man to do.

38. Which of the following can be put in the ▲ ?

A. You should go home B. You will learn

C. It is all that I could give you D. It was yesterday

39. How did the young man’s feeling change?

A. worried → unhappy → nervous. B. worried → nervous → unhappy.

C. excited → nervous → worried. D. excited → unhappy → surprised.

40. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A. A real expert on gems. B. Some good learning habits.

C. The importance of patience. D. The secret to learning quickly.
（B）
①Can animals talk? It is true that they are not able to use words like ours, but most of them can talk in their own way.
②When the cat is happy and pleased, how does she show it? She purrs (发出呼噜声), and this is her way of saying. “I am quite happy now.” If she is unhappy, or in pain, or hungry, she mews. If she is angry, she sets up her back and moves her tail from side to side. If she is treated (对待) in a way she does not like, her tail goes straight up in the air, and she walks out of the room.
③If your dog is pleased, he puts back his ears, waves his tail, and seems to smile. If he is angry, he growls (咆哮), shows his teeth, puts up his tail and the hair along his back and neck, walks around slowly, and makes himself look very fierce (凶猛). This is the dog’s way of saying. “I am mad, I have a mind to bite you.”
④When a hen sees a dog coming near her chickens, have you not noticed how she waves her wings, raises her tail, and rushes to the dog? This is her way of saying “Be off, or I will peck (啄) you with my hard beak (喙).” If she sees a hawk, she makes a strange noise, and her chickens at once run away and hide themselves. They
understand their mother to say “Quick, get out of sight, dears! There is danger near.” When she finds some nice food, she makes another kind of noise. The chickens know quite well what it means, and run at once to share the food their mother has found for them.
⑤In such ways as these, animals make themselves understood almost as well as if they could talk like humans.

They tell their feelings to one another by acts and by sounds just as we do by words.

41. A cat’s tail goes straight up in the air when .

A. she is treated in a way she dislikes B. she is hungry or in pain

C. she is happy and pleased D. she is interested in something

42. Which of the following is the right order when a hen sees a hawk?

a. Chickens understand what their mother says.

b. Chickens run away.

c. A hen makes a strange noise. d Chickens hide themselves.
A. c→a→b→d B. b→c→d→a C. c→b→d→a D. b→d→a→c

43. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. A dog puts back his ears and waves his tail to show he is angry.

B. A dog always comes near the hen to bite the chickens when he is happy.

C. The hen knows her chickens quite well and run to share the food with them.

D. The chickens run away and hide themselves when there is danger near.

44. How is the passage organized?

A. B. C. D.

45. What’s the writer’s purpose in writing this passage?

A. Teach us to talk like animals. B. Introduce how animals make themselves understood.

C. Tell us that animals can talk like humans. D. Ask us to be friendly to animals.
（C）
Imagine that the battery on your mobile phone has run out. You can’t make any calls for help and no one can contact you. You are all alone, and well, not quite. Just reach into your pocket and take out a piece of sugar. Put it into the battery, wait a minute and you are back on the phone.
Thanks to a couple of American scientists, this situation (情况) could become real. Swadesh Chaudhuri and

Derek Lovely have invented the “bacteria (细菌) battery”. This kind of battery gets its power from bacteria that eat sugar and turn it into electricity.
“This is a special organism (有机体) ,” Lovely said. “You can get enough electricity to power a cell phone

battery for about four days from a spoonful (一勺) of sugar.”

In the past, bacteria batteries have been expensive and not long-lasting. But this battery uses a more efficient (有效率的) bacterium that can turn 80 percent of sugar into electrical energy. This is 30 percent more than similar batteries can manage.
The bacteria battery could become as small as a household battery. It is also cheap and stable (稳定的) , because sugar can be taken from waste and crops.
But the sugar-to-electricity process (过程) is not satisfactory as it could take weeks for the bacteria to change a cup of sugar into electricity. And it produces “greenhouse” gases which pollute the environment.
The scientists understand there is a lot more work to be done. “It is still young,” said Lovely. “Where we are now is where solar power was 20 or 30 years ago.”
He also believes the battery will be used in scientific equipment at the bottom of the ocean. Ocher’s ideas include using sugar in the blood to run medical devices in the human body and taking sugar from animal waste to provide energy to power homes in the countryside.
46. What’s the passage mainly about?

A. An effective way to repair the mobile phone. B. A scientific invention of a new type of battery.

C. A clean energy to reduce the carbon dioxide. D. A new kind of mobile phone and its future.

47. Which of the following is NOT the advantage (优点) of the newly-developed battery?

A. Convenient. B. Stable. C. Inexpensive. D. Quick.

48. Which of the following are the scientists working on to improve the new battery?

A. Increase the bacteria. B. Solve the pollution problem.

C. Bring down the price. D. Change the size of the battery.

49. What does the underlined sentence actually mean?

A. The bacteria battery shares some similarities with solar energy.

B. Scientists will continue their work until they find solar power.

C. There is still much room for the improvement of the bacteria battery.

D. The bacteria battery will be as popular as solar power in twenty or thirty years.

50. According to the last paragraph, who will find the bacteria battery less useful?

A. Divers. B. Farmers. C. Doctors. D. Cooks.
第二节 阅读填空（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 5 分）
Do you know the numbers 0-9 well? They are numbers in Arabic numerals. People use them to mark numbers

now. 51

About 2,500 years age, people in Rome used their hands to count. In Roman numerals, two fingers means 2, three fingers means 3, you can keep your four fingers close on one side and your thumb on the other side. Make each of your hands be five, then you’ll have ten. 52 Also, “L” means fifty, “C” means one hundred.
53 Today, few people use them because they are difficult to write and count. But we can still see them on some watches and clocks.
Today, most people use the Arabic numerals. They are easy to remember and write. 54 In fact, Indians first created and used the Arabic numerals. In the late 8th century, people in Arabic countries learne