-【全国百强校】陕西省西安铁一中-2018学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题(无答案).doc

英语试卷
时间：120分钟 满分：120分
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
A
Journey to America
By Hemang Dave
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 16,400. Language: English. Published: August 8, 2014.
I, Hemang Dave went to America for a vacation, but it turned into an extraordinary quest. I met an orphan looking for his parents. I thought, I will help him find his parents. He agreed and we began our adventure. What an adventure! I am proud to share my adventures with you. Have fun reading.
Noah’s Ark: Encounters
By Harry Dayle
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 75,430. Language: British English. Published: August 7, 2014.
Two months after the world ended, is there finally some hope for the three thousand survivors aboard cruise ship spirit of Arcadia? A strange signal on the radar suggests more survivors. It might even explain the mysterious finds the cruise ship has made on her journey south. Or could it be something altogether more sinister? Encounters is the third novel in the thrilling Noah’s Ask series.
Heal your Mind
By Gerald N. Ogonyo
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 22,420. Language: English. Published: August 7, 2014.
This book has been written to guide you to achieve success, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. The author was inspired to write this book after his own life was changed by the key points discussed in the book. Read, enjoy and hopefully it will change your life for the better too.
My Childhood Christmas

By Rootie Simms
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 47,700. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2014.
Santa pins, cigarette-smoking toys, school plays, bus stop battles and sledding wars---this is the Christmas of 1959! A hysterical Christmas, a sled ride back to the place where your fondest memories still live. Welcome to My Childhood Christmas!
21. The author of Journey to America impresses us as being ______.
A. brave and intelligent B. honest and easy-going
C. wealthy and generous D. helpful and warm-hearted
22. What’s the authors purpose in writing My Childhood Christmas?
A. To share happy childhood memories.
B. To recall the hard days in the 1950s.
C. To discourage us from cigarette-smoking.
D. To tell about the social problems of the 1950s.
23. If you aim for career success, you’d better read the book by ______.
A. Hemang Dave B. Harry Dayle C. Gerald N. Ogonyo D. Rootie Simms
24. Where can you probably read the passage?
A. A writing guide B. A bookstore webpage
C. A research paper D. An English textbook
B
Unlike other starving artists everywhere, Bren Bataclan, 40, is giving his artworks away. He paints cartoon characters, neither humans nor animals, with one big eye and one small one, in beautiful colors, and he leaves his small oil paintings around Boston and other cities. And they are free.
It all started when Bataclan moved to Boston from the Midwest to teach how to make pictures with a computer. After he lost his job, he started painting what are now his signature characters. He sold 49 paintings in two days and wanted to show his gratitude somehow.
But how? The problem troubled him for years. Then he realized the people in the city were as friendly as Midwesterners in their own way. It finally came to him: He would give away his artworks and ask just one thing in return. He tied this note and his website address, to each canvas: “This painting is yours if you promise to smile at random people more often.” It was the beginning of his Smile Project.
Bataclan has left his giveaways in 20 states and 20 countries. People who have found his paintings send him notes and photos. The characters make them smile, his fans tell him, and they give them hope. “It’s nice to know that my art is really making a difference,” he says.
Since the economy is going through a hard time, Bataclan, who supports himself as a full-time artist, has been tying a different note onto his canvases: “Everything will be all right.”
25. Bren Bataclan’s cartoon characters are ______.
A. very common B. very special C. starving D. good-looking
26. Bren Bataclan found his own way of painting, thanks to ______.
A. the loss of his job B. his family’s support
C. the bad economy D. his website
27. During the hard economic time, Bren Bataclan is trying to ______.
A. inspire people to be artists B. send out notes to others
C. keep people in high spirits D. encourage people to work hard
C
Not all bodies of water are so evidently alive as he Atlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles. The Atlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Western civilization. Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, the Atlantic is rich in oceanic liveliness. It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.
“Storm at Sea”, a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of mankind’s earliest artistic representations of the Atlantic.
When the wind is from the west
All the waves that cannot rest

To the east must thunder on
Where the bright tree of the sun
Is rooted in the ocean’s breast.
As the poem suggests, the Atlantic is never dead and dull. It is an ocean that moves, impressively and endlessly. It makes all kinds of noise—it is forever thundering, boiling, crashing, and whistling.

It is easy to imagine the Atlantic trying to draw breath—perhaps not so noticeably out in mid-ocean, but where it meets land, its waters bathing up and down a sandy beach. It mimics （模仿） nearly perfectly the steady breathing of a living creature. It is filled with symbiotic existences, too: unimaginable quantities of creatures, little and large alike, mix within its depths in a kind of oceanic harmony, giving to the waters a feeling of heartbeat, a kind of sub-ocean vitality. And it has a psychology. It has personalities: sometimes peaceful and pleasant, on rare occasions rough and wild; always it is strong and striking.
28. Unlike real inland seas, the Atlantic Ocean is ______.
A. always energetic B. lacking in liveliness
C. shaped like a square D. favored by ancient poets
29. What is the purpose of using the poem “Storm at Sea” in the passage?
A. To describe the movement of the waves. B. To show the strength of the storm.
C. To represent the power of the ocean. D. To prove the vastness of the sea.
30. What does the underlined word “symbiotic” mean?
A. Living together. B. Growing fast.
C. Moving harmoniously. D. Breathing peacefully.
31. In the last paragraph, the Atlantic is compared to ______.
A. a beautiful and poetic place B. a flesh and blood person
C. a wonderful world D. a lovely animal
D
One of the greatest killers in the Western world is heart disease. The death rate from the disease has been increasing at an alarming speed for the past thirty years. Today in Britain, for example, about four hundred people a day die of heart disease. Medical experts know that people can reduce their chances of getting heart disease by exercising regularly, by not smoking, by changing their diets, and by paying more attention to reducing stress in their work.
However, Western health-care systems are still not paying enough attention to the prevention of the disease. There is a need for more programs to educate the public about the causes and prevention of heart disease. Instead of supporting such programs, however, the U. S. health-care system is spending large sums of money on the surgical treatment of the disease after it develops. This emphasis on treatment clearly has something to do with the technological advances that have taken place in the past ten to fifteen years. In this time, modern technology has enabled doctors to develop new surgical techniques. Many operations that were considered impossible of too risky a few years ago are now performed every day in U. S. hospitals. The result has been a huge increase in heart surgery.
Although there is no doubt that heart surgery can help a large number of people, some people point out that the emphasis on the surgical treatment of the disease has three clear disadvantages. First, it attracts interest and money away from the question of prevention. Second, it causes the costs of general hospital care to rise. After hospitals buy the expensive equipment that is necessary for modern heart surgery, they must try to recover the money they have spent. To do this, they raise costs for all their patients, not just those patients whose treatment requires the equipment. The third disadvantage is that doctors are encouraged to perform surgery-even on patients for whom an operation is unnecessary--because the equipment and expert skills are there. A government office recently stated that major heart surgery was often performed even though its chances of success were low. In on type of heart surgery, for example, only 15 percent of patients improved their conditions after the surgery. However, more than 100,000 of these operations are performed in the United States every year.
32. What effect has modern technology had no medicine?
A. It has reduced the costs of medical treatment.
B. It has helped save the lives of most patients.
C. It has encouraged doctors to do more heart surgeries.
D. It has helped educate people about the prevention of heart disease.
33. “To do this” (in Paragraph 3) means ______.
A. to help patients recover B. to increase the number of heart surgeries
C. to get back the money spent on the equipment
D. to buy new equipment for the treatment of heart disease
34. The author would agree that ______.
A. more money should be spent on the prevention of heart disease
B. heart surgery has helped most patients improve their conditions
C. modern technology has made heart surgery more risky than before
D. the public have known a great deal about the causes of heart disease
35. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Greatest Killer in the West B. Heart Disease: Treat or Prevent
C. Modern Technology and Heart Surgery
D. Heart Surgery: Advantages and Disadvantages
第二节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
President Xi Jinping often takes time to share his experiences and wisdom with the country’s young people, from forming a healthy lifestyle to keeping a positive attitude toward life. 36. . Here are some pieces of advice he has given to Chinese youth on different occasions.
37. .
Study is the ladder of progress and practice is the way to improve capability. Quality and capability of the youth are directly linked to the course of realizing the Chinese Dream.
The buttons of life
Living one’s life is like buttoning up one’s jacket. If the first button is not fastened correctly, the rest will never find their rightful place. The buttons of life should be fastened well from the very beginning.
Young people should avoid staying up late
I was so eager to do my job well but fell ill quite often. The reason? 38. One has to be fully aware that one cannot finish all the work at a time, however enthusiastic one may be about the job.
Honest work
The whole society should vigorously promote the spirit of hard work ,encouraging people to realize their dreams and change their fate through honest work.
Roll up our sleeves to work harder
39. As long as our 1.3 billion-plus people are pulled together for a common cause, as long as the Party stands together with the people and we roll up our sleeves to work harder, we will surely succeed in a Long March of our generation.
Not slack in prosperity and not lose faith in adversity
During one’s growth and endeavor, the young may gain success and joy, but may also face difficulties and pressure. One should treat the success and failure at the moment with a correct attitude, not slack in prosperity and not lose faith in adversity. 40.
A. One should consider both the success and failure as wealth in life instead of burdens.
B. Refine professional skills.
C. I always burnt the midnight oil. Later, I came to realize that I couldn’t work like this anymore.
D. Negative thoughts such as profiting from other people’s work, opportunism and indulging in pleasure and comfort are to be opposed.
E. His wise words are like a lighthouse that guides China’s youth on the right path to personal growth.
F. As the saying goes, “success comes to those who share in one purpose”.
G. Happiness does not fall from the sky.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共四节，满分40分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
Are you at least 17years old? Do you weigh more than 100 pounds? Do you consider yourself fairly healthy?
If you 41 yes to all these questions, you should be donating blood every two months. In my 42 of my classmates, I found that only 50 percent of them have 43 donated blood and that only one out of thirteen of them donate 44 . The lack of blood donors is a serious problem that 45 immediate action.
According to the American Red Cross Web pages, in the United States 46 someone receives a blood transfusion once every three seconds. People who 47 donations include cancer patients 48 babies. The need for blood never takes a vacation and 49 should donors.
Let me tell you about Brooke, a three-year-old girl 50 cancer. Brooke has spent about half of her life in the hospital 51 treatments. Her treatment will require about 500 units of blood 52 of which only 250 units have been 53 . She still needs the 54 half of the total amount to continue her treatment. If she doesn’t receive this blood, she will not live to start kindergarten.
55 like Brooke’s are becoming all too common these days, with only one in twenty Americans donating blood and this number keeps 56 each year. These facts are 57 worrying considering that nearly half of us here will need blood sometime in our lives.
You can now see the 58 of the problem with the lack of blood donation. 59 , it is a problem that can be easily solved. Each and every one of you can be part of the 60 . All you have to do is go to the nearest Red Cross and donate your blood.
41. A. stated B. answered C. attempted D. opposed
42. A. survey B. chapter C. fiction D. documents
43. A. anxiously B. absolutely C. illegally D. ever
44. A. firmly B. steadily C. eventually D. regularly
45. A. obeys B. requires C. favours D. guarantees
46. A. alone B. alongside C. particularly D. lonely
47. A. turn around B. put up with C. try our D. benefit from
48. A. except B. as long as C. besides D. in spite of
49. A. so B. neither C. only D. either
50. A. without B. out of C. with D. for
51. A. declaring B. weakening C. attempting D. receiving
52. A. in total B. on the whole C. all in all D. together
53. A. instead B. pile