仁爱版2019-2020学年初中英语八年级上册期中考试模拟试卷（1）B卷

仁爱版2019-2020学年初中英语八年级上册期中考试模拟试卷（1）B卷姓名:_ 班级:_ 成绩:_ 一、 完形填空 (共1题；共10分)1. （10分）完形填空 Each one of us shares this planet with about seven billion others. And we all need1. People and products need to move from city to city and country to country. However, we all know2most cars, motorcycles, boats and planes cause air pollution. They are also noisy. This is a serious problem in many cities.3inventors are coming up with creative ideas to try to reduce the air pollution and noise.In many cities around the world, motorcycles are very4. Now Vietnam has around 33 million motorcycles and China has almost 120 million, Motorcycles are a faster and cheaper way to get around a city than5. Yet air pollution is a growing problem. In large cities, people complain it is difficult to breathe. To solve these problems, a US company designed an environmentally friendly motorcycle. It uses electricity as fuel (燃料). As a result, there is6pollution. Its also quiet and fast. This makes it a good choice for getting around a city.The Italian city of Venice is a city with only a few roads. There are no cars in the city centre.7cars, water taxis and buses carry people along the citys canals. However, they cause pollution,8to the water. English engineers Dick and Jem designed a solar powered(太阳能的) water taxi. The water taxi can run for a day after being charged.Planes also cause air and noise pollution. Designing an environmentally-friendly airplane is a real9. Some airplane companies have10to solve the problems. Swiss engineers have gone one step further. They developed a solar airplane. This plane holds the world record for the longest solar powered flight1, 541 kilometres from Arizona to Texas in America.（1）A . air B . food C . transportation D . communication （2）A . how B . why C . when D . that （3）A . Since B . So C . Because D . Although （4）A . popular B . valuable C . dangerous D . safe （5）A . bikes B . subways C . buses D . cars （6）A . much B . some C . no D . more （7）A . Instead of B . Thanks to C . Because of D . As for （8）A . probably B . only C . especially D . hardly （9）A . question B . job C . decision D . challenge （10）A . disagreed B . refused C . started D . remembered 二、 阅读理解 (共3题；共28分)2. （10分） One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying “You dont say!”I was confused, and I thought, “Perhaps this is not a right thing to talk about.” Then I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever visited it?”“Certainly! Everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is wonderful! ” “Yes, it is one of the wonders in the world. And people of many countries have come to visit it.” As I went on telling him more about it, he stopped me again, “You dont say!”I couldnt help asking, “Why couldnt I talk about it?”“Well, I didnt stop you talking about it,” he answered, greatly surprised.“Didnt you say You dont say!?” I asked again.Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain, “You dont say! means Really. Perhaps you know little about English idioms(习惯用语).”Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms.（1）What made the foreigner laugh loudly?A . English idioms.B . The writers question.C . Their talking about the Great WallD . The writers way of learning English（2）Where does the story most probably happen?A . In China.B . In America.C . In England.D . In Japan.（3）The English idiom “You dont say!” means _.A . Thank youB . Excuse meC . OKD . Really（4）What does the writer learn from his own experience? He should _.A . improve his spoken EnglishB . speak with foreigners in a polite wayC . pay attention to English idiomsD . be brave enough talking with foreigners（5）The story tells us _ between languages in different countries.A . the differenceB . the popularityC . the grammar ruleD . the change3. （8分）阅读下列短文,从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。Most children like the summer holiday. It is usually long. During the summer holiday, children like to have a good time outdoors (在户外).Jimmy is a 15yearold American boy. His summer holiday is coming. It is from July 1st to August 20th. He wants to travel. He usually travels in America, but this summer he wants to do something different. He learns a lot about China on the Internet, so he wants to take a trip to China. He also wants to learn about Chinese history, so he plans to visit Beijing and Xi an. He is going to leave on August 3rd and take a plane to Beijing first. He plans to stay in the two places for 10 days. During these days, he plans to visit the Summer Palace, the Great Wall, the Terracotta Warriors (兵马俑) and Huashan Mountain. He hopes he will have a great time in China. He cant wait!（1）How long is Jimmys summer holiday?A . About 30 days.B . About 40 days.C . About 50 days.D . About 60 days.（2）Jimmy usually takes a holiday _.A . in AmericaB . in ChinaC . at homeD . in a library（3）Jimmy doesnt plan to visit _ when he is in China.A . the Summer PalaceB . the Great WallC . the Terracotta WarriorsD . the Forbidden City（4）Jimmy will finish his holiday in China on _.A . August 3rdB . August 10thC . August 13thD . August 20th（5）Which of the following is TRUE?A . Jimmy plans to visit Xian first, then Beijing.B . Itll be Jimmys second time to go to China.C . Jimmy takes a holiday every two years.D . Jimmy is interested in Chinese history.4. （10分）阅读短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 How Much Can We Afford to Forget?In 2018, Science magazine asked some young scientists what schools should teach students. Most said students should spend less time memorizing facts and have more space for creative activities. As the Internet grows more powerful, students can access (获得) knowledge easily. Why should they be required to carry so much of it around in their heads?Civilizations (文明) develop through forgetting life skills that were once necessary. In the Agricultural (农业的) Age, a farmer could afford to forget hunting skills. When societies industrialized, the knowledge of farming could be safe to forget. Nowadays, smart machines give us access to most human knowledge. It seems that we no longer need to remember most things. Does it matter?Researchers have recognized several problems that may happen. For one, human beings have biases (偏见), and smart machines are likely to increase our biases. Many people believe smart machines are necessarily correct and objective, but machines are trained through a repeated testing and scoring process. In the process, human beings still decide on the correct answers.Another problem relates to the ease of accessing information. When there were no computers, efforts were required to get knowledge from other people, or go to the library. We know what knowledge lies in other brains or books, and what lies in our heads. But today, the Internet gives us the information we need quickly. This can lead to the mistaken beliefthe knowledge we found was part of what we knew all along.In a new civilization rich in machine intelligence, we have easy access to smart memory networks where information is stored. But dependency on a network suggests possibilities of being harmed easily. The collapse of any of the networks of relations our well-being (健康) depends upon, such as food and energy, would produce terrible results. Without food we get hungry; without energy we feel cold. And it is through widespread loss of memory that civilizations are at risk of falling into a dark age.We forget old ways to free up time and space for new skills. As long as the older forms of knowledge are stored somewhere in our networks, and can be found when we need them, perhaps theyre not really forgotten. Still, as time goes on, we gradually but unquestionably become strangers to future people.（1）Why are smart machines likely to increase our biases? A . Because they go off course in testing and scoring.B . Because we control the training process on them.C . Because we offer them too much information.D . Because they overuse the provided answers.（2）The ease of accessing information from the Internet _. A . frees us from making efforts to learn new skillsB . prevents civilizations from being lost at a high speedC . misleads us into thinking we already knew the knowledgeD . separates the facts we have from those in the smart machines（3）The word collapse in Paragraph 5 probably means _. A . a sudden failureB . the basic ruleC . a disappointing startD . the gradual development（4）What is the writers main purpose in writing this passage? A . To question about the standards of information storage.B . To discuss our problems of communication with machines.C . To stress the importance of improving our memorizing ability.D . To remind us of the risk of depending on machines to remember.三、 选词填空（词汇运用） (共1题；共10分)5. （10分）用方框里所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺、完整（每词限用一次）Last week I went to an art show. A painting caught my eyes. To my amazement, it was painted by Steven, one of my _.Then many things about him came into my mind.Steven was from a poor family. His parents _ not afford to buy him some basic things that he needed. Once our school provided gloves for poor children. I put Stevens name on the list. He was so _ when he received a pair .He loved to wear them and they were always _ than anybody elses.Steven had a talent for painting and he could _ understand what I described in class .But he didnt have money to buy the paper for painting. So sometimes I _ him some. He practiced hard and I often show his paintings to the class. He was greatly _.One day just before the summer vacation ,he came to _ some art books. When the new term began, he showed some of _ paintings to me. I felt shocked. They were good. Then we talked a lot. He said he would keep on.Later he was admitted to a famous art university. After graduation, he had many difficulties, but he never gave up. He was always _ his best to improve himself.四、 单词拼写（词汇运用） (共2题；共8分)6. （4分）根据汉语或首字母提示完成句子。（1）My mother is going on a trip w_ me. I feel very happy.（2）The teahouse o_ us a warm welcome.（3）When I got there in a hurry , the play just _ （结束）.7. （4分）Now Ben is _(描述) his new pen friend to his parents. 五、 语法填空 (共10题；共10分)8. （1分）When will they arrive in_(French)?9. （1分）There are some less_countries in Africa. (develop)10. （1分）Thank you for_(send)emails to me. 11. （1分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入一个适当的内容（1 个单词），或括号内单词的正确形式。I have many good friends at school. I think Gina is my _(good)friend. She is 1 years older _me. We live in the same town and we are classmates now. Gina is taller and _outgoing than me. We are both interested in sports, but she always plays table tennis _(good), so she always wins. _we have the same hobbies and interests, we also have some _(difference).Gina always exercises and she _(read)books every day. _, she never eats junk food and stays up late. _, I like eating junk food and never helps _housework.12. （1分）语法填空Mr Jenkins has several big shops in the city. Hes very rich but he does his best_(pay) the persons who work in his shops less. And they all hate him.Several months ago a young woman borrowed thirty thousand dollars from him. But she couldnt return the money to him in time. He went to her and made her _(give) her ring to him which cost more than fifty thousand dollars. He put it into his wallet and went home happily. But when he got to the bus stop, the bus_(leave). He hurried to get on and left his wallet outside. He didnt find it until he got home. He hurried_(make) promise, “If someone finds my wallet and returns it to me, I_(give) half the money to him.”An old woman who_(wait) for another bus that day found the wallet. She sent it back to Mr Jenkins. But he changed his mind.“There are two rings in my wallet,” said Mr Jenkins, “I wont give half the money in my wallet to you until you return the other ring to me.”“I _(see) only a ring in the wallet,” the old woman said and took the man to a judge and told him what _(happen) to them. The judge said to Mr Jenkins, “Im sure you have lost a wallet in which there are two rings and some money. But there is only one ring in this wallet. I_(not think) its yours. Wait for some days. Perhaps someone will be able to return your wallet to you.”Then the judge turned to the old woman and said, “Take the wallet home. If the loser doesnt go to get it back in three days, it_(belong) to you.”13. （1分）He _ (worry) his mother came to school to meet his teacher. 14. （1分）The manager gives them many new _(opportunity). 15. （1分）She can teach_ (her) English. 16. （1分）阅读下面短文，根据文章大意用所给单词的适当形式填空(未提供单词的，限填一词)，使文章意思完整、正确A growing number of silent cafes appear across Japan. People cant talk in the cafe. They can write down what they need on the pad to communicate _ the cafe workers. This kind of cafes meets the need of people _ like to be alone for a while.Chihiro, a 23-year-old nurse, is one of the big fans of silent cafes. Its a pleasure to sit somewhere quietly by _ (I), she said. I work as a nurse and life is so busy that sometimes I just want to escape. She continued, This is _ amazing place _ (help) me find some peace. I feel _ (comfort) here.Taiki Watanabe, the owner of a silent cafe, used to work in another cafe. I really like the idea of _ (open) a silent cafe. Now I enjoy working in _ (silent) all me time. Mr Watanabe added, You cannot speak in my caf. If you need to make an order, there are pads to write on. Most people come _ their own and read a book, work, write or enjoy a hobby. Few of them even do nothing. Its a way for people to forget their daily tasks. Everyone _ (be) happy with the quiet environment in the caf.17. （1分）They _(play) soccer next Sunday. 六、 任务型阅读 (共1题；共19分)18. （19分）任务型阅读 A week in the sun relaxing in the beautiful March weather of Varadero, Cuba is a fantastic place for anyone. Luckily, my wife, two friends and I had the chance last year.To see Cuba, you have to talk to the Cubans .Our friends met us at the airport even at 1：00 a. m. which started our trip on a positive note .After a few days at the hotel, we got to know a local guide, Victor. The trip started off on a sunny morning. Our return trip would be along the coastline from Havana, but our trip to Havana would be through the countryside and the small towns. This trip was designed for us to visit the Cuban countryside. At first Victor brought us to Revolutionary Square, where Fidel Castro made his yearly speech praising the ideas of the revolution.Our second stop was the Bocoy Rum Factory. We walked through and learned how 5, 000 bottles of rum(朗姆酒)are produced every day. The smell of rum, and the huge barrels were interesting.The final stop was the market in Old Havana. Here my wife and I went away from our friends and we toured through this large shopping center. From store to store we saw so many items that all had a clear Cuban feel to them. We bought a picture and some special local things, and then we took off to meet up with Victor. As a tourist I was able to have a quick look at Cuban life with the help of Cubans .I felt lucky to have the chance. It was an interesting experience in my life.（1）What time did the writer arrive in Cuba？(不超过10个词) （2）How many tourists were there on the tour trip？(不超过5个词) （3）What did the writer think of the trip of Cuba？(不超过10个词) 七、 写作题 (共1题；共5分)19. （5分）书面表达。作文不少于60词My life in ten years第 17 页 共 17 页参考答案一、 完形填空 (共1题；共10分)1-1、二、 阅读理解 (共3题；共28分)2-1、2-2、2-3、2-4、2-5、3-1、3-2、3-3、3-4、3-5、4-1、4-2、4-3、4-4、三、 选词填空（词汇运用） (共1题；共10分)5-1、四、 单词拼写（词汇运用） (共2题；共8分)6-1、6-2、6-3、7-1、五、 语法填空 (共10题；共10分)8-1、9-1、10-1、11-1、12-1、13-1、14-1、15-1、16-1、17-1、六、 任务型阅读 (共1题；共19分)18-1、18-2、18-3、七、 写作题 (共1题；共5分)19-1、