北师大版第二十一中学2019-2020学年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷A卷

北师大版第二十一中学2019-2020学年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷A卷姓名:_ 班级:_ 成绩:_一、 单项选择 (共15题；共30分)1. （2分）You must drive _next time, or there may be another accident.Thanks. I will be much _from now on.A . carefully; more carefullyB . more careful; more carefulC . more carefully; more carefulD . more careful; carefully2. （2分）Your idea about having a picnic tonight .A . sounds greatB . sound greatC . sounds interested3. （2分）We have few vegetables in the fridge. I _ and buy some. A . goB . wentC . will goD . was going4. （2分）For example, the color red makes people hungry. A . Such asB . LikeC . For instanceD . After all5. （2分）Pollution is getting _ in some big cities. A . serious and seriousB . more serious and seriousC . more and more seriousD . seriouser and seriouser6. （2分）Your bike is in the way. _ please.OK. I will do it right away.A . Give it awayB . Put it awayC . Put it outD . Run it away7. （2分）This kind of T-shirt looks _ and sells _ in the market.A . nice; goodB . well; wellC . nice; wellD . good; nice8. （2分） Your friends are very nice. Youre right. I choose my friends on how we .A . get upB . get offC . get onD . get in9. （2分）He is one of the most celebrated actors in the history.A . famousB . humorousC . important10. （2分）What can we do _ the homeless people? A . to helpB . helpingC . helpD . to helping11. （2分）We should take good care of _ old.Youre right.A . theB . aC . anD . /12. （2分）Spring is here. Everyone is looking forward to _ a trip to the Forest Park.A . takeB . to takeC . takingD . took13. （2分）Jack _brush his teeth once a day. But now he _ doing that twice a day. A . is used to; used toB . used to; is used toC . was used to; is used toD . used to; uses to14. （2分）I like these photos and they can me the life living in the countryside. A . think;ofB . remind;ofC . let;downD . wake;up15. （2分）- I think students should have mobile phones to call their parents.-_. They often use them to play games instead.A . I hope soB . I dont agreeC . No problemD . Good idea二、 完形填空 (共1题；共10分)16. （10分）完形填空。Jim Davis is an American cartoonist. He is1as the creator of the successful comic strip Garfield.Jim David was born on July 28, 1945. He grew up on a small farm with his parents, his brother and 25 cats. As a2child. David spent lots of time in bed. With his pencil, paper and imagination，he3pictures. Then he discovered that the pictures were more interesting with words. After college, David4his cartoon career. He noticed that there were many comic strips about dogs, but few about5. though the .world was full of cat lovers. He combined his knowledge with his6of the 25 cats he grew up with , then Garfield was created. The fat lazy cat soon became7as soon as the comic strip were published. It8in more than 2,600 newspapers worldwide now.While devoting his life to taking care of the cat, David took part in many activities for public. He9environmental protection and wild life protection. He also-has lots of10, such as golf, fishing，chess，sandwiches，and spending time with his son, James.（1）A . famous B . acted C . working （2）A . clever B . sick C . hard-working （3）A . drew B . sold C . practiced （4）A . ended B . started C . offered （5）A . dogs B . fish C . cats （6）A . ideas B . purpose C . memories （7）A . secret B . popular C . thin （8）A . read B . interviewed C . appears （9）A . called for B . called at C . waited for （10）A . hobbies B . fans C . friendship 三、 阅读理解 (共4题；共53分)17. （8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.18. （10分）根据短文内容，选择正确答案。 Its time to plant potatoes, but I cant do all the digging(挖) by myself. The farmer thought over and then had an idea. He wrote to his wife,Dont dig the fields. This is where my gold(金子) is. Dont plant potatoes until I come home. A few days later, the farmer got another letter from his wife. It said, Two days ago, about ten prison guards(监狱看守) came to our fields. It looked as if they were looking for something. They have dug our field. The farmer wrote to his wife at once. Now you can plant our potatoes, he wrote.（1）The farmer was put in prison _. A . because he had done something wrongB . because he had a lot of gold in the fieldsC . The writer didnt say anything about why the farmer was put in prison（2）The farmers wife was much worried about _. A . her husbandB . their farmC . planting potatoes（3）The farmer told his wife _ first. A . not to dig the fieldsB . to ask the prison guards for helpC . to find the gold in the fields（4）Why did the prison guards dig the farmers fields? A . They wanted to help the farmer.B . The farmer asked them to do so.C . They wanted to find out the gold.（5）Why did the farmer ask his wife to plant potatoes at once? A . Because their fields had been dug.B . Because the gold was found out.C . Because the prison guards asked him to do so.19. （10分）阅读理解Reading is the key to school success and, like any other skill, it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practicing until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. An excellent sportsman practices until he can play quickly, correctly and without thinking. Educators call it “automaticity(自动性)”.A child learns to read by sounding the letters and finding the meaning of the words. With practice, he stumbles less and less, reading by the phrase(短语). With automaticity, he doesnt have to think about the meaning of words, so he can give all his attention to the meaning of the text.It can begin as early as the first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found that automatic readers in the first grade not only read almost three times as fast as the others, but also got better results in exams.According to Rossman, the key to automaticity is the amount(数量) of time a child spends reading, not his IQ. Any child who spends at least 3.5 to 4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will probably reach automaticity. It can happen if a child turns off TV just one night for reading at home.You can test yourself by reading something new that is suitable (适合)for your level. If you read aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentences, you probably are an automatic reader. If you read brokenly, one word at a time, without expression or meaning, you need more practice.（1）“Reading is the key to school success” means that reading . A . helps school develop fasterB . is a key to a successful schoolC . helps students go to a key schoolD . can improve students learning results（2）Children with “automaticity” can read faster because they . A . know how to read the wordsB . do not have to think while readingC . read by themselves without any helpD . pay attention to the meaning of the text（3）Rossman tells that any child who will possibly be an automatic reader. A . seldom turns off TVB . reads books by the word quicklyC . spends about an hour reading every dayD . gets the same grades as others in exams（4）The underlined word “stumbles” in the passage means “ ”in Chinese. A . 结结巴巴地读B . 全神贯注地读C . 心不在焉地读D . 声情并茂地读（5）The best title for the passage is“ ”. A . IQ Is the Key to the AutomaticityB . TV Is Bad for Childrens ReadingC . Automaticity Depends on PracticeD . Automatic Readers Will Be Successful20. （25分）根据短文内容， 回答下列问题。Dogs like living with people. They are very friendly. They can do many things for people. Some dogs help people to look after sheep, other dogs help them to find the lost children. And some of the dogs can help the blind. They are the Seeing Eye Dogs.Now we can see this kind of dogs all over the world. They work for the blind.The Seeing Eye dog is strong and easy to train(训练). He helps the blind to walk from place to place. Before a dog becomes a Seeing Eye dog, it must go to a training school for about three months. First the dog has to learn to sit or stay when he hears the trainers call. In his next lesson the dog learns to take his trainer across busy streets. The dog has many things to learn. At the end of the training school, he must take tests(测试). When it passes the test, it can become the Seeing Eye dog.The new master(主人) may be a man, a woman, or even a child. It takes the dog and his blind master about a month to learn to work and live together.（1）Where can we see the Seeing Eye Dogs? （2）Who does Seeing Eye dog work for? （3）How long must a dog stay in a training school before it becomes a Seeing Eye Dog? （4）What does a dog have to do at the end of the training school? （5）What do you think of the dogs? 四、 选词填空 (共1题；共10分)21. （10分）阅读短文，从方框中选择恰当的词并用其适当形式填空，使短文通顺，意思完整，每词限用一次。use, eye, afraid, flower, visit, again, careful, I, dirty, oneMrs Goodwill lived alone in a big old houseShe was too old to do a lot of cleaning，so the house was always _She wanted to sell the house，but no one would buy itMrs Goodwill never_the upstairs(二楼)，so she decided to rent(出租)it out to make some moneyShe advertised(登广告)in the newspaper and rented the rooms to the_person who calledHe was a young man named MickMick was tall and fat，and he had little hairOne day,Mrs Goodwills daughter Hillary came to _When she saw Mickshe was_“Mum，he looks like a criminal(罪犯)You must be_，”she saidHillary didnt visit_till three months laterWhen she arrived，she couldnt believe her_The house was clean and beautiful-Mrs Goodwill was cooking in the kitchen and Mick was planting some_in the gardenHillary went to her mum and said，“Mum，your house looks so different now”“YesMick helped _a lot，”Mrs Goodwill said“Hes quite different from what you thinkhe is really a kind boy!”五、 单词拼写 (共1题；共1分)22. （1分）Mr Wang is a very careful doctor and he never causes m_accidents. 六、 语法填空 (共1题；共10分)23. （10分）阅读下面短文，根据语法规则和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空（每空不多于 2 个单词）。Last weekend, I went to London with my friend Jane. It was our first time to go there, so we were _(real) excited. When we arrived in London, it was _(rain). We had to take a taxi to our hotel. The next day we rented（租）a car. We wanted _(see) every place of London. First, we visited Hyde Park. It is one of the _(great) city parks in the world. And then we shopped at Harrods. I bought something special _my parents. We felt a little tired after shopping, so we decided _(have) lunch at Harrods. There are about 25 restaurants at Harrods. At _, we enjoyed our lunch at a Chinese restaurant. The food there tasted great, because we were too hungry. After lunch, we visited Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. The museum is very big. Can you believe that we _(take) pictures with the wax character（蜡像） Michelle Obama? Of course, we also met some new _(friend) on the trip. We had _good time in London.七、 句型转换 (共1题；共2分)24. （2分）The glass pyramid is over twenty metres tall. (对划线部分提问)_ _ is the glass pyramid?八、 连词成句 (共1题；共25分)25. （25分）根据所给中文提示，将所给的英文意群连接成正确的句子。 （1）famous, is, for, France, what (法国因什么而闻名?) （2）me, please, show, your, photos, to (请给我看看你的照片。) （3）plenty of, are, on, apple, the hill, there, trees (那个山丘上有大量的苹果树。) （4）is, China, in, the, Beijing, north of, (北京在中国的北部吗?) （5）practice, the better, you, can, you, understand, the more (你练习得越多，理解得就越透。) 九、 书面表达 (共1题；共5分)26. （5分）请根据课文More practice的内容和以下要点提示，对文章的主要内容进行复述 Problems in 2050What happened when Lily came back to her room?What was Mike doing at 11: 30 a. m. the day before yesterday?What was wrong with Mikes fridge that day?Why could Bennys fathers car not work?你的介绍可以这样开始: Lily was staying at the Hotel Whale last week第 19 页 共 19 页参考答案一、 单项选择 (共15题；共30分)1-1、2-1、3-1、4-1、5-1、6-1、7-1、8-1、9-1、10-1、11-1、12-1、13-1、14-1、15-1、二、 完形填空 (共1题；共10分)16-1、三、 阅读理解 (共4题；共53分)17-1、17-2、17-3、17-4、18-1、18-2、18-3、18-4、18-5、19-1、19-2、19-3、19-4、19-5、20-1、20-2、20-3、20-4、20-5、四、 选词填空 (共1题；共10分)21-1、五、 单词拼写 (共1题；共1分)22-1、六、 语法填空 (共1题；共10分)23-1、七、 句型转换 (共1题；共2分)24-1、八、 连词成句 (共1题；共25分)25-1、25-2、25-3、25-4、25-5、九、 书面表达 (共1题；共5分)26-1、