2024-2025学年（上）湘潭八年级质量检测英语

1、这部纪录片近距离地观察了苏州三十年前是什么样子。

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2、—Why is Harry Porter so popular?

—Perhaps it is because everyone is able to see a little of ________ in Harry Potter.

A.he B.him C.his D.himself

3、—Would you like to go climbing tomorrow?

—I'd like to, but I am not sure   I will finish my work by then or not.

A. if   B. whether   C. that   D. which

4、Japanese can hardly avoid_______ products _____in China.

A. to buy, made     B. buying, made

C. to buy, making   D. buying, making

5、When your parents are not at home, all of you should learn to take good care of ____.

A．you

B．your

C．yourself

D．yourselves

6、The parents didn’t receive a letter from their son after that accident, so they were worried.

A．didn’t hear of

B．didn’t hear from

C．didn’t hear about

D．didn’t hear

7、The streets __________ many times every day.

A．clean

B．cleans

C．cleaned

D．are cleaned

8、I think it is important _______ the history, live in the present and dream about the future.

A．remember

B．to remember

C．change

D．to change

9、When she found the clothes on the playground, she at once.

A. picked it up   B. picked up it

C. picked them up   D. picked up them

10、—I prefer speaking to listening in learning English.

—Oh, really? I think you should be good at ____ of them

A. both   B. neither   C. none   D. all

11、—Would you like _________ a film with us?

—Sorry, I have to help my mother do housework.

A．to see

B．see

C．seeing

D．to seeing

12、-I called you at 8:00 yesterday ,but you weren't in.

-I am sorry. I   with my parents.

A. am running B. run

C. ran   D. was running

13、—What was your little sister doing when I called you yesterday?

—She __________ for losing a game.

A.cries B.cried C.is crying D.was crying

14、Mr. Li likes Hong Kong very much. He _________ there three times.

A. has gone B. went   C. has been

15、My grandma lives   , but she doesn’t feel   .

A. alone; lonely B. lonely; alone

C. alone; alone   D. lonely; lonely

16、— Listen ! Donald Trump’s daughter is making a speech!

— Really ? Would you please ______ the main points for me? I’m busy now.

A. record   B. receive   C. require   D. report

17、—Hi, Joe, what's the trouble with you?

—Every day, I have to do ________ work so I always feel ________ tired.

A.too much; too many B.too much; much too C.too many; too much

18、Not only oral English but also written English _____ important.

A.is B.are C.was D.were

19、—How was your trip in Beijing?

—Not so good. I stayed there for two days. But it rained on ______of the days.

A．none

B．neither

C．both

D．all

20、Judy used to be ____________. Now she’s very shy.

A. quiet   B. strong   C. outgoing D. smart[

21、----- Does she like singing English songs?

------Yes.She _______ to sing English songs in her room.

A. often does    B. is often heard

C. often hears D. heard

22、完成对话，通读下面的对话，根据上下文不全对话内容。

A： How is it going, Amy?

B：【1】_____________  . My math has improved a lot and I got a good mark in the last exam.

A： Good news. 【2】___________________ ?

B： I’m reading a passage about Michelle Obama, the US first lady.

A：【3】_____________________________?

B： I think she is successful, hard-working and energetic.

A： I think so. Have you heard that she visited China in March?

B：【4】____________________________ .

A： How did you get the news?

B： I got it on the Internet. By the way, you looked so tired. What did you do last night?

A： I just stayed at home, watching the 2015World Cup until the early morning.

B： Sounds great. 【5】__________________________________ ?

A： I like Messi best, one of the most popular football player in the world.

B： He is really amazing! What a pity! I missed last night’s matches.

23、补全对话(根据对话内容选择正确答案,其中两项多余。

A: Hi, Li Ming. I haven’t seen you for a few days.   【1】

B: I have been to my hometown.

A: Your hometown? Did you have a holiday?

B: No, I went there to help my family.

A: Why?   【2】

B: They had a terrible flood(洪灾) this year.

A: Is it serious?

B: Yes,   【3】  The crops are going to die.

A: What did you do?

B: The government has done useful things to prevent the flood from running into the rich land.

A:   【4】

B: Yes, we’ll do our best to get another good harvest this year.

A: I wish you success.

B:   【5】

24、Better Time for Teenagers to Keep Healthy

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【1】Teenagers are used to drinking milk   according to the information above.

A. before sleeping   B. during breakfast

C. 3 minutes after meal   D. 4 minutes after meal

【2】Teenagers often go to bed hour(s）later than the time the experts ‘suggest.

A. one   B. two   C. three   D. four

【3】  and  are helpful to keep teenagers strong according to the information above.

A. Drinking milk;eating fruits

B. Going to bed ;brushing teeth.

C. Eating fruits;reducing germs.

D. Drinking milk; brushing teeth.

【4】If a teenager goes to bed at the time based on the experts’ suggestions,the earliest time for him to get up will be   in the morning.

A. 5:00   B. 6:00   C. 7:00   D. 8:00

【5】Which of the following is TRUE according to the information above?

A. Some experts suggest washing fruits carelessly an hour before meals.

B. To brush the tongue after meals is good for a deep sleep.

C. Teenagers with a stomachache had better avoid drinking milk.

D. Teenagers should sleep for at least 6 hours every night.

25、Tanaka, a 118-year-old woman from Japan who has been certified(认定) by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living person, gave up her position in the Olympic torch relay.

Tanaka celebrated her 118th birthday on January 2, 2021. She had planned to carry the torch as it passed through the town of Shime, in the prefecture of Fukuoka(福冈县), where she has lived her entire life. If so, she would become the oldest person ever to carry the Olympic torch.

She even had a new pair of sports shoes for the event—a birthday present from her family. Her relatives had decided to push her in a wheelchair for most of the 100 meters, but she would walk the last few steps before handing the torch to the next runner. However, Tanaka decided to pull out of Olympic torch relay because of the spread of COVID-19.

Tanaka was born in 1903. Tanaka married a rice shop owner, Hideo Tanaka, when she was 19 years old, with whom she had four children. Tanaka worked in the family shop until she was 103. She has five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Tanaka now lives in a nursing home, where she usually wakes up at 6 a.m. and she spends her time doing math puzzles and playing the board game Othello.

She lived through two world wars and the 1918 Spanish flu, although her grandson said, “I don’t remember her talking much about the past...she really enjoys living in the present. It’s great she reaches that age! We want other people to see it and be inspired, and not to think age is a barrier.”

However, Tanaka has a few years to go before she is the oldest person ever. The record is held by Jeanne Louise Calment, a French woman who was 122 years old when she died in 1997. Tanaka has said she wants to break the record.

【1】To carry the Olympic torch, Tanaka had planned ________.

A．to wear a new pair of sports shoes

B．to carry the torch together with her relatives

C．to walked most of the 100 meters

D．to pass the torch to the next runner in a wheelchair

【2】What does the underlined word “barrier” mean in Chinese?

A．启发

B．规律

C．障碍

D．困惑

【3】Tanaka is 118 years old, and now she ________.

A．still works in the family shop

B．lives in Shime with her four children

C．is the oldest person ever

D．keeps up an active lifestyle

【4】On which layout( 版面) of the newspaper can we find this passage?

A．Health.

B．Sports.

C．Business.

D．Education.

26、New Payment Methods for Online Shopping in China

【1】According to the form above,we can know something about______.

A. online shopping

B. new payment methods

C. online stores

D. the uses of the Internet

【2】Which are from the same payment service company?

A. Tenpay and WeChat pay.

B. Yeepay and WeChat pay.

C. Alipay and Tenpay.

D. Tenpay and Yeepay.

【3】When you buy something on Taobao,the money you pay first goes to______.

A. abank

B. the seller directly

C. the seller's mobile phone

D. a third account between sellers and buyers

【4】We can use______to pay for online shopping on the computer.

A. Alipay only

B. WeChat only

C. all the four methods in the form

D. the other three ways except WeChat pay

【5】Which of the following is NOT true according to the form above?

A. Yeepay was put into use earlier than the other three.

B. Alipay and WeChat pay have the same number of users,

C. Using Tenpay is the most convenient way for it has the most cooperative banks.

D. When we use WeChat pay,our money goes directly to the sellers.

27、What do you think of a “talking kitchen”? A French Digital Kitchen has been developed at Newcastle University in the UK. It teaches students how to cook French food and speak French at the same time. For the first time, students can learn the language by the following cooking steps.

All grammar and ________ have been carefully chosen to make sure the users can understand French well. After learning for some time, the users can test themselves by doing a short test on the computer.

The kitchen project was started by professor Paul Seedhouse. He became interested in the idea after he visited another kind of talking kitchen. He said, “The purpose of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language more interesting and more educational.”

How does the kitchen work? There is a computer in the kitchen. With this computer, the users can first choose a French recipe that they want to follow. Using information in the computer, the kitchen start to guide the users how to make a French dish. If you follow the instructions on the computer, it moves on to the next. If you go wrong, the program goes back and repeats the recipe or information. At any time, the users can ask the kitchen to repeat the recipe or any information.

The new kitchen can be used in schools, universities and even people’s homes. The researchers can also be developing the European Digital Kitchen, for the next three years.

【1】After reading the passage, we know the digital kitchen ________.

A．is a “talking kitchen”

B．teaches students English

C．was developed in France

D．cooks all food for people

【2】Which of the following can be properly put in ________.

A．food

B．vocabulary

C．recipe

D．instructions

【3】Paragraph 3 is mainly tells us about ________.

A．how the kitchen works

B．where the kitchen can be used

C．when the kitchen can be bought

D．why the kitchen project was started

【4】If the user don’t follow the instruction on the computer, the kitchen ________.

A．choose another recipe

B．goes to the next step

C．repeats the recipe or information

D．stops working at once

【5】The passage is written to ________.

A．show you how computer works

B．introduce a French Kitchen

C．teach you how to cook French food

D．tell you the importance of language learning

28、根据短文内容和首字母提示，把文中所缺词语补充出来,使短文完整、正确、通顺。(每空限填一词。)

Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. D【1】 the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds' singing. But as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I w【2】 to give up climbing, but my father said to me,“You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can't see it b【3】 you reach the top. Only there can you see all of the nice things, which is just like your life.”

At that time, I was too young to understand his w【4】. But later after that, I got to know the meaning of hope in life. I found m【5】 standing at the top of the mountain, and the sky was as clear as crystal.

29、阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从1~15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。

It was a lovely spring afternoon. My classmates and I were playing _________on the playground when I let out a cry, “Ow! Ow! Something in my shoe is biting me.”

Everyone was shocked by the cry. They took me into a classroom and were about to take off my shoe. “Which foot is it?” one asked. “Let _________ have a look.

Suddenly, I remembered the holes in my socks. My family was _________ poor during those years that my parents couldn’t buy me good socks. Instead, I wore welfare（福利） socks, _________ cost only a little, but those cheap socks didn’t last long. They soon had holes at the bottom.

I refused _________ off my shoes. I couldn’t stand others seeing the holes in my socks. I tried to hold back my tears. Yet, each time the thing in my shoes bit me, tears raced down my face.

My teacher, Miss Diane, hurried into _________ classroom. “What’s wrong?” She asked.

“Something is biting her right foot,_________ she doesn’t allow anyone to take off her shoe,” one of my classmates answered.

Miss Diane lived next door to me. She knew everything _________ my family. She put_________ hands on my shaking shoulders and looked into my painful and hopeless eyes.

“Oh, yes, it __________ be a sock-eating ant,” she said, as if she had already seen the thing inside the shoe. “I remember __________ I had a bite from one of those ants. By the time I got off my shoe off, it had eaten almost the whole bottom off my sock.” My classmates nodded while they were listening to the teacher carefully, although they all looked a little __________.

Miss Diane took off my right shoe and sock and __________ them over the dustbin. Two red ants fell into it.

“Just what I thought. The ants have eaten part of her sock.” When she stroke an alcohol(酒精) cotton ball on the bites, she added, “You are __________ brave girl to take so many bites.”

The alcohol felt cool on the bites and a little girl’s pride __________ by the “sock-eating ant” story.

【1】A. happy B. happily C. happiness D. happier

【2】A. we B. our C. ours D. us

【3】A. very B. too C. so D. such

【4】A. they B. that C. which D. who

【5】A. take B. taking C. to take D. took

【6】A. a B. an C. / D. the

【7】A. and B. but C. so D. however

【8】A. about B. to C. at D. by

【9】A. either B. neither C. both D. each

【10】A. can B. cannot C. must D. mustn’t

【11】A. that B. what C. whether D. why

【12】A. puzzle B. puzzled C. puzzling D. puzzles

【13】A. shake B. shakes C. shook D. shaking

【14】A. so B. such C. so a D. such a

【15】A. saves B. saved C. has saved D. was saved