2024-2025学年（上）钦州八年级质量检测英语

1、多优美的音乐啊！

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2、One person’s ________ doesn’t depend on how much money he has made, but on what he has done to our country.

A．value

B．experience

C．richness

D．career

3、She _____her book on the desk and _____down to sleep on the sofa.

A. laid;lied   B. lay;laid   C. lied;lay   D. laid;lay

4、David is ________ honest boy and he always helps others.

A．a

B．an

C．the

D．不填

5、—________ I use your computer?

—I am afraid you can’t. I am searching for information for my history report now.

A．May

B．Must

C．Need

D．Should

6、Please finish off ________ of the bread on the plate. Don't waste it.

A.the other B.another C.the rest D.else

7、The wide use of mini-blog _______ us to get the first-hand information all over the world.

A.enables B.makes C.has D.lets

8、--- It is said that people born in the Year of the Tiger are brave.

---- Maybe, but for my mother __________. She has no courage to walk alone at night.

A. that’s not the case   B. that’s all right

C. that’s a good idea   D. that’s for sure

9、—People always regard dogs________their close friends.

—Yes. My brother does so.

A.to B.of C.as

10、Most Brazilians get along well with each other, _________ they are from different races (种族), including Americans, European settlers, and Africans.

A．although

B．as a result

C．since

D．unless

11、 --- Why should we plant more trees to protect the environment?

--- Because trees can stop the wind from ________ the earth _________.

A. washing ;away

B. blowing; away

C. changing ;into

12、Lily is so smart in her class．She usually spends the_____time and makes the_____mistakes in her homework．

A．least,least   B．fewest,least

C．fewest,fewest   D．least,fewest

13、—Sir, could you please put out your cigarette? This is a smoke-free school.

—________.

A．I’m sorry about this

B．Never mind

C．No problem

D．Sure, I’d love to

14、All the wood will be used _________ building the bridge.

A．for

B．by

C．with

D．to

15、The students were happy that they would have a _______ winter holiday.

A.three-weeks B.three weeks’ C.three-weeks D.three-week's

16、It is Saturday today. Look! Mike and Tom_______sports.

A. play   B. plays   C. is playing   D. are playing

17、 I won’t go to the cinema tonight, I_______ watch the chat show. It’s more exciting.

A. had better B. used to

C. had to   D. would rather

18、—I have no idea_______   Mary will go shopping with us or not.

–I don’t know, either.

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

19、The environment in our town is getting worse and worse, so many trees ________.

A．are planting

B．should be planted

C．should plant

D．will plant

20、If your homework   , you may watch TV for half an hour.

A. is finished B. will be finished   C. has finished

21、______ her husband, she has now become a famous film star.

A．Thanks to

B．Because

C．Thanks for

D．With the help

22、动词填空 用所给动词的适当形式填空。（本大题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）

【1】We should try our best to spend as much time we can practicing____( improve) our English.

【2】--- Do you know why he left that job?

--- It seems that he   (offer) a better job at IBM.

【3】When they arrived at the top of the mountain， the sun______(shine) brightly.

【4】We can never catch up with the fashion because it (change) all the time.

【5】The novel he has devoted most of his time to (finish) next month.

【6】---Li Lei， where’s your homework?

---I’m sorry， Mr Li， I________(leave) it at home.

【7】When I was young， I was told that China (lie) in East Asia.

【8】He’s decided to get a look at the house and see if it might be worth (buy).

23、根据对话内容，从文后的选项中选出5个最佳选项补全对话。其中有一项为多余选项。

A: Look! There’s a wallet over there. 【1】

B: Let me see what’s inside!

A: There’s a picture of a basketball star, an invoice (发票) and some money. It is about 300 yuan.

B: 【2】

A: Why do you think so?

B: 【3】 It can’t be a girl’s wallet.

A: I think it might be Eric’s. He likes playing basketball.

B: 【4】 Many boys in our class like playing basketball.

A: Oh, let’s have a look at the invoice. It is an invoice for a watch.

B: I know Bruce bought a new watch yesterday. 【5】

A: OK. Let’s go and ask him.

A．Whose is it?

B．She loves basketball.

C．I don’t think so.

D．It must be a boy’s.

E．I think it might be his.

F．Girls seldom use this kind of wallet.

24、It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people.

Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life getting education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and math need not be taught in detail (详细地), either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.

Education is well-rounded and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make him a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of human. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of all take an interest in the world.

I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most important or the main reason.

【1】People with little education usually_______.

A. spend a long time in school

B. have a good chance to get a job

C. spend the best years to choose jobs

D. have fewer chances to get a good job

【2】The earliest education was probably to_______.

A. make a man lead a better life

B. teach a man to write and think

C. make people get a way of living

D. teach people to read good books

【3】The underlined word “well-rounded” in the passage means “_______” in Chinese.

A．现成的   B．崭新的   C．公平的 D．全面的

【4】It is expected that educated people will be able to________.

A. accepted education as a way of living

B. take an interest in the world

C. develop their abilities to watch plays

D. learn subjects like language and math

【5】The passage mainly tells us that______ .

A. education is mainly for improving a man

B. people can get education in a short time

C. people should be able to get better paying jobs

D. all subjects are so important for a way of living

25、

（FOR SALE）

【1】Diamond House was built ___________.

A. nearly twenty years ago 

B. hundreds of years ago

C. in 1984

D. about ten years ago

【2】Seaview is __________ more expensive than Sunshine Apartment.

A. thirty-four thousand dollars

B. twelve thousand dollars

C. five thousand dollars

D. twenty-two thousand dollars

【3】Which of the following is true?

A. Seaview has got 3 bedrooms and two kitchens.

B. Diamond House has got a garden and a garage.

C. Diamond House is cheaper than Sunshine Apartment.

D. Sunshine Apartment has got a small garden.

【4】If you like doing shopping in the city center every day, you’d better buy ___________.

A. Seaview   B. Sunshine Apartment

C. Diamond House   D. None of them

【5】Where can you probably read this passage?

A. In a nature magazine  B. In a storybook 

C. In the business newspaper.   D. In a science book.

26、Everyone should do their part to share housework, and should know how to get the basic life skills. However, in some parts of the world, housework is still seen as something that only women do while some men refuse to do. Some of them are even unable to do it when needed.

A school in Spain is introducing special classes that teach boys and young men basic life skills, including cleaning, cooking, and even sewing. These classes are expected to prepare the boys for housework which is usually done by women.

Tony from the school believes this will help the young boys become better. “It seems very useful for our students to learn to perform these skills and we can know how to create a home peacefully in the future.” Tony said. The classes are taught by some volunteers from college. It’s interesting that even the fathers of the students help out and learn some new skills from the lessons themselves.

According to Tony, the classes are introduced to encourage gender equality (性别平等) and make boys more independent and able to help out at home. Luckily, we have got some good news. Tony says that the boys enjoy learning new things. He even points out that it is the first time for some boys to use an iron (熨斗). And it is such a fun and educational experience for everyone,according to him.

Not surprisingly, people hope that more schools will follow the school to encourage gender equality.

【1】Men in some places of the world don’t do housework because ________.

A．women like to share housework

B．they think it is none of their business

C．they are busy with their work

D．women are good at it

【2】Who are invited to teach the classes?

A．parents

B．college teacher

C．volunteers

D．students themselves

【3】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．It’s useless to learn the skills for boys.

B．The new skills are too difficult to learn.

C．Some life skills like shopping and washing are popular.

D．Boys have got a chance to learn some skills they can’t perform before.

【4】What is Tony’s opinion about the special class?

A．It can help with gender equality.

B．It can make boys depend on themselves more.

C．Boys can learn how to create a better home with the help of the skills.

D．All of the above.

【5】What would probably be the title for the passage?

A．Do Boys Need to Learn Housework?

B．What will school life be like?

C．Schools in Spain Teaches Boys Housework

D．The Importance of Housework

27、Do you still feel worried about how to get your phone charged（充电）? Two years ago, a 19-year-old teenager helped you to solve this problem. He invented a phone charger which uses energy from your own body to charge your phone.

       Hand Energy, the wonderful invention of the inventor Michael Vaga, allows you to charge your phone simply by shaking your hand, which starts the charger’s gyroscope（陀螺仪） to produce electricity. And the electricity can then either be stored or used to charge a mobile immediately（立即）.

       He said, “With each rotation（旋转）of your hand, the gyroscope’s speed increases quickly and produces more power. The average speed of the gyroscope is about 5 000 rounds per minute. With this small charger, your physical energy can be turned into electrical energy and this means you can charge your phone.

       Hand Energy can help you produce endless electricity. You can use it everywhere you want. It is especially useful for people who have to spend a long time in the wild. What’s more, it’s friendly to the environment and helps you to exercise your wrists（手碗）. It takes between 40 minutes and one hour to fully charge the batteries（电池）.

       The invention took Vaga a year to develop. Now, the inventor from Minsk, Belarus, is ready to put it into production and send out the creative convenient chargers.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

【1】How can we get energy of the new charger? _____

A．By changing the batteries.

B．By using a gyroscope.

C．By shaking hand.

【2】In the third paragraph, the underlined word means _____ in Chinese.

A．平均的

B．全部的

C．开始的

【3】From the passage, it seems clear that _____ .

A．the electricity should be stored first

B．the more you shake,the more power the charger produce

C．we don’t need to use batteries with the new charger

【4】Who will be the most interested in this invention? _____

A．The fishermen.

B．The drivers.

C．The students.

【5】The passage mainly tells us about   _____.

A．why the new phone charger was invented

B．we should shake our hands 10 get energy

C．an environmental-friendly invention—the new phone charger

28、   I am sitting in an empty football field after my last school football game that finished a few hours ago. I’m the mid-field player in my team. But in fact that’s not true now. I’m not the mid-field player now b【1】 this was my last game. It’s good to end a high school football career (职业生涯) at a high point.

I was eight years old when I first started playing football. My dad loved football, and he used to p【2】 with me at home—passing, catching, running. We used to practise almost every morning u【3】 it got too dark. He tried to teach me everything he knew about the game. “Just remember: don’t ever give up.” Well, that was a long time ago, but I still hear his words ringing in my e【4】.

I had a lot in my mind before the game today. I don’t like things to end, I guess, and this was the last game. I was talking to m【5】 and warning myself about what to do and not to do. I didn’t sleep at all last night. But I knew it was time for it to be over. But then when the game started, my mind became e【6】. I just lived in this game, this moment. I didn’t hear the crowd, I didn’t f【7】 the cold or the pain, and I never felt tired. I just kept my eyes on the ball all the time. In my heart, a soft, white light showed me the way t【8】 the goal (球门). It was a beautiful, empty feeling.

It’s all over now, and it’s really getting c【9】 here. It’s starting to snow. The sun’s almost gone, and I can h【10】 see the goal. Now it’s dark and I’m sitting here all alone. Well, I guess it’s time to say good-bye and move on.

29、Animals are our friends. There are many zoos in the ______. It’s good to ______ animals in zoos. Zoos have many advantages, I think.

Firstly, zoos are places for people to see ______ kinds of animals. Without zoos, most people would ______ see a real bear or tiger.

______, zoos can take good care of animals. Zoos give ______ to animals and clean them on time every day. In the wild (在野外), it is not always easy for an animal to find food. So sometimes it goes ______. But animals in zoos never go hungry.

Thirdly, people protect the animals in zoos and offer them safe places to live ______. Animals are living in zoos safely and happily. In the wild, some kinds of animals are ______ and are endangered(濒危的). But zoos give these animals a chance to live. Without zoos, there would be ______ kinds of animals in the world. People should do more things to protect animals.

【1】

A．world

B．city

C．town

【2】

A．keep

B．take

C．make

【3】

A．big

B．small

C．different

【4】

A．always

B．never

C．sometimes

【5】

A．Finally

B．Usually

C．Secondly

【6】

A．food

B．water

C．fruit

【7】

A．hungry

B．tired

C．thirsty

【8】

A．on

B．in

C．at

【9】

A．helped

B．changed

C．killed

【10】

A．less

B．fewer

C．more