2024-2025学年（下）琼中八年级质量检测英语

1、   1. A person who believes in himself will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion, the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have.

Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.

One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will rarely achieve anything. If we always give up when we fail, we will not be able to develop new skills and grow.

 2. Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes only if we make a new effort. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted.

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2、Enough sleep is very important for health. If you ________ for your favourite TV programmes, you will feel sleepy in class.

A．pick up

B．stay up

C．get up

D．set up

3、Day by day, the UN officials _______ discussing about Iran issue. But they wonder what to do with it.

A.are busy with B.are interested in

C.are excited at D.are amazed at

4、Please don’t stand up in class until you ________.

A．are told

B．will be told

C．are told to

D．will tell

5、Ken looked around the room and wasn’t sure where _________his new painting .

A. hang   B. hanging   C. hung   D. to hang

6、He said that he wasn’t satisfied with my answers.

A．wasn’t good for

B．wasn’t angry with

C．wasn’t happy with

D．wasn’t surprised with

7、— Her singing career took off after her TV appearance.

—How great!

A.became successful B.flew away C.was removed

8、Older people ____ well.

A. looks after   B. must be looked after

C. must look after   D. looked after

9、The population of China is________ than that of any other country in the world.

A．larger

B．smaller

C．more

D．less

10、—Let’s go swimming _____ going to the concert, shall we?

—Good idea!

A.instead of B.in order to C.as well as

11、—Look! pomelo trees(香柚树) in our school! —I think so.

A. How big   B. What nice   C. What much   D. How tall

12、—Have you read the book Harry Potter?

—Sure. Eric is also ________ it and we become friends because of that.

A.proud of B.afraid of C.serious about D.interested in

13、— He has made little progress in English,   he?

— . He is good at it now.

A. hasn’t; Yes  B. doesn’t; No

C. has; Yes   D. has; No

14、Fifteen-year-olds________to have jobs in China．

A．is not allowed

B．are allowed

C．is allowed

D．are not allowed

15、The Internet is very useful. We can get much ________ from it.

A．idea

B．message

C．game

D．information

16、The meeting ________ for two hours in the evening so when I came back home, my baby was already asleep.

A.spread B.broke C.suffered D.lasted

17、---The price of food, clothes, houses __________ so quickly these years.

---Yes. I think so.

A. develops   B. raises   C. improves   D. increases

18、Be quiet! My father ______.

A. sleeps   B. is sleeping   C. has slept   D. will sleep

19、— I tried many ways to solve the problem, but all failed.

— Never ________. You’ll surely make it.

A．keep away

B．give up

C．come out

20、— Jenny, what do your parents think of action movies?

—   my dad   my mom likes them. But they both prefer comedies.

A.Either; or B.Both; and C.Neither; nor

21、— I find it difficult to learn Physics well.

— That’s true. Nobody can learn it well _______ he works hard at it.

A. if B. because   C. unless

22、He’s in________（communicate）with his lawyer about this matter．

23、请阅读下面短文，根据短文内容从下面方框的七个选项中选择五个还原到文中，使短文意思通顺、结构完整。

Many children use the Internet to get useful knowledge and information， and to relax in their free time. But some of them are not using it in a good way. Here are some rules to make sure you are safe and have fun on the Internet.

【1】   For example， when you can go online， for how long and what activities you can go online.

※ Don't give your password (密码) to anyone else， and never give out the following information — your real name， home address， age， school， phone number or other personal information.

※ Check with your parents before giving out a credit card (信用卡) number.

※ Never send a photo of yourself to someone in e-mail unless your parents say it's OK.

※ Check with your parents before going into a chat room. Different chat rooms have different rules and attract different kinds of people. 【2】 .

※ Never agree to meet someone you met on the Internet without your parents' permission.

【3】 .

※ Always remember that people online may not be who they say they are. 【4】 .

※ If something you see or read online makes you uncomfortable， leave the site. 【5】 .

※ Treat other people as you'd like to be treated. Never use bad language.

※ Remember — not everything you read on the Internet is true.

24、Spring Festival, Chun Jie is the first day of the Chinese lunar calendar. When Chun Jie is coming, people are busy buying good, cleaning the house, cooking traditional food, making Spring Festival couplets, and hanging spring festival pictures. Dumplings are essential to the dinner. Dumplings means reunion and goodwill. The whole family gather to enjoy quality family time. On Chun Jie, Lunar New Year’s Day, people in new clothes visit each other, and give money to kids to send good wishes. During Chun Jie holidays all kinds of celebrations are held, including temple fairs, performances, a Lantern show which lasts nearly half a month.

The Qing Ming Festival is a day of reverence for Chinese. People hold ceremonies (仪式) for ancestors (祖先), and sweep their tombs (墓) on April 5th every year. According to tradition, during the Tomb Sweeping, people put food in front of the tombs, add new soil on the tomb. Decorate the tombs with some fresh branches and knock head. Now it is a public holiday in China. Although ceremonies have changed a little with time. Chinese still express their sadness for the dead.

In ancient times, there was a great poet called Qu Yuan. He couldn’t bear the pain when his motherland was invaded, so he drowned himself in the river. Local people drop the rice balls into the river to take away fishes’ attention from Qu’s body. Later people memorialized Qu’s patriotism by rowing and making Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, Duanwujie. That’s how the tradition of dragon boat racing and eating Zongzi were started.

The Qixi Festival, also known as the Chinese Valentine’s Day, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar. It says that a fairy named Zhi Nv, who lived in heaven, fell in love with a cow herder named Niu Lang during her trip to earth. Zhi Nv decided to settle down on earth and lead an ordinary life with Niu Lang.

Just like an ancient Chinese poem says, the moon was rising from the sea and all the people were sharing this moment …

【1】What does the underlined word essential mean in paragraph 1?

A．delicious

B．meaningful

C．important

D．necessary

【2】What can you learn from the passage?

A．Dumplings are the most important for people to celebrate the Spring Festival.

B．People have to sweep the tomb at the Qing Ming Festival.

C．Qu Yuan is the main story behind the festival of Duanwujie.

D．The Qixi Festival, is known as the Valentine’s Day, telling a love story.

【3】What may be talked about in the last paragraph?

A．The Mid-Autumn Festival

B．The National Day

C．The May Holiday

D．The Double Ninth Day

25、Bennett Olson, an American young man, used a special way to make himself noticed when he was looking for a job. He bought some advertisement (广告) space near Minneapolis and made a billboard (广告牌) with a photo of himself on it. On the billboard, it said, “Hire me.”

Bennett came up with this idea when he lost his job in March. Luckily, the idea worked. A lot of people sent Bennett messages to help him. After a month’s job hunting and several interviews, Bennett found a pleasant job in a company. Even though Bennett’s method cost him a lot of money, it was useful.

According to a recent study, people spend only about six seconds reading a curriculum vitae (履历) before deciding whether to hire the person or not. And it is hard to find a job in today’s job market.

“You should do something special to make yourself stand out from so many people,” said Steve Hine, from Minnesota. “Bennett’s great idea made him find the job successfully!”

【1】Bennett Olson put a photo of himself on a billboard because ________.

A．his parents gave him the idea

B．he had no girlfriend

C．he wanted to find a job

D．nobody knew him

【2】What did Bennett Olson write on the billboard?

A．Hire me.

B．I’m Bennett Olson.

C．Believe it or not.

D．Notice!

【3】Bennett Olson found a new job probably in ________ according to the passage.

A．February

B．March

C．April

D．July

【4】Bennett Olson’s way of finding a job was ________.

A．very foolish

B．very difficult

C．very easy

D．a bit expensive

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

A．Bennett Olson is a young man from the USA.

B．Steve Hine didn’t agree with Bennett’s idea.

C．People usually read the curriculum vitae very quickly.

D．It is not easy to find a job these days.

26、In some science fiction movies, evil robots refuse to die, no matter how hard people fight back.

Now science fiction has become science fact. For the first time, scientists have made a robot that can take a beating (挨打) and keep on going. Scientists from Cornell University made the robot, which looks like a spider with four legs.

Until now, even the most advanced (先进的) robot was almost certain to break down when it was damaged. That is because its computer inside simply doesn’t know how to make the machine work after its shape has changed.

To deal with this problem, the scientists put eight motors (发动机) and two sensors (传感器) that read how the machine is working. They all give signals to the machine’s software. Using this information, the computer can then figure out the machine’s shape at any moment.

The new technology is a big advance in robot-making, scientists say, and it’s far from scary. It may someday help scientists create better artificial (假的) arms and legs and give new freedom to people who losethem. It might also help scientists understand how people and animals figure out their own sense of place in space.

“It has been difficult to design robots that can work well when the environment changes or when it’s damaged,” says Olaf Sporns of Indiana University in US. “With this work, we are nearer to solving this problem.”

【1】Why do robots easily break down when they are damaged?

A. They cannot repair themselves.

B. The computer has changed a lot.

C. They have no computers inside.

D. The computer cannot work if the robot changes.

【2】The new technology allows the robot to _________.

A. do house work for humans

B. keep working after being damaged

C. remember a lot of information

D. tell people where it is

【3】The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 5 refers to ________.

A. sensors   B. robots

C. arms and legs   D. scientists

【4】How do the sensors in the robot work?

A. They can replace the computer when it’s broken.

B. They can find out where the damage comes from.

C. They help the computer learn the robot’s condition.

D. They can send signals to the person who uses the robot.

【5】The passage is probably from_____________.

A. a newspaper   B. an advertisement

C. a tour guide   D. an application

27、Alicia Keys was born in 1981 and grew up in New York. She had music and dance classes when she was a child and she first appeared on TV in the Cosby Show at the age of four. She started piano lessons when she was seven and learned classical music before she began to write her own songs at the age of 14.

Alicia signed a contract with J Records in 1999. She recorded several songs for films before her first album, Songs in Minor, came out in 2001. This was a fantastic success. It entered the charts at number one, sold 236,000 copies in its first week, and went on to sell over 12 million copies worldwide. Alicia won five big awards, including Song of the Year for Fallin’, the album’s top single, which was a number one hit for six weeks.

Since then, Alicia has sold over 30 million albums. She has also become an actress and a record producer with her own studio. She plays the piano as well as singing on all her albums and she has written some great songs for other artists. She has performed in TV programmes and she made her first film, Smokin’ Aces, in 2007. Her other films include The Nanny Diaries (2007) and The Secret Life of Bees (2008),’

【1】Which of the following statements is NOT true when Alicia Keys was a child?

A．She lived in New York.

B．She took classical music lessons.

C．She learned dancing and singing.

D．She often appeared on television.

【2】When did Alicia start writing songs?

A．In 1995

B．In 1999

C．At the Cosby Show

D．At the age of seven

【3】The underlined words Song of the Year for Fallin’ in the second paragraph refers to?

A．A number one album in 2001.

B．The top sale album copies in a week.

C．The name of a hero in Songs in A Minor.

D．The song which was at the top of the charts for weeks.

【4】What has Alicia done since 2001?

A．She has opened her own studio.

B．She has started playing the piano.

C．She has recorded all her songs herself.

D．She made her first film The Nanny Diaries.

【5】Which of the following shows the right order of what happened to Alicia?

①Made the film Smokin’ Aces

②Signed a contract with J Records

③Appeared on TV in The Cosby Show

④Songs in A Minor sold 236,000 copies

⑤Become an actress and a record producer

A．③④②⑤①

B．③①④②⑤

C．③⑤④②①

D．③②④⑤①

28、Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）

Attending a university is an important part of a person's life． Today ， many people go to a university to study and train for a future job in subjects like law ， medicine ， or education． But ， the university isn't a modern invention． An important o【1】started in Egypt a thousand years ago．

The world's oldest surviving university ， Al﹣Azhar ， is in Cario ， Egypt． It was first built as a mosque （清真寺） in A． D.972to【2】the daughter of the king Muhammad． A few years  later learners and teachers began meeting in the mosque． They read and talked about the subjects of religion（宗教） and law． Around the year 988 ， leaders in the city of Cario decided to create a school for learning and soon a【3】that ， Al﹣Azhar University was started．

Because a university was a new idea ， the teachers at Al﹣Azhar needed to think about what courses to teach and【4】to teach them． The earliest courses were in law and religions． In a course ， students read and studied with the teacher ， but there were hot and free d【5】among them ， too． Often ， there was no" correct" answer to a question． In the years that followed ， the new university attracted scholars from around the world who came to teach and do research． At Al﹣Azhar ， people not only studied the past ， but it was a place for s【6】new ideas with each others as well

Over a thousand years later， Al﹣Azhar is still an important university in the world．Its library contains more than 250，000of the world's oldest and most valuable books．Today， many of the world's most i【7】universities such as Oxford and Harvard still follow the traditions started at Al﹣Azhar．

29、There once was a girl named Taylor. Taylor was a very ______ person, but didn't know why. No one understood her. Her father ______ them when she was seven years old. Now, being fifteen, she ______ lives with her mother and grows sadder every day. Taylor's mother tried _______ to cheer her up, even if it meant making herself unhappy. One morning at school, a new girl, Carter, came to town. They spoke and understood each other. By the end of the week, Taylor felt happy, for the first time ______ her dad left. After that Taylor had a great change.

【1】A. interesting   B. sad   C. popular   D. unlucky

【2】A. loved   B. afforded   C. hurt   D. left

【3】A. only   B. already   C. ever   D. even

【4】A. anything   B. something   C. everything   D. nothing

【5】A. when   B. since   C. before   D. while