2025-2026学年（上）洛阳八年级质量检测英语

1、阅读下面的短文，然后将划线部分的句子译成汉语或英语，并将答案填写在答题卡上对应题号的横线上。

One day, my wife Kathy and I were at home.

1. I was working in my room while my wife was cooking in the kitchen. Suddenly, she asked me, “Christmas is coming. What present do you want?”

At that time, I worked hard during the daytime and took classes in the evening to finish my college degree(学位). 2. At weekends, I offered free help to the students and had to prepare for my driving test. All of these made me tired. So I shouted, “All I really want is a break, a break!”

Before Christmas Eve, I received a beautiful box with “Merry Christmas” on its cover from my wife. 3. 这个盒子特别重以至于我一只手都拿不了。When I opened it, an unusual gift appeared in front of my eyes. It was a brick (砖)!

“I really didn’t understand what you wanted it for. But you sounded so sure of it. So I went to look for one, from one store to another. I couldn’t find any, however. 4. 我朋友告诉我，我可以从砖厂订购一个。So here you’ve got it,” Kathy said.

After ten minutes of laughing, I hugged Kathy and said “thank you” to her. Then I laid the brick on my desk carefully. Now, every time I feel upset, I will pick it up and laugh for a while. Then I can carry on. That’s the best Christmas present I’ve ever received.

【1】____________________________________________

【2】____________________________________________

【3】____________________________________________

【4】____________________________________________

2、 -–- I wonder if he   to see us tomorrow.

---I’ m sure if he   , he will bring us some wonderful gifts.

A. comes; will come B. comes; comes   C. will come; will come  D. will come; comes

3、—The hen ________ two eggs yesterday.

—Wow, it’s amazing.

A．laid

B．lied

C．lay

D．lain

4、Tom felt so ______ this morning in class that he fell ______ at his desk.

A.sleep; asleep B.asleep; sleepy C.sleepy ；asleep D.sleepy; sleeping

5、Mr. Black is on holiday in Beijing now. I wonder ______________.

A.when he will come back B.when he came back

C.when will he come back D.when did she come back

6、Lucy and her friend__________at the airport in half an hour.They are going to Taiwan.

A. met B. meet   C. have met   D. will meet

7、Waste ________ to be sorted（分类）into four kinds. However, it is a long journey because it takes time for people to learn and get into a habit.

A．are requiring

B．is required

C．require

8、 The rubbish _____ is produced every day is becoming a serious problem in cities around the world.

A. what B.that C.who D.whose

9、The young should learn how to look after ________ and be more independent.

A.they B.them C.their D.themselves

10、The temperate dropped to minus ten degrees centigrade. Which of the following is correct for the underlined word?

A. /'menəs/ B. /'mi:nəs/ C. /'maɪnəs/ D. /'mɪnəs/

11、— Would you mind lending your chemistry notes to me?

— ________ Here you are.

A.I’m afraid I can’t. B.My notes aren’t good enough.

C.Yes, I agree. D.Not at all.

12、When we went into the park, we saw someone _____ Chinese Kungfu.

A. plays B. played C. to play    D .playing

13、John ________ a volleyball game on TV now.

A.watches B.watched C.will watch D.is watching

14、Which sign can you see in the library?

A．

B．

C．

D．

15、—Julie, how do you study for a math test?

—________ asking my teacher ________help.

A.From; to B.From; with C.By; for

16、Tom could play the piano__________ the age of 7.

A. at B. in C. On

17、I don’t know if he ____ tomorrow. If he ____, I’ll tell him about it.

A. will come, will come   B. comes, comes

C. comes, will come   D. will come, comes

18、_______ there are many challenges to face, we won’t give up sending astronauts to the Mars.

A．When

B．Once

C．Although

D．Because

19、Michael ______ as my teacher, though he is my brother.

A. Regards   B. regarded   C. is regarded   D. was regarded

20、I bought a T-shirt yesterday. It was similar_____yours.

A. for   B. to   C. of   D. from

21、— Listen! Is Sarah singing in the neighbor room?

—No. It __________be Sarah. She has gone to Italy.

A.can’t B.need C.mustn’t

22、信息匹配

A: Hi, Janet． Would you like to help save the environment?

B: Yes, But what can I do?

A: Well． 【1】

B: Yes, that’s easy． Sometimes I turn on the lights without thinking． What’s next?

A:Second, you can ride your bicycle． 【2】

B: That will save money, too． What else?

A: Try to recycle paper, like newspapers, magazines, mail and so on．

B: 【3】 Good idea．

A: And turn off the shower when you’re not using it．

B: You mean when I have shampoo in my hair?

A:Yes, get wet．【4】 Put the shampoo in your hair and then turn on the shower and wash it out．

B: Will that help the environment?

A: Yes, we have to save water． And last, take a bag when you go shopping． 【5】

B: OK． My parents do most of the shopping． I’ll tell them．

A．You can start by turning off the light.

B．I get a lot of paper at home.

C．You’d better clean your room every day.

D．Turn off the shower（淋浴）.

E．Can I help you?

F．Don’t use plastic bags.

G．Don’t take a taxi if you don’t have to.

23、补全对话（共5分, 每空1分）

从方框内所给的句子中选择恰当的句子完成下面对话，并将代表答案的字母填在答题卡的相应位置。

（Zhang Ming and his wife are in a restaurant.）（W=waiter  Z=Zhang Ming）

W: Good evening.

Z: Good evening.

W:   【1】

Z: Yes, please. What kinds of food do you have in your restaurant?

W: Noodles, dumplings, rice and so on.   【2】

Z: We’d like some rice, some vegetables and a plate of fish.

W:   【3】

Z: Nothing. Thanks. We are used to keeping the plates and bowls empty.

W: OK. Please come and sit here.   【4】  Here’s some hot water.

Z: Thank you.

W:   【5】

24、Bad news travels fast – when you watch the evening news or read the morning papers, it seems that things that get the most coverage are all sad events or situations like wars, earthquakes, floods, fires and murders.

This is the classic rule for mass media (大众传媒). ―They want your eyeballs and don’t care how you’re feeling,‖ Jonah Berger, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, US, told The New York Times.

But with social media getting more and more popular, information is now being spread in different ways, and researchers are discovering new rules – good news can actually spread faster and farther than bad accidents and other sad stories.

Berger and his colleague Katherine Milkman looked at thousands of articles on The New York Times’ website and analyzed (分析) the ―most e-mailed‖ list for six months.

One of his findings was that articles in the science part were much more likely to make the list. Those science stories waked up feelings of awe (敬畏) and made the readers want to share this positive emotion with others.

Besides science stories, readers were also found to be likely to share articles that were exciting or funny. “The more positive an article was, the more likely it was to be shared,”Berger wrote in his new book. “For example, stories about newcomers falling in love with New York City,” he writes, “seemed to be shared more than the death of a popular zookeeper.”

But does all this good news actually make the readers feel better? Not necessarily.

According to a study by researchers at Harvard University, people are more likely to say more positive things about themselves when they’re talking to a bigger audience, rather than just one person, which helps explain all the perfect vacations that keep showing up on micro blogs. This, researchers found, makes people think that life is unfair and that they’re less happy than their friends.

But no worries. There’s a quick and easy way to take the despair from you that you get from viewing other people’s seemingly perfect lives – turn on the television and watch the news. There is always someone doing worse than you are.

【1】 In Berger’s opinion, bad news covers most papers because ______.

A. the public cares for reading sad events

B. mass media wants to attract the public’s attention

C. the public tries to share positive feelings with each other

D. mass media wants the public to help those unlucky people

【2】Which of the following might be e-mailed most according to Berger?

A. The perfect vacation of your friend.

B. The death of a popular zookeeper.

C. The story of a creative scientist.

D. The flood hitting a small town.

【3】We can infer from the passage that ______.

A. bad news always makes people sad

B. good news sometimes has negative influence

C. people can remove despair by reading good news

D. people prefer to share bad news with a bigger audience

【4】 What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Good News Spreads Fast

B. The Power of Good News

C. The Effect of Bad News

D. Bad News Travels Fast

25、Many people have talked about whether or not computing machines can think. Can they or can’t they?

Almost certainly, a machine can do any work in thinking that a person can do—if the correct way for doing the thinking work can be told exactly. Besides, many programs have been made to direct machines so that they work in very clever ways. Machines have been taught to play chess and to learn from what happens in the games so as to make their play better and better. Machines can beat many persons who play chess. Machines can translate from one language to another. They can prove statements in geometry（几何） as taught in school. Machines can notice printed marks on paper, so that a person is no longer needed to look at the marks.

Computers can be used in many ways, such as business, science, industry, and government. Computers study oilfield examinations made by airplanes； they keep record of oil sales； they study the working condition of the machines； they help in planning and producing oil； and much more.

If people cannot tell exactly the correct way to do certain work in thinking, it is still a question how much of this work a machine can do. Suppose a person is “teaching” the machine and telling the machine “yes” when the machine is right, and “no” when the machine is wrong. Then the machine can keep on searching among possible ways for solving a problem—until the machine can do as well as the person, and perhaps much better.

But, what is thinking？ People can agree about much that is thinking, and much that is not thinking； but they can’t reach agreement because the word “think” is not a scientific word with an exact meaning. A lot of the discussion is wasted breath because the persons are using different meanings of the word “think”.

People, however, have only had experience with machines that appear to think since 1944.

It would be too early to say that after the next 200 years, machines will not be thinking. And to consider that machines can think gives people a big push to give to machines more and more work in thinking.

【1】The underlined part in paragraph three is about computers used in ________.

A．Education.     B．Government.  

C．Sports.       D．Industry.

【2】What does “this work” mean in paragraph four？

A．Thinking.     B．Teaching.  

C．Searching.   D．Telling.

【3】What is the main idea of paragraph five？

A．There is much to say about thinking.

B．People discuss a lot about thinking.

C．There is no answer to what thinking is.

D．People already know what thinking is.

【4】What does the writer want to say in the passage？

A．A machine will do any work in thinking like a human being.

B．A machine can do better translation than human beings.

C．A machine won’t be able to beat every chess player.

D．A machine will be able to make plan programs.

【5】Which probably is the best title for the passage?

A．What Is Thinking?

B．Can Machines Think?

C．Can Machines Be Taught to Think?

D．Can Machines Beat All Checkers Players?

26、   There are hundreds of marathons (马拉松) held around the world each year, from the North Pole to the Sahara Desert. Here are some of the biggest and the best.

【1】According to the passage, the London Marathon is ______.

A.the earliest B.the coolest C.held in winter D.the best at raising money

【2】How many people finished the first New York City Marathon?

A.About 5,000. B.Over 50,000. C.Nearly 10,000. D.55.

【3】The idea of the Boston Marathon was born thanks to the marathon held in _______.

A.1896 B.1897 C.1898 D.1900

【4】How long is the history of the world’s coolest marathon?

A.16 years. B.17 years. C.35 years. D.46 years.

27、

【1】Bot2 Karot is a robot that can help people ________.

A．look after their pets

B．chat with their friends

C．grow and take care of vegetables

D．play video games

【2】Pet owners can use ________ to check on their pets.

A．a camera

B．a television

C．a fridge

D．a computer

【3】What do we know about Robert Saunt?

A．His invention helped people save lots of money and space.

B．He is just 12 years old.

C．He invented Bot2 Karot.

D．He has a pet dog.

【4】________ may like Robert Saunt’s invention.

A．A computer engineer

B．A big fan of video games

C．A pet keeper

D．A sports lover

【5】Where can you read this passage?

A．In a diary.

B．In a poem.

C．In a newspaper.

D．In a dictionary.

28、It is easier to go downhill than to climb uphill, so it is easier to ________ into bad habits than to form good ones. Bad habits do not come ______. They come little by little while people do not notice their danger. School children first pick up little bad habits in school and on the streets. When they cannot do their ________, they copy from their classmates. If they see bigger boys smoking, they want to know what smoking is _______ and learn to smoke, too. If they see their friends gambling, they began to learn to ________. When they get bigger, the bad habits become stronger and stronger, so that they can _________ longer get rid of them. From copying, they learn to steal; from gambling, they learn to cheat. At last nobody will trust them. How ______it is that we get rid of any bad habits in the beginning, in order that they should not overcome us in the _______.

【1】_______

【2】_______

【3】_______

【4】_______

【5】_______

【6】______

【7】______

【8】_______

29、Have you ever watched the movie Twilight, one of The Twilight Saga《暮光之城》系列）? Bella is a teenage girl who leaves her mum and her mum’s new husband _________her dad. She moves to Forks, Washington. Arriving at the small town, she knows Jacob and _________ friends, as well as the handsome boy Edward Cullen, who appears cold and warm unexpectedly but with great _________. Bella then falls in love with Edward, the _________ vampire（吸血鬼）.

I am really fond of the first scene of the film. There is a wolf _________ very fast across the forest, with _________ voice of Bella. She says she _________ about dying, but maybe it will be _________ and not too bud to die beside her lover. Seeing the running wolf, I can _________ imagine that it is a love story between a high school girl and a charming vampire. I just thought that it would be quite interesting, exciting, may be frightening as well __________.

Besides, the film __________ by the teenage girl at the first person at the beginning and I only know what she knows. It makes me __________ myself to the story and feel that I am the very heroine in the film, __________ can feel happy, sad, anxious, it is a great film, and really worth __________ . By the way, it’s a typical Hollywood film which has clear cause- and effect order, and the main roles always have __________ goal—to be together with the one you love, no matter what he is, human or vampire.

What’s more, the ending is happy that Bell and Edward got together with each other. I strongly recommend you watch it when you are free.

【1】

A．at

B．in

C．on

D．for

【2】

A．another

B．other

C．others

D．the other

【3】

A．charm

B．charms

C．charming

D．charmed

【4】

A．104 years old

B．104-year-old

C．104-years-old

D．104 year old

【5】

A．runs

B．running

C．run

D．ran

【6】

A．the

B．a

C．an

D．/

【7】

A．never thought

B．never think

C．has never thought

D．had never think

【8】

A．satisfy

B．satisfied

C．to satisfy

D．satisfying

【9】

A．hard

B．harder

C．hardly

D．hardily

【10】

A．will happen

B．happen

C．happened

D．would happen

【11】

A．tells

B．was told

C．is told

D．is telling

【12】

A．devotes

B．to devote

C．devoted

D．devote

【13】

A．what

B．who

C．which

D．when

【14】

A．watching

B．to watch

C．watch

D．watched

【15】

A．is

B．it

C．them

D．their