2024-2025学年（上）白杨市八年级质量检测英语

1、阅读下面的短文，将划线部分译成英文或中文。

Lots of people are calling for September 11 to become a national day of volunteering in America. Helping others in need is an important part of the American way of life.1. 许多学校要求学生每周花几个小时帮助别人。 So what can you volunteer to do?

Help kids learn and grow

Become a Big Brother or Big Sister for them. 2. You can also volunteer in an after-school sports program. These are great ways to know kids who have special needs.

Do something over the holidays

Buy Thanksgiving dinner for the poor people, volunteer at your local(当地的) food bank, or give away toys to kids.

Work at a local animal center

Most centers often need many volunteers to look after the cats and dogs. 3. Loving animals makes it possible for you to become a volunteer there.

Protect the environment

Join a group and help protect the environment. There are many things you can do such as cleaning the river, planting trees and using less paper.

If you have more than one thing you love, find a way to put them together. For example, if you love kids and are good at art, visit your local children’s hospital and play some art games with them. 4. You can also tell them stories about famous artists and how things used to be, volunteering for something. 5. 你会发现它会对你的生活产生很大的影响。

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2、阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。

Do you dream of traveling back to ancient (古代的) China? Wang Fang studies history books 【1】. And she “travels” back by studying history.

Wang 【2】 to show an interest in traditional Chinese culture at an early age. Her favorite book was Dream of the Red Chamber (《红楼梦》). She learned a lot about life in the past. Later, Wang went to the U.S. to 【3】. She found that many of her American classmates knew more about traditional Chinese culture 【4】 her. She decided to further explore Chinese culture.

Now, Wang makes online videos (视频) 【5】 ancient China. One of them is about the traditional 【6】 of China. Though the video lasts for only nine minutes, Wang spent two years 【7】 it. She designed many of the clothes by 【8】. To do this, she read lots of 【9】 and asked other people for advice.

Wang says she will make more videos to 【10】 Chinese culture. She wants to help more people “see” ancient China with their own eyes.

3、The boy has breakfast quickly before leaving home every day. (否定句)

The boy________ _________ breakfast quickly before leaving home every day.

4、— Can you come to my birthday party?

—_______________.When and where?

A.Yes, please. B.Sure, I’d love to. C.No, I can’t.

5、There is only ________ time left. We must hurry.

A．a little

B．a lot of

C．a few

D．few

6、—Linda, could you please teach me Chinese?     — ________.

A．Not at all

B．It’s a big deal

C．With pleasure

D．That’s all right

7、He_________no return when he decided to help us.

A. expected    B. asked C. planned   D. remembered

8、--Have you ever been anywhere for a trip?

--A trip? I ______away from my home town even once.

A. went   B. have gone   C. have ever been   D. have been

9、—________ is the number of the students in your school?

—The number of the students ________ 897.

A．How much; is

B．What; are

C．How much; are

D．What; is

10、________ Simon does well in his studies, he still works really hard.

A. Although   B. Because

C. /   D. When

11、Mike，________ speak loudly.Your father is sleeping.

A. do   B. does   C. doesn't   D. don't

12、— ________did you go yesterday?

—I went to Suining.

A. What  B. When   C. Where

13、---Sam, can you tell me when Alice ________my new house?

--- I think she will come when she ________ free.

A. visits, is   B. visits, will be

C. will visit, is D. will visit, will be

14、----The 3D movie Fast and Furious 8 is so wonderful!

  ------ Really? I can’t___________ to watch it.

A. like   B. wait   C. want

15、We hope the rainstorm will stop soon, but the weather report said that it would rain _______ than before.

A．heavy

B．heavier

C．heavily

D．more heavily

16、Judy with her brother ________ computer games when their mother came back.

A．were playing

B．are playing

C．was playing

D．is playing

17、This picture is quite similar ______ that one on Page 20.

A.as B.with C.in D.to

18、—What do you think of Mr. Miller?

—He’s a(n) ________ man. He never plays jokes on others.

A．serious

B．outgoing

C．creative

D．successful

19、A: Hi, Bob. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has been open to the public. 【1】

B: Of course. It’s a bridge connecting（连接）HongKong, Zhuhai and Macao.

A: That’s right. 【2】

B: It’s wonderful! It makes it much faster to travel between the three cities.

A: Yes. 【3】

B: Sorry, I have no idea.

A: It’s 55 kilometers long. 【4】

B: Wow! How long did it take the workers to build it?

A: About 9 years. 【5】

B: It’s true that Chinese people are great.

A．What is it made of?

B．How do you like the bridge?

C．Oh, do you know how long it is?

D．We Chinese people are proud of it.

E．When did the bridge come into use?

F．Have you ever driven across the bridge?

G．And it’s the world’s longest cross-sea bridge.

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Have you ever seen a streak (条纹) of light flash across the night sky? You might call it a shooting star. Scientists call it a meteor. A meteor is something that falls through the earth’s atmosphere (the air around the earth) and has a burning long tail. Usually, meteors are rocks that burn (燃烧) up as they fall. As they burn, the rocks shine brightly.

Most meteors burn up quickly in the atmosphere and never hit the ground. But if a meteor does fall down to the ground it is called a meteorite, this doesn’t happen very often but can one day bring the end of world. The rocks that we see as meteors come from different places of space. Scientists call these rocks meteoroids. Like planets, meteoroids travel in space, but they are much smaller than planets. Most meteoroids travel very far from the earth and we don’t see them.

However, some meteoroids can travel very close to us and get in the way of the earth. Gravity (重心) then pulls them through the earth’s atmosphere, turning them into the meteors that you see in the night sky. The largest meteorite ever found in the United States is the Willamette Meteorite. This rock got here thousands of years ago. Today, you can see the 15, 000-kilogram meteorite at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It has been on show there since 1906.

【1】According to the passage, a meteor is a kind of ________.

A．burning tail

B．bright fire

C．burning rock

D．traveling planet

【2】Willamette Meteorite is famous because it’s the ________ one found in America.

A．fastest

B．biggest

C．heaviest

D．oldest

【3】Which of the following is TRUE according to paragraph 2?

A．All the meteors never hit the ground.

B．A meteorite can’t kill the world.

C．Meteoroids are much smaller than planets.

D．We can see the meteoroids in the sky.

【4】We may read this passage in a ________.

A．history book

B．space fiction

C．traveling guide

D．science magazine

【5】The purpose of this passage is to ________.

A．encourage more people to study about the planets

B．introduce some flying objects falling from space

C．tell people the danger of light streaking in the sky

D．show something about the American Museum of Natural History

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Wang Yaping, a world famous Chinese name, is an astronaut, and a “space teacher” as well. Tiangong space station welcomed the first woman astronaut.

When China sent Yang Liwei, the first astronaut, into space in 2003, Wang Yaping’s space dream started. She told herself, “My motherland has a man astronaut now. It will be great if I am the first woman astronaut. How I hope to be an astronaut. I must try my best to make it!”

Wang was already a pilot in the Chinese army at that time. And after having safe flights for 1,600 hours over nine years, Wang became a candidate（候选人） to be an astronaut in 2010. She did the same training as men. “The space environment will not change anything just because you are a woman,” she said. The most difficult is the high-G training. “You can see a red button there, and you can press it to stop training if you can’t bear it.” But Wang never used it. “In my heart there is no such a red button. If I press it I will not be a true astronaut.”

Finally, in June 2013 the great day came. She joined the team for the Shenzhou Ⅹ mission. She stayed in space for 15 days, and successfully gave a space class. On October 16, 2021, with the Shenzhou Ⅻ mission she became the first woman astronaut to enter Tiangong space station, and stayed in space for half a year with Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu. The 41-year-old Chinese woman made history, and she gave two more space classes to students on the Earth, so wonderful and attractive. Catherine Coleman, a retired（退休的）NASA（美国航空航天局）astronaut, sent a greeting to Wang before the Shenzhou Ⅻ trip. Coleman said, “When you look out of the window and see the stars and the Earth, billions of women will be looking out that window with you.”

It was not a short and easy way before Wang Yaping became the first woman to enter the Tiangong space station. It is a good example for all of us. Whatever the difficult is, never give up, and you will get over it at last.

【1】Wang Yaping’s dream was to be _________.

A．a teacher

B．a doctor

C．an astronaut

【2】Wang Yaping was born in _________.

A．1980

B．1990

C．2003

【3】Pressing the red button in the high-G training _________.

A．can make the training go better

B．can help the trainer stop training

C．means the trainer is not a true astronaut

【4】How many space lessons did Wang Yaping give?

A．One.

B．Two.

C．Three.

【5】How long has Wang Yaping stayed in space as an astronaut?

A．More than a year.

B．Over 190 days.

C．Six months.

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SOCIETY

March 7, 2022 TEENS

       After over 10 years of service, my old computer finally died. My daughter talked me into buying a new laptop to replace it (取代). What followed was two days of stress.

       After my daughter set up my new computer, I looked for the old email program I used, only to find that it wasn’t on this model. When I tried to download (下载) the program again, it wouldn’t work. I spent the next day talking to four different customer service workers, but no one could help. I also had a terrible time downloading my old typing program. Then I had a problem moving all of my old stories from a different hard drive. In the end, my daughter had to set it up all over again.

       One thing I learned from all of this is that when it comes to computers and life, I want to keep things simple. I don’t want to wake up in the morning and worry about what I have to do. Instead I want to pet my dogs, take them outside, and watch the sun slowly rise. I want to spend time hugging my family. Be a person, not a program.

【1】In which section can you read the material above?

A．Society.

B．Medicine.

C．Sports.

D．Education.

【2】What did the author think of her new laptop?

A．Difficult to use.

B．Terrible and ugly.

C．Well set up.

D．Simple and useful.

【3】The news was reported in __________.

A．MARCH

B．TEENS

C．CHINA DAILY

D．TENCENT

【4】What problem did the author have while using the new computer?

A．Downloading the old typing program was not easy.

B．Moving a different hard drive was terrible.

C．No customer service workers wanted to help.

D．The old email program wouldn’t work on the new model.

【5】What did the author learn from this experience?

A．It’s never too old to learn.

B．Newer is always better.

C．It’s good to keep things simple.

D．Keep the old and you get nothing new.

24、   Claude Monet was a famous French painter. He was also 【1】（感兴趣的）in gardening. In the 1880s, he bought a 【2】（普通的）farmhouse and changed it into a comfortable house with beautiful gardens. There, Monet painted one great work of art after another.

Now, the house of Claude Monet is a museum. It’s about 70 kilometers【3】（在……之外）Paris. The museum is so beautiful that it’s usually very 【4】（拥挤的）. Last year, it welcomed 717,271 visitors.

Jean-marie Avisard began to work there 32 years ago. He said, “A lot of visitors come in spring when the gardens are in fill bloom（开花）. This spring, 【5】 （然而）, the gardens bloomed only for garden workers because of COVID-19.”

In June, the museum was open to the public again. It 【6】（提供）people a chance to enjoy themselves. “But we only 【7】（允许）900 people to come a day. The 【8】（形势）is getting better, but we should still be very careful,” said Avisard. “We are very happy to 【9】（展示）what we do. People will see the gardens a bit like on a private visit.” Anyway, the French are 【10】 （满足的）to visit the gardens without the crowds.

25、请你根据以下英文提示，以 “My School Life”为题， 写一篇英语短文。

提示： 1. How many lessons do you have every day?

2. What are your favorite lessons? Why do you like them?

3. What school activities do you have? What activities do you like to do?

要求；1.短文必须包括所有提示内容，可适当发挥。

2.短文中不要出现真实的地名、校名和人名。

3.词数70个左右（开头已给出，不计入总词数）。

My School Life

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