人教版2019-2020学年初中英语八年级下学期期中考试模拟试卷（1）A卷.doc

人教版2019-2020学年初中英语八年级下学期期中考试模拟试卷（1）A卷姓名:_ 班级:_ 成绩:_一、 完形填空 (共1题；共15分)1. （15分）完形填空。Im in London with my friend Maria. We are staying here for 4 days. Yesterday was sunny and warm. 1today its windy and a little 2.Im 3tea in our hotel room and Maria is out shopping. Were having 4in 5.There are many interesting places here! My favorite places are the British Museum and Hyde Park. There 6a lot of beautiful old buildings here. We are really7a good time.Im looking out of my window at the street below. Its 8hard. There are a lot of cars in the street. The 9and buses are moving slowly. The people are walking fast or running. Everyone is carrying an umbrella. I 10the rain stops soon. I want to visit more places in London.（1）A . And B . But C . If D . Then （2）A . rainy B . cold C . snowy D . warm （3）A . drinking B . eating C . making D . cooking （4）A . fun B . terrible C . long D . busy （5）A . Beijing B . Paris C . New York D . London （6）A . is B . has C . are D . have （7）A . getting B . having C . enjoy D . make （8）A . raining B . snowing C . windy D . sunny （9）A . people B . cars C . clouds D . women （10）A . think B . hope C . like D . want 二、 阅读理解 (共4题；共40分)2. （10分）阅读理解 Mr Smith is a teacher of English. He comes from America. He teaches English in China. He speaks Chinese quite well. He reads a lot of books and his wife often writes books for the students at home. Mr Smith gets up at five in the morning. He leaves home at ten to six. He begins the first lesson at 8:00. He teaches English every day except Saturday and Sunday. At ten to twelve he finishes his lessons. Ten minutes later he has lunch. In the afternoon, he often plays games with his students. Sometimes he teaches his students in his office. Supper time is at about six. After that, he reads newspapers and watches TV. At about ten to eleven he goes to bed.（1）Mr. Smith is . A . a ChineseB . an EnglishmanC . a workerD . an American（2）He leaves home at . A . 6:10B . 5:50C . 7:10D . 6:50（3）He doesnt have any English classes on . A . SaturdayB . SundayC . FridayD . Saturday and Sunday（4）He has lunch at . A . 12:30B . 12:00C . 13:30D . 13:00（5）He watches TV or reads newspaper supper. A . beforeB . afterC . atD . in3. （10分）阅读理解Mike Isaac and I are reporters of Student Daily. For the topics of our newspaper next month visited Sunshine Elementary School on May 10. We interviewed some students and here is what they（1）What did Mike Isaac and the writer visit Sunshine Elementary School for? A . For environment protection.B . For wildlife protection.C . For good manners in school.D . For topics of the newspaper.（2）What may cause people to be mad at one another in Andrew Vargass opinion? A . Losing more oxygen.B . Speaking in a loud voice.C . Cutting down more trees.D . Hunting tigers for medicine.（3）Who talked about health? A . Joslyn Frace.B . Jayden Mitchell.C . Andrew Vargas.D . Joseph Truong.4. （10分）阅读理解 Have you ever made something to solve a problem? If you have, youre an inventor. Inventors often make things to solve problems. These things are called inventions. Some inventions are new things while other inventions make old things better.About half a million kids invent things each year and some kids even sell their inventions. A six-year-old girl didnt like cleaning the spoon she used to feed her cats, so she invented a spoon that cats can eat! A young inventor from Houston made a ramp（活动坡梯） for wheelchair users, which can be carried in a bag on a wheelchair.Sometimes one inventor makes more than one thing. For example, one young girl invented a bell that rings when a baby opens a drawer. This girl also made it easier to use certain tools. She made a new handle（把手） for cleaners.Some families have more than one inventor. One girl invented the Kiddie Stool. It is a stool which is fixed to a door and can be carried in the bag when it is not used. Later her sister made something she called the Happy Hands. She filled gloves with sand which could be used to put on the top of some papers to stop them from moving.How do inventors come up with new ideas? They listen to people complain about problems and that is how they find things that need to be improved. Look around, listen to people, and you might find a problem you can solve, too!（1）What is the main idea of Paragraph 1? A . Inventors can be young or old.B . Some inventors make many things.C . Some families have more than one inventor.D . Inventors are people who solve problems with inventions.（2）How many inventions are mentioned in total? A . 2.B . 4.C . 6.D . 7.（3）Which of the following is TRUE about the last paragraph? A . Kids often complain about problems.B . Everyone needs to listen to others.C . It is difficult to be an inventor.D . Problems in daily life help inventor decide what to make.5. （10分）阅读理解Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turn around and ,sure enough, someone was looking right at you!Parapsychologists(灵学家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them. To research whether such a “ six sense” really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist（心理学家） at the University of Kentucky, did two experiments.In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes. The subjects (受试者) were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a computer. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later when he questioned the subjects, almost all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind in a laboratory setting. The people had to write down when they felt they being stared at and when they werent. Baker found the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they werent.Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they are being stared at. If people doubt the outcome of his two experiments, said Baker, “I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves.”（1）Whats the aim of the two experiments for? A . Prove why humans have a sixth sense.B . explain when people can have a sixth senseC . show how people act while being watched in the lab.D . study whether humans can sense when they are stared at.（2）What sense does parapsychologists say that humans have ? A . A natural ability to sense when they are stared at。B . A natural staring abilityC . A strange thinkingD . A looking feeling（3）The underlined word” outcome” in the last paragraph most probably means? A . ValueB . ResultC . PerformanceD . Connection（4）In the second experiment, the subjects_. A . could tell when they were stared at and when they werent.B . couldnt tell when they were stared at and when they arentC . couldnt tell when they were stared at but could tell when they werent.D . could tell when they were stared at but couldnt tell when they werent.（5）What can we learn from the passage? A . People are born with a sixth sense.B . the experiments support parapsychologists idea.C . the subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments.D . people have a sixth sense in all places.三、 选词填空（词汇运用） (共1题；共10分)6. （10分）根据短文内容，从方框中选择恰当的单词填空。每个单词只能用一次，每空一词。 without popular able largest lies why hardly tasks built wrongThe Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. It was _more than 4,000 years ago in Egypt. It is so _that millions of tourists from around the world come to visit it every year.In Egypt there are over 80 pyramids and the _one is the Great Pyramid. It _on the west bank of the Nile. In fact, all the pyramids along the Nile are on the west bank. The ancient Egyptians compared the rising of the sun to the beginning of life and the setting of the sun to the end of life. That is _their dead bodies were buried(埋葬) on the west bank of the Nile.You can _imagine how huge the Great Pyramid is. It has over 2 million blocks. Some are as heavy as five school buses. Although they were heavy, workers were _to put a block into the pyramid every three minutes.The workers, Egyptian men and women, worked in teams. The teams had different _. Some dug up the stones. Others moved them. Another team cut the stones. The last group put the stones into the pyramid. There were so many different teams, but the pyramid is perfect. No stone is in the _position.But how did the Egyptians move those heavy stones to the top _any modern machinery (机械) ? No one knows for sure. Many things about the Great Pyramid are still a mystery.四、 单词拼写（词汇运用） (共1题；共10分)7. （10分）It took Miss Jones twenty minutes to explain the two_(段落) 五、 语法填空 (共1题；共10分)8. （10分）My father plays table tennis _ (second) a week. 六、 任务型阅读 (共1题；共5分)9. （5分）阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。 Huge Waves Destroying Arctic Ice Faster than ExpectedIce covers much of the Arctic Ocean (北冰洋). Some pieces of ice are huge, like moving islands. As temperatures have increased, however, some of the ice has begun to disappear. Scientists have discovered huge waves (海浪) in the arctic waters.The waves were discovered by accident in May, 2010. Scientist Aleksey Marchenko and his students set out on a trip. They wanted to study the icy waters.On May 2, the ship traveled east and stopped next to a large chunk of ice around 50 miles from the small island of Hopen. Marchenko prepared to lead his students out onto the ice.We were ready to go but when I went out, I discovered many cracks (裂缝) around, he remembers.He decided to move the ship deeper into the ice to keep safe. The farther in they went, he thought, the harder the ice would become. As they pushed forward, however, the ship experienced small waves, and then bigger ones. Soon, the waves broke up the ice around the ship into thousands of smaller pieces.Within an hour, Marchenko and his team saw a wave that was about 13 feet high. The ships navigation (航行) system finally recorded the largest waves. They were more than 20 feet in height. The waves were so strong that they forced huge pieces of ice to jump up and down, breaking the ice into smaller pieces within just one hour. Scientists had never imagined that the process could happen so fast. The waves in these areas used to be small.The speed and force of the huge waves there makes it impossible to know in advance when they are coming. That could be dangerous for navigators and local communities who are unprepared for