2019-2020学年八年级上学期英语开学考试试卷A卷.doc

2019-2020学年八年级上学期英语开学考试试卷A卷姓名:_ 班级:_ 成绩:_一、 完形填空（本题共15小题，共计15分） (共1题；共15分)1. （15分）阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出能填入相应空 白处的最佳选项。Once upon a time, there was a very old man called Yu Gong. He lived with his family in a village and there were two big and 1mountains near his house. They spent a long time 2to the other side.One day, Yu Gong told his family that they must move the mountains to other places.3this, everyone in his family was laughing at him. One of his sons said, Are you kidding? No, Im serious and all of you must do it with me. Everyone was 4at that time. They really didnt want to do it, but they had to do because the oldest man in the family was 5important person at that time.The next day everyone in Yu Gongs family started to dig the mountains. They put the stones and the earth 6the sea. One day a man saw Yu Gong and his children 7the mountains. He told Yu Gong he would never do it. But Yu Gong said though he was 8and would die, his family could continue to move the mountains. Then they kept on digging day after day and year after year.Finally a god was so moved by Yu Gong 9he sent two gods to help Yu Gong move the mountains away.The 10reminds us that you can never know whats possible unless you try to make it happen.（1）A . short B . thin C . high （2）A . get B . getting C . got （3）A . Seeing B . Doing C . Hearing （4）A . in silence B . tired C . thirsty （5）A . most B . the most C . more （6）A . on B . to C . into （7）A . dug B . digging C . to dig （8）A . weak B . well C . strong （9）A . that B . who C . which （10）A . magazine B . novel C . story 二、 阅读理解（共计40分） (共4题；共40分)2. （10分）阅读理解 If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak; when you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory (记忆) works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance (机会) to become strong. If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault (过错). But if he tells to us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents may be to blame (责备), and few of us know that it is just his own fault. Have you ever found that some people cant read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write, they have to remember the things. Since they cannot write them down in a small notebook, they have to remember days, names, songs and stories. Therefore, their memory is being exercised the whole time. So if you want to have a good memory, learn from the people：practise remembering things as other people do. （1）Someone cant have a good memory if _. A . he cant read or writeB . he doesnt use his memoryC . his parents dont have a good memoryD . he doesnt use his arms or legs for some time（2）If you do not use your arms or legs for some time, _. A . you cant use them any moreB . they will become strongerC . they become weak but they will slowly become strong againD . they become weak and wont become strong until you use them again（3）Which of the following is TRUE? A . Your memory works in the different way as your arms or legs.B . A good memory comes from less practice.C . Dont learn how to read or write if you want to have a better memory.D . Your memory becomes weak if you do not give it enough chance for practice.（4）The writer wants to tell us _. A . how to use our arms or legsB . how to read and writeC . how to have a good memoryD . how to learn from the people3. （10分）阅读理解 Are you looking for something fun and would you like to help others in your spare time? Then join us to be a volunteer! Were a non-profit ( 非赢利的) organization. We have volunteer jobs of all ages. Anyone, from twelve-year-old children to people in their seventies can become a volunteer.You can help people in many ways. Schools need help with taking care of children while parents are working. Hospitals need volunteers to look after children while their parents are seeing a doctor. Animal lovers can help take care of those dogs and cats without homes. There is something for everyone.As a volunteer, I dont want to get anything. Seeing the childrens happy faces, Im happy, too. Said Carlos Domingo, an old woman of 62. I often played computer games in my spare time before. Now I help older people learn how to use computers. said another volunteer at the age of 18If everyone helps out a bit, well have a better world to live in. Interested? Call us at 1800-555-5756 or visit our Website: .（1）When do the volunteers help others? A . In their spare time.B . At weekends.C . On weekdaysD . In the evenings.（2）Volunteers want to get when they help others. A . moneyB . computersC . everythingD . nothing（3）Carlos Domingo does volunteer work with . A . animalsB . childrenC . computersD . older people4. （10分）阅读理解 A group of people in my city spend their free time cleaning up the countryside. They look after the places such as fields, rivers and forests. Before my last birthday, I was not to join them because I was too young, I have to be at least thirteen years old. and now I am.On the first Sunday of every month we spend hours making the countryside a good place for animals, Often people are the cause of the problems. They find a great place of a picnic. But they do not take their rubbish home with them, The rubbish looks ugly and it not good for wild animals.However, nature also sometimes makes life difficult for some animals, Last Sunday, we spent all afternoon clearing overgrown(杂草丛生的)plants from a river. Now the water is flowing freely again. The fish can swim along without anything in their way.Some of our work does not bring changes so quickly. New trees will take several years to grow before they are big and strong. Birds can build homes on them then, but it is nice to know that we are trying to help.（1）Lisa CANNOT join the group this year, How old is Lisa according to the 1st paragraph? A . 12B . 13C . 14D . 15（2）How often does the group get together to do their work ? A . Once a weak.B . Once a month.C . Once a year.D . We dont know.（3）How do you understand the underlined sentence Often people are the cause of the problems in the 2nd paragraph? A . People often know how to protect the animals.B . People have no problems finding a picnic place.C . Usually the problems appear because of people.D . Its easy for people to take their rubbish away.（4）Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage ? A . The group try to take care of fields, rivers and forestsB . The group will help make the countryside a good placeC . Too many plants in the river sometimes are bad for fishD . All birds builds home the new trees because of the group5. （10分）阅读理解 Whats the best way to remember our happiest moments, like a birthday or festival? I believe you would answer, Take lots of photos! Well, here is a great surprise. People who always take photos may actually be not good for their memory, because theyre not concentrating on the event itself. Thats according to new research by Fairfield University, Connecticut, in the US. They call this the Photo-taking Effect.People so often take out their cameras to catch a moment without thinking, to the point that they are missing what is happening right in front of them, said Linda Henkel, from the university, to The Daily Telegraph. Henkel and her team decided to perform a test. They wanted to find out if taking photos in a museum weakened（使变弱） a visitors memory of what they had seen. So they simply told a group to look around the museum, and cither take photos of the things on display, or try to remember them. The next day, the group was tested.People who took photos in the museum were less probable to remember what they had seen. And the in-formation they remembered was less than those who didnt take photos. These results show how the minds eye and the cameras eye are not the same. said Henkel.But dont put your camera down just yet. Other studies have found that looking back at old photos helps us remember an event better than those who just taking a photo and forgetting about it. So next time youre thinking of taking a photo, just think: is it better to look at the beauty around you with your own eyes, or behind the eye of the camera?（1）We probably read this passage in . A . a museumB . a science magazineC . an instruction of how to use a cameraD . a guidebook on how to take good pictures（2）When we take photos, we . A . remember what we have seenB . cant remember the informationC . fail to concentrate on the event itselfD . are probable to have a poor memory（3）Which of the following is TRUE about the experiment? A . People who didnt take photos did better in the experiment.B . They asked a group to take photos of everything in the museum. AC . People who took photos in the museum could remember more.D . They wanted to find out what people were interested in at the museum.（4）According to the passage, wed better . A . not use our camerasB . remember an event by heartC . see everything with our own eyesD . remember an event with the help of a camera三、 词汇运用（共计15分） (共2题；共15分)6. （5分）选择单词并用其正确形式填空 exercise, sleep, is, get, healthy, maybe, but, three, think, helpDo you have a healthy lifestyle? I think I do. First, I have many good eating habits. I like junk food, _ I hardly eat it. I eat fruit and vegetables every day. _ they are not very delicious, but they _ good for health. Second, I _ every day. It is said that if people run every day, then will have more _ hearts than others, so I run for about thirty minutes every morning. _, I have good living habits. I try to _ eight hours every night. That_me to be energetic(j精力充沛的) the next day. And I can study better and _good grades(成绩).What do you _of my lifestyle? Can you learn something from it?7. （10分）阅读下面短文, 根据短文内容及括号中所给中文提示拼写单词, 补全短文。 Stonehenge, a rock circle, is one of Britains greatest mysteries. Every year it _（接待，接受） more than 750, 000 visitors. People like to go to this place in June to see the sun rising on the longest day of the year.For many years, historians thought Stonehenge was a temple where ancient _（领袖） tried to communicate with the gods. Another popular _（意见，想法） is that Stonehenge might be a kind of calendar. The large stone were _（放） together in a certain way. On midsummers morning, the sun shines directly into the _（中心） of the stone. Other people believe the stones have a _（医疗的） use. They think the stones can _（阻止） illness and keep people healthy. As you walk there, you can feel the _（力量，精力）from your feet move up your body, said one visitor. No one is sure what Stonehenge was used for, but most agree that the_（位置，地方） of the stones must be for a special（目的） _.四、 语法填空（共计10分） (共1题；共10分)8. （10分）语法填空 Many years ago, there was a family _(call) Franklin. They lived _ America. There _(be) seventeen children in the family. One of the children was born on a January day in 1706. The boys mother and her husband gave the boy _name-Benjamin. Benjamin was the _ (clever) of all the (children). He could read when he was five and he could write _ the age of seven. When he was eight, he was sent to school. In school Benjamin had been good at_(read) and writing but not good at Maths. He read all of his _(father) books. And whenever he _(have) a little money, he bought a book with it. He liked books. They told him how_(do) something. At that time he invented the paddles（脚蹼） for swimming. 五、 任务型阅读（共计5分) (共1题；共5分)9. （5分）阅读文章，请从A-F中选出符合各段意思的小标题。 Everyone has his own hobby. Reading books is a good hobby for us. Here are some reasons for reading：_Reading has a lot of benefits（好处）. It can open up our eyes because books are full of knowledge，and it can make us wiser and richer in life. _You can keep yourselves amused（被逗笑的）if you like reading. This is especially useful