人教版2019-2020学年八年级上学期10月月考英语试题（练习）

人教版2019-2020学年八年级上学期10月月考英语试题姓名:_ 班级:_ 成绩:_一、单选题1 . - Is there _ in todays newspaper?- Yes, our National Table Tennis Team won all the seven gold medals once more.Asomething newBanything newCsomebody specialDanybody special2 . Tom wants to be_ engineer when he _up.Aan ; grows;Ban; will growCa; is growingDthe; grow3 . We are going for a picnic tomorrow. Ill call Wendy to make sure_.Awhy to startBwhich to startCwhat to startDwhen to start4 . When they arrived _ the island, they were all attracted by its beauty.AatBinConDto5 . Ma Yuns success proves that _is good at all things at birth. You can do almost everything well if you never give up.AanybodyBnobodyCeverybodyDsomebody6 . My father cant play _ basketball. He can play _ piano.Athe; theB/; theCthe; /D/; /7 . Dont worry about your grandmother, All the old peoplein China now.Aare good taken care ofBare well taken are ofCtake good care ofDtake well care of.8 . -There are sixty students in our class, and _of us are boys.-Wow! You have forty girls.Aone fourBone thirdCtwo fifthsDtwo thirds9 . There are _days in a week and Thursday is the _day of a week.Aseventh , fiveBseven , fiveCseven , fifthDthe seventh ,fifth10 . Which would you like，tea or coffee？I _ tea.AthinkBpreferCmakeDspare11 . -Did you buy _? - No, I bought nothing.Aanything specialBspecial anythingCsomething special12 . When I think of the worried _ of foreign students who are learning Chinese, I can go to study English calmly.AlooksBdesignsCeffortsDneeds13 . -Do you know the result of the _ race?-Yes. The winner is a boy _ Lin Feng from Class 4.A100-metres,calledB100-metre,callingC100-metre,calledD100-metres,named14 . This book isnt so _ as that one.Amore expensiveBmuch expensiveCexpensiveDmuch more expensive15 . _ there _ air pollution in the future?AIs, going to beBIs, going to haveCWill, haveDAre, going to be二、完型填空A father and his daughter were flying a kite in the park. The young daughter was a little bit tired, so they took a _ on the bench. When the daughter saw an old man selling apples, she asked her father to buy her an apple. Her father didnt bring much money with him, but it was enough to buy two apples. So he did, and gave _ of them to his daughter, smiling.His daughter held one apple in her left hand and the other in the right hand. Then the father asked her if she could _ one of the apples with him. When the girl heard this, she quickly took a bite (咬) from one apple. And before her father could speak, she also took a bite from the _ apple.The father was _. He wondered what mistakes he made so that his daughter acted in such a greedy (贪婪的) way. He was lost in thought. Perhaps he was just thinking too much. His daughter was too _ to understand about sharing and giving. A smile disappeared from his face.Suddenly, his daughter with an apple in her left hand said, “Daddy, have this one! Its much juicier and _.” Her father was speechless. He felt _ about making the judgment (判断) so quickly about a small child. But his smile _ knowing why his daughter quickly took a bite from each apple.Dont judge anything or draw a conclusion (结论) too quickly. _ give some more time to understand things better.16 . AwalkBshowerCbreakDlook17 . AbothBallCeitherDneither18 . AtakeBcutCwashDshare19 . AfirstBsecondCthirdDtwo20 . AsatisfiedBexcitedCsurprisedDmoved21 . AbraveBsillCyoungDsmart22 . AsaltierBbittererChotterDsweeter23 . AproudBgreatCbadDhappy24 . Awent awayBcame backCran outDran off25 . AAlwaysBSometimesCNeverDSeldom三、阅读单选Once upon a time, there were two seeds(种子）. They were good friends. They often talked with each other when they were free. One day, they had nothing to do . They lay on the ground. They looked up at the sky and had a chat with each other.The first seed said, “I want to grow! Then I can enjoy the sun and the rain!” Later, it grew. It had a chance to enjoy the sun and the rain.The second seed said, “I am afraid of growing up. If I grow, I have to live in thesoil. Little animals may come up to me and eat me. How terrible! If I become a beautiful flower, a child will come and pick me. It is much better for me to wait. Its a dangerous way to be alive.” It did nothing and refused to grow.Spring came soon. A duck came up to the seeds. It eat the second seed and went away. See? We shouldnt act like the second seed. We should face our life bravely.26 . There areseeds in the passage.AoneBtwoCthreeDfour27 . What did they do one day?AThey foughtBThey played by the river.CThey flew in the skyDThey had a chat with each other28 . The first seed wanted to grow becauseAit could enjoy the sun and the rainBit wanted to be smallCit could help each otherDit could go everywhere29 . In the third paragraph, the underlined word “soil” meansA油B土壤C样式D社会30 . From the passage, we shouldAface our life bravelyBhide ourselvesCrun away when we are in troubleDrefuse to growIts common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vincis most famous painting seems to look back at observers (观察者), following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room. But this common knowledge turns out wrong.A new study finds that the woman in the painting is actually looking out at an angle (角度) thats 15.4 degrees off to the observers right-well outside of the range that people normally believe when they think someone is looking right at them. In other words, said the study author, Horstmann, Shes not looking at you. This is somewhat ironic, because the entire phenomenon of a persons gaze (凝视) in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the Mona Lisa effect (效应). That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the persons gaze is no more than about 5 degrees off to either side, the Mona Lisa effect occurs.This is important for human interaction with on screen characters. If you want someone off to the right side of a room to feel that a person on-screen is looking at him or her, you dont cut the gaze of the character to that side-surprisingly, doing so would make an observer feel like the character isnt looking at anyone in the room at all. Instead, you keep the gaze straight ahead.Horstmann and his co-author were studying this effect for its application in the creation of artificial-intelligence avatars (虚拟头像) when Horstmann took a long look at the Mona Lisa and realized she wasnt looking at him.To make sure it wasnt just him, the researchers asked 24 people to view images of the Mona Lisa on a computer screen. They set a ruler between the viewer and the screen and asked the participants to note which number on the ruler intersected (横切) Mona Lisas gaze. To calculate (估测) the angle of Mona Lisas gaze as she looked at the viewer, they moved the ruler farther from or closer to the screen during the study. Consistently, the researchers found, participants judged that the woman in the Mona Lisa portrait was not looking straight at them, but slightly off to their right.So why do people repeat the belief that her eyes seem to follow the viewer? Horstmann isnt sure. Its possible, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them. Or maybe the people who first created the term Mona Lisa effect just thought it was a cool name.31 . It is generally believed that the woman in the painting Mona LisaAattracts the viewers to look backBlooks at the viewers wherever they standCfixes her eyes on the back of the viewersDseems mysterious because of her eyes32 . The purpose of the experiment involving 24 people was to _.Acalculate the angle of Mona Lisas gazeBcreate artificial-intelligence avatarsCmake sure Horstmanns belief is rightDexplain how the Mona Lisa effect can be applied33 . What gaze range in a painting will cause the Mona Lisa effect?ABCD34 . What can we learn from the passage?AHorstmann thinks its cool to create the term Mona Lisa effect.BThe Mona Lisa effect contributes to the creation of artificial intelligence.CThe position of the ruler in the experiment will influence the viewers judgement.DFeeling being gazed at by Mona Lisa may be caused by the desire for attention.四、回答问题The Hanging Gardens of Babylon(巴比伦空中花园) is one of the seven wonders of the ancient. It is a large collection of plants that are hung from the walls of a palace in Iraq. Some stories described the Hanging Gardens were hundreds of feet tall, but some historians said that they were really not that high.The reason behind the Hanging Gardens sounds like a fairy tale. A king built the gardens around 600BC in order to make his wife less homesick(想家的). The kings wife missed her home in Medea where it had great mountains, so the king decided to bring the mountains to his palace. He ordered his men build a huge hill and plant trees and flowers on it. In the 1st century BC. An earthquake happened in Babylon, destroying(毁坏) a large part of the city, including the Hanging Gardens.Today, some people think that the Ganging Gardens of Babylon is not real because Babylonian records never talked abut this amazing gardens.However, the writings of some Greek historians gave lively descriptions of the gardens. Recently, some findings showed that some great gardens existed(存在) in Iraq. But they still need to be further proved(证明).35 . Where is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?_36 . When did the king build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?_37 . Was the Hanging Gardens of Babylon