2018学年第二学期八年级英语阶段检測试题卷（本卷满分120分）第I卷第一部分分听力(共两节，满分30分）第—节（共5小题，每小题2分满分10分）听下面5段对话。

每段对话后都有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完毎段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时問来回答有关小题和阅读下1小题.每段对话仅—遍。

2 Who listens to tapes W improve English?A. Tony.B.Rosa.C.Kate.2. How long has Sally been in China?A. For five years.B. For three years. C, For a year.3. How does Jane most likely feel now?A. Excited.B. Angry.C. Sleepy.4. What is Mark doing? ^A. Doing his homework.B. Cleaning the room.C. Watching TV.5. How many people went to the beach last week?々A. Two.B. Three.C. Four.第二节（共10小题，每小題2分，满分20分）听下面3段对话或独白。

毎段对话成独白后有几个小题，从題中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位罝。

听毎段对话或独白前，你有时间阅读各小题，每小題5秒钟。

听完后，各小理给出5秒钟的做答时间。

毎段对话或独白读两遍.听下面一段对话，回答笫6至第8三个小题.6.What is Kate worried about?A.Her friend may lose her way.B.Mike cannot pick up her friend.C. Her friend is having trouble finding Mike.7.How does Mike feel when he meets new people?A.Strange.B. Nervous.C. Happy.8.What does Kate’s friend look like?A.She’s not tall, but she is very beautiful.B.She’s tall, has short hair and wears glasses.C. She’s tall, has long hair and wears sun-glasses.听下面二段对话,回答第9至第11三个小题。

生词提示：discount折扣9.What foreign language does the man want to learn?A. SpanishB. FrenchC. Italian.10.When will the man take the classes?A.From 10.00 am to 11:30 am.B. From 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.C. From 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm11How much should the man pay?A.$500.B. $540.C. $600.听下面一段独白，回答第12至第15四个小题。

生词提示: chat聊天12. When is Thanksgiving in Canada?A.On the fourth Thursday of October.B. On the second Monday of October.C. On the fourth Monday of October.13. What' s the most important part of Thanksgiving?A. The vacation.B. The business.C. The dinner.14. Who might think Thanksgiving helps them most?A. Students.B. Parents.C. Businessmen.15. Which festival in China has the similar meaning as Thanksgiving?A. The Spring Festival.B. The Mid-Autumn Festival.C. The Dragon Boat Festival. 第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题,每小题2分,满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中选出最佳选项。

Aourist maps, for example, have signs toshow places of interest in an area. When touristsread these maps, it is easy for them to find whereto go and what to see in a place and it is easy forthem to go and find their ways to these places.Road maps show large areas so that people canplan long journeys. Different types of roads aregiven different numbers. For example, if you wantto go to Wood Green, you just follow No. 621Road and keep looking at the road signs.Distribution maps (分布图) use colors or signs toshow facts about an area. For example, wheredifferent languages are spoken, how many peoplelive in an area, how cold and hot some places are,or whether a place is short of water.Some maps, such as railway maps, use straightlines to show everything. This is easy for peopleto read. Trains are fast. People don't have to thinkabout small places they go past. They just need toknow the two ends of their trips.16. Jim wants to visit some places of interest. Which map does he need most？A. A road map.B. A tourist map.C. A distribution map.D. A railway map.17. How can you tell different roads on Road maps？A. By using different colors.B. By finding the numbers.C. By following No.621Road.D.By using straight lines.18. Which of the following can Distribution maps tell us？A. How to get to Germany.B. How to plan a long journey.C.Where a famous museum is.D. Which place is short of water.19. Which is the best title for the passage?A.Learn to Design MapsB.Get to know different maps.C.Buy a Railway Map for YourselfD. Draw Maps for Geography StudentsB“I will think of it. ”It is easy to say this, but do you know what great things have come from thinking? Though we cannot see, or hear, or feel our thoughts, thoughts, they have great power Isaac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer evening when he saw an apple fall from a tree.He began to think,and tried to find out why the apple fell. Then he discovered how the earth,sun, moon, and stars are kept in their places.James Ferguson once saw the inside of his father’s watch, and he wondered, ‘Why should I not make a watch?” This set him thinking and it led to a wooden clock which kept good time.Walt Disney, the famous American film-maker, was often thinking of new ideas, One day, when he was in a meeting, he suddenly stopped talking, deep in thought. He looked and looked at a place high up in the room. This continued for a long time, end then he got an idea for a new cartoon.Ideas come at my time, aid the important thing is to think. When you meet with any difficulty, don’t lose heart. Try to think of it before asking someone to help you. Think and by thinking you will learn how to think creatively.20.What did Newton want to find out?A.When the apple hit him.B. Why the apple fellC.Who made the appleD. Where the apple fell.21.What can we learn from the passage?A.We should always ask others for help.B. Every one of us likes thinking.C.It is easy to see and hear our thoughtsD. Thinking helps to get new ideas22.Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?CHave your parents ever told you any strange or scary things about protecting your eyes? For example, they might have said that you’d go blind from reading in the dark, but you could makeup for it by e ating a lot of carrots.This is just one of the wrong ideas you may have heard of. Below teens has picked out scientific explanations for three mistakes the people often make about eyes. Let’s take a look.Can eating carrots improve your eyesight?Carro ts are rich in Vitamin A, which is essential for our eyes’ general health. Vitamin A helps the eyes to make light into signals, allowing people to see in low light conditions. However, eating more carrots doesn’t help you see better. A certain minimum amount will help, but a large number of carrots will not give you superhuman vision or allow you to get rid of your glasses.If your parents have bad eyesight, will you have bad eyesight, too?Myopia(近视) can be passed from parents to children. A study by the American Optometric Association found that if both parents are myopia, there’s a 33 to 60 percent chance that the child is. For children who have one parent with myopia, the chance is 23 to 40 percent, and it’s down to 6 to 15 percent for kids with non-myopia parents. So no matter how bad your parents’ eyesight is, you still have a chance having goodeyesight.Is it true that people who are color blind can’t see colors?Color blindness doe sn’t mean that someone can’t see colors at all, like a black and white movie. Most commonly, it means that someone has difficulty telling certain colors apart, usually green and red or blue and yellow. Color blindness is usually a condition caused by not having color cone cells or the cells not working. If the cells don’t respond in the right way to differences in wavelengths of light, color blindness happens.There are different levels of color blindness. Some people cannot tell the difference between colors in dim light, while others have difficulty in any light. In the most serious from of color blindness, everything is seen in shades of grey.23. According to the passage, which is the RIGHT idea about eating carrots?A. Eating carrots doesn’t help people see better.B. People need to eat as many carrots as possible.C. Eating carrots is good for eyes, but people don’t ne ed to eat a lot of them.D. Eating a lot of carrots is only appropriate for those who work in low light conditions.24. Sam’s mother is shortsighted, but his father is not. How much could be his chances of having good eyesight?A. 6-15%B. 23-40%C. 33-60%D. 60-77%25. How does the author describe color blindness according to the passage?A. Most people who are color blind can only see grey.B. Lacking color cone cells can cause color blindness.C. Those who can’t tell green from red are not really color blind.D. Most people who are color blind can only see black and white.26. What’s the best title of this passage?A. Misunderstanding About Eyes.B. Advice On Protecting Your Eyes.C. Reasons For Bad Eyesight And Color Blindness.D. Medical Information About Improving Your Vision.DLa Tomatina tomato fight in the Valencian town of Bunol happens every year on the lastWednesday in August, during the week of festivities of Bunol. The highlight （亮点）of the festival is the tomato fight which takes place on that day, lasting about an hour. The event has become one of the high-lights on Spain s summer festival calendar with thousands of people rushing to this little Valencian town for this event.Getting thereMost young visitors book cheap hotels in Valencia and then take the train to Buflol for the day. On the morning of the festival there are trains from Valencia Central Station, which is about 40km away, at eight minutes past the hour. There is no need to book tickets and the journey takes 50 minutes. The earlier, the better as the trains do get full. You can also arrive by bus or car though this might not be a great idea, considering the mess you' re likely to be in after the tomato battle.Living placesBunol is a small village of some 9,000 people whose population rises to some 30,000 on the day of La Tomatina. The Hotel Condes de Bunol is a nice little hotel in the town centre but there is hardly any living places on the day, so most visitors stay in a hotel in Valencia. Another option （选择）is to head for the small family-run campsite called, La Granjita in Chiva which is near Bufiol. The owners provide you with the tent, the bed as well as breakfast and an evening meal if you want it. It also has a small pool which is so great once you get back from the tomato fight. What to wearWhatever you wear is going to get destroyed（破坏），so make sure you lake a change of clothes for the return train journey. You can try to clean up a little at the public showers near the river.There actually are a few rules that need to be followed during La Tomatina. These rules are set out by the Bunol Town Council:•Don't bring any kind of bottles or other things that could cause an accident•You must not destroy T-shirts.•Keep a safe distance fr om trucks.•Tomatoes must be crushed （被压碎）before throwing so that they don t hurt anybody.•As soon as you hear the 2nd banger （爆竹），you must stop throwing tomatoes•Follow the directions of security staff.27. What CANNOT we know from the passage?A. How we can get to Bunol.B. Where we can live in Bunol.C. What we can do after the tomato fight.D. How much we should pay for the tomato fight.28. What can be put back into the blank?A. Welcome to La Tomatina.B. Rules of La Tomatina.C. A great way to stay happy.D. The Bunol Town Council.29. Which is TRUE according to the passage?A. Tomatina tomato fight lasts for a whole day.B. Y ou’d better get to Bu nol before 8:08 am.C.There are enough hotels for visitors in Bunol during La Tomatina tomato fightD.You ‘d better take some other clothes with you while going to the festival.30. Why does the Bunol Town Council set out some rules?A. For the town to be famous.B. For the visitors to have more fun.C. For people to be safe.D. For the activities to become popular.第二节（共5小题，每小題2分，满分10分）下面文章中有五处（第31-35题）蔣要添加小标题，请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合各段意思的小标题.选项中有一项是多余选项。