2021年春八年级期末教学水平调研测试英语试题（附答案）（满分150分，时间120分钟，所有答案做在答题卷上）第Ⅰ卷（共95分）Ⅰ. 听力测试（30分）略II. 单项选择（每小题1分，共10分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑.21. --- Jane has to look after her grandma, so she can’t go to see Avatar with us.--- ______.A. That's terrible.B. What a pity!C. She must be sad.D. You are welcome.22. --- What do you think of your hometown?--- It ______ to be much better than before. There are tall buildings everywhere.A. smellsB. seemsC. tastesD. sounds23. The movie was so interesting that everyone loved it, ______ the children.A. quicklyB. especiallyC. carefullyD. luckily24. The farmers kept on working in the fields, ______ it was raining heavily.A. becauseB. soC. butD. even though25. --- No salt lake is so deep as the Caspian in the world.--- You mean it’s ______ of all the salt lakes.A. deeperB. deepestC. the deeperD. the deepest26. I shouldn’t be late. But it ______ if the traffic is bad.A. raisesB. explainsC. noticesD. depends27. I am surprised that ______ a little boy can speak ______ many words.A. so; soB. such; suchC. such; soD. so: such28. This book is very interesting. It is worth ______.A. readB. readsC. to readD. reading29. We can't afford ______ this summer.A. travelB. travelsC. travelingD. to travel30. --- What does your grandmother say about the past?--- She tells me ______.A. what is she used to eatingB. what she is used to eatingC. how did her childhood use to beD. how her childhood used to beIII. 完型填空（每小题1.5分，共15分）根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能填入相应空格内的最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

Darren and Tim are good friends. They like exploring. Last summer they had a seven-day holiday. They were on vacation in a ___31___. They wanted to cross the sea in a boat for a week. They saw many blue whales during the trip. These blue whales were large. They fed on the small sea animals. At first Darren and Tim were very excited because they ___32___ saw so large ones. But soon something terrible happened. They ___33___ them when the whales hit the boat. Suddenly, ___34___ started coming into the boat and they were in trouble. They had to jump into their lifeboats（救生艇）___35___ before the boat went down into the sea. How terrible!They were lucky. The blue whales left them. They were out of danger. They had enough food and water for about twenty days. They ___36___ a small machine（机器）. The machine could change sea water into drinking water. They also had a fishing line. These two things could help them to ___37___.They ___38___ fishes and ate them for the next sixteen days. They saw some ships during those days. They ___39___ when they were passing, but no one heard. Just when they were ___40___, the persons in a fishing boat found them and saved them.No matter what difficulty we meet, face it bravely and never give up.31. A. sea B. countryside C. fishing village D. hill32. A. never B. always C. often D. usually33. A. watched B. watch C. were watching D. watching34. A. whales B. food C. fish D. water35. A. sincerely B. quickly C. happily D. widely36. A. lost B. drew C. had D. kept37. A. deal B. live C. fill D. slow38. A. blew B. found C. drank D. caught39. A. gave B. shouted C. brought D. sat40. A. disappointed B. interested C. lovely D. proudIV. 阅读理解（41-43 每小题1分，44-59 每小题2分，共35分）阅读下列材料，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。

AAmy comes from America. She is a fourteen-year-old girl. She doesn’t like talking to others. These days she feels very upset. Lucy is her good friend. One day she invited Amy to come to her home to chat. Amy came to Lucy’s home. She saw Lucy playing computer games happily. Lucy said to Amy, “Why were you upset, Amy?” “I was upset because I did badly in the Chinese exam,” Amy answered. Lucy asked Amy to talk to someone or to listen to music, especially movie music. Amy felt much better after chatting with Lucy. Then Lucy found some websites about movie songs and began to play some music. Amy danced while listening to music. She and Lucy had a good time. Amy didn’t go home until dark.根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

41. What was Lucy doing when Amy arrived at Lucy’s home?A. She was playing the piano.B. She was playing the guitar.C. She was playing computer games.D. She was doing her homework.42. Why was Amy upset?A. Because she failed in the exam.B. Because her teacher was too strict with her.C. Because her parents were too strict with her.D. Because she had no friends.43. Amy went home ______.A. in the morningB. at noonC. in the afternoonD. in the eveningBDo you know what is the smallest bird in the world? The answer is “The hummingbird（蜂鸟）”. How small is it? Even the largest one in western South America is only about 20cm long. Its body weighs about 20g. The smallest hummingbird is the bee hummingbird. It lives in Cuba. It is about 5.5cm long and weighs about 2g. They are the smallest living birds. The funny thing is that people often mistake them for bees.Although hummingbirds are small, they have strong bodies. They are good at flying as well. One more interesting fact is that the hummingbird is the world’s smallest dinosaur（恐龙）. “Birds are just one lineage（家系）of dinosaurs that happened to live to the present,”Julia Clark, a scientist at North Carolina State University, told Live Science.44. The largest hummingbird lives in ______.A. North AmericaB. CubaC. CanadaD. South America45. The smallest hummingbird is about ______ long.A. 5.5mmB. 20mmC. 5.5cmD. 20cm46. The passage tells us that the hummingbird ______.A. can’t fly at allB. weighs about 2g to 20gC. has no strong bodiesD. is actually a kind of bee47. We may find the passage in a newspaper’s ______.A. STAR STORIESB. ANIMAL WORLDC. CARTOON WORLDD. CLASSIC READINGCOnline eating shows are very popular, They are well-known all over the world. Because many people like watching this kind of shows, some hosts became popular for their ability（才能）to eat lots of food. Some people don’t like this show. While some hosts can eat so much food, some maybe fake it. They just show eating a lot of food, but in fact they threw it away later.Someone calls on people to stop wasting（浪费）food. They guessed that the world is facing the worst food shortage（短缺）in 50 years. Many videos stopped showing food waste to call for anend to waste food, too. A research shows that people waste about 1.3 billion tons of food every year in the world. In China, people waste about 35 million tons of food every year.Nowadays, some people are carrying out activities against wasting food. Some people call on people to eat safe food and stop wasting food. The owners of most large restaurants began to control the number of dishes for their customers. In some places, the owners of the restaurants ask customers to take the “N-1 mode”. For example, a group of 10 people should only order enough for nine people at first. More food is only brought to the table if they really need it.根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。