2020-2021-1麓山八上期中考试英语第一部分知识运用（两部分，共20小题，计20分）第一节语法填空从A、B、C三个选项中选择最佳答案填空。

（共10小题，计10分）21. －_______ times do you visit your grandparents a month?－Only twice a month.A. How oftenB. How muchC. How many22. Today, 5G is making a big ________ to our life.A. decisionB. differenceC. performance23. －Do you like the books your sister bought yesterday?－No. ________ of them is interesting.A. AllB. NoneC. Either24. My twin sister is much better ________ English than me.A. atB. ofC. in25. －James, do you mind me using your dictionary?－________A. Yes, please.B. No, you’d better not.C. Not at all.26. ________ your health seriously, and you’ll feel better soon.A. TakeB. TakingC. To take27. －How was your school trip last week?－Couldn’t be ________. It rained all day, and we didn’t have any fun.A. goodB. betterC. worse28. －Which month has ________ days?－February.A. fewerB. the fewestC. the least29. －Steve, did you finish cleaning your room?－Sorry, Mom. Please give me ________ half an hour.A. anotherB. otherC. others30. Nearly 90 percent of the students in our class ________ English every day.A. keeps readingB. keep to readC. keep reading第二节词语填空。

通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳答案。

（共10小题，计10分）When I was 11, my home burned to the ground（全部烧毁）on a late night. 31 , my parents, two brothers and I escaped（逃脱）along with our dogs. We had 32 but the clothes we were sleeping in.The next day, my mom brought me a few T-shirts and pairs of 33 given to her by a friend. One pair of jeans was too short and the other pair was too long, but I didn’t 34 . At least I had some clothes again. At the same time, my dad went back to our home to see what he could find. The only thin g he could find was my mom’s wedding ring（结婚戒指）, but it was 35 than nothing.When the summer was over, my dad rented（租）us an old house by the side of the road near our old house. As we 36 , friends and other people in our community（社区）gave us all they could to help us. There were more clothes, food, money and even some books for me to 37 .Looking back now, I am 38 for everything we went through（经历）that summer because it taught me so much about life, 39 and people. It showed me that when you have nothing left, for the first time, you see that love is 40 .31. A. Slowly B. Luckily C. Differently32. A. nothing B. everything C. anything33. A. shoes B. socks C. jeans34. A. care B. share C. stand35. A. worse B. better C. more serious36. A. climbed up B. found out C. moved in37. A. draw B. read C. watch38. A. enjoyable B. successful C. thankful39. A. love B. money C. culture40. A. famous B. enough C. common第二部分阅读技能（三部分，共25小题，计50分）第一节图表理解阅读下列图表，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出最佳选项回答问题或完成句子。

（共5小题，计10分）ATop Students in Class One, Grade EightNameItems（项目）Lisa Eric Emily Age 14 14 13 Favorite subjects Science Math English, Chinese Hobbies（爱好）Reading, Watching movies Playingsoccer, Swimming Reading, DancingA. LisaB. EricC. Emily42. From the chart we can learn that ________.A. Lisa speaks English better than EricB. Eric likes sports better than the girlsC. Emily hardly ever reads English booksBWelcome to CGV! We not only have the biggest screens, the most comfortable seats, but also the latest movies! Why not try today?Names My people, My homeland Yedinci Kogustaki Mucize Legend of Deification Country China Turkey ChinaKind Comedy Love/Family Action/CartoonTime 15:30—18:0319:00—21:3320:30—23:03 10:00—12:1214:30—16:4218:20—20:3215:00—16:5018:00—19:5022:05—23:55Price 40 yuan30 yuan35 yuanDiscounts （折扣）1. Children under 6 and the old over 70：Free2. Students with student cards：Half price（CANNOT be used with otherdiscounts）3. Book online: 40% OFFA. My people, My homelandB. Yedinci Kogustaki MucizeC. Legend of Deification44. Tony decides to watch Legend of Deification, he may be the most interested in ________.A. love storiesB. cartoonsC. comedies45. If Mr. and Mrs. Green want to watch Yedinci Kogustaki Mucize with their ten-year-old daughter,they should at least pay ________.A. 36 yuanB. 45 yuan.C. 51 yuan.第二节短文阅读（共10小题，计20分）AFew students like it, but homework is very important in the middle school life in the UK.The UK has these government guidelines（政府指导方针）for homework: Years 7 and 8 (ages 11 to 13): 45 to 90 minutes a day; Year 9 (ages 14 to 15): 1 to 2 hours a day.Today, many homework tasks（任务）are done on a computer—for example, preparing reports, using the Internet or doing online tasks. So schools are usually open before and after class. That way, students without computers or Inter net at home can use the schools’ facilities（设施）.Sometimes students are given “extended learning tasks”. That means they need to do more study, such as when working on a history or art task. But however big the task is, teachers will always give feedback. This helps students find out where they can do better.Some schools send students home with a homework diary. They ask parents to check（检查）on their children’s tasks. Other schools have an e-report, so parents can know their children’s everyday life at school.Sadly, not every parent takes that much interest. In a survey（调查）of 1,000 students aged 11 to 18, over one in ten said that they did not have enough room at home to do homework.Almost 15 percent said that their family did not help them enough.46. Ac cording to the UK’s guidelines, a 12-year-old doesn’t do homework for more than ________.A. one hourB. one and a half hoursC. two hours47. If students don’t have a computer or Internet, how can they finish the online homework?A. They can use the computers at school.B. They don’t have to finish their homework.C. They can go to the teacher’s home after school.48. The underlined word feedback in the fourth paragraph means ________.A. 分数B. 反馈C. 机会49. Why do some schools send homework diaries to parents?A. To advise parents to do homework for their kids.B. To advise students to spend more time doing homework.C. To advise parents to learn more about their children’s study.50. What is the passage mainly about?A. Some information on homework in the UK.B. The reasons why students must do homework.C. The ways on how parents can help with homework.BMalls, which are also called shopping centers, are popular places for Americans to go to. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called mall rats. Mall rats shop until they visit hundreds of stores.People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations. Parking （停车）is usually free. The newest malls have beautiful rest（休息）places with flowers and large green trees. The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It is 4.2 million square feet（平方英尺）. It has 555 stores and a large park! There are parking spaces for 12,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop there every week.The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina, Minnesota. People love doing all their shopping in one place. More malls are built around the country. Now malls are town centers where people come to do many things. They shop, and of course, they also eat in food courts （美食广场）that have food from all over the world. They see films at theaters. Some people even get their exercise by doing the new sport of “mall walking”. Others go to malls to meet friends.In some malls, people can see a doctor and even go to church（做礼拜）. In other words, people can do almost everything in malls. Now people can live in their favorite shopping centers in fact.51. Mall rats are people ______.A. who work and live at mallsB. who spend lots of time at mallsC. who eat in food courts for free52. The underlined word “safe” in the second paragraph means ________.A. 划算的B. 有意义的C. 安全的53. According to the passage, which is NOT the reason why people like malls?A. Good price.B. Beautiful rest places.C. Free parking.54. We can learn from the passage that ______.A. the biggest mall in the US has more than 500 storesB. Edina built the first indoor mall of the world in 1965C. the only thing people can’t do at malls is seeing a doctor55. What is the purpose (目的) of this passage?A. To show us why people like malls in the US.B. To ask people to go shopping at malls often.C. To tell us something about American malls.第三节语篇补全（共4小题，计8分）Maybe you should sit down before you read this. It’s a little s cary. Your sitting may be killing you.Health scientists say the U.S. adult（成年人）now sits about 6.5 hours a day. The news is even worse for teens (young people between 13-19). 56. ____ The information was put out by the National Center for Health Statistics. It has collected（收集）the numbers for the past 16 years. It is worried about what it has found.Study shows that people who are not active can get sick（生病的）and weak. They burn fewer calories（卡路里）. 57. ______ So they may even get diabetes（糖尿病）. They also have much more healthy problems than others.About 60% of people in the U.S. watch at least two hours of TV each day. That number has stayed about the same these years.58. ____ Computer use outside of work or school has gone up for all age groups. Now, 50% of adults spend at least an hour of their free time on a computer each day. That is up from 29% in 2003. About 53% of teens now spend at least an hour of free time on computers. So do 56% of kids. As many as 1 in 4 people who use computers use one for three hours or more outside of work and school.However, being active helps in lots of ways. It can make you happier, burn more calories and give you more energy（能量）. It can also help you sleep better. So get up, take some breaks and goIf you enjoy rea ding, don’t miss Shakespeare and Company when you visit the city of Paris. It is a famous English-language bookstore on the left bank of the River Seine（塞纳河左岸）. The first Shakespeare and Company in history was opened in 1919 by an American, Sylvia Beach. Ms. Beach did more than selling books. Her bookstore was also a library, and she even prepared（准备）beds for writers visiting there. Ms. Beach was not only kind to people but also good at choosing books, so many great writers like Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce also visited her bookstore. But in 1941, after the Germans took power（权力）in Paris, Ms. Beach had to close her bookstore.In 1951, another American, George Whitman, opened in Paris another English-language bookstore, Librairie Mistral. Since（自从）then, just as Ms. Beach did, Mr. Whitman has also made his bookstore a library for people to borrow books, and a free hotel for writers to stay in. To remember Ms. Beach, Mr. Whitman changed the name of his bookstore to Shakespeare and Company in 1964, two years after Ms. Beach died.Next time when you are in Paris, don’t forget to visit this friendly bookstore, and see if you can spend a night there!60. What is Shakespeare and Company?_____________________________________________________________________________ 61. Did Ms. Beach’s Shakespeare and Company only sell books?_____________________________________________________________________________ 62. Where did George Whitman open his bookstore?_____________________________________________________________________________ 63. Why did Mr. Whitman change the name of Librairie Mistral?_____________________________________________________________________________ 64. When did Ms. Beach die?_____________________________________________________________________________第四部分写作技能（三部分，共11小题，计32分）第一节语篇翻译（共5小题，计10分）There is nobody in the world who is the same as you. You are unique（独一无二的）. Everyone is different from others. 65. That is good because it makes the world an interesting place.Some people are taller than you and others are shorter than you. 66. Maybe your hair’s color is the same as your friend’s, but maybe it is longer than hers or his.I’m sure you have some friends who are smarter than you. And you also have some friends who do well in sports as you.67. 你的朋友们长得什么样子? Do you all like to finish your homework? Do you want to wear the same clothes every day? 68. I think in some ways you are the same, but in many other ways you are different. But it doesn’t matter. You can talk about and share everything.69. 让我们大声地对世界说：“我是独一无二的！”65.______________________________________________________________________________66.______________________________________________________________________________67.______________________________________________________________________________68.______________________________________________________________________________69.______________________________________________________________________________第二节情景交际（共5小题，计10分）A: Hello! 70. _______________________________?B: Yes, this is Jason speaking.A: Hi, Jason. This is Michelle, calling from the Great Wall.B: Wow! You finally get to the Great Wall! 71. _________________________________?A: No, we didn’t. My father drove us to Beijing.B: 72. __________________________________________________?A: It usually takes about 18 hours to drive to Beijing. But we stopped a lot to visit other towns and cities. We had a good time during the trip.B: Sounds exciting. 73. ____________________________?A: Great! As a real foodie（吃货）, I enjoy all kinds of famous food here, such as Beijing Duck, Spring rolls and so on. And so do my family.B: Can you tell me more about your trip when you come back?A: 74. __________________. And I’ll show you my pictures. See you soon.B.See you soon!第三节书面表达（计12分）75. 假设你叫李华，是一名长沙市的初中学生。