marvellous北京四中2018-2019学年下学期初中八年级期中测试英语试卷

2021年1月8日发(作者：索丽生)

北京四中2018－2019学年下学期初中八年级期中测试英语试卷

考试时间为90分钟，试卷满分为120分
本试卷共11道大题，67道小题，笔试试卷满分为120分。
听力理解 （共23分）
一、听对话或独白，根据对话或独白的内容，从下面各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中
选择最佳选项。每段对话或独白你将听两遍。（共15分，每小题1.5分）
请听一段对话，完成第1至第2小题。
1. How was the boy's weekend?
A. It was great. B. It was terrible.
2. What did the boy do?
A. He played soccer.
B. He had chess classes.
C. He went to a birthday party.
请听一段对话，完成第3至第4小题。
3. Where is the boy going?
A. To a park. B. To a library.
4. Who is Lisa?
A. Their sister. B. Their teacher.
请听一段对话，完成第5至第6小题。
5. When did the man start dancing?
A. At the age of 6. B. At the age of 9.
6. What is the man doing?
A. Watching a show.
B. Introducing a friend.
C. Taking an interview.
请听一段对话，完成第7至第8小题。
7. Why does the boy want to borrow the car?
A. He needs to go shopping.
B. He has to pick up his mother.
C. He wants to go to the concert.
8. How will the boy go back home?
A. By car. B. By bus.
请听一段对话，完成第9至第10小题。
9. What can help make the topic easy to follow?
A. Planning as carefully as possible.
B. Using as many examples as possible.
C. Asking as many questions as possible.
10. What is the speaker mainly talking about?
A. When to end a good speech.
B. How to make a good speech.
C. What to say in a good speech.

C. It was busy.
C. To a museum.
C. Their friend.
C. At the age of 12.
C. By taxi.





二、听对话，记录关键信息。本段对话你将听两遍。（共8分，每小题2分）
请根据所听到的对话内容和提示词语，将所缺的关键信息填写在相应位置上。
Customer Service Form
Customer name
TV type
Problem
Address
Service time
Phone number

知识运用（共22分）
三、单项选择（共10分，每小题1分）
15. Over 30,000 runners joined in Beijing Marathon _________ September 16
th
, 2018.
A. in B. on
A. we B. ours
A. bought B. buys
A. sends B. has sent
languages.
A. traveled B. has traveled C. have traveled
20. －What do you think of the movie The Wandering Earth?
－I _________ it yet.
A. see B. don't see
21. －Have you tried the pizza?
－Yes, It _________ delicious.
A. looks B. tastes
A. laughing B. laugh
C. feels D. sounds
22. He told us a very funny story. All of us can't help _________.
C. to laugh D. laughed
23. The New Year is coming. The children are _________ the days.
A. putting down B. learning from C. hearing from D. counting down
24. －Excuse me. I can't enter the museum. Could you help me?
－Sorry, the museum __________ today. It will be open tomorrow.
A. doesn't open B. hasn't opened

四、完形填空（共12分，每小题1.5分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各 题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，
选择最佳选项。
One day, I took an underground to work, I saw something that made me very sad.
On the tube （the underground in London）, a mother kept looking at her phone screen and
playing a game with her daughter sitting beside her. The little girl, about 5 years old, was talking
C. open D. opens
C. have seen D. haven't seen
D. travels
C. at
C. our
C. has bought
C. have sent
D. for
D. us
D. was buying
D. sent
16. Our head teacher introduced a new student to _________ in the first class of the term.
17. Last week Lingling _________ a dress as a birthday present for her mom.
18. The spaceship _________ back some pictures since it reached Mars.
19. The Robinsons _________ to many countries and they have learned many foreign
Dave Miller
TDK 357
No 11
24 12 street
13
14

to her mother about her day, repeating the next stop's name cheerfully, praising her mother's long
nails, trying to 25 her mother's attention. Her mother just nodded and mumbled （含糊地
说）
the girl give a final try to at least get her mum to 26 her, but it was no use. Then the little
girl turned 27 , and was in low spirits. It was a shame the mother didn't notice that.
It broke my heart and got me wondering what kind of 28 would make the mother forget
she has the most beautiful thing in the world, the human she created, the person she loves with all
her heart? What it meant when she couldn't look into her daughter's eyes and even stop to listen to
the girl?
Some parents are almost like the teenagers, always on their phones with mindless games or
going through Facebook. Perhaps parents have many things to deal with, but sometimes they are
29 to their kids.
This is not an isolated example. I've seen too many such examples. I might not be a parent
myself, and probably still have a long way 30 becoming one, but I know what I saw isn't
right.
The scene used to be seen among teenagers very often when parents complained how their
children were crazy about their mobile phones. Look how the situation has 31 ! The parents
have become slavesthat is to say, they can't 32 themselves while using
mobile phones. Now some middle-aged parents hold their smart phones and play the simple
games every day. I'm uncertain whether to laugh or to cry. But my hope is that this storm passes.
25. A. give B. pay
26. A. look at B. think about
C. draw
C. talk to
C. phone
C. everything
C. since
C. changed
D. hold
D. care for
D. game
D. anything
D. until
D. monitored
D. behave
27. A. excited B. silent C. surprised D. noisy
28. A. program B. computer
29. A. something B. nothing
30. A. before B. after
31. A. developed B. improved

阅读理解（共34分）
五、阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、 D四个选项中，选择
最佳选项。（共26分，每小题2分）
A
Have you collected anything since you were young? These people have!
Tony from Germany has collected more than 290,000 pens from
140 countries. He has collected pens for more than 10 years. The most
expensive pen in his collection is made of gold! He also started a pen
collecting club.

32. A. control B. enjoy C. trust

Angelika from the UK has collected Barbie dolls since she was a
child. She has collected 1,125 dolls. She changes the dolls' clothes once
a month and often brushes their hair! She also collects dolls of Barbie's
boyfriend.

Ron from the US likes collecting key rings （钥匙扣） . He has
collected twenty-four thousand key rings since he was young. His key
rings are all different－that means no two key rings are the same! He
has been a world record holder for 13 years.

Zhu Yue from China has collected erasers for 20 years. At the age
of 11, she visited Shenzhen with her parents. For the first time Zhu Yue
was fascinated （使着迷） by erasers after she saw them in a shop. Ever
since then she has collected every new kind of erasers. Now she has


33. What does Tony collect?
A. Dolls. B. Key rings. C. Pens. D. Erasers.
34. Who collects Barbie dolls?
A. Tony. B. Angelika. C. Ron. D. Zhu Yue.
35. How many key rings has Ron collected?
A. 290,000. B. 100,000. C. 24,000. D. 1,125.
B
Giving a Hand
Jaime, a new immigrant （移民） of the USA, was going to watch his daughter's first show in
a school play. His daughter, Carol, was five years old. She was a student at the local public school.
Carol did not have a very big role in the school play. She was just playing a rain cloud in a play
about the drought in California. Carol had just one line. Her line was,
about how dry the state is.
Jaime and his wife made sure to arrive early so that they could get a good seat to watch the
show. They found seats in the front row. Before the show began, the schoolmaster made an
introductory speech. The speech was about how hard the students and teachers worked together to
make the play possible. At the end of the speech, the schoolmaster said,
a hand
Jaime, whose English was not very good, stood up when the schoolmaster said this. He knew
that when people said give someone a handthey meant they needed help. Jaime always
wanted to help, especially at his daughter's school. Jaime thought maybe they needed help
backstage.
Jaime's wife put her arm in front of her husband.
voice.
also mean to applaud （鼓掌） someone. When you applaud someone you clap your hands （拍
手） after their performance. You are not supposed to stand up and try to help others.
collected 100,000 erasers.

need help. They just want us to clap,
sat back down and began clapping along with the rest of the audience.
Jaime thought to himself that someone needed to give the English language a hand. How
could one phrase mean two different things? He meant the English language needed help.
36. Why did Jaime and his wife arrive at the play early?
A. To talk to other parents.
B. To wish their daughter good luck.
C. To get good seats to watch the show.
D. To listen to the speech of the schoolmaster.
37. Jaime thought
A. helping someone
B. clapping your hands
C. holding someone's hand
D. giving your hand to someone
38. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Jaime stood up to applaud.
B. Jaime is a warm-hearted man.
C. Jaime was better at English than his wife.
D. Jaime's daughter played an important role in the show.
C
Money is what people use to buy things they need or want. A long time ago, people didn't use
money. So how did they get the things they wanted? Well, there is a long and interesting story
about this.
At first, they would exchange something they had for something they needed. For example, if
the shoemaker needed some bread, he would give the baker shoes and the baker would give him
bread. This was called
many shoes, the shoemaker still needed more bread. What could they do? The solution to this
problem was money.
Money is basically an agreement among people. People agree that some metal or paper will
be worth a certain amount of bread or a certain number of shoes. There were many earlier forms of
money, such as cattle, salt, grain （谷物） and shells. But it was not easy to move them or store
them.
So coins began to take the place of things. Coins had a set value and could be stored long. A
coin says right on it how much it is worth. Different coins are worth different amounts. It became
possible for people to trade in a standardized （标准） way.
About three hundred years ago, paper money came into wider use. Paper money is cheaper to
make than coins. It is also easier to carry around. Now people use paper money and coins in most
countries. We call these kinds of money cash.
Cash has been popular for hundreds of years. But these days, things seem to have changed.
Cashless payment （无现金支付） has come into our lives and changed our world.
China was the first country in the world to use paper money. Now, centuries later, analysts
（分析家） believe that China may soon become the first cashless society. Cashless payment apps
such as Alipay and WeChat Pay are becoming more common in China. The buyer just scans （扫

描） the quick-respond code （二维码） of the seller, or the other way around. Then they can get
the things they want. No physical money is needed in this process. Is tomorrow already here?
39. Which is the correct order of the development of money?
①Coins
②Bartering
③Paper money
④Cashless payment
⑤Cattle, grain and shells
A. ②⑤①③④ B. ⑤③②①④ C. ②⑤①④③ D. ⑤④③②①
40. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Coins are the earliest form of money in the world.
B. People cannot buy things by showing the quick- respond code.
C. Both coins and paper money are very popular around the world.
D. Paper money costs more to make than coins because they are worth more.
41. What does the author want to tell us in the last paragraph?
A. China is the first cashless country in the world.
B. People will start using cashless payment tomorrow.
C. People won't use any physical money in the future.
D. Cashless payment is the new stage of money development.
D
Superhero movies and TV shows are very popular today. A new study shows something is
missing from superhero stories, though. Most popular superheroes are men. The new study says
kids want to see more superheroes who are women.
The study was done by two groups. One is the Women's Media Center. The other is BBC
America. The Women's Media Center is a charity （慈善） group. It fights for fair treatment （待
遇） of women in things like TV and movies. BBC America is a TV channel.
More than 2,000 people took part in the study. Some were kids aged from 10 to 19. Others
were the parents of younger children.
Not Enough Strong Woman Characters
The study shows that most girls feel there are not enough female role models in
entertainment （娱乐）. They think there should be more strong female characters. They want to
see superheroes that look like them. Boys answered questions in the study, too. Most agreed with
the girls. They want to see more female superheroes, like Wonder Woman.
Julie Burton runs the Women's Media Center. She said TV and movies had to make changes.
They must provide more role models for girls. Female characters should reflect （反映） girls of
all different backgrounds, she said. It is important for all to see people who look like them in
entertainment.
Helping Girls Feel More Brave and Confident
Burton said seeing strong female characters is important for girls. It helps them build
confidence. These characters give girls someone to look up to, she explained. This can inspire
girls. It can also help them to feel brave.
Sarah Barnett agrees. She runs BBC America.
said.