2025-2026学年（上）太原八年级质量检测英语

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To many students, joining social media “circles” is now more important than making new friends in real life. And it’s easy. If you have a cell phone ,you can download apps/Sina Weibo, WeChat and QQ are the most popular among them.

“I love to check my friends’ updates. 1.I also enjoy news and jokes shared on social media. ”said Ou Wei, 14, from Hongling Middle School in Shenzhen. While enjoy these, Ou makes himself stay from real life. “I love playing the games on WeChat, but have no interest in playing flying chess with my classmates,” said Ou Wei.

2.Zhang Le,14, from Mo.12 Middle School in Shanghai, said that social media has influenced their normal life a lot. Recently his school held a basketball match, and a student hurt his leg. 3.大多数学生忙着发送关于这个事故的照片而不是帮助他。“I think they need to learn to balance their real and online live,” said Zhang.

4.What worries parents and teachers is safety. “Many students are happy to tell their interests and personal information to their social media ‘friends’, 5.据报道这种信息可能公给他们带来危险。”said Han Songjun, a teacher at Hongling Middle School. For example, WeChat’s shake-shake function（功能）allows users to connect to other users close by. But police authorities warn about the risks of socializing in this way.

“Be careful. Do not use the locating（定位）function in any app. Do not give your name, and do not post the photos of your residential area （小区）,” said Han.

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2、— No one can get success without difficulty.

Great minds usually pay more than ordinary people.

—Exactly right. We need to work harder.

A. easily   B. finally   C. personally

3、You should know that ____ body language is ___ important part of communication.

A.a; an                                          B./; an                                          C.the; a

4、—What time will Diana get to Yancheng?

—I’m not sure．When he ______, I’ll call you．

A．will arrive    B．arrive

C．is going to arrive D．arrives

5、Students find that online classes are as _______ as traditional ones.

A.helpful B.more helpful C.the most helpful D.most helpful

6、During his stay in the USA, Yao Ming returned to China______he was needed.

A. whatever B. whereever C. whoever D. whenever

7、The stones they carried were used ________ houses and bridges.

A. to build   B. to be built   C. for building   D. A or C

8、—How often do you hear from your pen pal?

—Once a month.

A.look forward to  B.get a letter from C.look for

9、Facing the coming graduation(毕业), I want to say to my teacher, “I’m not a best student of _______, but you’re my most respectable(可敬的) teacher. Wish _______ health forever.”

A．yours; your

B．you; your

C．yours; you

10、There's a Chinese take－away in the centre of town.

A. shop   B. market

C. take－out food   D. building

11、In Brazil, you should wipe your mouth _____ your napkin every time you take a drink.

A. for   B. on   C. with   D. in

12、--- Are you going to take part in the writing competition?

---________. It’s too good a chance to miss.

A. That’s for sure.   B. Never mind   C. Cheer up   D. My pleasure

13、—I didn’t realize the world population had grown so fast.

—________ .

A．It’s a pleasure

B．Well done

C．Neither did I

D．Never mind

14、 —After P.E. I often feel thirsty. —Why not buy some _____ to drink?

A. bread     B. noodles

C. orange D. teas

15、Which of the following words is formed in the same way as “blackboard”?

A．dislike

B．weekday

C．unlucky

D．achievement

16、The government has warned people ________in this river.

A．swimming

B．not swimming

C．not to swim

D．to swim

17、You ________ ever saw people do shopping on their mobile phones in the past, but now many people use their phones to shop online.

A．sometimes

B．usually

C．hardly

D．almost

18、He graduated from ________ university this summer and got ________ unusual job luckily.

A．a; an

B．an; a

C．a; a

D．an; an

19、— Have you considered ________Robert some help?

— Yeah. I have already promised to lend him some money.

A.give B.to give C.giving D.to giving

20、 Paper-making is one of _______ of ancient China.

A. greatest inventions B. the greatest invention

C. greatest invention  D. the greatest inventions

21、— Hurry up! The bus is coming.

— Wait a minute. Don’t cross the street __________ the traffic lights are green.

A.until B.when C.while D.since

22、根据所给中文完成句子翻译。（共14分，每小题2分）

【1】我没有去过长城  I have never _____ _____ the Great Wall

【2】我不喜欢和别人做比较 I don’t like ______ myself _____ others

【3】我们总是把老师比作蜡烛 The teachers are always _____ _____ candles

【4】如果你努力学习，就会成功 If you work hard, you _____ _____

【5】他过去经常晚饭后散步  _______________________________

23、用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词仅用一次（每空一词）。

Katie: How was the welcome party for foreign students last night?

John: Great! I made some new friends. But a funny thing happened.

Katie: What?

John: I met a 【1】 boy called Sato, and as soon as I held out my hand, he bowed.

Katie: That’s how people in Japan are expected to 【2】 each other. It’s impolite if you don’t bow.

John: I didn’t know that. So I just stood there with my hand out. Finally, I returned the 【3】.

Katie: I remember when I first met Marie last year, I did the same thing, I held out my hand and to my surprise, she kissed me on both 【4】 of my face!

John: I wouldn’t mind that!

Katie: Very funny. Later I found out French people are 【5】 to kiss when they see each other.

24、Tanaka, a 118-year-old woman from Japan who has been certified(认定) by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living person, gave up her position in the Olympic torch relay.

Tanaka celebrated her 118th birthday on January 2, 2021. She had planned to carry the torch as it passed through the town of Shime, in the prefecture of Fukuoka(福冈县), where she has lived her entire life. If so, she would become the oldest person ever to carry the Olympic torch.

She even had a new pair of sports shoes for the event—a birthday present from her family. Her relatives had decided to push her in a wheelchair for most of the 100 meters, but she would walk the last few steps before handing the torch to the next runner. However, Tanaka decided to pull out of Olympic torch relay because of the spread of COVID-19.

Tanaka was born in 1903. Tanaka married a rice shop owner, Hideo Tanaka, when she was 19 years old, with whom she had four children. Tanaka worked in the family shop until she was 103. She has five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Tanaka now lives in a nursing home, where she usually wakes up at 6 a.m. and she spends her time doing math puzzles and playing the board game Othello.

She lived through two world wars and the 1918 Spanish flu, although her grandson said, “I don’t remember her talking much about the past...she really enjoys living in the present. It’s great she reaches that age! We want other people to see it and be inspired, and not to think age is a barrier.”

However, Tanaka has a few years to go before she is the oldest person ever. The record is held by Jeanne Louise Calment, a French woman who was 122 years old when she died in 1997. Tanaka has said she wants to break the record.

【1】To carry the Olympic torch, Tanaka had planned ________.

A．to wear a new pair of sports shoes

B．to carry the torch together with her relatives

C．to walked most of the 100 meters

D．to pass the torch to the next runner in a wheelchair

【2】What does the underlined word “barrier” mean in Chinese?

A．启发

B．规律

C．障碍

D．困惑

【3】Tanaka is 118 years old, and now she ________.

A．still works in the family shop

B．lives in Shime with her four children

C．is the oldest person ever

D．keeps up an active lifestyle

【4】On which layout( 版面) of the newspaper can we find this passage?

A．Health.

B．Sports.

C．Business.

D．Education.

25、When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings(缺点). Week by week her list grew: I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student, I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to hear all this as long as I could. At last, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.

He listened to me quietly, then he asked. “Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever wonder what you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.”

I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could—and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I go to fairly clear picture of myself.

I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused to take it. “That’s just for you.” he said, “You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When something said about you is true, you’ll find it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”

Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.

【1】 What does “Week by week her list grew” mean?

A. Week by week she discovered more shortcomings of mine and pointed them out to me.

B. She had made a list of my shortcomings and she kept on adding new ones to it so that it was growing longer and longer.

C. I was having more and more shortcomings as time went on.

D. Week by week, my shortcomings grew more serious.

【2】Why did her father listen to her quietly?

A. Because he believed that what her daughter’s “enemy” said was mostly true.

B. Because he had been so angry with his daughter’s shortcomings that he wanted to show this by keeping silent for a while.

C. Because he knew that his daughter would not listen to him at that moment.

D. Because he wasn’t quite sure which girl was telling the truth.

【3】Which do you think would be the best title for this passage?

A. Not an Enemy, but the Best Friend

B. The Best Advice I’ve Ever Had

C. My Father

D. My Childhood

26、Reading is the key to school success and , like any skill, it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practicing until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. An excellent sportsman practices until he can play quickly, correctly and without thinking. Educators call it “automaticity (自动性)”

A child learns to read by sounding out the letters and finding the meaning of the words. With practice, he stumbles less and less, reading by the phrases(短语). With automaticity, he doesn’t have to think about the meaning of words, so he can give all his attention to the meaning of the text.

It can begin as early as first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found that automatic readers in the first grade not only read almost three times as fast as the others, but also got better results in exams.

According to Rossman, the key to automaticity is the amount(数量) of time that a child spends reading ,not his IQ. Any child who spends at least 3.5 to 4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will probably reach automaticity . It can happen if a child turns off TV just one night for reading at home.

You can test yourself by reading something new which is suitable for your level. If you read aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentence, you probably are an automatic reader. If you read brokenly, one word at a time, without expression or meaning, you need more practice.

【1】The sentence “Reading is the key to school success” means that reading___________.

A. helps school develop faster

B. is the key to a successful school

C. helps students go to a key school

D. can improve students’ learning results

【2】Rossman tells that any child who _____________ will probably be an automatic reader.

A. turns off TV one night 4 weeks

B. reads books by the word quickly

C. spends an hour reading every day

D. gets the same grades as others in exams

【3】The underlined word “stumbles” in the passage means “_____________” in Chinese.

A. 结结巴巴地读   B.全神贯注地读

C.心不在焉地读    D. 声情并茂地读

【4】The best title for the passage should be “ ______________________”.

A. IQ Is the Key to the Automaticity

B. TV Is Bad for Children’s Reading

C. Automaticity Depends on Practice

D. Automatic readers Will Be Successful

27、Do you try to save electricity and magazines at home? Do you make your bed every day? Read about the home habits of Americans. Are they the same as yours?

判断正误，计5分。（正确的填A，错误的填B）

【1】The passage mainly talks about the home habits of Americans.

【2】80% of Americans go out in the evening with the lights on.

【3】One fifth of Americans keep magazines for years and years.

【4】Most Americans like to keep the rooms clean and tidy.

【5】The people who make the beds are as many as those who wash the dishes every day.

28、   When I was 15, I told my class that I was going to write my own book. Half the students laughed at me, "Don't be s【1】. Only geniuses(天才) can become writers." My English teacher said to me, "It is an impossible dream."

I was very sad. That night I wrote a poem a【2】 broken dreams and sent it to a newspaper. To my surprise, they published it, and sent me two dollars. How excited I was! I s【3】 it to my teacher and friends. "Just luck," they said.

However, I c【4】. I never give up. By the time I f【5】 high school, I had published a number of articles.

Years later I d【6】 to write a book, Crying Wind. It t【7】 nine months. Then I sent it to a publisher. A month later they c【8】 me and said they would publish it.

Crying Wind became a best-seller and it m【9】 me famous. Now I have written several books. Many people asked me what made me a writer. I didn't know h【10】 to answer that. I'm not a genius, but I stick to (坚持) my dreams. Writing is easy and fun and anyone can do it.

29、   My son William started to learn surfing when he was 13. He went surfing after school each day. His love for the ride was tested one unusual afternoon.

"Your son's been in an accident, "the lifeguard（救生员）called my husband Mike hurriedly. " _______ he came up to the top of the water, the point of the board was headed toward his eye. "

Mike rushed our son to the hospital. He _______ 26 stitches （缝合）from the corner of his eye to the bridge of his nose.

I was flying home while William's eye was being stitched. Mike drove _______ to the airport after they left the hospital. He met _______ at the gate while William was waiting in the car.

"He's been in an accident but he's going to be fine. "Mike told me.

I ran to the car. My son reached out both arms, crying, “Oh, Mom, I'm so glad you're home.” I sobbed（抽泣）in his arms, telling him how _______ I felt about not being there for him. "It's okay, Mom," he said. "I'll be fine. The doctor said I can go back in the water in eight days.” Was he crazy? I wanted to tell him that he wasn't allowed to go near water again, but _______ I controlled myself.

He kept asking me to let him go back on the _______ for the next seven days. One day after _________ "No" to him for the 100th time, he beat me at my own game.

"Mum, you taught us never to _______ what we love. "I gave in. Back then William was just a deep ________ for surfing. Now he is among the top 25 surfers in the world.

【1】A.If B.When C.Unless D.Though

【2】A.avoided B.accepted C.got D.discovered

【3】A.suddenly B.happily C.comfortably D.directly

【4】A.him B.them C.us D.me

【5】A.brave B.lucky C.terrible D.helpful

【6】A.instead B.also C.even D.often

【7】A.plane B.sea C.board D.water

【8】A.posting B.offering C.throwing D.repeating

【9】A.find out B.give up C.hand out D.pick up

【10】A.love B.fear C.warmth D.happiness