2020-2021學年上海新復興八上英語期中考試卷-含答案

1、1 part 2phonetics, grammar and vocabulary（第二部分語音、語法和詞匯）iv. choose the best answer （選擇最恰當?shù)拇鸢福?. which of the underlined parts is pronounced / ?:/a. trouble b. stare c. downstairs d. postcard 2. _ january 2020, these nurses have helped to save many peoples lives. a. on b. in c. since d. to 3. before t

2、he thief tried to swim to _ side of the river, the police caught him. a. the other b. the others c. another d. other4. she didnt sound _ as we expected when she heard the news. a. more exciting b. as exciting c. more excited d. as excited 5. at least four _ people have been infected with the covid-1

3、9.a. millions of b. million of c. million d. millions 6. he _ be hungry for he has just had a hamburger. a. must b. can c. cant d. mustnt 7. id rather _ with my parents this saturday. a. not to go to the movies b. not to go to movies c. not go to movies d. not go to the movies 8. do you remember _ m

4、e the same question the other day?a. asking b. asked c. to ask d. ask 9. you wont find paper cutting difficult _ you keep practicing it. a. as much as b. as long as c. as hard as d. as early as 10. sorry, i didnt notice anyone _ the motorcycle when i passed the parking lot. a. stealing b. stole c. r

5、obbing d. robbed 11. how many players is each football team _?a. consist of b. made up of c. made up d. consist 12. _ unusual weather many areas experienced yesterday!a. what a b. what an c. what d. what the 13. some of the audience didnt laugh _ the talk show was funny.a. because b. although c. if

6、d. when 2 14. he is _ that youd better not leave him alone at home. a. very young b. too young c. young enough d. so young 15. a: _ will you find the solution to the problem?b: in about fifteen minutes. a. how long b. how soon c. how much time d. how fast 16. which is right?a. excuse me, miss guo. w

7、hen are we going to have the autumn outing? b. excuse me, miss guo. when are we going to have the autumn outing? c. excuse me, miss guo. when are we going to have the autumn outing? d. excuse me, miss guo. when are we going to have the autumn outing? v. complete the following passage with the words

8、in the box. each can only be used once（將下列單詞填入空格。每空格限填一詞，每詞只能填一次）a. seldom b. followed c. detailed d. either e. difficult ancient egyptians believed in life after death and that the soul would return to the body. one requirement was the preservation（保存） of the body. to achieve this, egyptians _1_ a

9、process called mummification （木乃伊化） . however, it was not only humans who were mummified. animals were also mummified and placed in tombs（墳墓） to _2_ provide company （陪伴）for the dead or serve as a sacrifice（祭品） to gods. egyptian animal mummies look like little more than bundles of（成捆的） cloth. it was

10、_3_ for scientists to know much about them beyond what animals they were - until now. a team of researchers led by engineer richard johnston from swansea university, uk, have used new technology to examine the remains （遺?。?of a snake, a bird and a cat that lived over 2,000 years ago. according to sc

11、ience daily, the researchers used x -ray micro ct scanning to digitally （數(shù)字化地）unwrap and dissect （解剖）the mummified animals without causing damage. the scans were very _4_, down to the animals smallest bones and teeth. vi. complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括號中所給單詞的3 適

12、當形式完成下列句子，每空格限填一詞）worry, strange, broad, four, invent, she, chemistry 1. he had to make a choice between staying with his parents and going _.2. the students are doing experiments with some _. 3. the little boy looked _ around for her father. 4. edisons most well -known _ included （包括） the electric

13、light bulb. 5. she didnt tell us, but we learnt it from a friend of _ later. 6. _, i didnt feel nervous at all on the stage. 7. andrea ghez became the _ woman to win a nobel prize in physics. vii. rewrite the following sentences as required（根據(jù)要求改寫句子）1. he was responsible for the farm after his fathe

14、rs death. （句意不變）he _ _ of the farm after his fathers death. 2. the path is wide. we can walk side by side. （句意不變）the path is _ _ for us to walk side by side. 3. kittys brother failed to get into art college, _ _?（反意疑問句）4. the robber had dark brown hair and he wasnt very tall. （劃線提問）_ _ the robber li

15、ke?5. the police had to break up the crowd. （改為否定句）the police _ _ to break up the crowd. 6. most girls are not keen on rough games. （句意不變）most girls do not _ _ for enough games. 7. the chance, about 15 percent, have, to, the students, of, the interview, can, go for （連詞成句）_. part 3 reading and writin

16、g （第三部分閱讀和寫話）viii. reading comprehension（閱讀理解）a. choose the best answer （選擇最恰當?shù)拇鸢福﹊ts good to have friends that we can talk to and share our thought and opinions with. more importantly, theyre people we can ask for help or advice. but recently it seems, many of us are 4 developing a new relationship

17、 with a person that well never meet!im talking about virtual （虛擬的） assistants or bots. these are pieces of software（軟件）that we can talk to and it can talk back to us. example include apples siri, googles assistant, amazons alexa and microsofts cortana. it might be on your phone or computer or even a

18、 smart speaker in your home. they are changing the way we interact （互動） with technology - instead of typing on a computer keyboard or tapping on an ipad, we can now speak and a voice will answer. the people behind these voices are called conversation designers. tom hewitson is one of them. he said,

19、this is kind of changing computers into like an agent. they are taking an active part in the interaction and guiding you to make the right decision. so hes saying this technology has the ability to think for itself and make its own decisions. it is a frightening thought that this virtual voice can t

20、hink for you - will it stop us from thinking and will we lose the ability to write things down or type? they are certainly clever, helping you to book train tickets, give you the latest weather news or even tell you a joke. but are they really your new best friend?one thing we cant do yet is to make

21、 small talk with it. we have to change the way we speak. as tom hewistson says we will develop our own kind of language for speaking with machines that will be different from how we speak to other people . very few words are used but to the point.but theres no doubt this technology will soon be comm

22、onplace in our lives. in 2018 google duplex came out, described by the company as artificial intelligence (ai) for managing to finish real-world tasks over the phone. its a type of chat -hot that will allow you to, for example, chat to your hairdresser about when they can fit you in for a cut. other

23、 companies are working on almost the same things. but before they make this new technology perfect, dont forget who your real friends are!1. according to paragraph 2, how do you communicate with a virtual assistant?a. by typing on a computer keyboard. b. by tapping it. c. by using your voice d. by u

24、sing a smart speaker. 2. according to the passage, what cant this new technology do for you at present?a. booking train tickets b. making small talk with youc. chatting to your hairdresser to book a haircut 5 d. telling you the latest weather news. 3. what does the they in paragraph 3 refer to?a. co

25、nversation designers b. agentsc. your voices. d. computers. 4. according to the passage, what is the writer afraid of?a. this technology manages to finish real -world tasks over the phone. b. there is no difference between the ways we speak to other people and machines. c. we may finally stop using

26、our brains. d. this technology can write things down or type for us. 5. according to the last sentence of the passage, what does the writer probably mean?a. we should never give up interacting with our real friends.b. when this technology is perfect, the virtual assistants or bots can be our new bes

27、t friends. c. we can make this technology perfect with our real friendsd. our real friends are perfect and we should stay away from this technology. b. choose the words and complete the passage（選擇最恰當?shù)膯卧~，完成短文）we know its good to learn another language. it opens doors, gets you a good job, helps you m

28、ake new friends, and its fun too. but to make our linguistic（語言的） skills better, many of us have to stand hours of school lessons or evening classes, with our heads buried in textbooks. then technology seems to be _1_ a better and easier way of learning. there is surely a huge need for language lear

29、ning, and having a smart-phone means you can have a virtual （虛擬的） teacher with you wherever you go. many app developers are _2_ making money on the need, and there are lots of learning apps. one of many popular apps, duolingo, offers 91 courses in 30 languages and has more than 300 million users. so

30、me educational （教育的） apps provide languages not _3_ enough to be taught at evening classes, or at most universities. and others offer invented language lessons in esperanto, elvish and star treks klingon - lessons you might not find in a traditional classroom. whatever you want to learn, apps allow

31、you to go at your own pace and promise you some other good things. but theyre not perfect - you might not understand the grammar well and will lose the support from real people, which you could get in a classroom environment. 6 so, does technology mean the _4_ of traditional classrooms and teachers?

32、 guy baron, head of modern languages at aberystwyth university, thinks not. he says that apps arent opposite to traditional teaching. but should be used together with classroom methods. and he adds: the apps are very conversational . theyre not designed for _5_, but they could be useful tools.of cou

33、rse technology is going to help in and outside the classroom, _6_ attending a real lesson, facing a real teacher probably make you willing to be more hard -working. motivation （動機） can be a problem when using an app. but if you have a strong hope to learn another language, you will certainly be able

34、 to keep going. 1. a. changing b. offering c. teaching d. realizing 2. a. interested in b. worried about c. afraid of d. responsible for 3. a. exciting b. modern c. good d. popular 4. a. mistake b. use c. end d. help 5. a. money b. degrees c. interest d. culture 6. a. but b. because c. if d. after c

35、. read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當?shù)脑~，是其內(nèi)容通順，每空格限填一次，首字母已給）my 11-year-old daughter. miriam, holds her iphone like a newborn. its always with her. during the social isolation （社交隔離）brought on by the pandemic, it has also saved her. tiktok （抖音） is her favorite activ

36、ity after she finishes home-schooling. she feels most cheered, pleased and safe in the tiktok world. why dont you red a book? i suggest. mom, she sighs（嘆著氣說） , everything is making me so sad, i need tiktok. i need to get away and e_1_ that world right now.who could say that was wrong? i want to esca

37、pe, too. as a professor of child and youth studies at brock university, who has studied girls culture for over 20 years, i have c_2_ watched miriam using tiktok with a growing interest since the pandemic. i have just looked at miriam laugh and dance all by herself with curiosity（好奇） and envy（妒忌） . w

38、hat was i missing?tiktok provided my daughter with an escape, b_3_ at also offered her information, like-minded people, connection and a way to get rid of daily stress（壓力） . miriam showed me 7 tiktoks that expressed different feelings about covid-19. young people were speaking to each other about ho

39、w to get through this. and then there were the dances. in each dance the tiktok -er needs to do d_4_ but interesting moves in a perfect way, hit the beat and know the lyrics（歌詞） to the songs. mriam was a dancing queen. i wanted a piece of the feeling that filled her with such joy. i wanted to laugh

40、like she did and dance as if no one was watching. i wanted miriam to take me into her world. show me, i finally said. show me how to do one of the dances.she put her phone up a_5_ the computer screen in my tiny home office. suddenly, i was no longer the professor doing research. i was a tiktok -er,

41、and i wanted to get this right. i dont know if i would lose myself again in a tiktok dance with my daughter or the state of the world, but i heard the words catch in my t_6_ as i replied: sweetheart, i think we have the time of our lives.d. read the passage below and answer the following questions（根

42、據(jù)文章內(nèi)容回答下列問題）work and play have long been seen as enemies（敵人） . when youre preparing for an exam or meeting a deadline, every minute spent on anything other than studying seems to be a waste of time. going to a movie or playing basketball with friends? out of the question. javad alizdeh, a phd studen

43、t at the university of manitoba, canada, used to have the same belief. and it turned out that he was wrong. in an article published in nature magazine on april 29, alizadeh shared his experience of letting go of both his hobbies - soccer and violin - to make room for his studies. and yet he finally

44、found himself in a rather uncomfortable condition: more worried and tired, but less productive（生產(chǎn)力高的） , he wrote. and that was when he decided to bring play back into the picture. in fact, many big companies have seen the importance of play in their employees productivity （生產(chǎn)力） and well-being. googl

45、e, for example, has gyms （ 健身房）that open 24/7, which shows the companys idea to create the happiest, most productive workplace in the world. and at amazon, employees are allowed to bring their dogs to work. if i need to take a break after an intense（緊張的） meeting, ill take my dog out for a walk, anna

46、 jentoft, an employee at amazons headquarters in seattle, 8 told time. it makes me comfortable and relaxed. it seems that these people dont see work and play as the two ends of a scale（天平） -when one and goes up, the other is certain to go down. to them, work and play are more like two pieces of jigsaw puzzle （拼圖） , which co-exist（共存） with and complete each other. so next time when you prepare for an exam, try to ta