2024-2025学年（上）自贡八年级质量检测英语

1、我们都受他想法的影响。

______________________________

2、The houses in big cities are so expensive that I can’t __________ to buy one .

A. afford B. choose C. decide   D. give

3、I find __________ difficult to keep my room clean.

A．it

B．this

C．that

D．myself

4、 — I’m afraid I have to give up my dream of being a singer.

—_______.No dream is too big and no dreamer is too small.

A. Don’t lose heart. B. No problem

C. That’s unusual.    D. You must be joking.

5、A talk on chinese history _____ in the school hall next week.

A. is given B. has been given

C. will be given D. Gives

6、—Do you know ________ we will have a trip to Hainan?

—Next month, July.

A．when

B．how

C．why

D．where

7、Li Ming _________ at school late, but now he can always get to school on time.

A.used to arrive B.was used to arriving

C.was used for arriving D.was used to arrive

8、New technology _________ to stop the students from cheating in the exam last year.

A. is used   B. used   C. was used

9、In order ________ for the competition, my sister forced (迫使)herself to get up early this morning.

A．not to be late

B．not being late

C．to be late

D．being late

10、This place is not ________ for Lucy's birthday party.

A. big enough   B. enough big   C. bigger enough   D. enough bigger

11、The man was under arrest _____ some things _____the supermarket.

A. to steal； in   B. for stealing； with

C. with stealing； in   D. for stealing； from

12、She finds _______ interesting that many foreigners are interested in Chinese.

A. that   B. this   C. it   D. its

13、Those who are _______ the plan, please put up your hands!

A. for   B. with   C. against   D. beyond

14、Tom said he had never been there, but he was   .

A. lay   B. lied   C. lying D. Lie

15、Although smartphones have influenced us positively in some ways in the modern society, we shouldn’t allow them ________ our lives.

A．to control

B．control

C．controlling

D．controlled

16、Joe has been studying Chinese for three months．but he can ________ understand people when they speak Chinese．

A．nearly B．certainly

C．usually D．hardly

17、 —Driving less and walking more is good for our health.

一So I’d rather ______ an hour's walk to work than consider _____ a car.

A. take； drive   B. take； to drive

C. take； driving   D. taking； driving

18、Don't forget the user name and password ______you won't be able to sign in．

A.or B.but C.and D.so

19、---Keep working hard, and you’ll surely realize your dream of being an artist ____ you give it up halfway.

---I will, thank you, Miss Liu.

A. unless   B. if   C. since   D. though

20、________ Kate’s parents are teachers and they work in the same school.

A．All

B．Both

C．Neither

D．Either

21、My friend Tommy oftengives me a handwhen I’m in trouble.

A. hands me   B. calls me

C. gives me a help   D. helps me

22、你与你的同学相处得好吗?

Do you ________?

23、Neil: Hello and welcome to Amazing English. I'm Neil and joining me today is Dan who is a 【1】 at Let's Learn English – that's his job.

Dan: Hi everyone… Yes, that is my job, – why are we discussing that now, Neil?

Neil: Well, you haven't 【2】 been a producer at Let's Learn English, have you?

Dan: No… I used to be a teacher.

Neil: And before that? Way back – your 【3】 ever job?

Dan: Ah, I had a paper round when I was 14. A paper round is a job – the job of handing out newspapers to people's homes. It's often 【4】 by teenagers.

Neil: What is the 【5】 age that children are allowed to work at in the UK?

Dan: Age 13. 

Neil: OK. Can you say something about Saturday jobs.

Dan: A Saturday job is the name of part-time work that teenagers do for extra money. These jobs often take 【6】 on Saturdays. Sometimes, the work might be on Sundays or any day of the week, in fact! And a Saturday job is seen almost 【7】 an important event in the UK.

Neil: That's right – like graduating(毕业) from school, or having children. But according to the latest report, it seems that 【8】 teenagers are taking Saturday jobs.

Dan: Yes, bosses think young people don't have work experience. Besides, teenagers are 【9】 pressure not to take part-time jobs and to pay attention to their studies. Some people think working could be 【10】 to a schoolchild's study progress.

Neil: Thank you for telling us so much!

Dan: My pleasure!

24、College is an exciting time to learn and to make friends that will last a lifetime. Many students do not like to worry about money, and they would rather not think about it. But, it doesn’t matter whether a student’s parents pay for everything, or whether the students work part-time to help pay for his or her education. All students can get into money trouble if they’re not careful.

The cost of a college education can be quite expensive. In English-speaking countries, the average(平均的）cost per student per year is well over US$10,000. Students must also pay for books, paper, pens, and etc. These can cost $500 to $1,000 per year. Students who live in university housing pay thousand more per year for room and board(住宿）. Add money for clothes, travel, and other personal expenses, and the cost of one year at a university can be $20, 000 to $30,000 or more.

Students need to spend their money carefully. At most universities, advisors can give students advice on how to budget(预算） their money. They suggest this: at the start of a school term, write down your income; for example, money you will get from your family or a part-time job. Then, list all of your expenses. Put your expenses into two groups: those that change (food, phone, books, travel), and those that will stay the same (tuition, room and board). Add together all of your expenses. Are they more than your income? Do you have enough money, or do you need more?

Learning not to spend more money than you have is not always easy. But for many, it is easier than borrowing money from family or friends.

【1】How much will a college student spend in total every year?

A. $10,000 per year   B. $15,000 per year

C. $30, 000 per year   D. $500 per year

【2】Students who live in university pay thousands more per year for_______.

A. rooms   B. clothes

C. travelling   D. books

【3】Expenses that do not change include ________.

A. tuition   B. clothes   C. phone   D. food

【4】What can we infer from the passage?

A. College students needn’t worry about money.

B. It’s important to follow the advisors’ advice.

C. Students can spend more than their income.

D. Borrowing money from others is very easy.

【5】What is the passage mainly about?

A. The cost of a college education

B. How to pay for a college education

C. How to borrow money from family

D. Spending money wisely at college

25、阅读下列短文, 从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

It was a cold night. The taxi driver didn’t take even one passenger all day. When he went by the railwaystation, he saw a young man coming out with two bags in his hands. So he drove to him and asked, “ whereare you going ,sir?

“To the Red Hotel,” the young man answered. When the taxi driver heard this, he didn’t feel happy anymore. The young man would give him only three dollars because the hotel was near the railway station. Butsuddenly, he had an idea. He took the young man through many streets of the big city.

After a long time, they arrived at the hotel. “Here we are! You should pay me fifteen dollars, please.”the taxi driver said to the young man. “What? Fifteen dollars! Do you think I’m a fool? Only last week, Itook a taxi from the railway station to this hotel and I only gave the driver thirteen dollars. I know how muchI have to pay for the trip.”

【1】 The story probably happened _______.

A. on a winter morning .    B. on a winter night .

C. on a rainy day.     D. on a rainy night .

【2】 When the driver saw the young man coming out of the railway station, he was ______.

A. happy     B. annoyed

C. disappointed      D. sad

【3】 The driver was not happy any more because ___________.

A. the young man didn’t want to take the taxi

B. the young man wouldn’t give him money

C. the young man was carrying two big bags

D. the hotel was near the railway station and the young man would give him only three dollars.

【4】 Maybe the taxi driver got ________dollars at last.

A. 3   B.  2

C. 13  D. 15

【5】 Which of the following is TRUE?

A. The two taxi drivers were both honest.

B. The two taxi drivers cheated the young man.

C. It is very far from the railway station to the Red Hotel.

D. The young man knew how far it was from the railway station to the hotel.

26、How GPS Weakens Memory — and What We Can Do about It

Using mobile phones to navigate (导航) has become second nature. Whether you’re heading to a new park or meeting friends at a restaurant, you just enter the address on your phone and go. Without GPS, exploring (探索) and wayfinding in new places required preparation. We had to think, check paper maps, and plan and memorize ways there. But today there is no need to think. Simply follow the turn-by-turn directions on your phone, and you’ll end up where you need to be. However, your overall sense of the place suffers. Spatial (空间的) navigation used to be a process performed by the human brain and perceptual system, but now people have surrendered it to technology.

There are areas of the brain that deal with these difficult pathfinding tasks. In particular, the hippocampus is related to spatial memory, spatial navigation and mental (在脑中的) mapping. Studies show that we can exercise the hippocampus memory through exploration and spatial navigation. For example, expert navigators like London taxi drivers have larger hippocampi compared to other people.   

However, when we follow a set of turn-by-turn directions, GPS navigation apps treat us as passive passengers rather than active explorers. In turn, this stops us from being able to create proper mental maps, and has an effect on the hippocampus, which is very important for brain health.

While improvements in technology clearly have many benefits, we must remain mindful that technology can influence the brain. Our question is: Can we find a way to still use GPS but reduce the harmful effects on memory?   

The challenge is to create other forms of GPS navigation that will remain easy enough for the general public, and at the same time, enable people to improve their spatial sense. Our research finds that properly designed audio beacons (音频信标) offer a much more active form of GPS navigation. For example, with an audio beacon at a hospital, when we are two miles away from the hospital, we can hear a sound through our phone. In recent experiments, we discover that this type of sensory navigation through audio beacons does better than turn-by-turn navigation in the creation of mental maps. We believe these results, at least in part, come from people taking a more active role in their navigation.   

GPS navigation using audio beacons offers a good example that helps humans connect more deeply with reality; perhaps instead of turning into mindless robots, we will be able to become more deeply involved with humanity, our local environment, and life itself.

【1】GPS weakens people’s memory because it ______.

A．records the places people have been to

B．offers people more than one way to a place

C．takes the place of thinking process in wayfinding

D．fails to teach people how to prepare for exploring

【2】The words “have surrendered it to” in Paragraph 1 probably means ______.

A．have compared it to

B．have given it up to

C．have learned it from

D．have taken it away from

【3】London taxi drivers are mentioned in Paragraph 2 to show that ______.

A．GPS is not widely used in London

B．the hippocampus memory can be exercised

C．hard-working drivers have larger hippocampi

D．active explorers are better than passive passengers

【4】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Turn-by-turn GPS navigation helps create mental maps.

B．Audio beacons technology will be replaced in the future.

C．Users’ active role should be considered in navigation technology.

D．GPS navigation apps have come a long way in helping with our memory.

27、   Thanks to the world-famous Colombian writer Garcia Marquez, many people think of Latin America was a land of magic. In Marquez’s books, impossible things happen in this part of the world.

Where does the magic in his book come from? It may come from the mixture of different cultures in Latin America. Although some of their differences have caused problems, they have also been a kind of beauty and encouraged people in Latin America to be more open-minded. Most of the people there speak the same language--Spanish.

Latin America’s environment is quite diverse. People can enjoy beautiful sunshine on the Caribbean islands, ride horses in the green grasslands of Pampas, and experience the snow-covered mountains in the Andes. It even has the world’s biggest rainforest--the Amazon. Many of the world’s most unusual plants and animals live there.

The music and dance of Latin America is quite well-known. Latin American people have created the samba, rumba, chacha and tango. People often dance at parties. Latin dances are cheerful and can bring strangers together.

Latin America is an open and wonderful place. Its diverse environment and cultural traditions have made it a great place to visit.

【1】The magic in Marquez’s books may come from ________ in Latin America.

A.natural environment B.the same language C.different cultures D.unusual plants

【2】Most of people in Latin America speak ________.

A.French B.Spanish C.German D.English

【3】The underlined word “diverse” in Paragraph 3 probably means “________ ”.

A.多样的 B.公平的 C.适当的 D.有益的

【4】The ________ of Latin America can bring strangers together.

A.snow-covered mountains B.biggest rainforest

C.beautiful sunshine D.cheerful dances

【5】This passage is probably taken from a ________.

A.book review B.grammar book C.travel magazine D.science report

28、请根据短文内容和首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

We were trapped in the ice, we worked harder. The hole grew deeper but the air in the Nautilus was very bad. The captain heated water in his batteries and poured it into the h【1】. This stopped the sides from narrowing and the men walked as quickly as they could to dig the hole d【2】 .

It was a terrible night. We had a so l【3】 air that everybody had a headache. We could hardly breathe. Then, the captain drove the Nautilus into the hole. The ice cracked. S【4】 the Nautilus was free. It sped quickly northwards still under the sea. We still had no a【5】. My face was purple, and my lips were blue. I could not breath. I could not see or hear. I was going to d【6】. Ned and Conseil found some air in one of the diving tanks. They gave it to me. Then, I felt the Nautilus bump into the ice a【7】 us. Again and again it hit the ice.

Finally, it broke through. Air rushed into the submarine and we could breathe again. Ned, Counseil and I r【8】 onto the deck. We breathed and breathed heavily, and I thanked my friends for s【9】 me with the air in the tanks.

The Nautilus continued sailing North for a couple of days, we were heading back to Atlantic. Ned was m【10】 determined than ever to run away, but we did not know our destination.

—Taken from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

29、完型填空

阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

It was a cold winter’s night when I stopped for gas on my way home from work. I felt   and had a slight headache.

I worked in a      doctor’s office. During those days, the office was often     people who had a cold, which made me even busier than usual. It seemed I was going to be late __   home and my husband would be ready to pronounce me late once again. But maybe        I hurried, I could still make it.

I was heading inside to      for my gas when I noticed an old couple（夫妻）at the counter. I heard them asking the     to the nearest hospital. It was the hospital that I had just   _ a few minutes ago.

The young man at the counter was trying to be      by explaining how to get there. But the fact was that he was telling them a whole       route. So I walked over to the couple and said, “Would you like to      me to the hospital?” Then I saw a look of relief（轻松）over their faces. “I’m going there, too,” I said, which wasn’t a lie since I had just       up my mind to do it perfectly.

I got in my car and began to drive   . I looked back several times to be     they were right behind me. It took us only fifteen      to get there as rush hour traffic was beginning to die down. I felt better than I did all day and my headache was nearly gone.

【1】A. boring B. sad C. free   D. tired

【2】A. busy    B. free C. proper   D. noisy

【3】A. called for     B. asked for C. filled with   D. pleased with

【4】A. getting B. making   C. calling D. working

【5】A. unless B. if     C. though D. while

【6】A. cost B. take     C. pay    D. spend

【7】A. distance   B. number   C. price   D. way

【8】A. waited B. gone   C. arrived   D. left

【9】A. careful   B. thankful     C. helpful   D. wonderful

【10】A. wrong    B. same   C. special   D. perfect

【11】A. lead B. take C. show   D. follow

【12】A. kept B. made   C. taken    D. fixed

【13】A. back B. up   C. out D. down

【14】A. worried   B. sure C. angry    D. surprised

【15】A. minutes   B. hours   C. days   D. weeks