2025-2026学年（上）乐东八年级质量检测英语

1、英汉互译 阅读下面短文，将划线句子翻译成中文或英文。

We live in a small town and almost everyone knows each other. It used to be very quiet. Nothing much ever happened here. 【1】However, these days, something unusual is happening in our town. Victor, a teacher at my school, is really nervous. When he was interviewed by the town newspaper, he said, 【2】“Every night we hear strange noises outside our window.  My wife thinks that it could be an animal, but my friends and I think it must be teenagers having fun. My parents called the policemen, but they couldn’t find anything strange. 【3】他们以为那可能是风。I don’t think so.”

【4】我们镇上的每个人都感到不安, and everyone has his or her own ideas. There must be something visiting the homes in our neighborhood, but what was it? We have no idea. Most people hope that this animal or person will simply go away,【5】but I do not think that is going to happen. The noise-maker is having too much fun creating fear in the neighborhood.

2、（题文）______ out your love. The world will become a nicer place to live in.

A. Speak   B. To speak   C. Spoke   D. Speaking

3、— Mr. Black, ________ did you spend on this dictionary?

— Oh, it cost me 230 yuan.

A．how many

B．how long

C．how much

D．how often

4、I hope my school life of senior high will be ___________ than that of junior high.

A．more exciting

B．very exciting

C．as exciting as

D．the most exciting

5、Though I like the house very much, its price __________ my ability to pay.

A.goes beyond B.goes further

C.goes down D.begins with

6、— _________ did the students in Grade Nine study so hard?

— To make their dreams come true.

A．Which

B．What

C．Why

D．Who

7、They   to build Xinshougang Bridge in 2016. It was a great project!

A.start B.will start C.started D.have started

8、He was ____ tired ____ he could not go on walking

A. too ,to   B. such ,that   C. so ,that   D. too , that

9、The bus driver always says to us, “Don’t get off ________ the bus stops.”

A. since   B. while  C. until   D. after

10、I don’t care how you do the job. I only care ________ it can be done. Just give me a date!

A．where

B．what

C．when

D．why

11、Tina has read a lot of Mark Twain’s books, ________ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

A．against

B．among

C．beside

D．including

12、My eating habit is ________ Jack’s. We both like noodles for lunch.

A．similar to

B．good with     

C．different from

D．strict with

13、I ______ it everywhere, but I didn’t ______ it.

A. looked; find

B. looked for; find

C. find; find out

D. find; looked for

14、He pretends _______this thing.

A、not know   B、not knowing   C、not to know

15、—How about the kitchen? Is it shared?

—________. There is one on each floor. You can cook for yourself.

A．Yes, exactly

B．I don’t know

C．I think so

D．All right

16、Miss Wang is _________ us sometimes, but she truly cares about everyone.

A．hard on

B．thankful to

C．sure about

17、The young couple made up their mind that they _________ a new house as soon as Larry changed jobs.

A．would buy

B．bought

C．have bought

D．had bought

18、It has been forty years ________ the reform and opening-up. Great changes have taken place in our country.

A.since B.before C.after

19、----Millie, where is Miss Li?

----She a speech on Chinese art to the first-year students in the hall.

A. gives   B. gave   C. is giving   D. has gone

20、Mum, what are you cooking? It ______ so sweet.

A. tastes B. feels C. sounds  D. Smells

21、The little boy likes staying with his grandmother because she can always_ __________

new stories for him.

A. bring up B. stay up   C. make up D. take up

22、阅读下面的对话，根据上下文，选择恰当的选项补全对话，使句意完整、符合逻辑(其中有两项为多余选项)。

Lisa: Hi, Jane! You made great progress in English during a long winter vacation. 【1】?

Jane: Just by taking online courses and finishing my homework in time. Sometimes I watched the online classes again when necessary.

Lisa: But I didn’t make full use of that time. So I can’t catch up with my classmates now. 【2】.

Jane: Don’t worry. 【3】.

Lisa: Good idea. When I have difficulties, can I ask you for help?

Jane: No problem. 【4】.

Lisa: It’s very kind of you. By the way, what’s your favorite festival?

Jane: The Spring Festival. People always get together and do some cleaning, buy some food and new clothes.

Lisa: 【5】. I hope that we can enjoy it together.

A．How did you do there?

B．How do you study English?

C．I agree with you, too.

D．I feel worried and hopeless.

E．Sounds interesting.

F．Read a lot and do exercises and you will get improved.

G．I am always there if you need help.

23、请阅读下面对话，根据对话内容从文后所给选项中选择恰当的句子填入空白中，使对话通顺、合理，意思完整。(每空一句)

A:Hi, Jim. You were not here yesterday. 【1】.

B:I was ill.

A:Sorry to hear that.【2】.

B:Much better. But I still cough and feel weak.

A:【3】

B:Yes, I have. I went to the doctor's yesterday. The doctor gave me some medicine, and he asked me to stay in bed for a few days.

A:【4】

B:Because I'm afraid I'll miss the lessons and I'll fall behind.

A: Don't worry. Take care of yourself.【5】.

B:Thank you. Oh, the bell is ringing. It's time to have class.

A:Yeah. Hope you will be better soon. Bye.

B:Bye.

A.How long have you been like this?

B.How are you feeling now?

C.I can help you study.

D.What was wrong with you?

E.What did the doctor say?

F.Why not stay at home for a rest today?

G.Have you seen the doctor?

24、 Thomas Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. Without him, the world might still be in the dark. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the motion picture camera and over1,200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new.

Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He attended school for only three months. His mother taught him at home, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. He started experimenting at a young age.

When he was 12 years old, he got his first job. He became a newsboy on train. He did experiments on the train in his spare time. Unluckily, his first work experience did not end well. They fired him when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the train. Then Edison worked for five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued to spend much of his time in experimenting his first  patent(专利权) in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity.

Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, but he thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways. It kept conversations short, so that he could have more time for work. He always worked 16 out of every 24 hours. Sometimes his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat.

Thomas Edison died at the age of 84. He left a great many inventions that greatly improved the quality of life all over the world.

【1】 How often did Edison make a new invention？

A. About every fourteen days.   B. About every seven days.

C. About once a week.   D. About twice a week.

【2】The underlined world “fired” in the passage means “_＿＿＿＿”

A. Gave somebody a job. B. Set fire to somebody.

C. Let somebody down. D. Forced somebody to leaves his job.

【3】 Edison considered his deafness as＿＿＿＿.

A. something bad B. a gift from God

C. a kind of ability D. a disadvantage

【4】Which of the following sentences is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Edison had only 8hours’rest each day after his deafness.

B. Edison got his education mostly by self-teaching.

C. Edison had his first job in 1986.

D. Edison’inventions greatly improved the quality of people’s life.

【5】 What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. The function of the electric light.

B. Edison and his experiments.

C. The importance of inventions.

D. The whole life of Edison.

25、If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet (彗星).

　　A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.

If a comet isn’t a star, what is it then?

　 Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.Many people perhaps have seen a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.

　　An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it would come back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You will probably be able to see Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again.

【1】A comet is like ________.

A. sun   B. moon   C. sunlight   D. the earth

【2】A large part of a comet is ______.

A. water and rock

B. water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron

C. ice, iron and rock dust

D. only a few big pieces of rock

【3】Maybe many people _______.

A. haven’t seen any comets   B. have seen all comets

C. have seen a comet at daytime   D. have seen a comet

【4】Some comets keep coming back ________.

A. at any time   B. at noon   C. at regular times   D. at daytime

【5】Halley’s Comets came back _____.

A. in 1990   B. in 1980   C. in 1986   D. in 1989

26、阅读短文，从每题所给的A.B.C三个选项中选出最佳答案回答或完成句子。

A

My grandfather is eighty years old now. He always complains about how fast things have changed, and he often says that life used to be better.

Families aren’t families they used to be. A lot of families have broken up. If husband and wife have problems with their marriage, they no longer stay together. And mothers used to stay at home and take care of their children, but now not any more. Everyone is busy working. Mother used to spend all day cooking in the kitchen. But now the family don’t eat home-cooked food any more.

And the cars! No one walks any more. More and more people drive. Students used to walk 5 miles to school every day, even in winter. But now students don’t. And in school, children don’t have to think any more. In math class, for example, they used to add, subtract, multiply and divide(加减乘除)in their heads. Instead, they use calculators(计算器).

And people today have TV and computers, and they don’t talk to each other any more. They are too busy to talk, too busy to eat, too busy to think….

Life used to be simple, but it isn’t any more.

【1】What does my grandfather think of the life now?

A. He thinks the life is the same as it used to be.

B. He thinks the life now is worse than it used to be.

C. He thinks the life now is better than it used to be.

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

A. 生活   B.工作 C.婚姻

【3】 What has happened these years according to the passage?

A. Children don’t have to think any more in school.

B. Students use calculators in math class.

C. Both of them.

【4】What changes have happened to some families?

a. People have TV.

b. People like to eat home-cooked food.

c. Lots of families have computers.

d. Lots of couples(夫妇)live apart because of unhappy problems.

A. a, b, d   B. b, c, d     C. a, c , d

【5】 Which is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Life now is much simpler.

B. People are too busy to talk with each other now.

C. Lots of mothers stay at home and look after their children.

27、Here is a day’s weather report for some cities of the world.After you read it,please answer the following questions.

【1】The weather report tells the weather for________.

A．72 hours

B．48 hours

C．24 hours

D．a week

【2】In________it is the hottest.

A．New York

B．London

C．Shanghai

D．Hong Kong

【3】In________you should take a raincoat when you go out.

A．New York

B．London

C．Beijing

D．Shanghai

【4】In Hong Kong,the weather will be________and cloudy.

A．sunny

B．windy

C．rainy

D．snowy

【5】It tells us the weather of________cities.

A．four

B．five

C．six

D．seven

28、阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的单词，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

The Potala Palace is located on Mountain Maburi in the northwest of Lhasa in Tibet, China. It is a national 5A-class tourist attraction, and the landscape(风景) on the back of the 【1】 (five) set of RMB 50 yuan banknotes. It’s the highest building 【2】 (mix) palace, temple with coffin tower. It is also the 【3】 (large) ancient palace in Tibet.

The Potala Palace is built on the mountain, with overlapping (重叠) buildings. The palace is more than 200 meters high and has 13 floors in appearance. It is said that the Potala Palace was built 【4】 Songtsen Gampo for his marriage to Princess Wencheng. The Potala Palace is characteristic of a Tibetan style. Built on the mountain, it 【5】 (look) wonderful. It is 115 meters high and has a 【6】 [ˈtəʊtl] of 13 floors. The main building is divided 【7】the Red Palace and the White Palace, with the former in the middle 【8】 the later on either side. The Red Palace contains coffin towers for all Dalai Lamas in the past dynasties and all 【9】 [kaɪndz] of Buddhist temples. The Potala Palace can be 【10】 [kɔ:ld] a museum both of architectural and Buddhist art.

29、   “Paul must have been trying to carry his waste paper to garbage can and dropped a few pieces.” I ____ picking them up one by one. However, I found more pieces a few moments later. No quiet complaining this time. I called out instead, “Who is throwing garbage?” No answer. As a result, I saw more bits of paper quietly flying down from upstairs. Looking up, I saw my seven-year-old son, Paul.

“Stop making a mess anymore!” “It’s not a mess. They’re _____.” “Sorry, what did you say?” I didn’t hear him clearly. He didn’t answer me. In fact, I was surprised indeed.

Paul has autism (自闭症) and _____ answers a question, especially when he’s focused attentively on something else. He ran down the stairs. “Where are my other butterflies?” he asked, looking around. Every time Paul ______ five or more words together, my heart says a lot of thanks. Lately he seems to realize that the benefits of making sentences when communicating are worthy.

“Butterflies, Of course.” I rushed to save them from the garbage,______  them off and handed them to my young artist. “Want to see them fly again?” he asked with a shy smile. “Oh yes! They’re beautiful.” I whispered. He ran back upstairs quickly to fly his _____ down again. They really did look like beautiful butterflies flying in the sky.

That day, I said thanks to my son. Because Paul reminded me to look up at something ______ instead of down at garbage. How many other artworks do I  _____because I’m too caught up in my housework to take time to see what’s right in front of me? Life is not what happens to us. It’s how we look at it. Now, I look up often.

【1】A.laughed B.complained C.surprised D.shouted

【2】A.planes B.papers C.leaves D.butterflies

【3】A.seldom B.always C.sometimes D.often

【4】A.spells B.pushes C.puts D.saves

【5】A.tore B.dusted C.cut D.took

【6】A.artworks B.kites C.inventions D.paintings

【7】A.wrong B.weak C.beautiful D.great

【8】A.look B.realize C.want D.miss