发布时间 : 星期五 文章2019-2020年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷A卷更新完毕开始阅读
2019-2020年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷A卷
姓名:________ 班级:________ 成绩:________
一、 阅读理解(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分) (共4题；共30分)
1. （6分）阅读短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Fruit and vegetables should be a part of what we eat every day. Educating your children about the importance of eating and vegetables is necessary for their health. Here are some fun activities to help you teach your children about fruit and vegetables.
Reading is one excellent way. Choose a colorful book with many different types of fruit and vegetables.
Provide your children with fruit and vegetable puzzles. Your children will be able to see what fruit and vegetables look like as they are putting the puzzles together. You can also teach them the different names of the fruit and vegetables.
Each day give your children different fruit and vegetables to eat. This will give them the chance to taste many kinds of fruit and vegetables and get enough nutriment. Talk to you children about what they look like and how they taste and smell.
Play fruit and vegetable games. Prepare little cups with fruit and vegetables cut up into small pieces. Cover the children's eyes and give them one of the cups to try. After tasting, they have to guess what kind of vegetables or fruit it is.
Grow vegetables. You can teach your children how vegetables grow by planting them. Your children will also learn to take care of them.
（1）How many fun activities can help you teach your children about fruit and vegetables in the passage?
A . one B . four C . five D . many
（2）We know ________ by reading the passage.
A . Growing vegetables can teach your children how to look after vegetables
B . The puzzles can help your children know how fruit and vegetables taste and smell
C . By playing fruit and vegetable games, children can know what fruit and vegetables look like D . Fruit and vegetables are not important for children's health （3）The passage mainly talks about ________. A . the importance of fruit and vegetables
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B . how to grow fruit and vegetables C . how to eat fruit and vegetables
D . the ways of teaching children about fruit and vegetables 2. （8分）阅读理解
Everyone faces challenges in their life, but some are more important than others. Daniel Kish had serious problems with his eyes when he was born. And doctors took away both of his eyes before he was fourteen months old.
Soon after, however, he started to do an amazing thing. He started to make clicking(咔嗒) sounds with his tongue(舌头) to help him move around. Much like a bat(蝙蝠), he now moves about using sonar(声呐). He is so good at it that he can ride a bicycle in traffic. He and his group, World Access for the Blind, teach others how to use sonar. In this interview with National Geographic, Kish explains how the process works.
How does sonar work?
\反射) off surfaces all around and return to my ears. My brain then processes the sounds into images(图像). It's like having a conversation with the environment
When you click, what do you see in your mind?
\in every direction
What is it like riding a bike using sonar?
\exciting and enjoyable but requires a lot of focus. I click up to two times per second, much more than I usually do.\
Is it dangerous to move around the world in this way?
\of the world lives in fear of things that we mostly imagine. I have a habit of climbing anything and everything, but I never broke a bone (骨头) as a kid.”
How challenging is it to teach people to use sonar?
\students are surprised how quickly results come. Seeing isn't in the eyes, it's in the mind.\ （1）What's the main idea of Paragraph 2? A . Kish explains how sonar works. B . Kish teaches people how to use sonar. C . Kish started to move around using sonar. D . Kish is good at riding a bicycle in traffic. （2）How does sonar work? Choose the right order.
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a. The sound waves reflect off surfaces. b. The person makes a clicking sound. c. The brain makes images with the sounds. d. The sound waves reach the persons ears. A . b-a-c-d B . b-d-a-c C . a-b-d-c D . b-a-d-c
（3）What can we know about Kish from the passage? A . He always challenges himself bravely. B . He lives in fear of things that he imagines. C . He became blind when he was 14 years old. D . He broke his bone when climbing as a child. （4）What would be the best title for the passage? A . How Sonar Works.
B . Riding a Bike Using Sonar. C . Seeing with the Mind. D . How the Blind Move Around. 3. （8分）阅读理解
Alice: Good afternoon, Helen!
Helen: Good afternoon, Alice! How are you? Alice: I'm fine, thanks. How are you? Helen: I'm OK.
Alice: Helen, what's that in English? Helen: It's a cup. And it's my cup. Alice: Can (能，会) you spell it? Helen: C-U-P, cup.
Alice: Oh, it's red. I like(喜欢) the color. Is that a ruler? Helen: No, it's a pen and it's brown.
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Alice: Is that your pen?
Helen: No, it's Bill's. My pen is green. （1）It is now. A . morning B . afternoon C . evening
（2）Alice likes . A . red B . green C . brown
（3）Bill's is brown. A . cup B . ruler C . pen
（4）Helen has(有) . A . a cup and a ruler B . a pen and a ruler C . a cup and a pen （5）下面的陈述哪一项是正确的？ A . The ruler is Alice's. B . Helen can spell \ C . Alice's quilt is brown. 4. （8分）阅读理解
Why do we like drinking water from plastic bottles? Some people think it is healthy and clean. Others drink bottled water because it's easy—you can carry it around with you. In hot countries, like Greece, we often buy bottles of cold water in summer.
However, making lots of plastic is not a good idea for many reasons. First of all, we need a lot of oil for plastic products. We usually use oil as a source(资源) of energy. If we reduced the number of bottles we made, we wouldn't need so much oil. Plastic bottles also pollute the environment. If we recycled all our plastic bottles, we wouldn't need so much space for rubbish dumps. But in Greece, we don't recycle much of the plastic we use. In 2006, Greeks recycled only about 10% of plastic waste. The
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