上海市奉贤区实验中学
八年级下学期英语4月第一次阶段测试卷
Part 2 Phonetics, Grammar and Vocabulary
(第二部分 语音、语法和词汇)
V. Choose the best answer（选择最恰当的答案）(共15分)
22. Which of the following is correct for the word “measure”
23. Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from the others
A. We should give our classroom a thorough cleaning at least once a week.
B. The students often encourage each other to study harder.
C. We must show our passportｓ when we go through the ｃustoms.
D. The child is old enough to go to school now.
24. Electricity is like water, in ______ way.
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. /
25. Electricity comes into our flat ______ thin wires.
A. cross
B. over
C. across
D. through
26. —What a wonderful dictionary!
—My father bought it for my sister and me. It’s ______.
A.ours
B. hers
C. theirs
D. mine
27. A(n) ______ usually means someone who does housework for money.
A. electrician
B. shop assistant
C. servant
D. master
28. The music sounds ______. Everyone enjoyed it very much.
A. strange
B. interested
C. well
D. wonderful
29. I borrowed the English story-book last week. I ______ it for a week.
A. have bought
B. have kept
C. have borrowed
D. had
30. Sorry, I don’t like the blue blouse. Would you please show me ______ one
A. another
B. the other
C. others
D. the others
31. Emily’s never had junk food, ______
A. is she
B. isn’t she
C. has she
D. hasn’t she
32. Thick wires are connected to a power station. The underlined word means“______”.
A. went into
B. as well as
C. joined together
D. came from
33. ______ amusing news little Tom has received!
A. What
B. How an
C. What an
D. How
34. Could you tell me ______
A. what’s their address
B. whose house is it
C. who always slams the door
D. will they mind the racket
35. Mark, you look pale. You’d better ______ up too late.
A. not stay
B. not to stay
C. don’t to stay
D. don’t stay
36. —Excuse me, could you please tell me the way to the nearest underground station
—______.
Yes, I could
B. I’m sorry I’m new here, too
C. I’m busy now
D. You can ask others
plete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once: (6分)
My mother used to ask me what the most important part of the body was. All those years I thought I had the right answer.
When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us, so I said, “My ears, Mummy.” She said, “No. Many people are deaf. Keep(37)_____ it and I will ask you again soon.”
Several years passed, and she asked me again. This time I told her, “Mummy, (38)_____ is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes.” She looked at me and told me, “You are learning (39)_____, but the answer is not right because there are many people who are blind.”
Over the years, Mother asked me a couple more times and always her answer was, “No, but you are getting (40)______ every year, my child.”
Then last year, my Grandpa died. Everybody was crying. My mum looked at me when it was our turn to say our(41)_____ good-bye to Grandpa. She asked me, “Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear ”
I saw her eyes full of tears. She said, “My dear, the most important body part is your shoulder.”
I asked, “Is it because it holds up your head ”
She answered, “No, it is because it can hold the head of a friend or loved one when they cry. Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on sometime (42)______, my dear. I only hope that you have enough love and friends that you will have a shoulder to cry on when you need it.”
plete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms: (5分)
43. Don’t always do such ______ things. (fool)
44. She left the room without ______. (explain)
45. Electricity is ______ and we can’t live without it. (use)
46. Please ask the ______ to wake me up at five o’clock tomorrow morning. (serve)
47. Nowadays, we can find lots of ______ appliances everywhere in our daily life. (electricity)
VIII. Rewrite the following sentences as required: (10分)
48. Simon lost the key to his bike on his way to the lecture. (改为否定句)
Simon ______ ______ the key to his bike on his way to the lecture.
49. Jenny hardly has bread and milk for her breakfast. (改为反意疑问句)
Jenny hardly has bread and milk for her breakfast, ______ ______
50. My father didn’t give up smoking until the doctor asked him to do so. (保持句意基本不变)
My father ______ smoking ______ the doctor asked him to do so.
51. Mrs White told her daughter, “We will buy some food at the supermarket.” (改为宾语从句)
Mrs White told her daughter they ______ ______ some food at the supermarket.
52. not, it, easy, for, is, the, with, students, to, deal, young, problem. (连词成句)
____________________________________
Part 3 Reading and writing(第三部分 读写)
VI. Reading comprehension (阅读理解)（共50分）
A． Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最怡当的答案）共6分
Most great inventors often met with much trouble in their work. Before they could succeed, they had to overcome thousands of difficulties which were put in their way. The following is one of such examples.
George Stephenson (1781~1848), a famous British inventor, made the first train in 1825, using a steam engine. When he was experimenting with the engine on the train, he met with trouble from the government in the country. They said that the noise and the smoke would kill cows, horses and sheep and the engine would burst or the hot coals from it would set fire to their houses. People believed what they said.
George Stephenson told the people that the train could go on small rails, could pull carriages full of goods and passengers and there was no great danger to them. It was a very difficult matter for him to make them believe. However, after some time, he was able to do it, and the first train that was driven by George Stephenson himself proved what he had said. On the train there was a new steam engine. It was invented by him, and was proved a complete success.
The first day when the train ran on the rails, people along the way heard the noise of the train in the distance, and saw it running quickly to them. They thought it was a genie(妖怪). They ran quickly back home for fear and closed their doors tightly. They did not dare to come out until it had passed. A week later an old woman still said that her hen had been so frightened that it hadn’t laid any eggs for three days.
53. The story tells us something about ______.
A. the life of George Stephenson
B. the invention of the train
C. the trouble George Stephenson met in his invention
D. the use of the engine on the train
54. The first train was made in Britain ______.
A.in 1848
B.in 1825
C.in 1781
D. from 1781 to 1848
55. People along the way were ______ when the first train ran on the rails.
A. greatly frightened
B. very happy
C. running quickly to it
D. proud of the invention
56. People ran quickly back home because they thought ______.
A. a genie was coming
B. the train would kill them
C. the train would set fire to their houses
D. the smoke would kill them
57. According to the passage, which one is NOT true
A. George Stephenson invented the first train when he was 44.
B. The steam engine got power from burning coals.
C. The first train was driven by the inventor himself.
D. A hen will not lay any eggs for three days when it sees a train for the first time.
58. What the old woman said about her hen showed that ______.
A. people liked the invention
B. her hen got a lot of fun from the invention
C. people were frightened by the invention at first
D. people accepted the new invention at the beginning
B.Choose the best words and complete the passage.( 选择最恰当的单词完成短文)(6分)
More than three hundred primary students and soldiers took part in an environment education program. They picked up rubbish around the Lhalu Wetland Conservation area in Lhasa on June 5th to (59) the World Environment Day.
A team of ten scientists and experts from all over the country took part in the one-day (60) to share their knowledge of environment protection with students and soldiers.
“We take this special day to teach others how to do good for environment protection, and we hope the knowledge of environment protection can be (61) through this activity,” said Zhang Lin, a member of the team.
“It is my sixth time to attend the activity and it is so (62) for us students to take part in such an activity. Our knowledge of environment protection has been strengthened,” said Feng Yingying, a primary school student at Lhasa’s Lhalu Primary School. “I think rubbish is (63) for our environment. We collect waste, and then we will recycle the rubbish,” she said.
The students spent the rest of the day on the main streets of Lhasa to (64) leaflets (传单) and slogans about environment protection.
59. A. get B. cost C. take D. celebrate
60. A. order B. matter C. activity D. collection
61. A. raised B. dropped C. stopped D. followed
62. A. boring B. different C. important D. interesting
63. A. bad B. good C. sad D. happy
64. A. give off B. give in C. give out D. give away
C.Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.(在短文的空格内填入适当的词使其内容通顺每空格限填一词首字母已给)(7分)
Before the invention of electricity, people had to make energy wherever and whenever they needed it. Thus, they had to make wood or coal fire to heat their homes or cook food. The invention of electricity (65)c_____ all that. It means energy could be made in one place then supplied over long (66)d_____ to wherever it is needed. People no longer have to worry about making energy for heating or cooking: all they have to do is to plug in and switch (67)o_____—and the energy is there as soon as they want it.
(68)A_____ good thing about electricity is that it’s like a common “language” that all modern appliances can “speak”. You can run a car using the energy in gasoline, or you can cook food on a barbecue in your garden using charcoal, (69)t_____ you can’t run your car on charcoal or cook food with gasoline. But electricity is quite different. You can cook with it, run cars on it, heat your home with it, and charge your cellphones with it. This is the great beauty and the (70)p_____ of electricity: it’s energy for everyone, everywhere, and (71)a_____.
65. c______ 66. d______ 67. o______ 68. A______
69. t______ 70. p______ 71. a______
D.Answer the following questions.(根据短文内客回答问题)(6分)
Thomas Alva Edison was a man of wonderful ability. The Edison family had come to the United States from Holland in the early part of the l8th century. Thomas Alva the youngest of Samuel’s seven children was born in 1847. Thomas was an unusually curious child.Even at an early age he loved to read and make experiments. Because he was so dreamy and quiet, a teacher once accused him of being stupid. Thomas’s mother was so displeased by this remark that she took her son out of school and never sent him back. She took charge of his education herself and taught him reading history, science and philosophy. Edison was a very quick reader and he remembered everything.
In order to earn money for books and for his scientific experiments Thomas sold vegetables from the family garden. This work did not bring in enough money and so he began to sell newspapers and candy on a train that ran between Port Huron Michigan and Detroit. In four years he earned two thousand dollars from this business. While he worked on the train, young Edison continued to experiment setting up a laboratory in the baggage car. One day a stick fell to the floor and set the car on fire. The conductor of the train was so angry that he threw Thomas and all his equipment off the train at the next station; he also struck Thomas causing a permanent (永久的) injury which later made him deaf in the right ear.
In 1869 he borrowed some money and went to New York. During the first three years he spent there, he nearly died of starvation. He slept in a room belonging to a company that sent information on stock prices to the business houses of New York. One day the machine that printed news about gold stopped. Six hundred banks and business houses were without information about what was being bought and sold that day. Edison succeeded in repairing the machine, and he was then offered a job as manager for $300 a month. He was soon hard at work making improvements in the machine and inventing new parts．
72. Why did his mother take him out of school
73. Selling vegetables did not bring in enough money, did it
74. How did he become deaf in the right ear
75. Where did he sleep when he came to New York
76. What kind of person was Thomas Edison
VIII.Writing (写话)(共10分)
Write at least 60 words about the topic “Electricity in our life”.
Suggested questions:
☆ What do you know about electricity
☆ What can we do with electricity
☆ Is electricity always safe
【答案】C
【答案】C
【答案】A
【答案】D
【答案】A
【答案】C
【答案】D
【答案】B
【答案】A
【答案】C
【答案】C
【答案】A
【答案】C
【答案】A
【答案】B
【答案】CBA EGF
【分析】
此空缺动词，据题意，妈妈让孩子一直保持对这个问题的思考，她将很快告诉孩子，keep后面接动词ing形式，故选C。
此空缺名词，根据题意，孩子觉得眼睛对每个人来说是很重要的，故选B;
此空缺副词，根据题意，妈妈夸孩子学习得很快，副词修饰动词，而fast 既可以做形容词也可以做副词，故选A；
此空缺形容词，根据题意，妈妈鼓励孩子每年都变得更加聪明一些，get后面接形容词，也可以是比较级，故选E。
此空缺形容词，根据题意，当轮到我们去见爷爷最后一面的时候我的妈妈就看着我，故选G；
42.此空缺时间状语，根据题意，在生活中有时候每个人都需要一个肩膀去哭泣，故选F。
43.【答案】foolish
【分析】动词变形容词，后面有名词，不要总是做像这样愚蠢的事情。
44.【答案】explanation
【分析】动词变名词，without后面接名词，没有解释without explanation。
45.【答案】useful
【分析】动词变形容词，电对于我们的生活是非常有用的，我们离不开它，在动词后面加ful。
46.【答案】servant
【分析】动词变名词，冠词the后面接名词，根据句意请让仆人在明天早上5点钟唤醒我，去e加vant。
47.【答案】electrical
【分析】名词变形容词，electrical appliances家用电器，本身不带电，所以用它的形容词electrical。
48.【答案】didn’t ; lose
【分析】此题考查一般过去式的否定句，要借助助动词did,否定词放在助动词后面，并且动词还原lose。
49.【答案】does ; she
【分析】此题考查反义疑问句，主句有否定词hardly,后面用谓语动词肯定形式，且has有实际含义，解释为吃，因此借助助动词do/does,又Jenny是女性且是三单，因此选择助动词does，主语用人称代词she来提问。
50.【答案】stopped ; after
【分析】此题考查同义句转换，句意为“我爸爸直到医生建议他戒烟之后才戒了烟”，stop doing sth 停止做某事，动词是过去式，在....之后用after, 符合句意。
51.【答案】would ; buy
【分析】此题考查宾语从句，根据语序，一定是主语加谓语的形式，而主语已经给出，所以后面讨论谓语动词的时态，主句是tell过去式told，所以从句时态相应变成过去式，will变would，后面接动词原形buy。
52.【答案】It is not easy for young students to deal with the problem.
【答案】CBABDC
【解析】
53.根据第一段第一句Most great inventors often met with much trouble in their work，可知讲新发明出现时遇到的困难，所以选择C。
54.根据第二段第一句George Stephenson (1781~1848), a famous British inventor, made the first train in 1825，所以答案选择B。
55.根据第四段第一句apeople along the way heard the noise of the train in the distance, and saw it running quickly to them. They thought it was a genie(妖怪)，可知人们当时不了解，很害怕，所以选择A。
56.根据第四段第二行，They ran quickly back home for fear and closed their doors tightly. They did not dare to come out until it had passed.可知他们以为是怪兽来了，猜测是要吃掉他们，所以选B。
57.细节辨析题，ABC都能在原文中找到，只有D选项是其他门夸张的说法，没有理论依据，所以选择D。
58.阅读推断题，从上文可知新发明出现时人们是非常害怕，不能接受的，所以应该是选择C。
【答案】DCACAC
【解析】
59.学生和士兵通过捡垃圾来庆祝世界环境保护日，和节日搭配的需要用庆祝，所以选D：庆祝
60.环境保护日会有各种活动，科学家和专家也参加来宣传相关知识，所以选C：活动
61.通过参加相关互动，环保意识和知识应该是要得到宣传，人们的意识能够提高，所以选A：提高
62.对于学生来说参加这个节日是重要的，可以提升相关的知识，所以选C：重要的
63.常识问题，垃圾对于环境来说是不好的，有害的，所以选A：坏的
64.考察词组意思，give out 分发，学生们通过分发传单的方式，提高大众的环保意识，所以选C：分发
【答案】changed,distance,on,Another,though,power,Instead,anything
【解析】
65.此空需要动词，前文讲电发明前人类不方便的地方，而电的发明改变了这些，我们的生活变得更便利，所以用change，注意时态。
66.此空需要名词，根据句意点所提供的能量可以在一个地方用，也可以在所需要的其他较远的地方，所以用distance表距离。
67.此空需要介词，用电的时候只要插进开关，打开之后就有了能量，switch on打开的意思。
68.此空需要形容词，前文再说电的好处，后文说到电其他的好处，所以用another变另一个的好处。
此空需要连接词，连接两个句子，t开头的连接词只有though，虽然，尽管。
此空需要名词，电的发明给我们的生活带来了很多便利，另外提供了各种能量，所以是power，能量，力量。
此空需要代词，前文在说电的各种便利，任何人、任何地方都可以，并列成分，所以用任何东西，anything。
【答案】
72. Because she was so displeased by his teacher’s remark.
73.No,it didn’t.
74.The conductor of the train struck Thomas causing a permanent (永久的) injury.
75.He slept in a room belonging to a company
76.He was a man of wonderful ability.
【解析】
72. 根据第一段第四行a teacher once accused him of being stupid. Thomas’s mother was so displeased by this remark that she took her son out of school and never sent him back，可知老师的评价让他妈妈不开心，所以不让他上学。
73. 根据第二段第二行This work did not bring in enough money and so he began to sell newspapers and candy on a train，可知卖蔬菜并没有让他赚到很多钱。
74. 根绝第二段最后一句The conductor of the train was so angry that he threw Thomas and all his equipment off the train at the next station; he also struck Thomas causing a permanent (永久的) injury。
75. 根据第三段第二行He slept in a room belonging to a company.
76. 根据第一段第一句Thomas Alva Edison was a man of wonderful ability，可知他是非常有能力的人。
Electricity in our life
【答案】
Electricity is quite widely used in our daily life.
Every day ,we watch TV,we play computer games,we cook our dinner.In a word,almost all the activities in our lives are based on electricity.It because that elec-tricity is the common energy in modern time.It is safe and also envernment friendly.It is efficient and also Convenient.
In a word electricity is of great advantages,we thrive on it,we use it and perfect it just for a better life.
