广东省广州市第十八中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期期中英语试题

 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。

The giraffe is the tallest animal on land. Their interesting shapes attract 1  people to visit them. They have long necks and long thin legs. Their front legs are 2  than their back legs. Some of 3  can be more than five metres tall. They can run very fast—about 30 miles 4  hour. They are usually brown and yellow. 

Giraffes live 5  Africa. They 6  live up to 25 years in the wild. They spend most of the day 7 . Leaves and fruit are their main food, and they also eat grass or 8  plants. To find food, they travel over a large area, 9  they don't have a fixed (固定的) home. 

However, when a mother giraffe gives birth to babies, it often returns to 10  birthplace. It only gives birth to one baby every time, and the baby giraffe is cute and can be 1. 8 metres in height. About 20 minutes after being born, the baby giraffe learns 11 . Then it begins drinking 12  milk from its mother. A few hours later, it can run and has no difference with those who have been born for weeks. 13  amazing! The baby giraffe only 14  with its mother after it is born in the first two weeks. When it is strong enough, it 15  its mother and start a new life. 

 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

An old father left seventeen camels (骆驼) and a will (遗嘱) to his three sons after he died. 

According to the will, the 1  son should get half of the seventeen camels, the middle son should be given one-third of the 2  camels, and the youngest son should be given one-ninth of the seventeen camels. 

However, it is not 3  to divide seventeen into half or that seventeen can be divided by three orby nine. The three sons started to 4  with each other. Finally, they 5  to visit an old man. After 6 the whole thing, the old man brought one of his 7  camels and added it to the seventeen. Then the total number was 8 .

Now, the old man started to 9  the father's will. Half of eighteen is nine, so he gave the eldest son nine camels. One third of eighteen is six, so he gave the middle son six camels. One ninth of eighteen is two, so he gave the youngest son two camels. 

Then sum these 10  up: nine plus six, and then plus two, so it is seventeen. At last, it left one camel, and the three sons returned the camel to the old man. 

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With the development of science and technology, our lives become more convenient. Here we show some inventions to you. 

	Italy, Robotic dog patrols (巡查) Pompeii A robotic dog called Spot is patrolling the ancient city of Pompeii in Italy and helping to protect it. The volcano (火山) Vesuvius broke out in Pompeii in August of AD 79. Pompeii was covered by stones. The robot has a camera and takes photos when it patrols the ancient streets.
	Tanzania, First locally made electric car on show An artist, Masoud Kipanya, has talked about the first electric car made in his home country of Tanzania. It took him 11 months to build it. It was made from local materials. Kipanya hopes people can drive it on Tanzania's roads soon.
	Japan, Robot trained to peel (剥皮) bananas Scientists have trained a robot to peel a banana To train it, they showed how to peel a banana hundreds of times. They hoped robots could do well in peeling bananas with more training.
	Antarctica (南极) , Ship passes ice test A ship has completed its first test in the Antarctic Ocean. The test included the ship forcing its way through thick ice. The head of the BAS said he was amazed to see the shop surrounded by snow and ice.

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One day, a bird keeper was feeding the king's favorite bird when it escaped (逃走) from the cage and flew away. When the king learned of that, he was mad and immediately ordered that the bird keeper be killed.

People were upset. They felt that their king was too harsh (残酷的) over a small matter. The king's minister (大臣) realized this and hurried to the palace. He said, "I'm sorry for your loss. It's fair for you to put the bird keeper to death for he has three crimes. Please allow me to point them out to the man so that he can die knowing his mistakes."

People in the room were shocked by the minister's words. The king, however, agreed and asked his men to bring the bird keeper. The minister walked toward him and said, "Listen! You were so careless that you let the bird fly away. This is you first crime. You made the king angry, causing him to have a man killed because of a bird. This is your second crime. Finally, your death will lead the people to believe that their king is harsh since he values a pet far more than the life of a human being. This is your third crime."

Hearing this, the whole palace went silent. The king was ashamed (羞愧). Then he said, "Free the bird keeper. I'm really lucky to have my minister. Let everyone learn from his courage (勇气)."

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Chess is a game that takes a lot of thoughts and skills. It's quite difficult for ordinary people to win the title of "National Chess Master", and even more difficult for a teenager who has lost half of his brain to do it. 17-year-old Griffin McConnell comes from Colorado, the USA. He started playing chess at the age of four. Recently, he won the title of "National Chess Master" after having his fourth brain operation (手术).

When Griffin was small, he was interested in chess. His passionfor chess made him dream of being a chess player when he grew up. However, Griffin suffered from serious brain diseases and they had a bad effect on his daily life. After discussing with his medical team, Griffin decided to have the first brain operation. During the operation, doctors carefully removed (摘除) about a quarter of the left side of Griffin's brain and separated (分离) the rest from the right half of his brain. In the following years, he had the other three brain operations.

After the operations, Griffin stayed in hospital for a few months. He had to relearn how to walk and speak and do everything on his own again! It was a slow and hard journey and he never used his right arm and hand freely. However, one thing he picked back up quickly after the operations was chess. He never gave up playing chess, even when he faced several terrible brain operations. Griffin said, "I felt like chess was one part of me. I wanted to relearn chess more than I wanted to relearn how to walk and speak."

Although Griffin faced a lot of challenges, he went on to win one chess match after another. He even won the Colorado Scholastic Championship! What an encouraging and excellent chess player he was!

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The government of Tanzania has set up a new Internet service on Mount Kilimanjaro, a popular tourist area. At 5, 895 meters, Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. It is also the world's tallest free-standing (独立的) mountain.

The mountain is part of Kilimanjaro National Park in the northeast of Tanzania. Around 50, 000 people visit the park each year. Most of these people—about 35, 000—are trying to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. But climbing such a tall,glacier-covered (冰川覆盖的) mountain is no picnic. About one-third of the people who try to climb it choose to give up in the end. Nape Nnauye, a Tanzania's officer (官员) , once said, "It was a little dangerous for visitors….without the Internet."

The government says safety is the most important reason for setting up the Internet service on the mountain. It will also allow people to post selfies (自拍照) with smartphones as they climb the mountain. The new Internet service can make it safer for climbers to reach the top of the mountain. They'll be able to use the Internet to check maps and find their ways. What's more, climbers will also be able to use the Internet to call for help if they need it. 

Tanzania depends heavily on tourists. Having people post pictures and videos on social media (社交媒体) as they climb Mount Kilimanjaro can certainly make it even more popular with tourists. 

 阅读短文内容，从短文后的A、B、C、D、E五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

Lu Xun is one of the greatest Chinese writers in the 20th century. He not only wrote stories, but also wrote articles about the living conditions of Chinese people. 

In 1902, he went to Japan to study at a school. At first, he hoped to be a doctor. When he was 25, he began to try writing. He was not good at writing at first. But he wanted to do something useful to help people by writing. He wanted to teach people something about society. He was good at writing and translating (翻译) and he even wrote several books.  He needed a job to make money. 

After working as a teacher for several years, Lu Xun wrote books again. In 1918, he wrote his famous short story Diary of a Madman.  This novel (小说) made him become a famous Chinese writer. Nowadays, a lot of people still like to read this novel. 

Lu Xun became successful, but he was still worried about China's future. In 1927, he moved to Shanghai. He didn't write stories. He only wrote articles to call on people to fight against the government at that time. Because of this, the government didn't let him publish (出版) books any more.

Lu Xun died in 1936. People felt sad about his death.  Today, we can read many of his writings in textbooks. 

A. Lu Xun was born in Zhejiang, China in 1881.  B He couldn't use his real name to write the articles.  C. In 1921, Lu Xun wrote his novel The True Story of Ah Q.  D. Although he left us, his works still play an important part.  E. He came back to China in 1909 because he needed money.

 根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。（每空限填一词）

Tim Berners-Lee is not the most famous I  in the world. H , his invention has greatly changed our lives. 

Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, England in 1955. When he was a small boy, he was interested in playing with electrical things. He studied science at Oxford University and made his first computer from an old television at the age of 21. 

Tim started working on early computers. He was really interested in two things, computers and how the human b works. How could it connect so many facts so quickly while computers couldn't? He worked hard to make it possible or computers to connect to each other and share information at a fast s . In 1989, he invented the World Wide Web (www) all by himself. It allowed computers to "talk" to each other on the Internet. After that, the Internet grew quickly. Nowadays, people d on it a lot.

Tim Berners-Lee doesn't think he did anything special. He says that all of the ideas about the Internet were already there. All he did was to put them together. He gave away the World Wide Web for nothing. What a great man he is!

广州是中国最大的城市之一。

Guangzhou is    cities in China. 

除此之外，广州还是旅游观光的一个好地方。

 , Guangzhou is a good place for sightseeing. 

我很期待再次去游览广州。

I    around Guangzhou next time. 

我想尽我所能去参观许多地方。

I would love to visit    I can. 

广州真是太美妙了！，

 Guangzhou is!

聊天机器人ChatGPT的出现引起了人们的热议，人工智能（AI）的崛起对我们的生活产生了重大影响。假如你是李明，学校的英语杂志正在开展以"人工智能与我们的生活"为主题的征文活动，请你就这个主题进行英文投稿，写一篇80词左右的短文。内容包括以下几个要点：

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As we all know, AI changes our lives greatly.