浙江省绍兴市柯桥区2020-2021学年八年级上学期英语期中联考试题

How does the woman like the singer?

Where are the two speakers talking?

How often did the woman take the medicine before?

What does Becky think of her friend?

Who is the girl going to visit?

听下面一段较长对话，回答下面两小题。

听下面一段较长对话，回答下面三小题。

听下面一段短文，从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

Focus on the trees 专注森林

    Do you use a smart phone every day? What do you usually do with your phone? Phones are very 1in our daily lives. However, they can cause some 2. It can be 3to keep focused（专注）these days. When working on your homework, you might sometimes find that your smart phone is distracting（分心）you.4, your smart phone can distract you when you are doing other things, such as having dinner, staying with friends, reading books……

    A(n)5 called Forest can help you keep focused. You can download the app if you want to get off your 6and focus on more important things. When you set（设置） a new task（任务） in the app and set time to finish it, a tree seed（种子）will be "planted" in the app. If you keep doing your 7, the seed will grow into a tree. But if you close the app and play with your phone 8, the tree will wither（枯萎）and die. Once you 9the work, your tree will be "planted" in the app. If you keep trying, you will have a 10one day! You can share your achievements（成就）with your friends and try to "plant" different kinds of trees.

    Don't you think it is interesting and meaningful?

阅读下面一篇短文，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项

    Tony's pen pal, Diana, lives in Australia. Last year Diana called Tony and told him that she planned to visit him. Then Tony found some information about two hotels on the Internet. Here's the information he got.

阅读下面一篇短文，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项

    The outbreak of COVID-19 around the world was caused by a new corona-virus（冠状病毒）that we have never seen before. It is said that the virus may come from wild animals. People who sold and bought wild animals maybe the first to be infected（感染）.

    Scientists say bats and pangolins are likely to spread（传播）virus to humans. According to Live Science, bats can carry and spread more than 60 kinds of viruses that can infect humans, such as Ebola and SARS. Other wild animals are also hosts of many kinds if viruses.

    Scientists tell people to stop eating wild animals. However, the danger is not just in eating them, but also in touching them. People who hunt, kill, sell or eat wild animals run the risk（风险）of becoming infected.

    Keeping wild animals as pets or selling parts of their bodies also bring danger to humans. It is highly possible to come into contact（接触）with the body fluids（液体）of wild animals in this way.

     "Trade of wild animals of all kinds should be stopped," Zeng Guang, a medical expert, told China Daily, "Or people will suffer（遭受） a lot, it is too terrible."

阅读下面一篇短文，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项

    It is very important for us to exercise to stay healthy. How should we exercise to keep fit?

    Depending on（取决于） your personal fitness goals（目标）, how often you should exercise will be different. But it's important to work your way up to the minimum amount（最低量）of 150 minutes of moderate（适度的）exercise every week.

    Exercising too hard or too often can causeinjuries. And if you exercise too much, the soreness（疼痛）you feel may make you give up exercise all together.

    Here is how to gat an idea of a starting off point:

    ★Write down how much exercise you get now each day, even if it's walking. Walking is exercise, too.

    ★Decide on what kind of exercise you are going to do. Will you do cardio（有氧运动）, weight training, or other sports?

    ★Check out the minimum for cardio and weight training. What's the minimum of that you can do each week.

    ★Make an exercise plan. It could be something as simple as walking around the street each day.

    Start off with exercise that you love to do now!

阅读下面一篇短文，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项

    If you look at the top of your phone, you will usually see a little symbol that says 3G or 4G. The "G" stands for the "generation"（代）of your mobile network（网络）. But these symbols will mean（意味着） that things of the past after 5G network fully arrives.

    The 5G mobile network is 100 times faster and has 1,000 times more capacity（容量）compared with the 4G mobile network.

    In recent years, China pays great attention to the commercial（商业）use of 5G and tries to build the infrastructure（基础设施）for a 5G network. On March 30^th, 2019, Shanghai vice-mayor（副市长）Wu Qing made the first 5G video call on a Huawei Mate 10 smartphone, CGTN reported. Shanghai is also the first city in China to start testing 5G network.

5G will let people download and upload data（数据）faster than ever before. But 5G will not just bring faster mobile Internet. People can use it for many other things, too. For example, 5G will help to make self-driving cars safer. Today's self-driving test cars has one problem—the lag（滞后）.When the car "sees" anobstacle, it sends this information to a data center and gets instructions（指示）.

    However, it takes time to send and get this information. With this kind of lag, the cars might crash（撞击）because they don't get instructions in time. With 5G, this lag will be greatly reduced（减少）and make the cars safer.

    5G could also be used to make the Internet of Things (IOT) stronger. This refers to a large online network that connects（联系）all things and people. Fast Internet speeds（速度）will be the key to developing this technology（技术）. For example, with the Internet of Things(IOT), your fridge could order eggs online when it finds there are no eggs left inside. How amazing!

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每空仅用一次（每空一词）。

bad   win   true   reach   through

阅读下面的短文，然后根据括号内所给汉语提示写出单词的正确形式（每空一词）。

    Have you ever heard that some animals do not need any sleep? Butterflies and fish are （例子）. We usually see them not move, but this doesn't mean that they are sleeping. Their body temperatures will （变得）low, and as a （结果）they can't move. Is it surprising?

    Do you think that we can live without any sleep? One woman in England （打破）the world record（记录）by not sleeping for eighteen days and seventeen hours. According to doctors, people will （死亡）if they don't sleep for more （比）five days. If we don't get （足够的）sleep, we will feel tired and even be sick. You can find that sleep plays an important （作用）in our health. So, children, please be clever and go to bed much （早）from now on.

    Let's look at the following ways to help us get good sleep.

    Firstly, exercise. Running, riding bikes or swimming will get you tired. After that, you will sleep better and faster. But don't do exercise right before going to bed!

    Secondly, keep your room only for sleeping. Don't eat, watch TV （节目）， use your computer and so on.

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，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。每空不多于3个单词。

    We were surprised that Kobe Bryant, one of （popular）NBA players passed away on January 26^th, 2020. And the bad news made people (feel) sad and shocked.

    Kobe was talented playing basketball at a very young age. So his father 59 (send) him to the basketball club. He was interested in basketball and took it (serious). He entered the NBA from high school and spent twenty years with the Los Angeles Lakers. With his help, the LA Lakers won the first prize five times. Kobe was not only a (success) basketball player, but also was a writer. He often told stories to his daughters in his free time. That's he wrote a book about a basketball team.

    He once said, "I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant."

    He saw Michael Jordan as his idol would like to play a game with Jordan. We all know that Kobe had two different jersey（球衣）numbers: 8 and 24. Do you know the meaning of the number 24? The meaning is — you want to achieve（实现）your dream, you need to work hard 24 hours a day.

    Kobe Bryant is such great guy that all of us will remember him all the time.

根据材料内容，从下面六个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使文章意思通畅、内容完整（有一项多余）。

    The first cartoons came out in newspapers. They told stories by using pictures. In this movie, an artist drew pictures of two faces on a blackboard. The faces came to life. There were lot of animals in early cartoons. One famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat. Walt Disney started to make cartoons in the 1920s. But in Disney's cartoon, it was called Alice in Cartoon Land. Walt Disney's most famous cartoon character was Mickey Mouse. It was made in 1928, first in a black-and-white movie without sound, then very soon after that in a talking movie and later in color.

    Today, over a hundred years later, cartoons are still popular with people. Because they are so special. Who is more popular than cartoons with both kids and adults?

A. The first cartoon movie（in 1906）was about faces. B. They smiled and a small dog jumped through a ring. C. Maybe they will be popular for many more years in the future. D. Some people think cartoons are just for kids and don't mind them. E. Some of his earliest movies were about a famous story, Alice in Wonderland. F. A Mickey Mouse movie was the first cartoon movie with sound to get really popular.

进入八年级英语学习，课本上的知识愈发丰富，尤其是Unit3谈及朋友这个话题，同学们是最感兴趣的，上个月就 "What should a good friend be like?"这个话题整个年段的同学进行了热烈讨论，请根据下表讨论的结果写一篇小报道，同时发表你的个人观点。

What should a good friend be like?
40% students think	好朋友应该学习成绩好，学习刻苦 好朋友需待人友好，在校受欢迎
60% students think	好朋友应该乐于助人，关心朋友 好朋友是良好的倾听者，愿意分享
I	观点至少两条

要求：⑴审题得当，语句通顺，段落分明，连接词使用合理

⑵信息点全面，可适当增加内容

⑶字数80左右，首句和末句已给出，不算入总词数

    Last month, our school had a warm discussion about what a good friend should be like.

    What do you think of this topic? Write to me and tell me your opinion.