沪教版2019-2020学年八年级下学期英语期末考试试题(I)卷 下载本文

24. (10分)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适合的单词或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。

The Great Wall of China has a history of over two thousand years. It runs from the east ________ the west in North China. It's about 6, 300 kilometers long.

It's often ________ (call)\Great Wall\the Ancient World\

The Great Wall is wide enough for ten ________ (man)to walk side by side. Horses can also run along it, too. The Great Wall was made ________ stones and bricks(砖). There are huge stones on each side and on ________ highest part. But now some sections of it are worn out.

There are tall watchtowers along the Great Wall. ________ (one)upon a time, the soldiers kept ________ (watch)the enemies(敌人)in the watchtowers day and night. They made fire on the towers to tell each other when the enemies ________ (come).

Nowadays we ________ (not)use the Great Wall to keep away the enemies any more. It is a famous place of interest to all the people in the world. Every year thousands of people come to visit ________ from all over the world.

25. (10分)阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Nowadays more and more people are using modern traffic and modern communication means. The world ________ (it) is becoming much smaller. So life today is much easier than it was ________ (hundred) of years ago. but it has brought new ________ (problem). One of the biggest problems is pollution. To pollute mean to make things dirty. Pollution comes ________ many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.

Air pollution is still the most serious. It's bad to all living things in the world, but it is not the ________ (bad) one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us become angry more ________ (easy).

Pollution by SO2 is really the most dangerous problem of air pollution. It is ________ (cause) by heavy traffic. It is true that ________ there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution. The earth is ________ (we) home. We must take care of it. That means ________ (keep) the land water and air clean. And we must take care of the rise in pollution at the same time.

26. (1分)Please write down the right________(spell)of the word here. 27. (1分)Jim is really good at ________ (learn) new things. 28. (1分)He is old enough to dress ________(he). 29. (1分)The accident is ________(serious)than we think.

六、 短文填空。 (共1题;共10分)

30. (10分)语法填空

Are you still doing the V for victory? It's out. The latest popular hand gesture is to curl (卷曲)________of your hands together to make a heart-shape. It's called \

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Many young stars in the US including Justin Bieber, Blake Lively and Taylor Swift have done the move in ________ [?ris?nt] photos.\heart gesture shows something between ‘I love you' and ‘thank you', \ (sing) Taylor Swift, 21.\you can send ________ saying a word. \Swift often does it at her concerts. And she is ________(believe) to be the first to make the gesture popular.

Last month during a charity show, Justin Bieber and his superstar friends did it to ________ out three kids whose parents were killed in a car accident. After that, the gesture became________(real) hot .

It used to take much ________ (long) for nonverbal(非语言的)culture to spread. But now ,with smart phones and the Internet, it's faster.

In the Republic of Korea, the hand heart has been popular for a long time,________in a different way. People put their hands ________[??b?v] their heads and make a heart shape with their arms. It means \

七、 书面表达。 (共2题;共6分)

31. (1分)________

32. (5分)看图写作。

( scientist, hybrid rice )

在中国越来越多的人对体育运动感兴趣.我们会经常在公园或空地上跑步,散步或跳舞。请根据以下提示写一篇小短文。

become interested in, be popular, in the park, be good for, take part in

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