2024-2025学年八年级上学期英语12月月考模拟试卷（含答案解析）

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2024-2025学年八年级上学期英语

12月月考模拟试卷

注意事项：

1．试卷满分：100分，考试时间：100分钟；答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。

2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。

3．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一部分 完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

Once there were two neighbors living next to each other. One of them was a retired (退休的) teacher and the other was an engineer.     1     of them planted the same plants in their gardens. The retired teacher was giving a small number of water to his plants and he didn’t always give a full attention to them. But the other neighbor gave a lot of water to his plants. He     2     them too well. One day, a rainstorm started suddenly during the night. The next morning, the engineer was     3     to see that his plants came off from the roots (根). But the retired teacher’s plants grew very well. The engineer went to the retired teacher and asked, “We both grew the same plants together. I took care of my plants     4     than you did for yours, and even gave them more water. Still, my plants came off from the roots, while yours didn’t . How is that possible?” The retired teacher smiled and said, “You gave your plants more attention and water, but because of that they didn’t need to work     5     for water. You made it easy for them. While I gave them just proper (恰当的) water and     6     their roots search (寻找) for more. And their roots went deeper and deeper, which made them     7    .”

This story is about parenting where children are like plants.     8     everything is given to them, they will not understand the hard work it takes to have those things. Teach them     9     to walk, but let them go their own way. Sometimes it’s best to guide them but not to     10     them.

1．A．None                B．All                        C．Both                      D．Neither

2．A．took off            B．grew up                 C．looked after            D．turned on

3．A．famous             B．lucky                     C．glad                       D．surprised

4．A．worse               B．better                     C．smaller                   D．less

5．A．itself                 B．yourself                 C．myself                    D．themselves

6．A．let                    B．wanted                   C．got                         D．gave

7．A．quieter              B．shyer                     C．funnier                   D．stronger

8．A．And                  B．Or                         C．If                           D．Until

9．A．why                  B．who                       C．what                      D．how

10．A．discuss            B．dig                        C．give                       D．touch

第二部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

11．How many kinds of animals are talked about in the passage?

A．4.                    B．5.                          C．6.                          D．7.

12．Mr. Smith is in the zoo with his two sons, one aged 14 and the other 10, they need pay _________.

A．$4.00               B．$3.00                     C．$2.00                     D．$1.00

13．From the passage we can guess the animal “giraffe” must be very _________.

A．tall                  B．long                       C．strong                    D．fat

B

Now people are trying to make the world a better place for birds to live in. People in China start the Bird Loving Week. Students from all parts of the country have been doing something to care for birds.

Meng Yiru, a 16-year-old student from Nanyang Model High School in Shanghai, asked people to protect birds: Never put birds in cages. Go to visit them in the wild if you really love them. “I’ll never forget the little sparrow (麻雀) I kept in a cage,” said Meng. “It stopped eating after I caught it and soon died.” Meng and her classmates put many of their ideas in their 300-word report to ask people to take better care of birds.

China is the home of more than 1,000 kinds of birds because the country is large and has almost every weather type to suit them.

But not everyone knows how to take good care of them. Some cut down trees and destroy the birds’ homes. This has made the number of the birds go down quickly. A study shows that one out of eight birds, more than 1,200 kinds, in the world could die out. This includes 95 percent of albatrosses (信天翁) and 60 percent of cranes (鹤). Some birds you see every day, like pigeons and parrots, are also in danger!

To help them, people have set up 7,500 reserves which are suitable and safe for the birds. In China, there are big reserves like the ones near the Dongting Lake in Hunan and the Poyang Lake in Jiangxi. Is there anything that you can do for birds? Take care of their homes. Feed them with something delicious. Well, think it over and begin to do it now!

14．China is the home of many kinds of birds because ________.

A．people in China love birds

B．people in China have planted a lot of trees

C．people in China don’t eat birds

D．it is large and has almost every weather type to suit them

15．What’s paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．It tells us how the student write a report.      

B．Meng Yiru tells people how to protect the birds.

C．It tells people to put the birds into cage to protect them.      

D．It’s about a student called Meng Yiru.

16．Some people cut down trees and ________.

A．it may make our environment better

B．they can plant more crops

C．it may kill the birds

D．they can build more reserves

17．The underlined word “reserves” probably means “________”.

A．自然保护区     B．聚居地                  C．野生动物园            D．养鸟场

C

A new study (研究) shows that hippos (河马) can tell the difference between their friends’ voices and those of strangers. And they have a special way of reacting (回应) when they don’t like what they hear.

Hippos are one of the largest animals on Earth. However scientists know little about them because they are difficult to study. First, they spend most of the day in water, coming out onto land at night to eat grass. Second, getting too close to them can be very dangerous because they can move quickly through water and run very fast.

To learn more about them, French and Portuguese scientists decided to study their calls. The scientists recorded calls from seven hippo groups. They then used a loudspeaker to play the recordings to each group— first to hippos in the same group; then to a neighboring group on the same lake; and finally to a group of strangers from another lake. No matter which group of calls the scientists played, the hippos reacted by making their own calls coming near the loudspeaker and sometimes spraying out poo (喷粪便). However, they reacted (反应) the most strongly and sprayed out the most poo if the call came from a total stranger.

Scientists think this finding could be useful when they have to move hippos to a new place to protect them. Playing recordings of the hippos’ calls can help them get used to each other before they become neighbors.

18．What can a new study shows us about hippos?

A．Telling the difference between their friends’ voices.

B．Having a special way of remembering.

C．Living a good place.

D．Being difficult to study hippos.

19．What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A．Where hippos live.

B．How large hippos are.

C．How quickly hippos can move.

D．Why hippos are difficult to study.

20．What will it do if a hippo hears calls from a stranger?

A．It will not react at all.

B．It will bite the other hippo.

C．It will spray out lots of poo.

D．It will run away quickly.

21．What can we infer (推断) from the last paragraph?

A．The study can help scientists better protect hippos and help them.

B．Hippos are larger than any other animals on land.

C．Hippos don’t like staying in rivers or lakes.

D．Scientists studied three groups of hippos.

D

Derrick Downey was relaxing on his balcony in Los Angeles when a squirrel suddenly appeared. They stared at each other for a few seconds, and then the man asked the squirrel, “Do you want something to eat?” “It seemed like he did, so I told him, ‘Stay here. I’ll be right back,’”Downey recalled (回忆).

Downey found some peanuts in his kitchen and hurried back to the balcony. The squirrel was still there, so Downey thought he was listening to him. When he held out his hand with the peanuts, the animal pulled his hand closer and started eating. Downey had been feeling down, and this special meeting cheered him up.

Since that day in 2020, the squirrel has continued to come to Downey’s balcony for treats. Sometimes, he brings his friend there. Downey named the pair Richard and Maxine. He shared a video of himself feeding and talking to the squirrels. The video went viral (走红) quickly. Some called him the best “squirrel dad”. Some compared him to Snow White. “You’re like a Disney princess,” they wrote.

Downey was excited that his social media followers liked the animals as much as he did, so he started posting daily videos of Richard and Maxine. In a recent one, he tried to teach Maxine a lesson. “You’re not always going to have the best of days,” he said. “When life is down, don’t put too much pressure on yourself.”

Downey has also built a house for the squirrels. He encourages his followers to join him in decorating it. He has received paintings, tiny furniture, houseplants and even a working mini-TV. The man said he didn’t expect to attract so many people with his squirrel videos. He has always loved animals, and he was just following his heart. As time went on, the squirrel house on Downey’s balcony became a wonderland. The followers continued to send different things to decorate the house.

The story of Downey and the squirrels also began to spread beyond social media. Local schools started using it as an example in their environmental education classes, teaching students about the importance of animal protection and kindness towards all living beings. Downey was invited to speak at some of these schools. And as for Richard and Maxine, they continued to bring joy and wonder to Downey’s life, reminding him every day that even the smallest acts of love can have a huge impact (影响).

22．Why was Downey invited to speak at some schools?

A．Because he gave some food to the squirrels.

B．Because he made videos of the squirrels.

C．Because he built a house for the squirrels.

D．Because he showed great love for the animals.

23．Which is the right order according to the passage?

The squirrel started eating peanuts.

Schools used Downey’s story as an example in their classes.

A squirrel came to Downey’s balcony.

Downey began to post daily videos of the squirrels.

The followers helped Downey decorate the squirrels’ house.

A．c-b-a-d-e          B．c-a-d-e-b                C．a-c-d-e-b                D．d-a-c-b-e

24．What can we learn from the passage?

A．The squirrel came to Downey’s house with his friend every day.

B．The squirrels didn’t like the house on Downey’s balcony.

C．People can see Downey talking to squirrels in the video.

D．The students continued to bring joy and wonder to Downey’s life.

25．What is the best title for the passage?

A．The squirrel “dad”

B．The popular squirrel videos

C．Lovely squirrels

D．Downey’s balcony

第三部分 信息还原（共5小题：每小题1分，满分5分）

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

    26     He filled it with seeds (种子) and put it in his backyard and then birds started coming.     27     Then he joined a local (当地的) society. As he realized that more and more birds were dying very quickly, he wanted to try his best to help them.

    28     He does research about birds, runs a website to teach people about birds and how to help them, and builds boxes for birds. Not long ago, he found that bluebirds were nesting (做窝) in the dead trees which were often cut down, so he began to make bluebird boxes for the birds.     29     He hangs them up in trees and takes them down every week to see if the birds are nesting in them. He also writes articles, hoping that more people will join in protecting natural ecosystems (生态系统). “Researching birds is important to protect birds,” Jack says. “    30    ”.

A．Now the dead trees are fewer and fewer.

B．There are more and more birds flying away.

C．He got really interested in birds as more came.

D．Now he wants to use these boxes to take the place of (取代) dead trees.

E．In order to protect birds, we have to learn and really know about the birds.

F．Besides what he has done, he has his own group called Protecting Our Birds.

G．Jack’s love for birds started when he made his first bird feeder (喂食器) six years ago.

第四部分 词汇运用（共13小题；每小题1分，满分13分）

第一节 根据下列句子所给汉语注释或首字母，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式，每空限填一词。

31．We know about giant pandas _________ (主要) from books, TVs and films.

32．The great artist _________ (死) at the age of 92, leaving behind thousands of paintings.

33．Look at the _________ (斑马). How lovely they are!

34．The waiter advised us _________ (选择) the most popular dish in the restaurant.

35．David sold toy pandas to r_________ money to protect pandas in danger.

36．I can always make my friend l_________ when she isn’t happy.

37．The government has raised a lot of money to p_________ animals in the wild.

38．The government has done a lot to save animals in d_________.

第二节 请认真阅读下面短文，从方框中选择适当的单词，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，填入其正确形式。每个单词仅用一次。

There are many wetlands in China and some of them have become important nature reserves. The Chinese Yellow Sea Wetlands are     39     them. They are in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. They are home to many different kinds of birds and animals.

The temperature in the wetlands     40     not too high or too low. There is a lot of rain and sunshine too. The wetlands are really good places for wildlife. We protect wetlands     41     they can provide food and home for some special kinds of animals and birds.

Wetlands are important because they also     42     floods from happening. Luckily more and more people begin to know the importance of wetlands and wildlife. Every year, on February 2nd, we can invite many people     43     many activities to tell people more about wetlands around the world.

第五部分 短文填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

On February 1st, 2024, after spending 136 days at the Shenzhen Wildlife Rescue Center, a leopard cat cub (豹猫仔) finally went back into the wild. The cub’s journey began last September when someone     44     (find) it in a city park and called the center. Leopard cats are protected animals in China, so the workers at the center decided to take in     45     cub and look after it.

When the cub first arrived, it was small and weak. The workers had to put it in an incubator (保温箱).     46     (help) it grow stronger, they fed it milk every two hours.

After about 20 days, the cub was healthier. So the workers started feeding it meat. They then moved the cub to a special place with trees to get it ready for life in the wild. They tried not to make contact with the cub too much, so it wouldn’t get used to being around people.

By the end of December, the workers started     47     (train) it to hunt small animals like chickens, mice and fish. Once the cub could catch     48     (it) own food and stay     49     (safety), the workers knew it was ready to go back into the wild.

Before letting the cub go, the workers fed it a little more food than usual in case it couldn’t find any right away. “I’m happy     50     we’ve raised it well and now it can live in the wild, have a home, and     51     (hopeful) have babies on its own.” said one of the     52     (worker).

What a     53     (touch) story of humans and animals!

第六部分 阅读表达（共3小题；1题2分，2题2分，3题3分，满分7分）

请认真阅读下面短文，用英语回答短文后的问题。

Bitwalking is an invention by a small company in London. To make people walk more, this new app on the mobile phone is paying people, which is based on (在……基础上) their daily walking steps.

With this app, walkers can earn one “Bitwalking dollar” for about 1000 steps (about 8 kilometers). Three bitwalking dollars can be earned by one person per day at most. The money people earned can be spent on online shopping sites (地点) or exchanged for cash (现金).

One idea behind the app is to make people healthier. But the designers also have another goal: to improve people’s lives. In poor countries, people have to walk far to work, or to school, or simply to collect water. Workers in the countryside earn less than one dollar a day. By walking around with the Bitwalking app, they could earn three times more.

The company has also set up Bitwalking centers in some poor areas. At the centers, local people will learn how to use the Bitwalking dollars or trade (交易) them for cash. Bitwalking is really helping to change lives.

54．How many Bitwalking dollars can one people get at most every day?

________________________________________________________________________

55．What is the goal of Bitwalking?

________________________________________________________________________

56．Do you think we middle school students can use this app? Why?

________________________________________________________________________

第七部分 书面表达（共1题；满分25分）

57．假设你叫李华，6月18日在报纸上看到一篇《救救老虎》的报道。想到最近看见有人在路边销售老虎骨头（bone）等事，你感到担忧。请你给某报社编辑部写一封信。要点如下：

（1）老虎是国家保护动物，目前数量日趋减少；

（2）写信原因是看到有人为赚钱滥捕滥杀老虎；

（3）大量砍伐森林，破坏了老虎的生存环境。呼吁严惩捕猎者（hunter）。希望大家共同努力，创建一个人类和动物共存的幸福家园。

注意：

（1）书信应包括所有要点，但不要逐条翻译；

（2）词数80左右。（开头已给出，不计入总词数）

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参考答案

1．C

解析：句意：他们两人都在花园里种了同样的植物。

None没有； All都；Both都（两者之间）；Neither都不。根据下文“The retired teacher was giving a small number of water to his plants…But the other neighbor gave a lot of water to his plants.”可知，这两个人都种了植物，故选C。

2．C

解析：句意：他把它们照顾得很好。

took off脱下；grew up长大；looked after照顾；turned on打开。根据“He…them too well.”可知，此处指的是把植物照顾的很好，故选C。

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