2020-2021学年江苏省南京市八年级（上）月考英语试卷（12月份）- 409

一、单项选择（共15分，每小题1分）

• 1．---Hi， Sandy! What are you looking at here？
  ---Oh， hi! Here is a notice about ______.（　　）
  
  

  NOTICE Professor Lee will report his new research findings to us. Time： 2：00 p.m. this Wednesday Place： The meeting hall

  A．an advertisement	B．a piece of news
  C．a meeting	D．a report
  组卷：12引用：1难度：0.2

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• 2．Among the following words， which verb can form a noun for people by adding a different suffix？（　　）

  A．win

  B．speak

  C．visit

  D．report
  组卷：37引用：2难度：0.9

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• 3．Animals are friends of humans. However， people change the forests into farms， and make the animals' living space______.（　　）

  A．fewer and fewer	B．more and more
  C．less and less	D．larger and larger
  组卷：21引用：2难度：0.7

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• 4．Zhalong Nature Reserve is such a good place that people can watch the beautiful cranes         every warm morning.（　　）

  A．to dance

  B．dancing

  C．dance

  D．dances
  组卷：13引用：2难度：0.7

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• 5．A-fu， an animal protection organization in Nanjing， call on more people to                dogs and cats by donating animal food. （　　）

  A．show a pity to	B．take pity
  C．take pity on	D．give pity
  组卷：11引用：2难度：0.7

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• 6．--What snack do you think Miss Lee likes eating？
  --Chocolate        be her favorite. I see a big box of chocolate on her table.（　　）

  A．can

  B．need

  C．should

  D．may
  组卷：10引用：2难度：0.8

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• 7．--It believe my eyes. The Palace Museum is so great!
  --Sure it is. It is such a large palace and              an area of about 720，000 square meters.（　　）

  A．have

  B．with

  C．covers

  D．takes
  组卷：12引用：2难度：0.8

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• 8．--Mum， take a look at the poor tortoise! Is he dead？
  --Oh， no， my boy! He is OK. It is in winter now， and he always sleeps                the cold season.（　　）

  A．at

  B．through

  C．from

  D．until
  组卷：15引用：4难度：0.6

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• 9．-Daniel is such a nice boy that he always tries his best to help others.
  -So he is，we all like him because he can make us             .（　　）

  A．feeling warm	B．to feeling warm
  C．to feel warm	D．feel warm
  组卷：11引用：2难度：0.7

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• 10．Where there is a will， there is a way. He is such a good student that nothing can prevent him_______ knowledge.（　　）

  A．to learn	B．learn
  C．from learning	D．with learning
  组卷：12引用：2难度：0.7

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• 11．--It is said that the COVID-19 has made a comeback in Hong Kong， and a large number of people there infect.
  --I am sorry to hear that. To protect ourselves， we'd better            the masks.（　　）

  A．remember to wear	B．remember wearing
  C．remembering to wear	D．to remember to wear
  组卷：17引用：2难度：0.7

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• 12．       ，I didn't like this community at all. As time went on， the kind neighbors made me change my mind.（　　）

  A．At last	B．For the first time
  C．In the beginning	D．In the end
  组卷：20引用：3难度：0.5

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B） 请根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，注意：每空只填一词

• 37．The population of Earth is still going up.There will be less and less （1）g

  land for growing crops in the future.People worry that there will not be （2）e

  food for everyone in the middle of this century.
     Recently （3）s

  have found that one strange plant named fedtschenkoi （玉吊钟）（4）m

  help.It can take up carbon dioxide （CO₂）at night.It only needs 10 times less （5）w

  than food plants like beans.This means it can grow in the desert （沙漠）.In which ways could this plant help us？Deserts are becoming larger because the Earth's climate （气候）changes a lot.As a （6）r

  ，growing plants in the desert will be more and more important.Although it is dangerous to eat this plant，scientists can still study something about it：how it takes up CO₂ at night （7）w

  many other plants only do this during the day，and why it can （8）g

  in deserts.There are two directions to take this research.Producing a desert plant to eat will be （9）d

  ，but it may be easy to use the genes （基因）from this plant and put them into food plants.The（10）

  direction is to grow this type of plant for fuel （燃料）.At the moment we grow plants for fuel in good land.If we do it in deserts instead，more good land can be used to grow plants for food.
  组卷：26引用：2难度：0.4

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六、书面表达（满分20分）

• 38．洪泽湖湿地公园招聘寒假兼职的导游，来帮助接待外宾。假设你是阳光中学八年级学生韩梅梅，请根据下面的招聘广告写一封英文求职信。
  Part-time English tour guide Wanted
      Are you interested in animals？Are you good at English？Do you have free time during the coming winter holiday？If so，please write to us!We would like to know something about you and what you can do for wetlands.Please send your email to us at HongzeWetland@sina.jye.ai.
  注意：
  1.文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称；
  2.包含所给要点。适当发挥；
  3.语句通顺，意思连贯。条理清楚，书写规范：
  4.词数80词左右，文童开头已给出，不计入总词数。
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  组卷：5引用：2难度：0.7

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