2022-2023学年湖南省常德市汉寿县八年级（下）期末英语试卷

第一部分阅读理解第一节阅读下列材料，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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  Student Volunteers Needed! Are you looking for something fun and want to help others in your free time？Then join us to be a volunteer! On May 23，from 9 am to 4 pm，Clapton Middle School will be holding a music festival in the school gym.The special event will feature（以...为特色）all kinds of professional （专业的）musicians and singers.  Task Time Date Make posters（海报） 1pm-4pm May 17 Set up the gym 11am-4pm May 20 Help performers 9am-4pm May 23 Welcome guests 10am-2pm May 23 Clean up the gym 4pm-7pm May 23 Interested students should speak with Ms.Miller，the music teacher.Students who would like to help at the festival must have written permission（同意书） from your parents.

  （1）How long does the music festival last？

  
  A．3 hours.
  B．4 hours.
  C．7 hours.
  （2）Which of the following jobs should be done before the festival？

  
  A．Make posters.
  B．Help performers.
  C．Clean up the gym.
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• 2．Most children don't enjoy doing housework.They like playing computer games better than cleaning the rooms.But in Australia，Jim and Robert's mother，Mrs.Black，has good and proper ways to get her children to do housework.Here is an example.
     "Mom，have you worked out next week's housework？Let Jim and me choose the cards.I can't wajye.ai.It's fun!" When Robert shouted out，his mother had already put all the cards on their big table.On the cards，there are some words like these， "sweep the floor，clean your bedroom，help mom cook，wash vegetables，make the bed，" and many others.Jim and Robert each choose two cards every day from Monday to Friday.Then they hang them on the weekday task board.Jim likes to clean，so he picked up the card "clean the bathroom".Robert loves to make the bed，so he picked up his favorite card.Soon the two boys were happy to take away all the cards.
     To make the children do housework，their mother thought hard and came up with this idea.Of course，the parents do the housework on weekends and leave Jim and Robert two free days.
  
  （1）From the passage we know that most children like

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  A．doing housework
  B．playing computer games
  C．doing homework
  （2）Jim and Robert each choose

  cards for housework from Monday to Friday.
  A．two
  B．five
  C．ten
  （3）Who does the housework on weekends？

  
  A．The parents.
  B．The whole family.
  C．Two children.
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• 3．A zero-waste life is a lifestyle that hardly creates any rubbish.
     "Zero waste" was first suggested by a French woman called Bea Johnson.Her idea is：live a life and try not to create any rubbish；use different kinds of ways to save the environment，such as stopping the use of one-off objects；giving unwanted things to others or donating these things to organizations like the Red Cross.
     A zero-waste life follows the 6 R rule—Refuse，Reduce，Reuse，Repair，Recycle and Rot.Chen Yuan，27，is deeply interested in this idea.She and her boyfriend Joe have lived in Beijing for many years.Over August-October when Chen followed the rule of zero waste 6 R，she and her boyfriend both produced only two cans of rubbish.Now the couple have opened a small shop in Beijing，where they use wood products to take the place of plastic ones and cloth bags printed with environmental logos.The store also has second-hand books and CDs to make the best of the used things.
     "The zero-waste lifestyle is not for ascetics（苦行僧）.It is just around us." Chen expects some of her friends to join her on the road to zero waste.
  
  （1）Bea Johnson suggests that people should

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  A．try to create no rubbish
  B．throw away unwanted things
  C．use the one-off objects all the time
  （2）What does the underlined word "donating" in paragraph 2 mean？

  
  A．Giving back.
  B．Giving out.
  C．Giving away.
  （3）We can see from the passage that Chen Yuan

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  A．is interested in the 6 R rule
  B．offers plastic bags in her store
  C．likes listening to CDs very much
  （4）What Chen Yuan says in the last paragraph probably means that

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  A．her friends like her lifestyle
  B．the zero-waste lifestyle is not hard to live
  C．lots of people have lived the zero-waste lifestyle
  （5）The passage is most probably from

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  A．an ad
  B．a newspaper
  C．a story book
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第三节阅读下面短文，将划线部分译成英文或中文。

• 9．My hometown is a small village far away from big cities.There is a river in my hometown，but I never saw any fish in it before. （1）过去河边有许多工厂。They put waste into the river and that made the water dirty.What's worse，people cut down too many trees to make more space for tall buildings. （2）As a result，animals didn't have a place to live or food to eat.
      （3）自从2020年以来，我的家乡发生了很大变化。 The government took action to make the environment better.They closed these factories. （4）So the water in the river are not dirty any more.I can see many kinds of fish swimming freely in it now.They villagers also did something.They planted many trees.These trees are home to many wild animals.I can hear birds sing again.
      （5）My hometown has left many sweet memories in my heart. If you visit my hometown one day，I believe you will enjoy yourself here.
  
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第三部分 写作

• 10．2023年5月15日早上7时57分，经过10个小时的艰难攀登，湖南16岁女孩徐卓媛成功登顶珠穆朗玛峰。登山的整个路途是非常艰难的，徐卓媛克服了重重困难，最终平安顺利地站在了世界之巅。在你的生活上和学习上必定也遇到过很多的困难，你是怎么克服它们的？请你写一篇短文，讲述你的经历。具体内容如下：
  What difficulty did you meet？
  When did it happen？
  How did you feel at that time？
  What did you do？
  What did you learn from it？
  参考词汇：克服困难 overcome difficulties
  要求：（1）书写工整、语句通顺、句意连贯，词数80词左右；
  （2）文中不得出现真实的人名、校名、地名。
     Life is full of roses and thorns.It's normal to meet some difficulties in our daily life.________
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