2023—2024学年辽宁省辽阳市八年级下学期期末考试英语试卷一、阅读理解(★★★) The map gives the instruction of fire escape routes (逃跑路线) in a library of a junior high school. The layout (布局) of the third floor mainly includes study rooms, a reading room and a video room—with corridors linking (连接) them with stairs and fire exits. In general (一般来说), there are two possible fire escape routes (路线) for students to escape (逃离) from danger. The one on the right side can help more students to escape compared with its left. When we come to a new place, we should learn about the escape routes.1. Fire Exit A is in the ________ of the map. A．northB．eastC．westD．middle2. Fire Exit B is for the rooms except (除了) ________. A．Video RoomB．Meeting RoomC．Study Room 1D．Study Room 23. The lift is ________ the restroom. A．in front ofB．next toC．across fromD．behind4. There are ________ possible fire escape routes for students to escape from danger. A．twoB．threeC．fourD．five (★★★) Some things don’t just get along well with each other. Take oil and water as an example. You can mix them together and shake as hard as you like but they’ll never become friends... or will they? What you’ll need: ◆A small bottle ◆Water ◆Food coloring (食用色素) ◆Two tablespoons of cooking oil ◆Dish washing liquid (液体) Instructions: Add a few drops of food coloring to the water. Pour about two tablespoons of the colored water along with the two tablespoons of cooking oil into the small bottle. Shake the bottle as hard as you can. Put the bottle back down and have a look. It seems that the liquids are mixing together but the oil will float (浮) back to the top after a while. Add some dish washing liquid. The washing liquid is attracted (引起反应) to both water and oil, helping them all join together and form (形成) something called an emulsion (乳状液). This is good to use when washing those greasy (油腻的) dishes. So the washing liquid can take the oil and dirty things off the plates and into the water.5. In this experiment (实验), you need to pour colored water and cooking oil into ________. A．a tablespoonB．a small bottleC．a plateD．a cup6. ________ is the key to get an emulsion (乳状液). A．Food coloringB．The tablespoonC．Dish washing liquidD．The floating water7. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? A．Oil and water can’t mix well at once.B．In this experiment (实验), you need three tablespoons of food coloring.C．Shaking water and oil hard can get an emulsion (乳状液).D．Dish washing liquid helps water and oil turn into water.8. You may find this passage in ________. A．an adB．a guidebookC．a posterD．a science book (★★★) Long long ago, there was a little boy living in a small poor house on a hill. When he played in his little garden, he could see a beautiful house high on the other hill. This house had golden windows. They were so nice that the little boy dreamed all day, “How fantastic it would be to grow up and live in a house with golden windows!” When he was old enough to go outside his garden, he asked his mother if he could go for a walk outside the gate. His mother agreed, telling him to keep close to the house. The day was beautiful and the little boy walked until he got to the house with golden windows. When he looked at the house, he was so disappointed. All the windows were common and very dirty. And a little girl inside, saw him staring (凝视) at her home and came out to ask if he was looking for something. “Yes,” replied the boy, “I wanted to see the house with the golden windows that I see every morning.” “Oh, you’ve come to the wrong place,” she said quickly. “If you wait here until sunset, I will show you the house with the golden windows that I see every evening.” She then pointed to a house in the distance (距离)—the home of the little boy. The boy was surprised to see a little house with golden windows as the sun shone (照射) on his own house. He realized that he had been living in the “house with golden windows” all the time.9. What did the boy dream of? A．Having a bigger garden.B．Going outside his garden.C．Having lots of gold in the house.D．Living in a house with golden windows.10. His mother told the boy ________ when he went out. A．to play in the gardenB．not to go too farC．to clean the windowsD．not to go outside the garden11. The underlined word “disappointed” means ________ in Chinese. A．可怕的B．极好的C．失望的D．奇怪的12. Which is NOT right from the text? A．The girl’s house really had golden windows.B．The sun made the windows look beautiful.C．We should cherish (珍惜) what we have had.D．The boy also had a house with golden windows. (★★★★) Zhao Li is called “Prince Butterfly”. He’s famous as the writer of the “Chinese version (版本) of Fabre’s Book of Insects (《昆虫记》) ” and the founder (创始人) of Asia’s largest insect museum. His。
