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广东省珠海市2019-2020学年初中英语八年级下学期英语中小学学业质量监测试卷

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    Elevators can feel like magic. Step inside. Select your floor. Poof! The elevator quickly takes you where you want to go.

    But an elevator doesn't run on magic. It's a machine. And it's made up of several smaller machines. These machines work together to make the elevator move. An electric motor powers the elevator. Most elevators run with the help of a machine called a pulley. A pulley is a wheel with a rope around it. A pulley system helps to move the elevator car up and down. The controller is the “brains” of the elevator. When you push a button, the controller tells the car which floor to go to.

    Elisha Otis was the inventor of the world's first safety elevator. In 1854, he showed how it worked to the public for the first time. Curious crowds gathered in the World's Fair in New York to see it.

    The first passenger elevator was made in 1857, in New York City. Since then, technology has improved. Elevators have become more energy-saving. They are also much faster. Have you heard of the Empire State Building? Its elevators can take visitors from the ground floor to the 86th floor in less than one minute.

    Elevators play an important role in the modern world. “They make taller buildings possible,” Dot Mynahan says. “What's more, they are also important for disabled people and they make buildings more accessible to everyone,” she says. What's next for elevators? “The possibilities are endless.” Mynahan says.

(1)、What makes an elevator move?
A、An electric motor. B、A pulley system C、The controller D、All of the above
(2)、The first safety elevator was shown to the public for the first time in _________.
A、Otis Elevator Company B、the Empire State Building C、the World's Fair D、the UK
(3)、Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A、The first passenger elevator was made in 1857 by Dot Mynahan in New York. B、It takes you less than a minute to get to the 86th floor in the Empire State Building. C、It is possible for people to build taller buildings with the development of elevators. D、People were curious about the newly-invented elevator in the World's Fair.
(4)、The Chinese meaning of “accessible” in Paragraph 5 is __________
A、平易近人的 B、易使用的 C、可理解的 D、能接受的
(5)、What might be the best title for the passage?
A、Elisha Otis, A Great Inventor B、How an elevator works C、Elevators Take You Where You Want to Go D、Taking an Elevator in the Empire State Building
举一反三
阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Recently, a California college graduate's photos became popular on the Internet. In the photos, the graduate is working with her parents on the farm. Quickly, the 1 of the graduate —Jessica Rocha became well-known, too.

Jessica graduated from the University of California, Her parents 2 Mexico and they are farm workers. While she was growing up, they had her 3 on the farm alongside them. It helped her understand how4 it was to receive a higher education. She5 working on the farm in high school after classes. She would work at night with her father. She often6 very late but she still woke up at 5 a. m. to get ready for the city bus for school.

"I think my parents are great 7 they keep working, although the job is 8 and hard," she said. "No one thinks about or sees what9 behind a vegetable they buy at the store. But behind it is 10 who breaks his or her back every day working on the farm."

She said she 11 to work on the farm on weekends and school breaks even after she left 12 college and had a job with the University of California Police Department. And it was 13 because her parents had a great influence on her.

"Many times I wanted to give up, but my parents and their advice and support were the 14 I kept going," Jessica said. "I don't know15 I would be today without their help."

 阅读理解阅读下列材料,从下面每题的A、B 、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

So far, China has successfully sent a large number of satellites(卫星)and spaceships into space. Space scientists have been greatly inspired by the old stories and ancient famous people when giving them names. 

Since thousands of years ago, Chinese people have dreamed of going to the moon. Chang'e Flies to the Moon is one of the most popular stories. As you can see, China's first man-made satellite to circle around the moon was named Chang'e I. More interestingly, the moon rover( 巡 视器)was named after the Jade Rabbit(玉兔), who is the partner of Chang'e in the story. These old stories carry people's best wishes and dreams. With the development of science and technology, our scientists have made them come true. 

Kua Fu Runs After the Sun is another story to show how much ancient Chinese people

wanted to know about the unknown world. Now, Kua Fu is going with the scientists to"visit"the sun, because we have a space project called KuaFu Mission. 

Besides the ancient stories, space scientists also get ideas from ancient famous people. For example, Mozi, an ancient scientist, discovered that light travels in a straight line over 2, 000 years ago. His discovery made space study take a big step at that time. So, China's first quantum(量子) science satellite was named Mozi, making China the first country in the world to achieve quantum communication between satellites and the ground. 

From such simple things as giving names to the satellites, we can see how great our traditional culture is and what influence it has on our modern science and technology. 

 阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

When I was a boy, I used to love walking in the woods around my home. My mom warned me several times1 to travel so far that I would lose sight of the house. Being a naughty  boy, 2 , I soon found myself walking further away, testing just 3 I could go into the woods without getting lost. After4 my way once for two hours, though, I decided that I had better leave a trail (痕迹).

The next day I decided to try it. I walked into the woods5 the house was out of sight. Then I broke a small6 on a young tree to mark the way I walked. I walked further and broke many sticks. In a few places where there were no small sticks, I7 some daisies (雏菊) that were growing. After a while I finally got8 and couldn't walk any further. Then I decided to go back. When I turned around, I easily found my way home, but instead of being proud, I felt9 . I could see the trail of destruction(破坏) I had left in the woods going on and on. Looking at the broken sticks and dead10 , I was ashamed. I promised never to do that again. Instead, I started to cherish my time alone in the woods with nature. I'd sit by the streams and listen to them11 . I'd watch the birds and squirrels. I'd bend down to smell the flowers. And I even buried an acorn(橡树种子) or two12 that one day an Oak might grow.

There is an old saying that goes, "We will be known forever by the trails we leave. " As I have grown older and wiser, I have done my best to never13 a trail of destruction in my life as I did in the woods that day. I have instead tried to leave tracks of14 , kindness and goodness and I have also15 to show others that they can do the same and of course they have succeeded in doing this. May you always leave tracks of joy as you follow your own trail of love.

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