浙江省余姚市兰江中学2019-2020学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题

兰江中学2019学年第一学期八年级期中素质测试 英语试卷（笔试部分） （满分：95分 考试时间：80分钟） 一、完形填空。(本题有15小题，每小题1分; 共计15分) 阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 In New York, on a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of a train station. He was playing his 1 . His music was so great that many people put money into his 2 . The next day, the young artist came to the  3 place, and played the violin as usual. Different from the day before, he took out a piece of paper and put  4 on the ground. The paper read, “Last night, a man named George Sang put an important thing into my hat  5 . Please come to get it soon.” After about half an hour, a (an)  6 man ran there in a hurry, “Oh, it’s you. You did come here.” The young violinist asked 7 , “Are you Mr George Sang?” “Yes! Yes!” Then the violinist asked, “Did you lose something?” “Lottery (彩票). It’s the most valuable lottery in my 70 years of life,” said the man. The violinist  8 a lottery ticke