山东省淄博市临淄区边河乡中学（五四制）2020-2021学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题

2020-2021学年度第一学期初三英语试题 (一)笔试部分 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分，共10页，满分90分，考试时间100分钟。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共34分） 一、完型填空（共10小题，满分10分） 阅读下面短文，从每小题A、B、C、D中选出一个能填入文章中相应空白处的最佳答案。 Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in China. His name was Ma Liang. He loved to 1 , but he didn’t have a brush. He was too 2 to buy one. He often used sticks to draw pictures on the ground. He said to himself, “ 3 I have a brush, I don’t need to draw on the ground with 4 .” One night, when Ma Liang was asleep, he had a dream. In his dream, he 5 an old man. The old man gave him a magic 6 . The old man said to Ma Liang, “I give you a magic brush. You can use it to help the poor in your village.” The next morning, when he 7 , he found a real brush in his hands. Ma Liang felt very 8 . He went to the village and decided to help the villagers. Some villagers said, “There has been a drought (干旱) and our crops (庄稼) are dying.