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2021-2022学年广东省佛山市禅城区八年级(上)期末英语试卷
二、语法选择
通读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 从每题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案, 并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。
Samuel Osmond is a 19-year-old student from Cornwall, England. He never studied the piano. However, he can play very difficult musical pieces by musicians such as Chopin and Beethoven just ____1____ minutes after he hears them. He learns a piece of music ____2____ listening to it in parts. Then he thinks about the notes in his head.
Two years ago, Samuel played his ____3____ piece Moonlight Sonata (奏鸣曲) by Beethoven. He surprised ____4____ around him. He can’t understand ____5____ people are so surprised. “I grew up with music. My mother played the piano and my father played the guitar. When I start to play the piano, it is ____6____ to m—I hear the notes and can keep them in mind—each and every note,” says Samuel.
Recently, Samuel performed a piece during a special event at his college. ____7____ piece has more than a thousand notes. It is so difficult that many professional pianists can’t play it. But Samuel says ____8____, “It’s all about super memory—I guess I have that gift (天赋).”
Samuel is still only a teenager. He doesn’t know what he ____9____ to do in the future. For now, he is just happy to play beautiful music and go on with ____10____ studies.
1. A. few
B. a few
C. little
D. a little
2. A. at
B. for
C. with
D. by
3. A. one
B. the one
C. first
D. the first
4. A. somebody
B. anybody
C. everybody
D. nobody
5 A. what
B. when
C. how
D. why
6. A. easy
B. easier
C. easiest
D. the easiest
7. A. A
B. An
C. /
D. The
8. A. confident
B. confidently
C. more confident
D. more confidently
9. A. wants
B. wanted
C. is wanting
D. was wanting
10. A. he
B. his
C. they
D. their
三、完形填空
通读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后在每小题所给的四个选项中, 选出一个最佳答案, 并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。
One night Bryan Ware went to a restaurant for his 40th birthday dinner. The restaurant usually gave children crayons while they were waiting for their ____11____. The crayons could keep children ____12____ so tha