精品解析：广东省茂名市直属学校联考2020-2021学年八年级下学期期末考试英语试题

茂名市直属学校2020-2021学年度第二学期期末考试 八年级英语 二、语法选择（共10分，每小题1分，共10分) 在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应的选项涂黑。 Yuan Longping, a world-famous Chinese scientist, has saved people without any magic. His success on hybrid rice (杂交水稻) has already fed ___1___ people in hunger. Yuan has spent all ___2___ life helping China feed nearly one-fifth of the world’s population with only about 7% of the world’s land. ___3___ great he is! Yuan was born on September 7, 1930. After graduating (毕业) from the Southwest Agriculture (农业) College, he worked ___4___ a teacher at an agriculture school in Hunan Province. About 60 years ago, some natural disasters hit China. Yuan saw many people lose their lives because of hunger every day. Since then, he ___5___ a lot of research on how to grow good rice. In 1964, he found a natural hybrid rice plant by accident. It had great advantages over others. Yuan was excited to see what he discovered. He then decided ___6___ this special plant. In 1973, he started to grow a kind of hybrid rice. It produced 20% more rice each unit than common ones. The next year, he made great progress. This progress made China become the world’s leader in rice production. In China, Yuan’s hybrid rice is grown in most rice fields. He is called the “Father of Hybrid Rice”. He has ___7___ dream. He hopes hybrid rice will grow as ___8___ as Chinese sorghum (高粱) one day! Sadly, he ___9___ of illness at 1:07 p.m. on May 22nd, 2021, at the age of 91. Many people think ____10____ it is a great loss (损失) to the world. 1. A. millions of B. million C. millions D. million of 2. A. him B. he C. his D. himself 3. A. How a B. How C. What D. What an 4. A. for B. in C. against D. as 5. A. has done B. will do C. does D. do 6. A. studying B. to study C. studied D. study 7. A. an B. the C. / D. a 8. A. taller B. tallest C. tall D. the taller 9 A. died B. dies C. dead D. dying 10. A. what B. if C. whether D. that 三、完形填空(本大题有10小题,每小题1分,共10分) 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,并将答题卡上对应的选项涂黑。