精品解析：广东省广州市天河区2020-2021学年八年级下学期期末英语试题

2020学年第二学期天河区期末考试 八年级英语 (本试卷共四大题，10页，满分90分。考试时间为100分钟。) 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的学校、班级、姓名、座位号、和考号填写在答题卡相应的位置上。 2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案；不能答在试卷上。 3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔或涂改液．不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 一、语法选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Books have magical power. They make people wiser and ___1___. And between the pages, book readers can ___2___ anywhere imaginable and become just about anyone. ___3___, many children all over the world don’t have a chance to read. For several years Maria Keller, ___4___ teenager from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been trying to change that. When she was ___5___, Maria already loved reading. She was surprised to find that classmates didn’t read as much as she did. She asked her mother: “___6___ is that?” “That’s probably because they were not able to buy books ___7___. Books are too expensive for them.” said her mother. So she decided ___8___ it. ___9___ her mother’s help, Maria created an organization to collect and send books to children in need. At the beginning, Maria set the goal (目标) for ___10___ — to collect and send 1,000,000 books in 10 years. ___11___ didn’t take long to reach that goal. So far, she has collected over 2,400,000 million books and has shipped them to many places around the world. She said: “As I continue my work, I have learned that ___12___ kids have no books. So I just can’t give up, even after ___13___ my goal.” She recently set a new goal to send books to kids in every state in the US, and every country in the world. ___14___ her hard work, many children have changed their life. Hopefully, more people ___15___ to pass on her kindness. 1. A. strong B. stronger C. more strong D. strongest 2. A. take B. took C. be taken D. are taken 3. A. So B. However C. But D. Instead 4. A. a B. an C. the D. / 5. A. 8-year-old B. 8 year old C. 8-y