精品解析：广东省深圳市龙岗区2020-2021学年八年级下学期期中英语试题

2020-2021 下期中水平测试初二英语试题 第一部分 选择题（50 分) Ⅰ. 完形填空（10 分) 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。 When I was a little girl, my father loved to play catch (抛接球游戏) with me. I wasn’t very ____1____, but he would encourage me. He was ____2____ telling me “keep your eye on the ball” as I would not be able to ____3____ even the easiest of throws. As I got older, we didn’t play catch as much. If I had a problem, I would go to my father to ask for his ____4____. He would try to joke with me and say “keep your eye on the ball”. We would both ____5____ because usually that suggestion did not apply to (适用于) the problem, but he would ____6____ to make me smile. My father became ill in 1995 when I was 23. As he suffered from a stroke (中风), he could not ____7____. There weren’t any more conversations. He could only mouth words, which were sometimes hard to understand. After a while, I seemed to be pretty good at ____8____ his lips (嘴唇), even better than the nurses who were ____9____ him. During our last conversation, I was telling him about a problem I was having with my work. Once again, I could read his lips: “Keep your eye on the ball.” We both smiled. That was the _____10_____ time I saw my father before he passed away. Since then, “keep your eye on the ball” has become a way for me to get rid of stress. 1. A. bad B. good C. happy D. interested 2. A. always B. never C. hardly D. seldom 3. A. touch B. catch C. break D. see 4. A. money B. information C. advice D. understanding 5. A. cry B. wave C. laugh D. hit 6. A. try B. refuse C. forget D. stop 7 A. eat B. hear C. walk D. speak 8. A. reading B. finding C. checking D. watching 9. A. looking at B. playing with C. caring for D. hearing frome 10. A. nearest B. worst C. hardest D. last Ⅱ. 阅读理解（40 分) 第一节 阅读下列短文, 从下面每小题所给的 A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将相应的字母编号涂黑。（共 15 小题, 每小题 2 分) A The Cooper family from the US are in Costa Rica for two weeks. Mike and Jane Cooper, their daughter Ann (15) and their son Toby (16) a