精品解析：广东省深圳市龙华区2020-2021学年八年级下学期期中英语试题

2020-2021 学年第二学期八年级期中联考 英语科试卷 （时间：100 分钟 满分：80 分） Ⅱ . 完形填空(10 分) (共 10 小题 ,每小题 1 分) 阅读下面短文， 从短文后所给的四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将相应的字母编号涂黑。 John H. Johnson was born into a black family in Arkansas City, in the US in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. When he reached high school age, there was no high schools for ___1___ in his hometown. ___2___, he had a strong-willed and patient mother. She always encouraged(鼓励) him and helped him ___3___ she could. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son, believe in yourself and work hard enough. You can be anything you want to be. You have to ___4___ success,” she said. “Not all the people who work hard will succeed, but success only ___5___ hard work. Keep it in mind that you should learn from each failure.” Later, she took her son to Chicago. But Chicago was not the land for blacks in 1933. John’s mother and stepfather could not even find work there. The only ___6___ thing was that John could attend school. In 1942, after graduating from the University of Chicago, he acted on the idea that he should start a ___7___ for the blacks. ___8___ others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She even gave him a $500 loan(贷款) against her own furniture to help him start the Negro (the blacks) magazine. ___9___ believes these words came from a woman with little education. Difficulties and failures followed John closely but he ____10____ kept his mother’s words in mind. “Son, failure should not be in your vocabulary.” So he became one of the 400 richest people in America before he died in 2005 at the age of 87. 1. A. boys B. girls C. blacks D. adults 2. A. Suddenly B. Luckily C. Sadly D. Exactly 3. A. as many as B. as well as C. as much as D. as soon as 4. A. fight for B. fight against C. work as D. think of 5. A. takes care of B. stays away from C. gets close to D. comes along with 6. A. disappointed B. shameful C. happy D. natural 7. A. new