精品解析：广东省广州市荔湾区协和中学2021-2022学年八年级下学期期中考试英语试题

广州市协和中学2021学年第二学期期中考试 初二年级英语科试卷 试题说明：本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，满分为90分，考试时间为100分钟。 第一部分 选择题（共61分） 一、单项选择（共7小题，每小题1分，满分7分） 请在下列各题所给的选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 1. —Amy, I’m not good at basketball. What should I do? —Why not ________ a basketball club to practise ________ basketball? A. join, playing B. to join, to play C. attend, playing D. to attend, to play 2. One of his wonderful stories ________ on a cold winter evening. A. took place B. was taken place C. is taken place D. takes place 3. A friendly basketball match between teachers and students________ tomorrow afternoon. Anybody is welcome. A. was held B. will be held C. is held D. must be held 4. The government warned some factories ________ the water again. A. pollute B. to pollute C. not pollute D. not to pollute 5. After you finish ________ the story, do you know what ________ next? A. to write; doing B. writing; doing C. to write; to do D. writing; to do 6.   it is raining hard,   the farmers are still working on the farm. A. Although; but B. Because; but C. Although; / D. Because; so 7. — Why didn’t you go to the party last night? — Because I ________. A. wasn’t invited B. didn’t invite C. haven’t invited D. don’t invite 二、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，选择可以填在横线上的最佳选项。 Nathan Sawaya is the first artist to ever take LEGO into the art world. He is considered as one of ___8___ in the world. He liked drawing cartoons, ___9___ stories, and playing with plastic toy bricks (积木) when he was a child. His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks at the age of five and he showed a great love for it. He thought playing with plastic toy bricks ___10___ of fun. He even took his building bricks with ___11___ to college! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made ___12___ bricks on his desk. Nathan started as a lawyer ___13___ gave up his highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist who uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks ___14___ everything f