精品解析：广东省广州市白云区广雅实验学校2021-2022学年八年级下学期期中英语试题

2021学年第二学期八年级期中教学质量检测试卷 英 语 本试卷分为选择题和非选择题两部分，共8页，五大题，满分120分，考试用时120分钟。 注意事项： 1. 答题前，考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的校名、姓名、班级、考号、座位号等相关信息。 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，再选涂其它答案标号；答案不能写在试卷上。 3. 非选择题答案必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔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，改动后的答案也不能超出指定的区域；不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。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，考试结束时，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 一、听力部分（共两节20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） 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，从各题所给的A、B、C、D项中选出最佳选项。 A woodcutter started a new job at a timber（木材）company. The pay and work conditions were quite ____1____. Since the company was treating him well, the woodcutter worked as hard as he could____2____ the needs of the company. His boss gave him ____3____ axe. Then he showed him ____4____ he should work. On his first day, the woodcutter cut down 18 trees. “Congratulations,” his boss said. “Keep ____5____!” The woodcutter ____6____ by his boss’s words. He worker much harder the next day, ____7____ could only cut down 15 trees. The third day, he worked even harder, but only cut down 10 trees. Day after day, he was cutting down ____8____ trees. “I ____9____ be losing my strength,” the woodcutter thought. He went to his boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what ____10____. “When was the last time you sharpened your axe?” his boss asked. “Sharpen? I have no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy ____11____ my work.” Our lives are like that. We sometimes get ____12____ busy that we don’t take time to sharpen our “axe”. In today’s world, it seems that everyone is busier than ever, but also less happy than ever. Why is this? There’s ____13____ wrong with activity and hard work. Probably it is just ____14____ we have forgotten how to stay “sharp”. We have forgotten to continuously improve our skills, so we lose our efficiency（效率）. Then we leave____15____ in a busy state and become nervous. We will feel less happy. So remember, always take the time to sharpen your “axe” and don’t become “blunt”. 1