精品解析：广东省广州市黄埔区2021-2022学年八年级下学期期末英语试题

2021—2022学年第二学期期末教学质量监测 八年级英语 本试卷共四大题，8页，满分100分。考试时间90分钟。 注意事项： 1. 答卷前，考生务必将自己的学校、班级、姓名、考生号和座位号填写在答题卡上，再用2B铅笔将考生号、座位号对应的信息点涂黑。 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。如需要改动，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的相应位置上；如需要改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案，改动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. 本卷共有选择题40小题，非选择题11题。 5. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 一、语法选择（共10小题；每小题1.5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，选出最佳选项。 Wayne Lotter was born in the Republic of South Africa. He had spent 25 years ___1___ the wild animals. Every day, he checked around by car, watched the park from the plane and sometimes walked alone. He was always thinking about how ___2___ people from killing the elephants. However, hundreds of elephants ___3___ every year. He and his workmates never gave up and did what they could to slow it down. In his opinion, ___4___ money only at making policy was not the best way. Then he built ___5___ network. It recorded the movement of elephants and would-be killers, so he could stop or catch them. This network was ___6___ enough to make more than 2,000 poachers（偷猎者）be caught. ___7___ the network, poachers became fewer and the elephant population began to increase slowly. Besides, he told local children they should care ___8___ the nature. He hoped everyone could join and fight this war. Unluckily, someone killed him while he ___9___ a taxi to a hotel on August 16th, 2017. And the possible reason for his death might be his work. He knew it would happen, but he still would like to help the elephants live ____10____ than they were. 1. A. protect B. protected C. to protect D. protecting 2. A. stop B. to stop C. stopping D. to stopping 3. A. kills B. killed C. were killed D. has killed 4. A. throw B. throws C. throwing D. threw 5. A. a B. an C. the D. / 6. A. success B. successful C. succeed D. successfully 7. A. Because of B. Because C. Except D. Except for 8. A. from B. at C. of D. for 9. A. takes B. is taking C. was taking D. has taken 10.