湖北省宜昌市东山中学2022-2023学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题

2022年秋季学期中期阶段学情检测 八年级英语学科 第一部分语言知识及运用（共25分） 第一节（共 15 小题，计 15 分） 完形填空：先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。 Do you know that many different ___1___ of birds can imitate (模仿) people’s words? African grey parrots (非洲灰鹦鹉) are a good ___2___. Now let’s have a look! Every December in London, a bird show tries to ___3___ the best “talking” bird in the world. One bird named Prudle stood out. She ___4___ the prize for 12 years from 1965 to 1976. Prudle came ___5___ Uganda(乌干达). She was very talented. She knew almost 800 English ___6___. She was also the ___7___ bird in the world that lived in a cage (笼子) . Her owner (主人) took care of her until she ___8___ in 1994, at the age of 35. A different kind of bird, not a parrot, named Puck joined the ___9___ in1993. Puck was ___10___. He knew more English words ____11___ Prudle did. Puck knew ___12___ 1,700 words. Many students think that learning a new ___13___ is pretty difficult. They can't ___14___ the words. ___15___ if a bird can do it, anybody can do it. So come on! Everybody can do it more easily. 1.A.colors B.names C.kinds D.places 2.A.example B.report C.idea D.program 3.A.see B.choose C.visit D.act 4.A.save B.made C.sold D.won 5.A.to B.through C.from D.with 6.A.books B.students C.words D.cities 7.A.oldest B.most C.worst D.biggest 8.A.felt B.came C.died D.looked 9.A.subject B.show C.club D.movie 10.A.excellent B.interesting C.special D.serious 11.A.so B.as C.than D.like 12.A.too much B.more than C.lots of D.in fact 13.A.language B.word C.class D.bird 14.A.know B.remember