2022-2023学年第一学期八年级期末教学质量调研英语模拟试卷 (常州市)

2022-2023学年第一学期八年级期末教学质量调研英语模拟试卷 注意事项： 1.全卷满分为90分。考试时间为100分钟。考生须将答案书写在答題卡上，写在试卷上的一律无效。 2.答题前, 考生务必将自己的姓名、考试证号填写在试卷上，并填写答题卡上的考生信息。考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 一、单项选择(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分) 从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 1. —What do you think of Yancheng Nature Reserve you visited last Sunday? —It’s great. It is ________ ideal home for wildlife. A. a B. an C. the D. ／ 2. — Excuse me, how can I become a member of the Handwriting Club? — Please fill in this ________ form first and wait for our call. A. direction B. instruction C. application D. competition 3. — Why are you in a hurry, James? — ________ the early bus to the city centre. A. Catch B. To catch C. To catching D. Catching 4. — What’s the weather like in Kunming in winter? — The temperature is always ________ zero and it is warm all year round. A. above B. below C. among D. between 5. ________ time goes by, the little girl is becoming more and more beautiful. A. Until B. As C. After D. While 6. — Why didn’t you answer my call last night? I wanted to borrow your notebook. — Sorry. I ________ at that time. I had a long day yesterday. A. sleep B. slept C. is sleeping D. was sleeping 7. — Oh dear, how can I finish the task in such a short time? — You need to ________, and then make a plan first. A. calm down B. come down C. get down D. slow down 8. In the sentence “The company offers her a nice job.”, the underlined part is ________. A. IO B. OC C. DO D. P 9. After exercising for a whole month, he gets ________ than before. A. healthy B. healthier C. healthily D. more healthily 10. —________ does it take to ride to your school? —About twenty minutes. A. How soon B. How often C. How long D. How far 二、完形填空(共12小题;每小题1分，满分12分) 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 Two things changed my life: my mother and a white, bike basket. I would be a different person if my ____1____ didn’t bring the basket into my life. It was summer, one day, my mother took me to a bike shop to fix my bike—and there it was in the bed. The white basket winked(