精品解析：广东省广州市实验外语学校2022-2023学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题

广州市实验外语学校 2022-2023 学年度第一学期期中考试 初二年级 英语试卷 考试时间：100 分钟 满分：90 分 一、语言知识及运用（共两节， 满分 25 分） 第一节：语法选择（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分） Inventions can be either big or small. Big inventions ____1____ the TV and the computer make us ____2____ them all the time. There are also several small things around us. ____3____, we are seldom aware ____4____ them. The following ____5____ two small inventions. They are as ____6____ as big inventions. A paper clip helps hold pieces of paper together without ____7____ a hole. A big paper clip was put up in Norway ____8____ people remember the inventor of the paper clip, Johan Vaaler. He invented the paper clip in 1900 when working in ____9____. A paper clip is in fact a piece of wire. It can hold _____10_____ pieces of paper together. Now _____11_____ them are made and sold all over the world. The ballpoint pen was invented _____12_____ by a Hungarian called Biro. He had been trying to find _____13_____ use for the quick-drying ink and designed this pen. Later, a Frenchman, Marcel Bich thought up the idea of making _____14_____ use-and-throw pen and sold it cheap. It was named BIC and became _____15_____. 1. A. like B. are like C. likes D. are liked 2 A. feel B. to feel C. feeling D. felt 3. A. So B. Therefore C. But D. However 4. A. in B. to C. of D. at 5. A. is B. are C. was D. were 6. A. helpful B. more helpful C. most helpful D. the most helpful 7. A. make B. to make C. making D. makes 8. A. help B. to help C. helping D. helped 9. A. German B. Germany C. Germans D. Germanies 10. A. few B. a few C. little D. a little 11. A. million B. million of C. millions D. millions of 12. A. at 1930s B. in 1930s C. in the 1930 D. in the 1930s 13. A. other B. others C. another D. the other 14. A. a B. an C. the D. / 15. A. popularer and popularer B. more popular and popular C. more and more popular D. more popular and more popular 第二节 完形填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） Captain James Cook was a great explorer. Before he ____16____ exploring, maps of the Pa