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2022-2023学年下学期八年级英语期末考试(浙江温州卷)
英语
注意事项:
1.全卷满分90分。考试时间为90分钟。试题包含选择题和非选择题。考生答题全部答在答题卡上, 答在本试卷上无效。
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一、完形填空(本题有15小题,每小题1分,共15分)
阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
When I was a child, my father told me a story about himself. My father told me he was a rich young man. When my grandfather ___1___, he left my father a beautiful forest manor(庄园). Unluckily, before my father could sell it for a lot of ___2___, a big fire destroyed it. ___3___ beautiful green trees turn into waste suddenly, he felt his heart was broken.
After a few days, my father wanted to borrow some money ___4___ a bank to bring back the forest manor’s beauty. But the bank refused him because the bank didn’t ___5___ he could pay it back. Then he felt so ___6___ that he didn’t want to eat or drink anything. So he hid in ___7___ room for days. My mother was worried about him ___8___ advised my father to take a walk outside. So my father went out for a ___9___. When he turned the first corner, he saw a store with a huge crowd. “It could be holiday discounts(促销).” he thought. Finally, it ____10____ that the women were waiting to buy charcoal(炭) used for winter heating. Then a(n) ____11____ came to my father and his eyes were bright suddenly. He ran home and planned to make the forest’s burnt ____12____ into charcoal.
As soon as his charcoal came on the market, it sold out quickly. Soon, he sold more than 1,000 boxes of charcoal. It made my parents very ____13____. In the spring of the following year, the money was used to buy a large number of small trees. After a few years, the forest manor that was destroyed by the ____14____ came to life again.
Hearing the story, I ____15____ realized everything will be fine as long as we never give up. As the saying goes, “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” It’s the story that encoura