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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。
Once upon a time, there lived a kind-hearted king. He loved birds and animals very much, and had a huge bird sanctuary(避难所) in his kingdom. He disliked hurting the animals and birds. He did not kill ____1____ even for meat. One day, the king got two beautiful ____2____ from a businessman. The king ordered the trainer to make them feel ____3____ in his palace.
One day, the king saw one bird fly very high, very quickly. ____4____, the other bird just sat on the branch(树枝) and didn’t ____5____ even a step. The trainer said that he had tried ____6____ he could but still ____7____ to make the bird move. Soon, the king said that he needed someone to make the other bird move and fly.
A few weeks later, an old man reached the king’s ____8____ and promised that he would make the bird fly like the other one. The king asked the old man to ____9____ the bird.
The next day, the king went to visit the old man. He was very ____10____ to see the other bird fly like the ____11____ one very high and fast. The king was very happy and gave the old man a handful of gold ____12____. Then he asked the old man ____13____ he had done to make the bird fly in a day. The old man simply replied, “I just ____14____ the branch of the tree where the bird used to sit on.”
Many of us are ____15____ this. We have wings to fly. We know how to fly, and where to fly. Still we sit doing nothing or doing something that makes us worse than others.
1.A.it B.her C.him D.them
2.A.dogs B.cats C.birds D.horses
3.A.tired B.sad C.strange D.comfortable
4.A.If B.Because C.However D.Although
5.A.run B.move C.jump D.climb
6.A.nothing B.everything C.anything D.something
7.A.passed B