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沈阳市2022-2023学年度第七中学八年级上学期英语线上阶段性测试
(试卷满分:100分 考试时间:50分钟)
一.单项填空(共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)
从A,B,C,D中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. ________ is easy unless you put your heart into it.
A. Something B. Nothing C. Anything D. Everything
2. On my ________ birthday, my mum gave me a pen as a gift.
A. the tenth B. ten C. tenth D. the ten
3. Whose home is ________, Alice’s, Eric’s or Daisy’s?
A. far B. farther C. farthest D. the farthest
4. I can’t imagine ________ without computers.
A. living B. to live C. lives D. lived
5. Great changes have taken place ________ 2018.
A. at B. on C. since D. for
6. If you put salt into water, it ________.
A. disappears B. will disappear C. is disappearing D. disappeared
7. They are ________ a play for the English week.
A. putting up B. putting on C. putting out D. putting off
8. Finally, we succeeded ________ the exam.
A. in passing B. to pass C. on passing D. passed
9. You’d better ________ talk loudly here, the baby is sleeping.
A don’t B. not to C. not D. aren’t
10. —________ , sir?
—Yes, I need a monitor.
A. What would you like B. Can I help you
C Wha’s wrong D. What do you want to buy
二.完形填空(共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)
阅读短文,掌握其大意,然后从A、B、C、D中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
A group of people got together to visit their old university teacher. They talked about their ___11___ in work and life. After the teacher ___12___ his guests a drink, he went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of ___13___ and some cups-porcelain(瓷的), plastic, glass, crystal(水晶的), some plain-looking(外表平常的), some beautiful, some expensive. The teacher told them to help ___14___ to the coffee.
When all his students had a ___15___ in hand, he said, “I don’t know if you noticed, but when all the nice-looking and expensive cups were taken up, the plain and ___16___ ones were left behind. While it is usual for you to want only the ___17___ cup for yourselves, that is the reason for your trouble and stress.”
“___18___ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you went for the best cups a