广东省珠海市香洲区紫荆中学桃园校区2022-2023学年八年级上学期期中英语试题

珠海市紫荆中学桃园校区2022-2023学年度第一学期期中教学质量监测 初二年级英语试卷 一、语法选择（每小题1分，共10分） There are four good friends—Mouse, Bird, Turtle and Deer. Every day, they meet at the lake and tell each other ____1____ stories. One day, Deer did not come to the lake. “How often ___2___ this happen? Never!” they thought and worried. They were afraid Deer might be caught because they saw ___3___ hunter in the morning. Bird flew over to see what happened. It took him a few minutes ___4___ Deer was in a trap (陷阱). He flew back to ask ___5___ two for help. When they helped Deer out, the hunter appeared. Deer and Mouse ran away ___6___. But Turtle was slow. The hunter found him. He thought a turtle was ___7___ than nothing. So the hunter picked him up and started for home. All the others had to plan ___8___ out Turtle. They thought of a good idea. Deer lay down on the way and it seemed that he ___9___. Bird landed on Deer’s head. The hunter saw Deer and Bird, ____10____ he put Turtle down to get them. As soon as the hunter left Turtle, Mouse ran up and helped Turtle hide. Deer jumped and ran away. Bird flew up to the sky. When the hunter went back for Turtle, he found nothing. “There’s a magic here” He said surprisedly. There was magic that day. It was “friendship”. 1. A. interest B. interests C. interested D. interesting 2. A. does B. do C. did D. done 3. A. a B. an C. the D. / 4. A. see B. saw C. seeing D. to see 5. A. other B. another C. the other D. others 6. A. quick B. quickly C. quicker D. quickest 7. A. good B. well C. better D. best 8. A. help B. to help C. helped D. helping 9. A. dead B. death C. dying D. died 10. A. so B. because C. but D. if 二、完形填空（每小题1分，共10分） I practiced swimming for competitions about five years, but I was ready to quit (退出) these days. The main reason was that I ____11____ got “Honorable Prize (鼓励奖)”. It simply showed that “Thank you for joining. You didn’t get the first, second or third, but we don’t want you to go home with ____12____.” Before a big swimming competi