精品解析：广东省佛山市南海外国语学校2020-2021学年八年级下学期期中测试英语试题

【南海外国语学校2020-2021学年度第二学期期中测试】 二、语法选择 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从各题所给的A，B，C和D选项中选出最佳选项。 When I was ten, my mother worked all day, so I had to take care of my younger brother. At that time, my little brother was about four years old and he missed mum all the time. One day, after I gave ___1___ his dinner, he started crying for mum. He was so young and really needed mum. So I dressed him, put on his shoes, carried him on my back and walked out. Soon he fell ___2___. About half an hour later, I found that he lost a shoe when he ___3___. I took him off my back and put him ___4___. I knew we needed to find that shoe, for our mother couldn’t afford new shoes. I had to go back ___5___ it, so I told my brother to wait right there. A man heard it and stopped me just ___6___ I walked off. He asked me, “You are leaving your brother to find the shoe? What will you do if he is not here when you return? ” I did not know ___7___ to answer that question. He continued, “It’s OK if you ___8___ find the shoe but it is not OK to lose your brother.” Then he sent us to mum’s workplace by ___9___ taxi. During my whole life, I have received the kindness from many strangers. I feel sorry that I cannot find them and say “Thank you” to them. I do not even remember what their faces looked like, but they taught me a lesson—people are ____10____ than things. 1 A. he B. him C. himself D. his 2. A. sleep B. sleepy C. asleep D. slept 3. A. was sleeping B. slept C. is sleeping D. sleeps 4. A. down B. up C. on D. off 5. A. find B. finding C. to find D. found 6. A. after B. before C. until D. since 7. A. how B. what C. when D. whether 8. A. can B. must C. can’t D. mustn’t 9. A. a B. an C. the D. / 10. A. important B. more important C. most important D. the most important 三、完形填空 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。 As a bride (新娘) a woman put a box on a shelf and asked her husband never to touch it. For 50 years, he had ___11___ the box alone. One day he saw the box again and t