精品解析：广东省佛山市南海区南海实验中学2020-2021学年八年级下学期第一次月考英语试题

【南海实验中学2020-2021初二下英语第一次月考试卷】 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，从题所给的A，B，C和D选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 The story of Wan Hu in the Ming dynasty who tried into space on a chair with burning rockets is not strange to us Chinese people. Since the earliest times people ___1___ so interested in the stars, the moon and the planets. The dream of travelling into space will never come to an end. Today people use modern machines ___2___ the universe. This is very different from the situation ___3___ years ago when people could do nothing but looked at the sky only with their eyes. However, the first astronaut appearing in space were not humans – they were animals. Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as ___4___ as possible for humans. So they chose to experiment with animals like frogs, dogs and monkeys and test ___5___ in spaceflights. Albert 2 was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly he ___6___ after his spaceship landed back on Earth.___7___ the result was different for Ham the Monkey. He was sent into space in 1961 and returned to Earth ___8___ good health. Scientists wanted to know: could ___9___ animal still stay healthy in his rest life on Earth? The answer was yes for Ham did everything well and lived for ____10____ 16 years. 1. A. are B. were C. have been D. will have 2. A. explore B. explored C. exploring D. to explore 3. A. thousand B. thousands C. thousand of D. thousands of 4. A. safe B. safer C. safest D. the safest 5. A. they B. them C. theirs D. themselves 6. A. dies B. died C. dead D. death 7. A. And B. So C. But D. Or 8. A. at B. on C. in D. for 9. A. a B. an C. the D. / 10. A. another B. other C. others D. the other 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。 Can you always notice what is going on around you? Sometimes the smallest things in our life can give us a lesson My wife, daughter and I moved into our home nine years ago and we spent a lot of time and energy working in our ____11____ to get look like what i