精品解析：广东省广州市海珠区为明学校2022-2023学年八年级上学期9月月考英语试题

2022—2023学年度八年级上学期英语9月质量监测 班级：________ 姓名：________ 一、语法选择 (共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文语法连贯的要求，选择可以填在横线上的最佳选项。 Pyramids(金字塔) are one of the most interesting buildings in the world. Many of the pyramids still survive along the Nile River in Egypt today for us ____1____ and study. In modern days, people look at them and ask, “Who built ____2____? Why? When? What is inside?” ____3____ years ago, some kings of Egypt created the pyramids. They ____4____ them as tombs(坟墓). They thought the pyramids ____5____ help people remember them as important persons. The oldest pyramid we know today ____6____ about 5000 years old. Some of them are huge. ____7____ pyramid is the Pyramid of Khufu. It is about 144 metres high and it is made ____8____ 2,300,000 stones. The stones are ____9____ big and heavy. Most of them are taller than ____10____ person. Scientists estimate(估计) it took at least 100,000 workers over 20 years to build the pyramid. As one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Pyramid of Khufu is a very popular place of interest. Every year, travellers from all over the world ____11____ to visit it. How did ancient people build the pyramids? ____12____ did they carry and lift up the large stones? Each stone fits with one another so well, ____13____ the people didn’t have modern machines at all! Now scientists ____14____ hard to study the pyramids. However, ____15____ can say how ancient people built them. 1. A. to see B. seeing C. saw D. sees 2. A. they B. them C. their D. theirs 3. A. Thousands with B. Thousand with C. Thousands of D. Thousand of 4 A. built B. building C. build D. are building 5. A. will B. would C. should D. may 6. A. is B. are C. was D. were 7. A. Large B. Larger C. Largest D. The largest 8. A. from B. by C. of D. with 9. A. very B. such C. much D. too 10. A. a B. an C. the D. / 11. A. came B. come C. comes D. are coming 12. A. What B. How C. Which D. Who 13. A. so B. if C. but D. because 14. A. are working B. works C. worked D. workin