山东省德州市禹城市2022-2023学年八年级上学期期中英语试题

2022～2023学年第一学期期中教学质量检测 八年级英语试题 —、阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2.5分，总计50分） 阅读下列短文，然后从每小题A、B、C、D中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。 A In October, 2012, Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has become the first Chinese writer to receive this award (奖项). Mo Yan was born in Gaomi in 1955. His works are most about his country’s life. He talks about what happened in his hometown even before he was born. His novel Red Sorghum in 1986 is an example. It tells a story that happened in his hometown in the 1930s. Many people got to know Mo Yan when the book was made into a successful film in 1987. In 2006, his novel Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out came out and it quickly got popular. His last novel, Frog, is about a doctor’s experience in the countryside. Chinese children’s fiction writer Cao Wenxuan is the first Chinese to win Hans Christian Andersen Award. He was born in 1954 in a small village in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. Cao had a poor childhood, but he often read in the library. He studied hard and finished his study at Peking University in 1974. Then he started to write novels and children’s books. In 2005, he published Bronze and Sunflower and won many awards in China. Jin Yong is the most famous martial arts writer (武侠小说作家) in China. His real name was Zha Liangyong. In 1924, he was born in Zhejiang Province and he passed away at the age of 96 in Hong Kong. During his lifetime, he wrote about 15 kung fu novels. The Book and The Sword is his first kung fu novel. In 1960, it was made into a film by Lichen. At the age of 45, he began to write his last novel The Deer and the Cauldron and finished it in 1972. Many people think it’s the best novel Jin Yong wrote. 1. How old was Mo Yan when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature? A. 25. B. 26. C. 53. D. 57. 2. What’s the underlined word “published” meaning? A. wrote down B. warmed up C. came out D. looked for 3. Put the following works in time order. ① The Book and The Sword ② Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out ③ Frog