精品解析：广东省中山市中山纪念中学等2022-2023学年八年级上学期期中联考英语试题

2022-2023学年上学期期中水平测试试卷 八年级英语学科 二、语法选择（本题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后按照句子结构的语法和上下文连贯的要求，从每题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 Books have magical power. Reading books can make people wiser and ___1___. And between the pages, readers can ___2___ anywhere imaginable and become just about anyone. However, many children all over the world don’t have a chance to read. For several years, Maria Keller, a ___3___ teenager from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been trying to change that. When she was a small child, Maria already loved reading. She was surprised to find ____4____ her classmates didn’t read as much as she did. She asked her mother:“Why is that?” “That’s probably because they were not able to buy books ____5____. Books are too expensive for them.” said her mother. So she decided to reach it. With her mother’s help Maria created an organization to collect and send books to children in need. In the beginning, Maria set the goal （目标） by ___6___ —to collect and send 1,000,000 books in 10 years. It didn’t take long to reach that goal. So far, she has collected over 2,400,000 million books and has shipped them to a large number of ___7___ around the world She said: “ As I continue my work, I have learned that millions of kids have no books. So I just can’t give up, even after ____8____ my goal.” She recently set a new goal to send books to ___9___ kids in several states in the US. Because of her hard work, many children have changed their life. Hopefully, more people ___10___ to pass on her kindness in the future. 1. A. strong B. stronger C. more strongly D. strongest 2. A. take B. be taken C. are taken D. is taken 3. A. 14-year-old B. 14 years old C. 14 years-old D. 14 years’ old 4. A. which B. what C. that D. how 5. A. most easily B. easier C. easily D. more easily 6. A. herself B. her C. hers D. she 7 A. places’ B. place C. places D. place’s 8. A. reach B. reached C. to reach D. reaching 9. A. another B. others C. other D. the others 10. A. have continued B. will continue C.