浙江省湖州市长兴县华盛达实验学校2023-2024学年八年级上学期开学英语试题

八年级上英语练习 第一部分文章练兵 一、完形填空 阅读下面短文，理解其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，各2分， I often went to a park near my home. I always saw a little boy sell __1__ there. He tried to ask everyone to buy his flowers. When he saw __2__, he always said, "Sir, buy a flower. " __3__ I never bought any flowers from him. One day, I went to the __4__. The boy was there again. I didn't __5__ him and walked past him into the park. When I came out of the park, the boy was still there. But he didn't ask anyone to buy his flowers. I wanted to know __6__. I walked to the boy. He looked at me but __7__ say anything. "Boy, why don't you ask people to buy your flower today? " He __8__, "Because my grandmother is dead (死亡). I don't need much __9__ now. You can take a flower for free. " I bought all his flowers. But I felt so sorry, because I didn't give him any __10__ when he needed. 1. A.books 2.A.me 3.A.And 4.A.work 5.A.see 6.A.what 7.A.didn't 8.A.asked 9.A.time 10.A.money B.food B.him B.So B.park B.look at B.how B.wasn't B.told B.money B.flowers C.drinks C.her C.But C.school C.find C.when C.doesn't C.answered C.food C.love D.flowers D.us D.Or D.zoo D.ask D.why D.isn't D.agreed D.water D.help 二、阅读理解 (一)阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A.B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，各2分。 A China is a country having the largest population in the world, with more than 1.4 billion people. However, it's shown that China's birth rate (率) is dropping. According to the NBS (国家统计局)，10.62 million babies were born in 2021, a birth rate of 7.52 per 1, 000 people. This is down from a rate of 8.52 per 1, 000 people in 2020. This means the natural growth rate of the population was just 0.34 per 1, 000 people. It is the lowest since China's Great Famine (饥荒) from 1959 to 1961, which killed about 30 million people and caused a population decline. Ning Jizhe of the NBS told state media some of the reasons for the decline in births are that people's opinions about having children have changed, birth rates are dropping, and young people are taking longer to get ma