广东省珠海市梅华中学2023-2024学年上学期八年级开学考英语试题

珠海市梅华中学 20232024学年第一学期开学考试 初二英语试卷 说明：1.全卷共6页，考试时间为70分钟，满分90分， 2.书写个人信息和答题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卷各题目的指定区域 内相应位置上：不准使用涂改液和涂改带。不技以上要求作答的答案无效。 3.考生必须保持答题卷的整洁。考试结束后，将答题卷上交，试卷自己妥善保存。 一、语法选择（本大题共10小愿，每小题1分，共10分） People all over the world eat rice.Millions of people in Asia.Africa and South America live on it Rice is 1. _kind of plant.There 2.more than 7,000 kinds of rice.Rice grows in 3.countries,even in the south of the United States and in Eastem Australia. China is 4. 5. _rice-growing country in the world China grows millions of tons of rice every year,but is not easy to feed its large population().In the 1960s,thousands of Chinese people died 6. they didn't have enough food to eat. In the 1970s,Yuan Longping.a Chinese scientist,grew a new kind of rice called hybrid rice ()It makes 20%more rice than any 7.kind.Hybrid rice is a strong plant.Today,half of China's rice plants are Yuan's special hybrid rice.China uses Yuan's hybrid rice 8.much more rice than before.Yuan is known 9. the"Father of Hybrid Rice".He won the World Food Prize for his work to help feed so many people in 2O04.As he got his Lifetime Achievement Award(终身成就奖)，Yuan said that lifetime achievement means 10. all your life. 1.A.a B.an C.the D./ 2.A.is B.are C.was D.were 3.A.few B.little C.many D.much 4.A.large B.larger C.the largest D.largest 5.A.it B.its C.it's D.itself 6.A.and B.but C.so D.because 7.A.the other B.other C.the others D.others 8.A.grow B.grows C.growing D.to grow 9.A.at B.on C.as D.to 10.A.work B.working C.works D.to work 二、完形填空（本大题共10小题，每小愿1分，共10分） 请通读下面短文，攀握其大意，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 Do you often watch talent competitions?They are becoming more and more 11. on British television. Britains Gor Talent is one of the most famous talent shows in Britain.In this 12. people from around the country come and perform in front of judges ()like musicians and actors. In the past few years,many people came and.13.lots of different talents.Some of them were 14. excellent.For example,an 80-year-old woma