江苏省南通市海门区东洲国际学校2023-2024学年八年级上学期9月月考英语试题

江苏省南通市海门区东洲国际学校2023-2024学年度八年级九月份第一次月度考试 英语·试题卷 （全卷共100分 考试时间120分钟） 1． 单项选择（每题1分，共10分） 1. She was admired by all her friends because the famous university offered her ____extra chance after __________ last week's interview. A. /; the B. an; the C. an; / D. a; the 2. —What happened to her _______ that cold winter evening ? —I don't know, and I'm also curious ___________ it. A. in; of B. on; about C. in; about D. on; for 3. —Oh, my God! I’ll nearly lose my heart. —Cheer up. Life _________ be perfect all the time. A. mustn’t B. can't C. needn’t D. shouldn't 4. —Did you enjoy the training these days? —Yes! Though I was __________ dead after so much hard training. A. as good as B. as well as C. so good as D. so well as 5. He made a serious mistake, but he took action to change that ___it got worse. A. when B. after C. until D. before 6. ______was born being good at all things. As an English learner, you won't be excellent without enough practice. A. Everybody B. Somebody C. Nobody D. Anybody 7. —You don't know what great difficulty I had ______to get the two tickets. —But the film is really worth _________ twice. A. managed; to be seen B. to manage; seeing C. managing; being seen. D. managing; seeing 8. Some teenagers don't like to talk with their parents, but I am _________them. I love to talk with my parents. A. different from B. the same as C. pleased with D. interested in 9. —Why are you so late today? — Three buses went by without stopping while I __________at the bus stop. A. am waiting B. waited C. was waiting D. have waited 10. In the old days, workers were ________to work over 12 hours a day by the boss. How tired they were. A. allowed B. forced C. afforded D. reminded 二、完形填空（本题共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 When Amy wrote her first novel in secondary school, she never dreamed that she would become a writer one day. Like many 11 writers on the Internet, the 28-year-old woman got int