广东省黄埔广附教育集团联考2023-2024学年八年级上学期英语期中试卷

2023-24学年第一学期黄埔广附教育集团联考 八年级英语试卷 考试时间：90分钟； 试卷满分：90分； 命题人：刘敏； 审题人：黄丽芳 注意事项: 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在试卷上无效。 第I卷（选择题） 一、语法选择（共15小题；每小题1分, 满分15分） 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 When Robert Goddard was 17 years old, he climbed a cherry tree to cut its dead branches. He looked around and imagined  1  into space, maybe even to Mars.The year was 1899. As a child, Goddard loved reading. Because he was a sick child, he didn't 2  from high school. He often visited the library to borrow books  3  physical sciences. In his free time, he built rockets and took them to  4  field, but they didn't fly. In 1920, Goddard wrote an article about rocket travel. When the New York Times saw his article, a reporter wrote that Goddard had  5  knowledge about science than a high school student. In 1926, Goddard built a ten-foot rocket, put  6  into an open car, and drove to a field on his aunt's nearby farm. He lit the fuse, and the rocket   7 into the sky. It traveled at  8  per hour to an altitude of 41 feet,  9  , it fell into the field. The flight lasted 2.5seconds,   10  made the U.S. government not show much interest in Goddard's  11  . Over the years, his rockets  12  grow to 18 feet and fly up to 9,000 feet. No one made fun of him  13  he was successful. In fact, he became known as the father of modern rocketry. Goddard didn't live  14 space flight. He died in1945, but his work wasn't ended. 15 scientists continued to build bigger and better rockets. In 1969, the American rocket ApolloⅡtook the first men to the moon. At that time, the New York Times wrote about its 1920 article “The Times regrets the error.” 1.A .go       B .goes      C .to go     D .going 2.A .graduating    B .graduate   C . graduated D .graduation 3.A .on      B .for      C .in       D .at 4.A .a       B .an       C .the