广东省珠海市香洲区市第九中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期期中英语试题

2023-2024学年第一学期八年级期中教学质量检测试卷（英语） 说明：1. 全卷共有6页。满分为90分，考试用时70分钟； 2. 全部答案一律写在答题卡上。考试结束时，上交答题卡。 一、语法选择（本大题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 通读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在各小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。 Torbjorn Pedersen is a Danish traveler and he just finished a trip around the world. Torbjorn spent nearly 10 years visiting every country in the world and he did it all without flying. Torbjorn started his journey in Copenhagen, Denmark ____1____ a sunny morning of October 10th, 2013. He made a few rules for his trip. One of the ____2____ is no flying, no matter how difficult it is! He ____3____ that he could live on about $20 a day, and finish his trip in about four years. But it took him far longer. Torbjorn had many difficult experiences (经历) . He was once held at gunpoint (枪口) and thought he would die. ____4____ he also had many good experiences. Torbjorn says that one reason he didn’t give up was ____5____ help he got from people all over the world. “You ____6____ have to try 1,000 closed doors,” he says, “but there is always an open door ____7____ . Never ever give up.” Finally, in May, Torbjorn arrived in Maldives (马尔代夫) , the last country on his list. On July 26th, Torbjorn arrived back in Denmark after a ____8____ boat ride. He says he’s looking forward to some ____9____ time to think about his trip. After that, he plans ____10____ a book and share what he learned in his trip around the world. He expects that people can get something from what he’s experienced. 1. A. in B. on C. at 2. A. rule B. rule’s C. rules 3. A. hopes B. hoped C. hoping 4. A. But B. And C. So 5. A. a B. an C. the 6. A. might B. should C. must 7. A. somewhere B. anywhere C. nowhere 8. A. 33 days B. 33-day C. 33 day’s 9. A. quiet B. quietly C. quietness 10. A. write B. writing C. to write 二、完形填空（本大题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。 Once, I was really shy. When I was 12, my teacher told us to record (录音) ourselves ____11____ our families. When I