精品解析：广东省珠海市香洲区第十中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期期中英语试题

2023–2024学年度第一学期第九周质量监测初二年级 英语试卷 全卷共8页，满分为90分，考试用时为70分钟。 二．语法选择（本大题有10小题， 每小题1分，共10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，在每小题的三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。 Tom is 17 years old now. He started skateboarding (滑板) when he was nine. He grew up in New York. There he practiced ___1___ and won his first match. He was lucky. A writer watched him that day, and then wrote ___2___ article (文章) about him. “They even made a video of ___3___!” said Tom. “I left school last year and now the magazine is paying me to practice and to skateboard in matches. But I’m not doing this ___4___ the money. I’m doing this ___5___ it’s so much fun!” Tom has just come back from Japan. Skateboarding is the third ___6___ sport for boys aged 12 to 16 in the US but in Japan it is less popular. “I took my skateboard out to the city street and the traffic ___7___. People watched me!” said Tom. “The skateboarders in Japan don’t have many ___8___ to practice outside. Skate parks are usually inside big buildings in large cities, so street skating here is ___9___ than other cities. But things are changing. I enjoy the trip a lot and hope _____10_____ back to Japan to skate there again very soon.” 1. A. hard B. hardly C. harder 2. A. a B. an C. the 3. A. my B. me C. myself 4. A. to B. form C. for 5. A. because B. so C. and 6. A. popular B. more popular C. most popular 7. A. stops B. stopped C. is stopping 8. A. places B. place’s C. place 9. A. difficult B. more difficult C. most difficult 10. A. go B. going C. to go 三．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；然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。 My holiday is coming. Yesterday I ____11____ my American friends about the best way to travel in the United States. They said it was best to go by ____12____ and gave me the reasons. To travel by plane, of course, is the ____13____ way. But one can ____14____ nothing during the trip except (除了) the blue sky and the white clouds. So it’s not very ____15____ for people who wants to see the country. What’s more, to travel by plane is very exp