广东省东莞市厚街湖景中学2021-2022学年八年级上学期期末英语试题

2021—2022学年广东省东莞市厚街湖景中学八年级（上）期末 英语试卷 一. 语法选择 There was once a boy who was playing in a field with his friends. As they were playing, the boy saw a stone that looked interesting. It was different ___1___ the other ones. It was a little shining, but it was quite dirty. The boy picked it up and ___2___ to polish（擦亮）it. His friends laughed at ___3___ for this. They said, “Why are you polishing that dirty old stone? It isn’t worth（值得） ___4___ .” But every day, when they went out to play, the boy would bring the stone and polish it whenever they took a rest. Then one day, the boy left his home ___5___ with his friends as usual. When he showed them the stone, they were all ___6___. It was, in fact, not a stone at all. It was ___7___ beautiful diamond（钻石）. The boy had stayed up all night, polishing it until it was completely clean. ___8___ beautiful diamond it was! There will ___9___ many times in your life when people try to say something bad to you. They will tell you that you’re spending your time on something that is useless and you’d better stop doing it. But you will get something good ___10___ you don’t give up and keep doing what you think is right. 1. A. from B. between C. among D. with 2. A. decides B. decided C. decide D. has decided 3. A. himself B. his C. he D. him 4. A. nothing B. something C. anything D. everything 5. A. play B. to play C. playing D. played 6. A. surprise B. surprising C. surprised D. surprisedly 7. A. a B. an C. the D. / 8 A. What B. What a C. How D. What an 9. A. have B. has C. are D. be 10. A. if B. though C. and D. but 二、完形填空 The New Year is coming. Our class is going to have a ___11___. When is a good time to have it? I did a survey（调查）. Some classmates ___12___ to have it on Thursday night. But some classmates said they had to study for the ___13___. Wang Mei said we could have the party on Friday. That’s a good idea. So we decided to have it on Friday afternoon. There are only four days left. We ___14___ prepare for it right now. We