内容正文:
2023-2024学年八年级上学期期末临考押题卷(广州专用)
英语
本试卷共四大题,满分90分。考试时间100分钟。
注意事项:
1. 答卷前,考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名、试室号、座位号,再用2B铅笔把对应这两个号码的标号涂黑。
2. 选择题每小题选出答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需要改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案。不能答在试卷上。
3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答,答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域的相应位置上;如需要改动,先划掉原来的答案,然后再写上新的答案,改动的答案也不能超出指定的区域;不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁,考试结束,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
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 I was twelve years old, my family lived next to a forest. Every evening, mockingbirds would come and rest in the trees and sing. I enjoyed 1 singing so much that I decided to catch a young bird. In this way, I could hear it sing for me every day.
I finally succeeded in 2 one and put it in a cage. At first, the bird was very frightened, so it fluttered (扑腾) in 3 new home all the time. Several days later, it was used to living in this new home.
The next day, the little bird’s mother flew to the cage with 4 food in her mouth. The baby bird looked very 5 and ate everything that the mother brought to it. I was so happy to see this 6 the mother knew how to take care of her baby well.
But 7 the third morning, I found it dead. I was terribly surprised and cried at once. I didn’t know what happened.
Arthur Wayne, a friend of my father’s, was a famous ornithologist (鸟类学家). She was visiting my father at that time. 8 she knew the whole thing, she explained to me. If a mother mockingbird finds her baby is kept in a cage, she will bring it poisonous berries (毒莓). She thinks it’s 9 for her baby to die than to lose freedom.
Since then I 10 any living animal and put it in a cage. All living things have a right to live free.
1.A.a B.an C.the D./
2.A.caught B.catching C.catch D.to catch
3.A.it’s B.its’ C.it D.its
4.A.few B.any C.some D.little
5.A.happy B.happily C.happiness D.happier
6.A.and B.because C.but D.though
7.A.in B.for C.at D.on
8.A.If B.When C.Unless D.Although
9.A.good B.w