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重庆市黔江区2023-2024学年八年级上学期期末英语试卷
二、语法选择。
根据短文内容,从A、B、C三个选项中选出一个语法正确的答案。
With more and more rain falling, it’s time ____1____ snakes to be active. Living in the city, it never crosses your mind that we might meet them face to face.
Most people are afraid of snakes. They may think snakes are dangerous and ugly. There ____2____ more than 2,000 kinds of snakes. Most of ____3____ live in mountains or forests. In some cities, sometimes we can find them in grass or other dark ____4____. Snakes can’t walk or run ____5____ they have no legs or feet, but these long and thin animals can ____6____ very fast on their stomachs. Snakes usually ____7____ green, yellow or black skins, which make it difficult for their enemies to find them. In winter they sleep in holes. They look for a hole to stay inside, in the ground, or in a rock or a tree. They do not wake up again ____8____ spring comes. Snakes feed on mice, frogs, bird eggs and so on.
Snakes play ____9____ important part in nature. We can make useful medicine with them. Without their help, the rodents (啮齿动物) will be out of control. Houses and buildings take up the land where snakes live. ____10____ snakes lose their lives in traffic, and people often kill snakes for their skins or meat.
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A. to B. at C. for
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A. be B. is C. are
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A. they B. them C. their
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A. places B. place C. place’s
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A. because B. because of C. so
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A. moves B. move C. moving
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A. have B. having C. has
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A. until B. when C. after
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A. a B. an C. the
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A. Many B. Much C. Any
三、完形填空。
根据短文内容,从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能填入相应空格内的最佳答案。
What’s your hobby? The ___11___ may be different. Many people like to ___12___ different things as their hobbies. Some collect stamps. Some collect coins. Some people collect ___13___ and better things such as rocks. Most of them are thousands of years old. Rocks cover the whole ___14___, so most kinds of rocks are easy to be found. ___15___ some are not common rocks,like diamonds (钻石) and emeralds (翡翠). There are