广东省广州市真光中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期12月月考英语试题

2023学年第一学期初二级十二月阶段训练英语问卷 1、 语音题（共5题，每题1分，满分5分） 1. A. care B. hair C. there D. near 2. A. capture B. sure C. picture D. furniture 3. A. compare B. engineer C. cheer D. dear 4. A. invents B. goods C. lifts D. sites 5. A. present B. practice C. plane D. pretty 2、 词汇选择（每题1分，共5分） 6. These now shoes are not very comfortable. I don’t want to wear them. A. big and hard B. small and cheap C. nice and soft D. friendly and green 7. Don’t make jokes about her. She is very shy. A. learn from B. laugh at C. help with D. talk with 8. Can you tell me how to improve my handwriting? Nothing else. Just practice every day. A. make.... longer B. make..better C. make...worse D. make....stronger 9. There are different methods to solve this problem, and I can explain them to you. A. ways B. changes C. examples D. kinds 10. Your concert was fantastic and almost everyone liked it. A. wonderful B. useful C. careful D. tiny 三、语法选择（每小题1分，满分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，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。 English dictionaries are important for English learners. You may think that people 11 English dictionaries for many, many centuries in fact an English dictionary you use today appeared from the Qing Dynasty（清朝）. Three men did most of the important early work on dictionaries. They spent nearly all their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries. For 12 , it was a wonderful journey. The 13 dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary. The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray 14 the editor of its new dictionary. Murray had never been to college（大学）. 15 the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray built 16 small house in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o’clock 17 worked in the small house several hours be