精品解析：广东省深圳市龙岗区2022-2023学年八年级下学期期中测试英语试题

2022—2023学年第二学期学科素养期中测试诊断 八年级英语 说明：全卷共8页，满分75分，考试时长70分钟，请在答题卡上作答，在本卷上作答无效。 第一部分 选择题（50分） Ⅰ.完形填空（10分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将相应的字母编号涂黑。（共10小题，每小题1分） I don’t usually keep houseplants. But after I got brain cancer (癌症), with more than a year to live, I ____1____ the idea of having something new and green around. My friend gave me a lucky bamboo plant. We placed it in the living room where I ____2____ much of the day. Looking after the plant gave me a sense of success when I sometimes felt ____3____ because I couldn’t do things by myself easily. As a doctor, I was used to being the one who provided ____4____, not the one who received it. Because of my illness, I had to depend on help from others. Watering the plants taught me I could still be a caregiver. Plants and people could still ____5____ me. Both the plant and I were living happily. After some months, the leaves started dropping to the floor. “I can’t even care for a (n) ____6____ plant! If my lucky bamboo dies, I might die too. “I cried. Then I realized I ____7____ connected my careful watering of the plant (I could have some control) with my own life (I had no ____8____). It was my mistake! Plants have no connection with my life. My friend came to help the plant. When it was back in the sunny window, we both began to live ____9____ again. Whenever I looked at the tree, I think of my friends who have cared for and supported me. If the plant outlives me, I hope it will comfort my wife and ____10____ her that our large community will continue to nurture (赡养) her after I am gone. 1. A. rejected B. loved C. suffered D. hated 2. A. spent B. wasted C. paid D. cost 3. A. useful B. healthy C. useless D. bored 4. A. ability B. joy C. message D. care 5. A. depend on B. decide on C. look after D. look for 6. A. difficult B. simple C. lonely D. endangered 7. A. correctly B. happily C. wrongly D. comfortably 8. A. impression B. control C. communication D. illness 9