精品解析：广东省中山市中山纪念中学2023-2024学年八年级下学期期中考试英语试题

2023-2024 学年第二学期八年级期中考试 八年级英语学科试卷 命题人：纪中初二英语备课组 审题人：火炬一中李泳苗 本试卷共 7 页，51 小题，满分 90 分。考试用时 70 分钟。 一、语法选择（本大题共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，共 10 分） 请通读下面短文，掌握其大意，根据语法和上下文连贯的要求，从每小题所给的三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 A young woman got a beautiful flower garden from her grandmother. She loved and took good care of her flowers. Her flower garden was second to none (首屈一指). One day ____1____ woman looked through a flower catalogue (商品目录), and a picture of a plant caught her eyes. The plant had the ____2____ blooms (花) and there was no such plant in her garden. She was very excited and ordered it right away. ____3____ the plant arrived, she planted it next to a wall at the back of her yard. It grew well, ____4____ beautiful green leaves all over it. She felt hopeful that the plant ____5____ bloom soon. Day after day she continued ____6____ it, feed it, and even talked to it to make it bloom. But, it was useless. One morning weeks later, as she ____7____ before the plant, she felt disappointed when she saw it still didn’t bloom. She thought about ____8____ it down. Just then, her neighbor called over to her. “Thank you so much! I enjoy the blooms of that plant you planted.” The young woman walked into her ____9____ yard, and surprisingly, she saw that on ____10____ side of the wall, “What an excellent blossom there is!” Sometimes one may not see the good result of his work, but that does not mean it bears no fruit. 1. A. a B. an C. the 2. A. beautiful B. more beautiful C. most beautiful 3. A. When B. Why C. Where 4. A. under B. with C. about 5. A. would B. can C. should 6. A. water B. watering C. to water 7. A. stood B. stands C. standing 8. A. cut B. cuts C. cutting 9 A. neighbors B. neighbor’s C. neighbors’ 10. A. other B. the other C. others 二、完形填空（本大题共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，共 10 分） 请通读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。 Louis Braille was born in 1809 in a small town of Paris, France. When he was three years old, he became ____11____ because of a bad accident. Although Louis couldn’t