精品解析：北京市第八十中学2023-2024学年八年级下学期期中测试英语试题

北京市第八十中学2023~2024学年度第二学期期中统练 八 年 级 英 语 （考试时间 90分钟 满分60分） 提示：试卷答案请一律填涂或书写在答题卡上。 在答题卡上，选择题用2B铅笔作答，其他试题用黑色签字笔作答。 知识运用（共11分） 一、单项填空（每题0.5分，共3分） 从下列各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 1 Mr. Wang is coming to our school. I can’t wait to see . A. her B. him C. it D. them 2. Stop ________ so much junk food. It’s bad for your health. A. eat B. to eat C. eats D. eating 3. —Hi, Susan. _________ have you been in China? —For about 10 years. A. How often B. How much C. How long D. How many 4. It was raining hard when he ________ home. A. got B. get C. gets D. was getting 5. —Oh, Jack, your MP4 player looks nice. Is it new? —No. I ______ it for two years. A. am having B. bought C. have had D. have bought 6. —________ you ________ your homework yet? —Yes. I ________ it a moment ago. A. Did; do; finished B. Have; done; finished C. Have; done; have finished D. will; do; finish 二、完形填空（共8分，每小题1分） 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。 Never too late That morning Sean checked the email as usual. Then he found an unexpected email in his inbox. Could he realize his dream late? Sean was now nearly 40, alone and poor. He dreamed of being a police officer for a long time and never made it. Was it possibly ___7___ this time? When Sean was only a 5-year-old boy, his father’s friend Paul once ___8___ the little boy home in his police car. Sean was interested in the car, the lights and the uniform. He decided to be a hero like Paul. However, a high school teacher ___9___ his dream. She argued that he had a true gift for writing and should not waste it being a police officer. Sean followed his teacher’s advice and finally he became a ____10____ for a newspaper and married. During the years, he changed several jobs but nothing made him really ____11____. His heart really wasn’t in the job or marriage. Actually, he had never really given up his childhood dream to become a policeman. His wife could not bear this and left him when Sean was 39 years old. Sean was ____12____ to move back