精品解析：广东省珠海市香洲区文园中学2023-2024学年八年级下学期期中考试英语试题

珠海市文园中学（集团）2023-2024学年第二学期期中考试 八年级英语试卷 说明： 本试卷共8页，答题卷共3页，满分90分，考试时间为70分钟。 一、语法选择（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分。） 通读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在各小题所给的三个选项中，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。 Once upon a time, two hungry people received gifts from an old man. One received a fishing rod (竿), while ___1___ got a basket of fresh fish. Then, they chose different ways. The person who got the fish made a fire and cooked the fish. The fish was ___2___ and he enjoyed his meal. He ___3___ finished all of the fish. Soon, he died, as he had nothing left ___4___. The other with the fishing rod was also hungry. He walked to the beach step by step,___5___ he was too tired to go fishing by the time he got there. He also died because ___6___ hunger. There were two more hungry people who also received a fishing rod and a basket of fish from the same old man. They received the same things that the first pair of people had but they didn’t go ___7___ own separate ways. They agreed that they would find the sea together. At first, they cooked just one fish at ___8___ time as they traveled. Then, they ___9___ at the sea. They reached there and started their fishing business. They started to take turns in fishing. Over time, they caught many fish. ____10____ happy and healthy lives both of them lived! What lesson can you learn from this? 1. A. other B. the other C. others 2. A. delicious B. more delicious C. most delicious 3. A. quick B. quickly C. quicker 4. A. to eat B. eating C. eat 5. A. so B. or C. but 6 A. with B. for C. of 7. A. they B. them C. their 8. A. a B. the C. / 9. A. arrived B. will arrive C. were arriving 10. A. What a B. What C. How 二、完型填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分。） 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在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。 Everyone knows bees are busy. In English, there is even a ____11____ and that is “as busy as a bee”. However, few people know about how bees play. Some scientists from Queen Mary University of London have ____12____ the truth. The scientists did some tests on bees’