内容正文:
2023-2024学年度第二学期期中考试
八年级英语
注意事项:
1. 全卷共6页,满分为90分,考试用时为75分钟。
2. 答卷前,考生务必用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔在答题卡填写自己的准考证号、姓名、考场号、座位号,用2B铅笔把对应的号码的标号涂黑。
3. 在答题卡上完成作答,答案写在试卷上无效。
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。
“Never give up (放弃)!” It is my law (法则) of life. I learned the law ___1___ my father’s life story.
My father was born in ___2___ poor village in Jiangsu. When he was young, he went to school in the day, then after school he worked in the fields. He could only did ___3___ homework during midnight.
At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold, the land where poor people can ___4___ rich.
“___5___ don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself.
So, my father went to America. “I had thought it was easy ___6___ money,” he told me. “but when I arrived there, I knew it was not true. They did not like to hire (雇佣) me because I couldn’t speak English. I wanted to go to school to learn English, ___7___ it was impossible. I had no money. Later, I worked in a small restaurant. Life was ___8___ for the first few years.”
My father kept ___9___ hard, and reached his goal.
“Alan,” he often says to me. “If you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come ____10____ in life.” That’s what I learned from my father.
1. A. for B. to C. from
2. A. a B. an C. the
3. A. he B. his C. him
4. A. be B. are C. were
5. A. When B. Where C. Why
6. A. make B. to make C. making
7. A. so B. but C. and
8. A. hard B. harder C. hardest
9. A. work B. to work C. working
10. A. easy B. easily C. easiness
二、完形填空(本大题共10小题,每小题1分,共10分)
Exercise and eating habits
Last Friday, my students and I went to a talk on health at Health Club. We went there by bus. We listened to the ____11____ for more than two hours. There, the students learned how to eat and exercise. Everyone ____12____ they learned a lot. At about twelve, we had some delicious food in the restaurant next to the ____13____. After lunch, it starte