精品解析：湖北省荆州市2023-2024学年八年级下学期期中考试英语试题

2023~2024学年度下学期期中考试 八年级英语试题 试卷满分：90分 考试用时：100分钟 祝 考 试 顺 利 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上指定位置。 2.选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。 3.非选择题的作答：用黑色签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。 4.考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 笔试部分 (90分) 一、完形填空。(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分) Gaylord walked across the desert (沙漠) planning to walk through it for one month. Twenty ____1____ passed, and the journey had been so smooth (顺利的) and it seemed that he had ____2____ food and water to finish it. “I’ll be able to walk out of the desert.” he thought happily. But the desert never ____3____ travelers. Before he could make his idea possible, the sandstorm had arrived suddenly. He hurriedly covered his head ____4____ the clothes, lying on the sand. After about ten minutes, the sandstorm stopped. When he shook the clothes and stood up, he ____5____ a terrible thing: the backbag with food and water was swept away by the ____6____. Now, he only had a(n) ____7____ left. He held it in his hands. “Oh, not too bad, ____8____ I have a pear.” he thought to himself and decided to walk out of the desert. One day and one night passed quickly, but the desert ____9____ seemed to have no end, and the worry of ____10____ followed Gaylord closely, feeling hungry and thirsty. ____11____, each time he wanted to give up, he pushed himself to look at the pear that he had been keeping, “Not too bad, at least I have a pear.” A small pear became the ____12____ for his survival (幸存) of his courage. Three days later when he saw a village not far away, he fell onto the ground, but after all, he ____13____ out of the desert. To keep hope is one of the best ways to achieve ____14____, so never tell you “ ____15____ left”, because as long as you try to search, you can always find that “pear” to pull you through. 1. A. years B. months C. weeks D. days 2. A. simple B. enough C. whole D. awful 3. A. paid for B. cared for C. looked for D. called for 4. A. with B. of C. for D. from 5 A. s