广东省佛山市南海区2023-2024学年八年级下学期期中英语试卷

广东省佛山市南海区2023-2024学年八年级下学期期中英语试卷(解析版) 一、语法选择 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,并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。 1.(10分)Books make people wiser and stronger.However,many children all over the world don't have a chance to read. For several years,Maria Keller,(1) teenager from Minneapolis,Minnesota,has been trying to change that.When she was 8 years old,Maria already loved reading.She was (2) to find that classmates didn't read as much as she did.She asked her mother, "Why is that?" "That' s probably because they were not able to buy books (3) .Books are too expensive for them." said her mother.So she decided (4) it. (5) her mother's help,Maria created an organization(组织) to collect and send books to children in need.At the beginning,Maria set the goal(目标) for (6) ﹣﹣to collect and send 1,000,000 books in 10 years.It didn't take long to reach that goal.So far,she (7) over 2,400,000 million books and has shipped them to many places around the world. She said, "As I continue my work,I have learned that millions of (8) have no books.So I just can't give up,even after (9) my goal." She set a new goal to send books to kids in every state in the US,(10) every country in the world.Because of her hard work,many children have changed their life. (1)A.a B.an C.the (2)A.surprise B.surprised C.surprising (3)A.easily B.more easily C.the most easily (4)A.change B.changing C.to change (5)A.In B.With C.By (6)A.herself B.her C.she (7)A.collect B.collecting C.has collected (8)A.child B.children C.children's (9)A.reach B.reached C.reaching (10)A.but B.so C.and 二、完形填空 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。 2.(10分)Wang Yao is a restaurant owner in Chengdu,Sichuan Province.On a cold morning,she received an online order but it took her an hour to (1) the deliveryman(外卖送餐员). When the deliveryman came,she was a little (2) ."It's too cold outside and my motorbike was broken," the deliveryman said.After she heard his(3) ,her anger was gone.She invited him to sit for a while and o