广东省珠海市香洲区石花中学2025-2026学年八年级上学期11月期中英语试题

珠海市石花中学2025-2026学年第一学期期中考试

初二英语试卷

说明：1．全卷共有8页，满分为90分，考试用时为70分钟；

2．全部答案一律写在答题卡上，考试结束时，上交答题卡。

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给的选项涂黑。

Many ocean animals are hunters. They find and eat other fish. Sharks are one of them. They are also one of ____1____ hunters in the water. Is it ____2____ they have big and strong teeth?

A tiny drop of blood (血) ____3____ into the ocean. A few minutes later, ten sharks appear. How do they know? Sharks have ____4____ very good sense of smell. Their ____5____ work amazingly well. They know exactly where a smell is coming from.

If a shark smells a fish, it may know which way ____6____ it. Also, sharks can see much ____7____ than the other ocean animals even in dark places.

Still don’t think sharks are good hunters? If you hide (躲) from a shark, it will find you ____8____. Sharks are able to feel things moving in the water. They can feel the water change if ____9____ swims near them.

Do you know that some sharks sleep ____10____ their eyes open? It’s true! How do you know if a shark is sleeping or it is looking for something to eat? You don’t! And there’s only one way to find out—wait.

1. A. good B. better C. the best

2. A. because B. that C. so

3. A. fall B. falls C. will fall

4. A. a B. an C. the

5. A. nose B. noses C. noses’

6. A. catch B. catching C. to catch

7. A. clear B. more clear C. more clearly

8. A. easy B. easily C. easiness

9. A. nothing B. everything C. something

10. A. by B. on C. with

二、完形填空（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，在各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

给的选项涂黑。

How did you spend your summer and winter holidays? Did you travel or just stay at home and watch TV? As for 14-year-old Wang Ziyue, he had a ____11____ way to spend his holidays—running a mobile library.

Wang got the ____12____ of building a library in August 2018. At that time, he was ____13____ his summer vacation at his grandmother’s home in a small town in Zhejiang. He found that most of the children in the town watched TV all day because they hardly had any ____14____ at home. Wang wanted to help them. During the winter holiday in 2019, he chose more than 500 books and brought them to the ____15____. At his grandmother’s home, Wang built a small library to ____16____ his books with others. His library helped to make some children fall in love with ____17____.

But Wang didn’t ____18____ there. He made a cart (手推车) into a mobile library. On market days, he took his cart to the market ____19____ more children could read the books easily. For four years, Wang has helped hundreds of children, and his library now has about 12,000 books. Many people highly praised (赞赏) Wang for what he has done. They say the library is ____20____, but it is a big help to children in the town.

11. A. special B. terrible C. normal D. strict

12. A. advice B. idea C. rule D. result

13. A. losing B. dreaming C. fighting D. spending

14. A. pens B. pictures C. books D. phones

15. A. school B. village C. town D. city

16. A. share B. return C. write D. make

17. A. reading B. climbing C. swimming D. drawing

18. A. begin B. stop C. try D. decide

19. A. because B. so that C. although D. if

20. A. dirty B. far C. noisy D. small

三、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，21-30每小题2分，31-35每小题1分，共25分）

阅读A，B两篇短文，在各小题所给的四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应题目所给的选项涂黑。

A

Do you love sunflowers? This passage will tell you how to plant your sunflower seeds (种子) and care for them. Start with the best temperatures: 18℃-33℃.

Part 1 Germinating (使发芽) Sunflower Seeds

①Choose one kind of sunflower you like. ②Cover the seeds with wet paper and then put everything in plastic bags. Once the seeds germinate, plant them.

Part 2 Planting Sunflower Seeds ①Choose a sunny place. Sunflowers grow best with six to eight hours of sunlight a day. ②Plant the seeds in holes about 2.5 cm deep. Cover the seeds with soil after planting.

Part 3 Caring for Sunflower Plants ①Without water, plants cannot grow. Water the sunflowers once a week. ②Fertilize (施肥) a little. If you are growing sunflowers for your own enjoyment, there is no need to fertilize.

Part 4 Harvesting (收获) the seeds Sunflowers usually take 80 to 120 days to grow fully and produce new seeds.

 

21. Which temperature is the best to plant sunflowers?

A. 5℃. B. 15℃. C. 25℃. D. 35℃.

22. How often should you water sunflowers?

A. Once a day. B. Once a week. C. Twice a week. D. Three times a week.

23. When may you harvest if you plant your seeds in April?

A. In May. B. In July. C. In November. D. In December.

24. Which shows the correct steps of planting sunflowers?

A. ①②③④ B. ②①④③ C. ③①②④ D. ④②①③

25. Where is the passage most probably from?

A. A notice. B. A travel book. C. A post. D. A plant book.

B

Who would win a competition to remember numbers, a chimp (黑猩猩) or a teenager? In fact, scientists