广东省广州市天河外国语学校2025-2026学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题

广州市天河外国语学校2025学年第一学期期中诊断检测卷

初二年级  英语试题

命题时间：2025年10月  命题组长：莫若华  审题人、命题人：初二英语备课组

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷两部分，共110分。考试时间100分钟。

第Ⅰ卷（选择题  共65分）

注意事项：

1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号等信息填写在答题纸上。

2.答案必须填写在答题纸的相应位置上，答案写在试题卷上无效。

3.考试结束后，将答题卡交回。

一、单项选择（5分）

根据句意，从下面每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. The Yellow River is ________ longest river in China.

A. two B. second C. twice D. the second

2. The teacher warned us not ________ the broken equipment.

A. touch B. to touch C. touching D. touched

3. I left the keys on the table, but now I can’t find them ________.

A. anywhere B. somewhere C. nowhere D. everywhere

4. We attach great importance ________ computers because we depend ________ them to organize our work.

A. on; on B. to; on C. of; upon D. in; upon

5. —The number of tourists ________ over 23 million this year in Harbin.

—Yes. A large number of them ________ here since the winter holiday.

A. reaches; have come B. reach; has come C. reaches; come D. reach; have come

二、语法选择（15分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。

Almost everyone knows the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting is famous for the woman’s mysterious smile.

Da Vinci was talented ____6____ many fields. Besides painting, he was also an inventor and engineer. ____7____ no doubt that the Mona Lisa is one of his ____8____ works.

Da Vinci started painting the Mona Lisa in Italy and ____9____ it around 1506. Several years later, Da Vinci brought it to France. ____10____ months after he died, King Francis I bought the painting, and it has been in France ever since.

Throughout ____11____ history, the Mona Lisa has survived several dangerous events. In 1911, it was stolen (偷) by ____12____ Italian man who thought the painting should belong to Italy. The police found him two years later ____13____ he tried to take it to an art dealer in Italy. Afterwards, the painting ____14____ back to the Louvre Museum safely. In 1956, the painting was not only damaged by acid (酸) from one man, but also hit by a rock from ____15____ .

____16____ future theft and damage, the Mona Lisa is now protected in a special display case at the Louvre Museum. ____17____ this special case was expensive, most people agree it’s worth the cost.

Now, I’m busy ____18____ every important event about the Mona Lisa in my art notebook for a class report. ____19____, as a student from a French art college, I ____20____ wait to see it now!

6. A. to B. in C. for D. under

7. A. There was B. There were C. There is D. There are

8. A. good B. better C. best D. the best

9. A. completes B. completed C. has completed D. was completing

10. A. Few B. A few C. Little D. A little

11. A. it B. it’s C. its D. itself

12. A. a B. an C. the D. /

13. A. when B. if C. unless D. until

14. A. transport B. transported C. is transported D. was transported

15. A. another B. other C. others D. the other

16. A. Avoid B. Avoiding C. To avoid D. Avoided

17. A. Although B. Because C. But D. Or

18. A. record B. recorded C. to record D. recording

19. A. Person B. Personal C. Personality D. Personally

20. A. can’t B. shouldn’t C. mustn’t D. needn’t

三、完形填空（10分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。

The Bermuda Triangle (百慕大三角) is in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. There are different

____21____ about its size. Some say it covers about 500,000 square miles, while others believe it is as large as 1.5 million square miles.

It’s said that Christopher Columbus was the first person to ____22____ strange things in the Bermuda Triangle in a notebook in his ship’s log. His compass (指南针) stopped working, and his ship went off course (航线) by about a mile.

It was reported that many ships went missing in this area during the mid-19th century. But the most ____23____ thing happened on December 5th,1945, when five planes ____24____ the Bermuda Triangle and went missing without leaving any sign of accidents or any dead bodies. A rescue plane was ____25____ to search for them, but it also went missing and was never seen again.

There’s no exact ____26____ about these unusual disappearances. Some people ____27____ that the Bermuda Triangle is the landing site of UFOs, and the missing were taken by ____28____. Others believe that there is a scary monster hiding in the deep sea of the Bermuda Triangle.

Most experts believe that accidents happen here because of the changing weather and its storms. Today, the Bermuda Triangle is ____29____. Every day, a lot of boats and planes pass through the Bermuda Triangle ____30____. In the future, with the power of technology, we are likely to discover the truth behind the Bermuda Triangle.

21. A. symbols B. memories C. results D. opinions

22. A. count B. research C. record D. organize

23. A. attractive B. interesting C. exciting D. amazing

24. A. came across B. looked up C. flew over D. broke down

25. A. sent B. discovered C. invented D. checked

26. A. introduction B. development C. discussion D. statement

27. A. agree B. promise C. wonder D. notice

28. A. soldiers B. aliens C. policemen D. astronauts

29. A. boring B. busy C. freezing D. silent

30. A. smoothly B. slowly C. bravely D. finally

四、阅读（35分）

第一节 阅读理解。阅读下面四篇材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

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