2023—2024学年广东省湛江市赤坎区八年级下学期期末考试英语试卷.doc

2023—2024学年广东省湛江市赤坎区八年级下学期期末考试英语试卷一、补全对话(★★★) 请通读下面对话， 根据对话内容， 从文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项选项中有一项为多余选项 A: Hi. David! B: Hi, Mr. Brown! What’s that behind you? A: 1 B: A robot? 2 A: It can do a lot of housework. B: Really? That sounds very interesting. 3 A: My wife did. B: 4 A: She is a scientist. B: That’s amazing! Why did she make it? A: 5 B: Wow, it’s quite helpful! A．What does she do?B．It’s a robot.C．Because she has no time to do housework.D．Who made it for you?E．Where was it made?F．What can it do for you? 二、语法选择(★★★) We have lots of after-school activities. For example, we take school trips every school year. Last month, my classmates and I visited one of ________ museums in Shanghai, the Minhang Museum. As I stepped into ________ museum, I felt a sense of excitement. ________ I went into the main hall, I saw many pieces of ancient pottery (陶器) on show. These ancient treasures had lovely designs in different colors. If you looked at them ________ , you could even read interesting stories from the patterns (图案) on some of their surfaces! I had a chance ________ a look at some traditional instruments in another hall. They were quite different ________ modern instruments. I noticed that some of the instruments had five strings (弦), ________ most of them had seven strings. These instruments were of different sizes, big and small. In addition, the patterns on the bodies of the instruments were also ________ . There were different patterns like orchids (兰花), bamboo, and many other pictures that stand for good meanings in ________ traditional culture. Many foreigners come here too. The museum is like a bridge which connects Western culture with Chinese culture. It ________ people its great magic. 6.A．famousB．more famousC．the most famous7.A．aB．anC．the8.A．HowB．WhenC．Because9.A．closestB．closelyC．closer10.A．haveB．to haveC．had11.A．fromB．inC．of12.A．andB．orC．but13.A．differentB．differentlyC．differences14.A．usB．ourC．ours15.A．showedB．is showingC．shows三、完形填空(★★★) Chrissy, a new angel (天使), was in charge of the rain. Every Monday, she had to be sure that the ________ spread their raindrops (雨滴) all over the world, because every living thing on the earth needed rain. But no one had told Chrissy how to make it rain. Chrissy asked one of the older angels ________ he could help her. “The angel that had the job before you used to tell ________ stories to the clouds to make them cry.” But Chrissy was a very happy little angel and she didn’t know any sad tales. She flew up to ask the man in the moon. “You might ________ pinching (拧) the clouds to make them cry.” But Chrissy didn’t want to hurt the clouds, so she decided to ________ that idea. The next morning, as Chrissy was jumping from cloud to cloud, she heard someone ________ . It was the little cloud. She asked the little cloud what was so funny. “It’s your toes.” replied the cloud, “They tickle (使发痒) us when you walk!” “Oh, I’m sorry.” said Chrissy, “I will be more ________ .” “No, no, please don’t. We love to be tickled. It makes us laugh so hard that we almost cry!” Well, that gave Chrissy a good ________ ! She said goodbye to the cloud and went off. The next day was Monday. It was raining all over the world! Little Chrissy was jumping above all the clouds in the sky, ________ the clouds were laughing hard and tears were coming to their eyes! The tears ________ to the earth and made a wonderful rain. 16.A．cloudsB．storiesC．messagesD．angles17.A．thatB．whatC．whichD．whether18.A．beautifulB．funnyC．sadD．happy19.A．tryB．practiceC．mindD．enjoy20.A．give inB．give outC．give awayD．give up21.A．talkingB．laughingC．dancingD．crying22.A．carefulB．excitingC．interestingD．careless23.A．adviceB．luckC．ideaD．gift24.A．orB．unlessC．soD．but25.A．flewB．rainedC．landedD．fell四、阅读理解(★★★) Mr. and Mrs. Miller live in a small house in the city center. Now, they want to buy a big one. They searched (搜索) for information of houses online. Here’s the information they got.Houses for saleSweet HomeThree-year-old houseDream HomeOne-year-old houseRooms * Four bedrooms, a living room, a dining room, two bathrooms and a big kitchen * There’s a large garden in front of the house. Price: $350.000 Place: 5 km from the city center, and two blocks (街区) from the bus station and the supermarket Rooms: Three bedrooms, a living room, two bathrooms and a kitchen Price: $270,000 Place: 10 km from the city center, one block from the bus station, and two blocks from the supermarketMore information: Roger Jones/(123)456-7890/millera Mrs. Miller likes growing flowers, s。