广东省中山市中山纪念中学2021-2022学年八年级下学期期中英语试卷（pdf版，含答案）

中山市纪念中学 2022 八年级下期中测试 一、语法选择（10分） It was April 1962. I was 12 years old and in 26_____ grade at William Cleveland School, in Houston,Texas. My English teacher was Ms Ada Pettis. It was Spelling Bee time in our city. Students27_____ booklets of words to study in preparation for the classroom spelldowns (拼单词比赛). Spelling Bee was one of 28_____ activities of the year in our school. Winners would enter the citywide competition and try 29_____ the top Spelling Bee of Houston. The day before the classroom spelldown, my youngest brother was playing with matches and accidentally set a fire in our apartment.The next morning, my mother 30_____ the school to inform (通知) Ms Pettis of the accident. When I arrived at school, Ms Pettis pulled me aside. She asked 31_____I wanted her to put off the classroom spelldown because I was in low spirits, I told he no. That day, I won the spelldown. The school spelldown was held the next week. I won again! The citywide spelling competition was one month 32_____. Over the weekend, Ms Pettis picked me up. We went to her home, where she helped me 33_____ the spelling of difficult words, After a couple of 34_____ MsPettis took me to a nearby ice cream bar, where we enjoyed large sundaes (圣代)! We practised and had big sundaes every weekend until the citywide competition. I did not win, but I still felt 35_____ to have participated. I also felt grateful that I had such a caring teacher. ( )26 A. seven B. seventh C. the seven D. the seventh ( )27 A. give B. gave C. are given D. were given ( )28 A. important B. more important C. the most important D. the more important ( )29 A. to become B. become C. becoming D. became ( )30 A. calls B. called C. was calling D. will call ( )31 A. that B. how C. why D. if ( )32 A. away B. down C. up D. off ( )33 A. practise B. practised C. practises D. practising ( )34 A. hour B. hours C. hour’s D. hours’ ( )35 A. pride B. proudly C. proud D. proudness 二、完形填空（15分） On a small bill in Huaping, Yunnan, there is a small school. However, over the past 12 years, it has rewritten the fate (命运) of 1,804 poor 36_____ by sending them to universities. Zhang Guimei, now 63, is the principal of this school. She began37_____ in Huaping 一 one of China's poorest areas 一 twenty years ago. The teacher wondered 38_____many girls in her class would just one day stop coming to school. After some investigations (调查 ), Zhang learned that they were from very poor 39_____. These girls were forced to work or get married at a 40_____ age, "We often say that we want every child to have a 41_____start," she said. But these poor girls don't even have a chance to stand on the 42_____line." Zhang wanted to 43_____ this. She spent years tying to raise money. Finally in 2008,she 44_____ the Huaping High School for Girls. It's China's first and only free public high school for girls. Zhang gets up at 5a.m. every day to 45_____ the lights on each floor of the teaching building.“Man ... ...