广东省茂名市第一中学2024-2025学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题（含答案）

茂名市第一中学2024—2025学年度第一学期期中考试 初二英语试卷 一、语法选择(本大题有10小题，每小题1分，共10 分) 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后按照句子结构的语法和上下文连贯的要求，从每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。 Last year, I did not like my English class. Every class was like a bad dream. The English teacher spoke 1 quickly that I didn’t understand her most of the time. Her class was very boring. I was afraid to ask questions because I didn't know 2 to pronounce the new words correctly. I just hid(隐藏) behind my textbook and 3 nothing. This term, I have a new English teacher called Jenny. She is strict but nice. 4 her English class is always interesting and we have great fun, I love her class. Sometimes she tells us some useful 5 and teaches us some good English songs like Big Big World and Yesterday Once More. One day, she showed us 6 English movie called Titanic. I fell in love with this romantic movie when I watched it! Then I began to watch other English movies, too. Although I could not understand everything the characters(角色；人物) said, their body language and the expressions on their faces helped me to get the meaning. My pronunciation improved a lot 7 listening to the conversations in English movies. I found that 8 to something interesting is the secret to language learning. I also learned many useful sentences. I did not understand these sentences at first. But because I wanted to understand the story, I looked them up in a dictionary. Now I really enjoy my English class. I want 9 new words and more grammar so that I can have a 10 understanding of English movies than before. You should always remember：Practice makes perfect． ( )1. A. so B. very C. too ( )2. A. what B. how C. why ( )3. A. say B. says C. said ( )4. A. Until B. Because C. Before ( )5. A. advise B. advices C. advice ( )6. A. an B. a C. the ( )7. A. with B. by C. against ( )8. A. listened B. listen C. listening ( )9. A. learning B. to learn C. learned ( )10. A. better B. well C. best 二、完形填空（本大题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在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。 Tasha lives in a small town with her parents. She is always shy, so it is 11 for her to go out alone. Last Sunday, her parents were busy, so Tasha decided to take the 12 to the village to visit her grandparents alone. Her parents 13 her at first, but they thought she should learn to be independent(独立的). So they let her go there. On that day, Tasha got on a bus. A kind man said, “You can take my seat(座位).” Tasha thanked him but she decided to 14 . Then more and more people got on the bus. The bus became very 15 , but the people still talked happily. Seeing this, Tasha felt excited and started a small 16 with the girl next to her. About half an hour later, the bus was getting close to her stop. Tasha tried her best to make her way to the back 17 , but there were too many people. She w ... ...