2024北京八中初二（下）期中英语（含答案）

2024北京八中初二（下）期中 英 语 一、语法选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分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1~15 各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 It was a clear day in 1997. Lottie Williams was walking through a park in the US with her friends ___1___ suddenly, something tapped on the shoulder. It was about as ___2___ as an empty soda can. Later scientists told her it was a piece of a Della II rocket that had been used to launch ___3___ satellite. Many countries around the world have sent satellites into space. We need satellites ___4___ and receive TV and radio signals, and for many ___5___ things. But when they become old or they may ___6___ down or we don’t need them any more, we just leave them there. They become space junk. Scientists think that there are about sixteen ___7___ objects larger than 10 centimeters wide flying around the Earth, and tens of millions of smaller objects, too. ___8___ travel at around 7 kilometers a second. That’s fast! And it’s their speed that makes these pieces of space junk ___9___ dangerous. If one small piece of space junk ___10___ something at a high speed, it ___11___ do a lot of damage. Luckily, there haven’t been many collisions (碰撞). But in 2009, an old Russian satellite hit and destroyed an American satellite--and that created 2,000 new pieces of space junk! Pieces of space junk re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere (大气层) every day, ___12___ Lottie Williams is the only person ___13___ has been hit. The piece that hit her was light, and the air in the atmosphere had slowed it down. Most space junk burns up and doesn’t reach the Earth’s surface. However, ___14___ a day of 2011, a metal ball 35 centimeters wide fell to the Earth in Namibia, Africa. It made a hole in the ground 30 centimeters deep and over 3 meters wide. Lottie was lucky because she ___15___ by that! 1. A. although B. when C. after D. before 2. A. heavier B. heavily C. heavy D. heaviest 3. A. a B. an C. the D. / 4. A. send B. sending C. to send D. sent 5. A. other B. others C. another D. the other 6. A. breaks B. broke C. broken D. break 7. A. thousands B. thousands of C. thousand D. thousand of 8. A. This B. They C. It D. Them 9. A. real B. reality C. really D. more really 10. A. hits B. hit C. will hit D. hitting 11. A. should B. can C. must D. have to 12. A. and B. but C. so D. or 13. A. which B. when C. where D. who 14 A. on B. in C. at D. for 15. A. didn’t hit B. wasn’t hitting C. wasn’t hit D. isn’t hit 二、完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~25各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最 佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 When it comes to November 11,the young generations will consider it as the Single’s Day as well as the online shopping carnival (狂欢节). Online shopping has been much more ___16___ especially after Jack Ma, the CEO of Tmall and Taobao, had the idea of “Double Eleven”. The ___17___ of online shopping include cheaper pieces, f ... ...