2020-2021学年广东省广州市黄埔区八年级（上）期末英语试卷 一、完形填空（本大题共20小题，共30.0分）
There was a young painter who made money by painting portraits （肖像画）. His dream was to become one of （1） ______ artists in the field of art. One day, a rich lady asked him to paint（2） ______ portrait for her and promised to pay him 10，000 dollars.
After a week, the lady came to take the painting. The painting was wonderful, （3） ______ she was not happy with it. She told the young painter, "I will buy this painting only for 3，000 dollars." The young painter felt （4） ______ at what she said. Then he talked with the lady, hoping that she would keep her promise.
The rich lady said to the painter, "The person in the painting is me. （5） ______ I don't buy this painting, （6） ______ else will buy it. So you have to sell it to me for 3，000 dollars."
The young painter said （7） ______ ， "No, I prefer not to sell it rather than be humiliated（羞辱）by you. Someday, you need to spend 20 times the money （8） ______ the painti
ng, because you break your promise today."
After that, the painter worked even （9） ______ than before. Finally, his dream came true and he became very famous in the field of art.
The rich lady soon forgot about the artist and what he had told her. But one day, one other friend told her, "There is a painter selling a painting called ‘Liar'（说谎的人）for 200，000 dollars. The lady in the painting looks really like you."
Then, the rich lady remembered the painter. She quickly went （10） ______ sorry to him and paid 200，000 dollars to buy the portrait.
1. A. the famous B. the most famous
C. more famous D. famous
2. A. the one B. first C. the first D. one
3. A. so B. or C. and D. but
4. A. surprise B. surprised C. surprises D. surprising
5. A. If B. Unless C. After D. When
6. A. everybody B. anybody C. nobody D. somebody
7. A. angrily B. angrier C. angry D. more angrily自钻锚杆
8. A. on B. of C. for D. in
9. A. 烧芭hardly B. hard C. harder D. hardest
10. A. say B. said C. to say D. saying
More than 700 years ago, Scotland （苏格兰）was fighting against England. The king of England wanted to（1） ______ Scotland. England had a strong army so it was （2） ______ for the Scots people to fight. They lost many times. King Robert of Scotland had to run away from the English army.
One rainy day. King Robert lay in an old house. He thought that he was not good enough to be a king. He was so （3） ______ that he didn't even see a spider（蜘蛛）above hi
m. When he （4） ______ ， he saw the spider climbing. It was trying to climb up its web at the top of the house but it fell down.
"How sad!" thought King Robert. "The spider is like me. It's not （5） ______ enough." He watched it while the spider climbed up again. It fell down a second time.
"Be careful, little spider, （6） ______ you might die." he said. "Life is so hard, you will never get back to your web. But the spider （7） ______ again and again. King Robert watched as it（8） ______ climbed back to its web. After an hour, the spider got back to the web.
"You are such a great spider," he said. "If you can keep trying, I can too. I must keep on fighting. I won't let the English win." His （9） ______ grew strong and they （10） ______ the English army. Scotland was free.
11. A. leave B. capture C. help D. visit
12. A. hard B. interesting C. important D. fantastic
13. A. bored B. cheerful C. worried D. surprised
14. A. looked at B. looked out C. looked up D. looked for
15. A. old B. strong C. fast D. free
16. A. because B. and C. so D. or
17. A. tried B. fell C. practised D. cheered
18. A. fast B. easily C. slowly D. suddenly
19. A. army B. feelings C. opinions D. family
20. A. kept B. helped C. joined D. 金陵大报恩寺stopped
A
Joseph Sekar is a 62-year-oId man in India. He feeds thousands of parrots every day. And he has earned himself the nickname "birdman".
Joseph always left small amounts of rice on his roof. The neighbor sparrows and squirrels often came to eat them. One day two parrots flew in and fed themselves some rice. The birds not only returned the following day, but also brought along other hungry friends. Today about 2，000 to 4，000 beautiful parrots visit the birdman twice a day!
Joseph does not feed the birds raw rice. He cooks them! This means that the amazing man gets up at 4： every morning and spends over an hour making the breakfast. He then spreads the rice across 14 wooden planks（厚木板）on his roof.
The breakfast rush begins at about 6： when the beautiful parrots fly in and continues until every last grain of the delicious rice is gone! The action is repeated in the afternoon when the birds arrive around 4： and stay for almost two hours. Besides feeding them, the superhero also takes in sick or injured birds and nurses them back to health.
Of course, feeding so many birds is not a cheap job. Joseph, a camera repairman, now spends 40% of his income feeding the birds. The generous man says all of his actions come of a sense of love.
Though Joseph has not any plans to stop it now, he does worry about what will happen to the beautiful birds as he gets older and is unable to continue.
21.At first, Joseph left some rice on his roof for ______ .
A. some beautiful parrots he kept as pets
B. the sparrows and squirrels in the neighborhood
C. two parrots which flew in one day
D. other hungry parrots that returned the following day
22.贺麓成Every morning it takes Joseph over an hour to ______ .
A. buy the raw rice at the market
B. exercise on his roof
C. cook the rice
D. spread the rice across the blanks
23.People can probably see parrots eating on Joseph's roof ______ .
A. before 4： B. 测井from 4： to 6：
C. from 4： to 6： D. at 12：00
24.What does Joseph worry about？ ______
A. Too many parrots will come to him.
B. He gets up too early and it makes very tired.
C. He can not repair cameras any more.
D. No one will take his place to feed the parrots.
25.In the writer's opinion, Joseph Sekar is a ______ person.
A. quiet B. strict C. kind D. boring
B
Every morning, my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every day,I open my books in class and start my lessons. Every evening, my mother reads magazines at hom
e. And every night,I look at the photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on the wall in my bedroom before I go to sleep. Can you imagine the life without paper or printing？厦门园博园
简介 Paper was first created about 2，000 years ago in China.After it was invented,People started to write on paper to make books. In those days, books were only produced by hand. So there were not many books, and they were expensive. Only a few people had the chance to read books. Printing was invented in China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties （朝代）. The development of printing made it possible to produce books more quickly and cheaply. More and more people can read books.Knowledge and ideas spread （传播） faster than before. The Internet was created in the twentieth century. Although the Internet is still young, it is growing very fast and becomes powerful. A much larger amount of information can be stored in different forms on the Internet. We can find it much more easily than that in books. Nowadays computers and the Internet are used in classrooms,and newspapers and mag azines can be also read online. Will there be paper and printing in the future？ Let's wait and see.
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