广州天河区2016-2017年八年级下学期期末考试英语试题(有答案).docVIP

2016学年第二学期天河区期末考试八年级英语注意事项：1.答卷前，考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名、试室号、座位号，再用2B铅笔把对应这两个号码的标号涂黑。2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需要改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。不能答在试卷上。3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域的相应位置上；如需要改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案，改动的答案也不能超出指定的区域；不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。4.考生必须保持答題卡的整洁，考试结束，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。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。Nathan Sawaya is the first artist to ever take LEGO into the art world. He is considered one of (1) in the world. He liked drawing cartoons, (21) stories, and playing with plastic toy bricks (积木) when he was a child. His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks at the age of five and he showed a great love for it. He thought playing with plastic toy bricks (3) of fun. He even took his building bricks with (4) to college! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made (5) bricks on his desk.Nathan started as a lawyer (6) gave up his highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist who uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks (7) everything from the Statue of Liberty (自由女神像) to Superman! He has as (8) as 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York. He started by building small models but then decided to do (9) and created a self-portrait (自画像) .It (10) him two days just to build the eyes.Now Nathan’s work (11) in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is (12) . He had his first solo art exhibit in 2007 at the Lancaster Museum of Art. Since then, Nathan’s exhibition “The Art of the Brick” (13) very popular with museum visitors everywhere.“I’m proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become (14) artist and I have actually made a job out of it,” says Nathan. “To do (15) you love in life is the most important thing.”1. A. the best LEGO buil