2018_2019学年广东广州越秀区广州市第二中学初二上学期期中英语试卷-答案.pdfVIP

2018~2019学年广东广州越秀区广州市第二中学初 二上学期期中英语试卷 一、语法选择（共15小题，每小题1分，共15分） 1 There was once a king who had a great palace with a wonderful garden. He was 1 than anyone else there. In the garden, there lived all kinds of animals. All of them enjoyed 2 there. There was only one thing that the king hated in the garden: an old tree 3 the centre of the garden. It was so old and dry. This made the king 4 angry that he finally asked some people to cut it down and turned the place into a swimming pool. But after the tree was cut down, the animals 5 the garden. Without the animals, the garden was not 6 before. The king was sad, 7 he didnt know what had happened. A young man went to the king, and said he could 8 what had happened. This was because you cut the old tree down. said the young man. There were 9 moths （飞蛾 ） which lived in the tree. Birds needed the moths 10 and then they produced wastes for plants to grow. The plants then attracted many 11 animals to your garden. So your garden became very beautiful. But 12 you cut the tree down, the animals had to leave. Excellent! said the king. Ill make you 13 rich and you will try to make my garden beautiful again. Im afraid you will spend many years 14 it. To get the natural balance will take many years. Said the young man. The king was sad. This was 15 time he felt the importance of the tree. But all he could do was just to wait. 1. A. happier B. more happily C. the happiest D. happy 2. A. live B. living C. to live D. lived