浙江省温州市乐清2017-2018学年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷

—Sure. It's _______ wonderful movie.

—Sure. Grandma liked to _______ stories. They were all very interesting.

—I have won the first prize in the speaking competition.

—I'd like to, Ben. But I _______ all my money on my books.

—It doesn't matter, _______ you should be careful next time.

—An interesting book. We're reading it these days.

—You can take No.3 Bus and it will take you 15 minutes to get there.

—_______

    Once upon a time there was a little boy who became very ill. He had to spend all day in  1 unable to move. Because other children weren't allowed to come near him, he felt 2 and blue. There wasn't much he could do except 3 the window. Time passed and his feeling of despair just 4. Until one day he saw a strange shape in the window. It was a 5 eating a sausage sandwich. The penguin squeezed in 6 the open window and said "good afternoon" to the boy.

    Of course the boy was very surprised. He was still trying to 7 what had happened, when outside his window he saw a monkey in a suit, busy blowing up a balloon. As more crazy-looking characters, like a bear or a panda，appeared out the window, he couldn't help 8 and found it hard to stop.

    The little boy didn't tell anyone about this because no one would have believed 9. Even so, those strange characters ended up with putting joy back in his heart and in his body. Two weeks later, his 10 had improved so much that he was able to go back to school again.

    There he got to talk to his friends, and tell them all the 11 things he had seen. While he was talking to his best friend, he 12 something in his friend's school bag. The boy insisted on asking his friend what they are. 13 his friend had to show him what was in the bag. There inside were all the costumes. His friends just used them 14 to cheer the little boy up!

    From that day on, the little boy 15 did his best to make sure that no one felt sad and alone.

    The history of Chinese cartoon making began in the 20th century. Below are some great cartoon works in Chinese history.

    Princess Iron Fan, is the first Chinese cartoon. It was directed in Shanghai by the Wan Brothers in 1942. It is the second longest cartoon film in the world following the cartoon the White Princess. The story was taken from a popular ancient Chinese story.

    Crow Black-Coated is the first Chinese cartoon in colour. Shanghai Film Studio made it in 1955. The story is about a very proud bird. He sang and danced in the forest，showing off his beautiful tail to everyone. Autumn came and the other animals were busy preparing food for the winter. The bird continued to enjoy life freely. The winter came with a heavy snow storm. The bird was homeless in the cold. To warm up，he found a wild fire in the forest. The bird burned his tail and lost his singing voice by accident. From then on，the bird becomes a black crow.

    Where's Mama is a short Chinese cartoon. Shanghai Film Studio made it in 1960. It tells about the adventures of a group of tadpoles in search of their mother. It is the first Chinese-style cartoon different from Western cartoons.

    Tina woke up at midnight. She looked out of her window and saw a yellow light in the sky. It suddenly dived towards the ground. She heard a noise and saw a red light.

    The next morning, Tina mentioned it to her brother Tom. "I'm sure something landed in the forest near the hills as I heard a loud noise last night" she said, "Let's go there and have a look after school."

    At 6 p.m., Tina and Tom reached the forest. They heard some voices speaking a strange language, so they hid behind some gees and kept quiet. Then they saw an alien! It was tall, with a round head and a silver body. It was standing next to a long spaceship.

    The children were frightened. Suddenly, another alien appeared from the trees in front of them. It discovered them and made a terrible noise! The children ran away in fear.

    The next morning, Tina and Tom told their parents about the strange aliens. "They were very ugly. They had some hair, but they didn't have any feathers." said Tina.

    "There was something written on the spaceship," said Tom. "It looked like this. I wonder what it means." He drew some lines on a piece of paper.

    But Dad said, "Since no one else saw these aliens. I refuse to believe you. Now go to school!"

    The children opened their wings and flew to school together.

    Dad looked at the piece of paper with the strange marks on it. "It looks strange," he said, as he looked at the word "EARTH".

    Aron Ralston is an American man who is interested in mountain climbing. As a mountain climber, Aron is used to taking risks. This is one of the exciting things about doing dangerous sports. There were many times when Aron almost lost his life because of accidents. On April 26, 2003, he found himself in a very dangerous situation when climbing in Utah.

    On that day, Aron's arm was caught under a 360-kilo rock when he was climbing by himself in the mountains. Because he could not free his arm, he stayed there for five days and hoped that someone would find him. But when his water ran out, he knew that he would have to do something to save his own life. He was not ready to die that day. So he used his knife to cut off half his right arm. Then, with his left arm, he bandaged himself so that he would not lose too much blood. After that, he climbed down the mountain to find help.

    After losing his arm, he wrote a book called Between a Rock and a Hard Place. This means being in a difficult situation that you cannot seem to get out of. In this book, Aron tells of the importance of making good decisions, and of being in control of one's life. His love for mountain climbing is so great that he kept on climbing mountains even after this experience.

    Do we have the same spirit as Aron? Let's think about it before we find ourselves "between a rock and a hard place" and before we have to make a decision that could mean lire or death.

    Last week. students at Bridge School worked hard to make their English Week a big (成功). There was an English book fair in the library and a (宝藏)hunt. Some students put on an English play. Other students took part in an English singing competition. There was also a speaking competition. The students had to speak on a topic in English for (二)minutes. They also showed others (到处)the school and introduced in English.

    We interviewed the winner, Henry. "I'm so happy that l won," he said. "If we want to be good public speakers, we'd better speak slowly, clearly and confidently. It (取决)on our choice." Mary, another winner, said, "I (练习)speaking English since l was seven. I've been enjoying English Week. That's(酷的)! It gave me a chance to speak English. In my opinion, (也许)our school should have more (活动) like English Week."

    On the last day of the English Week we invited the headmaster to give a speech to the whole school. He said the English Week was (有帮助的) for students to improve the ability of communicating in English. It's well worth doing.