江苏省苏州市区2017-2018学年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷

—Oh, that's why I can't find them now.

—Yes. He has so many ways to make us laugh.

—So it is. It is ________ to hold more than one thousand people.

一For your health, I'm afraid you       .

—_______. But this summer I plan to go to Shanghai Disneyland with my parents.

—      . I never go traveling without a book.

    Do you like reading stories? Maybe you will answer, “No, I am not a child any more!” Yes, children all over the world always love stories.

    Chinese children are 1in Monkey King's story. It 2a popular bedtime story in China for many years. In fact, adults also love the story a lot. For them, Monkey King has become a very 3part in the memory of their childhood. The clever and humorous monkey 4the hearts of many Chinese people. British boys and girls all know Alice's Adventuresin Wonderland well. As the name 5, it's a story full of dangerous but exciting trips. Children laugh, cry and even get frightened with Alice together while reading the story. Most American kids have read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by the famous writer Mark Twain. Everyone likes the brave boy who also has lots of 6. Some scenes of the story may make your heart go faster, for Tom and his friends meet some very bad men and are usually 7. Of course in the end, they beat the bad ones.

    You may also ask me 8I like stories. Yes, I have liked them since I was very young. At that time, I often 9all my pocket money on story books. For me, stories are much more 10than chocolate! They help me learn a lot. So either young or old, let's enjoy stories.

    We live in a much better life than we used to. However, health is still a problem all over the world. Sometimes it seems quite serious.

    People need more health care, especially in developing countries. Look at the following table made by World Health Organization (WHO).

    The table shows that developed countries have 20 per cent of the world's population but take 90 per cent of the health care. For example, a Japanese spends five hundred dollars on health care every year. However, a person in a poor country spends only three dollars a year!

    There is another health problem in developing countries. Fifty years ago, people lived a life of about forty-six years on average(平均).Now most people in the world live twenty years longer than before. People in the poorest countries, however, live a much shorter life than people in developed countries. There are thousands of patients in poor countries; most of them are children. In 2002, almost 57,000,000 people died of different kinds of diseases. And nearly 20 per cent were children under five.

It's time for us to do something to help these children!

    I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. At the end I said, “Son, remember: Be slow and steady (镇定的), and that will win the race. Don't you think there's something to learn from the tortoise?”

    Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I'm entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”

    I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn't wish that the hare would fall asleep!”

    “He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so foolish as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”

    “He didn't have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by perseverance (坚忍不拔), by pushing on steadily.”

    Sonny thought a while. “That's a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn't happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he'd never have won the race. That's for sure.”

    I gave up. Today's children are not like what we used to be. They're just hopeless.

    Weekday mornings are very busy for US middle school students. When your school doesn't have a bus, and you live too far away to walk, you need a carpool (拼车). A carpool is a group of people sharing the responsibility (责任) of driving to school in the morning. There are usually four or five kids in a carpool and their parents take turns to drive the kids in their cars.

    Someone's car smells like wet dogs. Some kids get to eat desserts (甜点) for breakfast and some parents shout so much that all you try to do is to stay quiet and go unnoticed. When your mom or dad drives the carpool, your classmates get a close-up look at how strange your parents can be. It might be your first sociological (社会学) study and your first time to work with others.

    Teamwork is really important in the carpool because nobody wants to make everyone else late. It's a great lesson in responsibility. Imagine (想象) sitting in the car outside of a classmate's house, watching the clock and counting the seconds. Then you start to understand how your carpool friends might feel when you are still inside the house at 7:48. You really begin to learn all your real life lessons just moments before the start of school—in the carpool.

一Yes. Everyone in China is of them.

一Don't worry. We all know that failure is the mother of .

    Rock climbing is a popular hobby that many people enjoy doing. You can do it indoors on special walls or outdoors on real mountains. There are many advantages of rock climbing—it is fun and it also helps people forget worries.

    The most important equipment(装备)to have is good shoes. They need to be half a size smaller than your usual size. The next thing you need is a harness(保护带).This allows you to move freely, but will hold you up if you fall. It's important to know how to use your equipment. Otherwise, it may be dangerous. If you are a beginner, it's best to have lessons. A climber with experience can help you a lot in the beginning.

    Rock climbing is very exciting for people of different ages. Climbers, however, must be careful not to pollute the environment. Sometimes rock climbers leave rubbish on the mountains where they climb. They should take it with them and throw it away. This will allow future climbers to enjoy a clean environment.

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We act，we improve

    With the development of the society, to learn well is not the only thing a student should do. To be a qualified（合格的） secondary school student, I think we can do the following things to improve ourselves.……

    If so, I'm sure that we will become qualified secondary school students.