浙江省绍兴市柯桥区六校联盟2018-2019学年八年级上学期英语期中考试试卷

    There was once a lonely（孤独的） girl 1 wanted love very much. One day while she was walking in the forests, she found two 2birds. She took them home and put them in a small3. She was happy to have two "friends". She4them with love and the birds grew strong. One day the girl5to leave the door of the cage open. The larger and the 6of the two flew out of the cage. The girl was afraid that it 7 away. She caught it quickly. She felt glad that she caught the bird before it could fly away. Suddenly she couldn't8 a sound from the bird. When she opened her hand, the bird was already dead. Her9 killed the bird! Then she noticed 10bird jumping up and down11 the cage. She could feel its great need for freedom（自由）. It wanted to fly into the clear, blue12. So she lifted it from the cage and let it fly away highly. The bird circled once, twice, and three times. The girl 13 as the bird flew. She didn't care about14the bird any more. She wanted it to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the15 song she had ever heard.

    The fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tightly, and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

    Divas Hit the Road(《花儿与少年》 is a travel reality TV show from Hunan TV. Many stars travel together around the world in the show. In the third season, they went to Cities in the Southern Hemisphere (南半球). What's the weather like there? Let's have a look.

    Bike-sharing is a new and great idea for short trips in the city. It can also help to keep the city clean and green.

    A new report finds that shared bikes in China make people interested in riding bikes again. Now more and more Chinese people would like to choose shared bikes to take short trips. On the one hand, it is easy to find them on the streets and the heavy traffic won't influence(影响) the riders too much. On the other hand, riding a bike is also a kind of exercise, so it is good for the rider's health.

    The report says that as soon as they appear, fewer and fewer people take short trips by car. Now not only young people who were born in the 1980s and 1990s love shared bikes, but also people over sixty do!

    At weekends, the number of the riders in Shenzhen reaches the top of all cities in China. On weekdays, the number of people who use shared bikes to travel to work is going up in Shanghai.

    Someone thinks that bike sharing will help to improve the cities' environment. It helps to solve the traffic problems. Also, it will help to make better use of space in cities. The most important thing is that it can make the city get less pollution.

    So would you like to try to ride a shared bike to travel, too?

    John and Bobby joined the same company together just after they completed their university studies the same year. Both of them worked very hard. Several years later, however, the boss promoted(提拔) Bobby to manager but John was still a worker. John could not take it, and gave his resignation(辞呈) to the boss. He complained that the boss did not think much of those who were hard- working, but promoted only those who flattered(奉承) him.

    The boss knew that John had worked very hard for the years. He thought a moment and said," Thank you for what you said, but I hope you will do one more thing for our company before you leave."

    John agreed the boss asked him to go and find anyone selling watermelons in the market. John went and returned soon. He said he had found a man selling watermelons. The boss asked how much they cost every kilogram. John shook his head and went back to the seller to ask and returned to tell the boss $1.2 every kilogram,

    The boss told John to wait a second, and he called Bobby to come to his office. He asked Bobby to go and find anyone selling watermelons in the market. Bobby went and returned, saying. Boss, only one person is selling watermelons. $1.2 every kilogram, and $10 for 10 kilograms. The seller has 340 melons. On the table there are 58 melons, and every melon weighs about 2 kilograms. They were brought from the South two days ago. They are of good quality.

    Hearing what Bobby said, John realized the difference between himself and Bobby. He decided to stay and learn from Bobby.

    If you put your history notes under your pillow and sleep on them the night before an exam, will you do any better in the exam? Most of us have hoped this might help. However, knowledge can't go through the pillow into your brain. But that doesn't mean you can't learn while you are asleep.

    Scientists aren't exactly sure how it works, but they have discovered that the brain can learn things during sleeping hours.

    In one experiment, researchers gave German speakers some Dutch words to learn. Then, they divide them into three groups. The researchers played the Dutch words for people in Group 1 while they were asleep, without telling these German speakers what they were doing. The sound was low. So it didn't wake them up, and only the newly introduced words were used.

    Another group listened to the same words while they were awake. The researchers found the people in Group 1 were better able to identify and translate the words later. This was true only for the words that were played while they slept. The third group listened to words when they walked. The walkers didn't have the same success remembering the words as the sleeping group.

    The researchers later found that people had more slow wave(慢波的) brain activity all over the night. They said that more slow waves made people have a better memory for the new words.

    Tom had busy school days, and he (几乎不) ever did sports. In (事实)，he had no time for sports. He hoped to do something different. As a (孩子)，it was better to enjoy outdoor activities. So he and his father decided to climb a (相当) famous mountain. As they (尝试) hard, they were successful- they reached the (顶部) of the mountain. His father gave him a pen as his (奖励). How (新鲜的) the air was! He could (清楚地) hear the birds singing beautifully. He was so excited that he couldn't (等待) to keep it in a diary. What a wonderful experience it was!

    Reading is a good hobby for all kinds of reasons.

    First, reading is (education). You can always keep yourself happy you like reading. You will never feel (boring) or tired.

    Next，you can read a book anywhere in a car, a plane, or even in the bathroom. All you need (be) a book.

    Another good reason for reading is that it is (use). If you regard reading as a hobby, you will get better and be better at it. And you will read (fast) and find it easier to understand you read. As your reading skills improve, you will find your schoolwork becomes much easier.

    Some people say that reading is out of date. This is not true. You can read on computers, and the better you read, the better your computer skills will be.

    Good (learn) may become writers, too. They always have more things (write) about. Reading is a wonderful hobby. Why not start reading right now?

注意：1）所写内容必须包括一下信息：

①Li Lin是个比我外向的人，他对我很友善，给了我很多帮助。

②Li Lin比我矮，但是很喜欢运动，我们每周在一起打两次篮球。

③我比Li Lin聪明一点，但Li Lin比我用功很多。每次考试，我们都能取得好成绩。

④上周日他带我去华夏影院看电影，影片很精彩。我觉得这是一家很好的影院，有最大的屏幕和最佳的音响。

2）开头部分已写好，不计入总词数。

3）词数：80左右。

Dear Grandma,

    How is everything going? Now I am studying in China. I have a good friend.

Yours,

Mark