四川省成都市简宁县2018—2019学年度八年级上学期英语期末考试试卷

—No. Mike is late.

—It      be cloudy or windy. Who knows?

—If so, how boring it will be!

A: You always goes to the library on the weekend.

B. Yes. And I get great fun.

A: Now, I know why you are so good at writing.

B: And I want to be a writer.

A: How are you going to become a writer?

B: Well, I will read more books and keep on writing.

A: Who is your favorite writer?

B: J.K. Rowing. She is well-known for Harry Potter.

A: I've read it. But Harry Potter was refused 12 times before it came out.

B: That's tree.

A. Just make sure you are trying your best.

B: Yes, you are right.

A:

B: Great!

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    There is an old saying, "Laughing is the best medicine." Now people are using laughter to 1their health all around the world. It's 2for hospitals to treat illness(治病) with laughter. In 2010, a study in Russia showed that laughing helped 3get better and faster. It made them relax, and this improved their health.

    Laughing helps us feel 4. And it gives the body exercise too. Doctors say five minutes of laughing is good for you as fifteen minutes   5.

    Walt Disney came from America. When he was very young, his family moved from the city to a farm. 1 Disney was busy most of the time, he could still find 2to do interesting things. He spent much of his free time 3 pictures of the animals on the farm. He then. Began 4 stories about them. Later he even began taking artclasses on Saturdays.

    As he grew older, Disney's art5also grew. He began using a new way to tell his stories. To do this, he drew the same picture many times, changing each one a little. Using the camera, he took a photo of each drawing. Next, he put the film through a movie projector(放映机).

    As the pictures ran6 through the projector, the characters looked 7 Disney soon began to make his drawings into cartoons in this way. And the cartoons were just like 8.Walt Disney was9after many years of hard work. He became one of the world's greatest 10His cartoons still make lots of people happy every day.

    No Car Day first started by 34 cities in France on September 22, 1998. People started it to protect the environment. By now, more than 1,000 cities around the world have a No Car Day.

    The first No Car Day in China was in Chengdu in 2001. Other cities, including Taipei, Shanghai and Wuhan, also support(支持) the day.

    In Beijing, more and more people are joining in the program. It asks drivers to leave their cars at home for one day each month and walk or ride a bike to work. It also calls on Beijingers not to use cars on June 5(World Environment Day). The slogan(口号) for the day is, "If we drive for one less day, we can have one more nice day."

    So far, more than 200,000 drivers Show their support. "We can't decide the weather, but we can choose not to drive," said Wu Zhonghua, a car dub manager. Beijing is trying to have 238 blue sky days this year. In the first quarter of 2017, Beijing only had 52 blue sky days. This was 11 days less than the number for the same period the year before.

    We must do more for No Car Day.

    If you are like me and you love drawing a lot, then I'm sure you'll love "Drawing with Mark". "Drawing with Mark" is a great program and Mark is really helpful. He teaches kids how to draw and some history about the things they draw. Kids can also learn three or four fun facts about what they are drawing. "Happy Tails" is about cats and dogs. Mark shows how to draw them. and talks about how to look after them, too. In "A Day with The Dinosaurs", Mark visits the Museum of Boston and speaks to an expert to learn how the dinosaurs lived, what they ate and how long they lived. In "Reach for the Stars", Mark is also at the Museum of Boston. He speaks to another expert about the stars. I learned how far we are from the stars. I thought that the stars were just about 100 miles from us, but they are thousands of miles from us. That's really far! If you love drawing, you can watch this program. You can have fun with Mark. He will help you become an artist.

    Tom is an eight-year-old boy. He is sick to death of school because he doesn't want to do his homework. He is always looking for excuses not to do it. When he has a cold, he tells his morn he is badly ill and he can not do his homework. Though Tom's mom is angry, she doesn't know what to do with him.

    Most of the time, Tom goes to school without finishing his homework. Even though he finishes his homework, he usually does it very carelessly.

    One Thursday evening, Tom told his morn that he couldn't do his homework because he was having a fever. After his morn took his temperature, she realized that Tom didn't tell the truth. So he had to do his homework. To his mom's surprise, the light in Tom's bedroom was still on at midnight. His morn opened the door quietly and found Tom was already asleep. His homework was only half done.

    The next evening, Tom went back home from school, his morn asked, "Did your teacher punish you today? I know you didn't finish your homework last night."

    "No, mom," Tom answered.

    "How did you make it?" his mom asked him. "What did you say to the teacher?"

    "I told my teacher that an accident happened to me this morning."

    "What?" Tom's morn looked at him with eyes wide.

    "The school bus fell into the pool on my way to school," Tom said, "I climbed out of the pool, but my homework didn't climb out of the pool."

    "But you didn't take the school bus!" Tom's morn said.

    "Of course, I didn't," Tom said. "But my teacher didn't know that.

A: Hi, Mark. Long time no see. Where are you going?

B: To the gym (健身房).

A: How often do you exercise?

B:  a week, on Friday and Sunday.

A: .What makes you start exercising? "

B: You know, I'm too . I need to lose weights. (减肥)

A: That sounds good. I want to exercise too. But I am so  that I hardly have free time.

B: Don't forget that comes first. Without it, you can do nothing at all.

A: I certainly know its . But do you know my job? I do lots ofwork every day. I have to sit in front of the computer and use the Internet all day long.

B: Well,  you're busy, you should exercise more often.

A: Err...When I get back home, I am tired enough. I don't think I can dobut rest.

B: So, how often do you exercise?

A: . I really don't have any time.

B: Oh, I have to say, when you're old, many illnesses will come to you. Those are the  of not exercising.

    In the old days, we had a lot of stories between brothers and sisters about how to care about each other. However, most of us don't know how important it is to care about others inworld. Once, two brothers worked together on a farm. One was married (已婚的) and had a large family. The other had no wife yet. Although they lived in houses, they  everything they got from the farm.

    One day, the unmarried brother said to , "It's not fight that we share all the rice. There is only one person in my family, so I need   than my brother." So, every night he took a bag of dee from his store-room and wentthe field between their houses to put it into his brother's store-room. At the same time, the married brother thought, "It's unfair (不公平的) to share all the rice. I'm married and I have my wife and children to care about me when I get  . However, my brother has no one to take care of him." So, he  to take a bag of rice and put it into his brother's store-room. A few months passed by. They found it strange that  rice never became less. Then, one dark night the two brothers  into each other. Slowly they began to understand what happened. Their bags fell on the ground and tears filled their eyes at once.

    Mo Yan is the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature(文学) .He comes from Gaorai, Shandong Prcvince. He was born in a common family of farmers.  As a young boy, Mo often helped to look after the sheep of the family. He enjoyed watching over them when they were eating grass. He also enjoyed the green open land of Shandong. He enjoyed looking up at the clean blue sky and white clouds.  It was the beginning of his life as a storyteller.

    Many years later, Mo left school and worked in a store. Though he still wanted to study, he had to make a living first.  Luckily, a friend gave him some books. Later .Me joined the army and could go on learning .Then he started to write.

    Mo left Gaomi many years ago, but Gaomi never left him. Mo is famous now, but he is still a true son of the land.

    In English, people use many expressions(表达) with the word "dog". People in the west love their dogs and treat them well. Dogs without owners to care for them lead a very different kind of life: The expression' to lead a dog's life" means living an unhappy life.

    Some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world. That means many people are competing the same things, like good jobs. They say if a person wants to be successful he has to work like a dog. This means they have to work very hard. Such hard work can make people dog-tired. And, this situation would be even worse if they became ill as a dog.

    Sometimes we should let a sleeping dog lie, which means we'd better not trouble a person who may cause problems. And if someone says you are a lucky dog, he is just saying you're very lucky.

    Still, people say every dog has its day. This means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. To be successful, people Often have to learn new skills(技能) . Yet, some people say that it's always impossible to teach an old dog new skills. They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.

    There are also some other dog expressions. The dog days of summer are the hottest of the year. A rain in summer may cool the weather. But we do not want to have a very heavy rain. In other words, we do not want it to rain cats and dogs.

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A Report on Weekend Activities.

    Since the regular school-running policy was performed, the students now have more free time on Saturdays and Sundays. So the English Club in our school invited me to do a survey about how the students spend their weekends. Here are the results.