新目标（Go for it）版2018-2019学年初中英语八年级下学期期末模拟复习卷五

    Some famous big cities got interesting nicknames（昵称）for some reasons. Here are three of them.

    When I was a kid, I did something really terrible. My father bought me two goldfish and named them "Iasc" and" Iasc Elie". He told me that meant "Fish" and "Other Fish" in Irish. To an eight-year-old child, the names seemed really boring.

    These boring names made me feel the goldfish were boring, too.  They did nothing more than swim around in their bowl. Sometimes, for fun, they would swim to the bottom of their bowl and dance around along the bottom, looking for interesting pieces of gravel.

    I tried many ways to make the goldfish more exciting. The most interesting thing was to see how long they could live out of the water. I took a fish out of the water with my hands and watched it gasping for air. Then I put it back in the bowl.  And then I would take them out of the water again, for longer and longer each time.

    Iasc and Iasc Elie started swimming towards the top of the water, not moving very much. Then they started floating on the top of the water. In other words, they were dead.

    I thought that bigger pets are more exciting, such as a cat and a dog. It would live longer than a goldfish, and then I kept a dog as my pet.

    When Mr. David retired（退休）, he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it. But to his surprise, many visitors came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most interesting building in the village. From morning to night, there were visitors outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into the house. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice on the window. The notice said, "If you want to satisfy your curiosity（好奇心）, come in and look around. Price twenty dollars. "Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. "I came here to retire, not to work as a guide（导游）, "he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.

    More and more students are interested in becoming good writers. Then how can they make their dreams come true? The following tips are helpful.

    Learn from good writers. Reading lots of books is helpful in your writing. This is because when you are reading, you are learning different skills of English. For example, you are learning new words and sentences to use in your own writing. And at the same time, you are learning how to spell correctly. You are also learning English grammar.

    Practice your writing. You can improve your writing, like any other skill, by practicing it. Of course, you have to do many different kinds of writing given by your teachers, but you can try to write other things at least once or twice a week. Here are some ideas：

    ●Write a diary or a story every day.

    ●Describe a beautiful place you visited, or an interesting person you met.

    ●Write about a scared or funny thing that happened to you.

    ●Join an Internet chat（聊天）room.

某报刊编辑的建议：

A. Don't worry. A lot of practice is the only way to become a good pianist.

B. Try to tell your classmates that you need their friendship.

C. When you feel angry, you should stop talking and become a good pianist.

B. Try to tell your classmates that you need their friendship.

C. When you feel angry, you should stop talking and walk away until you calm down.

D. Don't worry. Everyone worries about their schoolwork Find a hobby or a sport to relax yourself.

E. Let your parents know you will be lonely if you can't go out. Also, you can ask a teacher to talk to your parents about the after-school activities.

My first star performance Among my many"first times"in the[US，the one that was most important to me was my first musical performance.

We put on a musical called"Guys and Dolls"at our school. I played the1of a sergeant（警长）in a band. I had one line（台词），2I had to sing it without a microphone.

    The teacher and director，Ms O'Connor，was a3artist. Under her strict training，we were4giving a great show. I was very excited5I imagined how I would look on stage with my bright red 1950s caps（斗篷）and6my friends would like my clothes.

Then，suddenly，I started to7uncomfortable every time I said my line. I felt like the audience（观众）was all staring at me. Was I doing OK？Were my 8pretty？Because of these9 ， my movements and facial expression became unnatural（不自然的）. Instead of enjoying the10 ， I performed like a walking puppet（木偶）. Luckily，Ms O'Connor11me onto the right way. She saw my worries and said to me，"I understand how you feel. It is12. As I always tell my students：love the art in yourself，not yourself in art. "

    She was right. When we love the art in ourselves，it doesn't13if we are acting alone or in front of a big audience. It's not about how much the audience thinks of us. It's about how much effort（努力）we have put14our performance.

    I began to forget myself on the stage and started to think of my role in the story. The show was a15. It was also an important life lesson for me.

    English has only twenty-six letters, but they can make  （thousand）of words, phrases and sentences. Among them, six letters are very important in our life: F-R-I-E-N-D. Yes, friend.

    Someone has said that there are three kinds of feelings which should be  （great）cherished（珍惜）：The  （feel）between lovers, among family members and with friends. None of them can be replaced by the  two. Family members cannot be  （choose）, but friends can; love may last  （little）than a month, but friendship can be life-long. What should we do to keep our friendship?

    First, remember even between friends, freedom is important. Don't think your friends are only  （your）. Each has the right to live their own life. They can make friends with others  they like. Then, please always share both  （happy）and hardship among friends. This should be the basic thing of making friends  "A friend in need is a friend indeed."

    Halloween（万圣节）is a （奇怪的）holiday. It started （几个的）centuries ago in Europe. It began as "Hallow Evening" which （意思是）"holy night". At that time November 1st was called "All Saints' Day" and people honored all the saints who did not have their own （特别的）day. People（相信）that all the spirits of dead people were active on the night of October 31st. So people would play all kinds of tricks（恶作剧）on each other.

    Black is one of the traditional Halloween colors, （可能地）because Halloween festivals and traditions took place at night. Pumpkins（南瓜）are a symbol（象征）of Halloween, so orange has （成为）the other traditional Halloween color. Making lanterns out of pumpkins is a Halloween custom.

    Halloween is great fun for children. They （穿衣）up as ghosts（鬼）or witches（女巫）. Small children go "Trick-or-Treating". They wear costumes, knock on door, and shout, "Trick or Treat！"People almost always choose to give them candy as a treat, （而不是）of choosing to receive a trick from the children. （成人）sometimes "trick or treat" their friends, too. Usually the "treat" is a glass of wine or some small gifts.

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    Jack is a kind boy. He often tries his best to help others in his spare time.