广东省汕头市金平区2018-2019学年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷（含听力音频）

— No. There was _______ heavier one last year.

— The doctors _______ him. Unluckily, he _______ in the house at the time of the fire accident.

— Sorry, I _______. I won't be back from work until 11:00 pm.

— Well, I ________ it. I went to the opening show last week.

— I remember that he ________ here since 2008.

— _________ You are 15 years old now and you can have your own decision.

    What can a fight lead to? Last October, an argument between a bus driver and a passenger 1 a terrible accident. This accident resulted in the 2 of fifteen people.

    The 3, surnamed Liu, a 48-year-old woman, missed her stop and got into an argument and later a fight with the 42-year-old driver, surnamed Ran. At that time, he was driving the bus on the No.2 Yangtze Bridge. As the situation got more and more 4, Ran lost 5 of the bus so that it ran onto the wrong lane(车道), breaking through the road and flying off the bridge.

    A video from the bus shows the 6 behind the accident. It shows Liu standing next to Ran and 7 with him. Then she hit Ran twice with her phone while he caught her arm and fought back.

    The police looked into the accident and found that Liu and Ran's fight put the other passengers on this bus 8. However, when the accident happened, if passengers on the bus could stop at least 9 of them, would this argument 10 a big accident that cost fifteen lives? To be honest, this accident is a lesson everybody should learn.

    Do you feel nervous about your relations with your teenage kids?

    Come to our free training classes!

Time: 7:00-8:30 pm

Dates: 10 & 12 July

Place: City Family Center, 256 East Street

Speaker: Dr. Lauren Hampton

    From birth, listening is one of the most used activities of our daily life. There are several things you can do to improve your children's listening habits and get them to listen to you better.

    Start teaching listening skills early.

    It's never too late to start teaching these skills. But as children grow older, they will lose their patience(耐心). Bedtime and evening snack time are good chances for this.

    Listen to your children in the way you like to be listened to.

    Be a good role model by making your kids feel important while they are talking to you.

    Let your child complete what he is saying.

    "It's a waste of time talking to my parents," a teenager pointed out. "They say don't talk like that' while I'm speaking or they break in and change the subject to something on their minds."

    Know when to talk and when not to talk.

    There are times to keep quiet. When a child comes home after a bad day in school, don't get on his back immediately with something you want him to hear.

Click www.familycenter.org to learn more information about us.

    Write to Dr. Hampton at hampton@vandllbllt.edu if you have questions before the classes...

    Most climbers to Qomolangma used to start their climbing in Nepal, on the mountain's south side. But in the last few years, the route(路线) from China has become more popular. It then brings a lot of environmental problems to the north side. In June, 2017, Chinese government said it would close Qomolangma from climbing from the north side for the coming autumn season as it took time to clear out the rubbish on the mountain and make better protection of it.

    However, the number of climbers has still been rising since it was opened again. Qomolangma, one of the most popular and dangerous challenges for mountain climbers, is now in a terrible mess. Among all the 100 million visitors, around 60,000 climbers visit the Chinese side of the mountain each year. Qomolangma has become the world's highest rubbish dump(垃圾场) thanks to their visits.

    To protect the mountain, the Chinese government told the whole world that China would limit the number of visitors to Qomolangma. A clean-up began from February 5th, 2018 and the number of visitors to the north side should not be more than 300 every year from that day on.

    There are still more places that are "hurt" by human activities like Qomolangma. What humans should think about may not be what Earth can do for us, but what we can do for our mother planet. Can you imagine what our blue planet will be like in 100 or even 1,000 years if things do not change?

The teacher   out test papers when I arrived at the classroom.

Quite a few X-sports lovers their to go through the "Life-forbidden Zone" every year.

twice you act.

He   a fever for three days and the doctor suggests he stay in bed for a rest.

They gave up the plan   considering his suggestion.

    In the past, you could draw anything you imagine on a computer and then print it out on a piece of paper. Now we have what we called 3D printing. With this, we can print things we really use.

    You need to have a 3D printer in  to print 3D objects. Now you can even buy easily in a mall. They might be as small as the size of a ring  even as huge as a room. It  on what object you are going to make. You need a computer to make the design and then send your design to the printer.

    Jason, a dentist, had a patient  a toothache. After looking over the patient carefully, Jason found out  bad tooth. It was such a terrible situation  he decided to pull it out. First of all, he took a picture of the tooth with the  in his smart phone. Secondly, he designed a 3D tooth on the computer  to the picture. After that, he used a 3D printer to print the new one and put it into the mouth of the patient.

    Does it sound interesting? I am sure 3D printing technology will a difference to the world.

What is World Book Day

    World Book Day is celebrated every year by the people all over the world on 23rd of April. It is the most important event organized by the UNESCO in the hope of getting more people into the reading habits. World Book Day celebration was started by the UNESCO for the first time in 1995. But in the United Kingdom, it is not on 23rd of April, it is celebrated on the first Thursday of March.

How World Book Day is celebrated:

    One can take part in celebrating World Book Day by buying or reading some exciting and funny books from popular book shops where all kinds of books are available. World Book Day celebration plays a great role in bringing kids closer to the books as well as helps them to know about writers and their ideas about life. As an old Chinese saying goes, "In books you can find not only wealth but also gorgeous beauty."

Quotes by famous people:

    "Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon." – Bertolt Brecht

    "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." – Saint Augustine

    "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." – Oscar Wilde

    "There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Information Card

⒈简单介绍你平时的阅读习惯（时间、地点、书籍来源等）

⒉你最喜欢阅读的书籍类型以及原因（至少两点）

⒊呼吁人们读好书，让阅读成为人生的重要部分。

作文要求：

⒈不能照抄原文；不得在作文中出现学校真实的名称。

⒉行文连贯，词数80个左右。首句已经给出，不必抄写到答题卡上。

    A good reading habit is important to one's life. ……