牛津深圳版初中英语八年级上册期中能力测试卷（含听力音频）

Walt Disney was an American. He was born on , 1901 in Chicago. And he died on December 15th, 1966. Disney's early life was . He did many different kinds of jobs to make a living. Disney liked  and he had a gift for it. He began to learn drawing in 1906. He went to school in 1909. In , he created the cartoon character "Mickey Mouse" with his friend. And the funny mouse made Disney famous around the world. In July, 1928, Disney opened his  Disneyland. Walt Disney was a great person. He brought happiness to people with his cartoons.

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—He is kind and humorous. He is also         among us.

—He told me to take the medicine according to the        .

Students from Leonia High School in New Jersey went to visit Notre-Dame Cathedral (巴黎圣母院). They talked 1 after the visit. They were glad. However, just 2 after they came out, there was a big fire. They were the last 3 to see the cathedral before it caught fire.

One of the 4teachers with the students, Bertolini, said, "I came here with four other teachers and 26 students. We are in Paris as a part of an 11-day French trip. We 5 about an hour in the cathedral before leaving it to go to dinner."

"We 6 there at about 6:20, and I guess the fire started around then," Bertolini said. "We walked to have dinner and met one teacher's sister at the 7. She was late and said it was because of the fire. People in the city were just afraid."

They 8 the cathedral. The teachers all talked to the students about the 9 fire and the teachers felt happy when they knew no one died in the fire.

Notre-Dame Cathedral is very 10 — about 12 to 13 million people go to visit it a year and it is home to paintings, sculptures (雕像) and other famous works of art.

A six-year-old British girl, Mollie Price, is opening up her third candy store. She is said to be one of Britain's youngest bosses. Her stores are called "Mollie's." She sells both British and American candy. The girl would like to open more candy stores. "It might sound crazy, but believe me," Mollie says.

"It was Mollie's idea to open up the shop. It is Mollie who runs the candy stores," her mother Becky, her " business partner" says.

Her mother says all the stores are put together and stocked (进货) by Mollie.

Mollie works in one of the stores every Saturday, then gets up early Sunday to go to the company's product supplier((供应商). She asks her friends to test the sweets to decide which ones are good. She's good at smart marketing. For example, if the weather is really cold, she sells the Mr. Whippy ice cream cheaper than when it's hot outside.

"Children have the best ideas. I tell my mum what I think and she always says I have good ideas. It's just because I know what other children like, "Mollie says.

Now there are different kinds of robots. Do you want to have one? When you arrive home after a long day's study, a robot greets you and sings sweet songs to you. He would like to help you take your school things to your room. And then he helps you with your homework. He would like to be a good listener when you talk about your school life to him. When your friends birthday comes, he will tell you to call your friend and say "Happy birthday."

This is your possible future life, and the robot's name is NAO. He is from a Guangdong company. NAO has a small body, big eyes and a large head. He can walk and dance. He listens and talks, and he even learns and thinks for himself. His creators predict that the robot will be in people's homes before 2040.

NAO knows how you feel and he can even express emotions (表达情感). He is a self-guided robot. A self-guided robot can sense, think and act. Other robots might do two out of the three. For example, a robot might sense things using cameras and think using computers, but with no arms, he can't act. Another robot can move and sense things, but he cant think for himself. These aren't self-guided robots. But NAO can do them all.

What would the world be like if cars could drive themselves? People can not only use the computer to play games, but also invent many new things. Some day you may see an empty car passing by on its way to pick up its owner, or a car full of people, but neither of them are worried about the road ahead.

Well, all of these may come true in the near future. There are several companies, including Google, working on self-driving cars. Because of them, some self-driving cars appear. And most of them work well. No Google self-driving cars get a traffic ticket after they get on the road. These cars are now still under tests. If the tests are successful, we will soon see these electric (电动的）self-driving cars in the street.

Cars can take the place of drivers in some certain situations (情况). For example，cars can park themselves or slow down when they notice someone close by. They can also control the speed when they meet some danger or stop when they get too close to the cars in front.

Scientists and engineers believe, with the help of wireless signals (无线电信号)，cameras, the Internet and GPS, it's possible to make self-driving cars safe. However, some people don't like the idea. An American lawyer (律师),White Drake, for example, doesn't believe these cars are safe.

Because of busy work and the need of feeding a family, many people think it's hard for them to find time to take exercise. What's more, most people have a long-standing idea in their minds that taking exercise in the evening makes it more difficult to sleep.

However, a new study shows that half-an-hour high-intensity (高强度的) exercise in the early evening does not give people sleep problems and may even help people become thin by stopping their hunger growing.

To see whether (是否) taking exercise at different times of the day affected sleep, the scientists found eleven middle-aged men and divided (把……分成) them into three groups. The first group took exercise in the morning (6-7 am), the second in the afternoon (2-4 pm) and the third in the evening (7-9 pm). All of them finished the same exercise — 30 minutes of cycling. After the exercise, the scientists asked them how they slept that night. Before and after the exercise, the scientists took their blood samples (血样).Now people can see the results in the magazine Experimented Physiology.

The men also took exercise "harder" in the after­noon and evening. But the scientists said this kind of exercise was still not enough for the men to find any change in how hungry they felt. They also said that they might not get the same result if some women did the same exercise. They hoped to do more studies to see whether taking exercise would affect one's hunger.

Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853. He enjoyed drawing as a child. His first connection with paintings came in 1869. He worked for an art dealer (&28-4) in London and Paris for four years before he became a teacher in England. He moved back to France in 1877 and soon began to paint. He didn't stay long in Paris. The colors of the countryside attracted him and, in 1888, he moved to Ales, a small town in the south of France. There he painted his most famous paintings.

He enjoyed painting people, farms, flowers and other natural things. Some of his most famous paintings are the Potato Eaters, the Starry Night and several different sunflower paintings. The Starry Night is now kept in the Museum of Modem Art in New York. There is a quiet village and a tall black tree under an angry sky. Some people say that it shows a war in Van Gogh's mind between peace and anger. It was finished on June 19th, 1889. Scientists say that it is a true picture on that day.

He was poor most of his life. He made hundreds of paintings, but only sold one of them while he lived. He was a lonely, unhappy man and died at an early age of 37.

Today, people love Van Gogh's use of colour and the emotional power of his works. Van

Gogh's paintings are world famous and worth millions of dollars. Museums around the world proud show paintings by the great artist.

A week ago, something bad happened to me. Someone broke my lock and stole my computer. A lot of my (importance) information was on it. At first, I was pretty angry, but then I told myself to keep calm (冷静的) should you do when someone steals your things? Here (be) my ideas.

Ask the police for help. When you lose something, you may also be angry. Tell your friends and let them go with you to the police station. Tell the police (clear) about your lost things.

Decide how much you want to share. Telling your friends how you feel is good thing. It might make you forget about the bad thing and then feel (good).

Buy something new. Don't wish that your stolen things could come back a short time. If necessary, buy a new one for yourself. Make your house safer. Go shopping and choose a good lock for (you) house. Make sure that you know who also has your house (key).

Get out from the bad feelings. Try to think about something good, let yourself get out of the bad feelings. Go to your favorite places. Just enjoy the good and let the bad go.

内容：1）说明玩电脑游戏的利弊；

2）建议小亮在课余时间多参加有意义的活动；

3）希望他能专注学习。

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Dear Xiao Liang,

How are you recently?

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Yours,

Zhang Lin