浙江省外研版初中英语八年级上学期期中考试模拟试卷（11）

    When Jeff was young, he had always been thin and strong. When Jeff was forty, and he was fat and his muscles were very 1. He did not wish to get fatter and softer every year. One day one of his friends said to him, “Do you want to be thinner, Jeff?” 2, I do," Jeff answered.

    “Well, stop going to your office3 car, and get a bicycle. ”

    Jeff had not ridden a bicycle for many years. “It is very hard to learn to ride a bicycle again at your 4, ”his wife said.

    In 5, it was not too hard for Jeff to ride a bicycle again. He usually sat in his living room and read the newspaper in the evening. But now he 6 riding his bicycle every evening. He hoped that it would help him to get 7 , and he also got a lot of pleasure from it.

    He found some little roads which were not really very narrow but were not 8 enough for cars, and there he got away from the noises of the city, which were becoming too 9 for him.

    Then he began to go to his office on his bicycle. Sometimes all the cars stopped at a red light, but he could pass them to the 10 , because his bicycle was narrow. So he was happy.

    Mrs Brown lives in a small town in Australia. There is a big farm near the town.

    On Saturday morning, she goes to her small shop. She opens the window of the shop and looks at the farm. It's very beautiful. There are many cows, horses and small animals on the farm. Suddenly she sees a kangaroo with her baby. It's interesting to see them! The mother kangaroo is wearing an old jacket. They stand there and look hungry. Mrs Brown gives some bread to them. The kangaroos get it. Then they become happy and jump away. Suddenly a wallet drops on the floor from the jacket pocket. She picks it up and finds $ 300 and a photo in it. That is a man's photo with his name "John" on it. "John? I have a brother. His name is also John,"Mrs Brown says. "Is this man my lost brother?" she thinks.

    She takes the wallet with her and begins to look for the man. She asks many people in the town, and then she comes to the farm and asks the farmer. Hey! It is John, her lost brother. They are very happy to see each other.

Dear sir,

    I am doing a project(课题) at school about animals in danger. I think the situation all over the world is really terrible.

    Firstly, I feel so sorry for the giant panda. Pandas mainly live on bamboo. A panda can eat about half its body's weight(重量) of bamboo in 24 hours！That's a lot of bamboo. I think we should try to do more to stop cutting down their forests. We would be so sad if they disappear.

    Secondly, what we should try to protect more is the Chinese alligators(短吻鳄) . They live in some parts of eastern China. They live in freshwater rivers and lakes but the water in some places isn't clean enough for them to live in. It's really dirty in fact. The government should stop factories from polluting the lakes and rivers.

    If we protect these beautiful animals in China, more people may come to China to visit our beautiful country, especially to see the quieter areas in the country. Now most visitors just see the cities.

    I hope you will encourage(鼓励) more people to think about such an important subject.

Yours,

Huang Jing

    In the world, football is the most popular sport. The World Cup is held every four years.

    To remember 2002 FIFA World Cup, children from different countries and more than 60 children from Japanese schools came together and spent three weekends drawing a big picture called “Dream(梦幻) World Cups” in Japan. They wished each football team good luck by drawing the flags(旗帜) of all the countries that would take part in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The picture was put up in a park near a playground in Yokohama.

    Are you a football fan? The World Cup makes more and more people interested in football.  Teenagers(青少年) like playing and watching football. Many of them love some football stars so much that they get the pictures of their favourite players on the walls of their rooms.

提示:1）位于安徽省南部，是中国著名的旅游胜地。每年有大批中外游客前去旅游观光;

2）你可以乘火车、汽车或飞机去;

3）登山可领略其云海(the sea of clouds)、奇松(wondrouspines)、怪石(uniquerocks)等秀丽的风景及清晨美丽的日出。

注意：1）词数:80左右;

2）请不要逐字翻译。