浙江省外研版初中英语八年级上学期期中考试模拟试卷（14）

    There is some1for you to follow in order to learn English well, Firstly, it's a good way2your English3reading, so do more reading every day, but4try to translate every word when you read an English article. Secondly, do more listening exercises. You should repeat the sentences5you hear them. It's good6your pronunciation. Sometimes, we offer(提供) exercises to you to number the pictures in the right order, or find the mistakes in the sentences and then correct7. Thirdly, try to speak to foreigners. Don't be afraid of8mistakes. Take a deep breath and start a  conversation with them. Always remember to enjoy yourself9English learning，10you will surely be good at it sooner or later.

    We all know people call Taiwan the Treasure Island of China. It is very beautiful. Recently we have been closely connected.

    Several months ago, a group of 19 Taiwanese children flew to Chengdu in order to begin a tour to study pandas. The middle school children were from Chiayi County in southwest Taiwan and were chosen because of their excellent performances at school.

    During the visit, the children saw pandas up close. They were very excited to see so many pandas at the same time. The children also traveled to the Mount Emei scenic area and met local schoolchildren.

    At last, they said, "The pandas are very cute, and we are all happy." They also said the children in Chengdu were very friendly to them, and they all liked there. They hoped to visit Sichuan again.

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    Many things can make summer great: swimming, camping, and the World Cup! The 20th FIFA World Cup will take place in Brazil from June 13 to July 14. Get ready for it!

    People around the world love football. The sport is very easy and cheap to play. All you need is a ball. Anyone or any country, rich or poor, can play it. A small or poor country like Ghana could never beat the US at the Olympics. But they can send the US home at the World Cup.

    In countries like Brazil and England, football is so popular that it has become part of their culture. People there will be very happy and proud if their national team wins the World Cup. This summer thousands of England fans will go to cheer for their team in Brazil, even though the trip could cost each of them 10, 000 pounds!

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●TheFIFAWorldCuptakesplaceeveryfouryears.

●Thirty­twoteamsplayinthe World Cup.

●TheWorldCupusuallylasts 30 days.

●Onlyeight nationshavewonthe 19 WorldCuptitles(冠军头衔). Brazilisontopofthelistwith 5 wins. OthersincludeItaly, Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, England, FranceandSpain.

●AccordingtoFIFA, 3.2 billionpeoplewatchedthe 2010 WorldCup. Thatisnearlyhalfoftheworldpopulation.

(From 21st Century, April 28, 2014)

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    The Dover Club together with Skyhawks SportsCentre is offering(提供) new sport camps for children this summer.

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Oxfam has 12 branch bureaus (分支结构) in different countries in the world.The table isabout some of them.　

	Oxfam America Office address: 26 West Street, Boston MA 02111 1206, USA Tel: 1 617 482 1211 Fax: 1 617 728 2594 E-mail: info@oxfamamerica.org Website: http://www.oxfamamerica.org
	Oxfam Canada Office address: Suite 300 - 294 Albert Street, Ottawa, Ontario Kl P 6E6, Canada Tel:1 613 237 5236 Fax:1 613 237 0524 E-mail: enquire@oxfam.ca Website: http://www.oxfam.ca
	Oxfam GB Office address: 274 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DZ United Kingdom Tel: 44 1865 311 311 Fax: 44 1865 312 600 E-mail: oxfam@oxfam.org.uk Website: http://www.oxfam.org.uk
	Intermon Oxfam Office address: Roger de Lluria 15, 08010 Barcelona, Spain Tel: 34 93 482 0708/0 Fax: 34 93 482 0707 E-mail: info@intermon.org Website: http://www.intermon.org
	Oxfam New Zealand Office address: 62 Aitken Terrace, Kingsland, Auckland, New Zealand Postal address: P.O. Box 68 357, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand Tel: 64 9 355 6500 Fax: 64 9 355 6505 E-mail: oxfam@oxfam.org.nz Website: www.oxfam.org.nz
	Oxfam Hong Kong Office address: 17/F., China United Centre, 28 Marble Road, North Point, Hong Kong. Tel: 852 2520 2525 Fax: 852 2527 6307 E-mail: info@oxfam.org.hk Website:http://www.oxfam.org.hk

—It's 100 grams.

    There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But only a few. of them are very important. English is one of them. Many, many people use it, not in England and the USA, but also in other parts of the world. About 400, 000, 000 people speak it their own language. It is difficult (say) how many people are learning it as a foreign language.(million) of people are trying to do so. Is it easy or difficult to learn English？Different people may have different（answer）.

    The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should remember that we all learned our own language when we were children. If we could learn English the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears.

    So it is hard to say that (learn) English is easy. We must do a lot of practice. And practice needs great efforts(努力) and takes much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will be(help) , but they cannot do the student's work for him.

    Tony, you ask me about my country. China is a big country, and it is an old country in the world. It's about 9, 600,000 square kilometres(平方公里). China is bigger than Japan, but smaller than Russia. There are lots of lakes, mountains and rivers in China.

Beijing is the capital of China. There are many places of interest. The weather in Beijing is very hot in summer, and very cold in winter. The air pollution is serious in that city. But there are still millions of visitors from all over the world every year.

根据下面材料，写一篇80词左右的短文，介绍濒危动物——华南虎(South China tiger) 。

1）华南虎圆头、短耳、长尾巴；强壮，食肉动物；

2）由于人类大量捕杀，现在野生华南虎几近绝迹；动物园中仅存100只左右；

3）人们正努力保护它们。