广东省东莞市2019-2020八年级上学期英语期中试卷

—Oh, it is _______educational movie.

— I don't think so. I think she ____ a doctor.

—You are right. It _____ a good plan.

—Karen, she ______ the first prize among the top ten singers.

— _______ unlucky day! I got some ink on my face.

—_____________. I read it every day.

— ______ you turn off the lights.

— At 2:35.

Finding one's inner beauty

Once upon a time, a wealthy old man lived alone in a big house. He was growing weaker day by day and was not1to take care of himself, so he decided to hire(雇佣) a nurse to help with 2 and take care of him.

One day, the old man interviewed 3 nurses –Anthony and Peter. Anthony happened to be a handsome young man, 4 Peter looked quite common. The old man asked Anthony to make tea for him. After Anthony5, the old man turned to Peter and said, "Anthony has given 6 a very bad description of you. He said you are rude and unbelievable. Is this correct?"

Peter thought for a minute and said, "If Anthony has a bad opinion of me, there must be something wrong with me. I should take some time to 7 these things."

The old man was very 8 by Peter's character. Meanwhile(同时), Anthony returned with 9 for the old man.

The old man sent Peter to make breakfast for him. He then turned to Anthony and told him, "Peter spoke very poorly of you while you were gone. What do you think about this?" After hearing this, Anthony became angry and 10shouting.

In the end, the old man hired Peter. Although Peter looked quite ordinary, he had impressive inner beauty.

Since2017, short videos have gotten millions of opinions online. Many people make and share short videos on popular video apps like Douyin and Kuaishou. In these popular apps, you can even add music and special effects(特效)to your videos. A video usually lasts 15 seconds to a few minutes. People in the videos usually do things like cooking, exercising and singing.

Teenagers enjoy these videos very much. More than 50 percent of junior high school students said they enjoy themselves while watching these short videos. About 47percent have posted their own videos, according to a recent report by the China National Youth Palace Association.

The videos let teenagers see something funny and exciting. Many teenagers like to share the fun things they do with others as well. For example, a 12-year-old user named Xiaoqianyu posted videos to show her jazz dance. This made her win many fans.

However, the videos can also cause trouble. Some students spend too much time watching them and less time studying. Some videos are not appropriate for teenagers. Watching these videos is bad for teenagers study and life.

To deal with these problems, Douyin added a new function in April. It locks the app if someone uses the app for over two hours a day. In the same month, the government asked the video companies to control these apps and take out the bad videos. The apps have been checked and controlled much more strictly since then, the Beijing News reported.

There was a class of students who were very unruly. None of the teachers wanted to teach them. So the principal (校长) called a teacher who had just quit her job (辞职) at a different school. He asked her if she would like to come in and teach at the school for one semester. She agreed.

The principal decided not to tell the teacher about the class, afraid that she would be scared off(吓跑). After the new teacher had been on the job for a month, the principal sat in on the class to see how things were going. To his surprise, the students were well-behaved (表现良好的). After the class, the principal praised the teacher for her work. She thanked him for giving her such a well-behaved class to teach. But the principal said he really didn't deserve (值得) any thanks.

She laughed and told him, "You see, I discovered your secret on my first day here. I looked in the desk drawer and found a list of the students' IQ scores. I knew that I had a challenging (有挑战性的) group of kids here − they're so smart that I would have to work really hard to make school interesting for them."

She opened the drawer and the principal saw a list with the students' names and the numbers 136, 145, 127, 128, and so on written next to the names.

The principal laughed. Those weren't their IQ scores, but their locker (储物柜) numbers!

Emma and Jerry are good friends. of them love to watch movies.

There is only one . They never like the same movies. Emma likes love movies, Jerry likes scary ones

At first, they didn't know they had such tastes in movies. One day, Jerry said to Emma," Emma, there is going to a new movie in the cinema. I want to watch it tonight. Would you like to go me?" "Of course! What is it?" "Get Out." That night, Emma and Jerry bought two tickets this movie and went into the cinema. Ten minutes later, Emma felt so scared that she ran out of the cinema .

A few days later, Emma asked Jerry to watch the film Beauty and the Beast. After it, Jerry said, "I don't think I can watch a film like this again. You dislike scary movies as much as I dislike love ones. "Emma asked." What are we going to do? Will we never go to the cinema together again?"

Jerry answered, "I think we will have to wait for scary love movie. ""That's a good idea." Emma said. They went home happily.

There are three students' dreams. Let's have a look

My name is Kiera and I'm going to be a singer when I grow up. Some people don't think I can do it, but I believe I can. I hope that I can be rich after I become famous. If I have lots of money, I'm going to build some new schools for the children in poor place.

Hi! My name is Amy. When I grow up, I'd like to be a nurse. I want to take good care of the sick people in the hospital. I'm going to get good grades and go to university. When I'm at school, I can take a part-time job in the hospital working as a nurse.

I'm John. I'd like to be a computer programmer. So I'm going to work hard at computer science in the future. Although I'm not good at communicating with people, I'm good at working on computer.

Information Card

要点提示：

1）来自武汉；每周锻炼两次、每天吃水果，蔬菜；

2）好友Tom，比你外向，比你聪明；

3）简单介绍长大后的职业，原因和怎么做。

I am very glad to introduce myself to all of you. My name is Jason.