浙江省温州市2020-2021学年八年级上学期英语开学考试试卷（含听力音频）

— No, it isn't. I think it's Betty's.

— Yes, I lost my favourite toy car yesterday.

— Two kilos, please.

— America. I ______ there for 25 days.

— ______, there _______.

— It's _______ July 26.

— No, but I ______ sing. I joined a club last year.

— ______! You're going to have a picnic with us.

    My grandpa was born in a small village in Shandong. He lived in a small house1 his grandparents, his parents and his two brothers, they lived a2life at that time.

    They were often hungry3there wasn't enough food for such a big family, his two brothers didn't go to school so they couldn't4or write, their parents had no5to send them to school. My grandpa went to school when he was eleven and6years later he had to leave school at the age of fourteen.

    As the age of fifteen he7in a shoe factory, the factory was far from home, it took him almost an hour8there. Also at that time he met my grandma and then they married.9They had four children.

    "10was not easy then but we felt happy," my grandpa often says.

    Good morning. Today is Tuesday and the weather is fine. Here is some good news for you.

    Today there are robots working in factories. Some can help to build cars, and they do easy jobs over and over again. Few people will do such jobs in the future because they are boring, but robots will never get bored.

    Scientists are now trying to make robots look like people. Some robots in Japan can walk and dance. However, some scientists believe that it will be difficult to make them really think like people. For example, scientist James White thinks that robots will never be able to wake up and know where they are. But many scientists don't think so. They think that robots will even be able to talk in 25 to 50 years.

    Some scientists believe that there will be more robots in the future. Some will look like people and others might look like animals. In India, for example, scientists made robots that look like snakes. When buildings fall down with people inside the snake, robots can help look for people under the buildings. This was not possible 20 years ago, but computers and rockets also seemed impossible 100 years ago. We never know what will happen in the future

    There was once a young mouse living in a hole in the wall. One day the young mouse woke up from his sleep and looked out of the hole. As he looked out, a fantastic smell came to his nose. "Cheese!" the mouse said happily to himself. "I'll go and get it now and have it for breakfast."

    But then he remembered his parents' words. His parents were very clever mice and often said to their son, "Always wait before you go for a piece of cheese."

    So the young mouse waited quietly. Then he heard a quiet "Miaow" and he knew the cat was there. He stayed in the hole and said to himself, "I'm glad I listened to my parents and learned to wait."

    The next day, he looked out again. He put his nose out of the hole and the beautiful smell of cheese came to his nose again. He could see the cheese. It was only a few centimeters away. But he sat and waited quietly. This time he did not hear any cat's noise. Instead he heard a very quiet "woof woof".

     "It's a dog." He thought. "If the dog is there, the cat won't be there. The dog must chase the cat away. So I'm safe." The mouse ran out of the hole and started eating the cheese. He did not see the cat, which caught him and ate him.

    When the cat finished her meal, she said to herself, "I'm glad I listened to my parents and learned a second language."

    Do you have a nice travel  (计划)？Do you want to visit the North Pole this summer? Come here and feel something  (不同的) ! If you enjoy sunshine very much, come to Sunshine Hotel in the North Pole this summer. In summer, there is sunshine for about twenty-four 24 hours every day. You can play with the  (雪) in the evening because it is still bright. However，it's very far from where you live, so you can only come here by  (飞机) . It is also very cold here. You  (需要) to bring warm clothes and a warm hat.

    In Sunshine Hotel, there are 20 floors and 100 rooms. You have to pay $100 for a room for one night .It's a little (昂贵的) to stay in it. Every room has a big balcony. Sometimes you can see some interesting animals from it. Don't (担心)about the food and drinks. There is a coffee shop on each floor. You can get (热的) coffee here for free. The food there is also very(新鲜的).

     (欢迎) here ! I'm sure you will have a good time here.

要求：

⑴句子通顺、语意连贯、语法正确；

⑵不少于80词（开头已给出，不计入总词数）。

    My friends and I had a nice Saturday on the Dongtou Island last week. What did we do there? Let's have a look.

    I'm looking forward to your reply.

Li Hua