广东省阳江市江城区2019-2020学年八年级上学期英语期末试卷（含小段音频）

Some children wish to be writers when they grow up. That 1 that they want to write stories or books. They would be happy if many people read their stories or books some day, but I would like 2these children that they will need to be good readers and read a lot before they become good writers.

Nearly all great writers often listened 3others tell stories long before they started school. They also 4on reading for hours and hours for years. Even when they had become writers, they spent much of their time 5books instead of watching TV in the evening.

If you are a good reader, it won't take you long 6the reading homework your teacher asks you to do. Then you will have time to read 7books for fun. You will read so 8that you will always want to look for more books to read.

If you want to be a writer, reading is very 9. When you decide to become a writer, you had better tell 10, "I must read more and more if I really want to become a good writer."

Nick is a 10-year-old boy. He's the only child in his family. His father always seems too 1. He usually gets back home after Nick sleeps and leaves home before Nick 2up. Just like other boys, Nick wants his father to spend 3with him.

One evening, Nick was surprised to see his father at home. "Dad, it's a big surprise," Nick said.

"Yes, son, my meeting was canceled（取消）.

So I were at home early," his father replied.

"Can I ask you some questions now?" Nick went on. "How much money do you make a year?"

"It's a 4number and you won't be able to understand it.”

"Are you happy 5the money you've made?"

"Yes, son, I'm very happy and I'm planning to 6another new store. Anything else?"

"Yes, I have one more question一how much do you make in one 7?"

"Nick, it's a funny question. But I can tell you一it's about 100 dollars every hour."

Hearing this, Nick 8ran to his room and soon got down with a piggy bank（储钱罐）. "Dad, I have 300 dollars here. Can you spend three hours with me 9I give all the money to you?"

Running for money makes kids 10love and care from parents. Money can't buy everything!

A new way of eating becomes popular with young people on the Internet. It is called mukbang. Starting from South Korea, mukbang means "eating broadcast（吃播）". The hosts live-stream（直播）themselves eating a large number of food online. At the same time, they talk with those who are watching them through the Internet.

In South Korea, it's not common for people to go out to eat by themselves. Dining is a social（社交的）activity, and people don't sit and eat alone（独自）. For those who can't eat with others, they'll stay at home to eat alone, but they still want to meet and spend time with people while eating. So they think of the idea for mukbang. In this way, they'll never eat alone again and they can even make a lot of money.

Now mukbang is popular in the world. People can share the happiness of eating and make friends through mukbang. It also helps people who have problems with food. By watching mukbang, those who always eat too much can satisfy their appetite（胃口）and those who don't eat enough can build their appetite.

I'm Chinese and I love Chinese culture. Of all the traditional Chinese festivals, I like the Spring Festival. Every family will make good preparations the big event before it comes. People clean the house, buy new clothes and prepare a lot of delicious food. For those who work from their hometowns, they have to take a train or plane home and the ride usually takes a few hours. To get back home on time, they usually buy plane or train in advance（预先）.

During the festival, there are all kinds of interesting . People set of fire crackers (爆竹）and enjoy the dragon dances to it. Many people always their relatives（亲戚）to a big dinner. can get lucky money from their parents, grandparents and relatives. Old friends like to get to talk about the happy old days.

The Spring Festival means theof a new year. People always have good wishes for the coming year. What's your wish for 2020?

Jack is 15 years old. He practices playing the guitar every day, and he is really good at playing the guitar. Emma is Jack's sister. She loves to listen to Jack when he plays the guitar. Jack likes to play country music and classical（古典的）music with the guitar. Emma likes the country music best. She really likes watching Jack play the country music that he creates. Emma also wants to learn to play the guitar so that she can play as well as Jack does.

"Mum, can I take guitar lessons?" Emma asks.

Her mum replies, "It takes a lot of hard work to play the guitar for Jack. Are you sure you have enough time to put it into practice?"

Thinking about all of her favorite activities, Emma isn't sure. She loves her ballet classes, her art classes and her chess classes. Emma realizes that if she plays the guitar, she will probably have to give up another activity to make time for practicing. She doesn't know which activity she would give up because they all mean so much to her.

Finally, Emma decides to enjoy Jack's performance.

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