浙江省新目标版初中英语八年级上学期期末模拟试卷（4）

    Once there was a man named Colonel Sanders. After running a restaurant for years in Kentucky, USA. he retired (退休) and found he was really poor. At the age of 65, he decided that he must make a difference to his life. So he thought about what he could do. He had special chicken recipe (食谱) and his friends all loved it very much. He thought that was where he could start. Sanders decided to sell his recipe. He left Kentucky and went to different places of America. He told restaurant owners that he had a great chicken recipe. He would give the recipe to them for free, and they just needed to pay a little money for every chicken they sold, Sounds good, right?

    Unluckily, most of the restaurant owners didn't think so. Sanders heard NO over 1,000 times. However, he didn't give up (放弃). He believed his chicken recipe was something special. He got NO 1,009 times before he heard the first YES.

    With that one success (成功), Sanders brought new way of eating chicken to Americans. Then he started Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Now KFC is famous around the world.

    What's the key to his success? Maybe it's "believe, dream, try and never give up".

    It is the 22nd century(世纪) and it is very popular to change people's bodies.

    Mr. Smith decided to change his body. He changed his big nose to a small one, and his old and gray hair to short and blond hair, He also bought new green eyes, new ears, new hands, new arms, new knees and new feet. Mrs. Smith was happy because Mr. Smith's new feet didn't smell as bad as his old feet.

    However, something bad happened. One morning, Mr. Smith woke up and his new nose didn't work. The next morning he couldn't hear anything. Then his new blond hair went gray, and his new knees didn't move. And finally he could see nothing with his green eyes.

    It was really terrible. Mr. Smith wanted his old body back. However, he had to pay 100, 000 dollars for his old body.

    It was expensive but Mr. Smith still got his own body back. He would never follow the fashion.

    Today, people are paying more and more attention to improving their health through sports and exercise. But some of them have some wrong ideas about it.

    In fact, the best meal before games should have carbohydrates(碳水化合物). Foods like potatoes, bread, bananas are rich in it, but chicken and meat are not. Carbohydrates are the best and most easily used form of energy. The energy that you get for today's game is from what you ate yesterday!

    No. Morning is a good time to exercise, but it may not be suitable for you. If an afternoon or evening period suits you, and you enjoy the feeling of getting healthier, you can choose any time to exercise. There is no fixed time for you to exercise.

    The fact is that you must have some water during breaks when you exercise. And after exercising, you must have enough water. If you don't drink enough water, then you'll probably get headaches and feel tired.

    False. Exercising the same body part every day is the fastest way to cause problems. To improve strength, you want to work your muscles(肌肉) hard, but then you need to give those muscles a day of rest. Too much exercise can cause serious problems to muscles.

    Wrong. We usually connect those big muscles with bodybuilders(健美运动员), but girls don't have enough male hormone(雄性激素) to make their muscles big like men. Strength training is a good way to make their muscles strong for girls.

    Many people are interested in talking about life in the future. Some people 1 that life in the future will be easier and more comfortable. But others believe that it will be 2 and more difficult than now. As for me, I 3 the idea of the first team.

    First, as for education, people will have 4 education. This is because of technology (科技). E-books will replace (取代) common 5 and robots will replace teachers. Students will not have to go to school every day. They will 6 at home through online teaching and will find learning more interesting.

    Second, people's 7 will improve. Technology will also 8 a very important role. New medicine will help people 9 better quickly. Robots will help doctors and sometimes replace 10. Also, doctors will be able to cure more diseases (治愈更多的疾病), 11 people will live longer.

    Third, housing problems will end. People will 12 houses under the sea. Also, some people will live 13 the moon. Then everyone will have place to live.

    Fourth, there will be no hunger all over the world. People will grow crops (庄稼) everywhere 14 on the top of buildings.

    Now what about you? 15 do you think life in the future will be like?

—Sorry, I don' t know.

    Lang Lang was born in Shenyang. He is a  (著名的) pianist now, In 2018, Lang Lang will have two concerts in China. Many people are planning to go there. Here is his  (经历).

    When he was only three years old, he showed his  (天赋) in playing the piano, At the age of five, he took part in a piano competition and won the first prize  (当然). So his father took him to a piano school in Beijing and told him, " (假如) you don't work hard, your dream won't come true. "Lang Lang was  (善解人意的) and he was also hard-working and strict with  (他自己). He went to America to get further study when he was only a small  (青少年)， and from then on, he hardly went back home  (除非) he was on vacation. Finally, he reached the top. Once Lang Lang told students in a  (会议), "Anyone can be successful as long as he puts his heart into it."