浙江省外研版初中英语八年级上学期期末模拟试卷（2）

    Everybody has one of those days when everything goes wrong. This is what happened to Harry.

    One morning, he got up very1because his clock stopped. He tried to shave(刮胡须) quickly and cut himself. When he got dressed, he got blood all over his2, so he had to find another one. The only other shirt that was clean3ironing(熨烫). While he was ironing it, there was a knock at the door. It was the man to collect money for water. After he paid the water 4 he found the iron burnt a hole in his shirt. So he had to wear the one with the blood on it. By that time it was very late, so he5he couldn't go to work by bus. He6for a taxi to take him to work. When the taxi arrived, Harry got in.

    In another part of the town, a man killed a woman 7 a knife. People saw him run away in a taxi. When Harry's taxi stopped outside his office, a policeman8to be standing there. He saw the blood on Harry's shirt, and took him to the police station. The policemen 9 him till 3 p.m.10 the police found out that he was not the man they wanted. When he finally arrived at the office at about 4 p.m., his boss took a look at him and told him to find another job.

    We often talk about the weather. Here are some passages about the weather. Let's read them together.

    Passage 1: Is it hot or cold, cool or warm? It always goes up and down. When the sun comes up, it warms the air and the temperature will go up. When the nights come, the air will get cooler and the temperature will fall.

    Passage 2: We can't see it, but we can feel it. It can move the air. When it comes, we can see the branches of trees moving. Do you like flying kites? It can carry your kite high in the sky. It can also blow(吹) your hat off.

    Passage 3: The rain is falling all around. It falls on fields and trees. It falls on the umbrellas here and on the ships at the sea.

    Passage 4: We often see it in winter. It looks white and many people like it a lot. When it comes, the ground will put on her white clothes. And children are very happy then, because they can make snowmen.

    In England, people often talk about the weather because they can have four seasons in one day. In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. An hour later black clouds come and then it rains hard. The weather gets a little cold. In the afternoon the sun may begin to shine. It may be just like a day in summer.

    You can also have summer in winter, or have winter in summer. So in winter you can sometimes swim, and in summer you can sometimes wear warm clothes. When you go to England, you will see that some English people usually take an umbrella or a raincoat with them on a sunny morning. But you'd better not laugh at them. If you don't take an umbrella or a raincoat in the morning, maybe later you will have to walk in the rain. People often say that in England you can have four seasons in one day. Sometimes you may feel you have the same season all year round.

    I'm a 12-year-old boy. I like travelling very much, so I want to be a guide in the future. I hope I can visit the moon some day!

                                                       Wu Dong, Guangdong

    I'm 15. Now I'm studying in London My favourite subject is science. I have science classes every Tuesday and Wednesday. I hope I can invent (发明) a machine. It can help people understand different languages in the future.

                                                               Li Ming, Hunan

    I'm 16. Before the earthquake (地震) on 12^th May 2008, I wanted to be a reporter (记者). But now I want to be a doctor in the future. I'd like to help all the sick (生病的) people.

                                                          Wang Hao, Sichuan

    I' m a 14-year-old girl in Tibet. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been built. I am able to go to Beijing by train now. My dream (梦想) is to take the train to Beijing with my family.

                                                                  Joma, Tibet

    I' m 15 years old. I like reading books. I want to invent a machine. It can send things or people from one place to another far away in a minute.

                                                             Wei Hua, Beijing

    Everyone knows "the one-child policy". It is a(n) to control (控制) population. Chinese government to control the increasing population at first. Chinese people understood that and that policy for about 40 years.

    ， as time goes by, a problem appears in our society. China is now getting into an aging There will be more and more old people in the following years. But the society won't have doctors, or nurses to look after them.

    That's why Chinese  began "the two-child policy" on 1st January 2016. It  each family to have two children. The government thinks it can help stop our country from entering the aging society.

— The radio says it will be over 27 degrees.

— The (疼痛) is worse than yesterday.

    In most cultures, when you meet someone for the first time,  is usual to greet him.(one) a young woman from England went to Hong Kong to study. When she first arrived, she knew (less) about the Chinese culture of language. One day, she went to a bank to get some money. To her surprise, the bank clerk asked her if she had had her lunch. In the British culture it would mean an invitation(邀请) to lunch. Between unmarried young people it can also mean the young  man) interest in dating the girl. Since this bank clerk was a (strange) to the British woman, she was very puzzled(疑惑的) and (quick) answered that she had eaten already. After that she was even more surprised when one of the teachers asked her same question.

    By now she had understood that it couldn't be an invitation was puzzled why they asked it. In the following days, she was asked the same question again and again and she spent many hours (try) to understand why so many people kept asking this. At last she thought that these people be concerned about(关心) her health. She was rather thin at that time and she thought they must be worrying that she was not eating well.

   The cartoon series Boonie Bears is popular with people of all ages in China. Logger Vick, a logger, came to the beautiful Heilongjiang forest to cut down logs with Boss Li's trust. But in the forest hid two terrible rivals(对手)- the forest owners, bear brothers! Briar and Bramble!

   Looking at the forest that was destroyed, bear brothers decided to fight with Logger Vick to protect the forest. Briar is so clever that he can beat Logger Vick easily. Bramble is not as clever as his brother but sometimes can also defeat Logger Vick with his brute force(蛮力). But the cunning(狡猾的) logger cannot leave so easily. The home defense lasted for a long time and Logger Vick tried various ways to defeat bear brothers and cut down logs, but he failed every time. Finally Logger Vick lost Boss Li's trust and gained nothing. The saying goes that doing good will be repaid and doing evil will be punished.

   The cartoon story shows us an active topic in laughter, and two bears facing the failure bravely. It also tells us to protect the forests, the environment, and the ecological balance in our everyday life.

要求：1）意思连贯、符合逻辑；

2）不少于80词，信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。