浙江温州乐清市2020-2021学年八年级下学期英语五校联考期中试卷

—No, I won't. It's so expensive that I can't           it.

—Oh, sorry! She          to England. She will come back in three days.

—They have done such a great job and we Chinese           them.

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    Jim, a successful businessman, shared the experience of his childhood with others.

When he was 12 years old, his parents1. He was alone and didn't get on well with2. People always laughed3him. No one wanted to show kindness to him. His only friend was a4named Tige.

    One day as he walked down the street, a young lady was walking in front of him. Suddenly one of her bags dropped from her arms. As she stopped to5, she dropped other bags. He came to help her. "Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy" she said kindly.

A 6 feeling came to him. These were the first kind words he had 7 heard. He watched her8she went far away, and he whistled to his dog and went to the river nearby.

"Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!" he repeated the woman's words. Then in a low9he said to his dog, "You are a nice little dog！" Tige raised its10as if it understood.

Finally, he got to the river and looked at himself in it. He saw11but a dirty boy. He washed his face 12. He looked again and saw a clean nice boy.

After telling this, the businessman stopped for a while, and then he said, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the very place where that kind woman planted in me the13seed of kindness. All of us should14the power of kindness". If you show your kindness to others, you will grow15an able man.

Y. F. HOSPITAL

What kind of movie would you like to watch? Today let me introduce an old but fantastic movie to you—Avatar. It was directed by James Cameron. It took 14 years to prepare for the movie and four years' time to film it. It was first shown on January 2nd, 2010 in China. It cost 500 million and it cost the most money in history of making films. This is a great deal of money.

This movie is very popular with children and adults like it, too. Now I'll tell some details to you. In the future world, to discover and get the mineral resources on the planet Pandora, people open up the programme Avatar. They mix humans' and the Na'vi's DNA together to make a new kind of man Avatar. They want Avatar to get the mineral resources from Na'vi's villages and send them to the Earth. Jake receives this Avatar programme and goes to the planet Pandora. He gets to know Neytiri, the princess of Pandora, who falls in love with him because of his bravery. Then he faces the choice between humans and the Na'vi. What do you think of it after my introduction?

Avatar has passed Titanic to become one of the biggest grossing movies in the world. It has won the Golden Globe and the Oscar. If you haven't watched it before, you can watch it at once!

A hobby can be almost anything that a person likes to do in his free time. Hobbyists keep pets, build model ships, watch birds, climb mountains, and grow flowers. Hobbyists also paint pictures, go to concerts, play and perform on musical instruments. They collect everything from books to butterflies and from coins to stamps.

People have hobbies because these activities offer enjoyment, friendship, knowledge and relaxation. Sometimes they even make some money by following a hobby. Hobbies help people relax after hard work, and provide a balance between work and play. Hobbies also offer more interesting activities for persons who have retired. Anyone, rich or poor, old or young, sick or well, can follow an interesting hobby.

Hobbies can also help to keep a person's mental and physical health. Doctors have found that hobbies are helpful for sick people to get better from physical or mental illness. Hobbies give them something to do, and offer interests that keep them from thinking about themselves.

In early years, most people were too busy making a living to have many hobbies. But some persons who were free did enjoy hobbies.

People today have more time for hobbies than before. Machines have reduced the time that they must spend on their jobs. More people are retiring at an earlier age than before. Those who have developed hobbies never need to worry about what to do with their free hours.

Sir William Osler, a famous Canadian doctor says, "No man is really happy or safe without a hobby."

    Mr. Wu is an English teacher. Last Monday at the beginning of class, he cheerfully asked his students how their weekends had been. One girl said that she had spent a terrible weekend—she had one of her teeth pulled out and it still hurt. "Why do you always seem to be so happy, Mr. Wu?" she asked.

    The girl's question made Mr. Wu think of something he had read somewhere before. "Every morning when you get up, you have a choice about how you want to get close to life that day," Mr Wu said with a smile, "I choose to be cheerful."

    And today is my lucky day," he added.

    "Why?" The whole class were curious.

    "This morning, I rode to school as usual. I only had to go another kilometer down the road when my e-bike broke down."

"Your e-bike broke down and it's your lucky day?" The students were surprised. "What do you mean, Mr. Wu?"

"My e-bike broke down fifteen minutes before class, so I left it on the roadside, took my books, and walked down the road. It took me ten minutes to arrive at school. I live eight kilometres away. My e-bike could have broken down somewhere along the way. But it didn't. Luckily, it broke down in the perfect place-off the main road, within walking distance of here. I'm still able to teach my class and I'll be able to get it repaired after class."

    The students' eyes opened wide, and then they smiled. Mr. Wu smiled back and said, "Your luck depends on yourselves. It's an attitude towards life, so try to be positive every day." Somehow, his story touched them. He was happy that they had a perfect chance to think about what luck is in a new way.

My uncle was born in 1935 and grew up in a poor village in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. At the age of 15, he went to(法国)to make a living. He was the first person in his village to go to a foreign country. When he reached Paris, he found it was (不可能的)for a foreigner to find a good job because he could speak little French. He (期盼) to go to a language school but he didn't have enough money. Later, he worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up the tables, washing the dishes and sweeping the floors. At first, he spoke French(紧张地). Slowly, he improved himself by(交流)with others. He was so hard-working that his boss was very satisfied with him. He became a(成员) of a big company at the age of 22 and later he was even (积极的)in learning something new than before.

   My uncle kept working hard for long time and finally made his (梦想) come true. It brought him a lot of(快乐). I have learned a(有价值的) lesson from my uncle: Things do not come easily in life. No pain, no gain. I think I'm going to be a person like him one day.

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