广东省佛山市南海区2020-2021学年八年级下学期英语期末试卷

Mr. Kim couldn't take it any more. He needed peace and quiet. But his two neighbors, Ms. Abrams and Mr. Green, were the1people he had ever known!

In the house on the left, Ms. Abrams2tuba (大号)lessons. In the house on the right, Mr. Green worked on cuckoo clocks (布谷鸟钟). And 3 the middle was Mr. Kim—sad and tired. Then he had4 idea. He would pay his neighbors 5!

"Oh, great!"Ms. Abrams said when Kim offered6$200 to move away. "Sure!" said Mr. Green when Mr. Kim offered him the same deal.

The next day, he saw Mr. Green carrying his clocks to Ms. Abrams 'house 7. Ms. Abrams carrying her tuba to Mr. Green's house.

I thought8 you were both moving. "Mr. Kim said.

"We have!" Mr. Green said, "Ms. Abrams 9 into my old place, and I already into hers. ""Mr. Kim nearly fainted (晕). What could he do?

The next day, Mr. Green and Ms. Abrams visited Mr. Kim. "We know why you asked us to move, so we got you this. "And they gave Mr. Kim a very nice set of earmuffs (耳塞). Finally, 10peaceful world!

My name is Paul. I am an 8-year-old boy. One morning, I1to do something to get my name in the Guinness Book of World Records(吉尼斯记录).

To make my dream come true, 1 2what I could do. First I tied(系) my arm around my back and wanted to be "the person who swam the farthest with one. 3". But as soon as I got in the water, I went down.

Then, I put ten cookies in my mouth and tried to be the person who put the 4 cookies in his mouth. "However, when l put the eleventh cookie into my mouth, I felt awful.

5, I ran to the bathroom and filled up the tub(澡盆) with water. I decided to be" the person who took the world's longest bath". It was a perfect idea because I just needed to 6there. The first three hours was great. I drank cola and ate potato chips. Sitting in the water so long made me 7 like an old man. But I was8l could do this.

An hour later, my brother shouted outside the bathroom that the record for the longest bath in the world was almost a month! I got out9 and cried in bed.

My mum came, hugged me and said. "Maybe you will 10be in the Guinness Book of World Records. But that's OK. You are still special. "

With the summer holiday coming, it's a good idea to take up a new hobby. Come on, boys and girls, pick up your pen and get started!

CARTOON DIY GUIDE—Tips about four-frame cartoons

Four-frame cartoons(四格漫画) tell a joke or story. A cartoonist should be humorous. He or she should be able to draw and write stories.

Script

A script is the idea or story of the cartoon. You can write a script by yourself. Put the funniest part in the last frame. If it's at the beginning, readers won't look at the last three frames. If you are a beginner, you may need to find ready jokes or funny stories.

Picture

Avoid drawing two big heads talking in every frame. That's boring. Don't pay too much attention to the picture. The point of a four-frame cartoon is a funny story, not perfect pictures.

Hero

The key of the four-frame cartoon is its heroes. Garfield and Snoopy are examples. You like them, right? To draw your own cartoons, spend time creating the heroes. They can look simple (简单), but have to be finny.

Conversation

Good cartoons don't have too many conversations. People understand them just by pictures. The fewer words a cartoon has, the better. Too many words eat space. Readers have to spend time reading them. Use simple but expressive (有表现力的) words.

Venus is the second closest planet to the sun after Mercury. It gets its name from the Roman goddess of love and beauty. You can see it in the night sky. It's very bright. Only the moon is brighter. From space, the earth and Venus look similar(相似). It's called our sister planet! The earth is 12. 742kilometers across and Venus is 12. 104 kilometers across. They are almost the same size! They are both hot in the centre. They both have mountains and canyons(峡谷). But everything else about them is very different! The earth is beautiful and safe. Venus is the most dangerous place in the solar system.

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system. It is hotter than Mercury! Thick clouds on Venus keep all the heat inside. The temperature is 462℃! Venus' extreme temperature and acidic(酸性的)clouds make it impossible for life. The air on Venus is poisonous(有毒的) and very heavy. You would weigh more than 150 kilograms on Venus. Also days are really long on Venus. One day on Venus is as long as 117 days on earth! Nobody wants to go to school on Venus. An English class takes 40 days.

More than 40 spaceships have explored(探索) Venus. But no astronauts have visited it yet. It is just too dangerous!

In a small village, there were two friends, 5-year-old Tom and 10-year-old John John was bigger and stronger than Tom.

One day, they played in the forest. Suddenly John into a deep hole. John started shouting for help. Tom ran to John at once. He got a rope(绳子), gave one end to John and began to pull very hard. Finally Tom pulled John out of the . Both of them cried, smiled and then walked back home.

Tom and John were away for a long time, so parents got worried. All the villagers started to look the children. When Tom and John finally arrived back in the village, everyone was excited. Their parents hugged them and asked they went, Tom and John told everyone what in the forest. However, almost no one believed them.

They asked Tom, "How were you to help a person twice your size and weight? You are just five. "

Tom answered, "I used a rope. " Everyone laughed and shook their heads. Just then wise old man said that everything was true. He explained, "Tom could do that, no one was there to tell him 'You can't do it. "

Jesse comes from the US and has a column(专栏) in an English newspaper. She helps to solve problems from different readers. Here are some of the letters she has received.

1）友谊的重要性;

2）简单介绍你的好朋友以及你们成为好朋友的原因；

3）对于如何保持友谊给出建议（2条）。

作文要求:

1）不能照抄上文，不得在作文中出现真实的学校名称和学生的真实姓名。

2）语句连贯，词数80个左右;作文的开头已经给出，不计入总词数，也不必抄写在答题卷上。

Dear Jesse,

l am glad to share with you my ideas on friendship. . . . . .

Yours,

Lingling