浙江省舟山市定海区2021-2022学年八年级下学期期末测试英语试题

One day, a little boy asked his father, "What does the word "great' mean? Who are great people and1do they become great?"

The father asked his son to bring two plants and then told him to plant one of them2the house and the other outside the house. The boy did as his father said.

The father asked his son, "Which one of the two plants do you think will be3? The boy replied, "The plant inside the house will grow bigger4it is safer, while the plant outside the house is not safe at all. No one will be there to5the plant. Animals may eat it. "

The father smiled and said, "Let's wait6We will know the answer."

Then the boy left for study and after four7he came back to his house. He said to his father, "Look,  8happens to this plant inside the house and it is safe."

When the boy went outside, he was very9to see a big tree. The boy couldn't believe his eyes. He couldn't10how the plant outside was able to grow much bigger than the one inside. "The plant outside the house faced every11and many difficulties!" the father told his son why the plant outside was bigger. "The plant inside was safe. It didn't12weather changes. And it didn't get enough13, so it didn't become big. "

How to be great? Here's the14: To become a great person, one must have15many times, faced many difficulties and solved those difficulties. Only after that he is abie to become great.

Let's Protet the Envionment

Nowadays, people around the world are working to help our planet. Check out how the four young heroes made a difference.

Saving Pandas

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When Jack was 11, he started a group to teach kids about pandas. He also sold toy pandas to raise money to protect pandas in danger."I hope to encourage more people to care about pandas," Jack says.

Growing Right

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Kathy, 14, set up an organization to teach people about growing right plants in right places. She also wrote a book to help people learn what plants live or grow naturally in a certain area.

Creating Energy(能源)

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At the age of 12, Linda invented a machine called Super E. It is a small robot, and it collects heat(热量) from farms to make electricity(电)，Linda says her invention creates electricity in a way that is less bad for the environment.

Cleaning Up

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Patrick, 13, joined the Ocean Heroes Camp last year. He started a project and picked up white waste around nearby lakes with his friends. The purpose(目的) of the project was to fight white pollution.

17-year-old Brennan Agranoff, a colorblind boy, started his custom（定做的）sock business in middle school, with a little money he got from his parents. Up till now, he has sold over $1 million worth of socks online in the last four years.

Brennan thought of the idea for his custom sock company at just 13 years old. He was playing in a high-school basketball game in his hometown, and noticed that many kids of his age were wearing the same white Nike sport socks. The boy told himself if these white simple socks were so popular with kids, then some cool custom designs（设计）would surely be more popular.

But the boy didn't tell his parents about the business idea immediately. He spent six months researching things, like printing machines and technology and writing out a business plan. When he had everything planned out, he asked his parents for some money. "They thought the idea was a little out there," Brennan recently told CNN Money, but he kept pushing, and finally got a $3, 000 from his parents to start his company. Then he began to work on his own designs. Though he was colorblind, it didn't stop him and he has created over 200 kinds of designs now.

Business was slow the first year, but then Brennan started pushing his own brand（商标）HoopSwagg socks on the Internet. Orders soon started coming in in large numbers, and HoopSwagg became a popular brand among custom sock lovers. Right now, people can find his designs on HoopSwagg website, Amazon and eBay.

Four years after starting his business, Brennan has achieved great success while balancing（平衡）school, housework and his social life. And he says he loved every minute of it.

March 2 is Old Stuff Day. It is all about old things. You have forgotten your used old things in your home for years. You must have some old things around. And today is all about enjoying them. Because what's better than finding something really great from old things?

It's so easy to forget things you have. If we don't use them every day, some things can be stored and stay there. And that's not just the things in your home-technology grows so quickly, new toys come out all the time, new books keep coming out. In the age of new information, we can have so many things easily. Today is all about remembering the things we sometimes leave behind.

We've learned to value what age can bring to things. Wines（酒）, for example, are more valuable and delicious as they grow older. It's certain that old things still have their uses, value or charm（魅力）. People today will pay some money for stamps, toys, video games, board games, books, coins, and clothes of yesterday.

You can really get into the charm of old things by visiting a junk shop. Another person's old things could be your new things! Or maybe now is a good day to clean up? Old things could become a great gift for someone else, or you could always give your old things to a charity（慈善）shop. If you're free, you could turn your old clothes into new ones with just a little change.

Most of all, remember that today's new things will one day be old things.

What is the difference between a fear and a phobia? You might have a fear of dogs if a dog has bitten（咬）you. However, if you avoid（避免） walking down streets where you think there might be a dog, you may have a phobia, which is a strong unnatural fear. If the fear has started to change a person's life, he or she probably has a phobia. Different researches say that between 10 and 80 percent of us have at least one phobia.

You can probably guess what some of the most "popular" phobias are. Flying may be the safest way to travel, but many people are scared of doing it. Fear of heights is also very common. For example, Spider-Man actor Tobey Maquire can't stand high places However, Tobey is not afraid of spiders that most people are afraid of. Rupert Grint, who plays in the Harry Potter movies, is in fear of spiders. "In one scene of the movie, we come into the large spider's hole, and there we meet a spider that is the size of an elephant and really scary because he has these hairs. I'm really scared of spiders. " He said.

     . For example, cats are very cute for most of us, but not for such great people in history as Alexander the Great and Napolean Bonaparte. Actor Nicole Kidman says, "I'm not scared of snakes or spiders, but I'm scared of butterflies. Sometimes when I came home from school, the biggest butterfly you had ever seen would be just sitting on our front gate. I would climb over the wall, move slowly to the side of the house, or do anything to avoid having to go through the front gate. ＂ Clowns （小丑）are not so funny for actor Johnny Depp, whose childhood memory of the ＂painted faces and fake smiles" still makes him scared. Some other weird（怪诞的）phobias, including chewing gum, old doors or windows and footsteps, also fear some famous persons, such as Orah Winfred, Billy Bob and Sigmund Fred.

Jamie was tired. She had been on her feet for hours. Her mom（拥有）a small but busy restaurant in town. Three of the workers were（生病）that morning. There was a big food festival in the city park that day, and Jamie was a big（迷） of it. But Jamie's mom asked her to do some（杂务）at the restaurant.

Jamie simply wanted to sit down for a while. （代替）, she walked around the restaurant with no break.As soon as she（清理）one table, a new set of customers（顾客）walked in. That meant more orders and more coffee.   

"Order up!" called the cook from the kitcher. Jamie was very sleepy. She didn't move, and just thought about the festival（令人惊叹的）foods from all over the world. Jamie（想象）the delicious smells of new and special foods.

"（赶快）, Jamie! "the cook went crazy, catching Jamie lost in thought.

"I'm coming, "Jamie answered in a（紧张焦虑的）voice.But her mom had alrea passed the dishes to a table by herself.

"Wake up, Jamie," her mom said. "I know you don't want to be here, but I need your help. "Jamie felt sorry, and she realized nothing is more important than the family. Then she worked harder and more happily.

One day, a farmer and his son Thomas saw a horseshoe while they  (walk)along a road home. The father said, "Look! There ishorseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag. "Thomas said, "It is rubbish. It's worth（价值） nothing. " His father said nothing but picked it up  (him).

When they got to a nearby town, they decided(rest) for a while. There, the farmer sold the horseshoe for a few.  (cent) and bought some pears with them. Then the father and the son continued their way. The sun shone bright in the sky. What's worse, there wasn't a house or even a tree for them to take breaks. Thomas felt so thirsty（口渴的）and tiredhe couldn't walk on anymore. Just at that time, his father dropped a pear on the groundThomas picked it up quickly to eat. After a while, his father did the same. Again, Thomas picked it up and put it his mouth at once.

When Thomas ate all the pears, his father said to his son(careful), "My son, if you picked up that horseshoe（early）, it would not have been necessary for you to bend（弯腰） for pears so many times. Always remember the lesson that anyone who does not worry about the little things will find he cannot do the great things. "

Bing Dwen Dwen, designed by CaoXue, is a baby panda. It wears a full-body "shell" made of ice. It looks like an astronaut, showing winter sports and modern technology. Bing Dwen Dwen also wears a sports helmet that helps look more active. On each hand, there is a red heart, showing kindness and love. And Bing Dwen Dwen waves its left hand to say hello. Around its head, colorful lines look like the ice tracks（滑道）, known as the "Ice Ribbon＂. The colorful lines also refer to fast 5G signals.

At first, they chose the traditional Chinese snack, bingtanghulu, as the mascot（吉祥物）. However, a simple snack itself cannot be a symbol of a country. Cao's team then tried many plants and animals, finally going with a panda. But they faced a problem: there were already too many cartoon pandas. They wanted to make sure their panda was different. For this reason, Cao decided it should be a baby panda. This is how they got Bing Dwen Dwen's body shape. Its body is as long as its head.

请完成下面小题。（仅用一词）

Please use one word to describe Bing Dwen Dwen.

·What do you keep doing?

·Why do you keep doing it?

·How does it influence（影响）you？

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Good morning, everyone!

I am very happy to make a speech today. The topic of my speech is one thing I keep doing every day.

That's all. Thank you!