江苏省苏州市吴江区2015-2016学年八年级下学期期末测试

— I didn't need to          I'll see her tomorrow.  

— Yes. But a bit difficult for her to understand.

— He           to Hong Kong for a meeting. He          home three days ago.

— I don't know         to do it if not now.

— That's right. So my main          now is improving my English.  

— Yes. Luckily, to protect the environment, many actions         .  

— I think so.           

    Jack had a very strange dream yesterday evening. He dreamed that he lived in a jungle (丛林) in Africa with many 1. He made friends with monkeys, snakes and giraffes. Every day he woke up early in the morning and went 2 for food. He ate fruit and insects. After breakfast, he had a meeting with the monkeys. They spoke to him in a (n) 3 language but he was able to understand them. Then he met the snakes for lunchtime. During lunchtime, they discussed 4 to do about the tiger. The tiger was their enemy (敌人).It wanted to eat 5 of them and they were afraid of it. Finally, they thought of a plan. The monkeys and the snakes' 6 was that Jack should try to catch the tiger while it was sleeping. So, when the tiger was taking its afternoon nap (打盹), Jack took his 7 and quietly walked towards the tiger. Jack was very quiet, but the tiger was sleeping very 8.The tiger opened its eyes, looked at him and gave a loud roar (咆哮). Jack was so afraid that he forgot to run away. The tiger jumped on him and 9 as it opened its mouth to eat him, he woke up. When he opened his 10, Jack found that his pet cat was licking (舔) his face. He was so relieved (宽慰的).

    We all know about this famous Kitty. She has no mouth, and she wasn't born out of a TV show or a video game. So how did this cute character become popular? How did she change the world?

    Hello Kitty was created (创造) in Japan in 1974.Sanrio, a company in Japan, was working for a new character to put on their new purse. The first picture of Hello Kitty was introduced on November 1. She was so cute that it became popular soon in Japan and all over the world.

    Hello Kitty is only a character, but she has a story of her own. Her full name is Kitty White, and she's even not a Japanese. She lives in the countryside outside London with her family—George White, Mary White and her twin sister Mimmy. Hello Kitty wears a red bow  (蝴蝶结) on her left ear while Mimmy wears a yellow bow on her right ear.

    Kitty loves goldfish and baking cookies, but her favourite thing is to eat her mum's apple pie! She also loves stars and candies, too. She is in the 3rd grade and she weighs as much as three apples but is five apples tall. She even had a blood (血.) type, which is A.

    Hello Kitty's appearance hasn't changed much, though she turned 40 on November 1, 2014.

    You might think that Olympic athletes are the healthiest people in the world. It's true that many are. However, it's also true that many Olympic athletes had to overcome (克服) illness early in their lives.

    One excellent example is Wilma Rudolph. She competed in track-and-field (田径) events in the 1960s Olympics. She didn't win just one gold medal (奖章).She won three. At the time, people called her ”the fastest woman in the world”.

    Actually, as a young child, Wilma could not take part in sports. She had serious illnesses, and then, at the age of 4, she got polio (小儿麻痹症).She lost the function of her left leg, and the doctor said she could never walk again.

Wilma's family did everything they could to help her walk again. Wilma and her mother used to travel 100 miles to get treatments for her leg. Her brothers and sisters took turns to give her leg a daily massage (按摩).Four times a day, they helped her do special exercises for her leg. Amazingly, by the time Wilma was 9 years old, she was able to walk again. Before long, she started playing basketball and running. In high school, she was a track star and then she went to the Olympics.

    Wilma stopped being a runner when she was 22 years old. She then became a teacher and a track coach. Her story encouraged many people to work hard and to overcome difficulties.

    Men have always wanted to fly like birds. Birds can fly easily because they are light, but men's bodies are heavier.

    Men first went up into the air in balloons. These were big bags, and they were filled with gas. Hydrogen (氢气) is a useful gas for balloons. It is lighter than air. Helium is also lighter than air, but it costs a lot of money. So balloons are usually filled with hydrogen.

Balloons have to fly with the wind as they have no engines (发动机) to drive them. Later, men made airships. They are balloons with engines. They are also filled with hydrogen.

    Aircrafts (飞机) with wings now take people across the world. Powerful engines drive these machines across the sky. Some of the engines are like the engines of cars, but they are more powerful.

    There is another kind of engine, we call it the jet (喷射) engine. An English engineer invented the jet engine. At the same time, Germans were also building a jet engine. In May 1941, the English engineer's new engine was fixed in an aircraft, and the aircraft flew quite well.

    Jet engines are very powerful. Usually two to four are enough for an airplane, but some big aircraft need six. Anyone in a moving jet plane can feel the power of the engines. Jet planes can travel faster than sound. As a flying jet plane leaves its noise behind, we do not hear it until it has gone.

— I'm not sure. But 84, Charing Cross Road(sell) well.

— Sorry, I won't do that again, Mr. Green.

      Hello. I'm Li Lei. I'm a student from Star Middle school. Let me tell you something about my tour to Disneyland.

      My father worked in New York 5 years ago, so I visited him with my mother. I went there by plane. It was my first time to take a plane. I felt a little nervous when the plane took off. I looked out of the window and saw the houses getting smaller and smaller. When I looked out of the window again, I saw some beautiful white clouds. Actually, it was a happy trip for me.

      During my stay in the US, Dad and Mum took me to the Disneyland in Orlando. It was the biggest one in the world. We visited the“magic Kingdom”and“Epcot”, two interesting parks. In the Mickey and Minnie's house. I really met Minnie and took photos with her. My favourite game was“Universe or Energy”. I saw the dinosaurs (恐龙) there. I felt very excited. I bought some souvenirs from the shop.

      The travelling in Orlando Disney was very amazing .I'm planning to go to Hong Kong Disney with my parents next winter holiday. It is the smallest one in the world, but it is the first one in China.

内容包括： 1.骑自行车或坐公交车上学; 2.节约用水、用电、用纸; 3.回收玻璃、塑料和废纸; 4.自拟2点。

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                                                                How to be a greener person

    It's our duty to protect the environment around us.……