2018年初中英语牛津版（深圳·广州）八年级下册期末模拟试卷（4）

-- I'm sorry about that. I'll go somewhere else.

-- Thank you all the same.

-- Of course, if your work           .

    If a snake bites you, take a photo with your mobile phone! It may save your life. This is the surprising 1 of a British cook.

    One day Henry Jackson was working in a restaurant kitchen. He picked up a dish from the table, and 2 a snake appeared……and bit him on the hand.

    A few days earlier, the snake came to the 3 from Asia in a box of bananas. It climbed out of the box and 4 under the dish.

    "I went to try to pick it up and it bit me again. I threw it 5 the kitchen, and it landed in the fridge. So I closed the door," Mr. Jackson said.

     Anyway, Mr. Jackson stayed 6 and he took a photo of the snake with his mobile phone. Soon his 7 began to ache and he went to hospital. Then his chest began to hurt. Doctors couldn't say what was wrong 8 they didn't know what kind of snake it was.

    Then Mr. Jackson remembered his mobile phone photo. The doctors 9 it to London Zoo. When they knew the kind of snake they could give Mr. Jackson the right medicine, and he left hospital the next day.

    "So my advice is this: If a snake bites you, pick up your phone. Take 10 photo first and then show the photo to the doctors," suggests Mr. Jackson. "Oh, and if the snake doesn't smile for the photo, don't worry!"

Uncle Wang works in a book shop in the middle of the city. The shop is not far from his home. It is about one kilometer away. So Uncle Wang seldom(很少) goes to work by bus. He usually goes there by bike, sometimes on foot. It takes(花费) him twenty minutes to get there by bike and forty minutes on foot. Today his bike is broken. He wants to walk there. Now he is having breakfast. He leaves home at ten minutes to eight and he walks to work twenty minutes earlier. His work starts at half past eight in the morning and finishes at a quarter to five in the afternoon.

    Sandwich was an Englishman. He lived in the 18th century. Sandwich was rich(有钱的), but he liked to play cards for money. He often played for 24 hours, and didn't even stop to have his meals. He ordered his servants(仆人) to bring him some meat and bread. He put the meat between the two pieces of bread and held the food in his left hand while he played cards with his right hand. People liked Sandwich's idea, and from then on they ate bread and meat as Sandwich did.

    From the name of the man, Sandwich, we have the word of the food "sandwich" today.

    Ali, who was working a long way from home wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter writer whose name was Nasreddin.

    Nasreddin was already in bed. "It is late," he said. "What do you want?" "I want you to write a letter to my wife," said Ali, Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said, "Has the letter got to go far?" "What does that matter?" answered Ali.

  "Well, my writing is so strange that only I can read it, and if I have to travel a long way to read your letter to your wife, it will cost you a lot of money." Ali went away quickly.

    An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly spent all the money, so that soon he had nothing left. Of course, when that happened, all his friends left him. When he was quite poor and alone, he went to see Nasreddin, who was a kind, clever old man and often helped people when they had troubles.

    "My money has finished and my friends have gone," said the young man. "What will happen to me now?"

    "Don't worry, young man," answered Nasreddin. "Everything will soon be all right again. Wait, and you will soon feel much happier. "

    The young man was very glad. "Am I going to get rich again then?" he asked Nasreddin.

  "No, I didn't mean that," said the old man. "I meant that you would soon get used to being poor and to having no friends. "

提示语: grow up, raise one's family, achieve one's goal