陕西省西安市未央区2020-2021学年八年级下学期英语期中联考试卷

A long time ago, there was an emperor, He had a beautiful garden. In the garden, there was a little nightingale (夜莺)singing very1.

One day the emperor heard about this little 2beautiful voice. He asked his guards to bring her to him. As soon as the emperor heard the nightingale's voice, he said, "Put her in a golden cage, so she can stay and sing for me whenever I want to hear 3."

The little bird was so unhappy about being kept in the cage that she stopped 4one day. The emperor was very angry about 5the bird was doing. He ordered the scientists in his palace to make a robot bird 6him. The bird could sing very beautifully, too. The emperor was pleased.

Soon the robot bird became old. It no longer sang beautiful songs. Just at that time, the emperor became very weak. One morning, while he 7in bed, the emperor wanted it to sing once again.8 the robot bird couldn't sing any more. Suddenly the nightingale flew on the window. She began to sing 9most beautiful song. The emperor was very happy! He became 10and better each day.

After the emperor was well, he changed a lot and became kind to his people. From then on, all his people cherished (爱戴)him for his love and kindness.

It was a summer morning "I want to travel by 1 ,"said Jack. "OK let's go!" said Harry.

The weather was warm. After half an hour of boating on the river, Jack and Harry stopped and soon fell asleep with the sunshine on their faces. They 2  for a long time with their eyes closed.

Suddenly the sky was 3 and a loud noise woke them up. "A storm is coming!" Harry said. And very soon the 4 started to get stronger. Waves(浪) hit the boat and heavy rain started to fall. When Jack was boating, he 5 the oars (船桨) by accident. Without the oars, the boys couldn't move the boat. Then, a big wave hit the side of the boat. The boat 6 so Jack and Harry fell into the river.

" 7  the boat!" Jack shouted. At last, the boat hit some rocks near the river bank (岸). 8 ,the boys felt the ground under their feet, and then they stood up and walked to the bank.

"Where are we?" Jack asked. " Will someone 9  help to us?" Then, they saw a small 10 , not far away from them. They walked towards (朝)the house.

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10,000 Storybooks Needed

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Tzuchi is planning to build a new hospital in Sichuan that will give free medical treatment (治疗)to the Poor people there . By December 3l, you can help by sending money through the post office: No.:09887465,

To: Tzuchi.

We Need Your Time

The Red Cross needs more volunteer workers to take care of the old. especially (尤其)on weekends. We have 500 old people, but only 30 workers. More are needed. Please call us:(030) 422-7896.

There is a small town that is far from any big city. It is lonely, and the only school in the town is very small, so people in the town cannot get a good education.

One day, a woman called Sophia moved to the town. She is a kind person. She opened a free learning center in the town so that the kids there could have a chance to learn.

In the learning center, Sophia is busy all day and has to get a lot of volunteers to help her. The kids have a lot of fun and learn many new things with the kind volunteers. Sophia gets such a strong feeling of happiness every time she sees the look of joy on the children's faces.

With the help of Sophia and her team, the children's grades are much better than before. And many of them have a dream to go to university. They never even thought of that before. Can their dreams come true? Of course, they are sure of that.

Whenever there's a terrible storm, there are many sad stories. Many people lost their houses, their cars and their pets. But sometimes these stories have happy endings, too.

A family in New Jersey, the USA, had a cat named Vivian. She was very smart. She could even draw with her wet paws (爪子) on the floor. They all loved her very much, When hurricane (飓风) Sandy hit America in October, they moved to a safer place 13km away from home. Unluckily, Vivian was missing. All the nine family members were worried about her.

They put up posters (海报)to look for her. They looked for her everywhere they thought she could stay, but they didn't find it. The family thought Vivian was missing.

But six months later, Vivian showed up at their house, according to the news. They thought her return as a wonder. No one can be sure where Vivian was for all that time. Many animals are good at finding their way home. People usually say that dogs and cats find their way home through using their sense of smell(嗅觉),

But that doesn't explain how Vivian found her way back. Hurricane Sandy blew away the normal smell of home. "I wish she could talk." said her owner.

Should children do chores? Some believe that children should not do chores. They think that children are too young to cook or clean for themselves or their parents. But I think doing chores is good for them. . It will help them in their life. There are many things that parents can do to encourage their children to do chores. Here are some suggestions.

Start early.

Teach them. Parents should show their children how to do chores and teach them one chore at a time. And doing chores is also a teaching tool. Parents use the tool to teach children so that they can care for themselves someday.

Parents should make sure that the chores they give to their children are appropriate to (适合于) their children's ages and abilities (能力).Parents shouldn't, of course, ask a schoolboy to cook when he is doing his homework.

For example, pay them 1 dollar for taking out the rubbish. When a child get paid by his hard work, he will probably have the feeling of growing up.

Sometimes children do not mean to refuse to do chores, but because they are too tired of their parents' nag (唠叨).What's more, don't do chores for children if they forget. Let them know it's their duty to do some of the chores, and nobody will do those for them.

With the of science, we can enjoy our life better.

My alarm clock didn'tthis morning.

It'sfor us to do housework after school.

They walked into the classroom.