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浙江省台州地区2018-2019学年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷（含小段音频）

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Do you know where J.K. Rowling wrote the Harry Potter books? She wrote the first book in a coffee shop. Was it because she felt more creative when working there? The answer might be yes.

Scientists found that moderate (适度的) noise can make people more creative, The New York Times reported.

Scientists did tests on students. They divided them into four groups. They then asked the students to do certain tasks involving creative thinking. But each group did the task with different volumes (音量) of background noise. They found that students did best when working under moderate noise—70 decibels (分贝). This is about the same volume of background noise in a cafe. Students did worse in low noise (50 dB). This is the volume of a quiet room. They did the poorest when in a high-noise (85 dB) environment. This is the noise level in a factory.

Moderate noise can distract (分心) people just enough so that they think more creatively. "It helps you think outside the box," Raci Mehta, a lead researcher in the study, said to the Business Standard. On the one hand, working in a very quiet place can strengthen our focus. But it also stops

us from thinking abstractly (抽象).

"This is why if you are too focused on a problem and you can't solve it," said Mehta, "you leave it for some time and then come back to it and you'll get the solution."

However, the scientists said that when you need to do detailed things, like proofreading (校对) a paper, a quiet place is better than a noisy one.

（1）、The first paragraph tells us that ________.

A、J.K. Rowling likes drinking coffee B、working in a coffee shop might help people become creative C、the best novels are born in coffee shops D、moderate noise makes people creative

（2）、________ helps students do best in creative tasks.

A、85 dB B、70 dB C、50 dB D、0 dB

（3）、Working in a very quiet place can ________.

A、help people think outside the box B、make people think abstractly C、help people find the solution easily D、help people focus on their work

（4）、The main idea of the passage is ________.

A、how to work under a moderate noise level B、why J. K. Rowling likes to write stories in a coffee shop C、why moderate noise is good for creative thinking D、how scientists tested students' learning abilities

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The sea looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. But it can be very terrible when there is a strong wind. The sea is very big. It covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. In one place, the sea is about 11 kilometres deep. The highest mountain(山) in the world is about nine kilornetres high. If that mountain was put into the sea at that place, there would still be two kilometres of water above it!
In most parts of the sea,there are plenty of fishes and plants (植物). Some live near the top of the sea.Others live deep down. There are also a lot of small living things,and lots of fish live by eating them. The sea can be very cold. When people go down, the sea becomes colder and colder. Only some men can go down into the deep sea. But,in 1970,five women scientists lived in the deep sea for fourteen days.

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  If you travel by air across the center of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers. These great forests are the oceans of trees. There are full of thousands and thousands of different kinds of plants and animals.
  However, the world's forests are getting smaller all the time. We are cutting down the trees because we need wood, and we need more farm land. Some people say that there will not be any forests like these in 20 or 30 years. what will happen if they disappear?
    If we cut down our forests, a lot of plants and animals will disappear from the world. In a lot of places the new farm land will soon look like the old deserts. Crops will not grow there. It will not rain very often, and the weather will get very hot. Perhaps the climate of the world will change. This will be dangerous for everyone in the world. That is why we must take care of our forests.

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What picture do you have of the future? Will life in the future be better, worse or the same as now? What do you hope for about the future? Scientists think that life will probably be very different in 2050.

First of all, it seems that people won't use TV channels by 2050. Instead, people will choose a program from a "menu" and a computer will send the program directly to the television.

Water will become a very serious problem. We'll need much more water, but there won't be enough. Some scientists think that water would be the cause of war.

Cars will run on new clean energy and they will go very fast. And there won't be any accidents with the help of computers. On the other hand, space planes will take people around the world in two hours.

Robots will work in factories instead of people. Many factories have already used robots. Big companies prefer robots—they do not ask for money, and they work for 24 hours a day.

In a word, by 2050, our life will change a lot and our future will be quite different from now.

阅读理解

Lately, people have entered the forests where chimpanzees live. The chimpanzees have been getting sick because of people's diseases. In addition, people are hunting chimpanzees. Their number is becoming smaller and smaller.

Chimpanzees live in the plains and forests of Africa. They eat many kinds of foods, from plant leaves and seeds to insects and even other small animals. Chimpanzees' favourite food is fruit.

Chimpanzees are very clever and they can use tools well. They can catch bugs by using sticks, and break nuts by using rocks.

The world's forests are much smaller than they were before. Roads were built in deep forests, so people start to enter the forests where chimpanzees live. That may lead to many problems. One problem for chimpanzees is that they can easily catch people's diseases and die.

Chimpanzees are much closer to people than monkeys.

As it's easier for people to enter forests, they hunt more often. Young chimpanzees are caught to be pets or for scientific research. The young ones are taken away from the forests, and the adults are killed. Chimpanzees are likely to disappear in the future.

阅读理解

It's not WASTE until it is WASTED! With the World Environment Day coming, our school is now requiring every student to form a habit of sorting the waste. Here in our schoolyard we lay four different colors of rubbish bins for different kinds of rubbish. The red is for harmful waste; the blue is for waste that can be recycled; the green is for kitchen waste; the yellow is for other waste. The followings are some instructions for you. Glass: Empty bottles without caps can be recycled to make new glass bottles. Warning: Mirrors and light bulbs must not be included in the glass waste. Paper: Newspapers, magazines, boxes must be clean enough to be recycled. Warning: Paper tissues and wallpaper are not recyclable as paper and should be kept separately. PMD waste: Packaging made of Plastic or Metal and drink boxes are used to make new packaging. Warning: Plastic pots (e.g. yoghurt pots), plastic bags must not be included in the PMD waste. Harmful waste: out-of-date drugs, used batteries(电池), paint and oil … Besides, if you don't need your old bikes at all, our school volunteers will collect them. We're going to fix them up and then give them away to kids who don't have enough money for a bike. To find out more about recycling, you can visit our school website.

阅读理解

We can see walls everywhere in the world. But the Great Wall of China is the biggest of all. The Chinese call it "The Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wall". It is in fact more than 6000 kilometers long. It is 6～7 meters high and 4～5 meters wide. In most places, five horses or ten men can walk side by side along the top.

When you visit the Great Wall, you can't help wondering how the Chinese people were able to build such a great wall thousands of years ago. Without any modern machines, it was really very difficult to build it. They had to do all the work by hand. It took millions of men hundreds of years to build it.

The Great Wall has a history of over two thousand years. The men began to build the first parts of it around two thousand seven hundred years ago. Then QinShihuang had all the walls joined up. He thought that it could keep the enemy out of the country.

Today the Great Wall has become a place of interest. Not only Chinese people but also people from all over the world come to visit it.

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