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浙江省台州市天台县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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    As space science develops, man has learned more and more about space. Space is not only amazing but also dangerous. While working in space, spacemen are facing danger as well as success.

    Scientists have found out that the radiation(辐射) is the greatest danger to spacemen in space. When spacemen are working in space, they are in danger of the radiation from the sun and other stars, which is bad for their health. The harm of the radiation won't be found until their children even grandchildren are born. Some special medicine may work a little, but no really effective medicine has been found so far. Space rubbish is also thought to be a great danger to spacemen. It's reported that there were 9,000 man-made things flying in space. About 30% of these are satellites, 10% are spaceships, and the rest are space rubbish. An explosion(爆炸) in space in 1999 made a cloud of 300,000fragments, each at least 4mm in size. A small piece of these even knocked a spaceship window and caused some damage(损坏).

    Scientists are watching and reporting any possible danger all the time. They are working to deal with space rubbish. Although space is really dangerous, it interests many people on the earth. In the near future, it may become possible for people to spend a few days in a space hotel. People may even choose to leave the earth and live in space in a few years. So scientists are doing everything they can to help improve the space environment.

(1)、How many kinds of dangers in space does the passage mention?
A、One. B、Two. C、Three. D、Four.
(2)、Which of the following is TRUE?
A、Scientists have found out many ways to solve problems in space. B、People can have a travel to space or even live in space in ten years. C、The harm of the radiation may be found in the spacemen's children. D、Space is really dangerous, so it only interests scientists on the earth.
(3)、______ shows the man-made things in space in the correct way.

A、 B、 C、 D、
(4)、The main purpose of this passage is to ______.
A、introduce what the space environment is like now B、warn us the dangers in the space environment now C、tell us spacemen are working hard to improve the space environment  D、explain why space rubbish has caused lots of damage to the environment
举一反三
阅读下面材料, 从每题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中选出最佳选项。B
    How much do you know about Brazil(巴西)? You might think of football, samba(桑巴舞) and the Amazon.
    But there is a lot more to this country: its wonderful land, history and culture.
    On September 7, 1822, Brazil won its independence (独立) from Portugal(葡萄牙). So that day is Brazil's National Day. It is the largest country in South America and has the second longest river in the world. It is called the Amazon. The river is 6,440 kilometers long and runs through the world's largest rainforest (雨林). The rainforest is home to between 800,000 and 5 million kinds of plants and animals. But be careful when you swim because the biggest snake and the most terrible fish live there!
    Brazilians love sports, especially football. Many great players were born in Brazil like Ronaldo, Ronaldinho an Rivaldo. Football is played everywhere. It is so popular that schools and businesses close during their important matches!
    The Brazilians also love dancing very much. The national dance is samba. Samba is a very lively and funny dance. Every year in February or March, there is the Carnival(狂欢节). This is a time for parties! People go out and dance in the streets! Dancers dress up in colorful clothes and go through the streets on big cars. Tens of thousands of people watch the dancing.
    If you want to be part of the Carnival, then find a chance to travel to Brazil!
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    We always think that it's OK for us to leave our plants home during our vacation as plants won't scream like pets, right?

    A recent study done by a group of scientists at the Tel Aviv University has discovered that some plants will scream when they are under stress.

    The research was carried out on tomato plants and tobacco plants by cutting their stems (茎) and depriving (剥夺) them of water. A microphone was placed 10cm away from them. When their stems were cut, the plants started "screaming" between 20 and 100 kilohertz, and the scientists guess that this scream is probably meant to warn other plants nearby.

    When the tomato plants' stems were cut, 25 ultrasonic (超声的) pain sounds were recorded in an hour, and at the same time, 15 ultrasonic pain sounds were recorded from the tobacco plants. When they were deprived of water, the tomato plants recorded even more pain sounds with 35 pain sounds in an hour while the tobacco plants recorded about 11 pain sounds.

    The plants also acted differently to different kinds of stresses. For example, the tobacco plants gave out a stronger "scream" when they were deprived of water than when their stems were cut. But plants that were in no immediate (立刻的) danger gave out less than one ultrasonic sound per hour.

    The group of scientists said that plants are not as quiet as we had always thought, but in fact their voices are so high-pitched that we just can't hear them.

    Last year, another study has found out that plants feel pain when they are touched or hurt and they will give off a terrible smell.

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