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题型：阅读选择题类：常考题难易度：普通

广西来宾市2019-2020学年八年级上学期英语期末考试试卷（含听力音频）

阅读理解

Birds are people's friends. Our city holds a" Love Birds Week" every spring to protect birds. The week lasts from March 2nd to 8th. The city is near the sea and it's a place with many hills and forests. It's a perfect place for birds. Most wild birds come here for a short stay while they are flying south in winter.

Birds in our city are still in trouble. People often catch them for food and fun. In many restaurants in our city, eating birds is popular and it usually costs much money. This is why more people kill birds. They make money by selling birds. In the Forest Park, even during the "Love Birds Week" last year, people could see someone hunt birds now and then.

This year the government wanted to offer a better home to birds. So during this year's" Love Birds Week", many teenagers went to the street to give out leaflets. Now more and more people understand better that they should treat birds in a more helpful way. More and more people get to know that loving birds means loving themselves now. They all learn a lot from "Love Birds Week". This is a good news for birds.

（1）、Why does the city hold the "Love Birds Week"?

A、To give birds food. B、To build homes for birds. C、To look for birds. D、To protect birds.

（2）、The underlined word "leaflets" means "____________" in Chinese.

A、叶子 B、传单 C、广告 D、垃圾

（3）、How long does the "Love Birds Week" last?

A、Five days. B、Six days. C、Seven days. D、Eight days.

（4）、Why do more people kill birds in this city?

A、Because they do not like birds. B、Because eating birds is popular and they can make money by selling birds. C、Because they want to make themselves a better home. D、Because they want to eat birds.

（5）、What's the main idea of the passage?

A、Loving birds means loving ourselves. B、Birds are lovely. C、People should learn more about birds. D、Birds need to make new friends.

举一反三

    The giant panda is one of the most popular animals in the world. A giant panda can grow up to 1.5 meters long and weigh up to 160kg. People think the giant panda is very lovely. ①So it is not surprising that the World Wide Fund for Nature chose the giant panda as its symbol. The WWF tells people about animals that they are in danger and raises money to save them.
    The giant panda only lives in the wild in China. In the early 1980s, were only 1,000 left in the wild. The main reason why pandas are endangered is that the area where pandas can live has become smaller.
    The WWF works to help giant pandas in the wild in many ways. One of the ways that helps them is to increase the size of panda reserves(自然保护区). Some reserves need to be joined together by planting bamboo between them to make “corridors”. These are paths that lead from one reserve to another. No one may harm the pandas in these areas. The corridors let pandas move from one habitat (栖息地) to another to look for food. ②People are working very hard to make sure the giant panda does not die out.

The world is not only hungry but also thirsty for water. This may seem strange to you, since nearly 70% of the earth's surface is covered with water. But about 97% of that is sea water or salt water. Man can only drink and use the other 3% of fresh water from rivers, lakes, underground and so on. And we can not even use all of that because some of it has been made dirty.
Earth Day is April 22. But on all other days, we must also remember how important water is. The water that we use is the most important natural resource on the earth. Today we face serious water problems. One of them is water pollution. All kinds of things from cars, factories, farms and homes make our rivers, lakes and oceans dirty. Polluted water is very bad for people to drink. And dirty water is bad for fish, too.
How do cars and factories make our water dirty? First they pollute the air. Then when it rains, the rain water makes our drinking water dirty. Dirty rain, called acid rain is also bad for plants, animals and buildings. Scientists say that in 30 years, more than half of the people in the world won't have enough clean water. We have to learn how to stop wasting water. One of the first steps is to develop ways of reusing it. Today in most large cities, water is used only once and then sent out into a sewer system (下水道). From there it returns to the sea or goes underground.
But even though every large city reused its water, we would still not have enough. So we should make use of sea water by removing the salt in it. If we can take these steps, fresh water won't be used up.

根据短文理解，完成下列各题。
    In every school there is "top" crowd that sets the pace, while the others follow their lead. For example, if the crowd decides that it is smart to wear bright red sweaters, then very soon everybody is wearing bright red sweaters.
    There is nothing wrong with that, except the fact that for some people bright red sweater is really unsuitable.
    The situation can even become dangerous, if the top crowd decides that it is smart to drink and to drive cars at seventy miles an hour. Then the people who follow the lead are endangering their lives. They are like the sheep being led to the slaughter(屠杀).
    Now it's possible that you have come across situations like these more than once in your life. In fact you probably did something you knew to be wrong one time or another. You may have excused yourself by saying, "Gee, the crowd does it."Well, let the crowd do it, but don't do it yourself. Learn to say "No".
    Develop your own standards(标准)and your own judgment. If you know the crowd is planning something you disagree to, you'd better take the courage to bow out in a polite way. You'll have the satisfaction of standing on your own two feet.

      Look at the picture on the right. What is it? Yeah, it's a special robot car，ROPITS. Japan made it this year. It's a new kind of car. The car can drive itself. It is very easy for people to use it.
     ROPITS is short for Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System (个人智能交通系统机器人). ROPITS has only one seat. The Japanese made it for old and disabled (残疾的) people in Japan.
    What makes the ROPITS special? One can ask it to pick him or her up from a computer or a smart-phone. After he or she gets in the car and tells the ROPITS where to go, it will begin to drive itself and let the driver enjoy the ride.
    The ROPITS will not have traffic accidents (事故) because it drives very slowly, not more than 7 kilometers an hour.

阅读短文，根据其内容回答问题。

Body language is one of the most powerful means of communication, often even more powerful than spoken language. People around the world show all kinds of feelings, wishes and attitudes that they might never speak aloud. It is possible to ―read‖ others around us, even if they do not want us to catch their unspoken communication. Of course, body language can be misread, but many gestures and actions are common.

The most common facial expression is, of course, the smile – its function is to show happiness and put people at ease. It does not always mean that we are truly happy, however. Smiles around the world can be false, hiding other feelings like anger, fear or worry. There are unhappy smiles, such as when someone ―loses face‖ and smiles to hide it. However, the general purpose of smiling is to show good feelings.

From the time we are babies, we show unhappiness or anger by frowning (皱眉头). In most places around the world, frowning and turning one's back to someone shows anger. Making a fist (拳头) and shaking it almost always means that someone is angry.

How about showing that I am bored? Looking away from people or yawning will, in most cases, make me appear to be uninterested. However, if I turn toward and look at someone or something, people from almost every culture will think that I am interested.

Being respectful to people is subjective, based on each culture, but in general it is probably not a good idea to give a hug to boss or teacher. In almost every culture, it is not usually good to stand too close to someone of a higher rank (等级). Standing at a little distance with open hands will show that I am willing to listen.

With so many cultural differences between people, it is great to have some similarities in body language. We can often be wrong about each other, so it is an amazing thing that we understand each other as well as we do!

阅读理解。

According to a national study, in the summer of 2013, the long-term(长期的) warm weather in the UK has made the number of butterflies increase.

Around 46,000 volunteers(志愿者) took part in the year's Big Butterfly Count(统计), and they found 830,000 butterflies.Volunteers were asked to make a record.They would record how many times they found one of 21 different kinds of butterflies.

Later, the scientists used the records to find out how many butterflies of different kinds were found across the country.Then, they compared the results to the year before.They found that there was a rise in the number of 15 kinds of butterflies, and some of them went up by 50% compared to recent years.They said the increase in butterfly numbers was a result of warm weather.

However, scientists also said that the number of butterflies was in decline(下降) as a whole, and that we might not see the same result the next year.

Richard Fox, who works for Butterfly Conservation, said, “UK butterflies are in long-term decline.Studies have been done since the 1970s.They show that UK butterflies have declined in type and number.”

He added, “We must halt the long-term decline of these beautiful creatures(生物).The only way is by stopping the damage that has been done to the butterflies' habitats(栖息地) across the UK.”

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