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题型：阅读选择题类：常考题难易度：普通

江苏省南京市南师大附中江宁分校2019-2020学年八年级上学期英语开学考试试卷

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Mr. Brown's house was less than two miles from his office, so he could drive home every day for lunch. Every time he drove home at noon, he found many cars outside his house and there was no room for his own car. He had to drive somewhere else to park his car. Then he walked back home. This made him very angry.

He put up a board in the garden facing the road. The board said, "No Parking". But nobody noticed it. People seemed to obey only a police notice with white letters on a blue board:

POLICE NOTICE

NO PARKING

Mrs. Brown asked his husband to steal a police notice but he was afraid to do so. Then she asked him to make one just like a police notice. Mr. Brown said he was not the police and couldn't use the word "police". Several days later, Mr. Brown made a blue board with white letters.

PLEASE NOTICE

NO PARKING

"Oh!" Mrs. Brown said. "You told me you weren't going to use the word ‘police', but why do you use it now?" "Really?" he asked.

"Look again," she started to laugh. "You are really clever".

（1）、Mr. Brown's office was his house.

A、next to B、not far from C、2 hours' drive from D、5 miles from

（2）、Mr. Brown was angry because .

A、he found no room to park his car outside his house B、he had nothing to eat for lunch at home C、he lost the way when he drove back home one day D、he couldn't make a police notice outside his house

（3）、Mr. Brown made notice board (s) altogether (总共).

A、one B、two C、three D、no

（4）、In the end, Mr. Brown made a notice board and it .

A、was just the same as a police notice B、was different in color from a police notice C、just looked like a police notice D、said "POLICE NOTICE, NO PARKING"

（5）、We can infer(推断) that after he put up the blue board.

A、more people will park their cars outside his house B、more policemen will park their cars outside his house C、fewer people will park their cars outside his house D、fewer people will visit him at noon later on

举一反三

When Steven was a young boy, he moved quite often with his family and so he never had many friends. He spent a lot of time on his own and liked to play with electronic(电子的)things. Steven had a neighbour, Steve Wozniak. Steve was a little bit younger than Steven but also liked to play with electronic things. Steven made a microphone(麦克风)and Steve asked him many questions about it until he understood how it worked. Steven liked the fact that such a young boy was also interest ed in electronic things and so he taught him everything he knew.
When they were a little older and knew more about electronic things, they made a “blue box”. People could make free phone calls by breaking into the phone company's system with this box. They sold this to many people even though it was illegal(非法的), but this is not why they are famous today.
Steven and Steve were the inventors of the first PC—personal computer. They called their first computer the Apple I. They invented it only for fun and to make themselves known among their friends. They did not think it would become so popular. They just liked playing computer games on it. Their computer made it cheaper and easier for people to own and use a computer. Their PCs were so popular that they made a new PC called the Apple II. Soon many schools, families and factories were using their computers.
Without the two clever men, the personal computers might never have appeared.

A wise man was visiting a village with his students. He found a group of family members shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his students and asked: “Why do people shout in anger at each other?”
His students thought for a while, and one of them said: “Because when we lose our calm, we shout.”
“But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can just as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner,” said the wise man.
Students gave some other answers but none were any good.
“When two people are angry at each other, their hearts become distanced,” the wise man explained. “To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the louder they will have to shout to hear each other and cover that great distance.”
The wise man then gave an example: “What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly because their hearts are very close. When they love each other even more, what happens? They don't need to talk. They only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.”
He looked at his students and said: “So when you argue, do not let your hearts get distant. Do not say words that distance you from others. Otherwise, there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.”

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People often said Thomas Edison was the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be pleased only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such a thing as genius,” Edison said. He thought what people called genius was mostly hard work.

But Edison was a thinker as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. He tried to understand them, and then he tried to learn what he could usefully do with them.

Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people would do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking could give men enjoyment and pleasure.

Edison could not understand why anyone could not be interested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what idea he had about life. “Work,” he answered, “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

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Steven is six years old. He gets some money from his mother every week. He buys a lot of things from the shops, but he doesn't really need them, and he puts them everywhere. One day his mother gives him a notebook and says, “Now, Steven, when you buy things, write their names down in the notebook, and also write down how much they are. Then you can look at it again when your money is all gone (花光了), and you don't waste (浪费) so much money next time.”

After a week, Steven says to his mother, “Do you know, Mum, before I spend any money now, I really stop and think!” His mother is very happy and thinks, “Well, my son knows the value (价值) of money now.” But then she hears him say, “Mum, before I buy something, I always ask myself, 'Can I spell (拼写) that word and put it down in my notebook?' ”

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Running a marathon (马拉松) is difficult enough. Doing it with eyes closed for 26.2 miles is more difficult. But that's exactly what Mike Bruno plans to do during the Pittsburgh marathon.

He's doing this for his 7-year-old daughter, Cassie, who doesn't like to communicate with others and has been blind since birth. “Having a blind daughter clearly has caused me a lot of trouble,” Bruno said. “ But it doesn't matter. I love my daughter. I hope to get a better understanding of how she deals with her daily life. I hope this journey will finally make me a better father to guide Cassie through her life.”

“When the doctor told us 'Your baby is not going to see', that was the most terrible experience we had ever had,” said Bruno.

“Sometimes I walk around the house with my eyes closed to see what it's like for her,” said Cassie's older sister, Carly, 9 years old. “It's kind of scary. You don't know where everything is.”

But Cassie has fought against difficulties, and her father plans to do the same. “I closed my eyes, and I got ready, and then I tried running, just to see what it is like for her,” said Mike Bruno. “I want everyone to know it's OK. It's OK to ask us questions, but it's not OK to look at us and point to us with surprise. If you'd like to ask us, we will be happy to tell you our story. ”

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Two-time Olympic gold medalist Zou Shiming from China has beaten Thai boxer(拳击手)Prasitsak Phaprom to be the WBO(世界拳击组织)flyweight world champion.

"My dream is realized and all the hard work paid off. I felt calm and relaxed throughout the match. I am an Olympic gold medalist and now I am a world champion," the 35-year-old Zou said.

Zou has been known for being China's boxing star of all time. His first big win was when he took the Light Flyweight Silver Medal in 2003. And he became the first Chinese boxer ever to win a gold medal in 2005.

Zou once said his dream is to make it big in the US and fight in Las Vegas for a world event. "Las Vegas is always the big stage that all professional（职业的）boxers dream of," he said. "I promised to achieve my dreams to win world events and to bring China into the worldwide boxing family." Now he has put China on the global(全球的)boxing map.

"As a boxer, you will always taste blood. Cuts and injuries are common. If they scare you, you will never become a good fighter," said Zou.

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