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福建省宁德市2019-2020学年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷

阅读下面短文,根据短文内容,从每小题所给的四个选项中,选出最佳答案。

    A British man learned the skills to perform Beijing Opera, making people enjoy his lively performance of the Monkey King.

Ghaffar Pourazar, born in Iran, is full of interest about China. In 1993, he happened to watch Beijing Opera which professionals from Beijing performed in London. Ghaffar fell in love with the beautiful voices, colorful costumes, excellent shows and so on. So after one year, he arrived in China alone and became a student of Beijing Opera at a Beijing school.

At the age of 32, he had to learn with children every day. For him, it was difficult to learn the dialogue in Beijing Opera and it was even his biggest obstacle. But he never gave up.

Four years later, he began to learn to perform the Monkey King, a traditional character(人物) from the Chinese classic story Journey to the West. He arrived in the workroom an hour earlier than other performers and also bought books and CDs to better understand the character. He once got a top international prize(奖品) for performing the Monkey King.

To help more people enjoy Beijing Opera, Ghaffar often teaches the traditional art form in schools in the US, Britain and other countries. Ghaffar led(带领) a group of actors to perform 66 times in a month and a half in the United States. He also led a 48-member team to perform in Malaysia. In the past 10 years, he has performed(已经表演了) more than 400 shows.

(1)、What's the birthplace of Ghaffar?
A、The US. B、Britain. C、Iran. D、Malaysia.
(2)、According to the passage, Ghaffar is fond of ______.
A、 B、 C、 D、
(3)、The underlined word "obstacle" in Paragraph 3 means "________" in Chinese.
A、机会 B、障碍 C、追求 D、梦想
(4)、Why has Ghaffar performed over 400 shows in the past 10 years?
A、To spread what he loves. B、To make much money. C、To understand his character better. D、To get more prizes for himself.
(5)、What do we know about Ghaffar from the passage?
A、He succeeded in performing Beijing Opera. B、He wrote some books about Monkey King. C、He studied a little about Journey to the West. D、He doesn't need any more members in his team.
举一反三
 阅读下面材料,按照句子结构的语法情况和上下文连贯的要求,在空白处填入一个适当的词,或用括号中所给词的正确形式填空。

Sarah Chang loves playing the violin very much. She says that the violin is one of the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (close) music to the human voice. Sarah was three years old when she learned how {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (play) the violin. Her parents helped her a lot. At the age of five, she {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (accept) as a student at a famous music school called Juilliard. Her parents were amazed!

Sarah's father was her first teacher. He taught Sarah {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (he) and often took her to the concert. Sarah's mother is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} music teacher and she helped Sarah learn to read music. She also wrote music {#blank#}6{#/blank#} her free time.

Sarah's whole life has been wrapped up in her musical talent. She started to play with {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (musician) when she was eight years old. So far, she {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (record) some of her music on CDs. A famous musician named Ychudi Menuhin said that Sarah was the most perfect violinist he had ever heard.

Sarah {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (usual) travels to play with different people. She says that her whole life is planned. Sometimes, she doesn't like that. She wishes that she had more free time. However, she also says that {#blank#}10{#/blank#} she doesn't touch a violin for a few days, her fingers will miss playing. For her, violin is the most important thing in life.

 阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Embroidery(刺绣) is an important traditional art form in Chinese culture. The most famous embroidery styles are Su embroidery from Suzhou, Shu embroidery from Sichuan, Xiang embroidery from Hunan and Yue embroidery from Guangdong. Shu embroidery has the longest history of all. 

Since modern machines can make cheaper embroidery products today, fewer people buy hand-made Shu embroidery products. There are also very few young embroiderers. The skill is endangered. 

Meng Dezhi, a national-level inheritor(传承人) of the art form, has been making Shu embroidery for forty years. She used to work at the Chengdu Shu Embroidery Factory. But in 2006, the factory went broke and Meng lost her job. Wanting to save the art, Meng wanted to have her own place and teach Shu embroidery to others. 

It's hard work. Embroidery takes time and patience. Workers need to divide each silk thread(线) into more than ten or even thirty pieces. Each piece is thinner than a single human hair. In 2016, Baidu invited Meng to make a homepage logo for Qixi Festival. It was a small logo, but it required the use of 45 types of sewing techniques(针法) and 35,000 stitches(针). 

Meng is teaching in different universities and communities to save Shu embroidery. She believes that Shu embroidery stands for thousands of years of Sichuan culture and should be saved. "I feel that I have the responsibility to pass on Shu embroidery skills to young people, to let it run from generation to generation." She said.

 请先阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

One day a little boy asked his father, "What does the word ‘great' mean? Who are great people and 1 do they become great? "

The father asked his son to bring two plants and then told him to plant one of them 2 the house and the other outside the house. The boy did as his father said.

The father asked his son, "Which one of the two plants do you think will be  3  and bigger? " The boy replied, "The plant inside the house will be safer,  4  it will grow bigger, while the plant outside the house is not safe at all. No one will be there to  5 it. It may be eaten by animals."

The father smiled and said, "Let's wait  6 .We will know the answer."

Then the boy  7  for study and after four years he came back to his house. He said to his father, "Look, 8 happens to this plant inside the house and it is safe."

When the boy went outside, he was very  9  to see a big tree. The boy couldn't believe his eyes. He couldn't  10 how the plant outside was able to grow much bigger than the plant inside the house.

"The plant outside the house faced four  11  and many difficulties!" the father  12  to his son why the plant outside was bigger. "The plant inside was safe, it didn't face weather changes, and it didn't get proper  13 , so it didn't become big."

Here is the  14  to the question about being great:  15 a great person, one must have failed many times, experienced many difficulties and overcome those difficulties. After that, he is able to become great.

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