阅读下面材料，从每题所给的四个选项（ABCD）中选出最佳选项。B No Car Day was first started by 34 cities in France on Se...

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浙江省杭州市大江东开发区2016-2017学年八年级上学期英语期中考试试卷（含听力音频）

阅读下面材料，从每题所给的四个选项（ABCD）中选出最佳选项。

No Car Day was first started by 34 cities in France on September 22, 1998. It was started to protect the environment. By now, more than 1,000 cities around the world have had a No Car Day.

The first No Car Day in China was in Chengdu in 2001. Other cities including Taipei, Shanghai and Wuhan, also support the day.

In Beijing, more and more people are taking part in the activity. It asks drivers to leave their cars at home for one day each month and walk or ride a bike to work. It also calls on Beijingers not to use cars on June 5th (World Environment Day). The slogan for the day is, "If we drive for one less day, we can have one more nice day."

So far, more than 200,000 drivers have shown their support. "We can't control the weather, but we can choose not to drive," said Wu Zhonghua, a car club chairman. Beijing is trying to have 238 blue sky days this year. In the first quarter of 2007, Beijing only had 52 blue sky days. This was 11 days less than the number for the same period last year. Much of the dust comes from the desert, but cars cause most of the air pollution. We must do more for No Car Day.

（1）、No Car Day was started _____________.

A、to save money B、to control the weather C、to make the air cleaner D、to keep out dust from the desert

（2）、The No Car Day activity asks Beijing drivers ____________.

A、to work hard to get fewer blue sky days B、not to work on World Environment Day C、to ride a bike or walk instead of driving to work once a month D、to leave their cars at home for a week each month

（3）、What does the underlined word "slogan" in paragragh 3 mean?

A、目标 B、方针 C、格言 D、口号

（4）、Which of the following about No Car Day is WRONG?

A、It was first started in France in September, 1998. B、It was started in China in 2001. C、It is supported by over 1,000 cities around the world. D、It was first started by a car club chairman in Beijing.

（5）、What can we infer(推断) from the passage?

A、More and more people in Beijing are joining car clubs. B、People will have one more World Environment Day each month. C、More and more people won't drive on No Car Day in Beijing. D、The car club chairman Wu Zhonghua won't drive any more.

举一反三

    Never go into a supermarket hungry! This is a good piece of advice. If you go shopping for food before lunchtime, you'll probably buy more than you plan to. Unfortunately, however, just this advice isn't enough for shoppers these days. Modern shoppers need an education in how and how not to buy things at the store. First, you check the weekly newspaper ads. Find out the items that are on sale and decide if you really need these things. In other words, don't buy anything just because it's cheaper than usual! Second, never let "New and Improved!" or "All Natural”on the front of a package influence you. Instead, read the list of contents on the back. Third，compare prices: that is, you should examine the prices of both different brands(品牌)and different sizes of the same brand.
    Another suggestion for shoppers is to buy ordinary items instead of famous brands. Ordinary items in supermarkets come in plain packages. These products are cheaper because producers don't spend much money on packing or advertising. However, they are still of high quality. In the same way, in buying clothes, you can often find high quality and low prices in brands that are not famous. Shopping in discount clothing stores can help you save a lot of money. Although these stores aren't very attractive, and they usually do not have individual dressing rooms, not only are the prices low, but you can often find the same famous brands that you find in high-priced department stores.
    Wise shoppers read magazine ads and watch TV commercials(商业广告)，but they do this with one advantage: knowledge of the psychology behind the ads. In other words, will-informed shoppers watch for information and check for misinformation. They ask themselves questions: Is the advertiser hiding something in small print at the bottom of the page? Is there any real information in the commercial, or is the advertiser simply showing an attractive image? With the answers to these questions, shoppers can make a wise choice.

    A kind of little cars may some day take the place of today's cars. If everyone drives such cars in the future, there will be less pollution from the cars. There will also be more space for parking cars in cities, and the streets will be less crowded. Three such cars can park in the space now needed for one car of the usual size.
    The little cars will cost much less to own and to drive. Driving will be safer, too, as these little cars can go only 65 kilometers an hour. The cars of the future will be fine for getting around a city, but they will not be useful for long trips. Little cars will go 450 kilometers before needing to stop for more gas(汽油).
    If big cars are still used along with the small ones, two sets of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be used for the big, quick cars and other roads will be needed for the slower, smaller ones.

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Look up in the sky. Do you see any clouds? What do they look like? Some clouds are fluffy(绒毛状的) and white, like cotton balls. Others are dark almost black, and make you hold an umbrella. At sunrise and sunset, clouds can look red, purple, or yellow—as if they were colored with crayons. But what are clouds anyway?

You can't reach out and touch the clouds, but you can make your own in a bottle.

You need

* an adult helper

* a huge, empty glass jar

* a metal strainer(过滤器)

* hot water

* ice

Do these

Step1. Have your helper fill the jar with hot water, leave it there for two minutes, then pour out most of the water. Leaving just an inch or two at the bottom of the jar.

Step2. It's your turn, put the strainer over the mouth of the jar, fill the strainer with ice. Watch the jar.

What happened?

A cloud formed in the jar! Some of the hot water at the bottom of the jar turned into hot water vapor(蒸汽). The water vapor rose and met with the cold air coming off the ice. When the water vapor condensed, it formed a cloud. Hot air rises and carries with it lots of water vapor, the higher the air rises, the more it cools down. Soon the cold air can't hold all the water vapor so it starts turning into tiny water drops, and becomes a cloud.

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Researchers have discovered the first Earth-sized planet. It was first marked by NASA's Kepler telescope(望远镜) so it's called Kepler-186f. It lies about 500 light years from Earth and goes around its star. The planet is the right distance from its star for water: not too close or not too far. Water is one important condition that scientists guess is necessary for life. So it could have water and possible life. It's called a true Earth cousin.

"This planet is an Earth cousin, not an Earth twin," said Barclay, who is among a team of scientists reporting on the discovery in the magazine Science this week.

"It's very exciting to find a planet similar to the Earth," Barclay said, "It's not easy work because things change as we get more measurements."

Scientists don't know anything about the air of Kepler-186f, but it will be a task for future telescopes which can study for chemicals that have something to do with life.

"It's possible for life to live in this planet, but that doesn't mean there is life in it," Barclay said.

So far, scientists have found nearly 1,800 planets in the universe.

"The past year has seen a lot of progress in the search for Earth-like planets. Kepler-186f is very important because it is the first planet that is the same temperature and is almost the same size as Earth," scientist David Charbonneau wrote in an email.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

What would the world be like if cars could drive themselves? Imagine seeing an empty car passing by on its way to pick up its owner, or a car full of passengers who are reading, listening to music or even sleeping. But none of them are worried about the road ahead.

Well, all of this could be the future of driving. There are several companies, including Google, working on driverless cars. So far, no Google self-driven car has gotten a traffic ticket, bus some of them have been in accidents when other cars hit them.

These cars are now still in the testing stages. But, if the tests are successful, these electric self-driven cars could be put into use very soon.

The cars already have many features（特点）allowing them to take the place of drivers during certain situations. Some features include cars being able to park themselves, or slow down when they notice objects close by. They can also control the speed if there are dangerous conditions.

Scientists and engineers believe, with the help of wireless（无线电的）signals, cameras and GPS, we are now at a stage where creating a safe self-driven car might be possible.

The cause of deadly road accidents is usually careless drivers or dangerous conditions. The self-driven car may be able to prevent these. However, some people do not like the idea. American lawyer Whit Drake, for example, doesn't believe these cars are safe. He thinks that technologies can also be mistakes.

阅读下列短文，从下面每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Saving the Earth shouldn't be so difficult，if we can do the following．

First，we should take our time ． There is no need to hurry．We can walk or ride a bike to work．

Second，we should smell the Each．Open the windows．Turn off the air-conditioner, and at the same time，save the energy．

Third，we should enjoy cooking at home and having meals on our dinner table．So we can use our own bowls and chopsticks，not the plastic ones．

Fourth，we should spend our weekends and holidays in the park playing games and just riding a bike around.

Fifth，we should learn how to use old things well in the house，in the garden，or in the kitchen．

Lastly, no one really has a mountain and a sea．Don't throw rubbish here and there．

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