阅读理解 Twenty years ago in Costa Rica, three girls found a baby sloth（树懒）on a road. The little animal's mother was killed by a car. These girls took the baby sloth to Judy, the owner of a hotel. Ju...

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浙江省温州市2018-2019学年八年级上学期英语期中考试试卷（含听力音频）

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Twenty years ago in Costa Rica, three girls found a baby sloth（树懒）on a road. The little animal's mother was killed by a car. These girls took the baby sloth to Judy, the owner of a hotel. Judy wanted to help, but she didn't know how to look after the sloth, so she called the zoo. With the help of the zoo, Judy took good care of the baby sloth. She named the baby sloth Buttercup.

After her success, more people brought Judy wounded sloths or baby sloths they found. Judy then opened a rescue centre（救助中心）. Today, the rescue centre has saved more than 500 sloths. Sloths live in the forests of Central America and South America. They hang on to the trees with their claws（爪子）. There are two main types of sloths. You can tell them apart by the number of their claws. Sloths hardly move. They spend most of their time sleeping in the trees.

But now, with the increase of population, human beings（人类）cause a lot of problems for these slow and quiet animals. The main problems is that the forests are becoming smaller and smaller. When trees are cut down, sloths will fall and break themselves. Sloths who live near human beings sometimes are hit by cars or attacked by dogs.

At the centre, workers care for the injured animals. Their goal is to help the sloths return to the wild when are healthy enough.

（1）、Judy's rescue centre saves about sloths on average（平均）every year.

A、15 B、20 C、25 D、30

（2）、From the passage we know that the sloths .

A、live in North America B、never move in trees C、live in the forest D、like to jump between trees

（3）、What does the word "attacked" probably mean in Chinese?

A、攻击 B、吃掉 C、帮助 D、照顾

（4）、Which of the following is the biggest danger for sloths?

A、The cars. B、The dogs. C、More and more buildings. D、The smaller and smaller forests.

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.

You can't see any object unless light from that object gets into your eyes. Some of the things you see give off light of their own. The sun, the stars, a lighted lamp are the examples that can be seen by their own light. But most of the things you see are not giving off light of their own. They are just reflecting(反射) light that falls on them from the sun or some other luminous bodies. The moon, for example, doesn't give off any light of its own. It is not luminous. You see it because sunlight falls on it and some of the sunlight reflects on the earth. So moonlight is only second—hand sunlight.
When you look at a book, it sends some of the light which fails on it to your eyes, and you see the book. If light could be kept out from where you're so that there would be no light from the book to reflect. Then you couldn't see the book even with your eyes wide open. Light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you're reading to your eyes is as short as if there were no time at time. Light reaches us from the moon, which is about 380, 000 kilometres away, in only a little more than a second.

   Nowadays, computer games are becoming more and more popular in many cities and towns.
   A lot of small shops along busy streets have been made into small game houses in order to get more money. These places are always crowded with people, especially young boys.
   In the computer game houses, people spend a lot of money competing（较量） with the machines. It's hard for one to win the computer, but one can make progress after trying again and again. People have a kind of gambling psychology（赌博心理）when they play computer games. The more they lose, the more they want to win. When class is over, the school boys run to the nearby computer game houses. Little by little（渐渐地）, they forget all about their lessons and fall far behind others. Some of them can get enough money from their parents. But some of them are not lucky enough to get the money. They begin to take away other students' money and become thieves.

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When we feel the ground moves suddenly, it means that an earthquake may come. Many of the earthquakes first come under the sea and then happen anywhere on the earth. Especially they often happen near the mountains and seas such as Wenchuan, Japan and Indonesia.

When an earthquake happens, it's very easy to cause a tsunami (海啸). Houses fall down, many people are injured and even died.

Now scientists are trying their best to study earthquakes. They make maps to show the “earthquake belts (地震带)”. So the houses there must be quite strong.

We believe that scientists will be able to tell us when and where an earthquake will happen in the near future. Also, they can tell us what to do and how to do. People can even use earthquakes to do something for us humans.

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The spring season brings warm weather, flowers and other changes for people to enjoy. For some restaurant cooks, the most exciting spring arrival is ramps.

Ramps are a wild plant in the eastern mountains of North America. They are one of the first plants that grow in the spring, usually between April and May. They are recognized(意识) by their red stem(茎), and two long and wide green leaves. They are also famous for their strong taste, similar to onions(洋葱).

Ramps are not as well-known as other vegetables, but they have a long history in the United States. In the Appalachian Mountains, ramps have been an important food for a longtime. During spring, it is common for small towns in the Appalachian area to hold large ramp dinners for the community.

However, over the last 30 years, ramps popularity has grown quickly. They are now a highly-desired vegetable for many nice restaurants in cities like New York and Washington D.C.

One reason the plant is popular is that it grows in the wild. It is difficult to grow them on farms. Most restaurants get them from foragers, who collect ramps by searching forests for some small pieces of land where they grow. Ramps have a short season. Within a few weeks of full growth, the plant is done for the year. This shot life is some reason for their popularity.

And that popularity could lead Io their disappearance from Earth. In 1995, the local government in Quebee, Canada, stopped people selling the plant to businesses in order to protect the plant against being over-dug.

The season is short, but it has not ended yet. If you are in the right place, you still have time to try a taste of ramps yourself.

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Have you ever wished that your life was like a reality TV show(真人秀节目)? Well, like it or not, things might be this way in the future.

This is because of Google glasses. Glasses are the latest technology from Google. They have more exciting features(特征)than you could possibly imagine.

For one thing, people who wear the glasses can shoot videos and record the sounds around them. So if your friend is wearing Google glasses, he or she can record your every move and broadcast live on the Internet for the world to see.

There is a GPS system in the glasses. So if you get lost you can say" OK, Glass, where am I?", and it will find where you are and tell you where you need to 90.

Google glasses are a bit like a helpful secretary. You can tell them what you want to write in an e—mail and they will type it for you.

Since April 16, Google glasses have been on the market in small numbers. But by the end of the year anyone will be able to buy a pair for about 2, 500 yuan.

Some people are not sure whether they find Google glasses cool or not. When someone is wearing Google glasses, it is not easy to see whether or not they are using them.

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