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北京市房山区2018-2019学年八年级上学期英语期中考试试卷

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    Playgrounds offer kids fresh air, friends, and exercise. However, each year, more than 200,000 kids go to hospital because they are hurt in one way or another when playing on the playground. So what can we do to improve the situation(状况)?

    We should make sure the playground is safe for the children. It should be soft and thick enough, so when the children fall, they won't hurt too much. Things like water, rocks or broken glass might cause danger to the kids. Cleaners should check the playground from time to time and clear away these dangerous things. In fact, children themselves also need to help keep the playground clean and safe. That means each time after playing they should pick up the rubbish they've produced. If someone finds there is something wrong with the equipment(设施), he should report to the keeper of the playground, so people will come to fix it.

    Teaching kids how to play safely is also very important. Kids should know the rules of the playground, so they won't get hurt easily. For example, they should never push when others are on seesaws or swings. If someone is going to jump off some equipment, he should first look down to make sure no other kids are in the way. Of course, wearing right clothes may also help to keep safe. Clothes with strings (绳) can get caught on equipment which may hurt the kid badly.

    In short, our kids can both enjoy themselves and be safe if we are working together to improve the situation.

(1)、Do many kids get hurt when playing on the playground every year?
(2)、What things might cause danger to the kids on the playground?
(3)、Why should kids know the rules of the playground?
(4)、What kind of clothes can be caught on equipment?
(5)、What's the passage mainly about?
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请阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。每个空格只填一个单词。

    What is a hurricane?

    You may already know that hurricanes are storms that can cause devastating (毁灭性的) waves, wind, and rain. They happen during “Hurricane Season,” which is from June 1st until November 30th in the Atlantic Ocean and from May 15th until November 30th in the Pacific Ocean.

    Types of Hurricanes

    There are five types of hurricanes, which are based on wind speeds. The categories help people know how much damage a hurricane may cause because the greater the wind speed, the more dangerous the storm. For example, a Category 5 hurricane has winds over 155 miles per hour, which are strong enough to destroy the buildings along the shorelines completely.

    Hurricane Dangers

    When a hurricane happens together with heavy rainfall, there can be a devastating flood. The centre of a hurricane is called the eye. While most of a hurricane has dangerously strong winds, the eye is actually a calm area in the storm. When the eye of a hurricane passes over land, people might think that it's over, but before long the wind and rain increase again as the second part of the hurricane moves through.

    Hurricane Safety Tips

    There is no way to stop a hurricane or make it change direction, so if you ever find yourself in the path of a hurricane, be sure to remember the following safety tips.

    Be sure you have a radio, batteries, fresh drinking water, and enough food.

    Tell neighbours, friends, and family members your emergency plans. Tell them where you'll go if you need to leave your home.

    If you live near the ocean, leave your home and travel to a safe place. You could stay with a friend or a family member, in a hotel/motel, or in an emergency shelter area.

    Stay inside during the storm. You could be seriously injured if you go outside.

Hurricanes

Characteristics

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☆Devastating waves, wind, and rain are usually the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} of hurricanes.

Categories

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☆A Category 5 hurricane can destroy all the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} along the shorelines.

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☆A hurricane which comes together with heavy rainfall, may {#blank#}6{#/blank#} to a terrible flood.

☆The eye is the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} part of a hurricane. Soon after it passes,the wind and rain increase again.

Safety Tips

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☆If finding yourself in the path of a hurricane, you should remember to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the safety tips.

☆Stay inside during the storm, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} you could be seriously injured.

阅读下面短文,从方框内选择恰当的句子填入文中空白处,使短文内容完整、意思连贯。

    In 2011, when British photographer David J. Slater was visiting a park in Indonesia, his camera was taken away by a group of black monkeys. The result was hundreds of monkey selfies(自拍照). The best ones show a monkey smiling toothily for the camera. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    Nobody knew they would create a copyright (版权) battle three years later.

    Last month, a website put the monkey selfies online under a collection d free photos without Slater's permission (允许). {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

    However, the website refused to do so. They said that according to US copyright law, whoever pushes the button on the camera owns the copyright to the photo. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    They said, "US copyright law says that works that come from a non-human source can't ask for copyright. That means monkeys don't own copyright. "

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} He said he bought the cameras; he spent a lot of money traveling to Indonesia, and it was his carelessness that allowed the monkeys to take his cameras away.  All these have made him own the pictures, no matter who pushed the button. In a sense, the monkeys helped him take the photos, Slater said.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Who do you think will win this interesting battle?

A. It was the monkeys but not Slater that pushed the button.

B. As of now, there has been no result in the Monkey Selfie case.

C. Slater then sold the photos and they became popular on the Internet.

D. Slater asked the website to take them down since he owns the copyright.

E. Slater argues that the pictures belong to him as they were taken from his camera.

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

    When you wake up every day, once again to see this beautiful world, when your parents, teachers and friends give you help, will you know how to be grateful? And when you feel unlucky and make mistakes, will you still be thankful?

    Yu Dan, a professor at the Beijing Normal University, made a report about Gratitude Education(感恩教育). {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    Nowadays, some teenagers only care about things outside. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}For example, they fight each other, use phones in class, be rude to their parents and teachers and so on. Most of them don't know love, respect and gratefulness.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}It is impossible for anyone to be lucky and successful all the time as long as he lives in the world. We should learn how to face failure or bad luck bravely and to try to deal with it. As we know, "Life is a mirror. When you smile in front of it, it will also smile and so will it when you cry to it. " {#blank#}4{#/blank#} If you always complain about everything, you may own nothing in the end.

    I think the teenagers should be grateful to life even when we are unsuccessful or unlucky. We have many reasons for being grateful. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} And it is also a way to sing for our life which comes just from our love and hope.

    If each of us has an attitude of being grateful, we'll lead a better and more beautiful life. So remember, being grateful forever.

A. It will affect Chinese people, especially the teenagers.

B. They don't care about others.

C. If you are grateful to life, it will bring you shining sunlight.

D. For example, being grateful is a way to communicate with adults.

E. They often behave badly.

F. Being grateful or thankful is very important.

G. Some students love and respect others.

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    With their long tusks (象牙), elephants look strong. However, it is this feature that makes the animal endangered. Many of them are killed for their tusks. People make elephant tusks into crafts (工艺品) and jewelry and sell them to rich people.
    But can these priceless body parts grow back? The answer is no, Live Science said. The elephants' tusks are actually part of their teeth. Nearly all African elephants and most male Asian elephants have these long teeth. About one-third of the tusk is in the animal's skull (头骨). The tusk has a nerve (神经) running down its center. This makes it similar to your teeth. Once you lose a tooth, you will never grow a new one.
    Elephants use their tusks to protect themselves, lift things, dig water and gather food. But losing the tusk will not kill them. The way in which they lose the tusk is what matters. Usually, people get tusks by culling (限量捕杀), which means killing old and weak elephants. They also take tusks from the elephants that have died naturally.

    However, these sources aren't enough to keep up with the demand for ivory. Therefore, some poachers (偷猎者) kill healthy elephants and cut their faces open to remove the tusks. About 27,000 elephants are killed by poachers each year, according to National Geographic.
    As a result of poaching, some African elephants gradually evolved (进化) without tusks, which has allowed them to survive. In Mozambique, about 90 percent of African elephants were killed for their tusks and meat from 1975 to 1992, National Geographic reported.
    Scientists found that about a third of younger females—the generation born after 1992—never developed tusks.

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