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浙江省温州市第二外语学校2023-2024学年八年级上学期英语期中试卷

 任务型阅读

 It was a sunny. sky after the typhoon(台风) passed and some people found a very large hole next to their village.

 All of the villagers came out to see the hole. They looked inside, but it was dark and nobody could see anything. What happened? Was it a fox hole?

A young man was so surprised that he shouted at the hole, "Hey, come out!" However, only his voice came back from the hole. Then, he picked up a small rock(岩石) and threw(扔) it down the hole. But, still, nothing came out.

 To find out the fact of the hole, the villagers asked a scholar(学者) for help. After looking over the hole, he found nothing, but he tried to look confident, and said for sure, "It's no problem to fill(填充) it up!"

 Seeing this, a businessman came up and offered to buy the hole with lots of money. Later, he built up a company called"Hole-Filling Company". He told everyone the company could hold any litter but they had to pay for it.

 From then on, more and more people came here to put their litter into the hole:

 Hospitals got here to throw the dead people.

 The government put all the dirty water into the hole.

 Slowly, the sea and sky became beautifully blue. Under this clear sky, more and more buildings were built up.

 One day, a worker was working on the top of a tall building. Looking at the blue sky, clear water and green plants, he was happy that the city was getting more and more beautiful.

 Suddenly, he heard a strange shout above his head, "Hey, come out!"

 However, when he looked up, he found nothing. When he sat down for a rest, a rock flew down in front of him from the direction(方向) of the strange shout. He picked it up and wanted to know why it came from the sky.

 Of course, he didn't know anything about the rock. Only the young man in the village could know that: it was the same rock that he threw into the hole.

 Several days later, the sky was not as beautifully blue as before. More and more litter fell down from the sky-dead people, dirty water...

 Adapted from Hey, come out! by Shinichi Hoshi

(1)、What did the villagers know about the hole at first?
A、It could make quite a loud noise. B、It was in the centre of the village. C、It was already there before the typhoon. D、It was so dark that people could see nothing.
(2)、Why did the businessman want to buy the hole?
A、He would like to build houses in the hole. B、He wanted to learn the fact about the hole. C、He hoped the villagers could have a better life. D、He believed the hole could bring him more money.
(3)、What might happen next according to the end of the passage?
A、The rock that flew back from the sky would be in the city museum. B、The litter that people threw into the hole before would be everywhere. C、The company would build more buildings to make the city more modern. D、The villagers would look for more holes like that and throw litter into them.
(4)、Who threw the rock into the hole? Why did the rock fly back from the sky again? (请用约 40词回答)
举一反三
以下I栏是五位年轻人(学生)最近遇到的一些问题,II栏是给他们的一些建议,请从 II 栏中为 I 栏的五位年轻人(学生)选择适合他们的解决问题的办法,其中有两项是多余的。

I

II

{#blank#}1{#/blank#}I am working as an English teacher in China. Now I'd like to go to America, but I don't have anywhere to live because I sold my house in America. What should I do?

{#blank#}2{#/blank#}I have two young children, so it's difficult for me to work full time. I like meeting people, and I drive my own car.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#}I'm at college, so I'm studying during the day, but I need to make some money. What should I do?

{#blank#}4{#/blank#}I'm bored with working in an office. I'd like to do something different and work in a foreign country, but I don't know what to do.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#}I enjoy playing football a lot, but my parents don't want me to be a football player.

A. Talk with your parents about your hobby and your plan. Try hard to make your parents understand you.

B. Call your friends in America at first. Ask advice from them. They may have the answer to your question.

C. You can do some part-jobs at night. You can teach little children, work as a waiter, or write something on the Internet.

D. You can learn to be a teacher to teach foreign learners. After learning, you can find a job in a language school in Spain, Italy, Greece or England.

E. You can work in our small, friendly hotel, but you must have two years' experience of hotel work and be able to work on weekends and in the evenings.

F. You can talk with your friend about your problems and be friends with her again. Or you can write a letter or send a message to your friend.

G. There are some jobs for you. For example, you can sell something to your friends and neighbors by WeChat. The more you sell, the more you make.

 阅读下列短文,从下面每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

With most Chinese people speaking Mandarin, or putonghua, some local dialects, or fangyan, are in danger of disappearing. To save them, the Chinese government started the Chinese Language Resources(资源) Protection Project in 2015.

This project looked at how people talk in 1,712 places. Their languages included 103 dialects that are almost gone. Over five years, more than 350 universities and research groups joined in, along with over 4,500 experts(专家)and more than 6,000 dialect speakers.

This project has helped China to build the largest language resource library in the world. Now a dialect library has been built online, where people can learn dialects from over 5.6 million recordings and over 5 million videos. At present, the project has entered into the second stage. It plans to create digital tools like apps and mobile dictionaries to help people learn dialects.

Why is it important to protect the dialect culture? According to British expert Harold Palmer, dialects are the key to keeping local cultures, because they faithfully show the histories, the beliefs and the fixed ideas of an area.

Zhang Hongming, another expert, talked about the worrying situation of dialects. "For about over 10 years, in the Wu dialect areas such as Shanghai and Suzhou, children aged 6 to 15 can understand but hardly speak the dialect. Besides, young people above 15 years old sometimes speak it, but not very well. If this keeps happening, the dialect might disappear." he said.

So, not only the country but every one of us should do our bit to protect dialect culture.

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