阅读理解 If you like reading fairy tales(童话故事), do not miss the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane(...

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山东省德州市2017-2018学年八年级上学期英语期末考试试卷

阅读理解

If you like reading fairy tales(童话故事), do not miss the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane(《爱德华的奇妙之旅》).It is a famous story by an American writer Kate Dicamilo in 2006．People, the young and the old, love this book. And it's so popular that it is one of the " “Top100Books for Children” in the US.

The story is about a journey of a china rabbit (瓷兔子) called Edward. He lives with his

ten-year-old owner (主人) named Abilene. Abilene loves him very much but Edward doesn't love her. During a holiday on a ship, Edward is lost. After spending 297 days in the sea, he reaches abeach and a man takes him home .Then Edward travels from one place to another, meeting manypeople. His name keeps changing, such as Susie and Maloney. Soon he begins to miss Abilene andwait for her. One day Edward falls into pieces. Someone repairs (修理)it and sells it in the market.

Many years later, Abilene and her daughter come to the market and take Edward home. Finally

Edward is with his owner again.

There are many pictures in the book, so we can follow Edward's journey easily.

You can learn that Edward learns love and never stops waiting for Abilene .This is why theymeet each other at the end of the story. The warm and sweet story will make you know more aboutlove．

（1）、 wrote The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.

A、Edward Tulane B、Kate Dicamillo C、Abilene D、Maloney

（2）、The book is one of the"Top 100 Books for Children" in the US because

A、it is a fairy B、it shows Kate's story in a beautiful C、people, young or old, love the book D、the writer is very famous in America

（3）、Where does Edward stay for 297 days after he is lost?

A、On a ship B、In his home C、In the sea D、In a market

（4）、Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A、At first, Edward and Abilene love each other B、Edward's name keeps changing during his journey C、Nobody repairs Edward when he is in pieces D、There aren't any pictures in this book

（5）、According to the passage, what can we learn from the book?

A、Health B、Kindness C、Love D、Politeness

举一反三

One day, in an English class, the students are having their lessons. Their teacher, a young woman is very happy. She sings some nice songs with them and then she goes to the blackboard and writes “SMILES” on it. “This is the longest（最长）word in English,” she says to the class.
A girl stands up and says, “It has only six letters. How can it be the longest word in English?”
The teacher smiles and says, “Oh, look! There is a mile（英里）between the first letter and the last one.”

One summer vacation in my college, my roommate Ted asked to me to work on his father's farm in Argentina. The idea was exciting. Then I had second thoughts. I had never been far from New England, and I had been homesick my first few weeks at college. What about the language? The more I thought about it, the more the idea worried me.
Finally, I turned down the invitation. Then I realized I had turned down something I wanted to do because I was scared and felt depressed(沮丧). That experience taught me a valuable lesson and I developed a rule for myself: do what makes you anxious(焦虑); don't do what makes you depressed.
In my senior year, I wanted to be a writer. But my professor wanted me to teach. I hesitated. The idea of writing was much scarier than spending a summer in Argentina. Back and forth I went, making my decision, unmaking it. Suddenly I realized that every time I gave up the idea of writing, that downhearted feeling went through me.
Giving up writing really depressed me. Then I learned another lesson. To avoid the depression meant having to bear much worry and concern.
When I first began writing articles, I often interviewed big names. Before each interview I would get butterflies in the stomach. One of them was the great composer Duke Ellington. On the stage and on television, he seemed very confident. Then I learned Ellington still got stage fright（害怕）. If Ellington still had anxiety attacks, how could I avoid them? I went on doing those frightening interviews. Little by little, I was even looking forward to the interviews. Where were those butterflies?
In truth, they were still there, but fewer of them. I had learned from a process psychologists（心理学家） call “extinction”. If you put an individual in an anxious situation often, finally there isn't anything to be worried about, which brings me to a conclusion: you'll never get rid of anxiety by avoiding the things that caused it.
The point is that the new, the different, is definitely scary. But each time you try something, you learn, and as the learning piles up, the world opens to you.

The weather was fine last night. My friend named Steve and I decided to sleep in the open air. I found the sleeping bags under the bed in my room. I also packed some snacks. We could hardly wait for it to get dark. We opened our sleeping bags and put them on the grass in front of my house. Steve and I played some games, talked about something interesting and had a snack. In the end it got dark. We were just falling asleep when we heard something unusual.
“Maybe it is just a small animal,”I said. Steve said nothing, but I could feel he was frightened. After I looked around, I was sure it wasn't an animal. It was my little brother, Tommy.
“What are you doing here?”I asked. “You know, Tommy, you frightened us.”
“Sorry, Bill,” he said. “It's hot in the room. I want to sleep outside with you.”
“Well, OK,” I said. “Just come and lie down next to us.”
“Good night, Bill and Steve,” said Tommy. “And thanks.”

阅读理解
    Few kids today are taught the value of sympathy（同情心）. It seems so hard for people to show their love and care towards others and to actually understand what others are going through.
    As a child I was taught to go out of my way to make someone else happy. My mom told me to say at least one kind word to someone else every day. I admit（承认） that it wasn't very easy to do. But as soon as you see the look of happiness in that person's eyes, you just want to do as much as you can do.
    I had an experience with a guy whom people were always making fun of. Every time I saw that happening, I knew in my heart that it was wrong. I decided I would try to be his friend. I started walking with him and introducing him to people around us. I was making him happy by just doing that. And I loved the fact that I was making a difference in his life.
    After a while I realized that he wasn't the kind of person everybody thought he was. We are still good friends today. People have almost completely stopped making fun of him. But he is still what he was. What changed was the attitudes of others towards him.
    From this experience I've learned to be more loving toward other people. What I did for my friend was so easy. And at the same time I had a lot of fun. So I hope that everyone can say a kind word to someone else at least once a day. I can promise you it will be the best feeling you can ever get.
    One kind word can make someone's day brighter.

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People usually hate mice, but one mouse has won the hearts of the people all over the world—the famous Mickey Mouse.

Fifty years ago most movies were silent. A man called Walt Disney made a cartoon mouse that could talk his movies. He named his mouse Mickey Mouse. People, both young and old, were very excited at the talking mouse. Children loved to see their friend, because he brought joy and laughter to them.

Mickey was a clean mouse right from the beginning. Perhaps this is one reason why people hate real mice and love Mickey Mouse. In his early life Mickey made some mistakes. People were angry. They wrote to Disney and said that they did not want Mickey to do silly things. So Disney made a new animal named Donald Duck. He also made a dog called Pluto. This dog does stupid things and makes mistakes wherever he goes. Now our Mickey Mouse is not only clean but also important. He appears as a beautiful and clever star. He has his friends in almost every country.

阅读理解

This is the story of a little fir(冷杉) tree that dreamed of growing up so that he could be a Christmas tree for humans. The other older trees knew more about life and they told him that being a Christmas tree for humans wasn't as good as he thought. But the little fir tree didn't believe them.

He was so pleased that day when some children came in with their parents to pick a fir tree as their Christmas tree to decorate the living room. The children adored him at first sight. So he was dug up and brought into the living room. After they finished decorating him, the little fir tree shone with a hundred lights. Christmas was getting closer and everyone admired (欣赏) the little Christmas tree.

He was the prince of the living room, but he started to lose his leaves after January. Nobody looked at him or touched him. The fir tree started to feel sad that he had been chosen by the family. After several days, the little fir tree was replanted in the family's backyard. He was so happy to be back in the good old earth! In the following years, the family dug him up again to put him back into the living room as their Christmas tree and then replanted him. He was very happy with his new family. And yes, in the end the older trees were wrong. Some humans are good after all.

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