2017-2018年江苏省南京市育英二外 8B英语 期中考试

B. People have made backpacks easier to carry. C. Backpacks with wheels are not real. D. It is hard to carry a backpack.

C

Dou Kou, a Chinese boy, has written 3 books now. And he is called “ the youngest writer in the world”.

Dou Kou was born in Jiangsu Province in1994. When he was 7 months old, his parents started working in more than 30 different cities, such as Xi’an, Shenzhen. This kind of life gave him things to think and write about.

When Dou Kou was 9 months old, he could speak, and at the age of one, he could say five to six hundred words. At 3, he could look up words in the dictionary. At 4, his father taught him to learn something. His parents like reading very much. So dose he. At the age of 5, he began writing fairy tales.

His fairy tales are all from his life. One day, he found many mice in the house. They not only ate their food but also hurt his mother’s hand. So he thought, “If we give mice the stomachs of cows, they’ll eat grass and it’ll be helpful to people.” This was his first fairy tale “Change Stomachs for Mice”. At 6, he wrote a novel about his own life in different cities with his parents.

Dou Kou studied well in middle school, and he wrote his third book, the novel called “Eyes of Childhood.” He says, “ I am not different from other children. I just wrote several books.”

( ) 51. How many books has Dou Kou written?

A. Three B. Four C. Five D. Six ( ) 52. Because of ________, Dou Kou could write his books.

A. his mother B. life in different cities C. before his father taught him to study D. after he went to school ( ) 53. Dou Kou began to use a dictionary________.

A. when he was 9 months old B. when he wrote his fairy tale C. before his father taught him to study D. after he went to school

( ) 54. The underlined sentences at the end of the passage show us that Dou Kou_____.

A. is different from other children B. doesn’t tell the truth C. is the same as other children D. like his books ( ) 55. Which is the best title of this passage?

A. Three Books by a Child B. How to Write Fairy Tales C. Dou Kou, the youngest Writer D. Change Stomachs for Mice.

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五、语言运用（15分）

A）根据所给的中文写出单词，使句子意思完整正确（5分） 56. Is Russia a ________ (欧洲的) country or an Asian country?

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57. We all know that the seasons in New Zealand are the ________ (相反的)of ours. 58. Seeing the old man getting on the bus, ________ （几个）students offered them their seats.

59. Have you ________ （意识到）that you made a big mistake?

60. We got to know the importance of protecting ________ （环境）after the lecture. B)根据句子意思，用所给词的适当形式填空（5分）

61. Wall Street is at the ________ (south) end of Manhattan Island.

62. A good ________ (communicate) between you and your parents is necessary.

63. People found the dog ________ (die) yesterday morning. Nobody knows what killed him.

64. Look! They are discussing where ________ (go) for May Day holiday. 65. Hawking’s severe illness made him ________ (able) to walk or talk. C) 汉译英（5分） 66. 有直达天津的航班吗？

Are there any ________ ________ to Tianjin? 67. 他经常和他父母通过微信保持联系。

He often ________ ________ touch with his parents by Wechat. 68.不管我怎样哄，这个小婴儿仍继续哭着。

The baby ________ ________ no matter how I tried to comfort her. 69.Tony打算去国外深造。

Tony decides to ________ ________ for further education. 70.放学后，Simon匆匆地进了一家书店。 Simon ________ ________ a bookstore after school. 六、任务型阅读（每空一次，共10分）

Central Park is an urban(城市的)park in Manhattan, New York City, U.S state of New York. It has an area of 843 acres between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side, bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, Central Park West on the west, Central Park South on the south, and Central Park North on the north. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with 40 million visitors in 2013, and one of the most filmed locations in the world.

The park was established(建立) in 1857 on 778 acres of land by the city. In

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1858, landscape architect(建筑师) Frederick Law Olmsted and architect designer Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand(扩张，发展) the park with a plan they gave it a name “Greensward Plan”. Construction(建设) began the same year, and the park’s first area was opened to the publish in the winter of 1858. Construction north of the park continued during the American Civil War in the 1860s, and the park was expanded to its present size in 1873. After a period of going down in the early 20th century. Robert Moses started a program to clean up Central Park.

The U.S. Department of the Interior decided to choose Central Park to be a National Historic Landmark in 1962, which in April 2017 placed it on the tentative(暂定的)list for UNESCO World Heritage sites. The park, managed for decades by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, is now managed by the Central Park Conservancy. The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 75 percent of Central Park’s $65 million yearly budget(预算) and is responsible for all basic care of the 843-acre park.

The 71.________ of Central Park

Central Park is a very famous park in the 72.________ of New York. It covers an area of 843 acres. And lots of people like to make73. ________ there. The government 74.________ Central Park on 778 cares of land. The architects75.________ to improve and expand the park. And visitors could visit it in 76.________ that year. In 1962 The US government 77.________ the park to be a National Historic Landmark. In 78.____ The park expanded to 843 acres. In 2017 The park 79.________ on the list of the UNESCO World Heritage sites in April. The Conservancy contributes almost 80.________ million dollars to the park for the basic care of the park. 71.________ 72.________ 73.________ 74.________ 75.________ 76.________ 77.________ 78.________ 79.________ 80.________ 七、首字母填空（共10分）

Every time I saw the people in the train with their travelling packages, I admired them and I dreamed that I could be one of t ____81____ one day.

There’re some advantages of train journey, I’d like to s ____82____ it with you.

Firstly, it is comfortable and convenient(方便的). On the train, you can sit on your seats or lie on your beds and look out of the window for the beautiful v

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In 1857 In 1858 ____83____. You can also walk around and chat with d ____84____ people about interesting things. Some people even play cards to have f ____85____. There are also dining rooms on it, and you can have dinner there. For some reasons, the train station is also around the city center. It’s very convenient for you, especially when you are a stranger to a n ____86____ place.

Secondly, train is s____87____ and faster. Usually natural reasons, such as the weather, don’t affect(影响) trains as much as buses or planes. F ____88____, more and more young people are willing to spend time and money on travelling, and the youth are cool-hunters, s ____89____ they like the train journey, which is easier and freer. At the same time, you can make more friends.

Train journey is a good stage to s ____90____ a country’s historical culture, customs, and natural landscape(风暴). I believe that more and more people will be willing to take part in the travel.

81.________ 82.________ 83.________ 84.________ 85._______ 86.________ 87.________ 88.________ 89.________ 90.________ 八、书面表达：（10分）

假设你是戴维，你想参加学校举办的“我的家乡”为题的英语演讲比赛，请用英语写一篇演讲稿，词数80个词左右，内容包括：

1. 地理位置、家乡的特色。 2.家乡近年来在环境、交通等方面的变化。 3. 最后谈下自己的感受。

Hi, everyone! My name is David.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________That’s all for my speech. Thanks for your listening.

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