It is interesting to visit another country, but there are some problems when you don’t know the   31   very well. It may be   32   to talk with the people there. We may not know how to use the telephone in the country that we are visiting. We may not know how to buy   33    we need. In a   34   country we might not know where to eat or what to order in a  35  . It is not easy to decide how  36   to tip waiters or taxi drivers. When we need help, we might not know how to ask for help. It is not pleasant to have an experience   37   that.   38  a short time, however, we learn what to do and what to   39  . We learn to enjoy life in another country and then we may be   40  to leave.

1.A. language       B. people       C. words        D. country

2.A. tired          B. happy        C. difficult    D. easy

3.A. something      B. anything     C. things       D. shopping

4.A. good           B. strange      C. old          D. young

5.A. shop           B. school       C. hospital     D. restaurant

6.A. soon           B. many         C. much         D. often

7.A. as         B. like         C. for          D. with

8.A. After          B. In           C. Before       D. For

9.A. talk           B. tell         C. speak        D. say

10.A. glad          B. worried      C. sorry        D. interested

Dogs are friends of man. They work for us. They hunt with us. They also play with us. But a long time ago, all over the world, dogs were wild. Dogs can go back to the Stone Age. All dogs had the same ancestor (祖先). It is believed that this ancestor was much like a wolf. Other animals, like fox, also came from this ancestor. Thousands of years ago, man began to tame (使驯服) the wild dogs. When the dogs were tamed, they were trained well. The strong dogs then became working animals. They were trained to pull heavy loads (担子). They learned to keep watching over sheep and other animals. Working dogs could do other things, too. Some dogs were not strong. But they could help man hunt. Other dogs were best at pets. At first, there were only a few kinds of dogs. Today, there are more than 100 kinds.

1.The word “wild” in the first paragraph means ___.

A. 温顺的       B. 野生的       C. 凶残的       D. 善良的

2.Dogs can go back to the Stone Age. Here “go back” means ___.

A. 追溯到       B. 回来         C. 违背         D. 返回去

3.From this passage, we know that ___.

A. all the animals have the same ancestor  

B. all dogs are as wild as they were many years ago

C. man has helped change dogs

D. animals never change

4.What jobs can dogs do?

A. Keep watching over sheep.    B. Hunt with man.

C. Pull heavy loads.            D. All the above.

5.The main idea of the whole story is that ___.

A. man and dogs have the same ancestor

B. all animals are too wild to be man’s friends

C. dogs and man have been friends for a long time

D. people like to keep foxes as pets because they are tamer

Tea bag drinking is most Westerners' favorite way of drinking tea. Do you know how it came about?

The tea bag was invented in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan, an American tea seller. He was sending out free tea in silk bags for people to try. People put the bags together with the tea leaves into the cup and added(增加) hot water. The tea tasted good, and people thought it was easy to clean the cup. They were not happy when Sullivan started sending them loose (散的) tea again.

Sullivan realized that he had a hot new thing in his hands, and he built a machine to pack the bags. As tea bags became popular, they were changed from silk to gauze (薄纱) and later paper. In 1952, Lipton Tea made the tea bag even more popular with its invention of the four-sided tea bag. Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK, and today 85%of the tea in the UK is packed in paper bags.

However, many people still prefer loose-leaf tea.  This is because some tea companies put not very good tea in their tea bags. But for most drinkers, tea bags are still the easy and tasly way to go.

1.Who invented the tea bag?

A. An English tea seller.       B. Chinese.

C. Lipton.                      D. Thomas Sullivan.

2.The tea in silk bags was welcome because________.

A. the tea in bags was free and very good

B. the tea tasted good and the cup was easy to wash

C. people were happy, with the loose tea

D. people didn't know any better way to enjoy the tea

3.The material of the tea bags is usually_________now.

A. silk         B. gauze         C. paper       D. plastic

4.The underlined sentence "Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK" probably means “_______in the UK”.

A. Tea bags soon became popular

B. Tea bags surprised everyone very much

C. Tea bags kicked the loose-leaf tea out of the market

D. Tea bags weren't allowed to be sold

5.The reading mainly talks about________.

A. the invention of tea        

B. the way of drinking tea

C. the history of tea bags     

D. people' s favorite tea in the world

Li Ping is a Grade Eight student in Nanjing Sunshine Secondary School. The table below is his mid-term self-assessment(自我评价).He draws faces to show his progress：

1.Li Ping thinks he did best in ______ in Unit 1.

A. opposites        B. using a dictionary

C. a report         D. present perfect tense

2.What does Li Ping need to improve（提高） in Unit 1?

A. Present perfect tense.       B. Using a dictionary

C. A report.                    D. Opposites.

3.Which do you think Li Ping does well in?

A. Present perfect tense.       B. Passive voice.

C. Organizing information.      D. Favorite educational computer game.

4.What is Li Ping NOT very good at in Unit 2?

A. Suffixes ‘full’and ‘less’.   B. Past continuous tense

C. Linking words.                   D. My best holiday.

5.From the table we know Li Ping is weak in ________

A. Vocabulary                       B. Main task  

C. Study skills／Pronunciation      D. Grammar 

Joan worked in a hospital as a nurse. One evening there was a big dance at the hospital. Most of the doctors and nurses would be there, but it was Joan’s turn to look after the sick children. She liked dancing very much, so she felt very sorry for herself.

She went to each sick child one after another and said good-night, until she came to one little boy, Dickey. He was eleven years old, but he was already able to talk like an adult( 成人). Poor Dickey had a very serious illness, and now he was hardly able to move any part of his body except his hands. Joan knew he would never get any better, but he was always happy and always thinking about other people instead of about himself.

Dickey knew that Joan loved dancing, so now when she came to say good-night to him, he greeted her with the words, "I' m very sorry that you have to miss the dance because of us. But we are going to have a party for you. If you look in my drawer(抽屉), you ' Il find a piece of cake. I saved it from my supper today, so it' s quite fresh. And there is also a dollar there, You can buy something to drink with that. And I' d get up and dance with you myself if I was able to,” he added.

Suddenly the hospital dance seemed very far away and not at all important to Joan.

1.Joan felt unlucky that evening mainly because______________.

A. there wasn't a dance ball at the hospital

B. of her unpleasant job

C. she couldn’t look after the sick children  

D. she would miss the big dance

2.Poor Dickey__________________.

A. was a boy of eleven                  

B. had a serious illness

C. was clever at talking though he was very young 

D. all the above(以上全部)

3.Dickey was lovely because______________.

A. he was a sick boy       

B. he could dance with Joan

C. he often thought about other people instead of about himself

D. he could foresee(预知) that he would never get any better

4.Which of the following is not true?

A. Dickey couldn’t walk.

B. Dickey knew nothing about the dance.

C. Dickey could only move his hands.

D. Dickey greeted Joan when she came.

5.At that party arranged(安排) for Joan, probably_______.

A. Dickey got up and danced with her     

B. Dickey brought her something to drink

C. Joan was moved (感动)by Dickey    

D. Dickey lost the dollar which he saved

根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词,使句子意思完整正确。

1.I don't know why I haven't heard from my parents ______(最近）.

2.The Eiffel Tower was  ____     ___(设计) by Gustave Eiffel.

3.We were ___    ___(鼓掌) our hands while the performers were marching across the park.

4.Who is the main ____( 角色) in the film?

5.This is an important ______(经历) in my life.

选择方框内所给单词的适当形式填空

1.Some gifts ________  to my mother last Sunday.

2.There ______  great changes in my home town over the years.

3.The keyboard is comfortable. I can type very ______

4.They moved out of the city after they got ___    ___.

5.June 1st is _________ Day. Many kids are pretty happy.

6.The great wall is a good place to visit. Thousands of __    ___ go there every year.

7.That computer is used for __     ____ letters.

8.If you_____________ careful, you will lose the way.

9.The fans clapped with_____________ when they saw those pop stars.

10.On the day, I thought I was the______________ person in the world.

1.He taught in this school last year.(把last year改为 since last year)

   He _________ _________ in this school _________ last year.

2.They didn’t clean the classroom yesterday.（改为被动语态）

   The classroom _________ _________ yesterday.

3.We have already returned the books.（改为否定句）

  We _________ __________ the books ___________.

4.Rice is grown in China.（划线部分提问）

 _________ is rice ___________?

On the evening of October 7, Li Feng was watching TV while his mother was （1）b       cooking supper in the kitchen. （2）S        the telephone rang. Li Feng （3）q      picked it up to（4）a         the call. It was from a good friend of his（5）m      . She wanted to say “Happy Birthday” to his mother. “Today is Mother’s birthday, but I have already（6）       f_____all about it. Mother gives me a lot of（7）l       and care while I didn’t care for her（8）e     . From now on, I must always（9）r      this, （10）s      my love to her and care for her enough,” Li Feng thought to himself, feeling a little ashamed(惭愧的).

Americans love sports . But this hobby sometimes has serious results—at least to the players. For example, when people play tennis, sometimes they hurt their elbow（肘部）. Also it is easy to hurt a knee in a football game. These injuries（毁伤）happen while the player is having fun, but they still hurt.

A few months ago, Kathleen Simmons, who loves playing volleyball, hurt her knee in a volleyball game. Her doctor told her that she needed a very difficult operation（手术）or she might not be able to play again. She felt very sad

Then Simmons learned about “video operation”. With the help of this new science in medicine, doctors can now repair many injuries.

 For this operation, her doctor didn’t have to open her knee. Instead he put a very small camera lens（镜头）inside her knee. The lens sent back pictures, which appeared on a television screen. As he worked, he could see the inside of her knee on the TV. With the help of the large pictures on the screen, the doctor knew exactly what to do when he was making the repairs.

 Simmons started walking five days after her operation. “My knee hurt a lot the first few days,” she said. “But I felt better very quickly.” Now, six months after her operation, Simmons can do everything she did before her injury. “It feels like a new knee,” she said. “I can even play volleyball again.”

1.Do Americans love sports?

2.What sport is Simmons interested in?

3.What did the doctor put inside Simmons’ knee?

4.What problem may people have when they play sports?

5.Can Simmons do everything like before?