浙江省杭州市萧山区戴村片2017届九年级下学期3月联考英语试卷
年级：八年级 学科：英语 类型：月考试卷 来源：91题库
一、阅读理解（共5小题）
American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he had lived for 44 days without food on October 19. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation(绝食) experiment, which had become one of London's main tourist attractions.
Looking thinner and darker, 30-year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames and immediately sent to hospital. He was then slowly given food, a process doctors said could be dangerous for his life. He had been drinking only water since September 5.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Blaine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. He soon found himself doing magic tricks in bars for the likes of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his super model friends.
Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aimed at getting a lot of attention.
In 1999, he was buried in a coffin(棺材) for one week and, in 2000, he spent 62 hours in a giant block of ice. Last year he stood on the top of a 25-meter pillar(柱子) in the center of New York for 35 hours before jumping into a pile of boxes.
“I think a lot of people are unable to accept that they're able to do what they can do,” he said. “They don't realize we can survive(幸存). The human being is an amazing creation.”
But he seemed to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste.
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May has just moved to Sunshine Town. Read the map below and help her find the way.
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May has just moved to Sunshine Town. Read the map below and help her find the way.
If the only sports you do are dancing your fingers across your keyboard, you could be in serious danger of more than just becoming overweight and out of shape.
Do you often feel sleepy, like something is weighing down on your head? Do you feel forgetful? Do you sometimes feel uncomfortable up and down your neck and lower back, and you can't explain why? Do you get sick often? It could be radiation (辐射) from your computer causing it. If you spend three hours or more a day in front of a computer (and at this point, who doesn't?), you are more easily harmed by the hazards.
We have got so used to using computers that we often neglect to think of them as dangerous sources of harmful radiation. A safe amount of radiation is 25 V/m (Volts/meter). Do you want to guess how much our personal computers give off?
Keyboard: 1000 V/m
Mouse: 450 V/m
Monitor: 218V/m
CPU: 170V/m
Notebook computers: 2,500 V/m
Ways of Protect Yourself from Harmful Computer Radiation
1 Decorate your desk with cactus plants, they take in radiation.
2 Drink two to three cups of green tea a day and eat an orange daily. The vitamins in tea leaves and oranges protect us from radiation and keep our eyes healthy as well.
3Use a screen filter for your monitor.
4 Avoid having metal objects nearby on your desk.
5 Put the back of the computer to the wall. Most of the radiation comes off the back.
6 Keep your monitor at least 50cm away from your face. 7. Keep your computer rooms ventilated .
8Eat healthily—-especially fruits and vegetables.
9 Don't fall asleep on your computer. Turn it off if you have to rest nearby.
The ways above are useful, why not have a try at once?
If the only sports you do are dancing your fingers across your keyboard, you could be in serious danger of more than just becoming overweight and out of shape.
Do you often feel sleepy, like something is weighing down on your head? Do you feel forgetful? Do you sometimes feel uncomfortable up and down your neck and lower back, and you can't explain why? Do you get sick often? It could be radiation (辐射) from your computer causing it. If you spend three hours or more a day in front of a computer (and at this point, who doesn't?), you are more easily harmed by the hazards.
We have got so used to using computers that we often neglect to think of them as dangerous sources of harmful radiation. A safe amount of radiation is 25 V/m (Volts/meter). Do you want to guess how much our personal computers give off?
Keyboard: 1000 V/m
Mouse: 450 V/m
Monitor: 218V/m
CPU: 170V/m
Notebook computers: 2,500 V/m
Ways of Protect Yourself from Harmful Computer Radiation
1 Decorate your desk with cactus plants, they take in radiation.
2 Drink two to three cups of green tea a day and eat an orange daily. The vitamins in tea leaves and oranges protect us from radiation and keep our eyes healthy as well.
3Use a screen filter for your monitor.
4 Avoid having metal objects nearby on your desk.
5 Put the back of the computer to the wall. Most of the radiation comes off the back.
6 Keep your monitor at least 50cm away from your face. 7. Keep your computer rooms ventilated .
8Eat healthily—-especially fruits and vegetables.
9 Don't fall asleep on your computer. Turn it off if you have to rest nearby.
The ways above are useful, why not have a try at once?
I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994, but I can remember my mother's words as if it were yesterday: “Kernel, I don't want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn't something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father's other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.
We couldn't afford all the necessary medicine for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn't even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher's words muffled as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.
I did not share my burden with anyone. I had seen people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside even though he was too weak to feed himself.
I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life.
I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn't want to call attention to AIDS, but I do.
I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994, but I can remember my mother's words as if it were yesterday: “Kernel, I don't want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”
AIDS wasn't something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father's other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.
We couldn't afford all the necessary medicine for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn't even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher's words muffled as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.
I did not share my burden with anyone. I had seen people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside even though he was too weak to feed himself.
I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life.
I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn't want to call attention to AIDS, but I do.
Remembering names is an important social skill. Here are some ways to master it.
When you hear a person's name, repeat it. Immediately say it to yourself several times without moving your lips. You could also repeat the name in a way that does not sound you are forced to.
You can let other people help you remember their names. After you've been introduced to someone，ask that person to spell the name and pronounce it correctly for you. Most people will be pleased by the effort you're making to learn their names.
To be honest to say that you can't remember someone's name can actually make people relaxed. Most of them will feel sympathy if you say, “I'm working to remember names better. Yours is right on the tip of my tongue. What is it again?”
Consider going early to meetings, parties and classes. Sometimes just a few people show up on time. That's fewer names for you to remember. And as more people arrive, you can hear them being introduced to others -- an automatic review for you.
When meeting a group of people, concentrate on remembering just two or three names. Free yourself from remembering every one. Few of the people in mass introductions expect you to remember their names. Another way is to limit yourself to learning just first names. Last names can come later.
A. Limit the number of new names you learn at one time. B. Recite and repeat in conversation. C. Tell the truth that you don't know. D. Remember names as many as possible E. Go early. F. Ask the other person to recite and repeat. |
二、完形填空（共1小题）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出一个最佳选项。
It was a cold January in 1925 in Nome, Alaska. The town was 1 from the rest of the world because of heavy snow.
On the 20th of that month, Dr. Welch 2 a sick boy, Billy, and knew he had diphtheria, a deadly infectious disease mainly affecting children. The children of Nome would be 3 if it spread the town. Dr.Welch needed medicine as soon as possible to stop other kids from getting sick. 4 , the closest supply was over 1,000 miles away, in Anchorage.
How could the medicine get to Nome? Cars and horses couldn't travel on the 5 roads.6 January 26, Billy and three other children had died. Twenty more were 7 .
Nome'stown officials came up with a(n) 8. They would have the medicine sent by train from Anchorage to Nenana. From there, dogsled(狗拉雪橇) drivers—known a“mushers”—would 9it to Nome in a relay(接力)．
The race began on January 27. The first musher, Shannon, picked up the medicine from the train at Nenana and rode all night. 10 he handed the medicine to the next musher, Shannon's face was black from the extreme cold.
On January 31, a musher named Seppala had to 11 a frozen body of water called Norton Sound. It was the most 12 part of the journey. Norton Sound was covered with ice，which could sometimes break up without warning. If that happened, Seppala might fall into the icy water below. He would 13, and so would the sick children of Nome.
A huge snowstorm hit on February 1. The only hope was Balto, Kaasen's lead dog. Balto put his nose to the ground, 14 to find the smell of other dogs that had traveled on the trail. If Balto failed, it would mean disaster for Nome. Ten minutes passed by. Suddenly, Balto began to run. He had found the trail.
At 5：30 am on February 2，Kaasen and his dogs arrived in Nome. Dr.Welch had the medicine. He quickly gave it to the sick children. All of them recovered. Nome had been 15 .
三、语法填空（共1小题）
Everyone seems (have) his or her own holiday. Dad has Father's Day. Mom has Mother's Day. Children have Children's Day. (lover) have Valentine's Day. is there a special day for older people?
Of course. The Chongyang Festival is the holiday when Chinese people show love for their elders. (celebrate) on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the festival is also known as the Double Ninth Festival. Nine is (high) digit (数字), so it (regard) that the two together mean a long life.
The festival comes the golden time of autumn. The clear weather and the joy of harvest make for a happy atmosphere. On the day, people (traditional) climb a mountain and carry dogwood (茱萸). People in ancient times believed the plant could drive away evil (spirit) and prevent people against cold in winter.
四、单词拼写（共2小题）
五、书面表达（共1小题）
三年的初中生活即将结束，你的父母亲一路艰辛，在学习和生活上给予你关怀、鼓励、支持与帮助，你心存感激。假如你叫谢恩，请你给你的父母亲写一封感谢信，谈谈你对他们的印象，回忆他们是怎么帮助你的，并表达你对他们的祝福。
注意：①格式要完整、正确；
②可以根据情节需要适当发挥；文中不得出现真实人名和地名等相关信息；
③词数：80～100，短文首句不计入总词数。
Dear father and mother,
I'm glad to write to you.
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