八年级英语培优试卷
班级______________ 姓名______________ 学号_____________
短文首字母填空。
I have been a friend of Bill Gates for a long time. I knew him when he was a student at Harvard University(哈佛大学). We were surprised when he left University to s____1____ up his own company “Microsoft” and make his own software(软件). But he was the clever one! He is very good at writing computer languages and almost all computers now use Microsoft software. The program “Word” is u____2______ from to ! Of course a lot of money has been m___3____ and that makes people very jealous(嫉妒的). They want to stop his s____4____. E____5___ the government is against（反对） him and has tried to break his company into two parts. They say that he is unfair(不公平的) to other people who want to sell similar(类似的) software. Because he fits his new software free in every new computer, the government says he is stopping other companyes from s____6___ their programs. This is not fair. Everyone should be able to do what they can to make their company bigger. Bill Gates has only done what he can to stop other competitors(竞争对手). He is very rich, but he is g____7_____.He has given millions of dollars to help the e____8_____and health of many children a____9_____ the world. You could not meet a b_____10____ man than Bill Gates.
1._____________ 2.____________ 3.____________ 4.______________ 5.____________
6.___________ 7.____________ 8.____________ 9.______________ 10.____________
二、阅读理解。
Lending a Helping Hand
Can you lend a helping hand? Have you heard of the story of Dai Qian? She is a 16-year-old girl.She has leukaemia(白血病). She needs to have a very expensive operation(手术) or she will die! Her father found her in a field when she was a one-month-old baby. Since then he has been looing after her alone. But now they are out of money. They need our help.
Would you like to do something for her? There is power in numbers. How many students are there in your school? How many students are there in ? And how many students are there in ? The number is large, right?
Can each of you donate one yuan? Just one yuan! This will save Dai Qian’s life, and mayve the lives of others, too. Of course, you can donate more.
How do you collect the money? Maybe each class can have a “Dai Qian’s fund-raising captain”.He or she can work with the teacher to make a plan.
Make a box. Put Dai Qian’s name on it. Then talk to your classmates about it. Tell them that Dai Qian needs their help.
Put all the money together, take it to the bank and put it into Dai Qian’s bank account(帐户).
Maybe each of you can help only a little. Btu you together can make a big difference! TO change one’s life is to change the world.
The underlined phrase “lend a helping hand” means “__________”.
A.put a hand in front of one’s eyes B.help
C.pull somebody up from the bad D.shake hands
2. According to the passage, if Dai Qian doesn’t have that very expensive operation, ________.
A.she will return to school B.she will die
C.her father will leave her in a field D.she will stay in bed forever
3.The writer hopes ___________.
A.each of the readers will donate some money
B.everyone will put his or her money into a bank account
C.everyone will send the money to Dai Qian’s home
D.teachers will collect the money and send it to Dai Qian’s home
4.Which is NOT true according to the passage?
A.It’s impossible to save Dai Qian.
B.Dai Qian was found in a field when she was a baby.
C.Dai Qian needs help.
D.Dai Qian is badly ill and her father has no meney for her operation.
5.The article is probably a(n) _________.
A.business letter B.plan of a charity show
C.proposay (倡议书) D.book review(书评)
任务型阅读。
A Colours and Genders(性别)
Boys like blue, and girls like pink. Why? Gender is thought to be the main reason. Reserchers(研究人员) find these differences may have something to do with evolution(进化). So women always prefer reddish(微红的) colours. These colours mean good fruit and healthy faces. At the same time, recent studies show that both genders like blue.
In the study, a group of men and women are chosen. They are asked to look at about 1,ooo pairs of coloured pictures on the computer in a dark room. Then they pick the ones they like best as quickly as possible. The result shows that men surely prefer blue. And women pick pink first, bluish(接近蓝色的) red second and then blue.
任务一：根据短文将句子补充完整。
Because of _______reasons, men and women like different kinds of colours.
For women , pink may mean _______and _______.
任务二：将划线的句子改写成主动句。
___________________________________________________________________.
任务三：根据短文提供的信息将可能的选项用线连接起来。
orange.
Men blue.
may like red.
pink.
Women purple.
B Save the Children
Dear readers,
Imagine(设想) an 11-year-old child whose days are often spent washing clothes, looking after a baby and working hard in the fields. Imagine a little girl who knows there will never be enough food for dinner, who can’t fill(填饱) her stomach with water because it’s polluted, and who has watched life slip away(消失) form her father and little brother and sister because the family is too poor to see a doctor. Is it hard to believe?
For Maria, this is the real life.
Maria would gladly walk miles(英里) to school, but her mother, now alone, needs her at home. Chances are gone. Maria will grow up without any education. What will her future be like? In many ways, it will be disastrous(灾难性的).
But with just 52 pennies(便士) a day, you can support a child like Maria. Show her that somewhere, someone cares about her. Through Save the Children, you can help Maria’s family. She will get the tools(工具) she needs to turn their poor food into a good dinner. She will get the money she needs to buy clothes and school things. To help Maria most, your money will be put together with that from other supporters.With the money, schools and hospitals can be built. Clean water can be brought in. This is what Save the Children has been doing since 1932.
For you there are many rewards. You’ll have the chance to write to and hear from the child you are supporting. You’ll receive his or her photos and progress(进步) reports. You’ll know you are reaching out to another person. That’s how Save the Children works. But without you, it can’t work. Please take a moment now to fill in the form below and post it to help the children like Maria. 这会给他们的生活带来巨大的变化。
David
What does “Maria can’t fill her stomach with water because it’s polluted.”mean in Chinese?
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2. If you want to support a child like Maria, how much money do you need to give a day?
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3. What does the underlined word “that” refer to ()in the fourth paragraph?
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4. What is “Save the Children”? ( )
A. An activity to help poor children make money.
B. An office of the government to collect money to build roads.
C. A programme shown at theatres to help the poor.
D. A charity working for children in poor places.
5. Put the last sentence into English.
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