人教新目标(Go for it)版初中英语八年级下学期期中模...

—It's hot. Sometimes it rains ___________________.

— I have ___________________ toothache.

— It's ___________________ wonderful ___________________ I really like it.

— ___________________, I like green tea.

—No, I won't. It's so expensive that I can't           it.

—They have done such a great job and we Chinese           them.

Sure. But you'd better not ______it to others.

When a fire alarm goes off, you know it! The sound makes you realize the 1.What if you were deaf? How would you know if an alarm 2, or if someone knocked on your door? If you took a walk 3 a busy street, you wouldn't hear the sound of a car coming at you. A signal dog could help you with all of these things!

Signal dogs are also called hearing ear dogs. They help people who are deaf by acting

 4their owners' "ears". They know  5to do when they hear certain sounds. These dogs can learn up to eight sounds, 6 sounds from sirens, doorbells, and crying babies.

Babies cry at night for many reasons. They might be hungry, 7, or wet. When they cry, the sound is pitiful! Even very sleepy parents will wake up quickly to help. But what if a mom and dad can't hear? That's when a signal dog can help. The dog can 8wake his owner up. He might  9him with his nose, or pull at his night clothes. When his 10wakes up, the dog runs to the baby. The dog may sit down near the baby's bed. If his owner doesn't 11, the dog does it again. The dog will run back and forth 12 his owner takes action. A signal dog does different things for each sound it knows.

People can train many 13 and kinds of hearing ear dogs. They look different and may not all move with beauty and grace, but all signal dogs are smart!  Large dogs are 14 in public places because they won't get step pennon. Small dogs, owever, can jump on your lap. Why is that important? Because signal dogs are more than just "ears". They are also 15.

    I work in a school library. There are many kinds of  in it. They are about English, science, history, music and so on. You can do some or borrow books from it. But there are some . You must obey (遵守) them.

    When you are reading in the library, you have to be . Don't talk loudly or make any noise (喧哗). You can't listen to music, . You can't your bags or wet umbrellas into the library.  eat in the library. You can  books from the library,  you can't lend them to others. You have to take good care of them and return them on . If the library books are lost, you have to pay for them.

I was never very neat, while my roommate, Kate, was very organized. Each of her things had its place, but mine always hid somewhere. She even labeled (贴标签) everything. I always looked for everything. Over time, Kate got neater and I got messier. She would push my dirty clothing over, and I would lay my books on her tidy desk. We both got tired of each other.

War broke out one evening. Kate came into the room. Soon, I heard her screaming, "Take your shoes away! Why under my bed!" Suddenly, I saw my shoes flying at me. I jumped to my feet and started shouting. She shouted back louder.

The room was filled with anger. We could not have stayed together for a single minute but for a phone call. Kate answered it. From her end of the conversation, I could tell right away her grandma was seriously ill. When she hung up, she quickly crawled (爬) under her covers, crying lowly. Obviously, that was something she should not go through alone. All of a sudden, a warm feeling of sympathy (同情) rose up in my heart.

Slowly, I collected the pencils, took back the books, made my bed, cleaned the socks and swept the floor, even on her side. I got so into my work that I even didn't notice Kate had sat up. She was watching, her tears dried and her expression of disbelief. Then, she reached out her hands to hold mine. I looked up into her eyes. She smiled at me, "Thanks."

Kate and I stayed roommates for the rest of the year. We didn't always agree, but we learned the key to living together: giving in, cleaning up and holding on.

Read and choose the best answer.

One day Mother looked at Tom's shoes and said, "Tom, look at your shoes. How dirty they are! You must clean them."

"Oh, Mother, but I cleaned them only yesterday," said the boy.

"But they are dirty now. You must clean them again."

"I don't want to clean them today; even if I clean them today, they will be dirty again tomorrow."

Tom's mother thought for a moment and said, "All right. Don't clean them then."

In the evening Tom came back from school. He was very hungry. "Mother, give me something to eat," He said.

"You had your breakfast in the morning, Tom, and you had your lunch at school," His mother said, smiling.

"I'm hungry again now," cried the boy.

"Oh, really? But even if I give you something to eat today, you will be hungry again tomorrow."

Darrius was born with three fingers on his right hand and one on his left hand. He had to work hard to do .things that were easy for others. Every time his classmates tried to help him, he would say, "Thanks, but I can do it myself." He learned to use the four fingers to do different things.

When Darrius was 10, he told his father that he liked piano music very much. "It's too bad you can't play," his father said. But the boy took that as a challenge. "I will show people that I can," he said to himself.

Months later, a neighbor gave him an old piano when she moved away. He taught himself to play the piano and practiced for hours a day.

Darrius's favorite piano music is River Flows in You by Yiruma, a Korean musician. It took Darrius a year to learn it. "I have to come up with my own way with only 4 fingers," he said. When he succeeded, he felt so proud. Later he was lucky enough to play the music together with Yiruma at a famous concert hail! He was so happy that he didn't sleep well at night when he knew the news. Yiruma encouraged Darrius to follow his dream of playing his own music. Darrius has made it. And his music is popular today.

"I may have a disability(残疾), "he says, "but I don't let it hold me back from anything."

Nowadays, many students need a carpool(拼车). A carpool is convenient for students who live far away from school and whose schools don't have school buses.

Parents are often so busy that they can't drive their children to school every day So they come up with a new idea, they use a carpool, That means a group of students share a car to go to school. There are usually two to three kids in a carpool Their parents take turns to drive the kids to school. It helps them save a lot of time, energy and money and the kids can get to school easily.

Responsibility(责任) is really important in a carpool, because nobody wants to be late for class. If you sit in the car and wait for a classmate for a long time, you'll probably get angry, and the other way around. So when you choose a carpool, be on time and don't keep your friends waiting for too long. It's a great lesson in responsibility that you should learn before school starts.

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