中山市2017-2018学年第一学期期末水平测试试卷八年级英语(2)

Just after a few decades, they already had $20 billion under their names. Who were these boys? They are one of the most famous investors in the world-Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett. How did they become the most successful investors in American history.

In 2007, the 84 year-old Charlie Munger, told others the secrets to their success: "people who are not the smartest, can become very successful quickly if they work and study like learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up." In the early days of Buffett's investment(授资) life, he would read 600-1000 pages in a single day.

Nowadays, he still dedicates 80% of his day to reading. Here is his secret: read 500 pages every day. No matter how old you are, keep on learning and you will succeed.

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36. What jobs did the two boys do at that time?

A. Selling books.

B. Selling coke bottles.

C. Selling hamsters.

D. Both B and C.

37. We can know from the passage that _________ can help people become successful even if they are not the smartest.

A. finding their first jobs earlier

B. doing all kinds of jobs

C. working and studying like learning machines

D. going to bed a little wiser

38. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Two teenage boys were very rich when they worked at a shop in Omaha, Nebraska.

B. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are the most successful investors in America

C. Both Munger and Buffett think it is important to keep on learning every day.

D. Charlie Munger still spends a lot of time reading now.

39. The underlined word dedicates probably means _______ in the passage.

A.投入B。奖励C。计算 D.检查

40. The best title for this passage is _______.

A. Two teenage boys

B. A $20 billion job

C. The secret to success: reading

D. How to read more books

C

配对阅读左栏是五个人的相关信息，右栏是七则广告，请为每一个人选择适合他们的阅读广告，并将答题卡

四、短文填空（本大题有10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分）

请用适当的词完成下面的短文，并将所缺单词填写在答题卡指定位置上。每个空只能填写一个形式正确、

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意义相符的单词。

Reading is important and valuable, though most people see it as a chore. Elon Musk, the CEO of the E-car company Tesla, thinks differently.___46____ he was a child , he was bullied(欺负) and felt __47___at school. Luckily, he found that he would soon forget his sadness when he read fantasy and science-fiction books. This helped _48_ to build his world-famous company later on. Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, reads about 50 books once_49_year. Similarly,Mark Zuckerberg invited the whole world to join him to read a book every two weeks in 2015.

What about you? Do you still see it as a_50_ ? With the help of our app Blinkist, you can_ 51 _reading books while doing your favorite things at the same time! Why not listen to a classic audio book(有声读物) when you are running or doing exercise, or when you are waiting__52__ a bus or a friend? You can get a lot from books without __53__ up your hobbies. You can save your __54__ as well. At Blinkist, you can listen to the world's best non-fiction books in 15 minutes. You will be able to __55__ about some interesting things like rocket science, American movie history in just five minutes.

五、读写综合（本大题分为A、B两部分，共20分）

A.信息归纳（共5小题，每小题1分，共5分）

请仔细阅读下列短文，根据所提供的信息，完成信息卡，把答案写在答题卡指定的位置上。

Overnight, it seems, every Chinese person knew an interesting question: "Do you have freestyle?" It becomes very popular as people use it in all kinds of situations, like when you were just asking your friends what they want for dinner.

As pop culture fans, you should thank singing competition The Rap of China, for giving you so much joy and so many talented rap singers.

Reportedly, iQiyi put 200 million RMB in making this show and tried their best to draw as many talented underground rappers as possible. There are also some judges, who should train and guide the rappers and decide if they pass or not. The judges are rapper MC HotDog, rock musician Chang Chen-yue, singer Wilber Pan and Chinese-Canadian singer and songwriter Wu Yifan.

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B．书面表达（本题15分）根据要求完成短文写作，请将作文写在答题卡指定的位置上。

你认为考试可能有Freestyle吗？如果没有，请详细说明理由（至少四至五条）。如果有，请你设计一场这样的考试，内容包括：

1．考试科目、时间和地点等；

2．考试内容、方式和评卷等；

3．原因。（至少两条）

作文要求：

1．不得照抄原文；不得在作文中出现真实姓名和学校名称。

2．内容充实，语句连贯：词数80个左右。开头已经给出，不计入总词数。

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中山市2017-2018学年第一学期期末水平测试试卷

八年级英语参考答案

一、单项选择

1-5 CAAAB 6-10 BDDBA 11-15 BDABB

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