八年级上units1-3期中试卷

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re information than a picture sign D. a word sign and a picture sign have the same information 3. What does the underlined word “bination” mean? A. 分开 B. 结合 C. 并列 D. 平行 4. What is the disadvantage (不利因素 ) of picture signs? A. They are too simple. B. They are not easy to understand. C. They are not as interesting as word sign. D. They may have different meanings in different countries. 5. What’s the best title of the passage? A. Word Signs B. Picture Signs C. The History of Signs D. Signs Are Important B When our friends e to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us they are in a hurry or looking at their watches always. It isn’t that our friends are all very busy. It is just because we haven’t a TV set. They think that we are very strange. But what do you do in the evening? They always ask. The answer is very simple. Both my wife and I have hobbies. We certainly don’t spend our evenings staring at the walls. My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often has evening classes for foreign languages. This is very useful because we often go to other countries for our holidays. I collect stamps and I am always busy with my collection. Both of us enjoy listening to music and playing chess together. Sometimes there is power cut and the house is dark. We are not worried because we can just light candles and chat with each other about what we did before. Our friends are upset at that time because they don’t know what to do without a TV set. On such evenings, our house is always full because my friends all e to us. They all have a good time. Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games. 6. When friends visit my wife and me, they ____. A. seem to be very busy B. feel very upset C. like to talk much D. are very friendly 7. The couple haven’t a television, because ____. A. they are not rich enough B. they are strange people C. they enjoy spending evenings in their own ways D. they don’t know what to do when there is power cut 8. Both of the couple (夫妻 ) are interested in ____. A. learning languages B. traveling C. collecting D. cooking 9. At night when there is no electricity, the couple ____. A. have to stare at the walls B. have to go out for candles C. will wele many visitors D. do nothing and sit without any word 10. The writer tries to tell us that ____. A. the television is useful B. electricity is important C. life is enjoyable without television D. life is impossible without a television C I have tried many ways to be ill. I don’t wear a sweater when I should, and two days ago I walked in the rain without my shoes. But so far nothing has happened. Debbie once told me about a boy in her class who liked being away from school. He would rub (擦 ) the end of the thermometer (温度计 ) until it went up to 39℃ . Then he’d put it in his mouth and his mother would think he was really ill. This morning I tried doing that but it never went above 35℃ and I rubbed it for ten minutes. So I held the thermometer next to the light on my desk and it went up to 40℃ . I thought I’d put it in my mouth and walk downstairs like that. Then my mother would take it out and she would be worried when she saw that I was rather ill. The only trouble was I didn’t know the thermometer would be so hot. As soon as I put it into my mouth I burnt my tongue! I spit the thermometer out. It fell on the floor but it didn’t break. I will have to think up a better way to get。