江苏省扬州市江都区20xx-20xx学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试卷

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ng their names. They have moved to a new country and want to use a name that is usual there. For example, Li Kaiming changed his name to Ken Lee when he moved to the United States. He uses the name Ken at his job and at school. But with his family and Chinese friends, he uses Li Kaiming. For some people, using different names makes life easier in their new country. In many countries, a woman changes her family name to her husband’s after she gets married. But today, many women are keeping their own family names and not using their husbands’. Sometimes, women use their own names in some situations(情况 ) and their husbands’ in other situations. And some use both their own names and their husbands’ 54. Hanna changes her name to Anne because “Anne” is for people to remember. A. louder B. easier C. prettier D. harder 55. Famous people want their new names to . A. be special B. be ordinary C. be meaningless D. be unknown 56. Li Kaiming uses his new name when he . A. stays with his family B. is at his job C. is among Chinese friends D. es back to China 57. What is the best title of this passage? A. Family Names. B. Women’s Names C. Changing Names. D. Special Names. C Drriinnggg! That’s the sound children across the country do not want to hear—the alarm bell (闹 铃 ). This means children across the UK have to wake up bright and early to go to school. But students at one school in northeast England can lie in bed for one more hour before they go to school. Lessons at Monkseaton High School begin at 10 . and finish at . However, the school opens from 8 . to 5 . Monkseaton High School says it’s OK for students to e into school an hour later than other headmaster, Dr Paul Kelley, says that it helps students to be more active in class. He feels that young people work better later in the day and a late start may be better for their school life than an early one. Dr Kelley told the BBC that teenagers don’t work very well in the morning and their need to sleep is biological (生 物 学 的 ). This new approach (做法 ) to teaching has shown good results. The school has already seen a drop in the number of students playing truant (逃学 ) by 27%. More importantly, Dr Kelley also said that exam results have improved by 2030% over the past year. 58. One of the results of starting school late is that______. A. students don’t do very well in exams B. students bee more polite C. students feel tired in the afternoon. D. fewer students are absent (缺 席 ) from school 59. We may learn from the passage that lessons at other schools in the UK may begin at_____. A. 7 . B. 8 . C. 9 . D. 10 . 60. What does Dr Kelley want to tell us? A. The early bird catches the worm (虫 子 ). B. A late start is better than an early one. C. Better late than never. D. Hard work is the mother of good results. 61. The article may be______. A. a story in a newspaper B. an advertisement in a magazine C. a news report on the radio D. a play on TV D John Williams went to a boarding school (寄宿学校 ). Here is one letter he wrote to parents from the school. Dear Mom and Dad I’m afraid I have some very bad news for you. I am very naughty (淘气的 ) and the school principal (校长 ) is very unhappy with me. She is going to write to you. You must e and take me away from here. She does not want me in the school any longer. The trouble started last night when I was smoking a cigarette (香烟 ) in bed. This is not right, of course. We mustn’t smoke at all. As I was smoking, I heard footsteps ing towards the room. I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away. Unluckily, the cigarette fell into the waste paper basket, and then it caught fire. There was a curtain (窗帘 ) near the waste paper basket. It caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was burning. The principal phoned for the firemen. The school is a long way from the town and by the time the firemen arrived, the whole school was on fire. Many of the girls are in hospital. The principal said that the fire was all because of me and you must pay for the damage ( 损 失 ). She will send you a bill for about a million dollars. I’m very sorry about this. Much Love。