牛津版（深圳·广州）初中英语八年级下学期期末模拟试题（4）

    In July, little Helen always goes to see her grandfather. He lives on the farm. On the farm, there are many kinds of1, such as cows, dogs, cats and sheep. She likes to play with them2they can make her happy.

    On the farm, there is also a little3. It has no mother and it4plays with other animals. It often5around alone. This is why Helen likes it. Helen likes it so much that many times she6the elephant how sorry she feels for it and that she loves it very much. Gradually it becomes very7to Helen. When it sees Helen, it will8up to her like a dog. Sometimes Helen sits on the ground reading and the elephant stands by her. Her grandfather wonders why the elephant likes her so much. Helen's answer is that she loves it.

    Helen is9. We should love and protect animals. They are our good10.

    Michelle is sixty years old now. She hopes to calculate her body age to learn if she is living a healthy life. Here are her ways to calculate her body age:

    Find resting pulse rate（静息脉率）

    A healthy heart usually beats between 60 and 100times per minute. A lower pulse rate shows that our hearts are strong. Higher pulse rates mean that our hearts have to work harder to do the same amount of work--they are weaker.

    She adds one year to her chronological age（实际年龄）because her resting pulse rate is more than 100 beats per minute.

    Calculate sleep

    Our body needs sleep. People usually need to sleep between 7 and 8 hours per night. Getting less than that can make us tired and older.

    Michelle will subtract（减去）six months from her age if she often gets 7-9hours of sleep. If she gets 5-6 hours of sleep or sleeps more than 9 hours, she will ad one year to her age. If she gets less than 5 hours of sleep, it means her body age will be even older.

    Last year, I went to a summer camp in the United States with my classmates. It was my first time to go abroad.

    I lived with a host family in Los Angeles for five days. My host family was friendly and gave me lots of advice. For example, they said I should say "excuse me" if I have to interrupt (打断) someone or ask for directions.

    I also took some classes. They were different from the classes I had had back home. In the US, each class is like a seminar. Students join groups, speaking freely and creating a cheerful atmosphere (氛围). I had to work hard to learn more vocabularies, so I could better communicate with my international classmates. I used to pay little attention to my word usage (使用), but now I pay more attention.

    During my visit, I also went to some famous universities in Boston, New York and Washington, D. C. We learned about the history behind the universities. At MIT (麻省理工学院), we saw lots of names on a wall in the hall. The tour guide told us they were the names of students who had lost their lives during wars. I was inspired (鼓舞) by the fact that they fought for their country.

    It's March, 2050. Frank and Mary Smith wake up in their comfortable house in the morning and turn on the bedroom computer to get the latest news. They get used to reading The Times over the years. The only difference is that they changed to electronic newspapers many years ago.

    After breakfast, as they watch the screen, Mary orders the household robot to make coffee for them. Frank is a computer engineer, working for several companies. He goes into the study to take part in a video conference with his partners around the world.

    Mary takes a quick look at the shopping channels at home before beginning the video call to talk to her assistant. She also has a job and she is doing medical researches.

    Frank and Mary have one daughter, Louise, who also has her own work station at home. She goes to school only one day a week, mainly to play with other students. Louise is studying Chinese at present. Chinese has become an important language in the world.

    According to the family doctor, Louise will live to at least 130 years old. Her wish is to work for a few decades(十年)and then spend her time on music and painting.

    Cartoons are like a window that let us see the culture of a country. For example, the popular Japanese manga Naruto shows us life about ninjias.It also shows many different themes (主题).

    If you talk to your parents about their favorite cartoons, you'll find their choices are quite different from yours. They were arts of oil painting, paper cutting or puppets (木偶). Today's cartoons are made with computers. They have more exciting sound and pictures.

    What's happened to cartoons over the past years in China?Little Tadpole Looking for Mom (1961) was China's first ink-painting cartoon, together with puppet cartoon such as The Magic Brush (1955). After 1978, more foreign cartoons came to China. Over the next twenty years, China made many excellent cartoons, such as Mr. Black (1984), CalabashBrothers (1986), The Big Head Son and Small Head Father  (1995).
    China has its International Cartoon Festival in Hangzhou every year. Many Chinese cartoons won prizes at international film festivals, like Three Monks, Nezha Stirs up the Sea, and The Monkey King.

A. Our cartoons started to become better.
B. Now, the cartoon industry (产业) in China is growing fast.
C. Early cartoons were short and they were usually made by hand.
D. After 1949, China started to make cartoons with its own character (特色).
E. Chinese cartoons show our traditional culture, like ink painting and paper cutting.
F. US cartoons such as Superman opened up the world to superhero (超级英雄) culture.

    Have you ever heard of friendships among animals? At a zoo in Germany, an unusual friendship developed a cat and a bear.

    No one is quite sure how the friendship first began. One day, some (worker) in the zoo noticed a black cat was in the bear's cage, and the two animals were playing together peacefully. They were surprised well the small cat seemed to get along with the large bear. The bear keeper allowed the cat (stay) with the bear. And later the pair and their unusual friendship (become) a hot topic at the zoo.

    After several years, a new cage (build) for the bear. However, the cat was still in the same cage, so it walked around (angry) and cried to be with the bear. The bear keeper finally took pity on the cat let it stay with the bear. The cat and the bear got (close) than before. They often sat together and shared meals in the sun.

    Sometimes it may be natural for animals (have) their own ideas about making friends. These may surprise humans, who usually expect animals to form relationships with others of the same species.

    Nowadays, more and more people are fond of keeping pets because they can bring pleasure. But others don't think so. They think it's terrible to do it. In my opinion, …