2019年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题（I）卷一、 完形填空。 (共1题；共10分)1. （10分）阅读下面短文，从短文后每小题的三个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。A teacher was giving a talk to his students on stress (压力) management. He raised a glass of water and asked them: How 1do you think this glass of water is?The students began to think and2. Their answers are different, from 20g to 500g. It does not matter on the real 3. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a4, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call a 5. It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes. What we have to do is to put the glass down, 6for a while before holding it up again.If we carry our burdens (负担) 7, sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on. The burden will become increasingly heavier. We have to8the burden every now and then, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on.So9you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Dont carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you have, let them down for a moment if you can. And learn to10ourselves. Life is short but amazing. Enjoy it!（1）A . heavy B . full C . much （2）A . read B . watch C . guess （3）A . glass B . weight C . water （4）A . minute B . night C . day （5）A . mother B . teacher C . doctor （6）A . rest B . shake C . look （7）A . this time B . some other time C . all the time （8）A . give up B . put down C . pick up （9）A . after B . since C . before （10）A . save B . care C . relax 二、 阅读理解。 (共4题；共55分)2. （25分） The Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Some parents send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the US or Australia, regardless of how much this costs. Many also want their children to take extra-curriculum activities (课外活动) where they either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes that will give them a better start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is, so parents often spend a large amount of money on education. Even poor parents manage to buy a computer for their son or daughter.In fact, most parents fail to see that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their childrens skills are different; they will usually be skilled in some areas while poor in others. However, they fail to realize that todays children are lack (缺乏) of self-respect and self-confidence.The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take exams and how to study effectively. They are not teaching them the most important skills they need. They do not teach them to be confident, happy and clever.Parents can help achieve this by teaching their children practical skills like cooking, sewing and other housework.Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and finish his job step by step. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give a child a lot of satisfaction and confidence. All these will help the children step to success in the future.An old machine such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child as a toy may make him curious and arouse(唤醒) his interest. If he will spend hours looking at it, and try to mend it; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. Such activities do more than teaching a child to read a book. They teach them to think and to use their minds. This is much more important than learning by reading a book.（1）Is the writer satisfied with the Chinese parentsideas of educating their children?（2）Put the underlined sentence “the more expensive an education is, the better it is” into Chinese.（3）What are the children lack of today?（4） How is the experience of cooking according to the fifth paragraph?（5）What does the underlined word “They” refer to(所指的是) in the last paragraph?3. （10分）A little girl thought she was not as beautiful as other girls, and nobody liked her. So she was always unhappy and didnt like to talk to others. However, one day, her mother gave her a beautiful hair clip(发夹). When she wore it, she looked much more beautiful than before. She decided to wear it to school.On her way to school she found that everyone who saw her smiled at her. Most of her schoolmates said “Hello” to her, but this never happened before. She thought that the beautiful hair clip had brought her them all. She was so happy about all of the wonderful things. Although she didnt tell her classmates about her beautiful hair clip, they all wanted t