After I pulled the huge fish into my boat, I saw that the boat was going under water! Water was coming into the boat from all sides! I was not a very good swimmer, so I was scared.
Although it was the hardest choice I ever made. I had to let the fish go. I pushed it back over the side of the boat, and we waved good-bye to each other as it swam away.
36. How long did the writer spend in his boat? A. Two days. B. Two hours C.Three days D. Three hours 37. What did the writer get when he pulled in his catch the second time? A. A shoe B. An old bag C. A fish D. A small boat 38. Why did the writer let the fish go? A. The fish bit people B. The fish was too small to keep C. The boat started to go under water. D. There was a hole in the side of the boat. 39. The underlined word ―raced‖ in Paragraph 2 probably means ―____________‖. A. walked B. beat somebody C. moved very fast D. swam
C
If you think Iphones are expensive, think about those who have to work months to buy one. A person in New York has to work just three days to be able to buy a new iphone 6; people in Beijing have to spend 27 days at the office.
That information is from a new ideas of pay and prices in 71 words cities collected by Swiss bank UBS. The index, which comes out every three years, show the rich people of Zurich have to work the least, putting in just under 21 hours on the job before having the money for the must-have phone. Londoners have to work a little more—41 hours—while workers in Mexico City have to work well over 200 hours, making the phone too rich for many. In Ukraine, it is worse than all other places. People there have to work about 627 hours---or 78 days. In Nairobi and Jakarta they have to work 468 hours, or 59 days.
The research shows how expensive Apple iphones can be for locals in many cities. That makes it easier for other companies to sell more that Apple in many nations.
For example, India’s phone company Micromax has become the country’s largest phone seller, according to a research company. In fact, India doesn’t have an Apple Store because the products are to expensive. Beijing phone maker Xiaomi has become one the world’s top five phone makers, and often sells more that Apple to in China. Earlier this year Xiaomi had its best sales day ever, selling 2.12 million phones in 24 hours.
40. According to the passage, people from ________work the most time to buy an iPhone. A. New York B. Beijing C. Zurich. D. Ukraine. 41. What is the best title for the passage?
A. The Apple iPhone is the best phone on the world B. Other phone companies are just as good as Apple. C. Not everyone can easily buy Apple iPhone
D. All people have to work many days to buy a new iPhone. 42. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Research doesn’t help in phone sales information
B. People should work harder so that they can buy an iPhone. C. Xiaomi will be more popular than iPhone around the world.
D. Phones from other companies are less expensive for locals than iPhones.
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七、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题（每小题2分）
People have always wanted to know what our future will look like. Go on reading this text, and you will know what will happen in the next fifty years.
How can we know what the future will look like? To be able to understand the future, you have to know the past, what has taken us to where we are today and what has changed along the way? The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but people are driven by the same basic needs as they were 150 years ago. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.
What inventions have really made a different in the last 150 years? In the past years, the inventions that have changed most people’s everyday life are telephone, radio, television, computer, the car and the internet. Then we of course have a lot of inventions that have made life easier, like new medicine, faster cars, trains, etc. In general, people have been working hard in the last 150 years to make inventions that will make the world a better place. Since there is still much to do in the area, this will be important for at least the next 150 years.
Why do we need to guess the future? Guessing the future is important for two reasons: First, we need to start to think about what kind of future we would like for ourselves and our children. And then we need to know what decisions we need to make today that will give us the best future. 43. Do people want to know what our future will look like?
44. What do people have to know if they want to understand the future?
45. Why did people work hard to make inventions in the last 150 years?
八、阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的四个选项中选出填入空白处的最佳选项.(每小题1分)
A Smart Dog
Rico is a dog who lives in Germany, ____46______ When his owner says the name of a certain toy, Rico can find it. In fact, he seems to know the names of 200 toys!
____47_____. They put his toys in a room and then told him to go in the room and find a certain toy. Since nobody was in the room with Rico, he had no help from anyone finding the right toy. The researchers did this test forty times. Rico found the right toy thirty-seven times!
Then the researcher tried something else. They put seven of Rico’s toys in the room and one new toy that Rico had never seen before. ______48___ . This new toy had a name Rico had never heard before. Rico found the right toy seven out of ten times.!
Researchers cannot really say that Rico know words or languages. ___49____They believed Rico can think about what he hears and thin about what he knows. In fact, Rico seems to thin and remember thins as well as three-year-old child.
From these tests, animal researchers know one thing for sure. Rico has given them a lot to think about. A. Then they told Rico to go into the room and get the new toy. B. However, these tests seem to show Rico is smart. C. Some researchers in Germany wanted to test Rico. 6
D. His owner has trained him to find his toys. 书面表达
九、根据中文意思，用所给词语写句子。（每小题2分） 50. 大风过后，天气更冷了。（strong wind, weather, get）
51. 及时改正错误是很重要的。（important, correct, in time）
52. 我昨天花了一小时帮妈妈网上订票。（take, book tickets, online）
十、文段表达
53. 假如你是李华，你美国的朋友Tom 在寒假打算学习中文。请你根据他提出的问题给出一些学习建议。要求，50个词左右。
提示词语：practice, listen, speak, China, computer, easily
Dear Tom,
I am glad that you want to study Chinese.
Best wishes,
Yours, Li Hua
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八年级英语附加题2016.1
一、根据短文内容从方框中选词，并用其正确形式填空。（共12分，每小题2分)
easy hard hear but miss pay story on
Ravi loved to talk to his grandma，who lived in India. Grandma had grown up in a small village called Tambaram and had lived there her whole life. Sometimes Ravi got to visit her with his mom and dad and his sisters. Grandma would make him tea and tell him 1 about her childhood.
When Ravi was younger，Grandma would often come to visit him in Texas. But now it was much 2 for her to travel，So She stayed at home.He 3 her visits.Smetimes she would call 4the phone. Grandmaalways called late at night. Dad explained to Ravi that when it was nighttime in Texas, it was daytime in India. Ravi loved 5her voice. He would always ask Grandma if she would make him a cup of tea. She would always laugh and gay，“Ravi sweetheart, I can send you my voice, 6 not my tea.
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二、阅读理解(共8分，每小题2分)
阅读短文，根据短文内容，从各题所给的A ,B,C ,D四个选项中，选择最佳选项
How Soccer Can Help Us Understand Physics
Sports provide a great way to understand some concepts(概念) in physics.Physics，after all is the study of matter, motion(运动), force, and energy. And since sports liken soccer, swimming and cycling involve bodies moving through space，they can helpus understand how the principles ofphysics work.
Imagine that you're looking ata soccer hall on a grassy field. If you do nothing to the hall, it will stay motionless on the grass. Ifyoukick the ball, it will roll along the grass before coming to rest again. Pretty simple ,right?
For thousands of years, though，people thought that objects like this soccer ball come to rest because they have a natural tendency to stop. It took a famous physicist by the name of Sir Isaac Newton, who lived in the 1600s, to prove that this was not exactly correct.
Newton suggested that objects like the soccer ball have a natural tendency to keep moving. The only reason They stop，he believed, is because an unbalanced force acts on them. By an unbalanced farce, Newton meant the force applied to the soccer ball by its environment.When kicked,the surface of the ball travelsover the grass, creating friction(摩擦力).The taller the grass，and the rougher the surface of the ball, the more friction is created. And the more friction that existsbetween the ball and the grass, the less it will travel after being kicked.
Now, imagine that there is no grass. Instead, the ball is resting on a frozen lake. When you kick the ball on the ice, the ball will go much farther than it would have on the grass. This is because ice provides a lot less friction than the grass.
Even so, ice does cause some friction. The ball's interaction with the frozen water crystals on the surface of the lake eventually causes it to come to rest again. But now imagine that instead of ice, the ball is in a place where there's no friction at all. The ball is floating in a vacuum. If you remove friction entirely, kicking the soccer ball would cause it to keep going and going at the
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