八年级英语上学期期末测试试题与答案四(4)

　　In elementary school（小学）, Guadalupe Quintanilla was often referred to（认为）as a "slow learner" by her teachers. But she really wasn't slow at all. She just didn't understand the language used in the classroom. Her problem was that she didn't speak English. So she left school after the fourth grade.

　　When Guadalupe grew up, married（结婚）, and had children of her own, she knew that her children were clever. But some of their teachers didn't think so. The children were having trouble in school because they didn't speak English. Mrs Quintanilla was angry. She didn't want people to think that her children were slow learners. So she decided to learn English herself as a way of helping them. She practised English. She looked up words in the dictionary. She asked the school headmaster to let her sit in on classes. It wasn't easy, but she passed all her exams. She said that many of the other students helped her.

　　Mrs Quintanilla has helped her children with their lessons. Her two sons have won success （成功）. One is a teacher, and the other is a doctor. Her youngest child, a daughter, is studying in a university（大学）.

　　（    ）1. Guadalupe was called as low learner             .

　　A. to make her study harder            B. because she wasn't clever

　　C. because she stayed at home         D. because she didn't speak English

　　（    ）2. According to（根据）the story, children who don't speak English             .

　　A. may have more trouble in school     B. have trouble playing football

　　C. often write a diary                 D. grow up to be teachers

　　（    ）3. Which happened first?

　　A. Guadalupe passed all her exams.

　　B. Guadalupe left school after the fourth grade.

　　C. Guadalupe had three children.

　　D. Her two sons won success.

　　（    ）4. The story is mainly（主要的）about             .

　　A. learning to sing and dance           B. the problem of slow learning

　　C. going to a university                D. Mrs Quintanilla's success

　　Ⅵ. 任务型阅读

　　根据短文内容完成句子

　　Newspapers and televisions often present the bad side of life to us. Life is, however, not so bad. The world is, on the whole, full of kind people and friendly strangers. Recently, a tourist in France was given a bunch of roses by a gardener as a token（标记）of friendship. In California, when a tourist's car was badly damaged, a man who came by offered to tow（拖）the car to a repair shop. The repairman was so nice that he not only charged（收费）the tourist very little, but lent him a car to drive while he was repairing the tourist's car. We can say that if you are friendly and expect to meet friendly people, you will most certainly meet them.

　　1. In California,          let the          use his own car when his car was damaged.

　　2. We get a wrong impression and the bad side of life from          .

　　3.          is taken from the garden as a token of          .

　　4. We can be sure that being          brings you friendship.

　　5. This passage mainly tells us that the world          .

　　Ⅶ.书面表达

　　请你用一段文字记述你某次参加慈善义演的见闻，并就慈善事业发表你的看法。

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