浙江省台州市黄岩区2019-2020学年八年级上学期英语期末试卷

A father and his son went to a kite-flying festival. The son was happy when he saw the sky full of colorful kites. He wanted to fly a kite, too. The father then 1 a kite for his son in the store.

The son started to fly the kite. 2, his kite was high up in the sky in a few minutes. Then, the son said, "Father, it seems that the string（线）is stopping the kites from flying higher. If we cut it, it will be 3 and fly higher. Can we cut it?" The father cut the string off of the reel(线轴).

The kite started to go 4. This made the little boy happy.

But then, slowly, the kite started to 5. It finally fell to the ground. The son was 6to see this. He asked his father, "Why did it fall down? I thought that the kite would fly higher 7cutting the string."

The father explained, "The string was not stopping the kite from going higher, but was helping it stay in the sky. You helped the kite go up in the right  8 by using the string. But it can no longer support（支撑）the kite if you cut the string."

We may sometimes feel like there is 9 holding us back and stopping us from growing. But 10, it might be the thing that supports us the most.

When he was a teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy and he spent many years in a special hospital for people with mental (心理的) health problems.

When he left the hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, USA. There he often did things in a different way. For example, he didn't like the doctor's white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients (病人). He also tried to make them laugh.

Adams believed that people in hospital need more than medicine. He saw that patients were lonely and unhappy. He tried to help them, not just as patients, but as friends, too. He spent a lot of time with the children in hospital. He often put on a red nose to look like a clown to make the children laugh.

When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital named "the Gesundheit Institute". He wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.

Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1988, Universal Pictures made a film called Patch Adams. It was about his life. It was a great success. In the film, Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, "Hunter is a really warm person. He believes that patients need a doctor like a friend. I enjoyed playing him."

What subject do you worry about most at school? Many students worry about math. Some students can't sleep well the day before a math exam. Others may feel very worried during the exam itself. But there might be a way to make the subject less stressful(有压力的).

"For people who worry about math, posture（姿势）makes a big difference," Erik Peper from

San Francisco State University told the Daily Mail. That's right - sitting up straight(直地) can help you do better in math exams.

Scientists tested 125 college students. They asked them to do a math test while sitting up straight, or sitting in a slumped-over (趴倒的) position. After the test, 56 percent of the students said the exam was easier to do if they were sitting up straight.

Students who were not worried about taking the math exam did not do better from better posture. But they did find that it was more difficult to do math while slumping over, Science Daily reported

Good posture isn't just helpful for taking math exams. Runners, musicians and public speakers can all benefit from better posture. When you feel stressed out, you can also try to sit up straight or stand tall. It can help you feel more positive and focus better.

Young people in China are more optimistic (乐观的) than those in other countries, according to a survey. It asked 200,000 young people in 20 countries how they think and feel about the world. These countries include China, the US, the UK and so on. The survey found that 53 percent of Chinese youth think the world is becoming a better place.

When asked why they felt hopeful for the future, most of them think it's because of high technology (科技), many of them also think China is a good place to live in. The biggest reason is that China is "a country in which anyone can make their dreams come true if they work hard"

Following China, Indian youth are the next most optimistic (49 percent). But those in France, Italy and Turkey are the most pessimistic. The rise of global terrorism (恐怖主义) worries them most.

           . As much as 82 percent of them worry about climate change (气候变化). In China, it is the biggest worry for the future. The survey takes this as a good thing. Because Chinese youth care a lot about the climate problem and expect for great changes.

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