浙江省嘉兴市海宁新仓中学2017-2018学年八年级上学期英语期中检测卷（2018.11）

    One day, some animals got together. They were talking about which animals were the 1. The pig said, "Pigs are the greatest because we have many 2. I have twelve healthy little pigs." He asked the rabbit, "3 babies do you have?"

    The rabbit felt embarrassed(尴尬的). He had seven. Then he 4 the sheep and said, "He only has two!" Everyone 5.

    A snake walked by and said, "We snakes are truly the greatest. You know，I have fifty!"

    "So what?" said 6animal. Everyone turned around and saw a7.

    The snake lifted up his8and looked at the lion. "Why do you say so? I have fifty babies. You only have 9. That's nothing." All the other animals 10 with the snake.

    The lion laughed and said, "Yes, you are right. I only have one baby. 11, it is a lion. Only a lion 12 be the king. So lions are the best!"

    The other animals couldn't think of 13 to say. They had many babies, but 14 could ever be as strong as a lion. "One valuable(有价值的)thing," said the lion, "is much 15 than a hundred common ones."

    A farmer was put in prison(监狱). One day, he got a letter from his wife.

    "I am worried about our farm," she wrote. "It's time to plant potatoes, but I can't do all the digging(挖) by myself."

    The farmer thought over and then had an idea. He wrote to his wife, "Don't dig the fields. This is where my gold is. Don't plant potatoes until I come home."

    A few days later, the farmer got another letter from his wife. It said, "Two days ago, about ten prison guards(看守) came to our fields. It looked as if they were looking for something. They have dug our field."

    The farmer wrote to his wife at once, "Now you can plant our potatoes."