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1、2019-2020年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷（II ）卷姓名:_ 班级:_ 成绩:_一、 阅读理解(共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分) (共4题；共30分)1. （6分）阅读理解 Athletics vs. GardeningThe students of Southside School were asked to give their opinions about whether the school should run an athletic program or start a vegetable garden. An athletic program is hatch bet
2、ter than gardening. How are we ever going to win anything at the Inter-School Athletics without proper training? At the moment, we only do athletics for one tam and the teachers train us. We need experts(专家)to teach us things like throwing and high jump. I know lots of kids say theyre not interested
3、 in competitions, but thats because theyve never won anything. If they got better training and started winning things, theyd soon change their minds. People always say kids dont get enough exercise. Just because you do gardening outdoors doesnt make it exercise, so I dont see how it matters. Athleti
4、cs is much better for fitness and lots of kids can have a go at the same time. I dont think there would be enough jobs for everyone in a garden. In fact, I think a garden is a really bad idea. I dont know why were even considering it.Liz, Grade 8 I think a vegetable garden is a great idea. We alread
5、y do hours of sport, including athletics. And not everyone likes sport. Gardening is a great way to get exercise without worrying about whether youre any good at it, or whether youre going to win. And you really do gel exercise when you garden. Theres digging, weeding and watering Even picking thing
6、s can be hard work pumpkins arent light you know! There are lots of kids around here who dont have gardens so they cant grow things even they want to. If you really want to do more sport, you can join a club. And think about it: What helps you to be good at sport? You need to eat lots of fruit and v
7、egetables. If we learn to cook all the things we grow, the garden will keep us all fit and healthy and then well be better at sport.Sam, Grade 8（1）Which of these points do Liz and Sam both make? A . Kids should take exercise.B . Kids should eat vegetables.C . Kids should try to win more.D . Kids sho
8、uld be outside more.（2）What is one reason Liz gives for saying a garden is a really bad idea? A . Some students dont like getting dirty.B . Some students dont enjoy being outside.C . Some students already know how to garden.D . Some students may have no chance to garden.（3）Why does Sam say, And thin
9、k about it.: what helps you to be good at sport? A . To change the subject.B . To introduce his next reason.C . To support Lizs idea.D . To find an answer to the question.2. （8分）阅读理解 Jenny Lang Ping, was born in 1960, Tianjin. She is a former Chinese volleyball player and the former head coach of th
10、e US Womens National Volleyball Team. Her nickname is the Tron Hammer.In 1987, Lang Ping moved to Los Angeles to study and serve as an assistant volleyball coach at the University of New Mexico. She keeps Chinese nationality although she has lived in the USA for more than 15 years.Because of her cen
11、tral role in the success of the Chinese Womens Volleyball Team in the 1980s, Lang was seen as a cultural icon and is one of the most respected people in modern Chinese sports history. The Chinese Womens Volleyball Team with Lang was the first team to win the World Championship several times, includi
12、ng the1984 Olympics. She will always be remembered as one of the very first world champions for China. In 1989, she took over Modena, one of the top teams in the Italian League, and enjoyed great success there.In 1995, Lang became the head coach of the Chinese National Team and eventually guided the
13、 team to the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and the second place at the 1998 World Volleyball Championships in Japan.She became the coach of the US National Team in2005. Lang guided the team to the 2008 Olympics, where the US team faced off with China in her home country. The U
14、S team won the victory against China 3:2. The US team went on to win the silver medal, losing to Brazil in the final 1:3.She was the head coach of the Chinese Womens National Volleyball Team in the World Volleyball Championships in Japan in 1998. In 2014, she was the only female head coach among the
15、 24 teams coaches in the World Volleyball Championships. On August 21, 2016, Lang Ping guided the Chinese Womens National Team to the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. With the victory, Lang Ping became the first person in volleyball history, male or female, to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games as a player in 1984(Los Angeles) and as a head coach in 2016(Rio).（1）Lang Ping did not coach . A . Chinese National TeamB . Brazilian National TeamC . US National TeamD . Italian Modena Team（2）The underlined word icon most probably
