【正文】 f this passage? I think it means . A. puters are used by people B. people can live well without puters C. one must decide how to use puters D. puters are strange machines (D) Australia has a lot of lovely animals. You cannot find them anywhere else in the world. The most famous ones are kangaroos and koalas(樹袋熊 ). The kangaroo is the symbol of Australia. They have large eyes and ears. They don’t walk, they jump. They use their strong back legs. They can jump at up to 74 kilometres per hour. They can go over nine metres in one jump! Kangaroo mothers have pouches(育兒袋 ) to carry their babies. The babies stay inside to get milk and keep warm. Kangaroos are everywhere in Australia. They are on TV, in books and in the shops. The government even wants to put them on passports(護照 ). But do you know that millions of kangaroos are killed every year? There are too many of them. There are about 20 to 25 million kangaroos in Australia. That’s more than the number of people in the country! Some kangaroos go hungry because there is not enough food to eat. They break into farms for food. Farmers are very angry with them. The koala is another famous Australian animal. They look like bears, and have small eyes and big noses. They eat leaves from eucalyptus(桉樹 ), where they spend most of their time. Koalas have a special smell. They use it to mark their home—“This is my place, you can’t e in!” Like kangaroos, a koala baby lives in its mother’s pouch. But koalas have fewer places to live in. There are about 100,000 koalas in Australia. There is a law to keep them safe. 16. Kangaroos and koalas are the most famous animals in Australia because _______. A. there are not many of them B. they can’t live in other countries C. we can’t see them in any other country except Australia D. they are lovely animals 17. Which of the following is WRONG about kangaroos? A. They can run at up to seventyeight kilometres per hour. B. They have large eyes and ears. C. Kangaroo mothers have pouches to carry their babies. D. There are many of them in Australia. 18. Why does the Australian government kill some kangaroos each year? A. They can make more money. B. Kangaroos break into farms for food. C. Kangaroos do not have enough food to eat. D. There are more kangaroos than people. 19. What do koalas use to mark their home? A Their footprint. B. Their sound. C. Their fur. D. Their smell. 20. What is the similarity(相同之處 )between a kangaroo and a koala? A. There are too many of them in Australia. B. They keep their babies in the mother’s pouch. C. They have a special smell. D. They can jump very high. 八年級英語 期末 試卷 聽力材料 一、 根據(jù)問句，選出合適的答句 ，讀兩遍。 (5’) 6. Who did Millie vote for? A. Sandy B. Andy C. Simon D. Millie 7. What’s Millie’s favourite sport? A. Cycling B. Camping C. Skiing D. Swimming 8. What is John doing? A. He is lying in bed. B. He is reading in bed. C. He is playing with a cat in bed. D. He is playing with a dog in bed. 9. How does the boy go to school on Wednesdays? A. On foot. B. Ride a bicycle. C. Take a bus. D. Take a taxi. 10. What time is it now? A. 10:45 B. 11:00 C. 11:15 D. 11:45 三、根據(jù)短文，回答下列問題，短文讀兩遍。 You should _______ , or this will make him . 。m going to give you one just like it… ⑷ then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas windows that I39。屋前有顆大樹，于是我快速爬上了那顆樹并在上面待了好幾個小時。d love that．” After a short ride， the boy turned and with his eyes shining， said，“ Paul， would you mind driving in front of my house？” Paul smiled a little． He thought he knew what the boy wanted． ⑵ He wanted to show his neighbours that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again. “ Will you stop where those two steps are？” the boy asked． He ran up to the steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him ing back, but he was not ing fast. He was carrying his little crippled(殘疾 )brother. He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car. “ There he is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. ⑶ His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn39。 On 26th January, the biggest earthquake in India took the lives of 25,000 people. In the morning, when everybody was enjoying a nice day, the earthquake began. “There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. Everything has been pulled down,”sai