八、 (2015 •呼和浩特) 根据上下文及首字母提示补全短文。(10分) 

    In a town in France,there was a farmer who lived alone. Every day he s 1 a pound of butter to his neighbour,who was a baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see i 2 he was getting a pound. After he weighed it,he found that he wasn’t. The baker then took the farmer to the judge (法官).

   The judge wanted to know the farmer’s way to weigh the butter. The farmer replied ,“ I'm so p 3 that I do not have enough money to buy anything to weigh it. H 4 ，I do have a kind of scale (天平).” The judge asked ,“Then h 5 do you weigh the butter?” The farmer replied , “Before the baker started buying butter from me,I had bought bread from him. So now every time when I b 6 home the bread from the baker,I put it on the scale and give him the butter of the same w 7 ”

   We always get back what we give to others. Whenever you take action,ask yourself this question ,“Am I honest?”

     Honesty or dishonesty can become a habit. Some dishonest people can lie w 8 a red face. Others lie so m 9 that they do not even know what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? In fact,those who lie will hurt t 10 by their own dishonest behaviour.

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七、 任务型阅读。(10分) The first things to live were protists (原生生物). They started life about 3 ,000 million years ago. Then plants began about 500 million years ago. And then dinosaurs began about 200 million years ago. Apes (猿人) developed 35 million years ago.

Humans and apes developed from the same animals. About 14 million years ago,some apes began walking with two legs. Then two million years ago,humans learned to make tools. No one knows when humans first started to use language,but many scientists believed that humans started to speak around 70 ,000 years ago. However,we do know when humans vStarted to paint the walls of their caves (洞穴) ：The first cave paintings are around 40 ,000 years old. It was only about 10 ,000 ，

years ago that humans learned how to grow plants and then they became farmers.

5. 人乡随俗。

I When in Rome, the Romans do.

4. 患难见真情。

A friend is a friend indeed.

3. 琳达工作不久后就结婚了。

Linda got married she took a job.

2. 首要的是，他是一位既优秀又不知疲倦的学生。

,he was a good and tireless student.

1. (2015 •重庆) 我今天早上起床太晚，没能赶上首班公共汽车。

I got up late catch the first bus this morning.

10. If you’re in British people’s way,they (not touch) you or push past you.

9. Daniel is funny enough to make everyone (laugh) after class.

8. Peter was slow. He could (not write) down all the main points.