河北保定高阳县三利、宏润中学2015-2016学年八年级下学期英语期中联考卷

-- No, thanks. I don't want _____ drinks now.

-- About two thousand. A number of them _____ from the countryside.

-- He _____ Shanghai on business for two mouths.

-- Well, it all _______ the weather.

-- I'd love to, but I am afraid it will ______ too much of my time.

    Facebook is a famous website. It is 1 among young students, especially (尤其是) college students. They can 2 find friends or send photos on the website. They can have lots of fun when they visit Facebook. In all, Facebook is 3 more famous and it has more users.

    According to a US newspaper, Facebook may soon 4children under 13 to visit the site. They can visit the website 5 they are staying with their parents.

    At the moment, children under 13 are not allowed to visit Facebook. There are some 6. One of them is about strangers.  Sometimes strangers may be bad people. If bad people know the children's names, addresses and much personal 7, the children may be 8danger.

    But more and more children want to visit Facebook. The company wants to find some ways to keep children 9 when they visit Facebook.  For example, their accounts can be linked with (与……相联系) their parents. Parents can 10 their children's friends easily. They may even check their children's chat messages.

    Baboons(狒狒) live in Africa. They are like monkeys. Most people think daddy baboons don't know their babies. But scientists (科学家) find that daddy baboons know how to help their babies. The daddy baboons are smart.

    Joan Silk is a scientist. She studies the baboons for 3 years. She says the daddy baboons are happy to see their babies. They have big teeth to help the babies to eat hard things. Mother baboons are small. And they live in a place. When a mother baboon gives birth(分娩), she often has only one baby. Baby baboons have fur. They are very cute.

    During the day they eat things. At night, they sleep in the trees. Most children like baboons because they look like the man.

    Uncle Alex writes for travelling magazines. He visited many places last summer. Read some of his travel journals.

    Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a bench(长凳) in the park. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day, the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, "Excuse me. I want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning." "Sir," said the poor man, "I am a failure. I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I'll sleep in that hotel." The rich man said, "Tonight your dream will come true. I'll pay for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month."

    A few days after, the rich man went into the poor man's room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel back to his bench. When the rich man asked why, he said, "You see, when I'm sleeping on my bench, I dreamed I am there, in the big hotel. It's a wonderful dream. But when I was there I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn't get any sleep at all."

    If you need to call your parents but your smartphone(智能手机) is not with you, can you remember their numbers? To remember 11 numbers is not difficult. _______, many of us can't because of the smartphone. What's more, people are not good at giving directions and face-to-face talks because of smartphones. Even when friends are having a meal together, it's common to play with their phones. Smartphones weaken（削弱） our skills in many ways.

    According to a study, Chinese people spend about 170 minutes on their smart phones every day. For students, spending much time on smartphones isn't good for their study. The study shows children who spend more than four hours a day on their phones get much worse grades in school tests than those who play with their phones for 30 minutes.

    It's true that the smartphone makes our lives easier. But many people also think spending too much time on it is bad for their study or work. People are trying to change that.

    People make a new game called Forest. It lets users plant a seed that grows into a tree over the next 30 minutes. During it, users can't use their phones, or the tree will die.

    There is a restaurant in the USA. It gives people a discount(折扣) if they don't play with their smartphones during a meal. Owner Mark Gold said that he hoped it gave people a way to enjoy their meal and talk with friends and family.

根据你的体会，结合具体事例，谈谈自己的看法和建议。

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    With the fast development of technology, we enjoy its convenience as well as suffer the troubles.……