2023年新目标英语八年级下英语泛读2.docx

2023合肥四中八年级下学期英语泛读 Sentrygun8 〔一〕 One day the students are having their painting lessons. Everyone is busy drawing pictures. Xiao Ming is doing nothing. When the bell rings for the break, Xiao Ming gives his picture to the teacher. The teacher looks at it and gets angry. “Why do you give me a piece of paper with nothing on it〞 asks the teacher. “I am sorry, sir,’’ says Xiao Ming. “I draw a dog and some bread on the paper.〞 “Where is the dog and the bread’’ asks the teacher again. I draw some bread first. When I finish drawing the dog , she eats up the bread .When I give it to you, she runs away,〞 says Xiao Ming . 〔二〕 Joan goes to school at seven in the morning. Now she is waiting for the bus with her friends . “The bus is coming ,〞says Joan.. The big old school bus is stopping at the bus stop. The boys and girls are getting on it .They go to school by bus. They get off the bus and go into the school. After school, Joan looks for their bus. But their bus isn’t there now. She sees a new bus but not theirs. Her friends are saying to her, “How do you like the new bus, Joan Come on! We are waiting for you.〞 Joan goes to the new bus. She gets on it. All her friends are in the bus. They go home in the new bus. 〔三〕 Sam lives in New York. His father has a shop there and his mother is a doctor. He is seven years old now and begins to go to school this autumn. It is a little far from their shop and his father drives a car to take him to school every day. So he is not late for class and his teachers like him. It is Monday today. Miss Hunt is teaching them to count from one to ten. Sam is studying hard. Soon he can count them. Miss Hunt is happy and asks, “How many people are there in your family, Sam〞 Sam is standing and begins to count with his fingers. Then he says,〞Two, Miss Hunt.〞 “Who are they〞 “My father and mother.〞 “Oh〞 Miss Hunt is surprised. She says, “There are three people in your family.〞 “But now I am not at home, but at school, you know!〞 〔四〕 Two men walked quietly up to the open window of a small house at night. “We can take what we want from this house,〞 one of them said. The taller of the two men quickly climbed through the open window into one of the rooms. “Give me the torch, ,〞he told his friend ,go round the door. Wait there until I open it for you.〞 His friend agreed. Then the tall man turned on the torch and walked slowly towards the door. Shortly before he reached the door, he suddenly stopped. His torch was shining on a man! The man was sitting in a big chair in a corner of the room. He was looking at the tall man, but his eyes never moved. The tall man cried out, threw the torch away, opened the door and shouted to his friend to run after him. They didn’t stop running until they were far away from the house. They never knew that it was a blind man. 〔五〕 Mike works in a factory, but he does not work in the workshop. He works in the office. His wife, Jenny, has no job, so she stays at home to prepare dinner for him. Every day he can have dinner when he gets home from his office. One day, Mike came home very late because he was very busy at the office. He was very hungry and wanted his dinner as soon as he got home. But he was not happy when he found his dinner was not ready. He was very angry with his wife. He shouted to her, “I am going out to eat in a restaurant.〞 “Wait for ten minutes.〞 said his wife. “Why do you think that dinner will be ready in ten minutes.〞 asked the husband. “No, of course not,〞 she answered. “But I will be ready to go with you in ten minutes.〞 〔六〕 One day, when Mr. King was on his way home, he saw an old man was selling a dog. It was a big dog. Mr. King bought it and said to the old man, “if the dog is very good, I will tell you on the telephone. “ “That’s all right, said the old man. Here is my telephone number.〞 With these words, the old man wrote the telephone number on a piece of paper and gave it to Mr. King. The next day, Mr. King telephoned the old man, “the dog is very good. I like it very much. How delicious it is!〞 “What! Did you eat it〞 “Yes. It is very delicious〞 . “What a foolish man!〞 the old man thought. (七)A family secret Arnold Johnson was a proud man. I am sure my family is one of the oldest in the country, he often told people. It has a long history. One day he went to see an expert in family history Mrs. Green. “I want you to find out everything about my family,〞he said. “Where do we come from Who was the first Johnson Were there any famous people in the family Do I have any famous people in the family Do I have any rich relatives〞 “OK, Mrs. Green said, but it will cost you $2,000.〞 Arnold thought about this. Two thousand dollars was a lot of money. At last he said, “all right. But for $2,000 I want a complete history. I want full details.〞 The expert agreed. “Come back in three months .〞she said. Three months later Arnold visited Mrs. Green again. “Well, he said, have you fou