《2025年暑假衔接起跑线八升九年级英语人教版》

Once upon a time, a little leaf(树叶) was heard crying. The tree asked, "What's the matter?" The leaf said, "Just now the wind 1told(tell) me that one day it would blow me off and throw me down on the ground."
When the tree heard this, it promised the leaf that it would not go 2unlessit wanted to. The leaf stopped crying and went on 3singing(sing). Everyone around it could hear its 4beautiful(beauty) voice.
The bright days of autumn came. The little leaf saw all the leaves around becoming good-looking. Some were yellow and some were red. The little leaf asked the tree what it meant. The tree said, "All the leaves are ready 5to fly(fly) away. They put on these pretty clothes because 6ofjoy."
The little leaf wanted to go, too. When it was gold(金色的), it saw the branches(树枝) of the tree had no color. The leaf asked, "Branches, 7whyare you brown?" "We must keep 8our(we) working clothes on. Your clothes are for holiday because your tasks are over," said a branch.
Just then the wind took the little leaf up and it fell down among 9hundreds(hundred) of other leaves. It began to dream 10avery wonderful dream.

答案： 1. told 2. unless 3. singing 4. beautiful 5. to fly 6. of 7. why 8. our 9. hundreds 10. a

Do you know yu, a kind of instrument? It 1appearedmany years ago. The king of the State of Qi enjoyed listening to the yu ensemble(合奏). He often called up 300 players to play together for him. The king provided his 2musicianswith delicious food and lots of money. A man named Nan Guo heard about that and he decided 3to cheatthe king. He found a way to become a player of the band. But he wasn't good at playing the instrument at all. When the band played for the king, Nan Guo just stood in the line and pretended to play. However, when the king died, his son became the new king. He liked the yu solo(独奏) better, so he asked the musicians to play the yu 4one by one. Nan Guo was afraid that the new king might found out the 5truth, so he had to run out of the palace and never came back.

答案： 1. appeared 2. musicians 3. to cheat 4. one by one 5. truth

Have you heard of this short story? It's about a deer who lived in the forest. He had large and beautiful antlers(鹿角). The antlers protected him from being 6hurt by other animals, so he was always safe because of them.
One day, the deer went to a river to drink water. The water was so clear that it was like a 7mirror. When the deer looked at himself in the water, he 8smiled, "I look like a king." Then he 9noticed something else. "My legs are thin and my feet are small," he said. "They look so 10weak. I hate them."
While the deer was thinking about this, he felt something 11strange. A hungry tiger was 12hiding behind a tall tree near the river. As soon as the deer saw the tiger, he became 13nervous and ran away quickly. The tiger ran after him. Thanks to his thin legs, the deer reached the trees first. But his large antlers got stuck(卡住) in some small 14sticks of the trees. He couldn't move at all and then the tiger came and caught him.
The deer cried out, "I love my antlers, but they made me get into trouble. Though I hated my legs and feet, they helped me run faster. I was so 15stupid/silly!"

答案： 6. hurt 7. mirror 8. smiled 9. noticed 10. weak 11. strange 12. hiding 13. nervous 14. sticks 15. stupid/silly