山东省新泰市2018-2019学年八年级下学期英语北部联盟联考试卷

—Yes, and their songs are popular.

— Why not                  visiting Huang gang? There are many places of interest there.

    When I was 13 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a1

It was the early autumn of my2year at a junior high school, and my old school was far away.3, no one knew who I was. I was very4, and afraid to make friends with anyone.

    Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart5I couldn't talk to anyone about my problems. And I didn't want my parents to6me.

    Then one day, my classmates talked happily with their friends, but I sat at my desk unhappily7At that moment, a boy8the classroom. I didn't know who he was. He passed me and then turned back. He looked at me and, 9.

    Suddenly, I10the touch of something bright and friendly.11made me feel happy and warm.

    That smile12my life. I started to talk with the other students and made friends. Day by day, I became13to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now.

    One day I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn't14smiling at me!

It doesn't15because all the dark days have gone. Now I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think you are lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.

    Thomas Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. Without him, the world might still be in the dark. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the motion picture camera and 1200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new.

    Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He attended school for only three months. His mother taught him at home, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. He started experimenting at a young age.

    When he was 12 years old, he got his first job. He became a newsboy on a train. He did experiments on the train in his spare time. Unluckily, his first work experience did not end well. They fired him when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the train. Then Edison worked for five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued to spend much of his time in experimenting his first patent(专利权) in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity.

    Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, but he thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways. It kept conversations short, so that he could have more time for work. He always worked 16 out of every 24hours. Sometimes his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat.

    Thomas Edison died at the age of 84. He left a great many inventions that greatly improved the quality of life all over the world.

    A poor boy became a rich and famous singer. He married and had two sons and two daughters. One day he said to his wife, "Our children mustn't have a hard life as we had. We must help them more than our parents helped us." The wife agreed. So they sent their children to fine schools. They enjoyed expensive sports. They were given everything in life except this: they were not taught how to work. Later the parents bought businesses for their children. The sons, at 21, became the owners of banks. The girls were given shops. But soon all these businesses failed. Because the young owners knew nothing of business or of work.

    Do you like traveling? How can you make your trip interesting? Here's some advice.

    Read!

    Before you leave, you should find some information about the place, such as its geography, history and people. You can introduce that place better by reading.

    Take photos!

    If you want to take some photos, remember to choose the most special sights. Don't choose the sight you can see in other places. For example, Qingdao and Ningbo are coastal cities, so don't only take photos of the sea. You should take photos of something else, too.

    Taste!

    You'd better taste some specials(特产) in the area. Food in some places is very delicious. So why not taste it? Maybe you have just one chance to taste it in your life.

    Write!

    When you visit a place, you should take a pen and a notebook, so you can write down what you see and what you think during the trip.

    Most of us can find 15 minutes or half an hour each day for learning English. It may be a free period or a regular wait, for example, when you are waiting for a bus or a meal even while eating breakfast. One famous doctor always made it a rule to spend at least 15 minutes on general reading before he went to sleep each night, whether he went to bed at 10:00 p.m. or 2:30 a.m. It is a good idea to make sure you always have an interesting book in your pocket. Don't forget it should be a book which entertains you and the language must not be too difficult for you.

    Sydney(悉尼)is in the east of Australia. It's famous for its Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. The weather is warm. The temperature is about 12 degrees in winter. And it is about 35 degrees in summer. It has beautiful beaches and many parks.

    You can see many visitors in the park from different countries. It's quite a popular park. The only way to see this park is by going "bush(荒野小路)". Then you could find some nice gravel(砂砾)roads. Of course you will need to travel with food and water. To see a small part of the mountains, you need some days, because there are many roads to get to the Blue Mountains.

    Sydney has many beautiful beaches. They are Bondi and Manly. Bondi has a nice street with many shops and restaurants. Parking is not hard in the place. Manly is a great beach to go to. If you want to go there, you can take a boat. It's a cheap and great way to see the Sydney harbor. If you are going to visit Sydney, I hope you will enjoy it.

    If you spend some time in an English-speaking country you might hear the term "etiquette". It means normal and polite social behavior. This may seem like a difficult word at first, but it can be very useful to understand.

    Etiquette is not the same in every culture or in every situation. For example, standing very close to the person you are talking with is quite common in some Asian countries. However, if you do this in Europe, some people might feel uncomfortable. Even in China, we all know that etiquette is not the same in all situations. Perhaps we think that talking loudly in our own homes is fine, but there are other places where talking loudly is not allowed. For example, most people would agree that talking loudly in a library, a museum or a movie theater is impolite. Even if you are with your friends, it is better to keep your voice down in public places.

    If we see someone breaking the rules of etiquette, we may politely give them some suggestions. One of the most polite ways is to ask someone, "Would you mind doing this or Would you mind not doing that." People don't usually like to be criticized, so we have to be careful how we do this.

    Although rules of etiquette can often be different, some rules are the same almost everywhere in the world! For example, dropping litter is almost never allowed. If you see someone you know doing this, you can ask him, "Would you mind picking it up?"

提示：1）她于1930年出生在浙江，后就读于宁波效实中学，1955年毕业于北京医学院。

2）她发现了青蒿素，从而帮助数以百计的人免于疟疾的危害。

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参考词汇：青蒿素 artemisinin    疟疾 malaria