浙江省金华市婺城区2020-2021学年八年级上学期英语期中试卷（含听力音频）

How can you helpyour child to offer more? During term time,1areoften too busy with lessons, tests, exams and activities to have time to2new interests and skills(技能). This is3schoolholidays, especially the long summer holiday, are so important.

Do you know something about the holiday camps in Hong Kong? Thestudents in HongKong4partin an English holiday camp in their holidays in the past. And their5weren't with them6they were very young.

Now they still enjoy taking part in some kinds of holiday camps7their parents. Many parents let theirchildren take part in some kinds of holiday camps in order to8some practical knowledge in their life.And also some knowledge(知识) about9skills, science, reading and writing. Themost important for the children is to learn to10themselves.

Holiday camps in Hong Kong are not so11. Most of the families can afford(负担得起) to send their children there for12study，for making their bodies strong. And the government never charge(收费) for13.

People say that the students in Hong Kong have14knowledge about many things than those inother areas. It15havesomething with the kinds of holiday camps.

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Language students often think they have memory(记忆) problems. They worry because they can't remember words. In fact, the problem usually isn't with their memory. The problem is with how they study. In my opinion, using a right way is the most important.

To remember words better, you need to understand how memory works. There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. When you see, hear or read something, it goes first into short-term memory. But short-term memory lasts for only a few seconds, that means we will forget things soon in short-term memory. You will only remember something longer if it goes in to long-term memory. Your long-term memory is like a very big library with many, many books. And like a library, it's organized. When you put away(放好，储存) a book or memory, you can't just leave it anywhere. You have to choose a place where you can find it again.

How can you do this with vocabulary? The answer is to work with the word and think about the word in new ways. You can do this by writing new sentences with the word in it. Even better, you can invent a little story about the word, with people or places that you know. Another way is to make a picture in your mind with the word. For example, if the word is "height", you can think of the tallest person you know and try to guess his or her height. All of these activities are good ways to think about words. They make the meaning of words stronger in your long-term memory. And they give a way to find a word when you need it.

This is my idea about how to improve ways to remember words, and I hope it can help you.

Have you noticed the waste bins(垃圾桶) in different colors on the street? Do you often put all the waste in the same bin? It's reported by Changchun Daily that people must do waste sorting(分类)in most places in Changchun at the end of 2019. Waste sorting is a wonderful way to make good use of energy and protect the environment. But do you know how to sort the waste?

Usually, people should sort their waste into four groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry. Different kinds of waste should go into different bins. Wet waste means the things you don't want but pigs can eat, mostly coming from your kitchen. Things that can be used again, such as paper, metal and glass, are recyclable(可回收的) waste. Harmful waste(有害垃圾) might be dangerous or cause serious pollution, like medicine and batteries(电池). And any waste that's not wet, recyclable or harmful will go into the dry waste bin.

Different countries are trying different ways to sort the waste. A university in England has invented a smart bin. When people drop their waste into the bin. It can tell what kind of waste it is and sort it correctly. The bin can also compress the waste to make it smaller in size and take up less space. In South Korea, people have to separate their food waste from other kinds of waste and pay for it. The more food waste they throw away, the more they pay. Japan has the strictest rules for waste sorting in the world. For example, plastic bottles and their caps should go into different bins.

It's no secret that there is a space(空间) problem in Manhattan(曼哈顿). People build up higher and higher buildings because there isn't much land left and there is no room to build out. So people have been building lots of tall and thin buildings. Developers(开发商)are trying to build higher and higher buildings. However, the government has made laws(法律)that don't allow developers to build too high buildings.

Oiio Studio thinks about things differently, "what if our buildings were not tall but long?" So the founder of Oiio Studio, Ioannis Oikonomou, design(设计) a U-shaped building, the Big Bend. It would be a very thin building. It would curve at the top and return to the ground. Oikonomoussaid he thought of the great idea because he learned from a piece of news. It said that a company made a lift that could travel in curves. So he designed the Big Bend. He thought it as "the longest building in the world". It would be 4000 feet from end to end and would need a different lift system.

We can't change the law, _______________. So if we can bend(使弯曲) our building, we would be able to build one of the most amazing buildings in Manhattan," Oiio Studio said.

The Big Bend is just an idea for now. Oikonomous has sent the plans to a few companies, and is looking for developers. If successful, they will build the Big Bend around West 5TStreet, just to the south of Central Park.

More people like living in a city now, especially young people who like new and modern things. Most people think it is much (更容易的) to find a job in a city. They think there are a lot of (有乐趣的) things to do and places to see in the city. There are also many (选择) of public transport. (当……时候) they are in the city, they can eat in good restaurants, visit museums, go to cinemas or go to parks. (然而), in my opinion, living in the city will (花费) more. What's more, the population of the city is getting bigger and bigger, so it's a (遗憾) that the city is always (拥挤的), noisy and dirty. And it is very difficult to find a good place where people can enjoy (和平) and fresh air. So it's time for us to (改善) the serious situation.

Autumn is the season which follows summer. Sometimes, autumn is called "fall". In the northern part, the weather is starting to get (cool) and nature is preparing for winter to come.

The leaves on the trees start (change) colour. Their colours change from green to beautiful golden colours such as orange, yellow brown. These leaves fall to ground, leaving trees bare(光秃秃). Many people like to travel during autumn season to enjoy the beauty of the (leaf). It's also an excellent time for families to go hiking and (camp).

Autumn is the time when many animals begin to gather (收集）food to be stored for the winter. Squirrels(小松鼠) and other animals busily gather nuts and acorns, so that they can eat them winter, when food becomes scarce(缺乏的).

Autumn is traditionally harvest time. is a time when farmers gather their crops and prepare them for market or storage for the winter. Pumpkins(南瓜) are (health) vegetables which are harvested in autumn. They are used to make pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie. Farmers use pumpkins to make the heads of scarecrows(稻草人). Scarecrows help to scare away the birds so they can't eat the (farmer ) crops(庄稼).

China will gradually increase(增加) required scores on the physical education(PE) test to the same level as those of Chinese, math and English on high school entrance exams(中考) to improve physical education in schools, a senior education official said on Friday. Wang Dengfeng, head of the Department of Physical, Health and Arts Education at the Ministry of Education, said Southwest China's Yunnan province is the only provincial region (地区) in China to give PE classes the same weight as academic subjects(文化科目) on high school entrance exams, and other regions should gradually increase the weight of PE classes to match those of academic subjects.

The country also should immediately start research on including PE classes in the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, Wang said at a news meeting.

All provincial regions also should gradually add tests of students" aesthetic(美育的) abilities to the high school entrance exams by 2022 to strengthen aesthetic education, he said.

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