云南省腾冲市2020-2021学年八年级上学期英语期末教育教学质量监测试卷

— Oh, it's _______ wonderful play. It's one of _______ best TV plays.

—In a week.

—Yes, swimming is a good way _______ fit.

—I'm sorry about that. I'll go somewhere else.

—He learnt it by _______.

—No, you______.

Different people have different hobbies. We students also have our own hobbies, such as reading, painting, growing vegetables in our gardens and looking after animals. 1 can make us grow, develop (发展) our interests and help us learn new 2.

Liu Tao is a student. His hobby is 3. When he was in senior high school, he wrote a book and published (出版) it in 2007. Many teenagers (青少年) 4 his book. As a result, he becomes a successful young 5 now.

Liu Tao is very lucky 6 his hobby brings him pleasure and success. But he regards writing7only one of his many hobbies and interests. He is8 in many other things. He likes playing football, too. Now he is a member of his school team.

Remember that we 9 spend all our time on our favorite hobby. There are many other interesting things 10 in life, and we should try to do something new or different.

There is one thing. We can't see it. Sometimes we can hear it and even feel (感知) it. Without it, all the living things will die. Can you guess what it is? Yes, it is air.

However, what's the air like today?

In cities, there are too many people and too many cars on the roads. The cars send out (排放) a lot of bad gases. In cities, there are many chemical factories. They send out terrible smoke every day. This kind of smoke is dangerous for our health. Now the air is becoming worse and worse. Every day, we breathe (呼吸) the bad air in and out. This makes us feel sick.

So in order to keep us healthy, we have to go to the countryside to breathe more fresh air. Or we can go up hills to get more fresh air.

In Britain, people usually begin their talks with weather. For example, they will say"It's a fine day, isn't it?""Do you think it will rain?"

Many people believe that they are able to tell what the weather will be like. But they never agree with each other. One man may say, "How cloudy (阴的) it is now! It's going to rain." Another man will say, "No, it's going to be fine later."

People always hope the weather they want. For example, when a farmer needs water, he looks for something to tell him it's going to rain. When a man wants to travel, he is sure the weather will be fine quickly.

Now almost everyone listens to the weather report. It doesn't always tell us the weather we want, it only tells us what the weather will be like. But sometimes it makes mistakes(错误).

There is a famous English saying "You are what you eat", and it means what you put in your mouth will become part of you. Many experts (专家) use it to tell people it's important to have a good eating habit. For example, too much sweet food makes a person overweight（超重）. To avoid being fat, kids are told to keep off sweet food. But, a team of American scientists have found something new about eating sweet food.

"When we say some people ‘sweet', we mean they are kind and friendly to us. Perhaps(也许) this word can help us learn more about people's feelings and acts." said Brian Meier, a scientist from the study team. "Taste is something we experience every day. What we have done is to find whether we can know someone's character(角色) and behavior(行为) depending on their taste."

In one of their experiments(实验), students were asked questions about their character－whether, for example, they were soft-hearted or not. Then they were asked to make a list of their favorite food. According to their answers, the scientists found that the students who liked sweet food were nicer.

In their another experiment, the scientists found that people who preferred sweet food such as cookies and chocolate were more willing to help other people in need, and those who ate non-sweet food such as chips weren't. For example, people with a sweet tooth were more likely to volunteer to clean up their city, visit sick children in the hospital and so on.

The result of the experiments is that people's helpfulness or being nice has something to do with their taste for sweet food. So eating sweet food is a useful way to make people nice and helpful. Next time，try some ice-cream.

Just like there are many kinds of stories, there are many different kinds, or styles of music. 

Folk music is a very old style music. At first, folk music described some songs that people had played in their communities or families for hundreds of years. Often, neither the tunes(曲调) nor the words for the songs had been written down. Today, there are also writers who write songs that are in this style.

Classical music prefers tones and other forms of music that began in Europe hundreds of years ago. Composers(作曲家) continue to create this kind of music now.

Rock music is a new form of music as "rock and roll". Sailors had long used the phrase to describe the motion(运动) of ships at sea. Today，the name has simply become "rock".

When your grandparents were young, no one had heard of hip-hop music. They had probably heard the word "hip" ,which meant that someone or something was fashion or up- to -date.The term was first used to the music that a Jamaican, Clive Campbell, had been playing in shows. Now, there are hip-hop singing groups all around the world.

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