浙江省杭州市临平区2022年八年级下学期英语五月月考试卷

Are fables(寓言) and fairy tales different or the same? They are both stories for kids, but fables are stories for adults as well.

A fable is a story, passed down from grandparents to parents and then to children. People can learn much from it. The characters are mostly animals and nature. They can talk and act like humans. The most famous fables were written by a man called Aesop. There are around 600 fables in Aesop's Fables. The Fox and the Grapes and The Tortoise and the Hare are two examples.

Fairy tales are usually stories for children, often about magic characters such as fairies(仙女) and giants(巨人). Sometimes the characters are animals. We are able to enjoy these fairy tales because about 200 years ago, the Brothers Grimm traveled all around Germany and collected these stories before people forgot them. There are many fairy tales in Grimm's Fairy Tales, such as Cinderella and The Frog Prince.

Life is short. Are you doing what you love?

If not, why? Most people will answer that question with "I have a big family to support". In the real world, people have responsibilities(职责). They have to lose something. They are not happy with their jobs but they have to do them because they have to support their families.

That's wrong. We can take our responsibilities and at the same time, we can be happy with our jobs. We spend over 1/3 of our life, at least five days a week doing our jobs. We have spent a lot of time on something we don't enjoy. Why not spend that time doing something we truly love?

I think there is one main reason why people don't go after what they love — fear. They fear others' ideas, failure, and that they can't do it themselves. I think what people should do is to know that they can be able to run away from their fear. We will fail at times and others will think we are crazy at times, but if we believe that we will succeed, we will make it at last.

I understand that it's not easy. But you should notice that there are other people out there. They failed and were laughed at, but in the end they succeeded. They have told us that we can do what we love.

The Tower of London is on the north of the Thames River. According to the history, King Edward of England had promised to give the throne to William, the Duke of Normandy. But at last he gave the throne to Harold Godwinson, his English brother-in-law.

William was quite angry about his not being the king. He sent his men to fight against the English and on October 14, 1066, the Duke's men won, and later William became the king. At the beginning, the new king wanted to protect himself and keep the wild people of London in line. So he built the Tower of London soon.

The tower was always changed by the kings of England because they wanted to add something more. So king after king built the tower adding walls and smaller towers around it. Around the year1240 King Henry III made the Tower of London his home. He whitewashed the tower, made the grounds wider to include a church, and added a great hall and other buildings. The Normans called the tower "La Tour Blanche (White Tower)".

As time went by, the addition of other smaller towers, extra buildings, walls and walkways, became the example of fortresses(堡垒), prisons, palaces and finally museums that we enjoy today.

Find a Faraway Friend

Key friends get to know each other by sending e-mail messages. Would you like to have a friend in another country? Do you like to get an e-mail? If you answered "Yes" to these questions, getting a net friend is a great idea. There are many good reasons to have a net friend.

First,  The more you write, the better you will be at it. You will learn to describe things well and answer questions clearly. You will think of new things to write about.

Second,  You will want to understand your net friend's ideas, so you will read carefully. Reading carefully can give you ideas about what to write to your net friend.

Third,  Your net friend will tell you interesting things about his or her country and hometown. You will find out about the sports and activities that kids enjoy there.

Fourth,  You will learn how to write and send messages through an e-mail. With practice, you will become faster on the keyboard.

Finally,  Talk to your parents about getting a net friend. Have them help you find one safely. Then have fun sending a message to your new friend.

In the Sui Dynasty, there lived a boy called Li Mi. He loved to read very much. He never wasted a single minute, but 1 all of his free time every day reading.

One day, Li Mi had to go to a faraway place to 2 some of his family business. Not wanting to waste any time on the way, he took all of the 3 that he wanted to read and hung them on one of the horns of his ox (牛角). He then climbed up onto his ox's 4, with a book in one hand and the ropes in 5. In this way he could read while riding the ox so that he could  6 his every minute during the trip.

On the way, Yang Su, a very 7 learner of that time noticed this boy and thought, "What a 8 boy he is! He must be a young man worth making friends 9." Not wishing to interrupt(打搅) Li Mi 10 he was putting all his heart in the reading, Yang Su followed the ox quietly instead, 11 until Li Mi looked up to get a new book. 12 impressed(对……钦佩), Yang Su then 13 up to Li Mi and greeted him, spoke highly of his 14. Later, Li Mi became the well-known leader of Wagang Army.

Today, if a person is 15 hard-working in his studies that he finds every possible way to make use of every minute, we say he is "reading with books hanging on the ox's horn."

Shanghai Opens a Family Fangcang

Shanghai's current(当前的) largest fangcang, or makeshift hospital, has set aside 900 beds to treat  (family) with children under the age of 18 infected(感染) with COVID-19.

The section of the fangcang, which was built at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, (start) admissions(进入权) on Monday and has since received 177 people with infections, (include) 89 children, according to Shanghai Children's Medical Center, which (provide) medical treatment in this section with Shanghai No 10 People's Hospital.

"These children are placed in adjacent (相邻的) beds their adult family members, and all those with minor infections aged below 18 qualify to be sent here with their family members," the medical center said.

More than 2,200 doctors and nurses from 11 Shanghai hospitals have been stationed there(give) treatment.

Child patients will be sent to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, designated hospital to receive COVID-19 cases, their parents are not infected and cannot accompany them for the medical treatment, the city's health authority said.

Nurses take care of the child patients in (they)wards(病房) around the clock, and are responsible for not only their medical treatment and health care, but also their daily needs, such as (feed) and bathing.

Dear Anna,

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Yours, Li Ming