江苏省扬州市高邮市2021-2022学年八年级下学期英语期末试题

—No, it depends on what _____________ we'll make from this discussion.

—I _____________choose Lonely Warrior. I need more advice.

—I've no idea. I ___________ only half of it, and I will try to finish it by the weekend.

—It's said that they should be recycled in a special way.

—It can't be her. She, as a volunteer, _____________ Shanghai since April.

—______________. It will be a wonderful experience.

Every day I get outside and take a walk near my house. Several days ago, I happened to 1 a coin on the road. But I 2 walking. After a while I started thinking of my 3. She likes collecting loose change. If she saw the coin, she wouldn't 4 it. I wanted to go back for it, but I thought it would be shaming if someone saw me 5 a coin.

Later that day I told my 6-year-old daughter Kate about the 6. As I expected, she didn't say, "Don't 7 it. It is only a coin. "Instead, Kate said, "I would have picked it up. When small coins are 8, they will become something important. " She 9 catches small opportunities (机遇).

Deep into the night, I thought of that coin again. I once stepped on 10 but passed by. I also thought of my opportunities. I lost many opportunities 11 I thought they were not important.

The next morning, I walked along the 12 road. I decided to pick up that coin if I saw it again. But it was 13. Someone else caught the opportunity which had belonged to me.

Since then, I have paid much attention to small opportunities around me. I began to understand that a small opportunity can be the 14 of something bigger. What a great life lesson! And it only 15 me a coin.

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CNN-China launched (发射) another manned mission (载人任务) to its new space station on Sunday, sending three astronauts (宇航员) who will continue space work for six months.

The astronauts lifted off on the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft at 10:44 a. m. , June 5th, 2022, launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia.

The crew includes Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe. Chen was aboard China's Shenzhou-11 manned space mission in 2016 and once held the record for longest stay in space bya Chinese astronaut. Liu became the first ever Chinese woman in space in 2012 on the Shenzhou-9 mission. And this will be Cai's first mission in space. The team will live and work at the Tiangong Space Station's Tianhe core module (核心仓) for six months before returning to Earth. It marks a new step in China's space program.

Six months is the standard mission duration (标准任务期限) for many countries—but it is an important chance for Chinese astronauts to be accustomed to a long-term stay in space and help prepare future astronauts to do the same.

Six space missions have been scheduled (规划) before the end of the year, including another manned mission, two laboratory modules and two cargo missions.

The team aboard Shenzhou-14 will help with the docking, setting up and testing of the two laboratory modules Wentian and Mengtian, which are ready to launch in July and October this year.

It has troubled almost anyone thinking carefully about a word for some time. Think about the word "flower". F-l-o-w-e-r. Flowers. The flower in the field. The flower in the grass. Flower. Flower. Flower.

F-l-o-w-e-r?!

① _______ Did the word just break into pieces before your eyes, become strange and unable to understand, or some meaningless letters? If so, what just happened to you is nothing new, In fact. the phenomenon (现象) was first described in The American Journal of Psychology in 1907;""Ifa word is looked at carefully for some time, it will be found to become strange and foreign. …"Or, as Urban Dictionary describes the situation: "When you say a word so much, it starts to sound strange"

② __________Over the years, this phenomenon has got many different names, but the best known one is semantic satiation (语义饱和) . Leon James, a professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii's firstly used it in 1962. James did many experiments to find out how semantic satiation affects (影响) thinking.

③_________ It's a kind of mental fatigue (心理疲劳) , he said. When a brain gets started, it takes more energy to start the second time, and still more the third time. And finally, it won't even answer until you wait a few seconds for the fourth time. "This gave me an idea: If you keep saying a word, the meaning in the word keeps being repeated, and then it becomes more difficult to understand when you continue to pay attention to it."

④________ Some new medical research showed that it could be used to treat steering (口吃). Businessmen have begun rethinking their ways of selling. One example is "Double Eleven. "Because of overuse, "Double Eleven is no longer as exciting and popular today as it once was.

I gave the young man I had rescued (救) bread and water. He was tired out and fell quickly asleep.

I guessed his age at around twenty-six. He was tall and strong and looked kind, especially when he smiled. He slept only about a half. Again he made gestures (手势) to show that he was grateful to me.

We communicated by gestures at first. Soon he showed himself much better at learning my language than I was at learning his. I told him I'm Robinson. I called him Friday, for it was on a Friday that I rescued him. He quickly learned "yes" and "no" and the names of many things.

At first, I didn't completely trust Friday and he was separated from me in another room. But soon I found it unnecessary. Nobody would be more loyal than Friday. He seemed almost to consider me like a father. Friday was also willing to help in any way.

For the next three years, I taught Friday to use all my tools. I took him to see everything I had made. Friday was quick to help with the work on the island. One day, I showed Friday the ruin of the wreck (沉船). I explained that I had come upon the island the same way. That was when Friday told me the most amazing thing. He saw such a wreck before, not far from his home.

"We rescue the white men from drown. "he said.

I asked him how many men they had rescued, and he showed me on his fingers — seventeen. I was surprised at the idea of a group of Europeans so close. I took Friday to the highest point of the island where other lands could be seen. He began jumping and dancing.

（取材于扬州市"五个一百工程"指定阅读书目《鲁滨逊漂流记》）

After my parents' divorce (离婚), I moved with my father to a small town when I was 12 years old. I already knew that my teen years would be a h  time of my life. I was a total outsider (旁观者) and a stranger at a new school. I felt really l in my small town.

But by starting to do volunteer work when I was 14, I turned my problem into a love of h others. This made me feel like my life had a greater purpose. The more positive (积极的) energy I s, the more kindness I received. I realized that my purpose in life would be to reach out to people, especially teenagers, and help them feel l lonely. Then books entered my life with its special warmth.

Thanks to the w who wrote those books, the kindness from their books saved my life. Later, one of my biggest d  was to become a writer so I could write books that would help other teenagers the way those books helped me. Luckily, I have been a full-time writer of teen novels since 2007. I am thankful for this great c to reach out to my young readers every day.

Small kind acts can change someone's life. You n know what someone else is going through. But by practicing daily k_, you can become an architect (缔造者) of positive change.

要求∶

1）表达清楚，语法正确，上下文连贯;

2）必须包括提示中所有要点内容，并适当发挥;

3）词数∶100词左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）;

4）不得使用真实姓名、校名和地名等。

Hi, I'm Lucy, from Class 5, Grade 8. I'm French and I've been here for 2 years. I'm here to challenge the position. I think I'm able to be a good librarian assistant.

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I hope you can accept me. Thanks for your time!