四川省成都市简阳市2022-2023学年八年级上学期期中阶段性练习英语试卷

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Is it good for students to watch TV?

—Thanks. I don't feel like _______now.

—Maybe three times a week.

—_______. I will do it right now.

(Kelly and Anna are talking about their vacation.)

Kelly: Hi, Anna.

Anna: I went to Tian'anmen Square.

Kelly: Wow, did you see the flag-raising ceremony(升旗仪式)?

Anna: Of course!All the people around cheered when the flag got to the top.

Kelly: It must be quite different to watch there.

Anna: You are right!  This one is for you!

Kelly: Really? You are so kind! Thank you!

Anna: My father. What about you? What did you do during the vacation?

Kelly:You know, I tried too hard in the sports meeting before National Day.

Anna: Ha-ha! You did!

Onions may be one of the1vegetables in the world, they are pretty good for our body. However, cutting them is no2.

It will make you cry. However, your teary-eyed (眼含泪水的) days in the kitchen may come to an end. A Japanese company created the first kind of onions that will change this kind of things.

Japanese researchers (研究人员) spent 20 years doing this. The onion wouldn't make people cry when they cut it, and it is a new kind of onion: the Smile Ball. It looks like the common onions we see. But it is a bit3the common ones. It doesn't have the same4as the onion we bought before. When it's eaten raw (生的), it tastes sweet(甜的), like an apple. More importantly, when you cut it, it puts a smile on your face. But the price was not low. You have to5450 yen, or about 28 yuan for a pair, twice as expensive as the common ones.

When you were one year old, she fed you. You thanked her1crying（哭）all night long. When you were three, she2all the meals with love. You thanked her by throwing (扔) your3onto the floor. When you were five, she4you for the parties. You thanked her by making the new clothes dirty. When you were seven, she bought you a baseball. You thanked her by5the neighbor's window with it. When you were nine, she6piano lessons for you. You thanked her by7practicing. When you were eleven, she took you and your friends to the movies. You thanked her by asking her to sit in a8row (排).

Who is she? She is your9. Always remember to love your mother. No love is10. than mother's love. And you only have one mother in your life time!

My school in the US just opened, but the COVID-19 is still a problem there. I had to stay in China and took online classes that were given by my school in Boston.

My teachers try to make their classes more interesting. My English teacher shows us memes (表情包) and plays music as part of her class.

Because of the time difference, I have to stay up late. I have to set alarms (定闹钟) to wake me up, as class goes from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a. m., while in China we start at 8:00 a. m.  Because I'm the only student in my class who is studying online, my teachers like to put me on a big screen. Everyone can see me yawn (打哈欠) clearly．

After my classes are over, I go to sleep at once. Sometimes, I try to enjoy the sun going up beautifully for a while. So far, so good!

It was midnight. Zhang Yong's phone, how-ever, was still busy. The messages were all from food suppliers (供应商). The man carefully read them. He was trying to get enough food for the people in his neighborhood.

Shanghai was suffering from(遭受) the serious COVID-19. Since mid-March, Zhang kept volunteering in his neighborhood to help people out. After days of lockdown, many families began to run out of food. It was hard for them to order food online as there were few drivers. Group buying worked better. But it needed a coordinator(统筹者). As the youngest among all the volunteers in the neighborhood, Zhang decided to work as the role.

He began by ordering 60 boxes of milk for his neighborhood. After this success, more and more people joined his WeChat group. It was a hard work.   ▲  Sometimes, some members didn't pay on time. Zhang often couldn't go to bed until 2 a. m. and he had to get up at 6 a. m. to order things. However, he felt happy to be able to help others.

You are lucky if you've been well fed in the past several weeks.  But you must not forget all the hard work behind the food.

David-A              Claire- B

A: Do you have any activities in your school this term?

B: Yes, there is always something special in our school. Only the students in our school have this activity this term. That is Four Skills Learning (四学会).

A: Wow. That must be cool. Can you tell me more about it?

B: We learned many thingslistening to lectures（讲座), watching movies and some other things. They arefrom the subjects we are learning in class. We can learn something in nature (自然).

A: What made you the most excited?

B: The cooking. We cooked in groups, and our teacher chose who cooked the best. Luckily, I won.

A: That's fantastic. I know youcook at home.

B: That's true. I only cook on my parents' birthdays. It's mytime to cook with my classmates. However, I cooked than anyone that day. At last, I got the first prize. I was so happy. You knowin the world is happier than getting rewards (回报) after we work hard. And I took quite a few photos that day.

A: Really? Would you mind them with me? Iwhat dishes you cooked and how delicious they were.

 B: Of course. They are in my phone. Let's take a look.

A: Wow, the dishes look so wonderful. It seems that you did a good job.

You aretalented in cooking.

B: Thank you. These activities taught me a lot.

A: I hope I can go with you next time.

A year divides into 24 solar terms(节气) according to the traditional Chinese lunar calendar．Frost's Descent(霜降) is the 18th solar term of a year. It is the last solar term of autumn, during which time the weather becomes muchthan before and frost begins

. Here are four things you should know about Frost's Descent. Firstly, eating persimmons(柿子) during Frost's Descent can help people feel warm and protect their bones．, the apple is one kind healthy fruit during Frost's Descent. There are manyabout apples' benefits in China, such as "Eat an apple after meals, and even old men can be as strong as young men, just as the Western one goes." An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Apples can help one's digestion(消化).Thirdly, pears are to apples which are another healthy fruit during Frost's Descent. They can help clear away heat and reduce sputum (痰). Fourthly, it's a good for people in Fujian Province to eat duck on the first day of Frost's Descent. People say that nourishing(滋养) the body all year round is not asas nourishing the human body on the first day of Frost's Descent. So people take eating duck verybecause it's also a way for people there to gain weight.

Although itthat different places have different ways to celebrate the day, thefor being healthier and living a happier life is the same. So next year, try to eat something above.

For a teenager, life can be a little hard, especially（尤其）when you try to balance（平衡）a long day at school.The following advice may help you make use of your time better.

 A notebook will help you keep your plan mote useful.  Before the start of each week, write down what you need to do first. Then get to know how long it will take you to finish different work, and set your weekly plan.All in all, putting everything on paper will help you order your time, so you can do more important work before less important ones.

Break it down. Think of one to five goals（目标）you'd like to make in each school termThis is to make what you set can come true quickly.

Don't always put things offIf you can develop（发展）the habit of doing work on time, you are half-way there.

One of the most well-know directors(导演) of our time is Stephen Spielberg. He was born in Cincinnati on 18 December, 1946. His father was an electric engineer and his mother was a performing pianist. His sister, Anne Spielberg, became a screen writer who wrote the stories for many famous films. Stephen had always wanted to be a director ever since he was a young boy. When he was just 13 years old, he made a 40-minute film. It won a local competition. Three years later, he made a film called Firelight, which made one hundred dollars' profit（收益) at the cinema in his hometown. Many of the ideas from this film were later used for one of his most famous films called Close Encounters of the Third Kind. When he was 18 years old, he wanted to go to a film school so that he could improve his skills and become an even better director. But he was unsuccessful in getting a place at this school, so he went to a university in California to study English. Even though he had failed to（没有）get into the school he wanted to go to, he didn't let this stop him following his dream of becoming a great director. Stephen Spielberg has directed many films since his first major film in 1976. He now owns many different businesses, most of which are involved in the film industry.

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