广东省江门市开平市2022-2023学年七年级下学期期末统考

—I usually spend 20 minutes__________ it.

—__________.

—I usually __________to school on foot.

—What a pity!

—I love it, because I can ________ /ɪkˈspekt/ to learn a lot from it.

— I'd like to buy some books.

— A new pen.

Mina: Jack! I went to Quanzhou with my family last week

Jack: Really?

Mina: It was wonderful!

Jack: How did you travel there?

Mina:

Jack: Did you stay there long?

Mina: No. Only three days. But I found people there very friendly!

Jack:

Mina: We visited Kaiyuan Temple, Mount Qingyuan and some other famous places.

Jack:

Mina: Yes. It is very nice and tastes delicious.

Last week, I went to Shanghai for a holiday with my friends. We did a lot of 1 things there.2the first day, we went to a beautiful beach. The weather was cloudy but hot. We had great fun3in the water. In the afternoon, we went shopping. There were too many people in the shops, 4 I didn't really enjoy it. On the next day, we went to a 5. There were some old things on show in it. It was kind of boring. I saw a little boy6in the corner. He was lost and I helped him7his father. That made him feel very 8. I had9money for a taxi, so I walked back to the hotel. I was really tired after two10 walk, but happy. On the last day, the weather was cold, and we 11 to play tennis. We played all12. It was really fun. After that, we had lunch in a(n)13. We14very nice food from different places. In the afternoon, we did some sightseeing around the city. Then we15a train back to Quzhou at 4:30 pm. It was a tiring holiday, but we really enjoyed ourselves.

    When you wave to a friend, you are using body language. When you smile at someone, you mean to be1, when you put one finger in front of your2, you mean, you mean, "Be quiet."

    Yet, people in different countries may use different body languages. Once an Englishman was in lately. He could3a little Italian. One day while he was walking in the street, he felt 4and went into a restaurant. When the waiter came, the Englishman5his mouth, put his fingers into it and took them out again and moved his lips(嘴唇). In this way, he 6to say," being me something to eat." But the waiter brought him a lot of things to drink, first tea, then coffee, then the7, but no food. The Englishman was sorry that he was not able to tell the waiter he was hungry. He was ready to leave the restaurant8another man came in and put his hands on his stomach. And this sign was clear enough9the waiter. In a few minutes, the waiter brought him a large plate of bread and meat. At last the Englishman had10meal in the same way.

Americans think much about time.

From childhood(童年)they learn to value time. As children, they are taught to be on time to go to school, to work and to do everything else. When they are having a good time, they say that time goes easily. When a person is dying, they say he is living on a borrowed time.

Time is money. Time is knowledge. Time is everything in America. A working American has to work hard for eight hours a day or forty hours a week. This is the working time. In his free time, he also works hard for more money. Even on Saturdays and Sundays, he also works hard as usual. In the street you can hardly see men walking slowly. They walk very fast. In fact, they are running.

They love time because time can bring them money and lots of things. But sometimes they also hate time, because they feel they become servants (仆人) of the clock.

A long long time ago, two brothers lived in a village. They were both farmers and grew rice. The elder brother had many children to feed (养活), so he had very little money. The younger brother also had a big family to look after. Although the brothers were poor, they lived happily.

One year, there was a drought (旱灾)and the rice did not grow well. The brothers collected their small harvest and stored the rice in their barns (谷仓).

'One night, the elder brother could not sleep. He was worried about his brother. Would he have enough rice to feed his family? At last, the elder brother got out of bed. He went to his barn and filled a bag with rice. Then he went silently to his brother's house and secretly added(增加)the grain to his brother's.

Every night he did the same thing. He took some of his own rice and added it to his brother's store. But after a few days, he noticed something strange. His rice never looked smaller in the morning.

One night he decided to find out why. After it had got dark, he hid near his barn and watched. At last, a man approached with a bag of rice. At first, he did not know who it was. Then he was amazed to see his own brother. Every night the younger brother did the same thing—took rice from his own to give it to his brother.

It was true brotherly love.

提示:

1）母亲出生在一个小城市；

2）外祖父母是工人，他们的家在工厂附近；

3）家里只有一个客厅，两间小卧室；

4）家的附近有许多孩子，他们中的一些是母亲童年的朋友。

My Mother's Past Life