广东省汕头市潮阳区2022-2023学年八年级下学期期末考试英语试题

Ann: Hi, Mary. Jenny's birthday is coming. Have you received her invitation?

Mary: Yes. 

Ann: Me too. I'm just thinking about the gift.

Mary: Well, she likes reading. Why not get her books?

Ann: I think she'll be happy to get them.

Mary: By the way, how will you buy the gift? Will you ask your parents for money?

Ann: I've already saved my pocket money.

Mary: You're right. I think we should learn to plan money.

Ann: That's true.

Mary: Great job. Learning to save and use money are both important to us. 

A. Sounds good. 

B. I also use it to help others in need. 

C. Yes, I will. 

D. How about you?

E. Do you have any good ideas?

F. Of course not. 

For some teenagers, being an adult is the 1 thing in the world. Adults don't need to do homework or take exams. They do what they like and make money. How 2 ! But is it true?

Last month,Grade Seven students at Sunshine School had a taste of the adult world. The teachers asked them 3 a piece of special homework called "Working with your parents for one day".

Wujing's mother works as 4 ticket collector in a park. At 6 am,the 14-year-old girl set out for work with her mother. It was dark and cold. Before the park opened, they did some cleaning and prepared for the 5 coming. When the visitors came, they greeted with a smile. After standing for the whole day, Wu felt worn out.

"She is busier and more tired than what I thought. I should help her more. "said Wu.

Li Shiyi, 14 , spent the whole day helping in a car. 6 father is a taxi driver. She had to pick calls and 7 change back. Li thought it would be easy to work in a car. 8 soon she found that they didn't even have time 9 lunch.

"Now I know how 10 it is to make money," Li said. "We should care for our parents more and never waste money.

On a sunny day, three old men with long white beards(胡子) knocked the door of a small and old house. When a woman opened the door, she found she 1 met them before. She said, "I don't think I know you, but you look tired. Please come in and 2 . "

"We do not go into a house together," they replied.

"Why?" she asked.

One of the old men explained, "His name is Wealth, and he is Success, and I am Love. You need to 3 your family which you want to invite. "

The woman went back into the house and told her husband about it. Her husband was very 4 . "How nice!", he said. "Let us invite Wealth. He 5 fill our home with money!" His wife disagreed, "My dear, why don't we invite Success?" Their daughter suggested, "Wouldn't it be better to invite Love? Our 6 will be filled with love. " "Let us take our daughter's 7 ", said the husband. Then, they went out and invited Love.

Love got up and walked into the house. The other two also got up and 8 him. The woman asked Wealth and Success in surprise, "I only invited Love. Why are you coming in?" The old men replied together, "9 you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would have stayed out. But you invited Love. Wherever he goes, we go with him. Where there is Love, there is 10 Wealth and Success!"

People are different. So are friends. The following are some kinds of friends. For more information, you can click(点击) here. 

Today, we often see delivery men(送货员) taking food to people. Do you believe that self-driving cars—cars without drivers will bring food to you in the near future? That sounds interesting, doesn't it?

Now Baidu and Meituan are working together to use self-driving cars to deliver(配送) food. These companies use them to send group orders. For example, when a company orders food for people working there, a self-driving car will bring all of their orders to the company quickly and safely. 

Online food ordering is becoming popular all around China, even in small villages. Till now, about 300 million users use different apps to order food online. Some researchers(研究人员) say that using self-driving cars will be a revolution(变革) in the food delivery. They will make a great difference in the future. 

At the same time, some people think there must be some problems. For example, self-driving cars can drive well on flat(平坦的) roads, but what will happen when the road is not flat? Some other people worry that most of the delivery men will lose their jobs in the future. 

What do you think of using self-driving cars to deliver food?

On March 3, 2022, when Jiang Mengnan received the award of Person Touching China for 2021, she said she most wanted to thank her . 

In 1992, Jiang was born into a family Hunan. When she was 6 months old, she lost her hearing and her world became from then on. Her parents began to teach her to read people's lips(唇读)and speak. It was a slow process(过程)，but her parents never thought about up.

 Jiang was old enough, she went to a normal primary school. She said  was difficult to have lessons at first. During lessons, teachers would often  on the blackboard with their backs to the students, so Jiang missed much of the content(内容). She had to copy down everything and study alone after class to keep up with her classmates. Her hard work finally made her  top student. 

In 2011, she got a high score in thegaokao and went to Jilin University. Now, she studies at Tsinghua University's School of Life Sciences for her doctorate(博士学位).

"I'm always thankful for the respect(尊重) I received from my parents, teachers and friends," she said. "They give me special attention(注意) for my imperfection(缺陷), which means I've never seen myself as from anyone else. "

In many parts of the world, when children turn a certain age like 16 or 18, they will have celebrations(庆典) for their coming of age(成年). It is an important time. 

In Japan, young people become adults when they turn 20. The country celebrates it on the second Monday in January. The new adults dress up in traditional clothes for it. Then, they go to a special event(公开活动). After all that, the new adults can really celebrate. They take lots of pictures and go to parties with their friends and families. 

For the Teochew people(潮汕人) in China, teenagers become adults at 

15. Families have a special event for them on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. It's called Chu Hua Yuan, and it means "leaving the garden". Before the event, the new adults have to clean their bodies with flower water. That washes bad things away. Then, they put on new clothes and special shoes, and they give thanks to their parents. Lastly, the new adults enjoy a big meal with 12 dishes. For even more luck, they bite(咬) the head of a cooked chicken.

No matter what the tradition is, it really helps the new adults get ready for the next part of their lives. It also helps them learn to be independent(独立的). 

1. 独立的重要性；
2. 如何培养独立性；
3. 呼吁大家学做独立的中学生，为新一年的学习做准备。

参考词汇：独立性 independence   独立的 independent

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Nowadays, many of the students depend too much on their parents in their lives.