英语沪教版八年级上册 Unit 6 Wisdom counts 单元模拟卷

We played happily at first, but then4 terrible happened. One morning I went to the forest near the5 alone (独自). I walked, and then I heard some6 singing in the trees. Their feathers (羽毛) are beautiful so I took some photos of them. When I got7, I wanted to go back to the hotel for food,8 I couldn't find the way back. I9 different ways, but I was still in the same place.

"Oh,10 should I do?" I said. Later it started to rain. I didn't take an11, so I got all wet.

I stopped walking and12 my parents. After a few13, they found me.

It was dark and I felt14, tired and afraid. I would15 go to the forest alone again. It was a bad trip.

Li Qingzhao (1084——1155) is one of the best-known female writers in Chinese history. She showed great love for writing and was known as a talented special woman then. But her life was a bittersweet story.

Born into a famous literary (爱好文学的)family, Li was someone who always wanted to destroy old customs and traditions from the start.Women in the Song dynasty stayed indoors. They didn't discuss politics, and only spoke when spoken to. But just at the age of 17, Li Qingzhao made a name for herself.

She was lucky in her marriage. In 1101, she married Zhao Mingcheng, with whom she shared the interest in the art collection. They lived in present-day Shandong. They were not wealthy, but they lived happily together. Li and her husband collected many books. They shared a love of poetry and often wrote poems for each other. They sold clothes and went hungry to slowly build up a big library, and they always spent their nights on literary drinking games like this one: An event would be chosen from a pile of books, and the person would win if he/ she first named the book, chapter, page, and line where it was found.

This happy life was ruined by the wars of 1127.The Northern Song capital fell this year during the Jin-Song wars. Fighting took place in Shandong and their house was burnt. The couple took many of their possessions and ran away to Nanjing, where they lived for a year. Zhao Mingcheng died in 1129,leaving her childless and alone. Li Qingzhao's life was full of twists and turns (波折), but she left many valuable poems to us.

Alice was sitting with her sister by the river and her sister was reading a book. Alice had nothing to do. Once or twice she looked into her sister's book. "And what is a book for," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" Suddenly a white rabbit (兔子) with pink eyes ran by.

There was nothing strange about that. She heard the rabbit say, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I'll be late!" and she did not think it was strange. Then the rabbit took a watch out of its pocket and looked at it. A rabbit with a pocket and a watch? Alice got up and ran across the field after it. She saw it go down a large rabbit hole in the ground.

Then Alice went down after it, but never thought about how she was going to get out again. She found that she was falling down a very, very deep hole (洞). It was too dark for her to see anything. She was falling for a long time. While she was falling, she was thinking about her cat, Dinah. Suddenly she landed on some dry leaves.

We didn't have a lot of money then, but we grew our own food and made our own clothes. I had great fun helping with the farm work like picking strawberries and feeding the chickens. Mom was good at sewing (缝补), and grandma could knit (织) beautiful sweaters in all styles. I can still remember how warm and lovely the clothes were when I was wearing them.

Every day after school, I would play outside and wait for my dad to come home from work. He worked on cars all day and always came home tired with oil (油渍) on his hands and clothes. But when he got home, he would clean up and sit in his old chair. And my favorite part came: climbing onto Dad's back and watching TV together. His hands were so big and strong that I        ▲       .

Now I live in a big city. But I still remember those happy times with my family. I wish I could go back and sit with my family again.

Have you ever wondered why the letters on a keyboard are not in the "ABC" order?

The keyboard we use every day is called the QWERTY keyboard. Q, W, E, R, T, Y are the first six letters on this kind of keyboards, starting from the upper left-hand corner. 

The first manual typewriter(手动打字机),with a keyboard which looked like a piano, was invented in the late 19th century.  However, it was later discovered that as the typing speed increased, some keys failed to come back to their places quickly. As a result, they got jammed (卡住) very easily.  To solve this problem, the first QWERTY keyboard was developed. It placed keys in a way that the most used letters were spaced out (隔开) so that the keys were more likely to work freely.

 With the arrival of the computer, the typists in offices were the same as people who now operate computers. This meant the typists had to be trained to use the new devices (设备).  It was easier to design the keyboards following the layout (设计) of typewriters, which was the QWERTY layout, and this continues till today.
 

In ancient China, there was a wise man called Zhuge Liang. One day, Zhuge Liang found himself in a difficult situation. Sima Yi's army was coming and Zhuge Liang's support was still far away. There were not enough soldiers in West City. But Zhuge Liang thought of a method to s this problem.

Several soldiers were ordered to open the city gates and clean the roads. Zhuge Liang himself went up the city wall and began to play his favourite music softly there and seemed  r .

When Sima Yi's army arrived, they saw the open gates and empty streets. Only a few old soldiers were working as cleaners. Sima Yi's army couldn't believe their eyes. They  d what they saw, so they didn't enter the city. Zhuge Liang told them that the city was empty and that they were welcome. But Sima Yi thought it was a trick,because Zhuge Liang had never taken any unsure plans. He wouldn't  t Zhuge Liang.

After some time, Sima Yi made a dto leave. Zhuge Liang saved the whole city.

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Dear Tom,

I'm very happy that you are interested in traditional Chinese stories. Well, let me tell you a famous one with the name" Waiting in the snow to meet Master Cheng respectfully".

……

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours,

Li Hua