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浙江外研版2018-2019学年初中英语八年级下册Module 3-4 单元测试卷(六)（含听力音频）
Like most people, your intelligence（智力）changes from season to season. You are probably a lot sharper in spring than you are at any time of the year. A well known scientist, Ellsworth Huntington concluded（得出结论）from other men's work and his own that climate and temperature have a clear effect on people's intelligence.
He found that cool weather is much better for creative thinking than warm weather, but this doesn't mean that all people are not so quick at learning in summer as they are during the rest of the year. It doesn't mean, however, that the intelligence of a large number of people seems to the lowest in summer.
Spring season appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in spring man's intelligence is affected（影响）by the same factors（因素）that bring about great changes in all nature.
Autumn is the next-best season, then follows winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take long holidays from thinking.
relative; magic; off; early; Australia |
Australia celebrates many Western holidays, such as Easter and Christmas. However, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} also celebrate some holidays of their own. Melbourne Cup is one of them. It's a well-known horse racing competition. On the first Tuesday in November every year, it is held in Melbourne that is not only a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} city in the state of Victoria but also its capital.
Last year, I visited my friend Peter that lived in Melbourne. We went to watch the horse race after one of his {#blank#}3{#/blank#} gave him two tickets. When we arrived there, the number of people really surprised me. Peter told me all the people in Melbourne have a day {#blank#}4{#/blank#} and that schools and most businesses are closed on Melbourne Cup Day. At the scene(现场), we also saw a lot of women wearing beautiful hats and dresses.
What we liked most was certainly the horse race itself, It started at 3 pm and every rider had to try his best to keep the horse energetic in the 3, 200-me tre race. Finally, a horse named Cross Counter arrived at the finishing line {#blank#}5{#/blank#} than any other horse. According to Peter, the first race was held in 1861 and a horse named Archer became the winner that year.
Club News(新闻) — Hillside School | |
| Club 1- - Steel Pan Band Do you like music? Come and join the Steel Pan Band. We meet on Thursdays after lunch in the music room. Everyone is welcome. |
| Club 2--Baseball Cluh We meet after school on Mondays on the playground (操场). Please wear(穿) sports clothes and sports shoes. |
| Club 3--Ping-pong Club We meet on Fridays after lunch in the sports room. Please come here with your ping-pong bats. We have lots of ping-pong balls. |
| Club 4--Cookery Club Find out about food and make fine dinners for your friends. Come to the school kitchen(厨房) after school on Wednesdays! |
| Club 5-Art Club Do you like drawing? Come to Classroom 7A after school on Tuesdays. Bring(带来) a box of colored pencils and a notebook, please. |
| Club 6-Chess Club Can you play chess? We meet on Mondays after lunch in Classroom3E. Here you can also find some books about chess. |
In China, there are four ancient inventions—writing brushes（笔）, ink sticks（墨）, paper（纸） and ink stones（砚）.
{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Those made of wool（羊毛） are called yanghao and those made of weasels'（黄鼠狼） tail hair are called langhao.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#}A story goes like this:Two famous skilled men Xi Chao and his son produced a kind of perfect ink stick. As a result, the Emperor Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty agreed to give them the family name "Li". In the Song Dynasty, its producing area was changed into Huizhou, and it was then called the Hui Ink Stick.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} In Xuancheng, it's said that Cai Lun's pupil Kong Dan happened to see the ebony（檀木） in the rivers. It was wet with the water and turned white. Then Kong Dan used the bark（树皮） to produce world-famous Xuan paper.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Duan Ink Stone, She Ink Stone, Tao Ink Stone and Chengni Ink Stone are the most famous.
A. It's very hard for people to make paper now. B. They are mainly made of the hair of animals. C. The ink stick produced in Huizhou is perfect. D. There were some famous kinds ink stones in the Ming and Qing dynasties. E. The famous Xuan paper appeared in the Sui and Tang dynasties. |
Would you like to practise calligraphy with a brush(练毛笔字）？Why or why not?{#blank#}5{#/blank#}
celebrate cucumber like dumpling break family taste health so many they festive |
Do you know International Day of Families? It's May 15th and it's a day for all {#blank#}1{#/blank#} . In my family, I have my parents and my brother. They love me very much. And I love {#blank#}2{#/blank#} , too. We always do some interesting things on this day to get a {#blank#}3{#/blank#} from work.
This year, we have a family trip to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} it. We go to a nice park(公园). I make some{#blank#}5{#/blank#} for them to show my love. My mother likes vegetables. She thinks they are healthy. So l make {#blank#}6{#/blank#} salad for her. My father {#blank#}7{#/blank#} chicken and hamburgers, so I make chicken hamburgers for him. My brother loves ice-cream and he is fat. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} I don't make it for him. I make salad for him, too. He thinks they {#blank#}9{#/blank#} delicious and eats them all.
I also buy some things for my family. My parents love sports. So I buy two pairs of sports shoes for them. My brother is a student. I buy some school things like dictionaries and notebooks for him.
All in all(总之), we have a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} time. What about you? How do you spend(度过) this special day?
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