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河北省衡水市2019届八校联考初中英语毕业生升学文化课考试试卷(含听力音频)
In the UK, bus journeys are very common. Buses are often convenient(便利的)for the people who live or work in the city center. Passengers can avoid heavy traffic and do not have to pay for the parking. However, taking the bus is just a necessary but boring part of life: they get on the bus, pay for it and sit down or find a place to stand when it is crowded. Everyone seems sad and bored.
In Latin America, however, bus trips can be wonderful. For a start, films are showed on the buses between cities for passengers to have fun along the journeys. Local buses do not show films. but drivers usually turn on the radio and it can be great for passengers to listen to songs and get relaxed.
Even better than films and music are the sights and sounds on the buses. Local buses always go to parts of the town that passengers would not visit by themselves. There passengers can see shops that they have never heard about. And they can also see other cultures of the town from the windows of the buses.
Besides passengers' luggage(行李)is also interesting. It is common to see a happy dog's head getting out of somebody's bag or a lovely chicken "speaking cheerfully "under somebody's arm. Once on a bus in Peru a farmer even tied a sheep to the top of the bus. It was quite surprising.
In all, taking the bus in Latin America is really fun and unforgettable.
English can change by borrowing words from other languages. The word "tomato" was borrowed from Mexico, and “tea” came from China and so on. Now new words are formed by joining two words together. "weekend" and "cookbook" are made up of two parts. A latest one "brunch" comes from breakfast and lunch. Do you have brunch every day? Sometimes new words are shorter forms of older words. For example, the word "photo" was made from "photograph" by cutting off the end of the longer word. "Plane" and "phone" were made by cutting off the front part of "aeroplane" and "telephone". The names of people and products can also become new words. Our "sandwich" was named after a man called Sandwich who invented it and "cello" was a name given by the company that first made the product.
Can you find more examples for each of these ways to make new words?
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Borrowing | {#blank#}2{#/blank#} tea |
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} | Weekend, cookbook, brunch |
Cutting off | Photo, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} , phone |
Using {#blank#}5{#/blank#} of people and products | Sandwich, cello |
A forest fire that burned 55 square kilometers was finally brought under control on Wednesday morning. The fire started on Sunday in Black Bear State Park and quickly spread to nearby areas.
On Monday, police evacuated (疏散) the small town of Lawson and asked the people to leave their homes. The fire destroyed 20 homes in the area and caused heavy damage (损坏) to 40 others.
Nobody was hurt. Officials said the damage to homes and cars was between $l million and $2 million. The fire spread quickly in the hot, dry weather. Firefighting was difficult because of strong winds. Firemen from 55 fire departments in the state joined the National Fire Service to put out the fire. Some kept fighting for 24 hours. Fire engines (消防车) and helicopters (直升机) dropped water onto the fire. In order to control the fire, firemen cleared a way around the fire.
Police closed King Road to traffic on Tuesday because of heavy smoke. Thousands of tourists had to drive an hour north to Queen Road to pass the fire area. Local police think open fires left by tourists might be the cause of the accident and ask tourists to follow the rules in case such accidents ever happen again.
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The time when the fire was under control | {#blank#}1{#/blank#} |
The place where the fire started | {#blank#}2{#/blank#} |
The number of homes the fire destroyed | {#blank#}3{#/blank#} |
The reason why firefighting was hard | {#blank#}4{#/blank#} |
The cause of the fire might be | {#blank#}5{#/blank#} |
A. City Soccer Match The soccer match in our city is coming. Hope all the soccer fans can take part in it! B. City Library There are over 1,000 books of different kinds in this library. Two big reading rooms can hold 2,000 readers. It's open from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on weekends. C. Health Club Do you want to look after your health? If you join our club, you can swim, play basketball, volleyball and ping-pong in the gym(体育馆). D. Running If you keep running for 30 minutes every morning, you can be thin and healthy. And it can also make you clever. E. Canon Digital (数码) Camera A Canon Digital Camera with 8 million pixels(像素)is on sale for 2,500 yuan in Wonderful Supermarket. |
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