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广东省深圳市宝安区2018-2019学年八年级上学期英语期末考试试卷

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    The years from A.D 500 to 1450 are called the Middle ages. Sometimes they are also called the Dark Ages since few people had an education during that time. Still, there were lots of new ideas and inventions. Many of them came from China.

Paper Money

    In 1023. the first government—printed (政府印制的) paper money was printed in China. Before that, paper money had been printed just by companies. Marco polo was an Italian explorer who went to China. He wrote about paper Money. Paper money did not become popular in Europe Until Sweden began printing it in 1601.

Movable type printing machine

    Bi Sheng Made the first movable type printing machine in China in the 1000s. Before this, people had to make copies of books by writing out the whole book by hand.

Magnetic(磁的)compass

    A compass is usually used to tell you what direction you are going. The Magnetic compass was first used by the Chinese around A.D 200. But at that time, people mainly used it for telling what would happen to them in the future. They began using it for sailing around the year 1000.

(1)、Why are the Middle ages called the dark Ages according to paragraph 1?
A、Because few people had an education then. B、Because there were a lot of new inventions. C、Because all the inventions came from China. D、Because there were almost not any new inventions.
(2)、Where did the first government—printed paper money appear according to the passage?
A、In China. B、In Italy. C、In Sweden. D、We don't know.
(3)、According to the passage. who invented the first movable type printing machine in China?
A、Marco Polo. B、A person from Sweden. C、Bi Sheng. D、An Italian explorer
(4)、When did people begin to use compass for sailing according to the passage?
A、Around A D 200. B、In the 1000s. C、Around the year 1000. D、1000 years ago.
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 阅读填空

As we all know, China is the Kingdom of Bamboo.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}There are about 1,200 kinds of bamboo in the world and about 400 kinds are in China.

People in ancient China used bamboo a lot in their daily lives.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}In the Shang Dynasty, Chinese people began to use bamboo to make beds, chairs, chopsticks, spoons, baskets and so on. Before paper was invented, people wrote on bamboo.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}Besides, bamboo shoots (竹笋) could be made into popular dishes, because they were delicious. It was also easy to find bamboo in Chinese medicine.

Today we can still find bamboo products all over China.

Bamboo is tall with thick leaves. People like bamboo very much. They often plant it in the yards and in the parks.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}And it can also stand the cold of the winter. It is also a plant that can grow in poor soil.

Through the centuries, bamboo has always been a subject of many poems and paintings. People admire it for its purity (纯洁) and elegance (优雅).{#blank#}5{#/blank#}In fact, bamboo makes Chinese culture rich and colorful.

A.It can stand the heat of the summer.

B.They used bamboo to make many things.

C.Because it has the most bamboo in the world.

D.People also used bamboo to make weapons (武器).

E.They usually compare bamboo to the honest people.

 阅读短文,回答问题

①Many people travel to varied places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree? 

②To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don't want to lose customers. 

③However, according to scientific research, a part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude (海拔) we can not taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces one third of the sensibility (感觉) of our taste buds(味蕾). So our taste buds become senseless. The sad face, however, is that our noses don't know it.

④All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. ____ Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.

⑤Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.

⑥Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can't deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them. 

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