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上海市宝山区初中英语八年级上学期期末测试卷（含听力音频）
The villas(别墅)were very nice. Beautiful houses, wonderful lawns, and nice gardens. This was the kind of housing estate where John Wood preferred to work.
It was just before eleven o'clock at night. After John drove around for the fifth time, he thought that he had found the right house-No. 4. There was no light and the garage(车库)door was open. John parked his car in the next street and then came into the garage.
No one would think that a well-dressed gentleman with a white silk scarf and gloves, was really an excellent thief.
After looking around the house for a while, John got down to work. He searched every room, and before long, his hands were full. He had two necklaces, some gold rings and a purse with a lot of money. He put all the things in his pocket.
Then he found a small wall safe(保险箱)in the bedroom. John couldn't wait to take the valuable things from the safe and put them into his own pocket！But the thief met a problem; he couldn't open the safe.
John wiped a few drops of sweat from his forehead, took off his gloves, and placed them on a chair. Again and again, and finally, he opened the safe. He saw something shining-a huge diamond.
Suddenly, John heard someone opening the front door. It was the owner of the house. John put the diamond in his pocket, ran to the window, climbed out of the house and drove away in the dark.
Ten minutes later, the police arrived. After searching the house. the police found an important piece of evidence(证据)that could easily tell who was the thief.
Do you know what the piece of evidence was?
How important is music? When they are asked this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very important. It is often considered only as entertainment, but not the first choice for education. This opinion is shortsighted. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
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Music provides a kind of ability to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}We need every possible was to discover and response to our world.
Music is a form of thought, as powerful as science. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Through the language we express our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Music does.
So music education is much more necessary than people generally realize.
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A. In fact, music education is necessary and important to all students. B. Music explores the emotive meanings. C. Science does not tell us what it means to be human. D. It is a way we human beings "talk" to each other. E. For example, just as Mozart music represents a lifestyle, rock music represents a lifestyle, too. |
Mistakes are great teachers. Success comes to those who are willing to risk making mistakes to achieve their goals and wishes, and who are able to learn from those mistakes. And in order to learn from mistakes, you must be willing to pay for them.
Mistakes can be very valuable, but when you try to get others to pay for your mistakes, then you lose the chance to learn from them. When something goes wrong, it's usually very easy to find someone else's mistakes, but is that useful?
Much of the value of mistakes comes from the fact that they need a cost that must be paid. The person who learns the most from a mistake is the one who pays the price for that mistake.
When you make a mistake, what you shouldn't do is to run away from it. You need to accept it because you can learn a lot from it. The mistake has been made, so make the most of it. Pay the price, learn the lesson, and grow that much stronger.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Remember the causes, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The present is still in your power. Make full use of your mistakes to achieve your goals and wishes.
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Mistakes are great teachers |
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Success comes to those who not only achieve their goals and wishes at the risk of making mistakes {#blank#}2{#/blank#} learn from and pay for them. |
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When you make mistakes |
Don't run away from them. It's easy but {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to find someone else's mistakes. |
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The value of mistakes |
You can learn a lot from mistakes and grow stronger by {#blank#}4{#/blank#} them and paying the price for them. |
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When you make mistakes, remember {#blank#}5{#/blank#} you make them and then look forward because you can't change the past. The present is still in your power, so make full use of your mistakes to achieve your goals and wishes |
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