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浙江省湖州市吴兴区2019-2020学年八年级下学期英语期中质量检测(含听力音频)

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Dear Nancy,

    My name is Nick and I hope you can help me. I used to be very happy at school. I had a group of friends, and I always did well in class and at sports. I don't want to be boast(自夸), but I was very popular. Everyone wanted to be my friend.

Then a new boy called Alan came to our school. First, he got a higher score than me on a test. Then he joined the school soccer team and scored two goals. He is a good soccer player! The other students started to think he was better than me.

Some of my best friends became his friends. If I suggest things for us to do, they ask Alan what he thinks. It's getting worse every day! Yesterday I gave the wrong answer to a question in class, and Alan gave the correct one. Now everybody thinks that Alan knows more than I do.

    What can I do to get my friends back?

Nick

Dear Nick,

    Your letter shows us all how difficult it is to adjust to a changed situation. You are used to being the most important person in you group of friends, and suddenly this has changed.

    You're obviously a very smart boy, and you are used to being better than most people at lots of things. You are very lucky, but you can't be the best in the world at everything. Learning how to deal with this will make your life a lot happier.

    This is my advice. You should not try to compete with Alan, you should continue to do your best in everything, but if Alan is better than you at some things, then you should congratulate him and be happy for him. When your friends see that you can adjust to the changed situation, they will respect you and still be your friends.

Good luck!

Nancy

(1)、What is Nick's problem?
A、He gets bad grades on a test. B、He has a problem with his teacher. C、He is not as popular as before at school. D、He doesn't know how to make friends.
(2)、Which sport is Alan good at?
A、Basketball. B、Baseball. C、Tennis. D、Soccer.
(3)、What is Nancy's advice?
A、She asks Nick to change his mind. B、She asks Nick to find new friends. C、She asks Nick to compete with Alan. D、She asks Nick to go to a new school.
(4)、What does the underlined word "congratulate" mean in Chinese?
A、关注 B、避开 C、祝贺 D、责备
举一反三
 阅读下列材料,从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案

The other day, my husband called me to the balcony(阳台). "Come, dear, look at that car!" 

"What's up?" I asked, looking down at the square in front of our apartment building. A driver was trying to park between two cars. 

"That must be a woman," my husband said.

"How do you know?"

"I've watched the car move back and forth twenty times. Men can't be so bad at driving!"

"What if the driver is a man?" I asked.

"I bet you 50 yuan that the driver is a woman!"

We stood on the balcony and watched the car. It felt a little silly. Five minutes later, the car was finally parked perfectly, and a man slowly got out.

"Fifty yuan please," I said to my husband as he silently walked away.

My husband is not alone in looking down on female drivers. On weekends, my friend Lily likes traveling around the city by bus. But she always hesitates to get on a bus if the driver is a woman. "I can't trust a female driver," she told me one day. "Women are not born to drive, you know."

"Sorry, but I don't know," I said. I go to work by bus every day, and I never think female drivers are any worse. In fact, they are often more careful than men. Research also shows that female drivers are 8.8 times less likely to cause accidents than male drivers.

There are not many female bus drivers, though. And in the history of Formula One(一级方程式赛车), only 0.26 percent of drivers have been women. Without role models, many girls may think they are not meant to be good drivers. But the ability to drive has nothing to do with gender. Women can drive well, too. It's time to stop making jokes about female drivers.

 根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

Luke Hayes-Alexander, 32 years old, looks like a typical eighteen-year-old boy. He speaks slowly and is quite shy. However, when he talks about food, he is different! "My life is about food shopping, preparing food and serving." Luke was the executive chef(行政主厨)of Luke's Gastronomy in Kingston, Canada, started by his parents in 1993. When he was a kid, he liked reading cookbooks. Soon, he started helping his father with cooking in the kitchen. At the age of fourteen, Luke left school and decided to learn more about food. Then, at the age of sixteen, he became the chef and started changing the small family restaurant into a center of creative dishes.

Luke cares about his ingredients(原料)a lot:  they all come from local(当地的): arms and he chooses them carefully. Everything in the restaurant is home-made. Even the wine in his restaurant is from his own vineyard(葡萄园)."I enjoy cooking. I hope every ingredient in my dishes is beautiful and fresh and that the customers will enjoy the taste of my food, "he said.

Luke is happy in Toronto. He has many plans and is already working on a new cookbook. And then he would also like to go to Europe in the future to find out more about cooking and talk with some famous cooks. What words does Luke have for other teenagers interested in cooking?" Have fun, get dirty, listen to some good music and cook!"

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