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安徽省安庆市怀宁县2019-2020学年八年级下学期英语期中测试卷
Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages(孤儿院)or homes for the aged. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems.
Other young people volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, do their shopping or mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.
Here are four clothing stores.
Golden Point Sell: women's clothing and accessories (配饰) Open hours: 8:30 a.m. —9:30 p.m. Clothes: Good Price (价格): £ £ £ £ Service: ★ Phone: 6632225 |
The West Village Sell: men's clothing and second-hand (二手的) clothing Open hours: 8:00 a.m. —10:00 p.m. Clothes: Bad Price: £ £ Service: ★★★★ Phone: 7632646 |
Sports World Sell: sports clothing Open hours: 9:00 a.m. 一 9:00 p.m. Clothes: Very good Price: £ £ £ Service: ★★★ Phone: 7799365 |
The Cross Sell: children's clothing and accessories Open hours: 8:30 a.m. 一 7:30 p.m. Clothes: Best Price: £ £ £ Service: ★★ Phone: 7246911 |
Notes: £ means the cheapest; £ £ £ £ means the most expensive;
★ means friendly; ★★★★ means the friendliest
Don't be too surprised if you see a car going down the road without a driver in Beijing these days. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Last month, Baidu began to test its self-driving cars on open roads in Beijing.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Since then, companies like Tesla, Uber and Baidu have been working to produce and test their own self—driving cars.
Self-driving cars are safer than regular cars. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}They can remove the stress of driving and allow disabled or blind people to get around more easily.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#}In one test, researchers pointed a laser pointer (激光棒) at the car's sensors (传感器) while it was moving. The car mistakenly thought that the laser beam was in its way and slowed down or changed the direction.
The software that is used to direct the cars may not be safe enough. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}When we use our computers or smartphones, they sometimes crash (崩溃) without any reason. But if this happened to a self-driving car, the result could be deadly. Improvements to the software could be a solution to this problem.
A. At times, it may break down. B. Self-driving cars began to develop in 2010. C. It might be one of Baidu's self-driving cars. D. But self-driving cars have their own problems as well. E. And they are more environmentally friendly than regular cars. |
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