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湖南省衡阳市衡山县多校2023-2024学年八年级上学期1月期末英语试题
Today, we are going to make a simple cake. Here are the materials (材料) and ways. Let's have a try!
Materials
□ 1 cup of white sugar
□ 1/2 cup of butter
□ 2 eggs
□ 2 spoons of vanilla extract (香草香精)
□ 1 and 1/2 cups of flour (面粉)
□ 1 and 3/4 spoons of baking powder (发酵粉)
□ 1/2 cup of milk
Ways
◆First, you should preheat (预热) your oven (烤箱). Then you should cover a pan (平底锅) with oil and flour.
◆You should mix up the sugar and butter in a medium bowl. Then you can add the eggs, one at a time. Next, you can add the vanilla extract, flour and baking powder to it and mix well. Finally, you should add the milk. Then pour it into the prepared pan.
◆Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the oven. If you want to make cupcakes, you can bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
Little Mermaids Forget Their Worries
Look at their beautiful tails. A high school student learns to swim like a mermaid (美人鱼) in Andrychow, Poland. She is taking a special class. A coach teaches her and other "mermaids". Mermaiding is becoming more and more popular around the world. As mermaids, people can forget about their worries in the real world and just have fun, said Fox News. ▲
From this autumn, primary and middle schools will have labor education (劳动教育) . Every week, students will have at least one class to learn about cooking, raising animals repairing home appliances (维修家电) and more. This is to enrich Chinese students' life and build their character. Chinese school education didn't give a lot of thought to this in the past. According to a report, Chinese kids only do 12 minutes of practical activity each day, while US kids do 1. 2 hours each day, China Daily noted. Loving Our Food Culture
Do you know the most famous dishes in your hometown? To let students explore (探索) the local food, Golden Apple Jincheng No. I Secondary School from Chengdu, Sichuan, held an activity. It asked students to draw the food map of Sichuan and make a popular Sichuan food: pickles (泡菜) . By doing these things, students learned both geography and biology. |
At times, some teenagers love their idols (偶像) blindly and try to copy the hair or clothing style of the stars. This reflects their lack of (缺乏) self-confidence. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}The key to standing out is to build your body confidence. That's really necessary for teenagers.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#}It's about accepting and being kind to yourself. Research has shown that feeling good about your body can make you do much better in working and learning. But you don't need to fix on the outside of your body. After all, the look is only a small part. An expert on development of teenagers named Jade said, "{#blank#}3{#/blank#}If you spend much time on the so-called ‘perfect look', you will have less time to do something more meaningful."
To improve body confidence, Jade gives the teenagers some advice.
● Don't talk anything bad about yourself or others.
● Focus on the things you do well in. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}
● People like you for many reasons. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}And always tell yourself you are becoming better.
● Learn more knowledge to make you open-minded and believe in yourself.
A. What is body confidence? B. Write down the reasons you hear. C. The cost of achieving "perfect look" is high. D. They can help to bring out the best in yourself. E. Actually, everyone can be different from others. |
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