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四川省绵阳市江油市五校联考2024-2025学年八年级上学期开学英语试题
Food is interesting. It's also interesting that different food has different meanings in different countries.
Onions ﹣﹣ In Egypt，many farmers use the onion as a symbol of truth （真理）. When they have different ideas with each other，they often have an onion in their hands and put it up high to show the truth is in their hands. A town in Switzerland has the Onion Festival. It is on the fourth Monday of November. Food shops and restaurants make all kinds of onion food on that day.
Tomatoes ﹣﹣ They are the "Number 1" food. They are a kind of vegetable and a kind of fruit. They are very helpful. They're important to hamburgers and salad. They may taste bad if there are no tomatoes. In some countries of Europe，young men and women often pick tomatoes for each other when they are in love.
Carrots ﹣﹣ We can usually see them in vegetable salad. In Netherlands （荷兰），the carrot，onion and potato are country food. People in some countries call the carrot "Queen".
Potatoes ﹣﹣ They have two other names ﹣﹣ "apples in the forest" and "the second bread".
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Hello Kitty is a famous cartoon cat. You can see her on many 1 of things like bags, clothes, food and books. People fell in love the cute cat as soon as she 2 .
Over years ago, a Japanese company Sanrio made Hello Kitty. It first 3 on a wallet. To people's 4 , in the artist's design (设计), Hello Kitty is a girl! That's why people always see her 5 with two feet.
Hello Kitty is in the third grade in her school and she studies 6 . All of her classmates and teachers like her very much. Her favourite 7 is apple pie. She lives with her parents and twin sister 8 London. It is quiet there. Hello Kitty has a 9 family. At weekends, her father often drives his car to take them to visit her 10 in the forest. It's interesting that Hello Kitty has a pet cat like 11 .
The artist said, over years ago, that many Japanese 12 and worked in Britain. 13 she made an important decision. She made Hello Kitty a(n) 14 person. Hello Kitty has a very 15 life now. She's the symbol of all the good things.
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