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广东省佛山市禅城区2023-2024学年七年级上学期期末考试英语试卷
All over the world, people love to eat pizza. In Japan, some people like seafood on their pizza. People in India enjoy tofu on their pizza. In Brazil, you can even have a chocolate pizza!
The history of pizza can go back to the 1700s. Some Italian cooks(厨师) started selling the flat breads in the streets. The breads were called pizzas.
Later in 1889, Italy's queen visited Naples, a big city in Italy. He put tomatoes, cheese and basil on it. It was red, white, and green, like the flag of Italy. The queen enjoyed the pizza very much and pizzas became more popular in Italy.
In the late 1800s, some people moved from Italy to the US. Italians cooked and sold pizzas in their new homes. Pizza became popular in the US because people could eat it quickly and it was cheap.
What is your favorite pizza?
A. They brought pizza there.
B. A cook made a pizza for her.
C. Today, people still love to eat pizza!
D. In Germany, pizza may have an egg on top.
E. People liked them because they were delicious and were easy to carry.
A Smart Schoolbag | Forget to put the books you need into your schoolbag in the morning before you go to school? A boy aged 11 has invented a schoolbag. It tells you which books to bring. A small computer and a scanner(扫描装置) are fixed in the bag. As each book is put into the bag, it is checked by the scanner. If any book is missing, a message will be shown on the computer screen to remind you. |
Weather Sweets | Can you eat weather? A university makes that happen. It uses a 3D printer to create sweets according to the weather information of a certain day. The shapes of the sweets are influenced by wind speed. The colours of the sweets are decided by temperature. The sweets act as a weather record of the day when they are made. |
A Sunrise Bed | It's hard for you to get up in the morning, isn't it? To help you get up, a company has created a "tool" — a sunrise bed. It wakes you up as the sun rises. Lights built into the bed turn on and start to get brighter and brighter. When the lights are fully on, soft music will begin to play. It will be louder and louder until you turn it off. |
Asking for advice can be scary?In a recent study,74 percent said they were afraid to ask for advice. But people who ask for advice are easier to succeed at a task. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Here are a few tips.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} It might be easy to ask all people around you for advice at once,but will you value all advice?Probably not. It might be better to choose one or two people whose opinions you value the most. You can ask for advice from people who have experience in the topic.
Think about when to ask. Finding the right time to ask for advice is important. If what you are asking needs a lot of thought,you should ask people when they are free and clear﹣headed.
Be specific(具体的) in your questioning. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Do you ask a business owner"What advice do you have for me?"No,because it's not specific enough. Instead,try asking
Ask somebody for a second opinion. If you can't solve your problem by following the first person's advice,why not ask someone else who may have a different opinion?
The key is:{#blank#}4{#/blank#}
A. So how do you ask for advice? B. Ask someone for advice politely. C. Don't be afraid to ask for advice. D. Look for the best person to give you advice. E. Imagine you want to own a business someday. |
Today, people all over the world have the same hobbies, watch the same movies, and wear the same clothes. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
In the East, it can take a long time to become someone's friend. People are very close to their friends. When people from the West meet you, they will call you a friend right away. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} When people from the East meet you, they often ask questions. They want to know about your age and your family. To people from the West, these are not polite questions. They don't like to talk about these personal things.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} In the East, family is always a part of life. Kids there live with their parents for a long time. They still listen to them after they grow up.
However, in the West, independence (独立) is very important. Parents prepare their kids for life. Then, after their kids grow up, they say goodbye and leave home.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} They don't have to listen to their parents.
In the East and in the West, people think differently too. People in the West think about small de tails (细节). They also think less and act more. In the East, people notice (注意) relationships between things. And they often keep their opinions quiet.
A. Family is important for everyone. B. Parents teach you much about your life. C. That doesn't mean they are close to you. D. However, our cultures are still quite different. E. Later, the kids can choose to start a family or not. |
A. Again, it doesn't have to be anything really difficult. B. However, I have found a few things that are really helpful. C. You can also make friends with native speakers to learn the language. D. You may think that reading harder texts will help you to improve quickly. E. This allows you to hear the language spoken by native speakers and talk with them. |
I am learning French and German now, and also learnt Italian in the past, so I know how hard learning a language can be. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
Go to the country
Go to the country whose language you are learning. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} For example,when I started learning Italian, I got the chance to stay in Italy for a few days! And then everywhere I went I was surrounded (包围) by delicious food, interesting Roman buildings. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
Read, read, read!
Reading is an important skill in language learning. But I'm not just talking about serious things like difficult newspaper articles. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} But I would advise you not to choose difficult things to read, because you are more likely to get bored and give up. Instead, you should choose something fun and interesting.
TV and films
Another thing that really helps me learn a language is watching TV or films in the language. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} You can start with a children's show or something that you have already seen in your native language. That way you will already know what's happening and you can write down useful words and sentences or try to repeat what they say.
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