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广东省茂名市2024-2025学年八年级上学期质检练习(一)英语试题
Kimberly always enjoyed singing. She began.1 music when she was in middle school. To practise, she didn't take the English classes many.2 . "How poor your English grades are! You do have to come back to the class as3 as possible," the English teacher said.
One day, Kimberly wrote some lyrics(歌词)and she wanted to be a singer. But her music teacher4 her to improve her writing first, because it was basic for writing lyrics. From then on, Kimberly tried to think about some good ideas and 5 in English. Later, she found that it was good for her English6 and writing. Slowly, she corrected many.7 in vocabulary and grammar.
Later, Kimberly wrote an English story and8 it to her teacher. It was 9 , and the teacher saw her hard work. "Music means a lot in my life, and I believe my English will become wonderful because of10 ," she said. Her love for music pushed her to get over many difficulties.
The history of chocolate begins with a plant whose name is cacao (可可豆). For centuries, people worldwide have been enjoying the rich favor of chocolate, a product made from cacao. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Americans eat an average of more than five kilograms of chocolate per person every year. The specialty (特产) shop shows the culture of chocolate and sells chocolates from different areas of the world.
Historians believe the Mayan people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around 2, 000 years ago. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Then they grew them around their homes. They cooked the cacao seeds(种子)and pressed them into soft powder (粉末). They mixed the powder with water to make a delicious chocolate drink. There are often images of cacao plants on Maya buildings and art objects. The rulers drank chocolate at ceremonies. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
The Aztecs also valued chocolate in the Aztec culture. But the cacao plant could not grow in the area where they lived. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay or give as offerings(祭品)to the gods. Only the very rich people in Aztec societies could afford to drink chocolate because cacao was so valuable.
The explorer Christopher Columbus brought cacao seeds to Spain after his trip to Central America in 1502. The rich people of Spain first enjoyed the chocolate drink. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Nowadays, the English, Dutch and French all plant cacao trees in their own countries.
A. Chocolate is very sensitive(敏感)to temperature. B. The Mayan took the cacao trees from the rainforests. C. Chocolate is especially popular in the United States. D. Chocolate has been prepared as a drink for nearly all of its history. E. So they had to exchange goods with other societies for cacao seeds. F. Since then, the popularity of the drink has spread throughout Europe. G. And even poorer members of Mayan society could enjoy the drink sometimes. |
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