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浙江省J12共同体联盟2024-2025学年八年级上学期期中考试英语试题
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In 2024, a big party happened in Paris, France. It was called the Olympic Games! People from all over the world played sports and their excitement together.
The Olympics had special friends called mascots(吉祥物). They were cute characters that showed the spirit of the games. Everyone loved the mascots they were lovely and made the games more fun.
People were happy and cheered happily for all the . The 2024 Olympics were not just about who could run or jump highest. It was also about enjoying the fun of sports.
| When Bella was five, she lost her cat Snowy. Then she decided to write a picture book about her cat so that she could see it every day. The Lost Cat was finished after five days, with colorful painting. To her surprise, this picture book was popular around people and became the best seller in the bookstores. In the same year, Bella was named the world's youngest female writer to publish a book by Guinness World Records. |
| Ten fun scientific studies across the world won the 12th Pineapple Science Award on November, 2023. The organizer hopes to bring out the curiosity (好奇心) of young people through "fun and serious" studies. And the winners got their ideas in daily life. For example, Sun Qi at New York University won the medical prize. It took her and her team two years to find out that plucking (拔掉) gray hairs would only bring more. |
| The pair, Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. What they discovered help the development of vaccines (疫苗) against COVID-19. In fact, Dr. Kariko began studying that in the 1970s. She met Dr. Weissman in 1998 and the two soon began working together. Seven years later, they published their discovery in a paper. With the help of their discovery, millions of lives were saved during COVID-19 |
Help design 2026 Commonwealth Games mascot（吉祥物） Schoolchildren will be asked to help design a mascot to represent Victoria，Australia for the 2026 Commonwealth Games（英联邦运动会）.The Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games mascot，to be announced late next year，will replace the 2022 Birmingham Game's Perry the bull.The director，Jeroen Weimar stressed the process would include sending staff into classrooms to ask kids what they want as a symbol of the Games. | |
▲ The Kids News Short Story Competition runs from May 1 to 26 and is free to enter.The competition has four age groups：Kindergarten to Year 2；Years 3-4；Years 5-6 and Years 7-9.Stories must be between 250 and 750 words for students in Kindergarten to Year 4；and between 500 and 1000 words for students in Years 5 to 9.The judges，will choose the winning entries，with the first prize winner in each age group scoring 10 copies of their short story published into a printed book with a personally designed cover.There are also prizes for one runner-up and three highly commended entries in each age group. | |
First Barbie doll with Down syndrome（唐氏综合征） It's the best-known doll brand in the world，and now in a world first，Mattel has released a Barbie who has Down syndrome.The doll will be one of the company's 2023 Barbie Fashion collection，part of Mattel's bid in recent years to increase the differences of its dolls.To create the doll with Down syndrome，the toy company worked with the US National Down Syndrome Society （NDSS）.The Barbie dolls have features what a person with Down syndrome has，including the face，which has a rounder shape，smaller ears，and a flat nose. | |
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