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江西省赣州市上犹县2024-2025学年九年级上学期期中考试英语试题
Improvements in technology often happen overnight. Some gadgets get smaller and faster. Others are replaced by newer things like smartphones. They can do hundreds of things. Here are some old gadgets that people used to use.
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Do you have a landline at home? These are phones that people plug(插入) into their living room walls. Mobile phones didn't use to be so common at that time, so most families had a landline. But landlines only worked at home. What did people do when they were outside and needed to call someone? They looked for a pay phone! Then, most people had their own mobile phones and many homes no longer had landlines.
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People today store plenty of information online, or on SD cards. But in the 1980s and 1990s, people used to use floppy disks(软盘). The first floppy disks were large, expensive, and not very useful — each disk could store just 175 KB of information! Later, floppy disks got smaller and better. But even the best ones could only hold 1.44 MB. You would need three or four disks just for one song, and about 22,000 disks to match the storage(储存空间) available on a 32 GB phone!
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It's easy to take photos today. People often have thousands just on their phones! But photos used to be expensive, and people took fewer of them. To take a photo, you had to buy a roll of film. This allowed you to take about 30 photos. After finishing the roll, you left it at a shop. The shop developed the photos to make them be seen, which you could collect after a few days.
Technology changes all the time, and the gadgets we use today will one day be old. What do you think will be next to disappear?
a. Goodbye Disks
b. Music to My Ears
c. Picture This
d. Call Me
e. Film Development
Imagine a sky filled with beautiful kites of all shapes and sizes. Isn't it magical? In this article, we'll take you on a journey through some of the best kit e festivals around the world.
Weifang International Kite Festival The Weifang International Kite Festival is held every year in April. Weifang is known as the "Kite Capital of the World". The history of this kit e festival can date back to 1984. Different kite designs(设计) can be seen during the festival. Traditional shapes include fish, birds, butterflies and dragons. There are also creative style s like the kit e in the shape of China's Tiangong space station. Visitors can also try their hand at kite making in many workshops. |
Dieppe International Kite Festival The Dieppe International Kite Festival takes place every two years in September in France. The festival began in 1980. It is one of the largest kite events in Europe. The event is known for showing artistic kite designs. If you are visiting Dieppe for the festival, you will not want to miss the closing ceremony. There's an evening light show. Hundreds of kites magically light up the night! |
Washington State International Kite Festival In the U. S. , there is the Washington State International Kite Festival. It has been held in August every year since 1981. The festival is one of the largest kite-flying events in North America. The festival includes many competitive events. It's fun to watch kite-flyers from around the world work their magic. This festival still holds the world record for keeping a kit e in the air for the longest time — 180 hours(7. 5 days). |
Eliza and her family took a trip to Xi' an in July. Here are their travel expense(旅行支出)
Travel Expenses Time July 10 to July 15 Place Xi'an People3 | |||
Category | Number | Expense | Other |
Plane tickets(票) | 6 | 5, 220 yuan | |
Subway & Taxi | 11 | 483 yuan | |
Hotels | 5( n1ghts) | 1, 710 yuan | |
Meals | 10 | 1, 568 yuan | I liked biangbian g noodles best. My mom's favorite was liangpi, and my dad loved roujiamo. |
Tickets for tourist spots(旅游景点) | 12 | 1, 155 yuan | I bought half—price tickets with my school ID card. How great! |
Gifts | 11 | 570 yuan |
Everything on the trip was great!
Idea for next trip: Changsha, Hunan
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