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吉林省长春市外国语学校2016-2017学年八年级下学期英语期末考试试卷

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    What do you know about the Northern European country of Finland(芬兰)? You may have heard of the Northern Lights(极光)and Nokia? Today Finland is also a world leader in making mobile games. The popular games Angry Birds and Clash of clans(部落冲突)are both from Finnish companies.

    Finland is not a very big country. How can it make so many world-class games?

    Innovation(改革,创新)might be the first reason. Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Finland this month. He spoke very highly of the innovation of the country. Finland gives money to help start-up companies. It even builds technology bases for them. There are now around 290 game companies in Finland.

    Finnish mobile games also stand out(突出,超群) because of the country's special Northern European art style. The style is mainly about being simple. It's a tradition of Finnish design. You many also see it in clothes, furniture and even buildings. In the game Angry Birds, the birds and pigs look very simple but cute at the same time. They easily interest the players.

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(1)、Where are the popular games Angry Birds and Clash of clans from?

(2)、What might be the first reason why Finland can make so many world-class games?

(3)、Who visited Finland this month?

(4)、How many game companies are there in Finland now?

(5)、Why do Finnish mobile games also stand out?

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    Do You Put off What You Should Be Done Today Until Tomorrow.

                                                         ﹣Richards tells about time wasting

September 25th, 2015

    Wages sin as hundreds of emails after we put Dr Rowman Pelling's article Can You Manage Your Time Well on our website.     

    I started decorating the bathroom in 2006when I moved into this house, the tins of painting I still lying there nine years later. I still haven't decided what color paint I'm going to use. It really troubles me a lot.

                                                                                                                                ﹣by Caroline, New York

    I'm still getting round to put away the Christmas trees used last December and it's now September. In June I decided I might as well leave it because it would be Christmas soon. Anyway,what's wrong with having a Christmas trees throughout the year?

                                                                                                                                        ﹣by Polly London

    When I was traveling in Britain with my family, I bought a book called 52 steps To Prevent Time﹣Wasting. But I was so busy with my work that I could never find time to really even one word of it. Ten years has passed since then, and I can't remember where it is now.

                                                                                                                                       ﹣by Craig, Toronto

    I'm furniture businessman. I once sold a set of British furniture to a customer from japan,but I didn't send him the furniture on time, which made me very embarrassed. Instead,I told him that I couldn't find a writer shipping company to send him the furniture.

                                                      ﹣Ted Roseland, Sydney

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The name of Dr Rowan Pelling's article.

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The year of Caroline moved into this house.

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The thing Polly wanted to put away.

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The city Craig comes from

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Ted Roseland's job

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    Stonehenge is one of the oldest places made by man. It took about 700 years to build the oldest part of it is now believed to be 4,800 years old. It is located in the south of England near a small town called Amesbury in an area which has many other ancient monuments.

    Stonehenge consists of several circles. Some of them are made of stone, one is a ditch(沟渠)and one consists of 56 holes in the ground called “Aubrey holes”. Because many of the stones have fallen over or have been moved, it is difficult to see the full shape. The outside circle of stones once had 30 enormous (巨大的) stones, each weighing about 25 tons. On top of them used to be 30 more weighing 7 tons each, so that they made a circle of huge arches (拱形).Inside this was a horseshoe shape of five even bigger arches in which each of the upright (直立的) stones weighed 45 tones. Inside this was a bluestone circle of 60 stones, then a bluestone horseshoe of 19 stones. Finally in the middle was an enormous stone called the altar (祭坛) stones. The bluestone came from some mountains in Wales, 385 kilometers away, and even the other stones came a distance of at least 50 kilometers. Carrying the 80 stones to form the main circles probably took several thousand men several years.

    Nobody knows why it was built. It may have been a kind of church; it may have been a meeting place for the people who lived near. Some people say that it was a means of predicting the position of the sun, the moon and the stars. It has also been discovered that Stonehenge is located on some mysterious (神秘的)lines called “ley lines ” that seem to join together ancient buildings and places in England.

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    People travelled to see the buildings, the food, the national dresses in foreign countries because they thought they would not be the same as those of their own countries in the past. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}They all have their Hilton or Sheraton Hotels everywhere. They all have their McDonald's, their KFCs and their Pizza Huts. Office buildings look the same everywhere, and most city centers are full of office buildings.  And of course, people are driving the same brands of Japanese or European cars.

    Then why is the foreign travel more popular nowadays? What do tourists hope to experience m a foreign country that they can not experience at home? The answer could be that people could be very interested in the past.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Most people travel overseas to find out what foreign countries' history and culture used to be like, not what they are like today. Tourists visit different kinds of museums in foreign countries so that they can learn their history and culture.

    Every country also has its own beautiful places for tourists to visit. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}It is not just its old buildings, its works of art or beautiful places, but also the people who live in it. This is why a country such as Thailand attracts millions of people. The tourists come mainly because of the friendliness of the people there. It is why the Pacific islands are also so popular. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

A. It's a nation's history and culture that are main attractions.

B. The friendly people make visitors feel welcome.

C. Finally, another attraction is its food.

D. At present, however, one large city is similar to another.

E. Their own special scenery would certainly attract tourists from other countries.

F. The culture of a country means a lot.

G. People learn about foreign countries by surfing the Internet.

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