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外研版2019-2020学年八年级下册英语期中测试卷2

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    You need some bread and milk. But half an hour later, you leave the supermarket with a trolley(手推车) full of food. What games do supermarkets play to make us spend so much money?

    The tricks usually start before you walk in. Outside the supermarket entrance(入口), anybody who walks past can smell warm, fresh bread. That makes us hungry and ready to buy lots of food, not just bread.

    Now you're inside and, of course, a small basket would be fine, but all they have are trolleys. And of course the problem with a trolley is that it looks sad and lonely with just one or two products inside. So we may fill it with something. In fact, supermarket trolleys are actually getting bigger so that we buy more.

    Of course, many people shop in supermarkets because they think everything is cheaper than in other shops. So supermarkets offer very cheap prices on some things but then have higher prices for other products. One new trick is to put red stickers(贴纸) on products. Customers usually connect red stickers with lower prices so the red stickers are easy to be noticed, even when there is no reduction! Interestingly, this trick appears to work more with men than with women.

    There is a story behind the position(位置) of everything in the supermarket. For example, customers often go only to buy milk. So they put it right at the back, making you go past hundreds of shelves full of other products. The position of products on each shelf is also important. The most expensive products are usually at eye-level so you see these at once. The exception is anything that children might like. These products are on lower shelves so that kids see them.

    Apart from what you see and smell in a supermarket, what about what you listen to? In most supermarkets they have soft, slow music. It's so relaxing that you slow down and spend more time (and money) in the store. You also move more slowly when the supermarket is busy. Experts suggest it's better to shop when it's quieter, on a Monday or a Tuesday for example. And be careful with queues(排队) at the checkouts. These are sometimes deliberate(故意), to make you buy something from the checkout shelves while you wait.

    So, next time you go into your local supermarket, remember these tricks and see if you can come with just the things you went for.

(1)、Smells from bread in the supermarket ______.
A、make you feel hungry and buy more food B、draw your attention to bread only C、make you buy less bread than you need D、force you to leave the supermarket
(2)、Supermarkets don't provide baskets because ______.
A、supermarkets don't usually have many B、baskets are too small to hold many products C、it's easy to go shopping with trolleys D、a trolley can hold one or two products inside
(3)、According to the passage, toys for children are usually placed ______.
A、on higher shelves B、on each shelf C、on lower shelves D、on the back shelves
(4)、It can be learned from Paragraph 6 that supermarkets usually ______.
A、stop people lining up at the checkouts B、close on Monday morning C、play loud and noisy music inside D、make customers feel relaxed
(5)、The passage is mainly about _____.
A、several ways supermarkets use to sell more products B、some advice when people go shopping on the street C、several rules that every business should follow D、some advertisements that make people buy more
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Maybe you have known much about the Amazon Rainforest, but there are some other forests in the world that play a significant role in keeping the balance of the Earth's ecosystem. Let's take a look. 

No.1①    ▲

Found in Southeast Alaska and spreading about 26,560 square miles, the Tongass National Forest is the largest national forest in the United States and the largest temperate rainforest(温带雨林) in North America. That means it holds almost a third of the Earth's old-growth temperate rainforests, which are particularly important due to its high levels of stored carbon (碳)and energy. 

No.2②    ▲

Located in Yunnan Province in Southwest China, Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest has been listed as an official UNESCO biosphere reserve(生态圈保护区)since 1990. 

Spreading about 936 square miles, the forest supports a large number of rare and endangered species, including 90% of China's entire wild Asian elephant population. 

No.3③    ▲

As one of the oldest forests in the world, Daintree Rainforest in Australia is believed to be over 135 million years old. At 463 square miles in size, Daintree Rainforest contains over half of the country's bat and butterfly species, helping it serve as an important source of pollination(授粉)for the rest of the region. 

No.4④    ▲

The 40-square-mile Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is one of the most popular bird watching destinations in the world. Monteverde is also home to jaguars, pumas, several species of monkeys, and colorful red-eyed tree frogs.

 阅读下列材料,从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中,选出最佳选项。

China is trying to get an international certification(认证) for Pao Cai. It's a vegetable dish from Sichuan. But some other countries have different ideas about it.

The disagreement(分歧) is between Chinese and South Korean Internet users. Kimchi is a usual Korean food made of cabbage, just like Chinese Pao Cai. Chinese and Koreans both think the vegetable dish comes from their own country.

China recently got a certification from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for Pao Cai. South Koreans quickly disagreed, especially on the Internet.

"It's really wrong, Kimchi is a part of our culture," a South Korean Internet user wrote on Naver.com. "I read a story that China now says Kimchi is theirs, and that they are making an international standard(标准) for it. I'm worried that they might take away Hanbok and other cultural symbols, not just Kimchi," said Kim Seol-ha, a 28-year-old in Seoul.

On China's Weibo, Chinese Internet users were describing Kimchi as one kind of Chinese Pao Cai. "Even the name of Kimchi came from Chinese, what else is there to say," one wrote on Weibo.

South Korea's agriculture ministry(农业部) on Sunday said that the ISO's standard is different from that to make Kimchi. "It is not right to report that Pao Cai wins the ISO without differentiating Kimchi from Pao Cai of Sichuan," it said.

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