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新目标(Go for it)版初中英语八年级上册期中卷
Let's Explore the Nature!
The summer holiday is coming! Do you want to have wonderful and meaningful vacation? If you are interested in animals and nature. Come and join us!
Youth Explorer has prepared you with a Three-day Summer Program! You can take part in many activities and meet animals-lions, monkeys, tigers and so on! More information about the program is as follows:
Age: Students aged 10 to 15.
Groups: Two programs for you to choose. Each group needs at most 15 students.
Program A Dates: 15~17 July, 2019 Days: Monday to Wednesday Time: 9:30 a.m. ~4:00 p.m. |
Program B Dates: 6~8 August, 2019 Days: Tuesday to Thursday Time: 9:30 a.m. ~4:00 p.m. |
Program cost: $ 200 for members; $ 230 for non-members.
How to do: Simply come to our center to get an application form (申请表).
Send your completed form to us before July 10th, 2019.
Notes: 1)No free lunches are offered. You may either bring box lunch or pay for lunch at our restaurants.
2)Both programs will start day later if there is a warning of rainstorms.
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Though modern technology could help produce more crops (庄稼), these terraces still mean a lot to the local people. For them, traditions have too much value (价值).
A. Why do people turn the mountains into terraces? B. It is quite useless for the people to work there. C. The sun heats the water and turns it into vapour (水蒸气). D. Summer sees the mountains turn green with growing rice. E. It took them hundreds of years. |
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