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河北省临西县第四初级中学2016-2017学年八年级下学期英语期中考试试卷

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    Modern Chinese use the solar calendar(阳历)as English people do . But at the same time, they use their own lunar calendar. Each lunar year is given the name of one of these animals : the rat , the ox , the tiger , the hare , the dragon , the snake , the horse , the goat , the monkey , the chicken , the dog and the pig . This list lasts for 12 years and then starts again.

     Each Chinese month starts on the day of the new moon. And the full moon comes on the 15th day of the month. The New Year always starts between January 21 and February 20. On the last day of the lunar year, there is a big family dinner. All members of the family except married daughters try to be present at this meal, even of they have to travel many miles to reach the home of their parents. Old quarrels are forgotten, and everybody is happy. After the dinner, the children keep awake to welcome the New Year.

    The New Year celebrations last for 15 days, from the new moon to the full moon. On the first day, children and unmarried people go to visit their elder

(1)、If next year is the year of the dragon, what was the name of last year?
A、It was the year of tiger. B、It was the year of the hare. C、It was the year of snake. D、It was the year of the ox.
(2)、Suppose that next Chinese New Year's Day is on 15th February, when will people have their big family dinner?
A、On February 15 B、On February 16 C、On February 14 D、On February 17
(3)、The family usually have their big family dinner at the home of _______.
A、the married son B、the married daughter C、the unmarried son D、the parents
(4)、People celebrate the New Year ________.
A、for 15 days B、from the new moon to the full moon in the first month of the lunar year C、from January 21 to February 20 D、both A and B
(5)、From this selection we know that each Chinese month is measured by __.
A、the sun's revolutions(旋转) B、the moon's revolutions C、the earth's revolutions D、both the earth's and moon's revolutions
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Are there any lakes in your hometown? What color are they? Around one-third of the world's lakes are blue according to a study in September 2022. But global warming (全球变暖) may lead them to turn green or even brown.

Yang from Southern Methodist University in the US and his team studied the color of over 85,000 lakes based on satellite photos taken from 2013 to 2020. They found that lakes in places with cooler average summer air temperatures—below 19℃—were more likely to be blue than lakes in places with warmer summers.

According to the research, the color of a lake is in part decided by what's in the water. Water takes in the long wavelengths of sunlight, such as red, orange, and yellow, leaving behind the shorter ones like green and mostly blue. In other words, the cleaner the water is, the bluer it looks. In warmer lakes, phytoplankton (浮游植物) develops easily. It has colors from green to brown and red, giving the lake a different color. If global warming continues, one in ten blue lakes might change color, according to the study.

Lakes serve as an important part of our environment, with their color being one of the oldest ways to decide the health of an ecosystem. Humans get their drinking water from lakes, streams and groundwater. As lakes become greener, people may lose lots of clean water. Because of this, treating the water of such lakes becomes more expensive.

At the same time, blue lakes are also a place for people to relax. Some people, according to Catherine O' Reilly, a scientist from the study, considered blue lakes as a place to set their minds free. As these blue lakes disappear, they may feel sad.

If the temperature keeps rising, the fast growing of phytoplankton in greener lakes will provide lake animals more food. However, an increase in these things may also cause some lake animals to die because there is not enough oxygen for them.

 完形填空

Some people believe that humans could live on the planet Mars by the year 2100. It is hoped that people could start all over again and1 a better world on Mars. Here is what life there could be like. 

At present, our spaceships are too slow to carry large numbers of2 to Mars-it would take months. With the development of technology, by the year 2100,the journey might 3 take about 20 minutes in spaceships that travel at the speed of light!

So far, nobody knows whether there would be enough 4 or air on Mars for people. After all, they are the most important to human life. Moreover,scientists are not sure whether plants could grow on Mars. Food would most probably be in the form of pills (药片)and would not be so tasty. 

Compared with life on the earth, life on Mars would be 5 in some ways. People would have more6 . They might live in houses with huge comfortable rooms. Also, robots would do a lot of their work so that they could have more time to7 . There would probably be no schools on Mars. Every student would 8 at online schools with"e-teachers". 

However, life on Mars would be9 . There are still many difficulties for us to overcome. It may take hundreds of years to make it10 . So the most important thing we need to do now is to protect our beautiful blue planet-the earth!

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