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四川省绵阳市江油市五校联考2024-2025学年八年级上学期开学英语试题
Food is interesting. It's also interesting that different food has different meanings in different countries.
Onions ﹣﹣ In Egypt,many farmers use the onion as a symbol of truth (真理). When they have different ideas with each other,they often have an onion in their hands and put it up high to show the truth is in their hands. A town in Switzerland has the Onion Festival. It is on the fourth Monday of November. Food shops and restaurants make all kinds of onion food on that day.
Tomatoes ﹣﹣ They are the "Number 1" food. They are a kind of vegetable and a kind of fruit. They are very helpful. They're important to hamburgers and salad. They may taste bad if there are no tomatoes. In some countries of Europe,young men and women often pick tomatoes for each other when they are in love.
Carrots ﹣﹣ We can usually see them in vegetable salad. In Netherlands (荷兰),the carrot,onion and potato are country food. People in some countries call the carrot "Queen".
Potatoes ﹣﹣ They have two other names ﹣﹣ "apples in the forest" and "the second bread".
A zero- waste life is a lifestyle that hardly creates any rubbish. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}So the zero- waste store is about providing a kind of everyday and good- looking zero- waste products to help people start on a zero- waste life journey.
Zero- waste was first suggested by a French woman called Bea Johnson. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} For example, stop the use of one- off objects; give unwanted things to others and so on.
Yu Yuan, 27, is attracted by this idea. She and her boyfriend used to buy something unwanted until she saw a video about "zero- waste". {#blank#}3{#/blank#} She had a deep impression.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} They tried to follow the six rules. She started making her own toothpaste and taking reusable bags shopping. Step by step, she made small changes. From August to October, she and her boyfriend Joe Harvey both produced only two cans of rubbish.
Now the couple have opened a small shop in Beijing. People can buy the reused products there. "It is not something that can happen overnight. " said Yu. "I hope more people will change their lifestyle after visiting our shop because zero- waste life is just around us at our fingertips. "{#blank#}5{#/blank#}
A. She hopes more friends will join her on the road to zero- waste. B. It follows the 6R rule: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair. Recycle and Rot. C. Later, Yu wanted to experience this zero- waste lifestyle with her boyfriend. D. In the video, a family of four placed the rubbish they produced every year in a jar. E. Her idea is to try not to create any rubbish and to save the environment. |
Bob is often late for school because he always gets up late. This makes his teacher mad. He needs to buy something to wake him up in the morning. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Tim likes listening to music. And he has to send e-mails to his customers every day. He wants to buy something that can help him. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Summer has come. Tony is fat and he can't sleep well on such hot days. This troubles him a lot. He'd like to buy something to make him feel cool. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Alice often washes her hair late at night. It is often wet when she goes to bed. She is going to buy something that can dry her hair in a short time. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Susan is a housewife. She has to do the washing for her family every day. She gets tired of it. She is in need of a product to do it for her. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} | A. This electric product can make you cool during the hot days. It can help you change the temperature and control the humidity(湿度) of your room. B. You can do many things with this product, such as sending e-mails, playing games and so on. You can also listen to music with it when you want to relax. C. This electric product is useful to all of us. People often have one at home. It is often put up on the wall. If you want to know the time, just take a look at it. D. This can help you wash your dirty clothes and dry them. What you need to do is to turn it on and later hang the clothes on the line. With this electric product, life will be a lot easier for you. E. Each family needs this product. You can use it to store food and medicine. It can keep them cool and fresh so that they will not go bad easily on hot days. F. It is a very helpful product which tells you the time. It can wake you up with a piece of music at any time you want, but you have to set the time first. G. When you wash your hair, you need this product. It can make your wet hair dry in a minute. It can also be used for drying your wet clothes or some other wet things. |
practise, conversation, remember, mistake, good |
English is one of the main subjects in middle schools in China. The {#blank#}1{#/blank#} way of learning it is using it. You need to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} speaking English every day. Don't be shy when you speak English in class. It's also a good idea to start a {#blank#}3{#/blank#} with foreigners. Before you begin, you can smile at them. And don't be afraid of making {#blank#}4{#/blank#} . It's quite natural.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#}: Use English or lose English. Just try and you are sure to make progress soon.
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