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湖南省长沙市开福区北雅中学2024-2025学年八年级上学期英语入学考试卷
Do you know what the greatest invention ( 发明) is in the 20th century in Japanese eyes? Ramen!
Ramen is a kind of cheap and good yellow noodles that became popular street food in Japan in the early 1900s because Japanese did not have much food at that time. Today people all over the world enjoy ramen. It is said that people around the world eat about 40 billion bowls of ramen every year! Now ramen is moving from streets and instant bowls to good restaurants. Some cooks add meat, vegetables and spices( 调味香料 ) to make ramen more delicious. And people in Japan like to go to noodle shops or sushi(寿司) bars to have a nice dinner now. So whether you want traditional, quick, or fancy ramen, you can always find it. Just look on the street, in a store, or in a restaurant near you.
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Robots are helpful in people's lives. They can help people with a lot of {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, such as cleaning windows and doing the dishes. But do you know that a special kind of robot can play a role in {#blank#}2{#/blank#} railways? Last year, some engineers {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a special robot. It is much more different from other small robots. The robot can reach as high as ten meters and raise heavy things. The robot {#blank#}4{#/blank#} doing difficult or dangerous work. With the help of this special robot, workers can be safe. Although this robot can only help in a few places, it's a big help to railway workers. More {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, the engineers have been working hard to improve it. They believe that this kind of robot will become popular around the world in the near future.
"Everybody loves bargain (减价品). " is a famous saying. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} In our daily life, one person's useless or broken object may be another person's bargain. That is why Americans don't throw things away. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} And they put up a "For Sale" sign to have a yard sale.
Over the years, many people's houses have been filled useless objects. It seems wasteful to throw them away. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} The sellers put an ad (广告) in a newspaper first. It tells others when and where the yard sale will take place. Early in the morning, people take their things out of the house. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}
Anything can be sold at a yard sale, such as old toys, tools, books, tables and chairs. Some people go to yard sales to find a special thing. However, some people don't sell their old things. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Later, they may hold their own yard sales to sell all the things they have bought.
A. So most people choose to sell the things they don't use anymore. B. A bargain is something that you get for lower than its usual price. C. They might buy an object simply because it costs so little. D. They put them outside their houses. E. Then they sit all day waiting for someone to take them home. |
Sit back and get relaxed!
These days, we easily feel stressed as we get more and more work to do. It's important to know how to solve problems and find ways to relax.
First, we should try organizing our work from most important to least important as well as most urgent(紧急的) to least urgent. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} As soon as those are done, work on things that are important but not urgent. Then, do things that are less important and less urgent. This makes us know what to do first and not worry about the rest.
Still, sometimes we feel stressed even after organizing our work. That's okay. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Because exercise helps a lot in forgetting about our problems. It doesn't even have to be a big trip to the gym, although that surely helps. It could be something as small as walking around the neighborhood for 10 to 20 minutes.
Finally, we can try meditation(冥想). {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Just set aside 10 to 20 minutes with an alarm clock, sit straight, close our eyes, and focus only on breathing. If other thoughts come up, accept that they are there and let them fly away on their own. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}
By trying these steps, we will certainly feel peaceful when finishing all of the work.
A. How can we do that? B. It is not easy to get work organized. C. Try to add some exercise into our weekly plan. D. Both our body and mind can get relaxed this way. E. If some problems are both important and urgent, do those things first. |
Which way is better for you to get relaxed? Why?( about 20 words) {#blank#}5{#/blank#}
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