题型:阅读判断 题类: 难易度:普通
云南省昭通市永善县2023-2024学年八年级上学期1月期末英语试题
Once upon a time, a fox(狐狸)was walking along a road. He saw some beautiful grapes hanging over a high wall. He stopped to look at the grapes. They looked nice to eat. The fox wanted to eat the grapes very much, but he couldn't reach them. So he jumped as high as he could. Sometimes his nose touched a grape, but his mouth could not reach it. The fox jumped and jumped until he was very tired.
Finally he stopped jumping and walked away with his nose held high. He said,"I don't need those grapes. They look nice but I'm sure they are sour."
In our daily life, when people can't get something they want, they may say,"The grapes are sour."
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It is the 31st year that Zhang Yufei has worked and lived in Faxing Temple. Changzhi,Shanxi province.
The 52﹣year﹣old man {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the cultural relics (遗产) in the temple very well. "These cultural relics are part of my life and I want {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the culture,art and stories behind them to a wider public,"Zhang says.
After graduating from junior middle school,Zhang took several part﹣time{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. The turning point was in 1991 when Chongqing and Faxing temples wanted some guards. Zhang became one of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} . "There was no water and electricity in the temple and in winter it was {#blank#}5{#/blank#} cold,"Zhang says.
Later he became a guide at Faxing Temple. In 1998,he met Shi Yanchun at Faxing Temple. Shi is an expert and helped to rebuild {#blank#}6{#/blank#} than 1,000 cultural artifacts. "That was when I started learning professional knowledge about painted clay statues(雕像). We talked about the art form at night,"Zhang says. Since then,he {#blank#}7{#/blank#} reading books on the topic. He has also taken every chance to communicate with experts.
One day,he {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a camera as a gift by an expert. With it,Zhang started to record the painted clay statues in the temples in Shanxi. In 2011,his first book introducing the art form came out. He also wrote over 100 articles telling the{#blank#}9{#/blank#} stories about Shanxi's cultural relics online. Zhang hopes that more people can take part in the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of cultural relics. In this way,they can truly keep alive.
My parents usually celebrate a special day by enjoying a special kind of wine called Canadian ice wine.
My mother once told me the story of ice wine. To make it. people must freeze grapes on the vine. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Sometimes. a great new product is invented by accident. And that's exactly how we got ice wine.
In the 1700s in Germany, a man was away from his farm in autumn. The weather suddenly turned cold and his grapes froze when he came back. How terrible! Anyway, the man tasted the grapes. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Then, he decided to use these grapes to make some wine. Guess what? {#blank#}3{#/blank#} For two centuries, Germany was the only place where ice wine was made.
Then, a Canadian got the idea that this kind of wine could be produced in Canada, After all, the winters are cold in Canada, and that's the main requirement for making ice wine. After hard work, some grap e farmers found the best process. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}
The story of ice wine got me thinking. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} It's really hard to imagine the world without penicillin and the microwave. Penicillin has saved millions of lives. And the microwave has certainly changed the way we cook.
Life is sometimes like that. When we look for one thing, something even better comes along … if we keep our eyes and minds open.
A. To his surprise, the grapes tasted so sweet. B. People really liked his wine. C. What other inventions came about by accident? D. You might think this is strange, but it is true. E. And soon Canadian ice wine began to be sold all over the world. |
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