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黑龙江省哈尔滨市2024-2025学年八年级上学期学业素养质量监测英语试题
What would people like to eat on their birthday? The answer would 1 different in different countries.
In many countries, people have birthday cakes 2 candles. The number of candles is the3 age. The birthday person must make a wish and blow out the candles. If he or she blows out all the candles in one go, the wish will 4 .
In the UK, people sometimes put a candy in a birthday cake. The child with the candy is 5 .
In China, it is 6 popular to have cake on your birthday. But many people still eat very long7 for their birthday. They never cut up the noodles because the long noodles are a8 of long life. In some places, Chinese people also eat eggs on 9 birthdays. They are a symbol of life and good luck.
All of these birthday foods 10 be different, but the ideas are the same. They bring good luck to the birthday person.
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar (阴历) divides the year into 24 solar terms (节气)．Major Snow (大雪) is the 21st solar term of the year. Here are three things you should know about Major Snow.
Snowy winter | The snow in North China may last a whole day，covering the ground and blocking the road. In the south，snow falls and the world turns white. There is a saying about the snow，"A timely snow promises a good harvest". |
Admiring plum blossoms (梅花) | Plum blossoms usually bloom (开花) in midtolate December in some southern cities of China，and sometimes bloom even earlier. The plum blossom，which came from China，is honored in Chinese culture for its resilience during cold winters. With the pine (松树) and bamboo，it is regarded as one of the Three Friends of Winter. |
Eating porridge | Hot porridge can help warm you and make your body healthy in cold weather. In China，it's traditional to eat red bean porridge on the first day of Major Snow and eighttreasure porridge on the eighth day of the last month of the lunar year. |
Alice found some big plastic bottles when she was cleaning up her house. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Mr. Green moves into a new house. But he thinks the wooden sofas in his old house are too hard. He wants to buy some soft ones instead. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Tom can't sleep well on an uncomfortable mattress (床垫) every night. He wants to buy a new one. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Kate was born in a poor family. She thinks her old clothes are out of fashion and some of them are won out, But she doesn't have money to buy new ones. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} John's mother bought him lots of books when he was young. He has read them again and again. Now he wants to give the books {#blank#}5{#/blank#}to others. | A. Do you have any old clothes that can be used again? Give them to children in poor areas. This is helpful to the environment. B. If you have some books which you don't need, you can give them away to our school library. C. Street artists can. turn useless mattresses into sculptures (雕塑) which look like some big delicious cakes. People can enjoy the creative street arts when they pass by. D. Add some colorful stones into your big glass bottle. Put your little cute fish in it and you can give your fish a new home. E. Redesign the old clothes and change them into new fashion. Then you can continue to wear them. Sometimes cover the small holes with hand embroidery (刺绣) . F. If you have old wooden sofas you don't need, you can give it away to the charity. Maybe someone else needs them. G. Cut a hole in the middle of each plastic bottle and fill the bottles with some soil. Then plant some flowers in them and put them int he yard |
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