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广东省韶关市2024-2025学年八年级上学期1月期末考试英语试题
Betty is learning the piano and wants to play it better. She wants to be a pianist. Alan often watches basketball games and he wants to be a basketball player in the future. Candy often cooks dinner for her family and she wants to be a cook. Bill wants to learn how to make films. He is going to be a film-maker. Jane is good at drawing and she draws every day. It is her dream to be an artist. | A. If you want to find some ways to draw better, we have drawing lessons every day. We'd love to have you here. Come and join us! B. Movies can really help lower stress (压力) if you are stressed out. If you are a movie- lover, come and watch movies with us. C. Do you want to get some ideas about how to cook? If you are really interested in cooking, come and join us. D. Are you interested in the music shows? Do you want to make some friends with musicians? You may join us. We can have a lot of fun together. E. Come to join us and we will help you to be a great basketball player! We can teach you a lot of basketball skills and help you play basketball better. F. Are you interested in making films? If your answer is"yes", you may join us to make some interesting short films. G. If you want to play the piano better, here are many great piano teachers to help you. They can make your dream come true. |
Long time ago, children didn't have smart phones, iPads or computers to play with. However, they thought of interesting games to play. Let's take a look.
Flying kites
Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites weren't made of paper, but wood. Nowadays, the three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, the Tianjin kite and the Weifang kite. The swallow-shaped kite is a well-known Beijing style.
____ Playing a stone ball game around was a welcome sport in old China, and people often played the game in winter to keep warm. Stones were like small balls and played with feet. Watching shadow plays
The closest thing to watching a movie for fun during old times was to see a shadow play (影子戏) . People use puppets (玩偶) behind the screen, telling stories with music. |
We all have a family name. In China, the family name comes first, but in English-speaking countries, the family name is the last name. Do you know how English people get their family names? And what do the family names mean（意思）? {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} A man lives on or near a hill, so his family name may be Hill. In England. people's family names may be Wood or Lake because they live near the wood or the lake.
Some people's family names come from their jobs. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Some people's family names are Black or Brown.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} When you hear the family name "Jackson", you can know he is the son of Jack.
A. A person is a cook, and then his family name may be Cook. B. Some people's family names come from places. C. Some people's family names come from their mothers' first names. D. Well, English people get their family names in these ways. E. Some people's family names come from colours. F. Many people get their family names from their fathers' first names. |
In China, there are four ancient inventions—writing brushes（笔）, ink sticks（墨）, paper（纸） and ink stones（砚）.
{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Those made of wool（羊毛） are called yanghao and those made of weasels'（黄鼠狼） tail hair are called langhao.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#}A story goes like this:Two famous skilled men Xi Chao and his son produced a kind of perfect ink stick. As a result, the Emperor Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty agreed to give them the family name "Li". In the Song Dynasty, its producing area was changed into Huizhou, and it was then called the Hui Ink Stick.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} In Xuancheng, it's said that Cai Lun's pupil Kong Dan happened to see the ebony（檀木） in the rivers. It was wet with the water and turned white. Then Kong Dan used the bark（树皮） to produce world-famous Xuan paper.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Duan Ink Stone, She Ink Stone, Tao Ink Stone and Chengni Ink Stone are the most famous.
A. It's very hard for people to make paper now. B. They are mainly made of the hair of animals. C. The ink stick produced in Huizhou is perfect. D. There were some famous kinds ink stones in the Ming and Qing dynasties. E. The famous Xuan paper appeared in the Sui and Tang dynasties. |
Would you like to practise calligraphy with a brush(练毛笔字）？Why or why not?{#blank#}5{#/blank#}
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