浙江省温州市2018-2019学年初中英语八年级下学期期末考...

—He's ________________ astronaut. He's just come back from the space station.

— Why not have a try now?

— Come on! He is proud of you. He just wants you to be better.

— I'd love to, but Tim ________________ me out for dinner together.

— Sure. Just put in the food, choose the way of cooking and it starts to work.

— ________________. Maybe you should work harder next time.

    Only five more minutes before school let out.

     "On Friday," said Mrs. Griswell, "please share your favorite1with the class. And bring something to show everyone!"

    Chris didn't look happy. He2to share his favourite hobby with anyone. His brother made fun of him about it, and his dad didn't think much of it, either.

    At home, Chris took out baseball cards. He liked baseball,3his real hobby let him show his imagination.4his cards, he didn't feel right about it.

    Tuesday passed. He was ready to show the cards, but5still felt wrong. He walked out of his room, without looking at the notebook on his desk.

    Wednesday. Chris lay on the bed, counting the6he would show. He didn't want to tell lies, but he wasn't sure if he was7enough to show his real hobby.

    He thought of his grandma, who is a fashion designer. He was interested in8 hobby because of her. Suddenly, Chris ran to the phone. "Hi, Grandma, it's Chris. I need your help..."

    Friday morning. Chris walked to the front of the classroom,9the notebook, and the racing heart.

     "What is your hobby?" Mrs. Griswell asked.

    Chris began, "I design*10and other things."

    Some students were11. "I knew it, "he thought. Mrs. Griswell shook her head.

     "I want to be a fashion designer like my12" He showed his designs for dresses and shirts on the notebook."She taught me all of these," he explained.

    When Chris pulled a headband from his bag and put it on, the class became quiet.

    "This is for boys. You can see some…" He introduced it13as if it was a great work of art. Then he heard Nick say, "Cool!"

    Chris took out another headband from his bag. "For girls, I designed a pink one."

     "I love it!" said Amber.

     "I14the headbands for everyone," said Chris, taking out many headbands.

    The whole class looked15. Chris smiled. Now things finally felt right!

    Do you use emojis to show your feelings? The SwiftKey, a company did research on the number of emojis used in the world. The result shows the top three most-used emojis are happy faces(44.8%)，sad faces(14.33%) and hearts(12.5%).

    The company also found out people in different countries have their own favourite emojis.

    No one can beat Americans when it comes to their love of pizza. Pizza is the most widely used emoji in the US, as well as the chicken emoji. It shows that compared with other countries, America has interesting food habits.

    The French are as romantic as we've known all along. They use the heart emoji four times more than people in other countries.

    Russians also like using romantic emojis. Maybe it's all those low temperatures that make them look for love—they use more cold weather emojis than any other countries as well.

    Surprisingly, it seems that Arabic speakers also like showing love with emoiis. Among Arabic speakers, the rose emoji is used ten times more than any other group studied.

    English speakers that live in the UK like using more lovely emojis. The study showed that British emoji users especially like to send the winking* smiley face.

    What emojis do you often use?

    You may not know him as well as a movie star or a pop singer, but chances are that you have visited or walked by at least one of his works. The East Building, National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C, US, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, are just a few of his many creations.

    The man behind these great buildings is Chinese-American architect Leoh Ming Pei. Born on April 26th, 1917 in a rich family in Guangzhou, China, and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Pei had the chance to enjoy lots of dreamy Chinese gardens and mountainside temples. "These have always been the most important inspiration* to me as an architect," said Pei. When he was just a young boy, Pei realized that he loved design and it led to a dream of him becoming an architect and engineer.

    At the age 18, he began studying architecture in the United States. He got his degree from MIT in 1939. Because of the start of World War II, he was unable to return to China. He stayed in the U.S. and completed his master's degree from Harvard. After starting his own architectural company in 1955, he went on to design such well-known buildings as the Kennedy Library in Boston and the glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum in Paris. In 1974, he returned to China for the first time. "Though I have lived in the US for nearly forty years, I'm still Chinese," Pei said when visiting his hometown.

    Pei is good at bridging differences--ancient and modern, man-made and natural, East and West. On May 19th ，2019, the great architect left us forever, but his works will last in our mind all the time.

    It's no surprise that a night without enough sleep can lead to a bad morning. Does it also do harm to our bodies?

    According to US sleep researcher David Dinges, not getting enough sleep can have serious side effects on our minds and bodies.

    For the study, Dinges divided some people into three groups. The first group was allowed eight hours of sleep for two weeks; the second group was given six hours; the third group got four hours of sleep.

    Dinges found that the people in the first group stayed normal while the people in the last two groups showed tiredness and negative feelings.

    "When people don't have enough sleep, it's hard to sense their happiness," Dinges said. "Also, they are less able to sense others' good feelings."

    But if not having enough sleep can harm our health, can we get better later on?

    "People think that sleep is like the bank that you can pay off your debt* at a later point in time," US sleep scientist Matthew Walker told Popular Science. "But we now know that sleep is not like that."

    According to Live Science, humans are the only animal species that don't have sleep storage* systems, our brains* cannot get back what we have lost.

    So scientists suggest that no matter how busy people are, they should always try to get enough sleep. Here's the recommended* hours of sleep by age. Preschoolers (3 to 5 years): 10 to 13 hours. School-age children (6 to 13 years): 9 to 11 hours. Teenagers (14 to 17 years): 8 to 10 hours. Adults (18 to 64 years): 7 to 9 hours. Older adults (over 65 years): 7 to 8 hours.

    Three birds rested on top of a snowman's head. Ally and her mother walked up to the snowman quietly.

    "Someone put birdseed on my snowman!" Ally cried. Suddenly all the birds flew off, except a red one. Ally ran to the bird. "It's an ornament!" She picked it up. There was a note:

    A secret friend wants you to have

    A happy holiday.

    Hope you enjoy this little gift-

    More are on the way!

    Your Secret Snow Pal

     "Who do you think it is?" Ally asked.

    Her mother shook the head.

    The next day when Ally went back home, she found a little birdhouse sitting outside the door, with a note read:

    Birds make good neighbours 

    They sing songs of cheer

    Your neighbours wish you

    Much happiness this year.

     "A neighbour? Who might it be?" Ally said. She looked out of the window, "The red door lady let me pick her flowers."

    "The Millers help collect our mails when we go on holiday," her mother said.

     "Mr. Collins has a bird feeder," Ally said. "But I don't think it's him. He never smiles."

    A week went by before they received another note:

    Time to greet your secret pal!

    Let's have lunch at Ray's,

    Saturday at one o 'clock-

    Happy Holidays!

    The notes excited Ally so much. She loved Ray's pizza! By that time, Ally's family went to the restaurant with presents.

    "Here we are!" a voice called out.

    Ally turned to look. A young couple -the red door people! They stood in front of them with another ornament.

    "Hi, we're Paul and Wend Harrison," the man said. "Last year we were new on your street. One day, presents started showing up, with little notes. Finally, the Millers met us right here."

    "We had so much fun. So we decided to be secret pals this year," Mrs. Harrison said.

    "It was fun!" Ally said, "I want to be a secret pal next year!" She wondered if a bird like this would make Mr. Collins smile. She couldn't wait till next year to find out.

During the summer holiday when I was 14 years old, I got my first job.

At first, I (更喜欢) to stay at home, but my mother asked me to work in her Nursing Home. I was very nervous, because I didn't know (是否)I could do it well or not. My mother said I just needed to (复制) what other workers there did.

Luckily, I learned quickly. In the morning, I helped the people sweep the floor and clean the (架子) in rooms. After dinner, I helped some old people go out of the room and sit in the garden. Some of them were too (虛弱的) to walk themselves.

I could (几乎不) believe that I finished all my work well and the people there liked me a lot. For me, (对待) the people with kindness made me feel proud of myself. After working there for a month, I got paid. But making money wasn't the main (目的) of my working there. I was happy to learn to look after others and help them.

From then on, I decided to be a doctor. (两者都) my parents thought I made a good decision. Now I've (已经) become a doctor and I'm ready to help more people.

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Dear Adam,

    My name is Li Hua. I'm very happy that you are coming to Wenzhou on a study tour next month. You are welcome to stay with us-your host family. …

    I hope you will have a good time in Wenzhou.

Yours,

Li Hua