湖北省黄冈市武穴市第二实验中学2021年八年级英语竞赛考试

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"A friend in need" is a perfect description of my good friend Betty. She always stands by me when I am in trouble.

Once, I was ill in hospital and she was the first to visit me and1. She spent the whole afternoon talking to me as I was quite upset. When I returned to school a week later, the year-end exams were three weeks away and I found that I2catch up with the schoolwork. Betty came to my rescue (救援). She tried her best to help me with my weak subjects, studying with me during the whole revision (复习) period. How 3 she was!

A second example was the time when I could not pay attention to my studies. There were problems in my family. My father had4his job. It was difficult for him to find another one. It was Betty who helped me out again. I poured my heart out to her. She told me that her family had their share of problems too. She promised me that all would work well again.5a loving sister, she encouraged me to focus on my schoolwork. "Don't let problems that you couldn't control influence6you can determine (决定)," she said. Her words made sense and after thinking about her advice suddenly, I was soon my cheerful self again. I told myself that in future I would not let family problems be the7for not doing well in school.

I feel so lucky to be friends with Betty and I am learning to be like Betty, not to be a fair-weather friend but a true friend indeed.

The winner of the Global Teacher Prize 2020 was Ranjitsinh Disale, a primary school teacher from Maharashtra. India. However. the nine other finalists (参加决赛者) didn't go home without anything. Disale150% of the prize money with them. He believes together they can make a difference.

Disale started teaching in the village of Paritewadi in 2009. People there didn't think much of2. Many children didn't go to school and some girls got married at a very young age. Even worse the textbooks weren't in the native (当地的) language. Kannada, so most students couldn't3the books.

Disale decided to do something. He learned Kannada himself and then translated（翻译）the textbooks from Grade l to Grade 4 into Kannada. He added OR codes（二维码）to primary textbooks so that audio poems, video lectures (有声诗歌，视频讲座) and stories are4for his students. Disale even organized after-school activities, like games and movie showings. "I just wanted to provide a learning5for every student," he said.

Thanks to Disale, now no teenagers get married in the village and most girls go to school.6, 85% of his students got Grade A in last year's exams. That was impossible before Disale arrived.

7Disale hasn't stopped there. He gives online science lessons in his free time and over 85,000 students in 83 countries have taken them. During summer vacations, he travels around to8teachers in other small villages how to use technology in the classrooms. What a great teacher!

Over the past 15 years, 98-year-old Xia Sen has given away most of her money to help students from poor families get an education. She and her husband have always lived a simple life. They say they have always lived a simple life. They say they have enough food and clothes and don't need much.

Born in September 1923, Xia joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in Yan'an, Shaanxi, in 1938. She worked as a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) before 1982.

In 2006, Xia visited Xijie Primary School in Danfen country, Shaanxi Province. The bad condition of the school made her sad. She borrowed 20,000 yuan from friends and bought desks and books for the students there. Since then, she has tried best to help the schools in Danfeng, Shaanxi and Shangyou, Jiangxi.

In 2013, Xia set up the "Xia Sen Scholar ship" to support high school and college students. She has given away more than 2 million yuan to help 182 students go to college.

Lai Houfang, is one of them. She's now a teacher in Xinjiang. "I made up my mind that I would learn from Granny Xia and use my strength to help others, from the first day I received support from her," Lai said.

The Yangtze River, about 6,300 kilometers long, is the longest river in Asia. It provides a lifeline for hundreds of millions of people. It covers an area of 1.8 million km², about a fifth of the national total. The river also provides a third of our country's fresh water resources. Along with the Yellow River, it is considered as China's "mother river".

However, in recent years, this "mother river" has met with some environmental problems, including heavy pollution and the decrease of the fish population. Even worse, there are high levels of harmful chemicals in the Yangtze River. To solve these problems, the government passed the Yangtze River Protection Law. The law can into force on March 1, 2021. There are nine parts in the law, covering areas such as resource protection, anti-pollution measures, green development and legal (合法的) responsibilities. More importantly, the law has introduced a fishing ban（禁令）on the Yangtze River's natural waterways. According to the new law, both the central government and local organizations would put the river protection into their economic (经济的) and social development plans.

Around 231,000 fishermen had given up their fishing rights along the Yangtze River. Chinese Vic-premier Hang Zheng said that more support should be given to these people to help them find new jobs and places to live. He also calls for stronger efforts to help prevent activities which are not allowed by the law and encourages the public to support the ban.

The Chosen One is a Chinese TV documentary (纪录片). It is about the challenges that children with dyslexia (阅读障碍) and their parents face. In China, between 5% and 8% of children have dyslexia.

They have problems memorizing, reading and understanding the meaning of characters, and this makes it hard for them to read. So students with dyslexia usually do badly in Chinese- language exams at first and later in other subjects that need reading.

So children with the problem are labeled (被称为) "lazy" or "stupid". Pop star Xiao Jingteng, who has this problem, once wrote, "Sometimes, for those who have dyslexia like me, others' misunderstandings can bring more harm (伤害) than the problem itself."

If we help them to get through this time peacefully, things will get much better when they grow up. In the documentary, She invited Xiaoxiao's classmates and their parents to take part. She explained Xiaoxia's problems so that those around him would not misunderstand or laugh at him.

None of us is perfect, but each of us is special. The documentary hopes people can care more about children with dyslexia.

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When you are in trouble, you can your team to help out.

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Helping children to develop good habits to their future.

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The government is considering the money raised to the poor.

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