江苏省南通市第一初级中学2021—2022学年八年级上学期开...

—No. I got_____"D"in my writing exam last week after I read the book.

—You mean in the_______?

—Well, when I bought it, she wasn't so______as she is now.

—______meet at the school gate?

—OK. Be careful not to fall to the ground.

—The number of the students_____897.

—It means a growing______in traditional culture among China's youth.

—Nobody. He learned it by____.

— ___________________

I was walking down the road one day when my phone rang1voice on the other end spoke to me, "Dad, please come back soon. I miss you so much! I thought that it was a wrong number. A short while later, the call came once again, so I2rudely, "You've called the wrong number!" and then hang up.

During the3days, I often got the4call. But I didn't care much about it. Then one day she kept calling me, 5I didn't answer. Finally I answered the phone and heard a weak voice, "Dad, please come back. I miss you so much! Dad, I'm in so much6!Mom said you were too busy to take care of me. But dad, please7me again, OK?" It was8 to refuse the innocent(天真的, 无邪的）ask. I made a9kiss on the phone and heard the weak voice say, "Thank you…Dad, I am so…happy, so…happy…"

Shortly after this, I became curious(好奇）about10 had been on the other end of my phone. So I called back, and a woman answered, "Sorry, sir. I am really sorry to11you. My daughter has had bone cancer(癌症）since she was born. And her father. . died in a car12 two weeks ago. I didn't want to tell her the news, Poor baby. When she couldn't13the painful chemotherapy(化疗), she would cry for her dad because her dad 14 encouraged鼓励) her. I really don't know what to do, so l gave her a random(随意的) phone number…"

"How is your daughter now?" I couldn't wait to ask.

"She has died. You must have15her on the phone, because she died with a smile, tightly holding the cell phone…"Tears full of my eyes…

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Chinese kids are good at math. This is what a lot of people around the world think. They may have a goodreason for believing this. Of all the teenagers who took the international Student Assessment (i415) , Shanghaistudents scored the highest in math. Does this mean Chinese students like leaming math?

In an online survey of 5, 000 Chinese people, 30 percent of these people don't have a special interest in math. Another 30 percent just say that they don't like math. I spend a long time finishing all of my math homework. Itis trible. And many of my friends feel the same way. " said Chen Yongxin, 14, from Guangdong.

"Many students don't like math because they don't find it fun and don't see how it will be useful in thefuture. " said Dun Ji'an, a math teacher from Beijing.

To make math learning more enjoyable, China can learn from North America. Teachers there help studentsunderstand fraction ( 分数) like 3/4 by pouring water into different cups. Besides, schools offer math courses with different difficulty. In this way, students can choose courses according to their necds. Zhang Siming, a high school headmaster said, "after all, math lessons should grow kids' logical thinking( 逻辑思维 )instead of just working out problems or exam papers. That will help them all their life.

The United States is one of the greatest fruit—growing countries in the world. Fine red apples come from Washington and New York. Golden oranges come from Southern California and Florida. Fruit grows in all parts of America. The kind of fruit that is grown depends on the weather in each place.

Orange trees cannot be grown where temperatures drop below freezing. Southern California and Florida are far from each other, but their weather is much the same. They do not often have freezing temperatures.

In Washington, apple trees are planted near the Atlantic Ocean. In New York, they grow near the Great Lakes. Apple trees are often planted near water. Water temperature changes more slowly than land temperature. Near water, temperature does not drop so fast. There is less chance of frost（霜冻）in late spring or early autumn. Frost can kill apples.

America has many kinds of weather. It has many kinds of soil. Because of this, they grow and eat more fruit than any other country in the world.

Huw Thomas fell in love with Megan. But then an accident changed his life, and he had to move to Canada. Megan promised to write to him. But Huw never heard from her…until one day a letter arrived.

He saw the letter came from where he and his father had lived in their early years. Who was writing to him? He turned the envelope over in his hands several times. Then he took out the letter and read:

Dear Huw,

I don't know if this letter will reach you, and I don't really know why I'm writing to you after all these years, but…

Huw turned to the end of the letter and saw:

Best wishes

Megan

He couldn't believe it. He turned back to the first words of the letter and read:

…after all these years, but I've just found your letters to me from Canada. Believe me, this was the first time I'd read them and they made me cry, even after 50 years. I found them in a box of my father's papers. They were never opened.

Huw, I never knew that you'd written to me. I thought your new life in Canada had made you forget me. Now I realize that my father kept your letter. I can still remember asking him if there was any letter for me, and he always said: "_____, my girl. I told you he was no good. " Finally, after about a year, I believed him.

But why did he keep the letters? Do you know think he wanted me to find them when it was too late? Anyway, he's dead now, so I can't ask him. All I can say is I'm sorry, sorry for what my father did, sorry that you never heard from me and sorry for …everything.

I hope that at least this letter reaches you. Of course, I'll understand if you don't want to write back to me, but if you do, I am still Megan Jenkins, and I still live at the same address.

Best wishes,

Megan

Huw read the letter again. Everything with Megan came back to him. He had never forgotten her. He couldn't. Every day he looked at her face on the wall. He had a drawing of her. It had traveled everywhere with him. But to hear from her again…

 "Are you all right, Dad?" asked Mike, coming into the room.

(Adapted from Two Lives by Helen Naylor)

Monarch butterflies from eastern Canada make the most amazing journey in the insect world. Each year, this butterfly travels about 3000 miles to its winter home in central Mexico（墨西哥）. How can it fly so far? And why does it make this long and dangerous trip? Scientists still don't have an answer.

For many years, people in Mexico wondered where the orange-and-black butterflies came from every winter. Then, in 1937, a scientist started to follow and study the butterflies. For the next 20years, he discovered that one butterfly started its journey in Canada. Four months later, it arrived in Mexico.

The length of the butterflies find their way back to the same place？Another amazing thing is that the butterflies always return to the same area in central Mexico.

How do the butterflies find their way back to the same place? This is an interesting question because only every fourth generation（代）makes the trip south. In other words, the butterfly that travels to Mexico this year is the great-great-grandchild of the butterfly that traveled there last year.

Each year, four generations of a Monarch butterfly family are born. Each generation of the family has a very different life. The first generation is born in the south in late April. It slowly moves north, reproduces（繁衍）, and then dies. On the trip north, two more generations are born, reproduce, and die. Each of these generations of butterflies is born. This generation has a much longer life. It lives for about eight months. This generation of butterflies makes the amazing journey back to the winter home of its great-great-grandparents. The butterflies spend the winter there, and in the spring they reproduce and then die. Their offspring will be the first generation of the next circle of life.

Today, people are still studying the Monarch butterfly. But they are not clear about everything.

  homework do you want to have at the weekend?

Learning English is not an easy job. Almost every student sometimes aquestions like these: Can I really learn English well? Can I really learn it well eto talk with others?

The answer is yes. From some studies we know that almost a  can learn a foreign language well if he or she wants to. Some might learn it f  and some might learn it slower. Some might learn it easily and some with difficulty. But anyone can learn it well if he or she has the r ways. Many students have their own special ways in learning English. The followings are some examples.

Millie gets up early every morning and the f thing she does is listen to an English radio program. This has really helped make her English in listening b.

Daniel often p speaking English in class. At first he was nervous when he was asked to speak. After trying several times, he found it was not as d  as he thought. He is more active and now he speaks English best among his classmates.

Jim likes to watch American movies. He will watch it many times i  it is a good a good film. And he also likes to read English aloud.

Jan Mela isn't like most kids. Two years ago , he lost an arm and a leg. But that didn't stop him.
On Saturday , the 15-year-old boy from Poland（波兰）walked to the North Pole（北极）without any help.
"If I can do it, other people can do great things, too," Mela said before he went.
Polish newspapers said Mela is the youngest person and the first handicapped（残疾的）person to walk to the North Pole.
How did Mela lose an arm and a leg? He had an electrical（电的）accident. Now, he walks with the help of a 62, 000-yuan man-made leg.
After the accident, Mela felt sad for himself. But he didn't lose hope. One day, he met Marek Kaminski, a Polish explorer. Eight years ago, Kaminski went to the North Pole and the South Pole in the same year. Mela wanted to see the North Pole, too. So Mela asked Kaminski if they could go together next time. Kaminski said yes!
It took Mela 21 days to get to the North Pole. The last three or four days were really hard because of bad weather. But Mela kept going.
"I didn't think we would make it," he said, "Then, things got better."

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Dear Simon

I am so glad to nate back to you to Introduce myself and something about my school lite.

I really look forward to hearing from you soon

Best wishes,

 Frank