浙江省慈溪市2021-2022学年八年级上学期学科竞赛英语试...

Sometimes, I doubt (怀疑) if there is any love between my parents, They 1say: "I love you." For them, it's really difficult to say. Every day they are2trying to make money. They don't act in the romantic (浪漫的) way that I read in books and I see on TV.

One day, my mother was sewing (缝) a3.

I sat down beside her quietly.

"Mom, I have a4to ask you," I said after a short time.

"What?" she replied, 5doing her work.

"Is there love6you and Dad?" I asked her.

She didn't answer and still 7. I was worried8I thought I had made her unhappy. After some time, she said to me with a smile, "Susan, look at this thread (线)," she said. "Sometimes it appears, but most of it9in the quilt. It makes the quilt strong.10life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. You can hardly see it anywhere or anytime, but it's really there. Love is11."

The next spring, my father suddenly got very sick. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. After they 12, she helped my father walk slowly down the road every day. To my surprise, Father was weak but really very13.

"Dad, how are you feeling now?" I asked him one day.

"Susan, don't14me," he said. "I just like walking with your mom."

Once, I thought love meant flowers and gifts. Now, I know that love is just a 15  in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm...

My name is Diana and I'm fourteen years old. I have a younger brother, Daniel, and a happy family. This summer my family will go to the countryside where my grandparents live. My parents work in a really big company so they are very busy and they will stay only for a week. Luckily, my brother and I will stay there for about a month.

My grandparents live in a big house near a river. There are lots of fish in that river. My brother and I want to go fishing with our father and uncle this time. We love to have a picnic next to the river so we will make a fire there and cook the fish.

My mom will help my grandma because every summer she makes lots of jam (果酱). My aunt speaks French and she will teach us French this summer. I love French because I think French is the most beautiful language in the world. My cousin, Jack, loves biology very much. He won many biology competitions. He made a resolution that he would study 20 kinds of insects (昆虫) this summer. So we will go together to look for insects though I prefer to go to museums to learn about history.

I'm sure that I will have a great time and that my holiday will be full of fun, scientific activities and learning!

Long, long ago there was no zero. To write the number sixty-three people wrote 63. To write six hundred and three, people wrote 6 3.The space between six and three was there to mean" not any "tens. Sometimes people did not remember the space. It was hard to see and read. Later people used a dot to hold the space. Six hundred and three looked like this 6﹒3. But the dot (点) was hard to see. So people put a circle around it like this 6⊙3.Then people could see the dot. They remembered the space. At last, only the circle around the dot was used. It was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero came to be used. Now zero has many important uses .Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways of using zero?

Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.

Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor (拖拉机). Bad luck! A lot of apples have already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price .They felt unhappy and returned to their village.

"I can't understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)" Uncle Li asked one day.

"The tractor was too small" Uncle Wang said without thinking. "We'll carry more apples on a truck next time!"

"I agree!" said Uncle Li. "How foolish (傻的) we were!"

①When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.

②People who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Everything else seems blurry (=unclear). Many people who do a lot of work, such as writing, reading and sewing become near—sighted.

③People who are far-sighted (远视) suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm's length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too.

④Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people's eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.

⑤Having two good eyes is important for judging(判断) distances(距离). Each eye sees things from a slightly different angle. To prove this to yourself, look at an object out of one eye; then look at the same object out of your other eye. You will find the object's relation to the background and other things around it has changed. The difference between these two different eye views helps us to judge how far away an object is. People who have only one eye cannot judge distance as people with two eyes.

A. Lisa is a young singer. She loves kids and she is planning to do something for them. She has a lot of free time during the week.

B. Sam loves animals. He takes good care of his two dogs at home and he has a two-day weekend every week.

C. Judy often volunteers with many of her friends. She likes talking with people and is always full of energy. She is usually free after three in the afternoon.

D. Ann is 20 years old. She will graduate from a medical college this July. She's looking for a chance to be a volunteer.

E. Helen is an English teacher in a city school. She always pays attention to improving rural children's English. She is never afraid of any difficulty in life.

I'm writing this in my room. It's (几乎) midnight, but I can't sleep. I am (琢磨) what my life will be like in ten years! Every day, my parents ask me, "What do you want to be when you (生长、成长) up? "The problem is: I don't know! My mom wants me to be a doctor. But to be a doctor, you have to study for a long, long time, and that's not my idea of fun. My dad says, "Be a  (飞行员)!"He knows I'm scared of flying! And I have to be really good at math. (虽然) I like math, I'm not good at it.

Well, I don't (介意) being a rock star. You don't have to be very smart-at least not smart in things like math and science. I am (有天赋的) in singing. Maybe one day, I will become （成功的）and (著名的).

Now I am getting tired, so I'm going to bed. I can think about my  (将来) in bed.

Happiness is important for everyone. Most people want to be happy but few                       people know to find happiness. Money and success don't bring lasting happiness. Happiness depends on themselves. In other words, we make our own happiness.

Here are some  (way) to help you be happier.

The first secret of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life. We spend so much time (think) about the future. You should enjoy life's simple pleasure, such  reading a good book or listening to your favorite music.

The  secret is to be active. Many people go dancing or play sports. People can forget about their problems and only think about the activities.

Finally, many people find happiness in helping (other). According to students, when they volunteer(主动提供) their time to do many (meaning) things for other people, they get a feeling of satisfaction. If you want to feel happier, do something nice. You can help a friend his or her studies or go shopping to get food for old neighbor.

Now, try (find) your own happiness.

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A  Relaxing Day

These days I'm busy studying for the test. I really want to spend a relaxing day after the test.