湖北省荆门市京山市2021-2022学年八年级上学期英语期中...

①Can a dog talk to a person? Of course not, you might say. But now you should change your common idea and listen to what your dog is trying to say!

②Not long ago, 'a smart dog told her owner(主人) how she felt through a special communication pad(通讯平台), she can shout some easy words like "play, beach and park", and even "talk" in sentences(句子)!

③Let's meet the smart dog Bunny. Her owner Alexis Devine taught her how to makeup sentences. That's right. Now she can use more than 40 words to tell her family how she feels. It's said that Bunny is a superstar with over 1,900,000 followers on TikTok(国际版抖音) .And it's all from a 45-button board(按钮板).Usually people use it to help people who have problems talking to others. ___________________

④To teach Bunny different words, Devine needs to show how she uses them in talking. Here is how Bunny learned the word "outside". Devine pressed(按)the "out-side" button and said the word "outside" before letting Bunny out. When Bunny came in, she said it again. Three weeks later, Bunny could press the button by herself. One by one, Bunny learned to "say" something like a common person. She even uses the board to tell Devine, "Love you, Mom."

⑤Devine decided to do this after seeing someone was successful in using the meth-od(方法）to talk with her dog." I'm not sure if Bunny really gets what I say,  but it's exciting to find it out." Devine said.

The teacher said to a student, "Give me your phone. Kyle!" .Kyle gave the teacher his phone.

We all looked in surprise. Because we never saw Kyle read messages(短信) in class. When the teacher left, two students, they often saw messages in class started boasting about how they sent messages and never got caught (被抓).

"Kyle, you stupid(笨)! I put my phone under my desk, so it looks like I'm looking at my textbook", one of them said.

"We always send messages and never get caught" the other one laughed. They thought they were smart, because their teacher never found them.

These two students might not get caught, but neither of them had good grades. They didn't study in class.

People don't just break big rules and get thrown into jail(监狱) overnight(一夜之间).They take it one step at a time. Kyle might be caught, but at least he learned a good lesson. So he will learn more in class and has no troubles. It's smarter not to break small rules.

The Reader(《朗读者》) is a popular TV show in China. It invites(邀请) people to

read aloud (大声地) on the Stage(舞台). The show also tells moving stories behind those people. They can read many things, like poems, books and letters.

Many people are fans of the show. They begin to enjoy reading aloud at home. Now, the show gives people a place to read. It is a reading pavilion(朗读亭). It showed up in cities like Shanghai, Hangzhou and Xi'an. Let's have a look!

The pavilion is not very big. Only one person can come into it each time. There is a microphone(麦克风) in it and it records people's voices.

Everyone can read for three minutes in it. You can read anything you like. The show will pick some of the readers and invite them to read on TV.

Lots of people come to the pavilion to read. Yu Duohan is an 11-year-old girl from Shanghai. She read the story Take a Snail for a Walk. "I love reading aloud, "she said." It makes the story become more beautiful."

The pavilion will also come to other cities across the country. You can read your favorite stories in the pavilion soon.

For years I went to school by bus, so I met many "familiar（熟悉的)"strangers (陌生人). We took the same bus but didn't know each other's names. How wrong I was !Smiles from the "nameless", people have changed my thoughts.

The first time I got on the bus, I saw different faces. We met, greeted and cold faces turned into smiling faces. As days went on, we chatted like old friends.

Her old clothing suggested (暗示) that she didn't have much money, but she always took a cup of water for the driver. I guessed she was a kind girl. But why did she sit in silence instead of talking with us? Couldn't she smile?

Then, one evening, I got the answer. I walked to the park nearby and found the girl sitting alone under a tree, lonely and sad. I greeted her with the same warm smile that I had shown to her all these months, but this time her face turned red, then a shy smile appeared. As soon as she began her first words, I understood why she hadn't spoken to us before.

I learnt her story: Her parents worked hard somewhere. She lived with her disabled(残疾的)grandparents. She said, "I can't express(表达)myself very well. I have no friends but…you always smile to me like an angel…so I also want to smile." That evening, we exchanged (交换) our names and we said goodbye like old friends.

Smile is the key to opening the door of the heart, it can break the cold walls in front of us.

Everyone has talents. They are interested in something and may do well in it. But for many people, others will1find their talents. However, Thaksin is2. Someone found his talent, and he is now living a better life because of it.

Venus was visiting a city in Cambodia. She talked with some of the3street sellers and made a video (视频) of them.

Though she spoke with a few different kids, she was4by Thaksin. He could speak at least seven5Japanese, Mandarin, Thai, Filipino, English etc.6taught him. He learned them simply by7visitors on the street. Thaksin sold small thing son the street8that he could one day go to school.

After Venus shared the9about Thaksin online, millions of people watched it. Beijing television network showed great10. In a part of the video, Thaksin started singing a popular Chinese song called "We're different". He was so11that he changed the lyrics(歌词）from "We are here waiting for you" to "We are here12things for you".

Venus hopes that Thaksin becomes a(n)13of how people can help children in the future. "His video is popular and his family live14now, " Venus wrote online. "His story might help people know that there are kids still15to live their life every day."

Do what you are interested in and try hard to make it the best. Someone may find your forte(长项）.

Hello, everyone. I'm Zhang Chen, a student in the eighth grade. It's my honor(荣幸).It is known to all that Jin Cheng Middle School is a good school in our city. In my eyes, it's (beautiful) than any other school here. We can sit comfort-ably on the green grass reading books. We can go to the big garden (relax) after class. After school, we can play sports and have fun on the playground. For us, (popular) time is during the Art Festival, because there are quite a few activities letting us show our talents, such writing, painting, singing and dancing. Last year we try our best to make plans for it. With our hard work, we (win) some competitions in the end.

Although we have stress (压力) because of our schoolwork, we still love our school. With the help of our teachers, our dream can come true.

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In our class, Tony is the most special of all the students.