（浙江）初中英语2022-2023八年级上学期期中专项复习：...

    I come from Hangzhou, a big city China. It has a population of about nine million. It is a modern city, so many people come here to find . Also, it is a beautiful city. It is a area for holidays. It is famous for the West Lake. Lots of visitors come to Hangzhou to visit it every day, in summer. You can go in the lake. It is very interesting. There is a very famous university here. Its name is Zhejiang University. Many students work hard to enter it.

    Do you have a healthy lifestyle? I think I do. First, I have many good eating habits. I like junk food, I hardly eat it. I eat fruit and vegetables every day. they are not very delicious, but they good for health. Second, I every day. It is said that if people run every day, then will have more hearts than others, so I run for about thirty minutes every morning. , I have good living habits. I try to eight hours every night. Thatme to be energetic(j精力充沛的) the next day. And I can study better and good grades(成绩).What do you of my lifestyle? Can you learn something from it?

    Hi, I'm Tina. I'm a worker and I work in an office. I live on a small island, so I take a from the island to the city every day. The boat leaves every 20 minutes and it takes about 35 minutes to get to the city. Then I have a short walk to my office.

    My name is Sarah and I'm a teacher. I to work every day. The train is quick and cheap. The trains run every half an hour and run until 00:30. The train station is near my home. It only takes 20 to get from my home to school.

    Hello. I'm Maria and I'm a college student. The college is very big, so I usually walk a lot. Sometimes it takes 15 minutes to get from one building the next. When I want to shop with my friends the college, we take a bus.

    Now more and more people like to travel on their holidays. What is the way to travel? I ask some people about this question and they have different . Evan says that he likes travelling by car, because it can be free. They can stop at any time and they can carry a lot of things in their car. But it is to drive the car. Danny likes travelling by plane. He thinks it is the way, but it is also the most expensive way. William says travelling by train is the best way. The train is very comfortable and if he feels tired, he can have a rest on the bed. He can meet people too. He can. talk with them and know a lot about other people's lives.

    Hey, friends! Do you Bibury? Bibury is a good place for people  holidays. I'm sure you can have a good time there.

    Bibury is a village in England. It is on the list (名单) of must-see places for People call it " the most village in England".

    Arlington Row is the most famous  in Bibury. It's next to the River Coln. Arlington Row is so famous that you can see it in all UK passports (护照). All the visitors enjoy  photos of it.

Bibury Trout Farm is in the  of the beautiful village. It is one of Britain's and most famous trout (鳟鱼) farms. People  it in 1902. There is a present shop, a fish shop, a(n)and a little coffee shop on the farm. Visitors can catch their trout there.

William Lindesay, a British traveler and writer, has been exploring the Great Wall—one of the humans' most wonderful building projects. Not even a Chinese the Great Wall of China as well as he does. When he was a small boy, he planned to explore the Great Wall. Nobody it seriously. But Lindesay achieved his goal. Now he and works in Beijing, and his book, The Great Wall Explained, has come out. There're a lot of photographs and articles. It is welcomed by the readers. It was a brave trip on the Great Wall and he had already run 3, 000 kilometers along it! During those years, he got to many villages along the way. Friendly villagers helped him, although they didn't quite understand why the Englishman would such interest in the Great Wall.

    Do you know about my friend Zhao Han? Zhao Han is not like other girls. This eleven-year-old girl doesn't show an interest in and playing. This girl becomes interested in writing. Zhao write when she was in Grade One. One day her Chinese teacher asked her and her classmates to write a story “If I had Zhao had a good idea, “Why not it a poem?” Then her first poem came out, Since then Zhao has written hundreds of poems and short stories. And you can see some of them in the newspapers. They are all popular with people boys and girls. In my home town, Zhao becomes one of the most popular writers.

My friend is great, isn't she?

    Maupassant(莫泊桑) was one of the well-known writers of short in the nineteenth century in France. His novels made readers excited and enjoyable.

    During his school days, he decided to become a writer. Then he began to write something. Because of the Franco-Prussian War(普法战争), he had to stop .After the war, he went to Paris to look for a job, where he met some great writers and learned a lot from them.

    Working as a clerk(职员), Maupassant was too busy and he had no time to more material(素材) for his story. And he found it to finish his dream. So he left his office to spend all his time on his interest. At the age of thirty－four, he became quite famous.

    Langston Hughes was a famous black poet (诗人). And he also wrote novels, plays and short

    Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the US. He  with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas. She told him stories about their family. These stories made Hughes feel proud (自豪的) to be black. He  to write when he was living with her. During his life time, he wrote a lot about black people. his poems, novels and stories, Hughes helped other black people to see themselves as part of a much bigger group of people.

    After his grandmother died in 1915, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to live with mother and her new husband. Hughes went to high school there. His first short stories came out (出版) when he was still in high school.

    After finishing high school in 1920, he  to Mexico City to live with his father. Hughes had a very  relationship (关系) with his father. His father didn't want him to be a writer. He said that Hughes could go to only if he studied engineering (工程学). Hughes agreed. He went to Columbia University in New York City in 1921 but left the university in 1922 because of his colour.

Mario is twelve years old. His sister Mary is two years than him. Mario is outgoing, but Mary is . This Sunday they helped their mother do some . Mario cleaned the bathroom and Mary washed the clothes. Because they did a fantastic job, their mother bought a delicious cake for them. She said to Mario, "Mario, cut the cake into two halves，and give the half to your sister. Don't forget that you do like a brother. "Mario asked," Like a brother?" "Yes, I once told you Kong Rong's story, right? A good brother should be Kong Rong," answered his mother." Oh, I see," said Mario. He thought about it for a few minutes, and then he took the cake to his sister and said to her. ," Mary, cut it into two halves, and be a good sister."