江苏省仪征市实验中学东区校2022-2023学年八年级下学期...

—I'm sorry to hear that.

—Yes, Broadway is          the southern end of the island.

—Take it a bit ________.

—________.She's cooking supper in the kitchen.

—Her pet dog made her less _________.

—Well, I         it for half a year.

—It's so dangerous.

—He _______ for nearly twenty years.

—He _______ to Shanghai. He has ever ______ there twice.

—Yes, but now the life he was used to _________ a lot.

—___________. Look at the sign. It says, "No smoking".

Johnnie Martin was born in a worker's family. His parents lived a simple life, saving money for the day when they could send him to a good university. They had dreamed that their son could get a good1and live a better life. However, to Johnnie，school lessons seemed like a wall that was impossible to go through.

One day when he was in Grade 11, Johnnie went2school psychologist's(心理医生) office to ask for help. "Johnnie, I've been studying your marks of all the tests at school. I've made a3study of them, "said the psychologist. "I've been trying hard. "Johnnie was about to4.

The psychologist put his hand on the boy's shoulder, "People have different kinds of talents, Johnnie. There are painters who were5able to learn Maths, and engineers who can't sing on key. Some day you will find6you are good at, and when you do, you will7your parents and all of us very proud of you."

Johnnie didn't go to university. He found a job working in the gardens around the town. Soon8amazing happened. His customers began to notice that Johnnie had what they called "green thumb". The plants he9grew well, and the roses blossomed. People started to accept his10for gardening, because he had an eye for colour and light.

One day while he was downtown, he happened to11an unused dirty land behind the city hall. He volunteered to make it into a garden. That very afternoon as soon as he got the permission(允许), he started the work,12he couldn't afford all the tools or the plants that he13for it. People gave him young trees, rose-bushes, benches and many other things. Before long, it had become a beautiful little14.

Today Johnnie is the head of the business in gardening, wherever he and his men go, they15beauty before the eyes of people.

Lots of times, Pap would lock me in the wooden house and go away. Pap was pretty careful not to leave a knife or anything in the cabin while he was gone. But I finally got something -- a saw, and started sawing hard to help myself out. As soon as I heard Pap coming up from town, I hid the saw and waited. He came in angrily, "Get out to the boat and get what I brought from town."

It was good to be outside again, even if it was for just a few minutes. If I wanted to, I could take off running right now. I'd just run away, but that's when Pap yelled, "Boy, are you asleep or drowned?"

At dinner time, Pap'd drank too much and fell asleep on the floor, I thought about taking the key from his pocket quietly, but he was having a restless sleep. I waited for him to settle down, but then I got too tired and fell asleep.

It was after sunup when Pap woke me. "Get out there and catch us some fish," he ordered. I headed out and saw something else floating toward me in the river. It was a canoe. I jumped in and swam over to it. It was empty inside, then I had a good idea. I pulled that canoe up and hid it behind some bushes. When I had my chance, I'd go down the river in the canoe. No one would ever find me.

Pap got angry when he saw me back, wet all over. So I got locked inside the cabin again. Once Pap set off for town, I had my chance.

When I was ready to run off through the hole I cut with the saw, I realized Pap would know I'd run away. So I smashed the door with an ax. Then I found a wild pig lying dead in the woods and dripped some of its blood on the cabin floor. I pulled out some of my hair and dropped it on the floor, too.

—Taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Have you ever dreamed of traveling in space? For many kids, staring at the stars leads to daydreams about what it would be like to be an astronaut. Just think about how amazing it would be to set foot on the moon or another planet!

Although it sounds like it would be great fun to travel to outer space, it would be a lot of work, too. Traveling to outer space needs lots and lots of preparation.

Once you are in space, nothing can come on board the ship and nothing can go out. You must take all you need into outer space to keep yourself alive. Let's call these things "inputs", including food, water and oxygen. Every input creates an output. If you open a box of cookies for breakfast, what will you do with the box when it's empty? Every piece of rubbish you create in space will remain on the ship with you. Your body will also output food and water. Since nothing can leave the spaceship, you will have to think of another way to deal with these bodily wastes.

Even breathing creates an output carbon dioxide（二氧化碳）! It's true that plants depend on carbon dioxide in the same way humans depend on oxygen to breathe. However, plants have other input needs. If you take a banana tree with you, you will need to bring enough water to keep it alive. You must also consider another type of output rubbish in the ship after taking the fruit as snacks-the banana peel.

See how carefully you have to plan for a trip to outer space? How can you plan your actions on earth to have the least influence on the environment and your future? Not only do you have to think about all the things you'll need, you will also have to consider the influence of those things because of the wastes they may create.

Searching for parking spaces has long been a headache for many office workers in many big cities of China, especially for those working in central business districts. Parking near their companies for five days a week could cost them a lot of money. At the same time, even with prices for parking lots in residential areas (居民区) rising, most of their spaces remain idle during workdays.

Now a new form of sharing economy has appeared in China—the shared parking space. It has become a huge market in some big cities. In Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong, up to 10,000 personal parking spaces have been turned into shared ones with the help of "Air parking", an online shared parking platform developed by a network company from Guangzhou.

Users can share and order a parking place by downloading and using a special app. Owners who have idle parking spaces can share some information, including the parking position, license number and time limit on the platform. With the information, users can easily find the nearest place to park. The average parking cost for shared parking is 4 yuan each hour, almost the same as the service cost in traditional parking spaces.

Qingdao is one of the Chinese cities that encourage shared parking. Some other big cites, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hefei, have also begun to try this idea. The Shanghai government, for example, has set up more than 6,500 shared parking spaces to encourage the public to use. Shared parking will be more and more helpful to the drivers.

According to the report in Taiwan, panda experts from the Chinese mainland have found that the health condition of a giant panda in Taiwan's Taipei Zoo is better than expected. The 18-year-old male panda named Tuan Tuan, one of two giant pandas gifted by the mainland to Taiwan in 2008. Recently, he has some diseases on his feet. The worse situation has drawn both sides of the Taiwan Straits' attention.

Two mainland veterinarians（兽医）, Wu Honglin and Wei Ming, sent by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan province, arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday to examine the panda's health. Taipei Zoo asked the center for help on Oct 27. Soon it decided to send the two specialists on giant panda health to the zoo.

As the report goes, the zoo said it has exchanged detailed information with the experts and the experts have checked on the panda. The experts will give feed back（反馈）on whether it is the animal's brain that is causing weakness in its back legs. There is no latest treatment plan yet, and the two experts will communicate with other mainland experts in the next few days. It is hoped they can give opinions from watching the panda's behavior, but it will take three to four days.

Since they arrived at Taipei Zoo in 2008, Tuan Tuan and his mate, Yuan Yuan, have been popular among people in Taiwan, especially children. They have had two babies, one in 2013 and another in 2020.

These days, teenagers are heavily influenced(受影响)by the media. Many of them have watched tof hours of TV. That's more time than they spend wteachers at school, not to mention the time spent on the Internet and newspapers.

However, several studies have shown a serious p: today's teenagers don't have good media literacy(媒体素养). In other words, they have difficulty critically(批判地)thinking about the ithey see. One study that was done on middle school students showed that more than 80 percent of them c tell the difference between real stories and ads that look like news.

Stanford professor Kevin John teaches a class called Media Effects. He tries to help his students learn media literacy. The professor gave an ethat shows why media literacy is important. In the example, two news stations report a snowstorm. One focus on(关注)the terrible road c. The other focuses on kids playing in the snow. "With a new story, news stations tell you what they feel are the important details." said John. "A person who has media literacy would realize that each story is about one side at this time. There is more going on."

Some experts think s is the best place to teach media literacy. Others believe everyone from parents to reporters should help teenagers learn these s. As for the best time to start learning media literacy, many experts suggest(推荐)the age of 12. But some basic ideas can be taught even e."It's never too early to start learning media literacy," John said.

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