广东省广州市海珠区2021-2022学年八年级上学期英语期末考试

It is important to exercise your brain. For example, you1do new things and change your daily habits. If you walk a different way to school or take a different bus, you2your brain active. You can try to memorize3new. You can try a Maths puzzle. You can also try to learn new skills or study a foreign language. Your brain gets lots of regular exercise if you do any of these things.

If you live a healthy life, your memory will work4. You must have a balanced diet. You must give your brain enough time to rest.5you get enough sleep every night, you will not remember things well.

I want to share my life in China. I have been a doctoral student in the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China12017. My study in China gives me a chance to explore a country which is 2from the one I've learned from TV and books.

I am very happy with my decision to come to study here. However, things didn't go as3as I expected in the beginning. The first difficulty was the Chinese language. When I4in China I felt lonely and had trouble with the language. Later on, my Chinese friends introduced me5a rich culture during the Spring Festival. Some numbers such as six and eight are believed to be lucky by Chinese people. While 6like the number four and fourteen are disliked by people. For example, "666"is seen as an excellence and a wish for good luck in China.

In daily life, I was impressed by China's transportation system. It is worth7by other countries, especially shared bicycles and electric motor bikes.8addition, China is one of the countries with the largest number of smartphone users. Internet is widely used everywhere. It is said that the phone is 9sense for every Chinese.

I10a great time in China for these years. I can only pray for a long stay in this country and hope for more chances to learn about the fantasy land-China.

A long time ago in ancient China, there lived an emperor and his wife. The emperor built his wife a very beautiful garden. She 1 much of her time there, sewing and chatting with her ladies in waiting. One day, 2she was in her garden, a cocoon fell into her tea. She was just about to pour the tea away when she noticed something 3! The cocoon was unraveling（解开）! It seemed to be a thread. She 4 fished it out of her teacup and called for her dressmaker. Together, they found that the thread could be made into soft, strong cloth. It was very beautiful. Everyone 5 silk to wear. But it took time for silkworms to make enough silk thread. To save the silkworms, the emperor's wife asked the emperor to ell the people that 6 could only be worn by the royal family.

No one knows if the story is true, but it is true that only the royal family could wear silk clothes for a very long time. Later, nobles（贵族）began wearing silk but businessmen and farmers were still not 7 to wear silk.

Silk became a 8 product for trade. Emperors, princes, queens and nobles all wanted silk. They were 9 to pay a very high price to get it. Even people from around the world traded it for gold and silver. In order to protect the skill, the ancient Chinese did their best to keep it a 10 for many years.

The topic of this year's English Week was "Learning about Writers". Each class chose a famous writer as the key topic of the English Week, so a series of English Week activities were also related to the work of this writer.

English Week highlights:

Visit of a famous foreign writer

We invited Mr. Green to share his reading experience with all teachers and students on November 6th and 7th. At the same time, he also gave a speech on reading for parents on November 6th, with the title of "Why we need to read aloud to children and how to do it well".

Interesting English Week activities

Photo competition We invited parents to take a picture of their children while they were reading a book. It must be one of the works of their class's elected writer. The more creative the photo was, the more likely it was to win.

Dress up competition All the students dressed up as characters in a novel written by the writer chosen by their class. On Friday, we also presented the best costume award and the best class achievement award.

There were many other wonderful activities during English Week, such as English cartoon competition and English speaking competition.

We hope every student enjoyed the fun of learning English through this wonderful English Week activity, and will continue to fall n love with English reading.

Wang Yaping is chosen to take part in the Shenzhou-13 crewed mission, with the spaceship launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Oct. 16th. She becomes the first woman to enter China's space station core module Tianhe.

Wang was born in 1980 in Shandong Province. She loved jogging and was a basketball player in the school team.

"When I was young, my world was small, "Wang recalled. "My dream was much more simple: to go out of the village and to pay back all that my parents had given me. "

Her space dream started in 2003 when China sent its first taikonaut Yang Liwei into space. "I watched the bright rocket set on fire on TV, and an idea came into my mind: China now has a male taikonaut, when will there be a female one?" Wang said. At that time, she has been a transport aircraft pilot for two years in the People's Liberation Army Air Force. After finishing safe flights for 1, 600 hours over nine years, Wang was chosen into the second batch of Chinese taikonauts in 2010 and became a strong candidate（候选人） for China's first flight as a female taikonaut.

However, she did not pass her final tests and Liu Yang was named the "first female" taikonaut. Wang did not lose heart but trained even harder. The candidate always ran three circles more than others in physical courses, and she asked to train in the pressure room for extra 30 minutes each time.

Her efforts finally came to success. Wang became a crew member of the Shenzhou-10 space mission in 2013, and she earned the title of China's first space teacher after giving a lesson to students from an orbit more than 300 km above the Earth's surface.

Wang's ponytail, smiling face and soft-spoken voice attracted millions of hits on social media, where she has been known as a "space heroine. "

Smartphones are popular among middle school students, who use them mainly to surf social media platforms, according to a research made by China Youth Daily.

More than 93% of parents had given smartphones to their children in middle schools for daily use and 57% of respondents said they used them to visit social media.

Keeping in touch with teachers came in at 48% and the same number of students used them to play online games, while 47% watched videos and listened to music, the research said.

More than 30% of parents said they failed to guide their children on the rational use of the devices and 39% said children's smartphone use was opposite to their original intentions.

Last year, a report found that 175 million minors regularly used the Internet. It noted that 94%went online with mobile phones, while 57% also used TV sets. Desktops came in at 45%, with laptops at 32% and tablets at 29%.

The report, based on a research of 34, 661 middle school students, found that 33%of the students had surfed the Internet before school age and 65% of young Internet users had taught themselves the necessary skills.

Online games and novels have become important social topics with young students and they do not want to be left out among their peers, Sun said.

The reason some parents fail to control their children's smartphone use is that they also use them too much, she added.

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Ever since ancient times, it's been important to keep in mind proper gift-giving manners when giving presents to your Chinese friends or family. If you don't know much about traditional Chinese gifting customs, t could end up making you, or the receiver, feel bad. So, what should you pay attention to when choosing the right gift?

To begin with, there are a few key factors to consider（考虑）. Firstly, because mianzi (giving and saving face) is important in Chinese culture, it's necessary to consider the cost of the gift won't make the receiver feel uncomfortable Secondly, you should choose a useful gif. Thirdly, avoid gifts that are considered unlucky, like clocks, umbrellas and pears. In Chinese, "to give a clock "sounds like" to attend a funeral", "umbrella" sound like" split up, " and "pear" sounds like "to leave. "

In addition, it's important to understand the types of gifts that are usually exchanged in China. The first is fresh fruit and flowers. Fruit and flowers are popular in most situations. The second common gift is tea in an attractive tin or wrapper（包装）. The third common gift is red envelopes filled with cash. These are often given out for birthdays, weddings and the Spring Festival. Six, eight and nine are considered lucky numbers in China, while four is considered unlucky because it sounds like "death. " The fourth common gift in China is plants. If your Chinese friend just moved to a new home or spends a lot of time in their office, a plant is a good choice for a gift.

Finally, it's important to be mindful when choosing the color of your gift. During happy occasions, Chinese people prefer the color red because it means cheer, fortune and good luck. During funerals, white and black colors are used to express remembrance and respect.

If you're planning to give a gift to a Chinese person, keep in mind the above as a helpful guide. No matter what kind of gift you give, it's always the thought that counts.

This happened two years ago but remains a lively memory. We sang My Motherland and Me before a huge stage in Beijing Grand Theater. It was my first time in a gathering attended by local officials. I was so excited.

I was on a local bus when I first heard it. I couldn't understand the words but I could follow the tune from memory. We just practised My Motherland and Me until we could remember the Chinese words.

The day of the event we all wore red and stood on stage. Our performance would be followed by a group of children who sang Be Brave, a pop song. I love that song too. After the program, all the performers were called back to the stage. The head of the local community gave each of us a prize. I went home with my prize, bags of fruits and candies than my two hands could carry. When my mother arrived home from work, I greeted her, "

Online shopping, mobile payment and bike-sharing have left a deep impression on the 26-year-old Japanese man Haruki. He decided to write a book to share his 19-year e of living in China with the people of his country.

Haruki was b in Tokyo, Japan in 1995, and graduated from Xiamen University in 2019. Then he went back to Japan to work. He found many Japanese knew little about China and r it was necessary to open a window for the Japanese to understand the changes in China, so he decided to write a book to give the true information of China to the Japanese people.

He recalled that when his Japanese friends came to China to travel, they were surprised to see that bike-sharing was p in China. And people didn't take cash out to shop. I , they used digital w, such as Wechat Pay and Alipay.

The book was published in 2021. He hopes his book can provide Japanese readers with a look at the real China.

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