广东省深圳市2021-2022学年七年级下学期英语期末学科素养练习

When I was in my first year of middle school, my father died. And my mother was ill just after I started high school. I had to stop1to school.

I started working in people's gardens2enough money for me to go back to school. After some time, I returned to school.3, my mother died the next year. Suddenly, my world4dark. I asked my headmaster（校长）if I could work for the school so I could pay my bills. He was a5 man and let me work in the school garden during the holidays. I had not been able to study well because of my mother's death.6of my second year, I failed（不及格）most of my exams and was told I would have to repeat（重复）the year. After another summer working in the school garden, I went back to class again. But suddenly I fell ill.

Because of my illness, I was7and couldn't work at school. My headmaster told me not to give up. And my teachers and classmates helped me 8. Now I'm feeling better and I9my third year soon.

My life is still not easy. A few10call me "farmer" because I work in the school garden. But I know have to deal with（应对）such problems.

For most Chinese people, rice is an important part of almost every meal. But for Yuan Longping, rice was lifetime career.

In the 1960s, people in China didn't have enough food to eat and many people even died. Yuan decided to work a kind of hybrid rice（高产水稻）to feed more people. Many scientists didn't think hybrid rice was possible. Yuan still spent four years looking for the rice that could be crossed with other plants. In 1964, he found it!

In 1973, he grew the world's first hybrid rice. It could reach a yield（产量）of over 500 kg per mu. Farmers could grow it on many different kinds of land. It could fight bad weather and disease, too.

Now it has helped China feed nearly one-fifth of the world's population with only about 7 percent of t world's farm land, CGTN reported.

Yuan won many prizes because of his great achievements, but he lived a simple life. He donated most of his prize money to a foundation to help young scientists. "I don't like being a politician, and I'm not a businessman," he once said.

The Chinese-published（出版）English newspapers are windows through which foreigners can know more about the fast developing China.

China Daily is an English newspaper, introducing China's policies and development, and reporting news from home and abroad. This paper is liked by both foreigners and Chinese learners of English. The Sunday edition（版面）Business Weekly gives more information about China's economic development, its joint ventures（合资）with foreign companies, money and trade matters. Business Weekly also helps to look for foreign money supporting Chinese projects.

21st Century is more for the home readers, especially for English fans, college students and others interested in the English language. There are some special columns that interest people. For example, if you have some difficulties and need help, you can write to Dear Tracy, who will give you help in the paper. Your problems may be about your study, friendship, family, love and even life.

Beijing Weekend is another newspaper, liked by foreigners working in Beijing, as it is their favourite, complete guide to what's happening around the town over the next seven days. If they want to dine out they will find many places to go. They may choose between different styles of Chinese food and foreign food. There are also articles about Chinese traditional arts. In Going on section, concerts, art exhibition, drama, opera, dance, movies are all listed. It is a good guide for your weekend activities.

The bear is a kind of large strong animal. There are many kinds of bears. People can find them in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Bears usually have a big body with short legs. They can stand up on their back legs. Usually bears can climb and swim very well.

Bears'fur is very thick（厚的）and it can keep them warm. The biggest bear is the polar bear. They live in the snow and ice. You can hardly see polar bears in the snow because the colour of their body is similar（相似的）to that of the snow. The sun bear is the smallest bear, standing nearly 70 centimeters at the shoulder and weighing 25-65 kilograms. American black bears only live in North America. Their fur is usually black, but it is not always this colour.

Most bears usually sleep for the whole winter. Before they start to sleep, they eat a lot and become very fat. The mother bear has babies then. The babies are "blind" when they're born. Because they can't see anything, they have to do many things with the help of their mother.

Bears are much cleverer than most animals in the world. They know how to run away from a person and go food by themselves. You may see how clever they are when they ask for food from people at the zoo. They sit up and hold out their "hands" as people do. You may have to teach a dog to do so, but bears can learn this by themselves.

Winnie had a great time on the Mount Huangshan yesterday. She always wanted to visit it but her parents were always too busy. The day finally came! They had three days off!

The night before, they got many things ready: drinks, fruit, bread, cakes and so on. They got up at six thirty. They started out at seven o'clock and it took them two hours to arrive at the foot of Mo Huangshan. After ten minutes' rest, they started to climb.

After one hour's climbing, they stopped to rest again. Her father took many photos, and just when they went on climbing, a little girl came to them.

"Excuse me, can you take a photo for my daddy and me?" Her voice was so sweet that nobody could say "no" to her. Winnie knew that the girl's name is Dora and she is from Shanghai.

Then they climbed the mountain together. Winnie and Dora talked a lot and then became friends.

You have a hobby for fun you are not working or at school. Hobbies help you pass the time in a happy way, so they are sometimes called pastimes（消遣）. There (be) many different types of hobbies. With some of them, such as reading, doing puzzles or (write) poems, you mainly need to use your brain. With others, such as painting and cooking, you need to use (you) hands. Many people also enjoy (collect) things, such as coins or stamps from different countries.

You usually do the activities above indoors your own. However, you can do many things for fun outdoors, sometimes with other people. Popular outdoor (activity) include walking, cycling, fishing and riding horses. Most of these hobbies give you exercise, and keep you fit and (healthy).

Everyone should have hobby of one kind or another. It is important (have) some pleasure in your life. Even if（尽管）you enjoy being at work or school, it is good to have something different to do in the evening or at the weekend.

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