浙江省宁波市海曙区西片七校联考2021-2022学年八年级上学期英语期中试题

Peterson was sitting at the door of his house. Then a man arrived and asked, “What are the    1 of this village like?”

Peterson asked him, “Why do you ask so?”

The man answered, “The people of my old village aren't   2at all. I can't stand them, so I left there. Now, I want to    3 a new village to live in. That's why I asked you the   4 .”

Peterson said, “If so, then you have to leave for another village. People here are even    5 . They will play jokes on you and you may feel very bad and even angry. I think you should continue (继续) looking.”

Hearing this, the man moved    6. Just then another man    7 . He looked around and stopped near Peterson, “   8 are people of this village?”

Peterson asked him, “How are the villagers in 9village?” The man answered, “In my village, people are friendly and kind. Everyone   10 and helps each other in times of need. I don't want to leave there but for some    11 I have to. Now I need to look for a new place to live in.”

Peterson said, “You are    12 here in my village. We will treat ( 对 待 ) you well and you will find the people here even better than those of your village.”

A man near Peterson didn't know why he answered the two men    13 and asked, “To the first man you said the villagers were terrible.    14 to the second man, you told him that they were very great. Why did you do so?”

Peterson said, “   15 , people are the same. When you are friendly, the people around you are all friendly.”

 Not like most restaurants, Maria Restaurant in New York only provides (提供) home-cooked food by grandmas coming from all over the world for people.

Joe is a 61-year-old Italian-American and he grew up in New York. He opened the restaurant in 2007. He tried to make home-cooked meals in his restaurant to make people feel at home.

He employed (雇佣) grandmas from different parts of Italy at first, and later, he started employing grandmas from other countries like Argentina, Brazil, France and Greece. Now there are forty grandmas and one grandpa in his restaurant. Most of them came to the US with their children.

There are two kitchens in the restaurant — one for Italian grandmas to cook lunch and the other for grandmas from other countries to cook every evening. The menus in the restaurant are often changing (改变), because grandmas who work on that day decidethem.

People who eat in the restaurant think it is great. They can't forget its delicious food and comfortable seats. The most important thing is that the restaurant can always make them think of their own grandmas.

You may know about junk food like French fries. But do you know about junk sleep？

Recently, a British survey found that electronic products（电子产品）in teenagers' bedrooms are affecting（影响）their sleep. The survey was done among 1, 000 British kids from 12 to 16. It found that 30 percent of them got just 4 to 7 hours of sleep every day. But doctors say they need 8 to 9 hours.

Almost a quarter of the kids said they fell asleep more than once a week while watching TV, listening to music or using other electronic products.

" This is very worrying. "said Dr. Chris Idzikowski, "We call it junk sleep. It means you don't get enough sleep and the quality（质量） of the sleep is bad, too. If you don't get good rest, you won't perform well in school the next day. "

The survey found that 40 percent of the kids felt tired each day, with girls between 13 and 16 feeling the worst. Nearly all the teenagers have a phone, Mp5 or TV in their bedrooms. And many of them have all three.

Gillian Lynne never did well in school as a child. She couldn't sit for long and often found herself moving restlessly （不安的）. Her mother was quite worried about her. She took Lynne to a doctor. For 20 minutes, she talked about the problems Lynne was having in school. Then, the doctor said to Lynne, "I need to speak to your mother first. Wait here. "

As they left the room, the doctor turned on the radio. He then said to Lynne's mother, "Just stand and watch her. " As soon as they left the room, Lynne was on her feet, dancing to the music on the radio.

The doctor then turned to Lynne's mother and said, "Mrs Lynne, your daughter isn't sick. She's a dancer. Take her to a dance school. "

So she did. Lynne's new dance school was full of people just like her—people who had to move in order to think. Lynne later went to the Royal Ballet School（皇家芭蕾学校）, one of the world's greatest dance schools, and became a great dancer.

After leaving the school, she worked on some of the most successful musicals in history, such as Cats and Phantom of the Opera（歌剧魅影）. It is hard to believe that years ago, somebody else would just put her on medication （药物治疗） and tell her to calm down.

Do you want to have a St Patrick's Day party? If you do, you can look at the following steps:

Most children like to watch TV. It's very interesting. By TV, they can see and learn a lot, and they know many things about their countries and the world. Of course, they can also learn many things on the radio. But they can learn better with TV. Why? That's because they can hear and watch at the same time. But they can see on the radio.

  TV helps to open children's, too. They can get knowledge(知识) and learn better ways of doing things. They can find the world is now   than before. Because they can know what's going on in the world easily on TV.

  Many children watch TV on weekends. They are always busy with their homework from Monday to Friday. But a children watch TV every night. They go to bed very late. They can't have a good sleep. How about you, my young friends?

Kate, my pen friend, is a student at Sunny School. She works very hard, so she always gets  （good） grades than others.

She has some healthy habits now. However, a year ago, she was different now. She often （feel）tired after a day's study, and she didn't want to do any sports after school. Her parents wanted her （exercise） every day. But she said that she didn't like exercising. After dinner, her parents asked her to go a walk with them, but she only stayed at home and read （book）. On weekends, she never went out to play with her friends. She just spent her time （watch） TV or playing computer games. That was （real）bad for her health． Her parents worried about her lifestyle.

One day, her teacher talked to her about her lifestyle asked her to change. Now she walks to school and exercises every day. On weekends, she often plays basketball with her friends. She thinks is good for her to take exercise every day. It helps her to study better.

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