What makes the world become smaller? Some inventions, It began in the 11th century, But it has developed greatly in the last century. Let’s take a look at the five top inventions.
Movable Type(活字印刷) :By using Movable Type, books could be printed cheaply and easily. Bi Sheng invented Movable Type in China in the 11th century.
Telephone: The inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call in 1876." Mr. Watson, come here. I want you ,"he said to his assistant(助手) over the phone line. And with those famous words, the world was about to get much smaller.
Airplane: The Wright brothers made the first powered flight in1903.Air travel has made the far way places suddenly become a lot closer.
Satellites: The Soviet Union sent up the world’s first satellite in 1957. This begin the Space Age. Satellites have helped scientists study the earth. Much of our knowledge of the world has come from the information recorded by satellites.
Internet: When the Internet was created in 1969. only a few people knew about it. But more than 650 million people in the world use it now. The Internet has made information about anything easy to get.

	Title: 小题1:
The top Inventions	Movable Type	Telephone	Airplane   Satellites      Internet /     The Soviet Union    / In 193     in 1957       in 1969 making the 小题2:in formation farway     ________    easy to places     information    get closer     recordedly satelltes
小题3:	China	/
When	小题4:	In 1876
How	Books printed Cheaply and Easily anything	The world got a lot smaller

What can you see in the school library?
A.   B   C.   D.

There are many rules (制度) in the old libraries. For example, no photos, no drinking and no phones. But now a lot of libraries don’t have too many rules. They paint the rooms beautiful colors so readers would like to read there. There aren’t hard chairs in these libraries.
There are nice sofas in them. Some of them are open 24 hours every day. In the libraries in America,
readers can make a 1free call. That means that they don’t need to pay any money for making a call. In the kid’s library in Denmark, children can sleep there if it is too late. In some libraries in Australia, they have a kids’ “story time”. 2今天图书馆是孩子们娱乐和学习知识的好去处。
任务（一）：根据短文内容回答下列问题。
小题1:Why do many libraries paint their rooms beautiful colors now?
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小题2:In which country do some libraries have a kids’ “story time”?
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任务（二）：请写出1处下划线黑体单词“free”的汉语意思。
小题3:________________________________________________________________________
任务（三）：请将文中2处划线的句子翻译成英语，每空一词。
小题4:Today libraries are good places for kids to ________ ________ and learn something.
任务（四）：请给短文选择一个最恰当的英文标题。

小题5:	A．New Libraries B．Library Rules C．Old Libraries D．Free Libraries

根据短文内容，完成下列任务。
I wanted to be healthy, so I decided to take a walk in Philam Park before I went to work.
On the first morning, I got out of bed and put on my sports clothes. Then I got into my car and drove off to the park. On the way , I set a goal for myself---I must finish 10 rounds before I went to work.
After arriving at the park, I got out of the car. The air was nice and clean. I took a deep breath (深呼吸). Then I joined the people there and started my exercise.
At first, I was enjoying every step (步). However, on my 5^th round, I felt tired and thirsty. I wanted to give up and have a good rest on the ground. As the idea was fighting with my plan, I looked around. (A) moving, many, saw, old, still, I ,people, on. Some of them even had difficulty walking. They took small steps with a cane (手杖).
Moved by the men and women whom I walked with that morning, I finished my exercies.
We often make plans in our life. Sometimes we may meet lots of difficulties. (B) If we keep on, we’ll reach (到达) the goal in the end, no matter how diffcult it is.
任务(一)：回答问题。
小题1:How did the writer go to the Philam Park?
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小题2:Why did the writer want to give up walking?
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任务(二)：选择填空。
小题3:The underlaned part”set a goal” means “______” in Chinese.

A．做好准备	B．设定目标
C．限定时间	D．选择对手

任务(三)：连词成句。
小题4:将文中划线部分（A）处连成通顺完整的句子。
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任务(四)：句子翻译.
小题5:将文中划线部分（B）处翻译成汉语。
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小题1:color pencil is what this           ___________________________________________？
小题2:number your is what phone         ___________________________________________？
小题3:cousin is not that her              ____________________________________________
小题4:are English in my drawer books the    __________________________________________
小题5:you do last spell your how name      __________________________________________？

Hello! My name is Jenny. I live in a small town in Shanxi. It’s near the city of Datong. You can’t see it on the map of China, because it is too small. There are many tall buildings here. Most of the people live in their own(自己的) houses. There is a little garden behind my house. I often play with my friends in it. I like living in a house because I don’t have to climb stairs. (楼梯). And we can also grow beautiful flowers in the garden.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。（1×5=5分）
小题1:Where does Jenny live?
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小题2:What kind of buildings are there?
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小题3:Does Jenny like living in a tall building?
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小题4:Who does Jenny often play with ?
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小题5:Why does Jenny like living in a house?

A. 阅读下列短文，用适当的词填空。（1×5=5分）

My favorite animals Elephants are my favorite animals. I often go to __1____ them in the zoo ___2___ my parents. They are our friends. They ___3__ in Africa. They are very clever, so I ___4___ them very much. They like to play with their friends. They are useful. They can ___5___ people do some things. They are our friends.

 

 

根据下面卡片上的信息，写一篇短文介绍一下你笔友的情况。(10分)
要求：1.以第三人称的身份，字数在60左右。
2.条理清楚，语法及词汇拼写正确。

Name: Tony

Age:13

From: Tokyo, Japan

Language: Japanese

Favorite Sport: Football

Favorite Color: Black

Favorite Subject: English

Favorite Movie: Kung Fu Panda

Family Members: Brother(Bob),Sister(Lisa)

 

Dear parents,
I’m glad to 1._________ you to come to our parents’ meeting in our school at 7:30p.m. 2. _________ Saturday. We will hold the parents’ meeting in the classroom of Class 4,Grade 8. At the meeting we will tell you 3._________ about your kids’ study. We will also listen to your 4. _________ on how to improve all their lessons. We hope you 5. _________ come on time.
Hope to see you then!
Sincerely
Mr. Yang

Good afternoon, everyone. My topic for today is “Early money”. I’m going to t___1____
you something about money u ___2_____in the early days. To tell you the truth, we know little about h___3___ early people came to use money, but we do know some of the things w____4___ have been used a___5___ money. In early times in some European c___6____ salt was very difficult to g___7___.  It was used as money. In some p____8____ of Asia, tea was used for money. The American Indians used nuts and other things. Perhaps the most c_____9____ money of all was an animal of some kind. In some places today, cows are still used as a k___10_____ of money. So you see, things highly valued (价值) by everybody may serve as money. The Chinese were the first p___11____ to use coins as money. Oh, here are some coins of the p____12_____. You can come over and have a look.