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My name is Daniel. I’m in Grade 8. This is my second year at middle school. When we finish Grade 9, we have to take a(n) ________ to continue (继续) our studies. We go to school five days a ________ and have seven lessons every day. We study Chinese, Maths and English. We also have ________ subjects, such as Geography, History, Physics and Computer studies. ________ is my favourite subject because I like learning new words.

We have different after-school clubs. Some ________ are for fun, such as the Chess Club and the Basketball Club. Some clubs are for study, such as the Maths Club and the Geography Club. I am a ________ of the English Singing Club. I like it because I think it ________ to sing English songs.

We are at a ________ school with 905 boys and 560 girls. Many ________ need help to learn more about the new school. They may have ________ with their new school life. When they have problems, they do not want to tell their teachers. They may feel ________ if they can talk to older students. At our school, the older students can ________ the Helping Hands Club. These big brothers and sisters talk to the new students and try to ________ them with their problems.

In China, ________ thinks going to school is very important. We are happy to be at school. And I should say that our ________ is the best.

When your pen is broken, the battery in your toys run out, or you have some food that you haven't eaten up, what do you do with these 1．things? You will probably throw 2．all into one bin. But actually, all of these pieces of rubbish need to be sorted separately so that a part of them are reused.

Many rivers are 3．by rubbish. So rubbish sorting is of great importance and can reduce the pollution worldwide. As we all know, metal and bottles are reusable things.4．,some Chinese cities have been working hard on it. Shanghai has worked with Alipay to create a “green account” service for its residents. Users get points by correctly sorting their rubbish. Through the Alipay APP, the pollution 5． has improved a lot. They can pay for milk, phone cards and other 6． just by exchanging the points. The city 7．all of its residents to sort their rubbish into four groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry. Shenzhen has been sorting its rubbish into the same four groups since 2012 and the students have been doing some scientific studies 8． sorting rubbish. Now, China is improving its waste-sorting work9． it costs a lot. Our earth can't 10．pollution any more. There is still a long way to go. But it's never too late to learn how to sort your rubbish properly and protect the environment.

247 graduate students of Fudan University have volunteered to teach the children in Xihaigu region(地区) of Ningxia for the past 22 years. The region used to be poor because of its terrible natural environment. “We hope to make a difference to the children’s life by sharing our knowledge in different fields,” one of the volunteers says.

The students have different abilities, so the volunteers have used different teaching methods to help them develop good study habits. “Local children never learned English before, so we started with basic knowledge like English letters and pronunciation(发音), ” says Li Lianshuo, a Fudan volunteer. The volunteers help the students remember English words, read articles and deal with their study problems.

“We visit the students’ homes in our free time. We talk with their parents so that we help them understand the importance of children’s education, because the parents didn’t care much about it years ago, ” explains Yang Chenhaotong, who was the leader of the volunteer team in 2019. According to Yang, the parents give their children a lot of support in their studies now.

The volunteers have helped the local children with their studies. They have also set up football clubs and held many ball games to make the children’s life colorful. The Fudan University has also given away more than 10 million yuan to the region to build playgrounds and other buildings over the past 22 years.

“Thanks to my volunteer teacher, my life has changed a lot. I will study hard and become an excellent person like her,” Li Sumei, a local student, says excitedly.

China’s first Artificial Intelligent (AI) coffee shop made its first appearance. It is in the _______ Chinese city of Shenzhen, showing that AI has walked closer to people’s life, _______ it was only opened for visitors to experience _______ Shenzhen (International) Science Film Week in 2017.

Service in this coffee shop is _______ offered by robots. It is a creative place _______ together by IngDan from China and the robot design company Rethink Robotics from the United States.

Visitors are surprised to see robot coffee masters _______ coffee and robot waiters serve. Things such as voice-controlled lights and music playing also make them _______.

Customers make orders _______ directly speaking to the robots. These machine waiters can understand not only Putonghua, _______ Cantonese, a dialect (方言) spoken by the local people. They can understand English ________.

The AI coffee shop has attracted many people ________ want to experience robot services, and some joked that coffee made there had the ________ of intelligence. The robot can also communicate with customers and express ________ if their services are praised.

“Artificial Intelligence is being used in ________ fields today,” said a person in the experience centre. It is expected that AI restaurants, bedrooms, study rooms and other products will ________ in the near future.

In most countries,people usually eat traditional food on special holidays.A special day in the United States is Thanksgiving.It is always on the1．(four)Thursday in November,and is a time2．(give)thanks for food in the autumn.At this time,people also remember the first travelers from England who3．(come)to live in America about 400 years ago.These travelers had a long,hard winter,and many of them died.In the next autumn,they gave4．(thank)for life and food in their new home.These days,most5．(America)still celebrate this idea of giving thanks by6．(have)a big meal at home with their family.The main dish of this meal is almost always turkey,a large bird. 

Now let me7．(share)how to make a turkey dinner. 

First,mix together some bread pieces,onions,salt and pepper.

Next,fill the turkey with this bread mix.

Then,put the turkey in a hot oven and try8．(cook)it for a few hours.

When it9．(be)ready,place the turkey on a large plate and cover it with gravy. 

Finally,cut the turkey into thin pieces and eat the meat with vegetables like carrots and10．(potato).

Pizza has a long history. The ancient Greeks(希腊人) first had the idea of putting 1． (蔬菜) on pieces of bread, and ＂Pizza ovens＂ have been found in Roman cities. But for centuries one important ingredient was 2． (找不到的，失踪的)—the first tomatoes were not brought to Europe until the sixteenth century, from South America. It was the nineteenth century before Rafacla Esposito, a baker from Naples, began to sell the first 3． (现代的) pizzas. He was asked to bake a special pizza for a 4． (拜访) by the Italian King and Queen in 1889, and so the first pizza Margarita was 5． (创造), named after the Queen.

Pizza became a favorite dish in Italy, but pizza really became an 6． (国际的) dish after the Second World War, when 7． (千) of American soldiers went home from Europe. 8． (不久) there were pizzerias all over the USA, and American chains(连锁店) like Pizza Hut 9． (传播) the idea around the world. Today the average American eats over ten kilograms of pizza a year, and the world’s 10． (最大的) pizza was baked out not in Italy, but in Cuba!

Nowadays heavy traffic can happen anywhere. People can get very uneasy if they are in heavy traffic. For many years people have tried to invent a car that can fly. If a person is driving a flying car, the heavy traffic would be far below him.

Many companies around the world are developing flying cars. They hope that in the future, flying cars will be useful for short trips like taxis in or out of cities. These cars could save time in emergencies(突发事件) and help reach places that can’t be reached by road. They also hope to save the space on the ground.

Last September, SkyDrive, a Japanese company, showed off its new flying car SD­03. With a pilot on board, the car was flown around for four minutes.

Flying cars need strong power to fly in the sky freely like the airplanes. SkyDrive designed the SD­03 powered by batteries (电池). There are eight motors (发动机) lifting it straight off the ground. The design also produces less pollution.

Although the SD­03’s test flight was successful, we may not see flying cars in our daily life soon. There are still many challenges in the way. Safety is a big problem. What happens when a motor fails? If a flying car is crossing a city, an accident could hurt not only the people in the car but also people on the ground. That’s why the SD03 has eight motors—some are backups (备用物).

Yet people who believe in flying cars point out that cars and airplanes faced lots of challenges at first, too. Over time, many of their biggest problems were solved. More flying cars will be seen in the sky. Tomohiro Fukuzawa, who leads SkyDrive, hopes that by 2050, people will have been able to fly anywhere inside of Tokyo in ten minutes or less.

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Did your friends give you a nickname(绰号)? How do you feel about it? What does it mean to give someone a nickname?

A student put a note on his classmate’s back while they had a break at school one day. The note said “I’m a Pig”. He asked other classmates not to tell the boy. The other students started laughing at the boy, but wouldn’t say why.

Soon, it was time for their afternoon math class. Their teacher wrote a difficult problem on the blackboard. Only the boy with the note on his back was able to solve it.

Ignoring(忽略) the laughter, he walked to the blackboard and solved the problem. The teacher asked the class to clap(鼓掌) for him and took the note off his back. She told him, “It seems that you didn’t know about the note on your back, but you didn’t seem to care anyway.”

Then the teacher looked at the other students and said, “Let me tell you two things. First all of you will be put on notes by other people who don’t want you to be successful. All you have to do is to ignore these notes. You have to take every chance to learn, grow and improve.”

“And it seems that none of you are friends with this boy, and none of you were kind enough to tell him about the note. If that’s true, then you’d better hope that you have some good friends yourself and they will tell you if you meet this situation someday.” After hearing this, they all bowed their heads in shame.

Melissa and Sandra sat on the playground after their lunch.

“Mr. Harper asked us all to 1． three hard problems.” Melissa said. “Anyone who got the right answers could win two movie tickets. With trial and effort, I 2． it. I am so excited!” “You are so lucky!” Sandra said. “I can’t believe it! 3． you want, we can go to the movies together this weekend.”

Just then, Melissa’s friend Beth came to the playground. She said, “Melissa, I heard that you won the tickets. I can’t wait to go to the movies with you.”

Suddenly, Melissa found she did 4． wrong.

“I’m sorry, Beth. This is my fault. I forgot the 5． that we would share the tickets if one of us won. I have 6． asked Sandra to go to the movie.”

After a long silence, Beth said, “I know! 7． don’t we all go to the movies?”

“But I don’t have 8． money to buy one ticket.” Sandra said.

“Why not split (分摊) the 9． of the third movie ticket?” Melissa said, “It will be equal for everyone 10． that way.” They nodded their heads together.

That weekend, the three friends enjoyed themselves a lot in the cinema.