（浙江）外研版初中英语七年级下册期中复习（题型专练）：任务型...

    WeiFang and Liu Lin are the students of Green School. They are good friends. Theywant to join some clubs.

    Thereare many clubs in their school. They are English club, music club, swimmingclub, chess club, art club and so on. Wei Fang wants to join the music club.She wants to be a musician when she grows up(长大).Her favourite singer is Song Zuying. (1)她能唱歌和跳舞。Now she can play the piano and play the guitar well, but she can'tplay the violin. Liu Lin can play chess and he can swim well.  But he can only speak a little English. So hewants to join the English club to improve(提高)hisEnglish. On Sundays, he often plays basketball with his friends. He wants to bea basketball player like Jeremy Lin. (2)你想加入什么俱乐部？

    David is a 10-year-old boy．He wants to buy something for his mother,because next Monday is her birthday．David's father gives him 5 dollars a week and David puts 2 dollars a week in to a box in his room．After three months，David has 24 dollars in the box．He takes 20 dollars out of his box and goes to a big store．He wants something really great for his mother．

    David sees a beautiful brooch（胸针）．It is in the shape(呈……形状)his favourite animal．It is only$17.00．“I like it．”thinks David．“My mother loves brooches and she will like it,too．”He buys the brooch and takes it home．He puts it in a beautiful box,and puts the box on the dining table．David is very happy．He thinks he will see the smile on his mother's face．

    But when his mother opens the box．She screams(尖叫)．She sees a spider(蜘蛛)in the box!She is afraid of spiders so much!

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    Anna is a 17-year-old exchange student (交换生) from Russia (俄罗斯). She is now studying art in a university (大学) in France. She's going to stay in France for a year and then she will go back to Russia. Anna comes to France because she thinks Paris is the best place for her to study art. She is now staying with the Black family. She helps Mrs Black do some housework every evening and goes to French classes every Wednesday and Friday afternoon.

    Everything in Paris is new to her. She finds things are quite different from those in Moscow. There are many big shopping malls here, but it's really expensive. It's also expensive to have a meal in a restaurant or go to the cinema. Now Anna has got used to (习惯于) many things, but she cannot get used to the breakfast in France. "They eat so much in the morning," she often says. "How can you face all that food so carly in the day?"

    Schools in the USA are a little different from schools in China.Usually, there is no uniform(校服)in the USA.In many Chinese schools ,Students have to wear school uniform..Classes begin at 8:30 each morning and the school day is over at 3:30 or 4 o'clock in the USA.In China ,classes begin at 8:00 in the morning and the school day is over at 5:30 in the afternoon.Students have one hour for lunch.and two 20-minute breaks(休息) each day in the USA.One break is in the morning , and the other is in the afternoon. In China,students have two hour for lunch and a ten-minute break after each class.In the USA, students often go to the school dining hall for lunch or at a break.They buy food and drinks there.But in China ,students often play games on the playground or have a break in the classroom after lunch or at a break.

    In the United States, we are lucky to have an easy way to get clean water—just by turning on the tap.

    Water is an important part in our daily lives and we use it for different aims, but do we really know how much water we use?

    Each American family uses more than 300 gallons of water per day at home.

    Water also plays a big part in our local communities. Without water there would be no local business or factories.We need a lot of pipes to bring us a large amount of water to our taps each day.

    It starts out as rain or snow and flows into our local lakes, rivers and streams or into underground. You can learn more about water in your country.

    Ma Yun is an amazing person in China.Few people thought the Internet business would make much money when Ma Yun started Alibaba in 1999.However, the man believed that everyone should have a dream. Ma said, "We should believe in our dreams from the first day to today and tomorrow." In 2014, he became one of Chinese mainland's richest men.

    He's also on the board (董事会) of China's most successful football club, Guangzhou Evergrande.

    "We hope that in the next 15 years the world will change because of us," he said.

    Hello, I'm Bill. Do you like school trips?  Now let me tell you some great things about school trips.

    First, school trips can make you relaxed(放松的) and give you a lot of fun.

    Second, you can learn some things different from what you learn in class.  For example, if you go to a zoo, you can learn a lot about animals.

    Third, you can learn to do things by yourself.  When you go out, you need to think about what to wear and what you need to take with you.

    At last, school trips can teach you how to get on with others.  For example, if you go camping in the mountains or have a picnic, you may need to work with each other and help each other. Then you can learn to get on with each other.

    People in different countries celebrate(庆祝) their birthdays in different ways.

    Sandy Morrison comes from Madrid(马德里). She says happily, “My twenty-first birthday is on a Saturday, and I'm going out with some friends. To wish me a happy birthday, they are going to pull(拉) on my ear twenty one times, once for each year. ”

    Mr and Mrs Sato are from Tokyo. Mr Sato is going to be sixty tomorrow. In Japan, the sixtieth birthday is called Kanreki- it's the beginning of a new life. The colour red is for a new life.

    Li Xiaomei from Beijing feels very excited and tells us, “Tomorrow is my sixteenth birthday. We're going to have a family party. I'm probably going to get some money in lucky envelopes(信封) from my relatives. ”

    Phillip Evans, from Paris, smiles, “I'm going to be thirty next week, so I'm going to invite three very good friends out for dinner. ”

    Peter s grandpa lives in the countryside. He has a small farm. Last Sunday, Peter and his cousin Jason rode their bikes to the farm. When they left in the morning, it was kind of cloudy. But when they got there, the sun came out and their grandpa was busy with his work on the farm. The two boys helped to feed chickens and pick apples. The apples were big and red, and they each ate two. After that, they took some photos.

    In the afternoon, they went fishing in a river. Their grandpa took them to the river. The water there was clean. They had a lot of fun. At about five o'clock, they got back home happily.