Li Ping is a Grade Eight student in Zhenjiang Sunshine Secondary School．The table below is his mid-term self-assessment(自我评价)．He draws faces to show his progress：
excellent  OK weak
Read the table and find out how well Li Ping is doing.

Unit/ Item	Unit l Past and present		Unit 2 Travelling		Unit 3 Online travel
Vocabulary	opposites		Suffixes‘ful’ and‘less’		Words about computers
Grammar	Present perfect tense		Past continuous tense		Passive voice
Study skills/ Pronunciation	Using a dictionary		Linking words		Organizing information
Main task	A report		My best holiday		Favourite educational computer game

任务型阅读（共l0空；每空l分，计l0分）
阅读下列短文，根据短文中的信息完成文后表格。在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处所填单词的正确形式。（每空一词）

THE University of St Andrews is the setting of royal(皇家的) love: on the grounds of this great Scottish university Prince William and Kate Middleton first met and fell in love.
More than that, St Andrews is Scotland's first university and one of the oldest universities in the English-speaking world. Founded in 1413 (just after Oxford and Cambridge), over 600 hundred years, the university has been well known as one of Europe's leading and most distinctive centres for teaching and research.
St Andrews is located in a small, historical town to the coast(海滨)of North East Scotland. The university itself is the perfect place for learning. On average one in three people you see in the street have something to do with the University. You start to feel very quickly that you belong.
As a student in St Andrews, playing golf is a must. With the town itself known around the world as “The Home of Golf”, the university is within minutes of the ancient golf-playing ground in the world, the Old Course, just near the sea. Students can take a break from their studies by enjoying a game of golf, and the university itself is a popular place to go.
It has one of the lowest dropout(辍学) rates in the UK---98 percent of students complete their degree. Perhaps its popularity is in part because of the fact that St Andrews is good for nearly every subject. It has long been among the UK's top five.

Here is an advertisement about two-day tour between Hong Kong and Macao.

Bill is a student in Jiangdu Sunshine Secondary school. Last week he joined the two-day tour between Hong Kong and Macao with his parents.

1. Bill enjoyed the beautiful views in the city by      last week.

   A. ship                                    B. boat                                 C. bus                                   D. speedboat

2. In Hong Kong you can visit      .

   A. Victoria Peak          B. Mazu Temple                C. the Ruins of St. Paul    D. Moon lake

3..Which of the following is true?

  A. The trip took Bill two days.                 B. The trip cost Bill HK ＄600.

  C. Bill went travelling alone.                  D. Bill should pay more for meals.

Most people work or study from Monday to Friday. The weekend is usually a time of rest. But today's Chinese teenagers can hardly rest during the weekends.
According to a survey, 24% of the Grade 8 students in Beijing have classes at the weekend. Over 40% of the middle school students have less than eight hours’ sleep each night because of study.
And this isn't only in Beijing. Ji Chunying is a Grade 9 student in Guangzhou. The 14-year-old girl has to get up at 6:45 am on Saturday. Then she has a whole day of classes. On Sunday, she goes to extra classes for math and physics.
But Ji doesn't complain. She says her classmates all work very hard.
Finding time to have fun

Zhao Yang, 13, is from Dalian, Liaoning. As a Grade 8 student, Zhao's weekend is less busy. But he still spends Saturday in school. On Sunday, after finishing homework, he plays basketball. "I feel happy because I still have time to do the things I like," he said.
Some students are much luckier. They don't have to go to school on the weekend.
Ding Yi, a Grade 8 student from Laiwu, Shandong, is one of them. And she's a top student.
During the weekend, Ding usually gets up at 8 am. Then she spends some time doing homework. After that she is free to go shopping or watch TV.
Ding said her mother once wanted her to try extra classes. But when they asked Ding's teacher about it, the teacher said it was unnecessary.
"My teacher said I don't need to push myself too much. Learning well at school is enough," Ding said. "I feel pretty lucky."
【小题1】Over 40% of the middle school students have less than eight hours sleep each night because of ___________.

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I first had physics lessons when I was in Grade Eight some years ago. In class, I   1   that there wasn’t a Nobel (诺贝尔) Prize winner from China. That made me sad, and I decided to change (改变) it.   2   after that, I got up early in the morning. I turned on the light and took out a physics book. Then I started   3   quietly. I worked so hard because I had a great   4   — one day, I would be the first   5   person to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Later on, I found physics at school too easy for me. I wanted to learn   6  , so I made a reading plan and started to find answers to more difficult problems.

Now I am a top student in physics. I won the first prize in the national physics competition  last month. And I am happy to be closer to my dream after a few   7   hard work. Of course,   8   I have some problems. My classmates always   9   me when they are talking about fashion (时尚) or pop stars, because I know   10   about them. “Well, that doesn’t matter too much,” I tell myself. “They don’t know much about physics , but I won’t laugh at them.”

1.A. joined           B. heard                 C. studied

2.A. So               B. But                       C. And

3.A. writing             B. reading                C. thinking

4.A. dream           B. idea                   C. plan

5.A. Chinese         B. Canada                 C. American

6.A. much            B. more                   C. most

7.A. weeks’          B. months’                C. years’

8.A. usually             B. always                 C. sometimes

9.A. depend on      B. look at                C. laugh at

10.A. anything       B. nothing                C. everything