八年级：“有知有味”——知识竞赛
G8: Trivia Competition
开学至今，八年级已举办了一系列将独立自主学习理念、全球意识以及学科知识和学习经验融为一体的趣味活动。4月10日下午，八年级知识竞赛决赛在甄陶楼B1报告厅成功举办。本届知识竞赛不仅考察了同学们从生物到算法等不同学科的知识储备，也训练了同学们在日常生活中所学习到的批判性思维方法。
The eighth grade has had events all year that evaluate independent learning and global awareness. On April 9th, the Grade 8 Trivia Competition was held in the B1 lecture hall in Zhentao Building. This event not only tests students on a variety of topics ranging from Biology to Algorithms and much more, but also applied the critical thinking skills students have learned and developed.
本次竞赛以学生为主导，同学们踊跃参与，自发出题。八年级13个班级选派参赛队伍参加了第一轮初赛，初赛每轮有多组题目，从填空开始，当错误题数到达特定值，题型就转变为选择题。让我们来看看他们精彩的现场表现吧！
Students started to anticipate the event when it was first announced — ready to participate and take on the challenge! Each homeroom determined a small group of students to enter the first round. In each round, there were multiple sets of questions. The general rules are that each question starts as a fill-in-the-blank question, and as the amount of incorrect answers reaches a certain amount, the question becomes a multiple choice question. When the contestants and backups were selected, they were eager to start preparing themselves and to take on the challenge.
初赛开始前的几分钟，当观众涌入B1报告厅，选手们都跃跃欲试，为彼此加油鼓掌。设备调试之后，参赛队伍开始讨论计策，比如谁来按抢答器，因为抢答题不仅需要敏捷的思维，还需要全神贯注、眼疾手快。讨论之后，每个参赛选手都信心满满地面对接下来的挑战。
A few minutes before the first round started, when the audience members started pouring into the B1 lecture hall, the contestants started cheering for the other members of their teams. After testing the buzzers and other technical equipment, the members of the teams started discussing their strategies and tactics, including who would be in charge of pushing the buzzer. This is because answering questions not only requires quick thinking, but it also needs full concentration and speedy reactions. In a matter of seconds, the room quieted down. This was a moment that many students were anticipating all week. The first round had officially started!
第一轮之后，7个团队晋级，他们兴奋的脸上挂着笑容，激动地向着自己班级的方向大喊：“我们班晋级了！”接下来的几轮更为激烈，选手们你追我赶，互不相让，克服了重重艰难亦不乏趣味的挑战。
In the preliminary round, 7 out of 13 teams advanced — the students of those teams were happy and excited to see their homerooms enter the next round. The smiles on the students’ faces when searching for classmates from their class and saying “Our class got into the second round!” really showed their excitement and how proud they were of their homerooms’ achievements. The round afterwards was just as splendidly exciting as the first. Dealing once again with multiple sets of questions, the players worked their way through the challenging — and often quite interesting —questions.
最后只剩8（6）和8（7）两支队伍进入决赛。决赛现场紧张刺激，双方队伍不分伯仲，最终8（7）班以52-48的比分战胜8（6）班，一举夺下本届知识竞赛的冠军。
After a few more rounds, there were only two homerooms that successfully made it through. In the final round, the teams of class 8(6) and class 8(7) challenged themselves with the multiple sets of questions. Finally, class 8(7) won with a score of 52-48 points. Congratulations to the winners!
其他未能进入决赛的班级也为学到了很多新知而感到满足和愉快，从日常生活到经典文学，这些趣味知识让同学们大开眼界。另外，同学们在团队合作的过程中也获得了宝贵的沟通技巧和经验。
Even if their homerooms did not make it to the final round, students were all happy that they learned many new things, ranging from which metro lines can take you to certain places in Shanghai, to the characters and plots of famous poems. These interesting facts really help when widening our knowledge of the world. In addition, students also learned some valuable teamwork and cooperation skills in the process.
这场“有知有味”的知识竞赛为同学们学习新知、掌握新技能提供了交流的平台。希望大家在未来的学习生活中继续扩展知识边界，在好玩儿的探索中茁壮成长。
In conclusion, the Grade 8 Trivia Competition really allowed us to gain some new, useful skills and knowledge, whether that’s a new interesting fact or how to better work together.