---Jack, your hair is too long!

---Really? I’ll have it ______ right now. 

 ---______ bad weather yesterday!

---Yes. It caused a few traffic accidents.

The little boy entered the house unhappily. His mother was 31   cakes in the kitchen. She smiled as she 32   but stopped when she saw his face. “Tyler, 33  happened? Is everything okay?”

“Nothing is okay, mom.” said the boy, “Today, in our science lesson, Mrs Green was talking about the 34 . She said that the whole world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are dying. She wants us to think of something we can do to help. I thought all the way, but there is 35  I can do to make a difference.”

“Let me tell you 36 .” the mother said after thinking for a while. “One morning a man was walking down a beach, there he saw thousands of dying starfish covering the beach, they were pushed up by the 37 , and it was too far up for them to make their way back by 38 . The man shook his head as he walked along, ‘What a pity! So many starfish will die on the beach.’ The man felt very sorry 39  those starfish. He went on walking and just at that time he was 40 to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as 41 as he could, ‘how silly you are! My 42 ,’ the man said, ‘There are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?’ The boy didn’t stop but kept throwing, ’43 I can’t help them all. I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one, and this one.”

“Thinking for a moment, the man 44  to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself, ‘Sometimes the biggest lesson in life comes from the 45  person.

9.A of             B. for              C. from             D. forward

15.A shortest             B. tallest          C. smallest         D. biggest

Two magazines recently listed the best cities to live in. Here are two of the cities listed as “the world’s best.”

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA  The city has comfortable weather all year round (15℃ to 26℃). Housing is not very expensive in San Jose. Also, many of the city’s older neighborhoods are very beautiful and have small hotels and cafés. Beautiful mountains are around the city. Lots of people go sightseeing there every year. But air pollution is a problem in the city center.

HONG KONG, CHINA   This lively city—once a small fishing village—is today an international business center. It is an interesting mix of East and West, old and new. Modern tall buildings are next to small temples (廟宇). Popular nightclubs are close to traditional teahouses. Busy people fill the streets at all hours of the day. But outside the city, there are parks for walking or relaxing. Hong Kong is famous for its wonderful native dishes. There’s also food from Europe, North America, and other parts of Asia. However, this small city has a large population of nearly seven million! That’s why housing is often very expensive. Traffic and air pollution are also a problem.

1.Which of the following is NOT mentioned about San Jose?

2.What makes Hong Kong the world’s best according to this passage?

3.The writer thinks housing in Hong Kong is expensive because ______.

4.What do the two cities have in common?

5.From the passage, we can know that ______.

Every day when I enter the classroom, I will take a look at the wall beside my seat. You will find nothing special about this old wall if you just look at it. But for the students in my class, it is a special wall. Take a good look at it, and you will get to know the real feelings and thoughts of us, the 9th graders.

In the middle of the wall, there is a big “VICTORY”. It was written in pencil. I guess it must have been written by someone who got a good mark in an exam.

A little higher above the formulas, there is a poem. It only has two sentences. It reads: All those sweet memories have disappeared. Like tears dropping in the heavy rain.

Oh! It must have been written at the end of the last semester in middle school. Classmates had to leave school and good friends had to part. What a sad poem!

If you look at the wall more carefully, you will find many other interesting things, like a crying face, or a happy face, and other patterns(圖案). There are still some patterns and letters that I can’t understand, but they all show the feeling of the students who drew them.

For years, the wall has witnessed(目睹) all the things that have happened in the classroom. I don’t know how it will be next year, two years from now, or even ten years from now. But I hope more smiling faces will be drawn on it.

1.There is ______ special on this wall.

2.What was the “VICTORY” written in?

3.When has the poem been written?

4.What’s the meaning of the underlined word?

5.What’s the title of the passage?

借鑒別人的學習秘訣， 是學習的捷徑之一。請把下面的學習秘訣和例子對上號。Secrets of top students

Example One: “If I don’t understand what my teacher is explaining in the science, I ask him to say it again,” says Anna Lee. “also asking more helped a lot.”

1.______

Example Two: “When a teacher asks us to do a lot of homework，”says Dave Roman “ I             

will draw up a timetable and plan to do it little by little, so it isn’t so tiring.

2.______

Example Three: One student put a vocabulary list on the wall of the bathroom. He learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth. Another student used the time to remember biology terms while practicing running.                    

3.______

Example Four: In high school, Mike played football, painted and was in the band. “I was so busy that I couldn’t waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything in order.” He says.                                                

4.______

Example Five: Christi is an excellent student at the university. If her math teacher asks her to do five problems, she does ten. If the history teacher asks her to read five pages, she reads ten. “Part of learning is practicing,” she says, “and the more you practice, the more you learn.”

5.______

用方框中所給單詞的適當形式填空，使短文通順、正確、連貫(每個單詞限用一次)。

The summer vacation is over. It’s true that time always61        fast. During the vacation, the weather was hot and I could not do much work, but I lived 62        .

As the afternoon was hot. I did my work in the morning. I 63       to get up at 6:30 and take a walk in the garden for half an hour. After breakfast, I began reading English and Chinese and did some 64        in math, It took me three hours or65        . I worked quite 66and made good progress.

I spent the afternoon outside. I went to swim and it was 67        . I would not go home until it was about five or six o’clock. Sometimes a friend of mine would come to see me and we would spend some hours 68        to music.

In this way I spent my vacation slowly. And I not only studied well but also became a good 69          . now I am in good 70         and high spirits.

根據(jù)下列句子及所給單詞的首字母，在答題卷上按題號寫出各單詞的完全形式（每空限填一詞）。

1.If you can swim a        the river, I’ll be waiting for you on the other side.

2.She took part in helping people in the Wenchuan Earthquake. She would never forget this unusual      .

3.I like c      with my friends online very much.

4.In Lily’s paper there are f           mistakes than in Jack’s.

5.I read my essay a          in class and everyone can hear me clearly.

6.His speech was boring, but he did not r           it.

7.He is good at thinking. I think he can answer the question in a d            way.

8.Would you mind not w          your time?

9.Don’t stay up late, or you will feel s             in class during the day.

10.He joined the army(軍隊) five years ago, so he has been a s              for five years.

學校讓學生參加義務勞動，以此作為教育學生的一種方法，這件事在學生中引起了強烈的反響。請你把下列不同意見整理成一篇80字左右的書面材料。

注意：短文應包括列舉的所有內容，可適當發(fā)揮，不要逐字翻譯。參考詞匯： argument

爭論   do voluntary labor 義務勞動  respect尊重

A strong argument has taken place among students since our school made students do voluntary labor.

Some students think                                                            

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---______ do you exercise?

---Once a week.