浙江省2018-2019学年初中英语九年级上册期中考试模拟试卷（3）

    This story happened in a small mountain village. One day there was an earthquake. Nothing was destroyed and nobody was hurt. But a huge1 fell from a nearby mountain and stopped in the middle of the road.

    When the earthquake 2, many people came to the road and saw the huge rock. Some of the strongest men tried to lift the rock 3 the road. But they couldn't move it. They tried to push it but failed. They tried to 4 it with ropes but nothing worked.

    " Well, " they all agreed, " There's nothing we can do about it. We'll have to change the 5. " At this time a boy of 12 years old said, " I think I can help you to move the rock."

    "You？" they shouted, " What are you talking about？" The men all 6 at the boy.

    The next morning some people came into the street. One of them shouted, " The rock is 7！" More people ran out to see. It was right. The rock wasn't in the road any more. It wasn't 8 near the road.

    " It is 9, " they said, " Where did it go？"

    The boy stood in the street, 10, " I told you I could move it last night."

    The boy walked over to where the 11 had been and uncovered some earth(泥土). " I buried it, " he said.

    The people looked 12. "You see, " he said, " I dug a deep hole next to the rock and I dug a small incline (斜坡)up to the rock and the rock 13 down into the hole by itself. I covered it with earth."

    The crowds shouted, " What a 14 boy！" And some of them said, " Why haven't we thought of this good15？"

　　 Jeff Keith has only one leg. When he was 12 years old, Jeff had cancer. Doctors had to cut off most of his right leg.

       Every day Jeff puts on an artificial leg. With the plastic artificial leg, Jeff can ride a bicycle, swim, and play soccer. He can also run.

Jeff made a plan with his friends who had plastic legs, too. They decided to run across America.

      When he was 22 years old, Jeff Keith ran across the United States from the east to the west. He started running in Boston. Seven months later, he stopped running in Los Angeles. He ran 3, 200 miles. Jeff stopped in cities on the way to Los Angeles. In every city people gave Jeff money. The money was not for Jeff, but for the American Cancer Society.

        Jeff is disabled, but he can do many things. He is studying to be a lawyer. Jeff says, “People can do anything they want to do. I want people to know that I ran not only for disabled people, I ran for everybody. ”

    Christmas and the Spring Festival are two important festivals in the world.

    Christmas is the most important festival in western countries. It comes on 25th December. When Christmas comes，people have a long holiday. And there is Father Christmas! He comes on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and gives presents to children so they love him very much.

    The Spring Festival is very important in China. It usually happens in January or February. On the New Year's Eve，people have a big family dinner and they watch TV together. Parents usually give their children a hongbao, which means lucky money.

    When I was ten, my parents went to another town to look after my sick grandfather. So I was, all by myself for twenty-four . At first, I was a little afraid because I had never been homebefore. But soon I forgot about it because Imyself into an interesting book. I spent the whole morning it. At noon, I took the food out of the and heated it. Mum cooked a lot of food before she. In order to prove(证明) that I could take care of myself, I washed my in the afternoon. In the evening, I finished my homework and two movies on TV. Then I went to bed at 10：30. Being home alone was not as as I had thought. I really felt of myself and thought I was a big girl.

— Oh, I (climb) a mountain with my father then.

—Yeah, she looks great in it.

　    Do Yao Ming, Liu Xiang and Justine Henin have anything in common with people like us?  You probably answer “NO! ”.

        It seems that top athletes live in a world that is completely different from ours. However, if we could see into their minds, it would be clear that they are actually just like us.

       Just how an athlete becomes a success means examples for us all. To achieve their goals, sportsmen ______ have to prepare physically, ______ mentally(内心地). They have to get to know themselves, manage stress and develop their powers of concentration（专注）. So they can put all their efforts into their events.

        We may not be sports stars ourselves, 但是我们不得不面对相同的问题. We set goals for ourselves and think about personal development. We have to manage our fears before big exams. We worry about our friendships with both classmates and teachers.

Like sportsmen, we try to be mentally strong and give our best. Only few of us will be competing in the Olympic Games. But, all the same, there is much we share with sports heroes. Just like athletes, how we feel influences our decisions, behavior and achievements.

       Top athletes show us that success isn't simply down to chance. We can control the direction of our life's journey.