浙江省杭州市2018-2019学年初中英语九年级上册期中考试模拟试卷（3）

    In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important thing of the year except graduation of commencement day(毕业典礼日).Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks in advance(预先).

    Several days before Homecoming，students start to decorate the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team，and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Homecoming twenty or thirty years after their graduation.

    The members of school clubs build booths(摊位)and sell lemonade，apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome the visitors.

    During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.

    Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over，the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student as Homecoming Queen or King. It is a great honor(荣誉)to be chosen.

    Homecoming is a happy day，but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses，the students still enjoy Homecoming Day. Some stay at the school to dance，and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering.

    Students learn their lessons in class. They sit in the classroom listening to their teachers. This is a way of learning. Is this the only way for students to learn? Of course not. There is another way to learn. Students can teach themselves. For example, if you cannot remember something when you are doing your homework, what will you do? You can look at your book to find the answer.

    How to teach yourself? The first thing you do is reading. Read something you are interested in, or you have to read. The second is that you must ask yourself questions. A clever student is usually good at asking questions. The third is to answer the questions yourself by working hard, by reading books, and sometimes by asking other people. These are the ways of teaching yourself. If you keep doing like these for a long time, you are sure to have great progress in your study.

    China Youth says that more and more girl students have entered colleges to study in the recent few years. As we know, once the number of boys was larger than that of girls, and boys did much better than girls in our country for a long time. Now, things have changed a lot.

    In recent years, the proportion of girl students is growing fast. In 1998, about 39.7% of college students were girls. In 2000, it was 41.07% and in 2001, the number was 42.14%.

    There are several reasons for this.

    Firstly, there is little difference between boys and girls in their intelligence(智力). That's to say, girls are as clever as boys. And boys have more interests than girls, so they may not always do well in their study.

Secondly, girls are more careful than boys. They work harder at school and they do better in all exams. Another reason is that with the development of society, people pay more and more attention to girls' education.

    Three1ago, my family got our first computer. 2 the beginning of this summer, I found it was too old and I wanted to get a 3 one. After my father and I talked for a long time, he 4 . We went to many shops and read many ads 5 we bought an HP computer.

    During the first week, I noticed 6 our computer had some problems. I spent many hours 7 to fix it, but it 8 work. So I 9 to phone the HP company and ask them 10 to work out my problem. They told me to wait until the next morning because all their workers were 11 that day.

    The next morning two workers came. It took them many hours to mend it, but the computer 12 did not work. My dad had no other way but to return the whole thing. A few days later, we decided that I should go on the Internet and order some parts to build a new computer by 13 .

    It was not an easy job for me to build a new computer. I tried many times, and in the end I was successful. From these setbacks(挫折), I have learned a lot. Now I believe that if the HP computer hadn't had any problems, 14 I would not have learned how to build the new one. Even though I spent lots of time on it, I know it wasn't 15.

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    Only Mother's Love is true love. It gives everybody everything all her life.

    When you are still a baby, mother takes good  of you as much as possible. In your walking hours, she always holds you in her arms. When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look after you day  night and forgets all about . When you are growing up day by day, she feels very .

    When you are  enough to go to school, mother still looks after you all the time.  cold winter days, she always tells you to put on more clothes. She always stands in the wind, waiting  you back from school. When you hurry to leave home for school with little breakfast, she always feels  about you at home. She usually knows about your study and spends much money on your school things. When you do well at school, you will see the brightest on her face.

    Mother is always ready to everything she has to her children, not to receive. What true love that is in the world! We will remember Mother's Love forever!

    在学习和生活中，你会过许多传统节日，请你用英语写一篇关于重阳节的短文。

要求：(1)根据所给题目写一篇短文；(2)短文词数不少于60个。短文的开头已经给出；(3)叙述亲身经历，真实情感。语意连贯正确，语言流畅，书写规范，卷面整洁。文中不得使用真实姓名、校名。　

Double Ninth Festival

The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is…….