浙江嘉兴市九年级上学期英语期末考试试卷

    One day, a teacher came into her classroom with a glass of water. She wanted to explain stress(压力) management to her students. She asked them how 1the glass of water was. They gave many 2 answers. Some students said it weighed 200 grams, while others 3 said they didn't know. She smiled and 4, "Actually, the weight of the glass doesn't matter. It depends on the 5 . If I hold it for a minute, it's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my   6. If I hold it for a day, I'll have to call an ambulance (救护车). In each case, the glass of water is the same weight, but the 7 I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

    Lost in thought, all the students kept 8 and listened to the teacher carefully.

    The teacher continued, "Our stresses and worries in life are the same as that glass of water. If we carry 9 all the time, we will soon feel tired as if the weight is 10. We will not be able to move on. Just   11 putting down this glass of water, you have to put your stress down for a while and take a rest. When we're not tired, we can 12 our

burdens(负担) -- holding them more easily each time."

    More often than not, life gets terrible when we 13 too much. And the moment you let go of your burdens, you'll find yourself feeling so much more 14.

    So, 15 being upset and feeling sorry for yourself, start doing something about it. After all, life is too short to give yourself up to anything that is not making you happy.

    Honey to treat a wound. Eat cherries(樱桃) if someone has a pain in his knee. Your grandmother is probably proud of her old-time treatments and now science is catching up with them. Researchers have produced hundreds of studies in the past five years about these grandmothers' old-time home treatments. They are often natural, different from the medicine from the hospitals. Here are some old-time treatments which have been proved (证明) to be useful by the scientists.

    Shen Linglan, 13, used to know nothing about cooking. This was because she was so afraid of fire that she didn't even want to get close to the kitchen. But last month, she overcame her fears and cooked her first dish — Dongpo Pork. "It was so tasty!" Shen said.

    Shen was able to do this through "self-support" education(教育) in her school --Suzhou Industrial Park Foreign Language School in Jiangsu. The school offers chances for students to learn practical skills. On October 15, it had a two-week trip to a "self-support education base". Nearly 100 students took part and learned basic life skills during the trip.

    Since they were away from their parents, the students had to do everything on their own. Xu Ke, 13, learned to make the beds, wash clothes, clean rooms and cook. "All of these things made me more independent," Xu said. "I think it will help me a lot in the future when I go to college."

    The students also got the chance to do some farm work. Xu had never seen a rice field before. "I was so excited to harvest(收割) the rice," Xu said. She also picked her own fruit "We tasted the fruit we picked ourselves and experienced the happiness of the harvest,“she said.

    There were also elective(选修的) courses at the base to improve students' life skills Ling Desen, 13, chose a woodworking class and made a wood chair. He also learned how to make bread in a baking class with the help of a Japanese baker. Some students learned flower arrangement and car repair as well.

    A call came into Jimmy Gilleece's bar this past March. A newly married woman who had spent the afternoon at the dive beach bar in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, couldn't find her wallet. She didn't care about her ID, credit cards, or $150 — but her wedding ring was inside it.

    Gilleece, 42, the boss of the bar, didn't like the idea that there was a thief at his place. So he set out to find the wallet. He spent hours looking for the footage (录像) from 16 different cameras, watching the woman's every step in the bar. Finally, a young man caught his eyes. He picked up something from the place where the woman stood and put it in his pocket.

    Gilleece posted the picture on the bar's Facebook and asked if anybody knew who the guy was. Within hours, 17-year-old Rivers Prather came and said he had taken the wallet and told Gilleece he'd done it because he hadn't eaten for two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was not real, so he took the money and threw the wallet into the ocean. Then he bought a sandwich.

    Prather wasn't getting along with his family and lived in the woods for weeks. Gilleece saw him for what he was: more of a kid than a thief. He found two local divers to search the waters where Prather threw the wallet. After waiting for hours worriedly but luckily, a diver came out from the water with the wallet in his hand, and inside was the ring.

    "Most people would give the footage to police, but the boss chose to help me," Prather told CBS News. "I say thank you to him every day."

    If you were in Xi'an in Shanxi Province on April 18, you might feel like you were back in ancient China. There were catwalk shows and traditional music concerts held by people wearing traditional Chinese clothing, or huafu. Huafu fans from across the country got together there to take pictures and post them online for a huafu photo competition, which will last for a month. People were doing these to celebrate a new national holiday — the first China Huafu Day. It wants to encourage young Chinese to be proud of traditional clothing, as well as classic Chinese culture.

    The government chose the third day of the third month of the Chinese lunar calendar(农历) as China Huafu Day. This day is said to be the birthday of the. Yellow Emperor. This year, the China Huafu Day fell on April 18.

    Huafu includes the traditional clothing of all ethnic (民族的) groups in China. Among them, hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han ethnic group, has the most fans in recent years. Hanfu is the traditional clothing of the Han people who lived in China before the Qing Dynasty. It has been around for about 3,000 years and changed greatly across different dynasties. It is hard to count the number of people who wear hanfu today. But hanfu clubs may be found almost in every university and city. Many young people wear hanfu to look like characters from comics and games. This really brings us back to the ancient fashion.

    "China is becoming a leading power in the world, and the Chinese feel more confident about its traditional culture," Chen Chuyu, leader of a Beijing-based hanfu institution (学院), told People's Daily Online. "Wearing traditional clothing might be an interesting way of showing how they feel about this."

    Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a 2018 American science fiction   (冒险) film. It is after Jurassic World (2015) and the (第五) of the Jurassic Park film.

    The story was (设定) on the island of Isla Nublar. The scientists and workers cannot (控制) the dinosaurs (恐龙) in the Jurassic World theme park. Nobody goes to that island any more. So the dinosaurs live there by (他们自己). However, after a storm, the volcano (火山) on the island becomes active and it is dangerous for the dinosaurs to live there. On the mainland, there is a  (讨论) on whether the dinosaurs should be saved or not. At last, a dinosaur trainer Owen Grady and the theme park manager Claire Dearing (决定 ) to try their best to protect the dinosaurs. How can Owen and Claire overcome the difficulties? ls it really (无望的) to run away from the island? Walk into the cinema and you will find out the  (真相)!

    The number of the dinosaurs in this film is  (惊人的), and how surprised you will feel when you see a large amount of dinosaurs walking towards you!

    Today I will introduce an American festival to you. That's Labor Day. It(celebrate) on the first Monday of September. It is holiday to memorize the contributions (贡献) of the workers.

    It is also  (wide) believed that Labor Day was created as a holiday similar to May Day. There are usually parades (游行) in big cities. Labor leaders make (speech) and hold news conferences (新闻发布会). It is considered  (be) the end of summer. Many people celebrate Labor Day with trips.  the beaches, picnics, and countryside.. Many people take their last summer vacations during this time. Labor Day is the (begin) of the college football season in the US as well.

    Labor Day has become one of (important) holidays for business. Many stores have Labor Day sales to keep up with the start of the school year. This (mean) on Labor Day many store workers have to work long hours will feel quite tired.

    Work or have a break on Labor Day, it's a question.

    Traveling can teach us a lot in our life. It gives us valuable lessons that schools may not teach. Experiences, skills or challenges we learn through journeys make us wiser and stronger. So let's see some lessons that traveling can bring to us.

    Throw ourselves into the surroundings （周围的事物).

    The world is a wide classroom of life and traveling teaches us how to throw ourselves in a situation and enjoy the surroundings fully. This lesson is especially good for those searching for freedom ( 自由) in heart.

    Don't allow unpleasant things to influence us.

    A journey is not always full of happy moments. Sometimes it is an unpleasant memory: Being a traveler has its own difficulties such as missing planes, losing money, getting sick, and so on. However, don't let these things make our days unhappy. Everything will be OK, so enjoy the journey no matter what happens.

    Just do it.

    We need to give some things that we may not experience a try. In other words, whether we have done it or not, just do it.

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Dear Eric,

    I'm writing to tell you something about my experiences of volunteer work last year. …