浙江省温州市温州新希望联盟校2019届九年级下学期英语第一次联考试卷（含听力音频）

—I agree, I believe what he says.

—Of course. I think nothing is _______than it and I'd like to watch it again.

—Never give up. You'll surely make it.

—Lucky you, but as teenagers, we should use it ________.

—Yes, we are all happy with the news.

—No, it ________be him. He is picking up my sister at the airport.

—Yes. Just as President Xi says, "Happiness is achieved through hard work."

—Don't worry, you can discuss with your classmates tomorrow, because________.

—________. Just go ahead.

    As my husband, Doug, stood on the busy New York city street trying to stop a taxi, I tried to protect my daughter from the cold December wind and rain. I put my head down to kiss her tiny face.

    Frustrated and 1, my husband gave up his attempt to flag down a taxi. I knew the feeling. Just after her first birthday, we 2that our daughter Katie had a rare brain illness. Since that moment, Doug and I felt like runners in a marathon race where the finish line kept disappearing. We knew Katie was running out of 3. It had taken months before we finally 4 a name for the illness, but only a few specialists in the world knew 5 to fix it. Now, as we finally found a brilliant doctor to save our girl, we were in a strange 6in the cold rain.

    Just at the moment, a middle-aged woman pulled over and said, "Pardon me? May I offer you a ride?"

    7 we could say anything, she continued, "It's really no trouble for8. Just get in."

    It was then that I noticed her thick Irish accent，which9 me up like hot soup. We 10 said, "Thanks! Roosevelt Hospital, please," as we got in her car for the ride.

    "Are you going 11 the baby?" she asked us.

    I nodded my head, holding back my tears.

    At the hospital, we 12 her a dozen times for the ride, as the woman hugged me. I noticed her face was wet with tears. She promised to pray for us before she left.

    After three more visits to New York and two more 13surgeries，Katie is cured. But the 14of the Irish Angel still rang as a constant reminder of a tiny ray of light that appeared in our15days. We would pray for her just as she did for us.

    Li Ping and her family are going to spend holiday in Sydney during the summer holiday. She finds a hotel on Airbnb and this is the reply from the manager.

    The summer solstice, the longest day of the year, is celebrated by different cultures all over the world. For the last 40 years a farmer in England has arranged a special celebration on his farm.

    Each June, thousands of people travel to a field six miles from Glastonbury, a small town in southwest England. The local population grows from about 10,000 to over 185,000, with many people arriving from abroad during the weekend. They're taking part in the Glastonbury Festival, one of the biggest open-air festivals in the world.

    If you go, you will have the chance to see famous performers and enjoy lots of different activities. There are over 15 stages where you can listen to nearly any music, including jazz, hip-hop, folk and Latin music.

      ▲  . There are many other kinds of performing arts. There is a comedy stage, a cinema tent and a poetry area. You can watch one of Shakespeare's plays or have your face painted. You can take part in art activities or learn how to juggle. Children under 12 years old can get in for free. They can watch puppet shows or enjoy a picnic. If you want to celebrate the start of summer in a more traditional way, you can go to the stone circle on a hill above the festival and light a candle or lie down and look at the stars.

    While the festival is great fun, it's not exactly a luxury weekend. It is difficult to travel to and from the festival site on country roads and you can sometimes get trapped in traffic jams for hours. In bad weather, the field can turn into a mud bath. But once you are there, it is an experience of a lifetime.

    At the age of fifteen, both his legs had been badly hurt in an accident. From that time on he begged, dragging himself along the roads.

    In the villages, people hardly gave him anything — he was too well-known. Everyone had grown tired of seeing him — day after day for forty years, dragging his disabled and ugly body from door to door on his wooden crutches. He was among people, yet loved and cared by no one. They called him "Bell" because he hung between his two crutches like a bell.

    For two days he had eaten nothing. No one gave him anything now. Women shouted at him from their doorsteps when they saw him coming:

    "Go away, you good-for-nothing beggar! Why, I gave you a piece of bread only three days ago!"

    It was December and a cold wind blew over the fields. Now and then he sat down for a few moments' rest. He only got one wish — to eat — but no one offered anything. For three hours he continued his painful journey but received not a half penny.

    When he had visited all the houses he knew, "Bell" sank down in a corner, having no idea what he was waiting for. Several hens ran here and there in front of him. "Bell" watched them at first without thinking of anything. Then a thought reached him —the thought that one of those hens would be good to eat if it were cooked over a fire.

    He took up a stone beside him and luckily killed the nearest hen at the first shot. The hen fell, flapping its wings. "Bell" picked up his crutches, approaching where the hen lay.

    Just as he reached it, he received a strong hit in the back which made him let go of the crutches and sent him flying half a meter away. The owner of the hens, kept kicking him angrily. The other villagers came up and joined the beating. In the end, "Bell", half dead, was shut in the town jail.

    The police had no idea that he might need food, and he was left alone until the following day. When in the early morning they came to him, he was found dead on the floor.

    As our closest neighbor in space, the moon has been the subject of popular legends, songs and poems since ancient times. And it also attracts scientists deeply.

    But even after centuries of research, many questions remain to be answered about the Earth's only satellite.

    Perhaps the Chang'e-4 lunar probe will be able to find out more of its secrets. On Dec 8, 2018 the probe lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province. It is the first probe to the far side of moon in human history.

    The Earth's gravity slows the moon's rotation, matching it to the speed of its orbit. Thus, the far side of the moon is always dark and has never been seen.

    It's this sense of the unknown that makes the far side of the moon such an interesting place for scientific and space exploration. Long exposed to solar winds, the far side may have the special soil and minerals in its upper mantle.

    For this reason, Chang'e-4 will study the effect of solar winds on the lunar surface and any minerals found beneath the probe. Chang'e-4 is also carrying flower seeds and potato and silkworm eggs to see whether life is possible on the moon. If it is, then the moon will become a more likely destination for space travel in the future.

    However, because of communication problems, exploring the dark side will not be easy. As the far side is blocked off from us, radio noise coming off Earth is also blocked. This is why China launched the relay satellite Queqiao in May, 2018, so that communication between Earth and the probe could go ahead.

    Power supply is also a challenge to the mission. Chang'e-4 gets energy from the sun through its solar panels. However, a lunar day has the length of 28 Earth days. It means that the probe will need to orbit the moon for over 20 days to be in a position to be able to land in moon daylight and so use its solar panels.

    According to Xinhua, theChang'e-4 lunarprobe landed on the far side of the moon on Jan 3, 2019 successfully, and everything goes well.

    The New York Times described the journey as "groundbreaking", and wrote that it would "give clues to the history and development of the moon".

    Hui Ruoqi was a volleyball player. She was once the (第十五) captain of the Chinese national women's volleyball team. Her 18-year professional career ended on （二月）3^rd, 2018. She won the Olympic gold medal in Rio in 2016.

    After the Rio Games, Hui also（带领） her home team Jiangsu to the top of the National Games in September, 2017. Since then, Hui was seldom seen and missed the （整个的） season of the China Volleyball League because of health reasons. Throughout her career, Hui had an operation on her left （肩膀） and two operations on heart.

    The 27-year-old girl is 192cm tall and （称重） 70 kilos. She is slim. Her beauty and excellent skill have made her one of （受欢迎的） female volleyball players in China. Hui is considered （作为） "volleyball goddess" by her fans.

    （虽然） she stopped playing volleyball, Hui still cares a lot about volleyball. She has set up a foundation﹡ in her name to support the development of women's volleyball. "I will care about the development of the foundation in 2018 and work hard （解决）some social problems." Hui said.

①感谢新星学校的帮助（如生活、学习……）。

⑵介绍此次交流期间令人印象最深刻的一件事。   

⑶建议新星学校的学生为下个月去美国交流做些准备。

要求：⑴不能出现真实的个人身份信息；

⑵词数：110词左右。开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Ladies and gentlemen,

It's my honor to give a speech here.

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    Thanks for listening.