江苏省常熟市九校联考2019届九年级英语二模试卷

—     younger one. She is        humorous girl.

—Either       OK, but I prefer coffee       milk.

—He _____come and it depends on how much homework he will have.

— _____ great progress she has made! Her English used to be pretty bad.

— It's really a beautiful city, and its fantastic landscape ________ me most.

—Oh, he is a dentist. I once went to him to fix my teeth.

— ________________. Most top chefs in the world are men.

    On the first day of school, a new classmate touched my shoulder, "Hi, handsome! I'm Rose. I'm 87 years old. Can I give you a hug(拥抱)?" I turned around and found a little 1 lady with a warm smile. I said heartily, "Of course!"

    "2 are you in college at such an age?" I asked.

    She joked, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get 3, have children, and then travel around."

    "No, seriously." I asked.

    "I always4 of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me. In no time, we became friends.

    Over the year, Rose became an icon(偶像)and she easily made friends. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the 5 from the other students. At the end of the term, we invited Rose to our party. I'll never forget what she said.

"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. Here are the 6 of staying young. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you 7 your dreams, you die! There's a huge difference 8 growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability," she added. "But 9 requires finding the chance in change. Have no regrets."

    One week after graduation that year, Rose died peacefully in her sleep. She taught us by example that it's never too 10 to be all you can possibly be.

    Jackie is writing a summary(总结)and feedback(反馈)about School Day to his teacher.

    Grand Canyon National Park, US

    The Grand Canyon is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. It is best known for its size and depth. It is 446 kilometers long, up to 29 kilometers wide, and 1.6 kilometers deep. Every year, about 5 million people visit the park.

    Lijiang River National Park, China

    Lijiang River is in Guilin. The limestone caves (石灰岩洞) and green hills along the river are amazing. The hills are different in shape. One looks like an elephant drinking water with its trunk. People call the hill "Elephant Trunk Hill". The best way to enjoy Lijiang River is to take an 83-km-long boat trip from Guilin to Yangshuo.

    Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

    Do you love animals? The Serengeti National Park might be fun for you to visit. You can see some big animals here, such as lions, elephants and buffaloes (水牛). If you visit the park, you should not miss the annual animal migration (迁徙). This is the most famous event at the park.

Lake District National Park, England

    The Lake District is England's largest national park. In fact, it covers about 1 percent of all the land area in Britain. As its name suggests, the park has the deepest lake in England. It is 74 meters deep. The park is a great place for playing water sports. You can sail and windsurf.

    Squirrels (松鼠) are getting ready for winter. They are looking for nuts and seeds, digging holes in the ground or finding holes in trees. That's where they store the food they will need during the coming months, when the weather is cold and sometimes snowy.

    Squirrels spend a lot of time in trees, which are like restaurants for them. Among their favorite things to eat are nuts and other parts of trees, like tender buds (花苞).

    Squirrels may also eat corn, insects and other animals. And, as anyone who has a bird knows, squirrels love bird food!

    Squirrels stay active all winter, so they need plenty of food to help keep up their energy. Squirrels tend to bury food underground, piece by piece. Some squirrels may gather food into piles that they put at the base of trees or bury underground.

    When they need food, squirrels use their memory and smell to help them find what they buried. Sometimes, you'll even see them digging through the snow.

    Squirrels make nests in trees. Some squirrels spend much of the winter in underground tunnels (地道), where it is warmer.

    When spring comes, squirrels change their eating habits to new plant growth, like buds and leaves. Sometimes they forget to dig up all their buried nuts.

    That's why you'll sometimes find a little tree growing in a place where neither you nor your family planted it. It must have been the squirrels.

    It is believed in some ways that the daughter is father's lover. But my experience has taught me in a different way. For a long time my father has been a very vague figure(模糊形象)to me. He was a man of few words, tall but slim and nothing else.

    When I was in primary school, my father was never there to pick me up, and he never came to any of my parent-teacher meetings. He was always busy doing projects. I remember when I was in middle school and my head was badly hurt in a PE class. During my operation my father was nowhere to be found. This hurt me most. At that moment, I considered my father as a cold-blooded man who did not care about me at all.

    But things seemed different at my high school graduation ceremony where I was chosen to represent my class and give a speech. My father, once again, told me he had a business trip in a place outside the city and would be unable to show up(露面), "Don't come. I will be very nervous if I see you. "I told him.

    I remember my speech went smoothly. After the ceremony was over and I was about to leave, I suddenly noticed a familiar looking man sitting in a corner of the hall. It was my father！I was so surprised that I rushed to him with tears running down my face. "Well done," he said. His eyes were also filled with tears.

    Later, I found out that my father had managed to finish his work by staying up late, and he drove for eight hours to get back. He had been sitting in the corner because he didn't want me to see him. My father remembered every word in my speech.

    For much of my life I described my father was a cold-blooded man who only cared about his work. But when I thought deeply about this, it was obviously not true. At my graduation ceremony, I could feel my father's deep love. The fact is that seeing is not believing, and seeing may not be the fact if we don't perceive(感知)the world with our hearts and minds. There's no doubt that life doesn't lack(缺少)love, but sometimes our eyes have trouble seeing it.

    As we know, there are differences between Western culture and Chinese culture. . Let's look at some words about animals and plants. Most expressions in Chinese about the dog, for example, "a homeless dog", "a mad dog", "a running dog" and "a dog catching a mouse", have bad meanings. . In English, people use the dog to describe good actions. For example, "you are a lucky dog" means you are a lucky person. And "every dog has its day" means each person has good luck sometimes. To describe a person's serious illness, they say "sick as a dog". The word "dog­tired" means very tired.. But in Western culture, "cat" is often used to describe a woman who is unkind. There are many other examples of how "cat" is used differently as well.

   . People think the rose stands for love, peace, courage and friendship. And the rose is the national flower of England, America and many other countries.

    . We can learn about many differences in cultures by comparing how some words are used.

A. However, Chinese love cats very much

B. The words about plants and animals are used in good or bad ways in different cultures

C. We can see differences when we pay attention to the way words are used

D. However, westerners love cats very much

E. We can see similarities when we pay attention to the way words are used

F. The rose is regarded as a symbol of love in both China and some Western countries

G. But in Western countries, dogs are considered to be honest and good friends of humans

—Short! Am I right?

— I  up as Superman and played "trick or treat".

    There was a little boy with a bad temper(脾气). His father gave him some nails(钉子)to drive into the fence(栅栏)when he lost his temper.

    The first day the boy drove 37 nails into the fence. Then it began to become less. He found it was easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

    Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to control his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

    The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but you look at the fence. It will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar(伤痕)just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound(伤口)is still there. A verbal(言语)wound is as bad as a physical one. It is important to practise self-control.

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