浙江省湖州市长兴县2020届九年级上学期英语第三次月考

    Tony was a 15-year-old boy living with his little sister, Jane. Their parents had passed away long ago. Tony 1 Jane by himself.

    One day, Tony woke up at 3 in the morning as usual. When Jane was 2 alone, Tony left their little house m deliver(递送) the newspaper. As he did so, he found something unusual. One3 was sitting in front of his house. Tony was so 4that he stopped to look at him closely. It was a very 5 morning and he looked very old.

    The poor old man didn't have anything to cover himself with. Tony went into his house to get the old man a blanket (毯子), 6there were no extra blankets. Tony thought bard and took his father's 7. It was the only thing of his father's that he had left. Tony wrote a short 8 . "Sir, I routed you sleeping in front of my house. This is 9 father's coat. I hope it fits you well " He put the note in a pocket of the coat, and covered the old man with the coat. Then he went to work. When he 10three hours later, both the man and the coat were gone. Tony thought that it was the 11 thing he could have done with his father's coat.

    That afternoon, Tony hurried home after school because Jane was12alone. However, Jane and the old man were standing in front of the house, and Jane shouted to Tony, "Brother! He's our 13!"

    The grandfather smiled and said, "Tony. I have been looking for you all around the country for eight years. I'm not 14. But I can take care of you two. Thank you for giving me the coat and letting me know what a 15 person my grandson is. This coat was the very one that I gave my own son, a long time ago."

International Poetry Competition

    World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March. Its purpose is to improve people's ability to read, write, and teach poems all over the world.

    This year, the International Poetry Centre is holding a poetry competition to celebrate the festival! The competition is open to all the poets aged 18 and over from all over the world, and they will be d v divided into two groups:

    Open Group (open to all the poets aged 18 and over)

    ESL Group (open to all the poets aged 18 and over who can write in English as a Second Language)

    The winners of each group will receive £1000.

RULES:

    All the poems must be unpublished (未出版的) works.

    Poems will not be returned, so please keep a copy.

    The poem(s) must be in English and created by the poet himself/herself.

    The competition begins on 3 March. 2017 and ends on 28 August 2017.

    To enter the competition, please visit the Centre Shop to pay £5 for each poem. Once the payment is made, please email the poem(s) to poetrycomp@163.com. Remember to mark Open or ESL in the top right hand corner of the document(文档)to show which group to enter before emailing your poem(s).

    Questions about the competition can be emailed to poetrycomp@center.com.

    When I was in the seventh grade, I had problems behaving. My heart was in the right place, but I couldn't always follow the rules. I played many tricks on my schoolmates. Once, I even pulled a girl's hair on the school bus to get her attention. As a result, I was repeatedly sent to the office of the headmaster. Although 1 hated going there, I did nor hate the headmaster, Mr. Smith.

    Mr. Smith was a kind, elderly man. When he punished me for putting some ants into a classmate's pencil box, it didn't hurt at all, but it did hurt my feelings. I thought so much of him and moments like that seemed to prove I was hopelessly bad.

    When I was called to Mr. Smith's office for the sixth time, I had no idea what I had done. I felt disappointed as I walked down there. I went into his office, sat down, and looked at the floor. Then he said the last thing I expected to hear. "Kevin, I've heard you've been behaving really well lately. I want you to know how proud I am of you, and I just called you down to my office to give you a peppermint."

    "Really?" I was surprised.

    "Yes. Now you can take that peppermint and go back to class."

    I carried the peppermint with me as if it was a gold coin. When I got into my classroom, I bragged(吹嘘) to my classmates about nay turn around, excitedly. I wasn't so bad after all.

    Mr. Smith was really kind. He made me realize that I was just a kid who had problems with behavior. He bought some peppermints and took the time to notice me when I got something anything-right. Mr. Smith gave me some hope by giving me some love. I will just remember him for the rest of my life.

    The "Double Eleven" Shopping Festival is coming again. Most stores have started discounting(打折) their goods. Now, if you take a careful look at the sale prices, you'll find that many of them end in "9" or "5.99 minutes." It's not common to say "Just give me 59 minutes" either. We are more likely to say "Just give me six minutes" and "just give me 60 minutes". Why do stores prefer the other way round?

    According to Lee E. Hibbett, a professor of marketing, this pricing strategy(策略) has been around for about a century. No one knows who invented it. However, stores all like it. Prices that end in ".99" and "9" simply get more customers.

    The strategy is based on the fact that we read from left to right. On a price tag(标签), the number on the far left impresses us the most. So, even though 5. 99 dollars is pretty close to 6 dollars, it's the "5" that impresses us most. A product that sells for 5.99 dollars just seems like a better deal than a similar one that sells for 6 dollars.

    In a 2016 study, Hibbett asked a clothing company to raise the price of one of its dresses. He and his workmates all thought fewer people would buy the dress. The result, however, surprised them. Demand(销路) increased by a third when the price was raised from $ 34 to $ 39. Increasing the price from$ a4 to$ 44 made no difference.

    So be careful with prices that end in ".99" or "9" if you want to save money!

    To share is simply to let someone else have or use a part of something that belongs to you. It doesn't mean we're losing anything--because wharfs actually happening is that we're giving ourselves more of a chance to be sincere(真诚的), which in turn makes us feel better. Sharing also means that you are not alone because others have the similar experience with you. Here is a story about learning to share.

    Once upon a time, there was a beautiful flower with beautiful colors: red, orange and yellow. The flower was very happy because everyone who saw it said it was beautiful. As time went by, she thought she was the most beautiful among all flowers. And she was very proud of her colors, but she didn't want others to enjoy them. She was worried that others would imitate her. In that case, she would not be the most beautiful in this area. So she only came out at night.

    One day, it began to rain during sunrise and didn't stop until nightfall(黄昏), When the flower woke up in the evening, she opened her petals(花瓣) and realized that she had lost all colors. Now she was all white like the snow. What had happened? The flower was so sad that she couldn't stop crying.

    Suddenly, a fairy(仙子) wearing a dress with a colorful magic stick appeared in front of her. "What's wrong with you? Why are you so sad?" be asked.

    "I've lost my lovely colors. The rain in the day has washed them away completely." the flower cried.

    "Don't worry. I can give them back to you, hut under one condition..."

    "Which one?" the flower asked.

    "I want you to    ▲   . I don't want to see that you just come out at night. You should share it with others."

    Now everyone who passed by the flower would stop. "This is the most beautiful flower I've seen!" many of them said. The flower was really happy because she understood that sharing good things with others was so wonderful.

    Rice, meat, vegetables and fruit… there are many different food choices for us to eat every day. You may think that throwing away your leftover food is not a big deal. But you should keep in mind that many people around the world still don't have enough to eat.

    In 2015, there were over 1 billion hungry people in the world, according to the United Nations. Many children went to sleep hungry and 15 million of them even died from hunger.

    However, food waste is still a big problem. The average person throws away 50 kg of food every year. This means that 1.3 billion tons of food goes to waste each year. That is more than one third of all the food we make.

    We could give this leftover food to many people. For example, the amount of food wasted in Europe would be enough for 200 million people!

    So next time you feel picky (挑剔) about what you want to eat or can't finish your meal, you might want to think twice. There are many others who aren't so lucky.

    Peter Smith is a 36-year-old man in a small town in Sydney. He was (赞扬) on Thursday for jumping onto a crocodile's(鳄鱼) back to save his wife Wendy, a(当地的) newspaper reported.

    On Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Smith was standing on a river bank when the crocodile swam around. All of a (突然), the crocodile threw itself on her, locking its teeth on both of her legs as it tried to put her under the water. At that time, Peter was standing (在附近) and immediately went to help her. He jumped onto the back, tried to knock the eyes of the crocodile at a fast (速度) and finally got his wife free. Mrs. Smith was quickly taken to a hospital for a medical treatment because she was (严重地) hurt. Luckily Mrs. Smith was saved at last.

    Several days later. Peter's story quickly (传播) around the town and a reporter came to interview him. "Peter, you're so brave! But if it was not your wife then, did you (敢于) to fight with the crocodile?" With a smile, Peter answered firmly," Of course, no matter (谁的) wife she is, I was going to save her without doubt. " Then the reporter put what Peter said on the newspaper and soon became the (英雄) of the town.

    The whole school was talking about the winter camp. And everyone was looking forward it except me because I thought I would get homesick. But it was the way we grew up.

    When arriving at the camp, we (ask) "to ski (滑雪) down to field by the coach. I skied (careful), but I still hit a piece of ice and fell down.

    "Ha! Ha!" Behind me, somebody started laughing. I looked back to see was laughing at me. To my surprise, I saw girl in the same embarrassing position I was in. "I thought I'd be bad at this, but it seems (difficult) than I expected!" she said. Suddenly, I started laughing, . After being so afraid of falling, it was a comfort not to fear it anymore.

    The next day, I didn't want to go ski jumping, I was chosen to do that first. But when my (foot) left the ground, I felt I was flying and it was wonderful.

    Just try you best (meet) every challenge. You'll never imagine how much you will get.

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Should teenagers go out with friends on weekends?

    Recently I've had a discussion with my parents about whether teenagers should go out with friends on weekends.