浙江省宁波市余姚市2020届九年级上学期英语期末考试试卷

    Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus (马戏团). Finally, there was only one family between the ticket office and1. This family made a big impression on me.

    There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could2they didn't have a lot of money. Their clothes were not3, but they were clean. The children talked about the clowns (小丑) .4It was clearly a very important day out for them. The father and mother5happy as they could be.

    The tickets lady asked how many tickets the father wanted, he proudly answered, "Please let me buy eight children's tickets and6adults' tickets, so I can take my family to the circus."

    The ticket lady told him the price.

    The man's wife7her head. There was no longer a8on the man's face. "How much did you say?" He9asked.

    The ticket lady again told him the price.

    The man obviously didn't have enough money.10how could he tell his kids the bad news?

    11what was happening my dad took a $20 note from his pocket and dropped on the ground. (We were not rich ourselves at all) He then tapped the man on the12and said, "Excuse me, sir, you dropped this."

    The man understood my father was helping him. He13the money, looked straight14my dad's eyes, and in ears replied "Thank you. This really means a lot to me and my15".

    Although we did not go to the circus that night, we didn't go without.

    ①"I will think of it." It is easy to say this, but do you know what great things have come from thinking? Though we can't see, or hear, or feel our thoughts, they have great power(力量) !

    ②Isaac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer evening when he saw an apple fall from a tree. He began to think, and tried to find out why the apple fell. Then he discovered how the earth, sun, moon, and stars are kept in their places.

    ③James Ferguson once saw the inside of his father's watch, and he wondered, "Why should I not make a watch?" This set him thinking and it led to a wooden clock which kept good time.

    ④Walt Disney, the famous American film-maker, was often thinking of new ideas. One day, when he was in a meeting, he suddenly stopped talking, deep in thought. He looked and looked at a place high up in the room. This continued for a long time, end then he got an idea for a new cartoon.

    ⑤Ideas come at any time, end the important thing is to think. When you meet with any difficulty, don't lose heart. Try to think of it before asking someone to help you. And by thinking you will learn how to think creatively.

    Passing through the airport one Saturday morning, I caught one of those trains that take travelers from the main terminal (航空集散站) to their boarding gates. The trains run back and forth all day long, free but boring.

    At the front of the first car were a man and his son. After letting off passengers, the doors were closing again. "Here we go! Hold on to me tight!" the father said. The boy, about five years old, made sounds of delight.

    "Look out there!" the father said. "See that pilot? I think he's walking to his plane." Then the son looked out of the window carefully.

    As I got off, I remembered I wanted to buy something in the terminal, so I decided to go back. Just as I was about to get on the train again, I saw that the man and his son had returned too. I realized then that they hadn't been heading for a flight, but had just been riding the shuttle (区间列车).

    "I want to ride some more!"

    "More?" the father said, "You're not tired?"

    "This is fun!" his son said.

    "All right," the father replied, and when a door open, we all got on.

    Where are all these people going, Daddy?" the son asked.

    "All over the world," came the reply.

    The father and son, were just riding this shuttle together, making it exciting, sharing each other's company. It doesn't cost a cent, yet it is the most valuable thing in the world.

    The train picked up speed, and the father pointed something out, and the boy laughed again.

    Chinese spend an average of three hours a day on her smartphones ranking second in the world after Brazilians who spend two more hours on their phones, according to a survey by a German Internet company.

    In just a few years, smart phones have transformed from a communications tool into a daily necessity allowing people to order food, shop online, manage wealth, and socialize at their fingertips.

    But with such convenience comes overuse and addiction(上瘾), people always feel uncomfortable whenever they are not with their smartphones.

    _________________. A survey of 10000 children ranging from ages 0-5 showed that 80.4% of children use smartphones, and more than half of their parents believe that mobile phones put their children at ease.

    The lack of leisure activities is the main reason for Chinese people's smartphone addiction. Offline activities in China, such as sports, travel, art shows, and reading are not as popular as they are in other countries and regions; on the contrary, China has 668 million netizens (网民), eighty-nine percent of whom surf the Internet with their phones. The Internet is how they mostly kill the time.

    Though smartphones bring entertainment and conveniences, they can have negative effects on health. Staring at a screen for a long period of time can cause eye or spine damage. Smartphones are also associated with lower quality of sleep, and high blood pressure and an elevated heart rate are also associated with lower quality of sleep, and high blood pressure and an elevated heart rate are also unfavorable results.

    Although the world develops much faster and better, the resources on the earth get fewer and fewer. In order to protect them, something must be done.

    _______________. Water is the source of life. No water, no life. So it's very important for us to do so.

Not only should we protect drinking water and stop polluting it, but also make full use of it.

    _______________. It is crucial. We can't imagine what the life will be like without it Everyone should do his best to save it. Don't forget to turn off the lights or other electric machines when we finish working.

    _______________. They are useful. Please stop cutting them down and use recycled paper instead.

Make our world a green one to live in.

    _______________. Plenty of them can be recycled like cans, paper, bottles, and so on.

    The volunteers often teach people how to recycle, and gave us tips on how to save energy, and we should work together to protect the resources and improve the environment around us.

    The Vieira family moved to the United States in 2008. At that time, they decided to stop Spanish at home and only communicate in English. This was they were now living in an English -speaking country.

    Now the Vieira children are adults, and they sometimes travel to Spain to visit their family and friends. But they cannot communicate with them. Unfortunately this is common. When people move to new countries, they often leave their own and mother language behind, but knowing more than one language the knowledge of other cultures, and what's more, it can keep communication with more people around the world. You do not have to depend on others to talk for you, so you're more independent.

    Graffiti is a common feature of most Western cities. The word graffiti was from the Greek word, graphein, which only meant writing. These days, however, the word means drawing or writing on the walls of buildings, or on public transportation, as trains and buses.

    Graffiti, as a form of art, was (bear) in New York during the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, a new modem culture about city life appeared Graffiti was a written form of (express) of that life. Later, it was mixed with a (music) form called hip-hop that was another city life.

    At , graffiti artists used pens. But then, with the development of graffiti, they became experienced. They enjoyed cans of spray paint(喷漆). Spray paint allowed them to cover a greater area. And it also allowed them to work quickly, which was an advantage when they worked in neighborhoods where graffiti wasn't welcome.

    At the present time, different people have different ideas about graffiti. Some people say it the cities dirty. It isn't allowed by many local governments in (Europe) countries and the United States. The governments spend than a million dollars a year cleaning graffiti. The money, they say, could be better spent on health or education. Other people think that it is a form of art. In fact, the works of some (humor) graffiti artists can be found in museums, galleries, and art books.

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Changes and Growth in My Life

    During these two and a half years, everyone keeps on changing to grow up and knows how to change themselves to be better.