浙江省初中英语九年级上学期期中考试模拟试卷（2）

    It was a Sunday afternoon. My younger brother and I were alone at home. My parents went for a party and asked me to look after my younger brother. I was doing my homework while my younger brother was watching TV. Suddenly the doorbell rang. Ding 一 Dong! My younger brother thought that it was our parents, so he opened the1quickly.

    A tall man wearing a black raincoat stood outside. He said that he came to sell

books and he2politely, "Are your parents at home?"

    Without thinking, my younger brother said, "No." Then the man asked, "Would you like to3some books?" I told him we didn't want to buy any books. When I wanted to close the door, he suddenly pushed (推) the door very heavily and came into our house. He took out a4and ordered me to tie (绑) up my younger brother's hands with a rope (绳子). I tied up his hands in a special way so that my younger brother could untie5easily. The man then tied my hands up and locked6of us in the kitchen. Soon, he went upstairs to7money. I taught my younger brother to untie the rope on his hands. He then untied me. I rushed to the telephone to call the police,8the line was dead. The doors were all locked. It was lucky that the man9to lock the kitchen window. So we got out of the house through the kitchen window and went to the10pay phone to call the police.

    Soon the police came to our house and the police11the man later. By that time, my parents had come home, We told them the whole story. My parents were happy that we were not hurt. They told us that we shouldn't12the door to strangers. We learnt a lesson on safety.

    Do you enjoy visiting a museum? Did you ever make a, plan before a visit? Every museum must have something that attracts you. And there are many possible ways to enjoy yourself in a museum.

    If you follow these steps below, you'll know what is worth seeing and doing, so that you can make the most of your time at the museum,

    Decide what museum you will visit. There are so many different kinds of museums and you first need to find one that you like. It's easy for you to choose one and start an enjoyable visit!

    Do some research online. Every museum now has a website which allows you to look through the information about it. On the website, you may look for such things as:

    ◇The exhibits (展品) 一 See what is on show at the museum at all times, and what special exhibitions are held for a short time.

    The history of the museum 一 There will often be very interesting stories about the exhibits and the benefactors (捐赠者). That can make your visit more interesting.

    ◇Activities 一 See whether there are talks, tours or special activities on the day when you visit. Many museums hold some activities that meet the interests of all age groups.

    ◇Cost, food and storage 一 It's important to know how much the visit will cost. You hate to decide whether you can eat there or not. You might also need to find out about your transportation needs, as well as storage for coats, bags, etc.

    ◇Learn at least one thing on your visit. It's always good to take away something new from your visit.

    ◇Plan breaks into your visit. When you walk around, standing here and studying exhibits there, you may become very tired. So it's important to take breaks. A break is a good opportunity for you to think of what you have seen and what else you might want to do in the museum.

    ◇Take a friend. Visiting museums is always a lot more fun when you are with someone else. You can talk over what you're seeing. A friend also brings another way of thinking when you talk about the exhibits.

    Boston Children's Museum is the second oldest children's museum in the United States. It has been teaching children with a huge collection of objects (实物) since 1913. Here's a list of some interesting exhibits in the museum.

    There are many different kinds of festivals around the world. Here are three of them.

    Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland

    Ireland is an island country. It's in the west of Europe. There are wide green fields there.

    Saint Patrick's Day is on 17th March. It's an important holiday in Ireland. This holiday is to remember Saint Patrick. He did good things for the people of Ireland.

    During the holiday, there are parades and lots of green. You can see people in green clothes. And you can even see green buildings.

    Red Wednesday in Iran

    Red Wednesday is a fire jumping festival in Iran. It is on the eve (前夜) of the last Wednesday of the year according to Iranian calendar. People jump over the fire. They hope that it will take all the bad things away.

    The Camel Festival in Tunisia

    Tunisia is a very important country in North Africa. Every year on the last Sunday in December, the Camel Festival is held in Tunisia. As "ships of the desert", camels are very important in the festival. There is camel racing and camel wrestling (摔跤).

    The American Computer &. Robotics Museum was open to visitors in 1990 in Bozeman, Montana. At first it was planned to build in Princeton, New Jersey. The founders moved to Bozeman in 1988 and after looking at the area they decided to build the museum there. With Yellowstone National Park to the south and Glacier National Park to the northwest, the museum attracts thousands of visitors from all 50 states and over 50 countries. The American Computer &. Robotics Museum has been written about in many publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, QST and USA Today.

    When visitors first enter the museum, they are shown a video introducing the museum and its collections. All visitors are given the chance to join in tours led by friendly tour guides. We have had visitors aged from3 to 93- it is a big family. Over 1,000 exhibitions are shown in the 6, 000-squaremetre museum. Travelling through our museum, you will see the exciting 20,000 years of history of the information age. Technology becomes easier to accept when one learns about its origins(起源) in the natural process(进程) of human development.

    Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15,1452 in Italy. He is best known as an artist today. One of his famous is called Mona Lisa. However, Leonardo had many other natural abilities. He was also a great inventor. Many of his have become important in modern daily life.

    Although Leonardo hated he invented many different machines used for wars. His most special invention was the machine gun, which was produced and used in war many years later.

    watching the way birds fly, Leonardo tried to find out the secret of flying. Among his sketches (素描) we can see several objects. We consider them as modern flying machines.

    Leonardo spent many hours thinking about to make good use of time. He developed ideas for labour 一 saving machines like cutting machines.

    One day, ababy snail (蜗牛) found that he had to carry a big and heavy shell atany time. He was confused (困惑的), so he went up to hismother and asked, "Why was I born with a shell that grew so hard andheavy?" His mother said, "Because we don't have bones to hold us up.We can only move slowly, so we need a shell to protect us."

    The babysnail asked again, "The caterpillar (毛毛虫) has no bones, and she can'tmove quickly. Why can she live without a shell?" The mother snailanswered, "That's because a caterpillar will become a butterfly. She canfly high into the sky. The sky can protect her." The baby snail had onemore question, "But the earthworm (蚯蚓) moves likeus. He has no bones and he won't turn into a butterfly. Why doesn't he carry ahard and heavy shell?" His mother said, "He can dig a hole and hidein the ground, and then the earth can protect him.

    The babysnail then cried, "We are so poor! We have no protection from the sky orfrom the ground!" His mother smiled at him, "That's why we have ashell. My dear, imagine that if we don't have shells, what will happen to us?Hot sun will dry out our bodies and we'll have nowhere to sleep. What's worse,we'll die in the heavy rain. How terrible it is! We don't depend on the sky orthe ground for protection. We should depend on ourselves.

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