牛津深圳版初中英语九年级上册Module 2 Unit 4 Problems and advice 能力测试题（含听力音频）

Boys and girls, attention please！

I'm glad to tell you that the famous American , Susan Orlean, will come to our school! Many students may have read her latest book. It's a best-seller at the moment. At six o'clock on  evening, she will give us a speech. She is going to  her writing skills with all students. Remember that the speech will be held in the school . At the end of the speech, you can ask her questions you're interested in. Some of you can even get somebooks! I'm sure it will be very interesting and hope you will enjoy yourselves.

Last week, I talked with a mother of a young teenager in my class. She was telling me how 1 it was for her son at school, because he was always in an old school uniform that didn't fit him. Since her husband and she both 2 their jobs, they couldn't afford (买得起) a new one. She told me that she was slowly trying to buy a(n) 3 shirt, then trousers, then shoes.

I knew that she didn't want to ask for help. She 4 asked for anything from me. She was just telling me the honest truth. I went to the 5 to take out some money. Then I put it into her pocket and told her to just go and 6 the uniform, and not to tell anyone I did this but her husband.

I also made it clear to her that nothing was 7 — no payback. “It's a gift. Take it, and I can enjoy 8, and that is all I need right now." I told her she was doing me a favor. She felt too 9 to speak and we hugged. I really just felt happy that her boy wouldn't continue to be 10 for his old uniform. I know what that is like, and as a victim (受害者) of school bullying when young, I can say for sure it hurts for a long time. I felt so good to be able to do this!

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It's lunch time. You're hungry and want to get your favorite meal in the restaurant, but there are a lot of people waiting at the door. Don't worry－in cyberworld (网络世界), you can get your meal just on the Internet.

"Shopping has never been so easy. With just a single click (点击) on your mouse, anything that you ordered online can be taken to your door quickly," said Bian Jing, a twenty-year-old girl.

"I don't want to spend too much time shopping, so I like doing shopping online better than in a usual store," said a boy from a middle school. "It's easy to find the things you want online."

If the shoppers buy something online, they can find lower prices and wider choices of things. But many teachers and parents are worried that shopping online is becoming too popular.

"It's not a good way for middle school students to spend their monеу," said a teacher. "I don't want them to shop online."

"It's also dangerous to lose money at online stores, because some of them just want to cheat shoppers," another teacher said.

Most parents are not willing to pay the money their children spend on the Internet.

Anger (愤怒) often makes us uncomfortable. Seeing your child's anger can be especially uncomfortable. In order to relieve (缓解) this feeling, parents often encourage children to "stop crying" and say things like "It's nothing to cry about." It's moments like those that plant the seeds of unhealthy anger, The "stop crying" parents are just doing what they were taught by their own parents, who were probably taught that by their parents on and on. However, we should learn how to create healthy anger in our kids.

If a child never sees his or her parents express anger, he or she should never express anger, either. But if parents always express their anger loudly, their child may start to think of anger as something that is always frightening.

The first thing you can do to create healthy anger in your children is to practice creating healthy anger in yourself. Once you're better at experiencing anger and expressing it in a healthy way, you'll be able to set a good example for your kids.

Stopping kids from expressing their feelings is wrong. You may feel bad when you believe you are wrong. When children express their feelings and are told that it's nothing to cry about, they come to know that they themselves are bad.

We need to raise them in an environment where it's safe to express feelings. Once you feel more comfortable with your own anger, you can teach your children why anger is a helpful feeling. When your kids express anger, help them examine what it is that has made them angry. Why did it make them angry? How did it do that? Then, you can teach them that those feelings are never wrong and our expressions of feelings are in our control.

Anger is natural and normal, and it can be experienced and expressed in a healthy way.

Joe was a boy with a special ability. He could make himself cry in less than a second. In this way, he could get almost everything he wanted.

One day, Joe met Pipo. Pipo had no family and was very poor. He was asking people for some money in the street. When people offered him some money, he would do something for them in return. Joe decided to help him make some money. He took off his hat, put it face-up on the ground and started crying sadly.

In a few minutes, Joe's hat was full of money, but when Joe gave Pipo the money, Pipo declined.

"It's much more fun making an effort to get things. Maybe I haven't got everything I want, but I've done a lot of interesting things," said Pipo. Joe walked away sadly. He had got everything he wanted, but he'd done nothing interesting the whole day. He hadn't even enjoyed himself by spending almost all his time crying.

That evening, Joe wanted a piece of cake for his supper. When his mum refused, he wanted to cry. But he remembered what Pipo said. So he tried to get the cake in some other ways. To the joy and surprise of his parents, Joe spent the whole evening helping his mother with the housework. In the end, there was no cake. But that wasn't so bad because Joe discovered it was much more fun doing all those things that evening rather than just sitting crying to get a piece of cake.

Every day brings new stories and information about COVID-19. Some stories (be) encouraging, while others bring bad news. How can you know who to turn to? Can you trust  (they)?

It's important  (stay) informed in times like these. But while your (friend)and family might share information on social media in  hopes of helping others, it's common for rumors (谣言) to spread in this way. You might have read stories  sound too good to be true. What do you think about them? Would you consider that they might not be quite right?

If you can, try to get news  all kinds of sources (来源). Read articles from government news platforms which  (usual) give timely fact checks. When dealing with such a serious issue, it's important to make your news "diet" just as much and (health) as your real diet. Last but not least, think twice before  (share) information online!

Dear Han Mei,

I' m afraid I've got a big problem recently. My mother talks too much to me. She always tells me something like "Be careful while crossing the street." "Put on more clothes." "Did you do a good job at school?" and so on. I'm annoyed. What shall I do?

Alice

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Dear Alice

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Yours,

Han Mei