贵州省遵义市2020届九年级上学期英语期末考试试卷

A man and a boy checked into hotel. Later, they went to the hotel restaurant for dinner. The waiters1that the two guests were very quiet and that the boy was unhappy. He seemed to have2interest in his food.

After dinner, the boy went back to his room, 3the man went to a waiter and asked to see the manager. The waiter asked if there was problem with the service or the room. But the man said that there was no problem of that sort.

When the4 came, the man took him aside and explained that he was spending the night in the hotel with his fourteen-year-old son. His son was seriously5.He was very soon to receive treatment which would cause him to lose his hair. And the boy planned to shave(剃头) his head that night，because he did not want to feel that the illness was6him. The father said that he would shave his own head as well, in support of his son.

The man7that the hotel staff would not stare at him or his son when they came to the restaurant for breakfast with their shaved heads. The manager agreed that he woulds tell all the staff about it and that they would act properly.

The next8the father and the son entered the hotel restaurant with their shaved heads. They saw some waiters attending to their duties9 .They had all shaved their heads, too!

No matter what business you are in, you can10 people and make a difference.

Peter: Hi, Alice. I'm going with my cousin to a concert next week.

Alice: When are you going, Peter?

Peter:

Alice: What time does the concert start?

Peter: At one thirty, And it finishes at a quarter past four.

Alice:

Peter: We'll go by train. It's too far to ride a bicycle, and there is no subway.

Alice: OK,  I've only got one hundred dollars.

Peter: Oh, that's all right. They're only ninety dollars each.

Alice: Great! That leaves me with ten dollars to get some ice -cream or a drink.

Peter: You'1I need a jacket because it's cold inside the concert tent Alice: Great! I can't wait.

Once, a man went to buy a coconut. The sale asked him for ten coins for one coconut.

“I'll give you five," said the man.

"You can go to the wholesale market two miles away. You will get a coconut for five coins there." replied the seller.

So the man walked to the wholesale market. He picked a coconut and said to the seller in the wholesale market, "I'll pay three coins for it"

The seller told him," If you want a coconut for three coins, then walk three miles to the seashore. "So the man walked to the seashore. "I'll pay one coin for a coconut," he said to the seller at the seashore.

“I won't sell it for one coin. Why don't you climb up the coconut tree and get it for free?" said the seller.

The man climbed up the tree, but he slipped and fell to the ground. He broke his leg and had to spend a lot of money on treatment. All this is just for a free coconut!

The Volunteers for the City Sports Festival

Hobbies can be anything. They let you be creative and try all kinds of new things. But how to pick a hobby?

Think back to what you loved as a kid.

Did you like to ride bikes with friends? Did you love to paint or draw? Think about what got you excited as a kid and what you could do for several hours. If you rode bikes, why not get a new bike and go around your neighborhood? If you loved drawing, take a class at an art museum.

Look at what interests you.

Do you enjoy reading books? Maybe you want to try your hand at writing them. Do you like a cold beer at the end of the day? Maybe your hobby could be trying to make beer at home. Turn what you love into a hobby.

Look into your skill.

Some hobbies need skills. If you have little patience, you may not enjoy hand-sewing. But if you love repairing and building things, you can have a hobby like working on old radios or building furniture.

Pay attention to what excites you.

What you often talk about can show what you love most. Think about the topics you always go on about. Ask your friends what you talk about most. Then you can decide how to tum it into a hobby.

The weather of Antarctica(南极洲)is cold, cloudy with heavy snow. Most parts of it are covered with ice sea for 10 months. Though it is dry and seldom rains, scientists in Antarctica have gotten their first crop of vegetables that they grew without earth. As one part of a plan, it will help astronauts to study fresh food about other planets. If the plan is successful, people will have some space to plant vegetables and fruit.

Researchers at Germany's Neumayer Station III say they have planted 3.6 kilograms (about 8pounds) of salad green vegetables, including 18 cucumbers and 70 carrots in a high technology greenhouse(温室)，while the temperatures outside dropped below -200C. In this way, they can eat fresh vegetables in time.

The German Aerospace(航天航空) Center DLR, Daniel Dchubert, which was the leader of the plan, said on Thursday," Scientists hope to get 4 to 5 kilograms of fruit and vegetables a week in May.Maybe the plan can turn into reality."

While NASA has successful grown green plants on the International Space Station, DLR's Daniel Dchubert says the Antarctic plan decides to produce a wider range of vegetables, such as tomatoes, onions and so on. People might grow them on the Mars or the Moon one day.

We know people depend on agriculture since the beginning of human history.

Without agriculture, people can't live for many years. At the same time, the development of agriculture needed some conditions, including environment, temperature, weather and so on. The technology develops quickly. People will plant the vegetables on the Mars sooner or later.

Do you often run outdoorsto keep healthy? Have you ever thought about how running helps to clean up theearth? Sometimes a creative mind can bring us a win-win(双赢) situation.

Plogging began in Sweden(瑞典). The name "plogging" comes from two words -theSwedish(瑞典的) word "plocka",which means "to pick up", and the word "jogging", whichmeans "to run slowly". A Swedish man called Erik started the movement.

He saw rubbish here andthere when riding to work each day. He became worried about the dirtyenvironment and decided not to go to work by bike any more.

Then he began to run towork and pick up the rubbish. ①To his joy, more and morepeople followed him and soon the new way to exercise became popular.

Many people choose plogginginstead of just jogging because they think plogging is a good way to help cleanup the earth. Sometimes rubbish is difficult to collect because it may scatter(散落) all around. But if the runners pick up the rubbish on the way,it is quite different. After all, many hands make light work.

Another reason is thatplogging burns more calories(卡路里). According to a research,plogging for 10 minutes burns 48 calories, while usual jogging for 10 minutesburns about 39 calories.

Everyone on the earthshould play a part in cleaning it up!②是我们一起采取行动的时候了。So ready? Let's plog tomorrow!

Preparing for meals is tiring. You may have to spend hours  (get) everything ready for cooking. Now in China, new mobile apps are here to help.

These apps provide you meat, fish, and vegetables, almost everything you need for a meal. You can order whenever you like and make a (decide) on the time for (they) to arrive. If you like, the food can(make) for a certain dish. Some apps guide you to cook step by step can make cooking much  (easy).

Compared with the traditional way (go) to the market, mobile apps save your time and energy. With such  new use of the mobile phone, you can enjoy a more (relax) life.

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I was interesting in playing football because a small accident. One afternoon where I was in primary school, I was walking by the school playground. Suddenly a football fell just in the front of me and almost hit him. I stop the ball and kicked it hardly back to the playground. To everyone surprise, the ball went into the net. All the football player cheered loudly and said that I was talented in football. From now on, I started to play football with classmates after school. I am a good player now.

提示:1）对视力有害;

2）分散注意力，影响学习;

3）......

参考词汇：eyesight(视力)

要求：1）语言准确，行文连贯:层次清晰，书写规范。

2）文中不得出现真实姓名、校名。

3）文章的开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。Dear Alan,

I'm sorry to know that you are not happy these days.

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Yours, Li Hua