牛津版（深圳•广州）初中英语九年级上学期期末模拟试卷（1）

—Well, I can speak English well, but I just know a bit of French.

—I won't come unless Jenny            .

—No, he        leave so hurriedly because he has enough time.

—Yes, they're 30 dollars.

—They can communicate more freely by WeChat.

—Dear, I think you can.

    The Sound of Music is one of the most popular American movies.1people all over the world like it very much. And the2DO RE MI in the movie is also popular in the world. It can be heard everywhere.

    The movie is a3about a tutor (家庭教师), Maria. She was a young and outgoing woman. She went to4for a family with seven children. Their family5was Von Trapp. Mr Von Trapp was a captain. He and his family lived in Austria.

    The family were very6and tired after the children's mother, Mrs Von Trapp died.7took care of the children. They cried and shouted every day. The lonely father often became angry because of the8children.

    Maria was able to9the family by teaching them to sing lively songs and perform short, funny plays. At first the father was almost mad,10the smiling faces of the children please him and made him happy again. Then Mr Von Trapp fell in love with Maria. At last they got married.

    My family has had a great influence on me. When I was a kid, I learnt how to work from my family. My mum would never let me get away when there was something to be done. I learnt the importance of education. My parents would give me 50 dollars if I got an A in school. They taught me how to use and save money. My mum taught me how to cook, how to clean, and basically everything I needed to know to live on my own. My dad taught me how to garden, how to do home improvement, how to treat women and girls with respect, and how to put other people's needs above my own, My brothers and sisters taught me how to make a decision in conflict (矛盾). I'm 22 now, and I'll get married next year. I learn things from my parent's marriage by examples. For example, I've never seen my parents really fight. They had disagreements, but they were always in control and never let anger get the best of them. I think that's great, and I'm going to work towards that in my marriage.

    I have a great family. I'm grateful that my parents choose to make it a great family.

    One day, when I arrived at school, an ice cream truck was parked in the schoolyard. Ice cream men usually drove their trucks to primary schools. I had never thought one ice cream truck would come to bring ice cream to us older kids. When I went up to the truck, I was quite surprised to hear the man call out, "Free ice cream!" To make sure of his words, I asked, "I'm sorry. What did you say?"" Free ice cream. Choose whichever you like," he said, smiling.

    After I was certain that the man was just giving away the ice cream, I talked with him for a long time. He told me that his dream was to travel around, giving away ice cream, and that's what he was now doing. With his mother's support, he kept doing what he loved even during hard times. Now, some large companies were helping him with his plan.

    The man said he wanted to encourage people to do exactly what their hearts told them to do during their lives. I kept asking him, "So your dream was just to drive around and give away ice cream? It seems like a very unusual goal." "Yes, just meeting people and making them smile," he replied. At that point he handed me my ice cream. I thanked him, but what I got from him was much more than just ice cream. It can't easily be expressed in words. I believe what he was doing is exactly what great people do all the time: small acts of big love.

    Roald Dahl was one of the most successful writers of children's books. He sold millions of books all over the world. Many of his books have been made into films and videos. He is so famous that there is even a Roald Dahl Museum you can visit.

    Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales, Britain. His father was rich but he died when Roald was very young. Roald and his mother lived a hard life. He had to leave school and went to Africa where he worked for an oil company.

    In 1939, Roald became a pilot, but he had a bad accident. It made him limp(瘸的)for the rest of his life. After this, Roald went to America where he wrote a story about his experience as a pilot. It was so good that it was put in a magazine.

    Roald married an American film star. They bought a house in England and had five children. From 1960 to 1965, ：Theo, one of his children, was hit by a taxi and was seriously hurt. Oliva, one of Roald's daughters, died of a strange illness. Soon after this, his wife also had a serious illness. It took her years to get completely better.

    Gradually Roald became more and more successful. He always did his writing in an old shed(棚)at the back of his house. He always sat in the same old armchair with a wooden board on his lap.

    "One of the nice things about being a writer," he once said, "is that all you need is what you've got in your head and a pencil and a bit of paper."

    In 1983 Roald won a big prize for his book The BFG. During his life, Roald wrote many famous books, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox.

    After he died in 1990, Roald left money to help people with serious illness and those with problems with reading and writing.

Pizza is a kind of popular food. It (come)from Italy. The pizza “capital” of the world is Naples. The (world)first pizza restaurant is still there.

It  (open) in 1830.The best pizza of today has  long history. It was first made by a person named Raffaele Esposito in the 1880s.This pizza has the same colors  the Italian flag. The Italian flag is red, white and green. The pizza has red tomatoes, white mozzarella cheese and a green herb (香草).

There(be) many different kinds of pizza today. We can (order) chicken pizza, vegetable pizza, hamburger pizza, fruit pizza, and potato pizza. Some pizza is thick (厚的),and some pizza is. Some pizza has tomatoes, and some pizza doesn't have tomatoes. It may have other kinds of vegetables.

Most pizza is round, some isn't. You can choose any kind you want. People all over the world like (eat) pizza.

提示：1）你很喜欢看电视节目，特别是《快乐大本营》（Happy Camp）；

2）这个电视节目是先录制再播出，每周会有一些明星被邀请上节目；

3）你每天花2小时看电视，但是你父母认为看电视是浪费时间；

4）你觉得……

Dear penfriend,

    I'm a middle school student.

  


   Do you agree with me? Please write to me soon.

Yours,

Li Ming