福建省莆田九中2020届九年级下学期英语返校考试试卷

— I think he will come if he _______ free.

— OK, Mom.

— _________ name is Susan.

— ________.

— ________. I will use my iPad instead.

— Three months ago. It is very popular now.

Nowadays Dianzan is one of the most popular words on the Internet.When you think someone's ideas are right, when you think someone's articles are1, or when you are moved by what someone writes, you can click(点击) the praise sign. Anyhow,clicking the praise sign2 thatyou agree with someone or praise someone.

Dianzan is a kind of Chinese Internet language. People3useit when they surf the Internet. There is a function of Dianzan in the QQ space.The QQ space has had the function4 2010.It didn't become very popular until Sina blog(新浪博客)5the function of Dianzan.In recent years, it has become more and more popular. When the 2015 New Year came,Chinese president used the word Dianzan to praise and express his6 to the great Chinese people.

Websites can know how many people support some ideas by7 how many people click the praise sign. Experts(专家) can know8 teenagers are caring about through what they clickthe sign for. That can help them solve teenagers'9.

Clicking the praise sign is really a(n)10 thing. Have you ever clicked the sign for anybodyon the Internet?

An old farmer lived with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was always up early to read. One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! What good does reading do?"

Grandpa quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, "Take this coal basket to the river and bring me back a basket of water."

The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out(漏出) before he got back home. Grandpa laughed, "You'll have to move a little faster next time." This time the boy ran faster, but again the same took place. It was an impossible task.

The old man said, "You're just not trying hard enough." So the boy tried a third time and failed. He said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!"

"So you think it is useless? Look at the basket."

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had turned from a dirty coal basket into a clean one inside and outside.

"You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read, you will be changed, inside and outside."

    Don't throw away your old phones. You are actually throwing away real gold! Smartphones have many kinds of useful metals. People can recycle them to make new electronics.

    But many people may not knowthis. In Australia alone there are more than 25 million unused mobile phones lying around, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. The gold in these phones can add up to a value of more than $80 million. There are about 2 billion smartphone users around the world, who change their phone once every 11 months on average. So in China, eighty million old phones come along every year.

    However, it's not easy to get the useful things out of the phones. Smartphones have not only useful things but also harmful materials. Guiyu, a small town in Shantou, Guangdong, is one of the world's biggest dumping grounds for electronic waste, Reuters reported. Many recycling centers in Guiyu simply break the old electronics by hand and don't think about the pollution it causes. It's reported that 81 percent of children in Guiyu are harmed by lead poisoning(铅中毒).

    Veena Sahajwalla, a professor at Australia's University of New South Wales, has made a mini factory. It makes smartphone recycling cleaner and easier. The mini factory is very small and easy to move around. It breaks the phones and automatically(自动地)removes the phone's useful things. That way, humans do not get poisoned.

    Well, have you ever wondered what happens to the old phone after it's no longer yours? A part of your old smartphone could soon be proudly worn around the neck of one of the world's top athletes. Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics say that medals for the event will be made from recycled phones. They will also be made out of people's thoughts for avoiding waste. They think there is an important message in this for the future.

Einstein has to speak at an important science meeting.  On the way there, he tells his driver that looksa bit like him, "I'm sick of all these meetings. I always say the same thingsover and over!"

The driver agrees, "You're right. As your driver, I attendall of them, and even though I don't know anything about science, I could give thespeech in your place. "

"That's a great idea!" says Einstein. "Let's exchangeour places then!"

So they exchange clothes. As soon as they arrive, the driverdressed as Einstein goes on stage and starts giving the usual speech, while thereal Einstein, dressed as the car driver, attends it.

But in the crowd, there is one scientist who wants to show offand thinks of a very difficult question to ask Einstein, hoping he won't be ableto answer. So this guy stands up and cuts in the speech by raising his very difficultquestion. The whole room goes silent, holding their breath, waiting for the answer.

The driver looks at him, dead in the eye, and says, "Sir,your question is so easy that I'm going to let my driver answer it for me."

How to be a friend of yourself?

We often pay attention to developing relationships with others. However, we forget the basic step: being friends of ourselves. How can we have good relationships with others if we don't even have good relationships with ourselves?.

First, forgive(原谅) yourself. It's true that you are not perfect, and neither is everybody else. It's normal for everyone to make mistakes..

Second, accept things you can't change. There are many things you cannot change, such as your background and past.If you face the things you can't change, just smile and move on.

Third, focus on(聚焦于) your achievements. You can try making a list of your achievements, which do not have to be big things. There are a lot of small but important achievements in our life.

Last but not least, stop comparing yourself with others. You are unique. Your success is not determined(决定) by other people. Instead, it is determined by your own life purpose.

In the western world, Chinese takeout with rice and fortune cookies(幸运饼干) is a popular kind of food. But this kind of Chinese food isn't very authentic(正宗的), it is very [̍dIfrənt] from real Chinese food. Now over the years, real Chinese(dish) have become more popular in foreign countries as well.

Chinese people who live [ə̍ brɔːd] introduced many of them. Some have been popular in foreign countries for many years, others are new, like tanghulu. It is a traditional Chinese snack that's madefruit, usually Chinese hawthorns(山楂). The fruit is stuck on a stick of bamboo. Then it is (cover) with sugar syrup(糖浆), which becomes hard after it cools down.

Wang Jialiang, a tanghulu vendor(摊贩) from China, sold 8, 000 sticks in Russia one day. Tanghulu made him [̍ feIməs] in Russia, with his picture(appear) in the local newspaper. In the Russian city of Vladivostok, the deputy mayor(副市长) is a big fan of the snack, always coming to buy it (he)from Wang Jialiang.

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To Make Our Hometown Better

Hello, everyone! I'm Lin Hua. It's my honor to talk about how to make our hometown better.

Thank you for listening!