浙江省宁波市北仑区2020-2021学年九年级上学期英语第三次月考试卷

In 1956, William Lindesay was born in a town north of England. His1 in China dates back to his childhood. One day he looked at the map of China in a magazine, he2 the Great Wall.

"I fell in love with it3," he said in an interview with China Daily." I thought it would be a great4 if one day I could travel along it, from end to end."

In 1987, he started to climb the Great Wall,5 it in 78 days. It's a great adventure from the far west of China to the point where the structure meets the sea. The Briton6 the heat, big blisters(水泡) and tiredness during the run. The journey took place in two parts, during spring and fall, to7 the hottest midsummer.

Once in the Gobi Desert, the8 almost died from dehydration(脱水). In another trip, Lindesay and his team walked deep into the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, and9 an unknown section of the wall.

During his exploration(探险), he noticed some sections of the wall were10 destroyed(破坏) and covered with litter.11 he decided to stay in China to protect it. Modernization and development were making the situation even worse. "Some people say it will12 centuries to change, I say we don't have centuries of time. It's got to be much13," he said.

Lindesay always carries a garbage bag with him in the wild, picking litter14. "Every person can make a difference. If we can pull together, China will be a green, beautiful and 15 country to live in," he said.

It is important for students to learn some team skills tohelp solve different kinds of problems. Here are two fun team activities.

Activity 1: Water Relay(接力赛)

Tools

●Two large buckets(水桶) to hold water

●One small bucket for each team member

Instructions

●Fill one large bucket with water.

●Make holes in the bottom of the small buckets.

●Have the team members line up between the two large buckets.

●Pass the water from one large bucket to the other, using smallbuckets. Try to keep as much water as possible.

Why It's Fun

●It's fun to work out a way to lose as little water as possible.

●It's water. Isn't it fun to get you went on a hot summer day?

Activity 2: Truth and Lie

This activity will allow team members to learn about eachother.

Instructions

●Have each team member think of three pieces of information aboutthemselves, and one of them is a lie.

●Each team member tells the group all the three pieces ofinformation. Let the other team members guess which is the lie.

Why It's Fun

●Students love talking about themselves and this gives them thechance to do so.

●Members can learn about each other.

●Members will besurprised at what others think of them.

The local people of La Gomera can carry on conversations by whistling(吹口哨) from far away. Forface-to-face conversations, they speak Spanish. But when they need to speak overa distance(距离), they whistle.

La Gomera is a small island. This island is almost shaped likea circle. It has many mountains. Walking from one place to another may be a slowand difficult job. That is why whistling is so useful to the local people. A messagecan easily be whistled over a couple of miles, while to travel that same distanceon foot might take an hour.

A good whistler can be heard and understood five miles away.His whistling can be heard even farther away when it is windless. It is said thatthe record is about nine miles. Anyone who has heard a top whistler will agree thatthis record is quite possible.

A whistle travels farther than a shout, and is easier to understand.When a person shouts, he cannot pronounce his words well. But if a whistle is heard,it will be heard clearly.

Whistling is popular at La Gomera, and many methods of whistlingare used…

Michael Todd wore the same clothes every day for the first threeweeks of school. When the other kids began to notice that he was wearing the sameblack pants and blue and gray long-sleeve shirt day after day, Todd, a fresh manat Jr. College Preparatory High School in Memphis, became the target (对象) oftauntsandlaughter. But there was little Todd could do. His mother was simply not able tobuy him new clothes.

Two of the kids were Antwan Garrett and Kristopher Graham, apair of freshman football players. But over time, they realized that their hurtfulwords felt like bullying (霸凌) and Todd seemed to slowly fall apart. Something finally became clear.

"I felt like I needed to do something", Graham toldCBS News. So he and Garrett made a plan. They went home and hunted through theirown rooms. The next day at school, they met Todd at their third-period class andasked him to come into the hall. Todd was surely afraid about being called out bythe larger boys.

"He wasn't smiling or anything, and I was like, 'I thinkthis is going to make you smile,' Graham says, "I told him, 'We're in the samethird period, and I am sorry for laughing at you and I want to give something toyou to make it up." He then handed Todd a large heavy bag. Inside were cleanshirts and shorts, plus a brand-new pair of New Balance sneakers.

Todd was blown away. "I was very happy," he told WATN-TV,"Shocked, completely." And Todd got much more than a new wardrobe(衣橱). He no longer sitsalone at lunch. Now, he eats with his new friends, Garrett and Graham.

"I've been bullied my whole life," Todd told CBS News.Thinking of the day Garrett and Graham called him into the hall, he added, "Thebest day of my whole life, basically."

Every summer, the Serengeti plains (平原) of Africa are worthvisiting. Millions of wild animals begin their 1,800-mile journey northwards ontheir migratory (迁移的) route every year.

In the month of November, polar bears intheir thousands cross the Canadian Arctic, as they head towards the ice sheets ofHudson Bay. The sea ice that forms every winter is the key to the bear's managingto be alive, for here they hunt for seals (海豹).

The Great Bustard, one of the heaviest flyingbirds, migrates each year across Europe and Asia to its wintering grounds. Unluckily,these and other migratory animals are in danger from human activity.

We have written several articles on climatechange and the influence of rising ocean temperatures. Since 1979, ice sheets inthe Arctic have gone down by 30 percent. What does this mean for polar bears? Theyare forced to stay on land for longer periods of time, which delays their searchfor food. As a result, bears today are 60 pounds lighter than what they were. Besides,smaller bears also produce weaker babies, and their chances of survival are at risk.In the plains of Africa, migratory animals like gazelles are traveling long distancesfor food, just to avoid falling prey (牺牲品) to humans who hunt them.

In an unusual step, experts from 120 countrieshave agreed to protect 31 migratory mammals, fish and birds. The United Nation's11th annual Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) was held inQuito, Ecuador. For the first time, 900 experts attended the conference, and theenthusiastic support shows the world is united in conservation (保护) efforts.

What does getting on a protected list mean?Countries that have signed the agreement will be required to pass laws locally andwork with other countries that fall within the animal's migratory path. Only oneanimal did not make the list. The African lion was rejected (拒绝) for lack of informationof the countries where it lives.

The novel coronavirus(新冠病毒)has changed our lives. In many countries, it has also changed the way people greet each other. To help stop the spread of coronavirus, people give up their usual greeting styles and invent safe ways. Let's take a look.

 Lean forward(倾身向前),touch faces and make a kissing sound. This is French people's favorite way of greeting. But when the virus is going around, too many kisses are not good. An expert gives everyone in France a suggestion: simply looking into a person's eyes can be a greeting. It's not as romantic as kissing, but it's safe.

 Like the French, Italian are also romantic people. When they meet, they always hug or kiss each other. Recently, an Italian grandma made a video to help everyone fight the disease. According to her, if you want to say hello to others, do not hug or kiss. Instead, you can close one of your eyes and give them a wink(眨眼). Isn't it cute?

 It's a very Australian thing to put your hand out to shake hands. But if you do this, the virus can jump from one person to another. Now a health official(官员) in Australia says a pat on the back would be better. But it also has some problems. For example, it's a bit impolite if you do this to your teacher. What do you think?

 People in Iran often shake hands when they meet. But a recent video shows that an interesting way to greet others is now popular in Iran. In the video, three Iran men wear masks and put their hands in their pockets. They don't shake hands, but try to "shake" feet.

 An official from the WHO suggested that we use three greeting: waving hands, Thai "wai"(泰式合十礼)and bumping elbows(碰肘礼).

A man walking through an elephant camp was surprised to find that the elephants were tied by a small piece of rope. Why didn't the elephants just use their power to  the rope and run away? Wanting to know the , he asked a trainer nearby why it was so.

"When they were very young and much smaller, we used the same size of rope to tie them, and at that age, it was enough to break them. As they  up, they still believed that they couldn't break away. Even now, they believe the rope can still control them, so they have the  courage to try to break free," the trainer answered.

The man was speechless. How many of us are like the elephants—believing that it was beyond(超越) our ability to do something only  we failed once or sometimes before?

Failure is part of learning. If we fail at something, we can still get something from it. We should keep on trying with confidence ourselves even after we have failed in life.

Some of you may play Ant Forest, game on Alipay. Users collect "energy" to make their "trees" grow. When the "energy" (reach) a certain level, some organizations and (company) will plant a real tree in a desert area of China. And now it seems that the nation's efforts to make a greener world have paid .

According to a study (show) in the Nature Sustainability, China and India are (main) praised(表扬) for making the Earth greener over the past 20 years. The study has found that since 2000 the Earth's green leaf area (increase) by 5 percent, or over 5 million square kilometers. It is an area similar to the total area of Amazon rainforest. China and India help increase one third of the greening,  they have only 9 percent of the planet's land area covered in vegetation(植被). In fact, China added 25 percent  this increase, while India added 6.8 percent. Without doubt, China is one of (success) countries in greening the desert.

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