福建省三明市尤溪县2021-2022学年九年级下学期英语开学考试（音频暂未更新）

—Not yet, but I plan to visit France this summer holiday.

—Sorry, I have no idea. I'm a(n)       here

— Not at all. I'll do it     , sir.

—Wow, enjoy yourself!

—Just for a week

—The people and the food.

From the moment you wake up, you are surrounded by inventions. Blankets (毯子), light bulbs, and even crayons all help to give us an1life than before.

Inventors think about people's needs, and then try to2an answer. When an inventor noticed how inconvenient(不方便) big umbrellas were, he invented a3one that would fit in a bag.

Post-it notes(便利贴) were invented by chance4someone made a glue that didn't stick properly. You could stick down a piece of5peel (撕) it off, and then re-stick it！

Some inventions are just for fun. The6Frisbees (飞盘) were empty pie pans elonging to a baker(烘焙师) called Joseph Frisbie. When some of his customers threw the pans to each other in the park, the7for the Frisbee was born. The building toys Lego was invented to8children to build things, not destroy them! You can use them to make all sorts of inventions!

Do you know which toy is 6, 000 years old? Dolls are9the oldest toys of all. They have been made of all sorts of materials wood, metal, paper and china. Barbie first went on sale in 1959.

Inventors study plants and animals to see how they have10their problems. Others look at ideas from other places or from the past. Very few ideas come out of nowhere.

A Chinese knot is a knot that is woven(编织) from a single rope to be different shapes Each shape has its own meaning. Now you can see it as a decoration or a gift for friends. People can use ropes of different colors to weave a Chinese knot, but they usually choose red because it means good luck.

The Chinese knot has a long history. At first, people might have made them to record information and send messages before they started to use words. It is well-known that the knots were used for decoration and to express thoughts and feelings in the Tang Dynasty. They were later popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. But it was not until the Qing Dynasty that this art became really accepted by the common people.

 Even today, Chinese knots hold sentimental (情感的) value when gifted or passed down through families. For example, lovers may give a knot to show their love. The "double happiness knot" is given and used at weddings to express each other's love and wishes for growing old together.

Besides, knots are also used when people make traditional clothes in China.

They can play the role of buttons and now silk is widely used to make these clothing knots.

Many tourists like to buy Chinese knots as gifts for their friends during their trips and there Zhejiang Province is a good place. There are many different types of beautiful Chinese knots, which are popular with customers.

Have you ever seen a solar panel(太阳能电池板) in your neighborhood? Solar panels take energy from the sun and turn it into electricity. Over the past ten years, the price of solar panels has gone down greatly. In many parts of the world, solar energy is now the cheapest form of electricity, More and more people have started using solar energy to power their homes.

However, solar panels also have their problems. They stop working at night and on rainy days. Is it possible to make them produce electricity all of the time?

Scientists at Suzhou University, China, have invented a new solar panel now. It can produce electricity not only from solar energy but also from falling rain. When a raindrop falls on the solar panel and then rolls(滚动)down, it creates friction(摩擦力) on the surface of the panel, which can then be turned into electricity.

Sun Baoquan is one of the inventors. "Our new invention can produce electricity in any

lean is still working hard provide electricity at night if there is i so Sun weather during the day, " he says. "It can even provide electricity at night if there is rain."

The solar panel, however, does not make much electricity from falling rain. So Sun Baoquan is still working hard to improve it. The scientist also wants to make solar panels more flexible, which are as soft as clothing.

The field of solar energy is developing fast. Scientists around the world have been improving solar panels. Some have been working on ways to join solar panels and wind power together. Some have been trying to use sunlight to produce liquid and gas fuels(液体和气体燃料).

Think of somebody you really admire. You will probably find that their success didn't come easily. As "Father of Hybrid Rice", Yuan Longping got over great difficulties and spent his whoie life working to reduce world hunger and helping to feed the country with the largest population.

Wu Mengchao, the" Father. of Chinese Hepatobiliary Surgery(肝胆外科)", focused on saving people's lives nearly eighty years. He performed more than 16 000 operations during his life. Holding the surgeon's knife for such a long time deformed his fingers. Wu once said, "It would be my greatest happiness if I could work at the operating table until my dying day."

In 1969, in order to solve the problem of treating malaria(疟疾) Tu Youyou, a pharmacologist(药学家), took on the job as head of a research team. She and her teammates performed different kinds of experiments. However, the results were disappointing. Instead of giving up, they kept trying. Finally, in 1972, they made it! In 2015, at the age of 85, she received a Nobel Prize.

Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, believed that every failure was a step towards success. He once said, "If I find 10, 000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong try is another step forward. "

Sometimes, their success was a surprise, even to themselves. The famous scientist Alexander Fleming said "When I woke up just after daybreak on 28th September, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise(变革)all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic(抗生素). But I guess that was exactly what I did. "

Some people only became successful after their deaths. Not like Pablo Picasso who became famous and very rich during his lifetime, the artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting all through his life and that was to a friend. But he kept painting and he painted more than 2, 000 artworks in the following ten years. Now his paintings are very popular and they sell for millions of pounds.

One thing all these people have in common is sticking to their goals no matter what.

What do people around the world think of China? According to an international survey, China' s national image(形象) )is improving. Over11, respondents(调查对象) took part in it. The survey's questions covered topics from one's general view of China to its performance in international matters.

In the 2019 report, China scored 6. 3 points out of 10 regarding its image, rising from 5 points in 2013. Generally, developing countries had better impressions(印象)of China than developed countries. The top three countries whose respondents had the best impression of China were Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

The respondents see China as the second most influential country international matters. The Belt and Road Initiative(—带—路倡议) was the most popular of all projects made by China, CCTV News reported.

China's performance in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has been noticed by the world Over the past few months, many countries have closed their borders(边境)and stopped trades of medicine and medical equipment. China has sent 34 medical teams to 32 countries and offered help to 150 countries and four international organizations.

As for the future, China is expected to make more contributions to the world.  Let's look forward to it.

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After nine years since its last edition(版本) the 12th edition of Xinhua Dictionary comes out. It has added new words and expressions  shaped by the Internet and social[ˈprəʊgres].

The new edition of the dictionary has also added a QR code to each page, allowing readers to scan the code (扫码) to learn how to(correct) write a character and hear the right (pronounce). This is the first time that Xinhua Dictionary has(bring) out and printed copies at the same time.

The 12th edition of the dictionary does not include too many new characters,

it does include more than 100 new words and expressions. Many ofare from the Internet, such as "fen si"(fans), "er wei ma"(QR code), and "dian zan"(clicking the "like" button).

The new edition has also added more than 50 new usages, including "mai meng"(acting cute), "pin che"(carpool) and "pin gou"( shopping pool).

Since its first edition1953, Xinhua Dictionary has sold more than 600 million(copy) around the world. The dictionary has been a tool for several generations of Chinese people. It has become a [[ˈsɪmbl] of Chinese culture. It is also the first dictionary written in modern Chinese. Most, if not all, Chinese people use Xinhua Dictionary[ˈpraɪmərɪ] schools when they start learning Chinese characters.

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Labor Education in Our School

It's reported that Labor Education has been included in the education of schools in China.