江苏省兴化市2021-2022学年九年级下学期第二次阶段性评价英语试题

一With pleasure. You________ come to our desk every time. It's easier to renew them online.

一Sorry. I will be more polite.

Look at the notice. It tells you that the, bookshop will________.

一 Congratulations! Make yourself________ so that they don't want to lose you.

—________. My life has become much easier now.

—________.

—Oh, really? I haven't seen her for nearly five years. Could you tell me________?

I spoke to my mother that weekend on the phone. I told her about my life. She seemed to be very tired, so we said goodbye to each other. I didn't know then that just 14 hours later, my mother would1.

My mother was my best friend. After she died, I felt2. She was the only person I wanted to talk to. The only person who could help me was the one who was never3

My mother gave me many things,4she had never taught me how to cook.' She liked eating more than cooking. She loved to eat fish pie and5 it to us for dinner. Almost every week, she would6a prepared fish pie. Then she would bring it home and make her white sauce. My mother 7tried to teach me how to make a white sauce-and 1 also didn't ask her. Now that she was gone, I had to teach8.

So this became my focus. For the first few weeks, 1 survived on cheap food. But one night, a fish pie9 my eye at the store.

When I got home, I 10myself in front of our electric stove(炉). I tried to teach myself to make a white sauce.

Halfway through the cooking, I couldn't believe it-- I'd made a white sauce11! Then I remembered: I had always12fish pie.

Admiring(欣赏) my sauce, I wondered13 I wanted to make a dish I had hated for 20 years. Why was it suddenly so important?

I poured the sauce over the fish. Then I ate the pie. I realized that the act of cooking14 me down. It helped me find15. And I realized that my mother would accompany me forever.

China kik-started its seventh Space Day celebrations themed “Space inspires dreams" on April 24,2022, which aimed to inspire the public to learn scientific knowledge, generate innovative (创新的)ideas and carry forward the scientific spirit. Here is a table for you to learn something.

One of my grandchildren sent me a self-portrait(自画像) she created for her art class. The top half of the portrait shows her hair parted in the middle with her big brown eyes looking through her glasses.

The bottom half of the self-portrait is a bright blue facemask with colourful flowers. It is a clever art project with the facemask as a cover. The mask is removable(可去掉的), but we received her picture with the mask on.

Her eyes looked a bit confused. Who hasn't looked confused in recent months? Luckily, I think I know what the problem is. The child needs to work on her smize.

Fashion model Tyra Banks created the term "smize" several years ago. A smize is a combination of smile and eyes, meaning to smile with your eyes. Models can make their eyes smile without moving their mouths.

Smizing is big right now. It's hard to show friendliness when the smiling half of your face is covered. Restaurants are even teaching wait staff to perfect the smize behind facemasks.

You can smize by scrunching(使收缩) up your eyes and using your cheeks to push your eyes up to create a smiling effect. It's hard to do, but you can learn how to do it by practicing in front of a mirror.

Like most people, I can wear my mask and smile at the same time, but my eyes can't smile without my mouth. They have an unbreakable bond.

Too bad we often can't see one another smiling these days because smiling is like yawning-highly contagious(传染的). Smiling and kindly acknowledging on another as fellow human beings wouldn't be the worst thing to sweep the nation. Go ahead, smize or smile, whatever you can do. Spread it around.

Pacheco is a senior at Cathedral Catholic High School in California, US. When she was a little girl, her parents let her choose an American Girl doll. She picked one with a hair color and style that matched her own." She looked like me, and I felt there was a piece of me in her," said Pacheco." You see yourself in a doll, and it's really special to have that connection."

But what about children with medical condition who don't like anyone else? Pacheco wanted to give these children the same gift she got as a child. Over the past several months, she has made dolls for kids who have unique facial appearances. “Each of these kids is so special. I hope through these dolls they can see themselves in a new light and really appreciate their beauty."

Pacheco got the idea for the doll project after remembering a magazine story about "A Doll Like Me". This is a project that makes custom dolls for children with disabilities. Pacheco reached out to Fresh Start Surgical Gifts, an organization that provides free operations and other medical treatment for children. She asked if she could create similar dolls for some of its clients(顾客).

For this project, Pacheco watched doll-making course, then designed her own patterns and figured out how to make dolls that looked like her clients. It was important to her that the children could see themselves in the dolls, but that their differences would not be the most noticeable feature(特征).

Zulema Gillett got one of Pacheco's dolls. She said she loved the idea." Who doesn't want a doll that looks like them and that they could relate to(产生联系)?"Gillett said.

Michelle Pius, chief development officer for Fresh Start Surgical Gifts, was impressed by .Pacheco's dolls. "It is a very kind and warm-hearted gesture to make dolls that will help a child feel like they're not alone," Pius said.

I'm a procrastinator(有拖延症的人). In university, I should spend a year on my 90-page senior thesis(论文). I didn't write a word until three days before the deadline. Finally, I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters to finish just before the deadline. Of course, it was a very bad thesis.

I think that the brain of procrastinators and non-procrastinators are actually different. Both brains have a Rational(理性的) Decision-Maker in them who makes us take action right now. But the procrastinator's brain also has an Instant Gratification(及时行乐) Monkey who doesn't like that plan and only cares about two things: easy and fun.

For the procrastinators, it is the Monkey that actually takes the wheel. But how can they start working when really important things happen? It turns out the procrastinator also has a Panic(恐慌的) Monster. He is not active most of the time, but he suddenly wakes up anytime a deadline gets too close. He's the only thing the Instant Gratification Monkey is afraid of.

Seeing the Panic Monster, the Instant Gratification Monkey goes up a tree and hides! The Rational Decision-Maker can then take the wheel and the procrastinator can start working.

This explains how the procrastinator's system works. But if it works, why bother?

Well, it's because there are situations in, our lives that don't have deadlines, like seeing your family or exercising. In all of these non-deadline situations, the Panic Monster doesn't show up. So the procrastinator's system actually doesn't start work.

So what should we do? Maybe we can make something called a Life Calendar. We need to take a long, hard look at that calendar and think about what we're really procrastinating on.

It was a hot summer day and I had just pulled into the gas station to fill up my car. After filling it up, I started to walk inside to pay. That is when I noticed them. Two elderly women were standing back from their car. There was shock and fear on their faces. 1 looked and saw what they saw: five yellow jackets(小 黄蜂) building a nest around their gas gap. I suddenly felt scared. I shared the ladies' fear.

Yellow jackets have never been friends of mine. Several times these wasps(黄蜂) have attacked me while I was cutting the grass, stinging(蛰) me each time I ran over their nests. The worst time, however, was when I was a young boy. A friend of mine and I were playing in my backyard. I must have stepped on one of their nests again because before I knew it, both of us were being chased and stung by the yellow jackets while we ran away screaming. I ran to my mom with tears in my eyes. She ran a cold bath and put us both in it to ease(减轻) the pain before giving us medicine to help us feel better.

Still, I knew I couldn't let fear stop me now. I reached into my pocket for a paper towel I had there. I tore out the nest with the paper towel and stepped on it while the wasps were buzzing around me. Both of the ladies thanked me for what I did.

You can't let the fear of being stung-either physically or emotionally-keep you from doing what is right. We need to love each other and change the world for the better. And the only way you can do this is through helpful acts and kindness. Don't let the fear in your life hold you back.

In recent times，the COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed the age-old habit of shaking hands. It is most widely used as a greeting, but when did shaking hands become the standard greeting?

The handshake dates all the way back to the 9th century BC. King Shalmanesar III ruled over Assyria, an empire(帝国) of the ancient Middle East. Archaeologists(考古学家) found a throne base from that time. It shows two people holding hands. In the 5th century BC, in Greece, this was a symbol of peace, showing that neither person carried a weapon. The handshake also makes an appearance in Homer's ancient poem, the lliad(荷马史诗). In it, two characters“shook each other's hands".

However, these handshakes were not used as greetings. The earliest reference to a handshake greeting is in the 16th century novels by French writer Francois Rabelais, says Dutch sociologist Herman Roodenburg.

Even so, the most widely -accepted theory about the handshake's origin is that it survived through a group called the Quakers, who were devoted to equality and peace. As the movement spread, so did the handshake, eventually becoming standard among the working class in the mid-1700s.

However, this was not the case everywhere, according to Roodenburg. Some French people described it as a vulgar(平民) English greeting, so many maintained(维持)“la bise", the traditional peck(轻吻) on two cheeks, which was widely used until the COVID-19 outbreak. In many countries, people have started touching elbows or ankles to greet each other instead of shaking hands, as this is believed to be safer.

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A Chinese lunar year has twenty-four solar terms. Grain Rain is the sixth. It originates(起源) from the old saying, "Rain brings up the g of hundreds of grains," which shows that this period of rainfall is very ito crops. Grain Rain brings a marked increase in temperature and rainfall and the grains grow fand stronger. It's a key time topthe crops from insect pests.

There is an old custom isouthern China that people drink tea on the day of Grain Rain. Spring tea during Grain Rain is rin vitamins and amino acids(氨基酸), which can help to remove heat from the body and is good for the eyes. It is also said that drinking tea on this day would prevent bad l. What's more, it is tfor people in northern China to eat the vegetable. toona sinensis(香椿) during Grain Rain, which has lasted for several centuries. The vegetable is nutritious(有营养的) and can help to ithe immune (免疫的)system. It is also good for the stomach and skin.

Grain Rain marks the start of the fishermen's first sailing of the year. The custom dates back more than 2,000 years ago, when people bthat there were the gods protecting them. People would always make wishes on the Grain Rain festival for a wonderful harvest and a safe sailing for their loved ones.

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