四川省眉山市2021-2022学年九年级上学期英语开学考试

Surprisingly, the dates and ways of the celebration of Father's Day are not the same everywhere.

Father's Day is celebrated to thank fathers and express gratitude (感激) for their love. In Canada, it is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. People wear roses to express thanks and love for their fathers. This is also a time for a family reunion (团聚), because children often stay away from their family and this is a good time for them to get together with their fathers and other loved ones. But in Australia, it is celebrated on the first Sunday in September. The day is celebrated only in families. A rich breakfast for families is a good way to celebrate Father's Day. In Thailand, Father's Day falls on December 5 every year. All the people have a one-day holiday. You can see many people are in yellow and the streets are decorated in yellow because Father's Day is also the King's birthday.

Some clubs, schools and cultural societies in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia, South Africa organize Father's Day parties to provide people an opportunity to celebrate the day to show the importance of father's role in the family and the society.

For many students, when exams come, they will be full of fear. This is partly because exams cause stress for many students. The fear of getting a bad grade, studying hour after hour for weeks on weekends. To study successfully requires concentration（集中注意力）. Here are some steps that can help you in concentrating.

The first thing you should do is to find a quiet place to study. Do not sit in the living room with the television on. You will find yourself watching TV instead of studying. This is the number one to keep you away from concentrating. Also you should not study with music on.

When you find a quiet place to study, make sure that you will be comfortable and the lighting is proper. Reading in dark places will only give you a headache.

Do not study outdoors. On a beautiful spring day, you may find yourself taking a short sleep instead of studying. Drinking a cup of coffee may help you to stay awake, but you also have chances of running into friends, who may distract（分散注意力）you from studying.

Study one subject at a time. Or you may be hurting your chances of remembering what you have studied when it is time to take your exam.

It is important that you develop good study habits in your early school years. As you go up in grades, it will become more difficult for you because you will have more subjects to study. Well, concentration is really important to forming （形成） good study habits.And these habits will follow you through your adult life.

One morning, George left his house with six donkeys（驴）to the market. He counted them every few minutes. When he felt tired, he found there were only five donkeys. He got off the donkey's back at once and went to look for the sixth. He looked for it everywhere but didn't find it. He had to go back to the donkeys with nothing. And counted them again, there were six this time! So he rode onto one donkey's back again and continued going.

After a few minutes, he counted the donkeys again, and again. There were only five again! When he was counting again and again, "I left my house with six donkeys, then I had five, and now I have only five again! Look! One, two, four, five. How strange it is!"

"But, George, " said his friend, you have seven donkeys— you are the seventh! "

You can find hip-hop（嘻哈音乐）everywhere you go. Countries like France, Brazil and even Japan have their own hip-hop culture.

Many centuries ago, in West Africa, traditional storytellers played musical instruments while they were telling stories. When this tradition traveled from West Africa to the USA, it developed into different musical styles. And in the 1970s, there were many poor areas in New York. There wasn't any money for music lessons in schools, so kids made their own music. African teenagers and DJ here played their records outside in the street. MCs had rapping（说唱）

It was 1980. I was at a party in New York. There was a young DJ at the party. He was playing records. While he was putting a record on, a kid picked up a microphone（话筒）and began rapping. Some other kids were break-dancing to the music. It was loud and boring

Today's successful American artists like Missy and her friend Tim heard it on the radio when they were growing up.

The last time I heard hip-hop, I was in West Africa.I was going to interview a traditional storyteller when I met a young hip-hop artist. He told me there are hundreds of rap groups in Africa today. We live on a hip-hop planet.

Good manners（礼貌）are very important in our lives. Polite people are1with most people while rude people are often hated by others.

Why not try to be polite? A simple "please" "Thank you" or "You're welcome" can make a big2in many situations.

Politeness or rudeness often depends on a person's culture. In many Asian countries, people tell white lies（善意的谎言） in order not to hurt others'3. To many Asians this is thought to be polite. However, for Europeans this is impolite.

Whether a person is polite or not4depends on who he is speaking to. People often speak in different ways when they talk to the elderly, their friends and their children.

Do you want to be a polite person? It's not hard to do that.5you do something in a polite way every day, you will fall into a good habit day by day.

Why do many Chinese people refuse to cut their hair during the first month of the lunar year? Tradition says that doing so will1cause your mother's brothers to die. Although it's not true, some people still2it.

3after a month's wait, many people usually cut their hair on Dragon Head-Raising Day. It was once4to line up outside of barber shops on this day.

Dragon Head-Raising Day-the second day of the second lunar month, which5on Mar. 14 this year. It is an6traditional Chinese holiday. Ancient people believed that7this day, rainfall would increase because the rain-bringing Dragon King would wake up from his winter sleep. So that day is the start of8and farming.

A well-known phrase goes, "On the second day of the second month, the dragon9his head. "

Besides10their hair, there are also other ways to celebrate this holiday. For example, people eat food with "dragon names". People call noodles dragon's beard（龙须）（春卷）are dragon's scales（龙鳞）.

Dear Mary,

I'm glad to hear from you. From your letter, I know you've fallen in loveChinese. You want me to give you some useful advice on how to learn it（ good）. The  （follow）is what I want to say.

First, read your textbook again and again. If possible, read aloud as much as you can. You know, if you want to speak foreign language, you must pronounce the words in a right way,others can't understand what you say.

（two）, try to talk with your friends in Chinese, especially with your Chinese friends. You can learn how to make up right（sentence） from them. You can even get what their words mean from their body language.

Third, read as many Chinese books as you can. In order to improve your reading ability, you'd better find out the key words first. The key words can help you understand the article. As time goes by（increase） your reading speed. Then you will read（fast） than before. For language learning, reading something you are（interesting） in is the key to success. You can have a try.

Last, review the things you have learned as often as possible. As the saying goes: get new knowledge by reviewing the old.

Yours,

Li Hua