浙江省宁波地区2022-2023学年九年级上学期英语第一次月考试卷

Shyness once took over my life. When I was 13, in my French lesson, my teacher told us to 1ourselves speaking about our families. I recorded myself with confidence. When I pressed "play" to listen back, I2 my strange voice — just like a little kid. That made me very shy and I3 attending events from then on.

Years after that, I became a teacher in a primary school. On the first day, my hands could not help but sweat（出汗）. The weight of my arms was trying to prevent me from4 the door. Though a little 5, I opened the door slowly.  6, a wave of laughter flew through the air. Then I7, and felt it was a bad 8 to be a teacher. They did not seem to mind me at all. After class, a little girl walked up to me and asked,  "Could you 9me to read this? " with the most 10face I have ever seen as if she had just gotten a cookie.  "I like your voice! " she said. I shook my shyness off and my body felt as 11 as a feather(羽毛(. Perhaps this was not such a bad idea after all.

Besides, there was one simple thing that 12 me most. Every day when the students left, they would clean up after themselves and leave their areas 13 without ever being told to do so. Actually they 14very well. Looking back it now. I would have to say these students gave me one of the greatest 15of my life.

In the future, I want to create a space for shy people like me to shine.

Good photographers are like reporters. They record people's lives with cameras. They are also like artists or writers. Their photos can make people think or feel something.

Everybody enjoys acts of kindness. But can you explain why? Some people think kindness is something out of love and care, while others believe it is just a tool that we use to become more popular. But research shows that being kind can activate （激活）an area of the brain called Striatum. Research also shows that kindness improves people's mood （情绪）. But why and how does it happen? Here are a number of different ways.

Being kind can make someone smile. If you see yourself smile in a situation, people around may be smiling, too. This is especially true for your close friends and family. A kind act makes someone who is sad feel better. It can also make ourselves feel good. So why not set off that chain（链条）of good feelings to people around?

Secondly, being kind starts or develops a social connection with others. Kind acts like buying someone a present make friendships stronger. Research has shown that spending money on others may help you get a stronger feeling of happiness than spending it on yourself. Similarly, charities（慈善）also open up new circles of people to connect with someone on the other side of the world.

In another recent research, even children in their first year of secondary school know how being kind makes them feel happy. If one person is kind, he or she makes others in the group kind. It also lifts everyone's spirits. Imagine that you make cakes for the office and it makes others do it each month. Then you're getting cakes a lot more days than providing them.

The story doesn't end here. Being kind may improve your mood, but research has also shown that if you're in a good mood, you can act much more kindly. This makes it a wonderful two-way relationship, doesn't it?

As a student, I was most afraid to answer questions in class, and I found that the students around were just like me. At the beginning of each class, when the teacher asked a question, I always lowered my head because I was afraid that the teacher saw me.

One day, in a foreign language class, Mr. Black gave us a lesson. He wanted us to be active in class. So he asked us some questions, but no one answered. "Let me tell you a story first, " he said.

"When I came to the United States to study, the university often invited famous people to make speeches. Before the beginning of every speech, I found an interesting thing. The students around me always took a cardboard folded in half, wrote their names in bold（黑体） with the most eyecatching color, and then placed the cardboard on the seat. So when the speaker needed the answers from the students, he could see and call a listener's name directly. "

"I couldn't understand that. My classmate told me the speakers were all top people, who meant chances（机会）. When your answer was to his surprise, it meant he might give you more chances. In fact, I really saw a few students got great chances because of that. "

After listening to the story, I understood that the chance will not find you itself. You must show yourself all the time so that you can find a chance on the card.

While the mobile Internet is changing the way we live, more and more old people in China are getting in on the digital world, although they will have some trouble.

Yang Su is among them. He is both a pianist of Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra （交响乐团）, a 61-year-old professional vlogger （视频博主）. With more than 2. 3 million followers on China's famous short video app "Douyin", his videos have been watched by over 1 million times.

"Three years ago, my son put a short video of me playing the piano at home on ‘Douyin', and hours later it was played over 1 million times, " Yang remembered.

However, it's not easy for him to learn how to film a video. He needs to play through the music since he doesn't know how to edit （编辑） and cut clips. His child helps him a lot later. "The Internet has opened the door to a new world, " Yang said. "I always keep myself busy and feel very young at my age. "

Do other old people get used to the digital world like Yang? Ding Qiulin is a 73-year-old man from Hunan. "I got my smartphone more than one year ago, but I only use WeChat for video calls, " he said. Ding finds it hard to learn to use other apps.

▲    Luo Xu, a post-90s volunteer, joined a non-profit organization in Beijing nine years ago to teach old people how to use the Internet. "While I am helping people aged between 50 and 90 years old, I have a strong feeling of pleasure, " Luo said.

If you want to feel closer to others, communication is the way. Try to talk to your parents and advise them to find a balance between you and your brother.

Don't you think it is a good thing because you can get much help from your friends? The most important point is that you're trying to do better than you did before.

What other people think doesn't really matter. You can try to use your height to your advantage--maybe someday you could become a basketball player or a model.

If your grandma asks you about the dress she bought, just tell a white lie. It doesn't matter whether you like the dress or not. It is the love behind it that matters.

 It's not nice of her to do that. You can go to your mom and calmly explain to her that what she did makes you feel bad. Hopefully, she will understand and stop doing so.

A. My mother read my diaries secretly.

B. My friends study much better than me.

C. My classmates laughed about my height.

D. My head teacher canceled the music class.

E. My grandma bought me an old-fashioned dress.

F. My parents pay more attention to my little brother.

Many Western countries celebrate Easter. This holiday is always on a Sunday March 22^nd and April 25^th. It celebrates theof a new life. Hens lay eggs, giving birth to life, so an egg is a symbol of new life. A activity during Easter is to hide eggs around your home or garden for friends or relatives to find. These can be real eggs, but they are more often chocolate eggs. Not only do people them around in different hiding places for an egg hunt, but they also give out these treats as. So just like Christmas, Easter creates good business for supermarkets and chocolate stores.

Matt is a primary school student who loves playing with little animals. One day, when he was on（he） way to school, he saw a homeless cat sitting in a box. It was a black-and-white cat with bright eyes. The cat was so cuteMatt couldn't help playing with it.

The longer Matt played withcat, the more he liked it. The little cat followed him as he left for school. Matt then decided（take）the cat to school with him. He put the cat in his schoolbagwent to school happily.

After Matt entered the class, he told some（classmate）about the cat, "As he opened the schoolbag to show them the cat, it suddenly jumped out and（start）running around the classroom. It even jumped onto the teacher's desk! Everyone in class was （excited）than ever before. Just at that time, the teacher came in and caught the cat（quick）. Matt felt embarrassed and his face turned red.

To Matt's surprise, the teacher came up to him（10）a smile, saying, "Matt, it's nice of you to lend a helping hand to homeless animals, but you are not allowed to take it to school. "

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Dear Mike，

How nice to hear from you! In your letter you talked about your difficulties with your Chinese learning.

I hope they will do some good to your Chinese learning.

Best wishes!

Li Jin