浙江省宁波市鄞州区2022-2023学年九年级上学期英语第一次月考试卷（音频暂未更新）

Shyness once took over my life. When I was 13, in my French lesson, my teacher told us to 1 ourselves speaking about our families. I recorded myself with confidence. 2 I pressed "play" to listen back, I heard my strange voice -- just like a little kid. That made me very shy and I 3to attend events from then on.

Years after that, I became a teacher in a primary school. 4 the first day, my hands could not help but sweat(出汗). The weight of my arms was trying to stop me from 5 the door. Though a little nervous, I opened the door slowly. 6, a wave of laughter flew through the air. Then I 7, 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 9 me to read this？" with the most 10 face I have ever seen as if she had just gotten a cookie（曲奇饼）. "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 that12me 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 14 very well. Looking back it now, I would have to say these students gave me one of the greatest 15 of 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 actsof kindness. But can you explain why? Some people think kindness is somethingout of love and care, while others believe it is just a tool that we use tobecome more popular. But research shows that being kind can activate（激活）an area of the brain called Striatum. Research also shows thatkindness improves people's mood（情绪）. But why and howdoes it happen? Here are a number of different ways.

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

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

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

The story doesn't endhere. Being kind may improve your mood, but research has also shown that if you'rein a good mood, you can act much more kindly. This makes it a wonderful two-wayrelationship,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, a 61-year-old professional micro vlogger (微视频博主), is among them. He is both a pianist of Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra (交响乐团). 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 （非盈利）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.

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 classroom, 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 the 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 hima 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