广东省深圳市坪山区2022-2023学年九年级上学期英语期末试卷

Katy Sullivan is an actress, an athlete(运动员), and a person who also refuses to accept the words"no or I can't". 

She was born without the lower half of her legs and has worn prosthetic(假体)ones all her life. She grew up in Alabams, US and had a(n)1  childhood. She kept up with her sisters and brothers at the gym and the swimming pool. She feels lucky 2  her family treated her in the same way as the other members. 

When a person is born without legs, there are plenty of things that are3  to do. But Katy believed she could 4  anything. So she chose two jobs that are difficult, even with both legs. 

As a teenager, she once saw a good movie. Before it was 5 , Katy had made her mind up to be a(n)6  .

She did a degree in theater(获得戏剧学位)and then moved to Los Angeles, where she has played 7  in theater, television and movies. She has a positive(积极的)view of life. She thinks that if you believe you can do something, you should go for it. So when Katy's friend asked her 8  she'd like to try running, she said"yes". She was given a pair of running legs and she

9  her new life Katy was the first person in the world with two prosthetic legs to 10  running as a competitive sport. She entered the final of the 100 meters in the 2012 London Paralympics. 

Katy's family, friends, and fans look up to her as an example of someone who has overcome(克服)her difficulty and achieved her dreams. 

A report says that young people who were born between 1995 and 2009 have different ways of life. Here are some hot ways in 2022.

★Food Younger people are trying difficult dishes at home. ·One sixth expressed their wish to cook at home. ·More than a quarter of teenagers and young adults are trying new things, like making bread and cakes.

★Health Teenagers and young adults care more about their health of the mind. ·About one third will continue to take part in sports. They will exercise twice to three times a day. ·40% join in kinds of clubs and make many friends through exercise. ·About a quarter of them will depend on creative activities like drawing and writing music to stay happy.

★Shopping Online shopping will still be popular. But it will move away from big retailer (零售店) websites to social media (媒体) and secondhand websites. ·27% of teenagers and young adults are expecting to shop directly through social media websites. ·24% are expecting to shop through special in-app services. ·23% are expecting to shop through secondhand websites.

This is the word "family" written in Chinese "家". It's a pictographic character (象形文字). The "宀" looks like the roof (屋顶) of a house, and the "豖" is a pictographic character for "pig", which is developed from a picture like this:

The word "家" with a pig under the roof of a house may show the importance of domestic animals (家畜) to traditional Chinese families.

There is a strong feeling between parents, children and other family members. The father is usually very strict with their children. Parents work very hard to set a good example for their children, while children study hard. Brothers and sisters in the family are very friendly and helpful to each other. All the family members make an effort to live a happy life.

Our ancestors (祖先) will be part of our life and a warm memory forever.     ▲     We remember our ancestors, not for any advantages for ourselves but to make our feelings more active. Whenever we think of them, they make us stronger inside.

Everyone values the idea of "making all the members of the family happy". We should all have this same idea as the great "China dream". There are thousands of families in China, just because every family goes well, China is getting better and better.

Why is the sea salt? Long before we discovered scientific ways of thinking about it, we explained it in a story. Even though the answer isn't scientific, it holds some other truth in it— especially about the human heart.

Long ago, a poor old couple lived on the coast. One day, an old storyteller came to their village. The old couple gave him a meal. In return, he gave them a coffee mill(磨粉机) and said, "Say, 'Mill, please grind(磨粉)', and it'll make whatever you want. To stop it, say 'Mill, please cease(停止) grinding'. "

Soon the old couple had a much better life. They'd been happy people, and they didn't need much more. But the young couple next door were never satisfied. When they saw the old couple wearing good clothes and buying good food, they burnt with envy(羡慕). So one day, the young husband went to the old couple's house secretly and heard," Mill, please grind hot chocolate!" He was surprised to see it coming out.

Then the young couple stole the mill from the old couple. With it, they rode a horse and set off down the coast, where no one would know them. Along the way, the husband showed proudly and asked, "What do you want it to make?" "Oh. I don't know. Why not salt?" the wife said. "Mill, please grind salt!" he said. "It works!" the wife shouted. But then they noticed the salt went everywhere. "Make it stop," the wife said. But the husband didn't know how. "Mill, please stop grinding! Please, no more!" His words didn't work. The mill kept grinding. Finally, the young husband threw the mill into the sea as far as he could.

And there it's been, for hundreds of years, endlessly grinding salt. That's why the sea is salt.

Teachers are often considered to be engineers of the human soul. But there's one person in China who is called the "teacher of teachers".

He is Chinese educator Tao Xingzhi. Last year marked the 130 anniversary of his birth. People in different parts of China commemorated (纪念)Tao by visiting his memorial halls or holding meetings to reflect on his thoughts on education.

Born in Anhui province, China, 1891, Tao studied at Columbia University, US, in1914. . But when Tao returned to China in 1917 and began his own career as an educator, he did not blindly copy Dewey's education method or theories. For Tao, education is an active process in real-life experiences rather than one of telling and being told. He proposed(提出)"unity(融合) of teaching, learning, and reflective acting".

After conducting surveys in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai in 1921, Tao was surprised to learn that the rate of urban illiteracy(文盲) in China went beyond 70 percent. To deal with the lack of teachers and money, in 1927, Tao set up Xiaozhuang Normal Collage(晓庄师范学院) in the northern suburbs of Nanjing to train teachers and educators, most of whom became teachers at rural schools.

He set up Yucai Middle School in the suburbs of Chongqing and offered free education to refugee (避难)children after the Japanese invasion of China began in 1937.

Maybe Tao's motto is the best explanation for his life, "Giving a whole heart, yet taking nothing in return, not even a leaf of grass.

One of the most popular (athlete) at Beijing 2022 is two-time free ski(自由式滑雪)world champion Gu Ailing. Going into the Games, the 18-year-old set her sights high.

In the women's free ski big air event, she won gold medal thanks to amazing jump. To complete the jump, she made four and a half rotations in the air and landed backward. It was a difficult jump that she had never done before. Her mother (tell) her to play it safe. " I didn't listen to her and gave it a go, not trying to beat anyone but to elevate(提升) (I) to the next level," said Gu.

Gu is known her strong will and hard work. She encourages teenagers (challenge) themselves through winter sports. "I love (feel) nervous and then overcoming it (brave), feeling that rush and that reward… that got me into skiing,"Gu told The New York Times. "I hope that I' m able to use this platform to inspire more young girls to take part in free skiing. That's always been my (big) goal since Day One."

提示:

1）活动于3月9日上午9点开始；

2）大约1. 2万人参加，沿着深南大道跑完5公里；

3）你提前到达，大约一个小时跑完全程；

4）虽然很累，但收获很多，不仅锻炼了身体，而且增强了毅力。

要求:

1）80词左右。开头和结尾已给出，不计人总词数内；

2）文中不得出现真实姓名和校名;

3）可适当增加细节，以使条理清楚、行文连贯；

4）标点正确，书面整洁。

参考词汇:迎新春长跑 a Greeting New-Spring long-distance race;深南大道Shennan Avenue;增强毅力strengthen one's will

Dear editor,

In order to build up our bodies, a Greeting New-Spring long-distance race was held in Shenzhen.

Best wishes!

Li Ping