浙江省温州市2023-2024学年九年级上学期开学考试英语模拟卷

I am a girl who likes to make a mess in the room, 1  my roommate Jenny likes to keep it clean. I don't know how we became good friends, because our personalities* are so 2 .

In fact, we have also had arguments over room cleaning. One night, Jenny rushed to my side and shouted at me, "Take your 3 off my bed! "I saw her face gradually become redder and redder, and I knew she was4 , I didn't know why she was so nervous for a single shoe. So, I 5 the television and pretended to watch it, 6 completely angered her. She threw the lovely doll* I had given her as a birthday gift out the window. Seeing the doll 7 outside the window, it was my turn to get 8 , and I shouted out loud too, "I know I made a mistake, but why did you do it?"

After that, we didn't speak to each other for nearly a month. Until one day, I heard crying coming 9 under Jenny's quilt*. I saw that her desk was no longer as tidy as it used to be with all her books lying on the table and her clothes piled on the chair. This is very 10 ! I guessed 11 might have happened to her. So, I quietly began to 12 up the room, first swept the floor, and then helping her fold* her clothes. After half an hour, Jenny's crying gradually quieted down, and I sat next to her waiting for her to calm down. She said, "My grandpa died last night. "I hugged her and said, "He loved you so much and certainly didn't want 13 to be so sad. "

The 14  that we had before has disappeared today. Why did we become good friends? Because no matter what happened in the past, we always company and 15 each other during their sad moments. 

New term is started. What did the students do in the summer vacation? A school did a survey on the learning situation of students during the summer vacation. Here is Jack's answer. 

The traditional Chinese solar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. One solar term lasts for half a month, with the first solar term on February 4^th. End of Heat begins this year on August 23 and ends on September 7. The following are six things you should know about End of Heat. 

Enjoying fall colors in early September

In China, regions beyond the Great Wall will enter autumn in early September. People can enjoy the scenery as it changes gradually from summer to autumn. 

Autumn weariness

There is a saying that, "People tend to feel sleepy in spring, doze in summer and feel tired in autumn. " As the weather becomes cool during End of Heat, many people will feel weary, which is called "autumn weariness". It is a sign that the human body needs rest, since people spent too much energy in the summer. Get enough sleep, do more exercises and keep plants indoor to help. 

Enjoying clouds

When the End of Heat comes, summer heat is gone. Clouds in the sky scatter around forming different shapes. There is a saying that goes, "Enjoying the clouds of various forms in July and August. "

Time for night-blooming flower

The night-blooming cereus is a flower full of mystery, which often blooms during the period of End of Heat. This is because the climate during End of Heat. Night-blooming cereus originates in the deserts from Mexico to Brazil in South America. They blossom at night to avoid the sunlight. 

Eating Duck

Duck has a sweet flavor and according to Chinese traditional medicine it has a "cool" nature. The tradition of eating duck during the End of Heat period is still popular in China. 

The Fishing Season Festival

For fishermen, the End of Heat is a season of harvest. During this period, the Fishing Season Festival is held in regions along the coastline of the East China Sea in Zhejiang province. People can enjoy many kinds of seafood during this period. 

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood's attractive actors fear that artificial intelligence will replace their jobs, but for many performers, that is already a reality. 

From Game of Thrones to the latest Marvel superhero movies, studios that want to save money have long used computer-generated* background figures to reduce the number of actors needed for battle scenes. 

Now the rise of AI means cheaper and more powerful techniques are being explored to create highly elaborate* action scenes, such as car chases and shootouts — without humans. Stunt* work, a time-honored Hollywood tradition that has developed from silent movies through to Tom Cruise's latest Mission Impossible, is at risk. "The technology is getting faster and better, " said Freddy Bouciegues, stunt coordinator for movies such as Free Guy and Terminator: Dark Fate. "It's really a scary time right now. "

Studios are already requiring stunt and background performers to take part in high-tech 3D "body scans（扫描）" on set, often without explaining how or when the images will be used. Advances in AI mean these likenesses could be used to create detailed "digital replicas", which can perform any action or speak any dialogue its creators wish. 

Bouciegues fears producers could use these virtual* image to replace "nondescript" stunt performers, such as those playing actors jumping out of the way of a car chase. 

The lack of promise of the technology company over the future use of AI is one of the major reasons in the current strike* by the Screen Actors Guild, or SAGAFTRA, and Hollywood's writers, who have been on the picket lines for more than 100 days. Last month, SAG-AFTRA warned that studios intend to create realistic digital copies of performers, to use "in any project they want" — all for the payment of one day's work. 

However, the studios doesn't think they have any mistake. They offered rules to person who join in the project, including the right to know and compensation.

"She looking at the prince, and then threw herself from the ship into the sea. She felt her body dissolve into foam. " Mom was telling the story of "The Little Mermaid" to eight-year-old Kelly. Kelly couldn't help crying after hearing this ending. 

As Kelly grew older, she read the original story in the university library. The description in the original text about the little mermaid saving the prince and seeing the human world was like this: She thought that the human world was much larger than her own. Indeed, they could sail on ships on the sea, climb the tall mountains, and their land, with its forests and fields, stretched out so far that she could not see its end. 

Kelly suddenly realized that this was not the same little mermaid who fell in love. Curious, she continued reading on. 

After returning to the sea, the little mermaid found her grandmother and asked, "What is the difference between humans and mermaids? Do humans die?"

Her grandmother told her, "Humans' lives are even shorter than ours. We can live up to three hundred years, but when our lives end, we turn into foam on the water. But humans have a soul that lives forever. . . "

The little mermaid asked, "Why don't we have an immortal soul? As long as I can become a human and enter the heaven, even if I can only live there for a day, I am willing to give up my life of several hundred years here. "

The rest of the story was no different from what Kelly's mother had told her, but the ending was like the follow.

Now the sun was rising from the sea, and its rays seemed to dissolve the cold foam into warm sunshine. The little mermaid was surprised that she still existed. Where should she go now? 

A voice told her, "You are going to the daughter of heaven. There is not only one way to have an immortal soul by owning human love. ▲. Compared to the courage to pursue love, this is a greater courage. " 

Finally, that voice told her, "You have suffered pain and insisted kindness. Through your own efforts, you will create an immortal soul for yourself. "

Reading this, Kelly suddenly realized. 

Have you been to the Great Wall? It is known as the eighth （奇迹）of the world. 

Every year, thousands of （游客）from around the world visit the Great Wall, and I am one of them. Here, I saw many volunteers helping the （年长的）carry heavy bags, taking photos for tourists, and （回答） people's questions. They looked tired, but they didn't take a rest. It was at that （时刻） when I suddenly saw a lost child crying （大声地）. I walked up to him and asked what happened. He told me that he couldn't find his mother. After （讨论）, we decided （联系） his mother through a phone call. 20 minutes later, the boy's mother （到达）, and she expressed her gratitude to us continuously. This made me understand the （乐趣） of helping others. 

On Aug 24, a children's play, Flowers in the Mirror, （stage）at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. 

Before the performance, children aged between five nine enjoyed a three-day （train） session run by teachers from QFun Theater. Flowers in the Mirror is adapted from fantasy novel of the same title by Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) novelist Li Ruzhen. The story follows a child named Tang Xiaoshan is searching for 12 flowers on a trip. 

In addition to performing, the children also took on different （role）, including assistant director and costume assistant, which gave （they）a better overview of how the theater operates. 

According to Wang Nan, the producer of QFun Theater, who was one of the trainers, some of the children had no previous theater experience, but they worked （serious） at their parts. 

It was the first time for the Forbidden City Concert Hall  (introduce) theater training to its annual Gateway to Arts summer festival, which is one of Beijing's biggest arts festivals for children during the summer vacation. 

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