广东省深圳市龙岗中学2025-2026学年九年级上学期10月月考英语试题

In a village, there lived a young man named James. He always felt pain because of his hard life. One day, he visited a wise old man and told1 about his troubles.

The old man2 James patiently and then gave him a handful of salt. James was confused (困惑的). He wanted to know whether the salt was magical and could wash away all the3 in his life.

Then the man4 James to put some salt in a glass of water and drink it. James followed the man's instructions (指示).

"How does it5 ?" asked the man.

"That is awful," said James as he spat (吐) out the salty water.

The old man laughed and then led James to the nearby   6 . "Put the same amount of salt in the lake and drink the water from it," said the man.

"It is perfect. I can7 taste any salt," James said. "I am so8 . I can drink a lot!" This time, James enjoyed the cool water of the lake very much.

The old man then sat next to James, took his hands and said, "The pain in life is just like salt. How it tastes depends on the container we put it into. So, when you are in pain, you can make your heart9. Stop being like a glass and10 being like a lake. Then the troubles in your life will cause you less pain and you can enjoy your life better."

One boy called Eric made the simplest paper plane. He stood there at the starting line with a normal piece of paper. A minute later, he took the flat piece of paper, made it into a ball, and threw it down the hallway. We were so surprised at what he did. We never expected things to happen like that. He beat all of us easily.

Some of the students got angry and Mary even said that he cheated.

The physics teacher said, "How so? He doesn't do anything wrong because a paper ball is indeed (确实) a shape. I like his idea."

Yes, Eric didn't cheat. He just finished the task in a different way. In our life, what we have learned turns into our experience. We do everything according to it. However, our experience gets in the way of our development sometimes.It stops us from coming up with new ideas and is bad for our creativity. So it is really necessary for us to learn to think outside of the "box". Then we may think of more and easier ways so that we can have a better result. Just like Eric in the story, we should think creatively.

A certain kind of ants, for example, can count their steps to avoid getting lost. They can go as far as 110 metres and bring food home. These ants live in the open desert (沙漠), so they have nothing to guide them along the way. It's like someone walking six kilometres through a dark forest.

Some fish have an unbelievable sense of smell. They can smell even a single drop of their home water in a large sea area. Some sea birds have a similar ability. They are able to make a smell map of their flying area.

Some animals can sense the earth's magnetic field (磁场), while humans can't. This magnetic field guides a certain kind of fish when they swim a long way to a place and then back. How can this kind of fish do that? It is still a mystery. Scientists have no good answers yet.

However, animals with such unusual abilities still have difficulty dealing with environmental changes caused by human activities. For example, many birds depend on stars for direction, but they get lost easily at night when city lights are kept on all night. To solve this problem, we can simply turn off some lights at night. Clearly, one small act of humans may mean a lot to animals.

A group of British scientists studied 500 people from different job groups. They found that older children are more likely to become astronauts and scientists. NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong and British scientist Stephen Hawking are both the oldest children in their families.That's probably because parents usually treat older children more strictly than younger children. This gives them a more disciplined (守纪律的) personality.

The scientists also found that middle children are 30% more likely to become CEOs than their brothers and sisters. The scientists said that this could be because middle children need to do more to get attention from their parents. This makes them stronger, more flexible (灵活变通的) and better at talks. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, are both middle children.

Younger children, on the other hand, are more likely to be the"softest". They get attention by learning to pay attention to other people's thoughts. This makes them sensitive (敏感的) to others'feelings. As a result, younger children are more likely to become musicians. German musician Johann Sebastian Bach and Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were both the youngest children in their families.

The study results also suggested that an only child is more likely to become an artist. They get full attention from their parents and are freer to develop themselves. This makes them more creative and confident.

Over the past 19 years, Gong Xiuze has used his skills to help others—providing free haircuts for nearly 10,000 people. They are mainly the old, the disabled and sanitation workers (环卫工人).

Gong, 82 years old, used to be a policeman in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. He began to provide free haircuts many years ago. From 1964 to 1968, he stayed in the army. There, he helped others cut their hair. After leaving the army, he became a policeman in Taiyuan and continued to cut hair for others.

When he walked around in the parks in the city, he often found sanitation workers doing cleaning work in the early morning. He thought that they worked really hard, and he wanted to do something for them.

With these cards, he told them about his free haircut service. He also gave cards to the disabled. They had difficulty moving, so Gong visited them and helped cut their hair at their homes.

Now, many people look forward to meeting Gong every month. "I can feel my value of life at an old age while helping others," he said. "I will continue the service as long as I can."

A. However, his family was very poor.

B. He serves people in need door to door.

C. Gong is happy to meet his old friends, too.

D. Gong made some cards and sent them to the workers.

E. When he was young, he learned some skills of haircutting.

F. In 2004, Gong retired and he found that he had a lot of free time.

World famous scientist Stephen Hawking (霍金) died at the age of seventy-six in his home in Cambridge, England March 14, 2018. British Prime Minister Theresa May said Hawking was one of (great) scientists of his time. She also said, "His achievements will not (forget)."

Hawking was one of the most respected scientists in the modern history of physics. Because of an uncommon disease, he was confined to a wheelchair. However, the disease did not stop Hawking from studying. He used every new day that life offered (continue) his research of the universe. He said, "Where there is life, there is hope." He developed new way of thinking about problems in his mind to reach a solution.

This way of thinking had led to his important (discovery). He was the (one) person to present the idea of some special energy in the universe. At the same time, Hawking tried to explain many of (he) difficult scientific ideas to more people. He wrote several popular science books, (include) the bestseller A Brief History of Time which made him a household name.

Stephen Hawking spent his whole life understanding the universe. a great scientist he was!

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Friendship is one of the greatest things in our lives.

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