浙江省杭州市萧山区城区五校2017届九年级上学期英语期中考试试卷（含听力音频）

A

    After the Spring Festival, I found some of my mom's daily habits have changed.

    Her cooking way was different. Vegetables that had been cooked crisply became very tender and soft. Fish that had been fried became soup. Her old shredded (切成细条的) potato turned into diced potato… Feeling strange, dad and I asked Mom the reason for the change. But all she said was, "Just trying a different taste". Then she was silent.

    But it wasn't just her cooking way. Mom also changed other habits. After dinner, instead of watching films on TV as usual, she would put on her newly-bought sports clothes and asked Dad to go out for a walk. After they came back home, mom would lose herself in magazines or newspapers about healthcare. Mom almost never gets sick. Why was she suddenly interested in medicine?

    I couldn't understand her "abnormal" behavior. Then one day I came across her micro blog. "While visiting my parents during the Spring Festival, I suddenly realized that they are in their 70s now," my mom had written. "They move slowly and it is hard for them to do the housework. I should visit them more often……

    "Some cooking should be changed to keep them healthy. They like fish soup, diced potato, tender and soft vegetables……

    "I must also keep fit by doing physical exercise. If my parents are too weak to move around, I can be strong enough to take care of them. When I am old, my son can also pay less attention to taking care of me……"

    When I read this, I felt very sorry. I used to complain that Mom didn't understand me and couldn't give me everything I wanted. I always thought there was a wide gap between us. But now I completely understand her. How great she is! She always thinks of others before herself. Everything she does is to help the people she loves live better lives. How unselfish her love is!

B

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C

    There is an old saying in English, "Laughter is the best medicine". Until recently, few people took the saying very seriously. Now however, doctors have begun to study laughter and the effects (作用) it has on the human body. They have found evidence that laughter really can improve people's health.

    Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart rate and the rate of breathing. It also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be helpful.

    Other tests have shown that laughter appears to make the effect of pain on the body less. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group which could bear the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can make pain less seems to be that it helps to produce endorphins (内啡肽) in the brain. These are natural chemicals which make both stress and pain less.

    There is also some evidence to suggest that laughter helps the body's immune system that is the system which fights infection (感染). In an experiment, one group of students watched a funny video while another group served as the control group — in other words, a group with which to compare the first group. Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that the people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their white blood cells that is the cells which fight infection.

    As a result of these discoveries, some doctors and psychiatrists (精神病学) in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they try to improve their patients' condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce good effects similar to those caused by laughter.

    In the clinic (诊所), I asked if Michael could be retested, so the doctor tested him again. To my 1, it was the same score. Later that evening, I 2 told my husband, Frank what I had 3 that day. After talking it over, we agreed that we knew our 4 much better than an IQ test. We 5 that Michael's score must have been a 6 and we should treat him naturally as usual.

    We moved to Indiana in 1962, and Michael studied at Concordia High School in the same year. He got 7 grades in the school, 8 in biology and chemistry, which was a great comfort.  

    Michael 9 Indiana University in 1965 as a medical student, after that, his teachers asked him to take more courses than required. In 1968, he was accepted by the School of Medicine, Yale University.

    On graduation day in 1972, Frank and I 10 the ceremony at Yale.11 the ceremony, we told Michael about the low IQ score he got when he was six. Since that day, Michael sometimes would look at us and say jokingly, "My dear mom and dad never told me that I couldn't be a doctor, not until after I graduated from medical school!" It is his special way of thanking us for the 12 we had in him.

    Interestingly, Michael then asked for 13 IQ test. We went to the same clinic where he had received the test eighteen years before. This time Michael scored 126, an increase of 36 points. A result like that was supposed to be 14.

    Children often do as well as what adults, particularly parents and teachers, except of them. That is, tell a child he is "15", and he may play the role of a foolish child.

    Rebecca is interviewing Mr. Smith about his family.

Rebecca: Hello, Mr. Smith, I'm a journalist. I know that you have happy family. May I ask you some questions about it

Mr. Smith: Sure, what are your questions?  Go ahead, .

Rebecca: How do you usually spend the weekends your wife?

Mr. Smith: Oh, there's nothing we like (well) than going to see a good film. Maybe we have seen thousands of films, and we really enjoy them.

Rebecca: What about your (child)?

Mr. Smith: Well, we have a daughter and a son. They have (grow) up and are working in different cities. We're very proud them because our daughter is a doctor and our son is an engineer.

Rebecca: You really have very successful kids. Can you share some experience in (educate) children.

Mr. Smith: In fact, there's nothing special, just teach them how to love (other) and let them know they should work hard to achieve success. Also they must learn to be honest. Being honest is one of the most important things for (they) to do.

Rebecca: Very good! Thank you very much.

Mr. Smith: You are welcome.

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