甘肃省武威市凉州区2016届九年级下学期英语期中测试

— En, ________ monkey is very cute.

— Sure. It's a piece of cake for me.

— Yes, I have ________ Fun Times Amusement Park last year.

— Hard to say. If it ________ tomorrow, we'll have to put it off.

— It _______ be Tom. He said he would visit me this evening.

— ________..

— No, you ________. You may take a rest first.

— Of course. Many people in Wuwei know it.

- It will be worse ________ we take action to protect the environment.

— In August, 2014.

— Because I _____.

— There are some policemen. I think there ________ a traffic accident.

— You should shake hands.

— It is. It is made _____ apples.

— ________. I'd like something to eat.

— Really? ______________

    My mother only had one eye. And because of this, I n ever wished her to show up in my school, being afraid that my classmates would   1 I had an ugly mother.

    One day during elementary school, I was terribly ill. My mother came.

  “Your mom only has one eye?!” asked some of my classmates. I was so 2.

    I wished my mother would just 3 from this world. “If you make me teased(嘲笑), why don't you just die?” I shouted at her, taking no notice of the sad look on her face. My mother just handed me some medicine and left without saying 4.

    At that time, I felt 5 to say what I always wanted to say, and I didn't think I had hurt her feelings very much. That nigh t I saw my mom 6 in her room, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might 7 me. Even so, I hated her tears from one eye. I made a   8: I must study hard and leave my mother.

    Years later my dream came true. I was quite successful and lived 9. I never thought of going back to see my “ugly” mother   10 one day I got a letter, which said, “My son… I'm sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into a(n) 11 and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn't 12 watching you live with only one eye. 13 I gave you mine. I was never  14 with you and I never regretted(后悔) what I did be cause I 15 you……”

    I cried out aloud. Only then did I realize how beautiful my mother was!

On a cold winter afternoon, Susan was walking home from a supermarket. She was feeling a little tired, as she was carrying her shopping bags. They were so heavy that she decided to have a rest in the park. She walked towards the gate of the park. She noticed a poor man walking out of a restaurant in front of her. The man was holding a paper bag. He walked to a rubbish bin and started looking through it.

Susan suddenly felt sad. She knew this man would take all that he could get, so she went up to him and gave him some fruit. The man looked up in surprise and took what she gave him. A big smile appeared on his face and she felt very happy. Then he said, “Wow! First someone gave me this sandwich, then the orange juice, and now some delicious fruit. This is my daughter's lucky day. Thank you, girl.” Then he went away, singing a song.

    Just then, Susan understood what the saying “Giving is getting” really meant. Everyone in the world needs help: everyone can offer help and everyone will be helped by showing kindness. Giving sometimes doesn't cost much, but it means a lot to the people who you help. The man's happiness at that moment comes into Susan's mind every time she has the chance to help others.

Presents For Children's Day

    Charles M. Schulz was born in 1922 in Minneapolis, the only child of a housewife and a barber. His interest in comics was encouraged by his father, who loved the funny pages. Charles M. Schulz sold seventeen cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post from 1948 to 1950 and Li'l Folks to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Peanuts debuted(首次露面) on October 2, 1950, and ran without interruption(中止)for the next fifty years. Charles M. Schulz died in 2000.

    ●IT'S A DOG'S LIFE  SNOOPY

    It's a Dog's Life, Snoopy brings all your familiar friends together for great times and fun.

    ●IT'S A BIG WORLD  CHARLIE BROWN

    Charlie Brown faces some of life's little challenges with the help of Snoopy, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Linus, and the rest of the gang(一伙) in It's a Big World, Charlie Brown.

    ●PEANUTS 2000

The last one is the special edition Peanuts 2000, which includes all the last year's Peanuts comic strip and Charles M. Schulz's famous farewell strip.

    Come and visit our website at www.ballantinebooks.com or come to Ballantine Bookshop, you'll have a big surprise.

    A rabbit is running into its hole. You may ask, “What happened?”

    Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they run too. They know that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal（信号）.

    Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee found some food, it goes back to his home. It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.

    Some animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for example, when a stranger comes near. A cat purrs (发出呼噜呼噜的声音) when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.

    But human beings have something that no animals have -- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information, to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things what have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.

    No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.

    People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we meet a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the most useful book.

    It seems that everywhere around the world, people are sending more time at work  less time with their families and friends. People are  than ever before!

    In the past in many countries, the father worked and the mother stayed home, took  of the children, and did the food shopping, cooking and cleaning.  At present, in most of the families, parents need work on weekdays, so they  have to do the shopping, cooking and cleaning in their free time. Parents don't have as much time with their , however, they often had time in the past. There are also many single-parent（单亲的）families. In these families, the single parents has to do everything.

    These days ,many children come home  school to an empty apartment or house .A lot of children spend many hours  day in front of the television .Even the families are together, it is common for families members to do things by themselves. For example, they  programs on separate TVs in different rooms, they use the Internet, they  friends on the telephone, and they do other individual by themselves.

    Isn't it strange? Thanks to technology（科技）, people are able to communicate so  with people far away, but sometimes they don't communicate with people their own homes.

要点：(1)尊敬老师，对人礼貌；

(2)帮助他人，友善待人；

(3)遵守交规，过马路走斑马线，不闯红灯；

(4)保护环境，不乱扔垃圾，不踩草地等；

(5)补充两句个人观点。

参考词汇：respect(尊敬)；be polite to；obey(遵守)；traffic rules；zebra crossing(斑马线)

要求：(1)内容包括所提供的信息及要点，可适当发挥，但不要逐条翻译。

(2)不得透露班级、姓名等任何个人信息。