1. ________village which I was born in has grown into ________ town.

A．The; a

B．A; the

C．The; the

D．A; a

2. You can ask anyone for help. ________ here is willing to lend you a hand.

A．One

B．No one

C．Everyone

D．Someone

3. New York City, also known ________ Big Apple, becomes one of the world’s greatest business and cultural centers.

A．as

B．by

C．for

D．to

4. Since he has finished most of his homework at school, he ________stay up late tonight.

A．can’t

B．needn’t

C．couldn’t

D．mustn’t

5. Jack put up a picture of Yao Ming beside the bed to keep himself _________   of his own dream.

A．reminding

B．to remind

C．reminded

D．remind

6. —The last physics question on the paper is very difficult. I can’t work it out.
— _________ .

A．So can I

B．So I can

C．Neither can I

D．Neither I can

7. I hear _________ of the students in my class ________ used to having lessons online.

A．two third; is

B．two third; are

C．two thirds; is

D．two thirds; are

8. The old man doesn’t know if his daughter _________ to see him if she _______ free this Sunday.

A．will come; will be

B．comes; is

C．will come; is

D．comes; will be

9. —Have you found the mobile phone _________ you lost in the taxi yesterday?
—Not yet. I’ll have to buy a new one.

A．which

B．what

C．who

D．where

10. —When I was abroad, I missed so much about my family that I couldn’t fall asleep at night.
—Me too. _________.

A．A miss is as good as a mile	B．East, west, home is best
C．Great minds think alike	D．Do in Rome as Romans do

Andy woke up and looked at the clock, 11:30. He jumped out of bed and threw on clothes. He had wanted to get up early and ______ his dad with Father’s Day breakfast in bed—with his mom’s help of course. He took up the wrapped present on his desk and went to find his father.

“Where is Dad?” Andy checked all the rooms, but the whole house was ______. He walked out to the yard, and his jaw dropped. Dad was holding a hammer and looking at a new tree fort that stood in the big back yard.

Andy climbed the rope ladder up to the fort. It had two rooms with three small windows.

Dad followed Andy into the fort, looking excited. “I spent all morning ______ it I had one when I was your age. Grandpa surprised me with it on Father’s Day, too.”

“So, it’s like an activity?” Andy asked.

Yes, this is a present for ______ of us. Maybe you’ll build one for your son one day. Dad looked around and asked Andy ______ they would do first in the tree fort. Andy ______ showed the present and said, “Happy Father’s Day!” He didn’t think it was possible, ______ Dad’s smile widened as he opened the gift. “A chess set! How did you know I wanted ______?” Andy always saw his dad playing ______ the computer and he guessed it must be his father’s favorite.

“Let’s play it!” Dad ______ the chessboard. “It’s the best gift I got of all his Father’s Day.” “I’m glad you like it.” Andy said.

“I do, but I was talking about spending more time with you. I always loved the father-son time. I spent a lot with your grandfather when I was ______!

Andy looked at his dad “Can we call Grandpa and ______ him to come to the fort?” Dad squeezed Andy’s shoulder. “I think he’d love that.”

That day, the three men played, talked and laughed. It was really a happy Father’s Day.

11.

A．help

B．bring

C．surprise

D．satisfy

12.

A．empty

B．silent

C．dark

D．quiet

13.

A．buying

B．building

C．cleaning

D．repairing

14.

A．either

B．both

C．neither

D．none

15.

A．how

B．why

C．when

D．what

16.

A．quietly

B．slowly

C．easily

D．hardly

17.

A．or

B．so

C．and

D．but

18.

A．it

B．one

C．that

D．this

19.

A．against

B．through

C．among

D．with

20.

A．set up

B．make up

C．get up

D．give up

21.

A．growing up

B．coming up

C．playing here

D．living here

22.

A．order

B．follow

C．invite

D．require

How far can scientists let their curiosity go? The Ig Noble Prize（搞笑诺贝尔奖）, a spoof（模仿）of the prestigious（权威的）Nobel Prize, is to award unusual or unimportant achievements in scientific research.

The awards are given every year to the 10 strangest research projects of the year. It is to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think?”

On Septermber 12, the 2019 winners of the Ig Nobel prize were announced. Here are three of them. See how they bring you fun and make you think.

Medicine Prize: Pizza

It’s one of the world’s most popular food, but what if we told you that a pizza can protect you against illness and death? According to the Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winner, eating more pizzas can lower the risk of cancer and heart disease-if your pizza is filled with fruits and veggies. These provide flavonoids to fight against certain disease. So, if you’re a pizza lover, you now have one more reason to love it.

Economies Prize: Dirty Money

As one of the most frequently passed items on the planet, paper money is known to pick up all kinds of bacteria（细菌）. Which country’s money is the dirtiest? To find the answer, an international team of scientists compared seven countries’ paper money. They found that the Romanian Leu, carry more drug-resistant pathogens（病原体）. Perhaps this will make cashless（无现金的）payments more popular.

Biology Prize: Cockroach（绿耗）

Cockroaches are well known for their survival abilities, but few people know they can sense magnetic（磁性的）fields. More surprisingly, an international team found that dead cockroaches have more magnetic qualities than live ones. That’s because magnetic qualities drop when the temperature gets higher.

So if you can stand cockroaches, they may be good magnetic sensors.

26. According to the survey, which country’s paper money is the dirtiest?

A．Roman.

B．Lebanon.

C．Russia

D．Romania.

27. What kind of cockroach may have more magnetic qualities?

A．A dead one near the stove.	B．A live one near the stove.
C．A dead one near the ice.	D．A live one near the ice.

28. Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?

A．The Ig Nobel Prize is a kind of prestigious Nobel Prize.

B．If a person has cancer and heart disease, he shouldn’t eat too many pizzas.

C．Because paper money is useless, this makes cashless payments more popular

D．Because cockroaches have magnetic qualities, people may apply（应用）them to sensors.

How can people in ancient times do calculations(计算)? In the very beginning, the cleverest thought of using stones and seashells. Then, around the 2nd century BC, they invented the abacus. Some researchers consider the invention to be the world’s oldest “calculator”. In China, people used abacuses to do calculations quickly for thousands of years before electronic calculators became popular.

The abacus is usually made of wood. It has many beads(珠子). Each bead above the horizontal divider(横向分隔竿) stands for five, and each bead below the divider stands for one. As for the vertical rods(竖向分隔竿), each one stands for a different digit(数位). The rightmost is ones, the second is tens, the third is hundreds, and so on. Each bead in the central area has a value. Those away from the horizontal divider are ready to use. By moving the beads up or down, one can do all kinds of calculations. Because of this, abacus computations are also called “bead computations”.

It is a joy to watch a skilled hand use an abacus. Fingers move, beads knock and after a few seconds, the result comes out. It requires lots of practice to use the abacus well. In the past, the use of the abacus was taught in all schools. It was considered to be an important skill that everybody needed to pick up.

Today, abacuses are no longer widely used. However, we can still feel the important roles they once played. Abacuses have become a symbol. Because they used to be a must—have for business people, some have come to believe that abacuses can help their owners gather wealth. People often gift a newborn a golden abacus—shaped amulet. It is believed that the amulet will help the kid grow up to become a wealthy person!

29. How did Chinese people in ancient times do calculations quickly?

A．They used stones and seashells to do calculations.

B．They used electronic calculators to do calculations.

C．They used electronic abacus to do calculations.

D．They used abacuses to do calculations.

30. The bead above the horizontal divider is one in the rightmost vertical rods, and the bead below the divider is four in the second vertical rods. What is the number?

A．45

B．41

C．14

D．15

31. The underlined word “pick up” in Paragraph3 means “_________” in Chinese.

A．捡起

B．采摘

C．习得

D．接送

32. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．What the world’s oldest “calculato” is.

B．How people used the abacus before.

C．Which gift is the best for a newborn.

D．Why abacus computations are called “bead computations”?

Delia was a young pianist. Her husband, Joe, was a young artist.

Each of them was taking lessons: Joe with a famous art teacher, and Delia with a great pianist from Germany. Their teachers were the very best, so lessons were expensive, more than they could really afford, but … when you love your art, nothing is too much.

But soon the money began to run out, and they couldn’t afford the lessons any more.

Then one day Delia came back home and told Joe that she had met a man whose daughter, Sally, wanted to learn the piano, and he was going to pay her $ 50 an hour.

“Delia,” Joe said, “I’ll be much happier if you keep up your lessons,” Delia said it didn’t matter. “When I’ve had some money, I’ll continue.” But Joe also decided to stop his lessons, to draw pictures and sell them.

A few days later, Joe came home and proudly took $ 200 from his pocket. “I met a man from Vermont,” he said, “who bought one of my pictures. And he wants to buy more!”

_________________. They didn’t have to worry any more about money.

Then, one day, Joe came home and saw that Delia’s hand was wrapped in a bandage (绷带). He asked her what had happened. “Oh,” said Delia. “My student, Sally, asked me to make some coffee for her. I dropped the coffee and burned my hand. Sally went straight to the drugstore and got this bandage for me.”

“Delia, what have you been doing the last two weeks?” Joe asked. She tried not to tell him, but the tears came. “Oh Joe, I couldn’t get any students, so I worked as a waitress in a restaurant. Today, I burned my hand with hot water. So I can’t work any more. But we’ll still have money from the man in Vermont, won’t we?”

Joe looked at her. “There’s no man in Vermont, ” he said. “I’ve been working in a drugstore, and today someone came in to buy bandages for a woman who’s burned her hand. So when I saw you, well, I guessed.”

They both laughed.

[A story by O. Henry — adapted (改编)]

33. The writer of the story is _______.

A．Joe

B．Delia

C．O. Henry

D．Sally

34. Which of the following can be put in the “_______” in Paragraph 7?

A．A bigger plan came to their mind

B．Since then Joe became very famous

C．So the two of them were very happy

D．Delia stopped her lessons and stayed home

35. Both of them laughed in the end because _______.

A．they would go on with their lessons soon

B．they had both told lies to make the other happy

C．they didn’t have to worry about money any more

D．they thought they had done something meaningless

36. The best title for the passage can be _______.

A．Blind love	B．A pleasant gift
C．A service of love	D．An unforgettable lesson

51. 中国已经在太空方面取得了巨大的进步，我们感到很自豪。
We feel very ________________________________.

52. 我们在任何时候都不应该嘲笑处于困境中的人。
__________________________________ at any time.

54. 你为什么不尽力提升自己，而不是灰心丧气?
Why not try your best ________________________?

55. 阻止这个疾病在我们国家的传播是多么困难啊!
How difficult _________________________________in our county!

56. 我想知道你为什么后悔没有在网上订票。
I wonder ______________________________.

57. 假如你是 Sigmund Friend，有一位叫李涵的九年级学生向你求助，面对中考，他压力比较大，想找周围的人倾诉，但有各种担心。请根据来信内容，用英文写一封回信，帮助李涵解决问题。

Dear Sigmund,

I am Li Han in Grade 9. I have a problem and I need your help.

As the high school entrance exam is coming, I am feeling quite stressed. I am under too much pressure. I can’t keep it to myself. I want to find someone to talk with about it. Can I ask the teacher for help? Can I talk to my parents? Can I tell my friends about it?

I don’t know what I should do. Would you please give me some advice? I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours,

Li Han

注意∶
1.文中不得出现你的真实姓名和学校名称；
2.表达清楚，语句通顺，意思连贯，书写规范；
3.词数不少于100。文章开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Li Han,

Thank you for your letter. I hope I can help you. It is common that the Grade 9 students face lots of stress before the high school entrance exam comes. I think talking with others about your worries is very necessary.

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Best wishes,

Sigmund