1 .

WINTER VACATION RULES FOR YOU TO FOLLOW For Junior nine students: ● Be careful of the electricity while using electrical equipment, especially electric baking oven (电烤炉). ● Spend at least eight hours on your vacation homework. Instead of playing mobile phone or watching TV. Value the time. ● Write English diaries, especially the Spring Festival costumes. ● Practice running and rope-skipping (跳绳) every day. ● Don’t sleep late. ● Help with the housework once in a while. ● Don’t eat too much to put on much weight.

1. The rules are writing for ________ students.

A．Grade 8.

B．Grade 6.

C．Grade 7.

D．Grade 9.

2. How many rules should the students obey during the winter vacation?

A．Six.

B．Seven.

C．Eight.

D．Five.

3. How often do students need to help with housework?

A．Every day.

B．Sometimes.

C．Hardly ever.

D．Never

4. What are students expected to do during the vacation?

A．Study.

B．Exercise.

C．Do housework.

D．All.

2 . Our school is going to add different kinds of labor curriculums (劳动课程). The curriculums that will start next Wednesday can help you get some practical life skills.

	Enjoy a good meal. Do you want to be a great cook? If you are interested in cooking, here is a chance. You needn’t bring any materials to the classroom, because our school has prepared what you need. The only condition is that you should be free between 4:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m. every Thursday.
	Become a master in cleaning. Do you find it tiring and hard to do housework? Every Wednesday, a two-hour course will totally change the situation. You will learn some valuable skills that can help you do cleaning. Miss Rome, a master in cleaning, will wait for you at 3:00 p.m. every Wednesday.
	Plant your hope. This course is special because the teachers will show you knowledge out of classrooms. Students will plant flowers, vegetables and some trees with the teachers’ help. If the weather allows, you can take the course every day from March 20 to April 30.

1. How long does the course “Enjoy a good meal” last every week?

A．For 2 hours.

B．For 3 hours.

C．For 1 hour.

D．For half an hour.

2. What will you learn from Miss Rome?

A．The skills of some cleaning.	B．The skills of some cooking.
C．The skills of feeding animals.	D．The skills of planting flower.

3. Which course can you choose if you want to plant trees?

A．Experience farm life.	B．Plant your hope.
C．Become a master in cleaning.	D．Enjoy a good meal.

4. Who may the passage is written for ?

A．Leaders.

B．Teachers.

C．Farmers.

D．Students.

4 . 根据下列短文，写出与各小题所给汉语相对应的英语单词（每空一词）。

Until recently, Ajayi had never gone to school. Now fifty, she attends a school in Ilorin, Nigeria, wearing the same pink dress as two hundred other girls at the school. She studies with the students     1    （几乎）forty years younger than she is.

Ajayi runs her     2    （自己的）business making and selling bags, but in     3    （她的）opinion, it is still necessary for her to learn to read and write.

In class, she answers questions actively. She plays, talks and     4    （讨论）together with her classmates.

She is good at cooking. Children all like the food she makes.They enjoy themselves at school.

Ajayi’s daughter used to feel embarrassed（尴尬的）about their mother’s attending school with children. But now,they choose to support her efforts（努力）.

She makes a     5    （决定）to continue her education（教育）for four more years, saying it will help her business.

5 . 假如你是李明，你的美国朋友Tom听说中国的中小学生正在实施“双减”政策（减轻学生的作业负担和校外培训负担）来信询问有关情况。请你根据下列内容，用英语写一封回信，谈一谈减负给你的学习和生活带来的变化。

1. 过去课后常常做很多家庭作业，甚至周末会上课或者参加校外辅导班。
2. 现在有很多闲余时间读课外书籍、参加各种体育活动、帮助父母做一些家务活（洗衣服、打扫卫生、做饭等）。
3. 周末不上课，可以做自己想做的事情。
4. 晚上没有大量的家庭作业、不必再熬夜，有时间看新闻。
注意：
1. 词数80左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）；
2. 可以根据自己的实际情况增加内容、增加细节。以使行文连贯。
参考词汇： used to 过去常常；spare time 自由时间；after-school class 课外辅导；stay up late 熬夜。
Dear Tom,

How nice to hear from you again!

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Ming

6 . 从下面方框中选择恰当的词或短语，并用其正确形式填入短文中，使短文通顺正确(每个词或短语只用一次)。

leave, miss, hard, in person, believe, look after, decision, outgoing, proud, advise,

Li Wen is a 15-year-old boy. He works     1     and does well in school. It is hard     2     that he used to have difficulties in school. When his parents moved to the city to work, they could not be at home to     3     him. So he became less interested in studying and     4     classes. Then his parents made a     5     to send him to a boarding school. He found life there difficult. One day he told his teacher he wanted     6     the school. His teacher     7     his parents to talk with their son     8    . This conversation changed his life. He realized that his parents would always love him, and they would be     9     of everything good that he did. Now he is much happier and     10     than he used to.

7 . 近年来，在一些学生中出现了不珍惜劳动成果，不想劳动，不会劳动的现象。为此，国家最近印发了《关于全面加强新时代大中小学劳动教育的意见》，请你结合自身的体会就如何培养劳动精神给学校英语专栏写篇短文。

内容包括：
1.现状：大多数学生不做家务；原因（至少写两点）
2. 建议：
（1）上劳动课，学习生活技能；尤其是学习做一些简单的菜；
（2）参加实践活动，如：植树，种菜等；
（3）学做家务，如整理房间，洗衣服等；
（4）养成良好的劳动习惯。
3.观点总结。
参考词汇：
上劳动课 have a hardworking spirit class
实践活动practical activity
劳动教育the hardworking spirit education

Nowadays, more and more students don’t do housework. There are many reasons. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8 .

Problems	Reasons	Advice
Feel stressed	Too much homework. Don’t have enough time for their hobbies.	Make a plan for study and hobbies. Find time to relax.
Get short- sighted(近视)	Too much homework. Bad study habits.	Do homework or read in a correct way.
Fight with each other	Don’t know how to get on well with classmates.	Make more friends and understand each other.
Don’t like to study	Play computer games too much.	Play computer games just for a short time.
Get fat	Have more pocket money to buy snacks. Don’t like to take exercise.	Use your pocket money to do something meaningful. Take exercise every day.

1. How many main problems are there in the survey?

A．Six.

B．Five.

C．Four.

D．Three.

2. _________ is/are caused(引起) by too much homework.

A．Getting fat	B．Fighting with each other
C．Feeling stressed and getting short-sighted	D．Feeling stressed and getting fat

3. Peter doesn’t like to study. Maybe he __________.   

A．plays computer games too much	B．has no pocket money
C．gets fatter and fatter	D．has lots of pocket money

4. __________ is a good way for students to stop fights.

A．Doing less homework	B．Playing computer games
C．Buying more books	D．Learning how to make friends

9 . On the first day of the school, our teacher made us know somebody. Looking out, we found an old woman_____at the door. She came in and said, “Hi, my name is Susan. I am seventy years old”. All of us were _____that she took this challenge at her age. She said with a smile. “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get ____ , have two children and travel together. ” Hearing this, all of us laughed. “ In fact, ” she went on, “I have always_____ of having a college education, and now it comes ____ ! ”

After class we had chocolate and milk together. We became good_______. I often listened to this “time machine” as she shared her   stories   with me. At the end of the term we invited Susan to give a speech in the class. In her speech she told us “We don’t stop playing as we are old, we grow old because we stop playing. The secret of staying ______and being happy is that we should laugh and find something interesting to do every day. I think there is a great ____ between growing old and growing up. I am seventy now. If I ____ in bed for one year and never do anything, I’ll become seventy-one. Since(既然) anybody can grow older, my   choice     is to grow up by always finding the chance to change. Growing older can’t be avoided, growing up can be chosen . It’s never too late to be all you can possibly be. ”

During the four years study, it was so easy for Susan to make friends ____ she went. In the end, the wonderful woman finished all her courses and got the college degree (学位).

1.

A．talking

B．crying

C．reading

D．standing

2.

A．surprised

B．relaxed

C．bored

D．tired

3.

A．excited

B．worried

C．married

D．relaxed

4.

A．thought

B．made

C．known

D．dreamed

5.

A．over

B．true

C．back

D．down

6.

A．teachers

B．students

C．friends

D．neighbors

7.

A．old

B．busy

C．awake

D．young

8.

A．difference

B．pleasure

C．examination

D．influence

9.

A．leave

B．hide

C．lie

D．turn

10.

A．whenever

B．however

C．wherever

D．whether

10 . Dear friends,

I’d like to share my suggestions about studying with you. “Studying” is not the same thing as “doing homework”! Studying may include doing homework, but it also includes a lot more, as you will see. So if you say that you have no homework, and therefore you can’t or you don’t have to study, you’re mistaken!

I am going to give you some suggestions on how to study efficiently _______ worked for me when I was in the high school and college.

Not only that, but they also worked equally well for me in literature and math.

Although everyone’s learning style may be different, and some of my suggestions may not work for you, I still ask you to try them. A lot of successful students have used them.

Please send me suggestions about studying that work for you. I will try to include them into the further version of this guide.

Here are some of my suggestions:

A. Manage your time.

B. Take notes in class and rewrite them at home.

C. Study hard and study in a quiet place.

D. Read texts actively and slowly. Do it before and after class.

E. Finish your homework by yourself.

F. Do not only study for exams.

Yours,

Emma

1. If Tom often tells his parents that he has no homework to do,we can infer that          .

A．Tom’s teachers are very lazy

B．maybe Tom’s learning style is not good

C．Tom’s classmates often help him with his homework

D．Tom is clever enough to finish his homework at school

2. The underlined word “They” refers to          .

A．some of the successful students

B．all Emma’s classmates and teachers

C．the suggestions that Emma will offer

D．all the subjects that Emma has studied

3. What does Emma think of her learning style?

A．Hers may not be the best, but it may be helpful.

B．Top students don’t have to learn her learning style.

C．It works better in literature and math than in other subjects.

D．It doesn’t work well in language learning but students can have a try.

4. What’s the writer’s purpose in writing this passage?

A．To ask students to study harder than ever before.

B．To get some help from teachers and different students.

C．To show that she is very successful in “Studying”.

D．To ask for students’ suggestions and share her suggestions.