1 . In surprising result, the No.69 Middle School girls’ football team yesterday beat their school’s boys’ team. The boys’ team often helped the girls with their training. They had never lost to the girls before, but this time the girls beat them 4-3.
After the game, Wu Nai, head of the boys’ team, was very unhappy. “We all thought this would be an easy game,” he said. “We never thought team of girls could beat us. This is the saddest day of my life.”
But Mr. Hu, the boys’ PE teacher, said he thought the girls should win. “The boys were too confident,” he said. “I told them before the match that they needed to play well. They all thought that girls’ football was a joke. Now they know better. They didn’t play carefully, and they lost.”
The match had started well for the boys. After 30 minutes, they were winning 2-0. Their best player, Lu Ming, scored in the thirtieth minute. Earlier, the mid-field player, Ma Zhengquan, had scored the first goal in only the second minute of the match.
After the first half hour, the boys seemed to become too confident. At first, the girls had felt a bit nervous, but then they became more and more confident. Just before half time, Li Xiaolin made the score 2-1.
In the second half, the boys were the first to score. It was from Lu Ming. After that, the boys became lazy, but the girls kept on working hard. Hao Meiling scored in the 68th minute, to make the score 3-2. Then Li Xiaolin scored twice in the last six minutes to make the last score 4-3.It was a surprising finish.
The girls’ PE teacher, Miss Wang, was very pleased with their work. “They were great!” she said. “I told them they could win. I told them that the most important thing was teamwork. The boys’ team had some good players, but my girls were a better team!”
1. Who scored the first goal in the match?| A．Lu Ming. | B．Ma Zhengquan. | C．Li Xiaolin. | D．Hao Meiling. |
| A．Because the boys’ team helped the girls with their training. |
| B．Because the boys had never lost to the girls before. |
| C．Because the boys’ team won the first half. |
| D．Because the girls played together better and worked harder. |
| A．The girls made only one goal in the first half. |
| B．The girls even made 3 more goals than the boys in the second half. |
| C．Many people thought the girls could beat the boys before the match. |
| D．The girls’ team had some better players than the boys’. |
a．The girls’ PE teacher told them that they could win.
b．Wu Nai, head of the boys’ team was very unhappy.
c．The match started well for the boys.
d．The girls kicked the second goal in the match.
| A．abcd | B．bcda | C．dcab | D．acdb |
2 . Many students have already had clear ideas about what jobs they would like to have in the future. We believe boys’ choices are different from girls’. To find out how different their choices are, we made a survey in Moonlight Middle School. The following chart (图表) shows the results of the survey.
| A．bank clerks | B．reporters | C．scientists | D．teachers |
| A．600. | B．800. | C．860. | D．960. |
| A．Boys like being scientists the least. |
| B．Boys are better at management than girls. |
| C．Boys’ abilities of jobs are different from girls’. |
| D．Girls’ choices of jobs are not the same as those of boys. |
| A．History Today. | B．Education. | C．Sports World. | D．Health Care. |
3 . “灿烂星空，谁是真的英雄？”做出惊天动地业绩的人是英雄，为追求真理献出生命的人是英雄，在平凡岗位上默默奉献的人是英雄，生活中勤勤恳恳的人也是英雄……本期校英文报School Time栏目围绕“A Hero in My Heart”主题征集英语短文，请分享你心目中的英雄。
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（1）Who is your hero?
（2）What did he/she do?
（3）What can you learn from him/her?
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If one of your goals for 2024 is to get fit, here’s an amazing story for you.
Jia Ling, a 41-year-old Chinese director and actress, has been quietly working on her fitness journey for the past year-and-a-half. Recently, the well-known star shared that she lost weight for a movie role during her break.
In 2023, she announced her involvement (参与) in a new project titled “Re La Gun Tang”, where she will serve as both the director and the lead actress. On the first day of the Chinese New Year of 2024, it revealed (上映). The English name of the movie is YOLO. It means “You only live once” and you need to live life to the fullest.
In the movie, Jia Ling looks a whole different. According to Jia Ling, she lost 50kg in six months to play a boxer (拳击手). However, she explained on her Weibo, “The film is not related (相关的) to weight loss and even has little connect ion with boxing. It tells how a kind person finds herself and learns to love herself.”
Netizens (网民) were shocked by her transformation (转变) with some wondering how much willpower (意志力) it took Jia Ling to go through with the process. Others also left comments reminding Jia Ling to take care of her health.
Slimming down from 100 kg to 50 kg can’t be achieved overnight. Jia Ling has proved through her actions that if you can’t bear the pain of discipline, you will have to accept the mediocrity of yourself. Her way to success has been filled with difficulties and challenges, but she has never given up.
1. What does Jia Ling do?5 . According to some old Chinese stories, there once was
Each time the team found a new type of plant, Shennong would taste it himself. Some plants made him sleepy. Some caused him to suffer pains in his stomach. Some made him tremble (颤抖) all over.
One day, Shennong tested a poisonous plant by mistake, and passed away later. People covered him with thousands of flowers. From then on, Shennong
6 . From a young age, we are taught to behave properly and have good manners. More and more classes are being held online today, so it’s important for us to have an understanding of the rules of online etiquette (礼仪).
Firstly, being polite on the Internet should be as common as in real life. Unluckily, that is not the case in many situations. A large number of people like to use the Internet as a cover.
When you speak online, saying too many unnecessary words can result in your point getting lost in the text.
Treat others’ private information the same way you would want someone to deal with yours.
The online community has its own set of rules, which prove helpful with any online communication you have. For the most part, you should be polite, express yourself clearly and protect private information.
| A．You shouldn’t give the private information of your classmates or teachers to anyone online. |
| B．So, don’t say too much about yourself on the Internet. |
| C．So, it’s best to use short and clear sentences when trying to explain something online. |
| D．These rules help you to have good communication and keep healthy relationships. |
| E．It leads to them writing what they would never say in public. |
7 . 遨游在学海中的我们，在努力拼搏的同时，也在一天天地进步着。我们的进步，除了自己的努力之外，还源于那些在我们周围帮助我们的人。请以“My thanks to you all”为题，向帮助过我们的人表达一下你的感恩之心。
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My thanks to you all
How time flies! I’m a student in Grade Nine now. Thank all of you for giving me so much love and help during my life.
Firstly, I’d like to
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Cute lion heads, deafening gongs and drums, an excited crowd—these are all part of the lion dances you often see during Chinese holidays.
The lion dance has been performed for more than 2,000 years. Chinese people believe that lions can drive away bad things and bring good luck.
Wang Rentao, 41, has been performing the lion dance for 28 years. He was born in Zhongkeng Village in Dongguan, Guangdong. Wang watched villagers perform it when he was young. “It’s a tradition with a long history here and the love for the lion dance is in everyone’s blood,”Wang said.
He is now the head of the village’s lion dance team. In 2019, the team took part in the celebration of the 70th birthday of New China at Tian’anmen Square. Wang was very proud of the team’s achievements.
The team is famous for dancing on quincuncial piles (梅花桩), one of the most difficult lion dance skills. Performers jump from one pile to another at a height of about 2.5 meters. The piles are about 1.8 meters away from each other. When performing, performers need to have enough team spirit, which can also show the unity of the people.
“The training is really hard. Performers need to have a great base of kung fu skills first. Even with that, they can fall from the piles and get hurt.” Wang said. “It can take many years to learn this skill.”
The lion dance is popular not just in China, but in overseas Chinese communities. Many overseas Chinese see the lion as a symbol of China. The lion dance reminds them of the culture of their homeland.
1. What can you see in the lion dances during Chinese holidays?2. Why do Chinese people like lion dancing?
3. What did Wang Rentao do in 2019 at Tian’anmen Square?
4. Say something about another form of celebration of Chinese culture on a traditional festival. (30 words or more)
9 . Face-changing is a kind of trick used in Sichuan Opera, and a skill to express inner feelings and thoughts of characters in the play. It is said that face-changing came from the ancient people.
The skills in face-changing generally have three kinds: smearing, blowing and pulling.
Smearing is to smear the colored paints on the face and during performance the actor would smear the paint to turn his face to another color.
Blowing can only be used with powders. During performance the actor would dance to throw his face close to the powder and blow it.
Pulling needs more skills. The masters draw the facial mask on a piece of silk, cut it and tie silk thread to each mask before gluing them to the actor’s face. The silk thread is tied to the actor’s clothes, which is easy to control but not eye-catching. During the performance, the mask will be pulled off one by one under the cover of dancing movements.
In all, face-changing is a very special art of Sichuan Opera. It has been performed in many other Chinese operas and even abroad.
| A．Each actor is dressed in traditional clothes. |
| B．Then the face can be changed into green, red, black and so on for several times on end. |
| C．The paints can be smeared only on a specific part to change that part. |
| D．They drew different shapes on their faces to drive the beasts away. |
| E．The powder will stick to the actor’s oiled face quickly and change it to another color. |
10 . ①Researchers have used high technology to learn about a famous painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The painting is called Girl with a Pearl Earring. Vermeer was considered as one of the greatest art masters during the Dutch Golden Age of painting in the 1600s.
②The researchers’ tests have found out important information about how Vermeer did the painting. He began making the work with brown and black paints on a piece of cloth. Then, he drew the girl’s outline in black before working from the green background to the foreground.
③A careful examination even showed where some of the paints came from. The white came from the Peak District in northern England. The blue was made from a valuable stone found in Afghanistan. The red was made from insects living in Mexico and South America.
④Abbie Vandivere was leader of the research project. She expressed surprise that Vermeer used so much blue in the painting, noting, “The blue paint was more valuable than gold in the 17th century.” Vermeer, however, did not travel around the world to get the paints. He most probably bought them in his hometown of Delft.
⑤The research findings do not just show information about Vermeer’s paints, but also tell us about Dutch and world trade in the seventeenth century. Sadly, the researchers failed to find out if the girl ever existed.
1. Vermeer used ________ to start working on the painting.| A．black and white | B．brown and black |
| C．blue and brown | D．red and white |
| A．people at that time didn’t like the color |
| B．the paint was too common at that time |
| C．few painters used the paint at that time |
| D．the paint was very expensive at that time |
| A．where Vermeer did the painting | B．who the girl in the painting was |
| C．how Vermeer began his painting | D．when the girl’s outline was drawn |
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