江苏无锡惠山区2019届九年级英语一模考试试卷

—You don't have to do __________except to be with them and be yourself.

—Perhaps     it's reviewed successfully.

—maybe at midnight again.

—Of course. Liu Tianhua, the       of Erhu, was born and grew up in our hometown Jiangyin.

—I'm sorry, but I can't possibly start until Monday.      ?

    At my heaviest I weighed 370 pounds. I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to1bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate. Worried about my health, I tried many different kinds of diets but nothing worked. I came to believe that I could do nothing about my weight.

    When I was 50, my weight problem began to affect me2. I didn't want to live the rest of my life with this extra weight any more.

    That year, I3a seminar(研讨课) where we were asked to create a project that would touch the world. A seminar leader shared her4story —she had not only lost 125 pounds, but also raised ＄25,000 for homeless children.

    5by her story, I created the As We heal(痊愈), the World Heals project. My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000. In this way, I could not only heal myself but heal the world by supporting a movement set up 30 years ago to end hunger.

    6I began my own personal weight program, I was filled with the fear that I would run into the same difficulties that beat me before. While the7hung over my head, there were also signs that I was headed down the right path. I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project. It worked perfectly. Donations began 8in from hundreds of people.

    Of course, I also took some practical steps to lose weight. I hired a fitness coach. I began to eat small and9meals and exercise often.

    A year later, I10my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and great.

    Attention residents(居民)!

    Spring is here and the office of Loveland Housing is happy to announce the dates for the 2019 Spring Cleanup!

    The cleanup in Loveland will take place on Saturday May 11th, beginning at 9:00 a. m. We will also do pick-up for Dove Valley, Windsor Meadows, and Century III on the same day. The cleanup at Lone Tree in Estes Park will be done on Sunday May 12th, 2019. If you have something that you would like to be picked up, please call the Spring Cleanup line at 970-635-5958. Please leave your name, complete address, phone number, and a list of the objects that you wish to be picked up. If you do not call or provide all of this information, your objects will not be picked up. You can leave a message up until Friday May 10th, 2019.

    If you are in a town house, please leave all household(家用) objects outside in front of your unit on the sidewalk. If you are in a flat, leave all household objects in front of the building in the grass areas. All objects must be outside by 9:00 a. m on the morning of pick-up.

    Non-acceptable objects include: televisions, air conditioners, washing machines, fridges, or other electrical products; dangerous materials such as motor oil, paint, auto batteries, cleaning products, chemicals; other everyday household rubbish. If you have any of these objects and you do not know what to do with them, turn to the local resource disposal(处置) office for help.

    The City of Loveland has provided a truck for the cleanup and the Loveland Housing staff members have volunteered their time so that we can offer this service for free! So get your objects ready and call to take advantage while you still can! Thanks!

    Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is a lovely song for children, but it has two misunderstandings (误解). First, stars aren't little. Some may be Earth-sized, but most are bigger than Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system (太阳系). Second, they don't twinkle; they shine. And the brightness and color of the light from each star provide information about its temperature, size and even its age. viewing the stars from Earth is a bit like looking at them through a water filter (过滤器) because the air is thick compared to the emptiness of space. What is more, air is always moving, so starlight appears to be moving, too. The air also makes stars appear dimmer (暗淡的) than they would be if we could see them from space.

    If you stop and look at the sky carefully on a dark and moonless night, it's easy to find color differences among stars. The color of a star is a signal of its surface temperature. The hottest stars are blue, and the next hottest are white. Yellow stars like the sun are next, while red stars are the coolest of the visible (可见的) stars. Many red stars are so dim that people can't see them at all, and some stars hardly send out any light at all. One reason that stars different in brightness is that hotter stars produce more energy than cooler ones, but another important reason is that some are much bigger than others.

Some stars appear brighter to humans simply because they're closer. Astronomers rank (排列) the brightness of stars which are seen from Earth by giving them a name known as magnitude (光度) —the smaller the magnitude, the brighter the object. They have also designed a number that ranks stars according to how bright they are when compared to each other. With a magnitude of minus 26.7, the sun is the brightest object in the sky.

    It was one o'clock in the morning when I at last succeeded in creating life.

    As I looked at the lifeless human being, I saw one eye slowly open. Then he began to breathe and move his arms. At first, I thought he would be a fine-looking man. He had yellow skin, black hair and very white teeth. Unluckily, his eyes were watery, and his lips were thin and colorless. I soon realized that there was nothing beautiful about him. I ran out of the room, disgusted (恶心) by the creature I had created. I tried to sleep, but for hours I could not. Then, when I did get to sleep, I had bad dreams. When I awoke the next morning, I did not want to return to my laboratory and the monster I had created. I went for a long walk until I came to an inn. There, to my pleasure and surprise, I found my friend, Henry Clerval. "Tell me about my family," I asked him. "And Elizabeth, How is she?"

    "They are all well, Frankenstein," he said. "But you do not look well, my friend. Your eyes look as if you have not slept for many weeks."

    I knew this was true. "I have been so busy," I explained, "that I have been working without rest." Henry walked back with me to my department. I did not want him to, but I could not stop him. I was afraid that the creature i had left there might be alive and walking about. When we reached my apartment, I asked Henry to wait outside for a few minutes. I did not explain why. I slowly opened the door and entered the room. To my surprise, it was empty. The creature had gone. I was so overcome by the feeling that I fainted. I was ill for many months.

    During my illness, Henry was my only nurse. He heard me talking in my sleep about a monster. At first, he thought I was just having a bad dream, but then he realized that something very bad happened in my life. At last, I began to get better.

Would it surprise you to learn that, like animals, trees can communicate with each other and pass on their wealth to the next generation—their young trees?

    Suzanne Simard, forest ecologist(生态学家) at the University of British Columbia, explains how trees are much more complex(复杂的) than most of us ever imagined. Although Charles Darwin(达尔文) thought that trees are competing for survival of the fittest, Simard and her team have made a new discovery and showed just how wrong he was. In fact, the opposite is true: trees survive through their group work and support, passing around necessary nutrition(营养) such as nitrogen(氮) and carbon "depending on who needs it".

    Nitrogen(氮) and carbon are shared through miles of underground fungi (真菌) networks. This makes sure that all trees in the forest ecological system give and receive just the right amount to keep them all healthy. This system works in a very similar way to the networks of neurons (神经元) in our brains, and when one tree is destroyed, it influences all.

    Simard talks about "Mother trees". These are usually the largest, oldest plants that on which all other trees depend. These "Mother trees" are connected to all the other trees in the forest by this network of fungi, and may manage the resources of the whole trees and plants in the forest. She explains how these trees pass on the wealth to the next generation, transporting important resources to young trees so they may continue to grow. When humans cut down "Mother trees" without paying attention to these highly complex "tree societies" of the networks on which they feed, we are reducing the chances to save the whole forest.

    "We didn't take any notice of it," Simard says sadly. "Mother trees" move nutrition into the young trees before dying, but we never give them chance. If we could put across the message to the forestry industry, we could make a huge difference towards our environmental protection efforts for the future.

    A group of high school students from the United States has planted hope by cleaning up an empty lot(一块地) in their neighborhood.

    The students are from Buchtel High School in Akron, Ohio. The empty lot, which is owned by a 1ocal bank, was filled with grass and poison ivy(毒葛). As a project for the school's biohealth(生物健康) class, eight students decided to turn the empty lot into a space that will improve the mental(心里的) and emotional(情感的) health of people who live near it.

    They first came up with a design, did research and created 3D models of their plans. Ideas were then presented and the school leaders picked the winning plans. Finally, the students brought those plans to life.

    Now when you walk into the lot, you can see a wood walkway leading to a purple iron bench. A few beautiful plants are already in the ground. There is also a hopscotch(跳房子游戏) board that is painted bright blue. A wall painting with the words "Love" and "Peace" has taken shape on a back fence, decorated with the students' handprints. The rest of the fence was painted grey to cover plain wood.

    The students said they painted the bench purple because they found that purple has a comforting feeling for people. They thought kids could go there and sit together, communicate with each other in peace and stay out of trouble.

    As for the hopscotch board, it was set up for a group of eight to ten school-age kids who lived in the neighborhood but had nowhere to play.

    It gives the neighborhood a little hope and a little beauty, "said Lyle Jenkins, a member of the Neighborhood Network." A lot of people love the neighborhood and have great hopes for things getting better.

—That's true. Many kids nowadays can recite(背诵) it very well.

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The Opening of the 19^th CPC National Congress has our work to make China much stronger.

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It's hard to say music over the years.

You can't believe that he in designing since last year.

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Dear Sam,

    Haven't written to you for a long time! As you know, family rules are an important part of our Chinese traditional culture. Today I'm writing to tell you something about my family rules.

    There are many rules that we have to follow.

    What about you? Do you have any family rules? I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon!

Yours,

Li Hua