浙江省2016-2017学年九年级下学期英语4月份月考试卷

    I had made up my mind a long time ago that I would not give homeless people money, because I could never be sure what that money would be used for.  1  , I decided, I would buy them a sandwich, a cold drink on a hot day, a cup of coffee,  2 I could manage.

    I was on my way home from work on a  3   city street full of busy people. That's when I saw a homeless man outside a Starbucks. He was moving back and forth  4 warm, and gently asking for  5. He spoke so quietly that I could hardly hear him. The idea that I would buy this man a sandwich and coffee flashed(闪过) 6  my mind, which made me 7  , turn around and walk into the Starbucks.

Just as I was leaving the store, two policemen were walking towards the man. 8  the shop owners had complained about the man and the police were there to draw him away from the storefronts. Without thinking twice, I ran towards them, asking one of the officers whether I   9  give the man something before he went. I was not sure why I asked the permission(允许) but the policeman said sure. I just handed the bag of food to the surprised man and  10  home.

    On the way home I couldn't help thinking, "I hope people  11 that". Then I had to seriously ask myself why I hoped people had seen me give the man a sandwich from Starbucks. Was it 12   I wanted people to think, "She's such a  13  person"? I continued to wonder this all evening.

    The next morning it came to me. I wanted people to have seen that small act of kindness not so that I would receive praise but so that they might be14  to do the same. Thus the whole spirit of giving would be 15 . Only in this way can the kindness be passed on and the world will be a more wonderful place to live in.

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    Global travel national tourist arrivals in millions

2005 statistics（统计资料）    

Dear Santa,

    Thank you for all of the great gifts you give me this Christmas.

My parents can't seem to decide whether you gave the presents directly, or if you just helped them and my grandma pick out the right presents. So, if you are advising her, please tell her next year that I do not own a Wii.

    I don't remember asking you for so many pairs of pants, but thank you for giving me the chance to try them on in the front of my whole family. I enjoyed them so much that I continued to wear them, with the tags （商标） still on.

    My mom and the holiday movies are always quick to remind me that Christmas isn't about the presents. It's about togetherness. But without the presents, there's nothing to do to fill up this long, long day. So I think Christmas is about the presents, and I'm sure you agree.

    If you do, I have some suggestions about ways that you could make the present part of the day last longer: using packing tape to wrap presents instead of Scotch tape（透明胶带). It took, like, ten minutes to open just one present.

    My final suggestion is pretty simple: more presents! If it took the whole day to open all of the presents, then I wouldn't have that terrible time, because my mom says it's wrong to go play video games in my room, but there's nothing else to do outside of my room.

    Anyway, thank you again and I look forward to seeing you next Thanksgiving. It's an iTunes gift card for you and hope you like it.

    Merry Christmas!

    Once my father asked me to hold his hammer(锤子) while he was repairing something, so we could have some time to talk to each other.

    For 22 years, after I left home for college, he called me every Sunday at 9 a.m. He was always interested in my life and how my family was doing, and I never once heard him complained about his own life.

    Nine years ago when I bought my first house, my father, 67 years old, spent eight hours a day painting it for three days. He would not allow me to pay someone to have it done. All he asked for was a glass of iced tea and for me to hold a paint brush for him and talk to him. But I was too busy.

    Five years ago, at age 71, my father spent five hours putting together a swingset (秋千组) for my daughter. Again, all he asked was that I get him a glass of iced tea and talk to him. But again, I was -too busy.

    Four years ago, my father drove all the way from Denver to Topeka, with an eight-foot Colorado blue spruce (蓝叶云杉) in his trunk, so that my husband and I could have a part of Colorado growing on our land. I was preparing for a trip that weekend and couldn't spend much time with him.

    Then, one day, my father telephoned me as usual, this time from my sister's home in Florida. We talked about the tree he had brought me, "Fat Albert"，but that morning he called it "Fat Oscar", and he seemed to have forgotten some things. I had to get to church, so I cut the conversation short.

    The call came at 4:44 p.m. that day: my father was in hospital in Florida with an aneurysm (动脉瘤). I got on a plane immediately, and on the way I thought of all the times I had not taken the time to talk to my father. I realized that I had no idea who he was or what his deepest thoughts were. I promised that when I arrived, I would make up for lost time.

    I arrived in Florida at 1 a.m. My father had passed away at 9:12 p. m. This time it was he who did not have time to talk to me.

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    Audrey Hepburn won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, Roman Holiday, which was showed in 1953. But she is remembered as much for her help as for her acting.

    Born in Belgium in 1929, Audrey's father was British and her mother was Dutch. Audrey was sent to live at a British school for part of her childhood. During World war Ⅱ, she lived and studied in the Netherlands. Her mother thought it would be safe from German attacks. Audrey studied dance as a teenager and during college. But when she returned to London after the war she realized she wasn't going to be a ballet dancer. So she began taking acting parts in stage shows. Later she began to get small parts in movies.

    But it was Audrey Hepburn's move to America that made her truly famous. In 1951 she played the character "Gigi" in the Broadway play Gigi andwon popular praise. Two years later, Roman Holiday made her a star at the age of 24.

    Audrey made more than 25 movies. Among her most popular roles was "Hoolly Golinghtly" in Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1961. Three years later she played "Eliza Doolittle" in My Fair Lady. She was married twice. In 1989, the UN Children's Fund named Audrey a goodwill ambassador. She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF(联合国儿童基金会) projects. The UN agency said she was a tireless worker. She often gave 15 interviews a day to raise money and get support for UNICEF projects.

    Audrey Hepburn often said her love to UNICEF was the result of her experiences as a child during World War II. She said she knew what it was like to be hungry and to be saved by international help. She was a goodwill ambassador until her death in 1993 from cancer.

    Almost everyone has experienced something unhappy at some time, so has Hu Ge, a famous actor in China.

    Hu Ge was born in Shanghai in （九月）, 1982. His father was a tennis coach and mother was a teacher. Hu was （曾经、一度）a shy boy, so his parents (送) him to an art school. "It was a difficult time", Hu said, "I never (自愿) to perform    until the teacher called my name. My grades were the  (低) in my class at that time." But his sunny smile gave him a chance to appear in an advertisement on the TV. From then on, he became interested in acting. To ( 大家) joy, he acted very well and won many (奖). His fans called him "the prince in （古代的）costume".

    Unluckily, a terrible car accident in 2006 almost killed him and hurt his right eye (严重地). However, Hu didn't give up his dream. He practiced harder and his （努力） helped him get back on top this year. For the first time, His scar on the face becomes a perfect match in character.

    Today I received a sweet letter from Brianna, one of my "cookies". It was wonderful to hear her. You see. I taught kindergarten, I called all sweet children "cookies". Brianna said that every day she would walk into kindergarten and see a smile my face. I named them "cookies" because I always feel that children can bring great happiness and (excite) to my life. I still feel that all children are the (great) joy I could ever have.

    So far I (teach) children for over 35 years. All my children were are now a great joy of my life. (hope), I feel very lucky to be able to use my life's talent to teach children and have fun ( do) it every day. I am able to spread my wings and help my "cookies" to spread their wings.

①   When a teacher assigns(布置) a lot of homework, Domenica Roman draws up a timetable, dividing the assignment into small parts. "It's like eating a steak(牛排)," she says. "You chew it one bite at a time."

②   One student put a vocabulary list in the bathroom. He learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth. Another student used the time to remember biology terms while practicing running.

③   In high school, McCray ran track, played football and was in the band and orchestra. "I was so busy that I couldn't waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything right where I could put my hands on it," he says.

④   In an international class, Asian-Americans, on average, scored higher than other students. The teacher found that the Asian-Americans discussed homework problems together, tried different ways to work out the problems and explained their solutions to one another.

⑤   Christi is an excellent student at the University of California. If her math teacher assigns five problems, she does ten. If the history teacher assigns eight pages of reading, she reads twelve. "Part of learning is practicing," she says. "And the more you practice, the more you learn."

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