浙江省宁波市奉化区2020年九年级英语文化素养测试卷

    Deisha paced(踱步)back and forth as she waited backstage. This would be her most important piano performance yet. At ten years old, she was the youngest performer in the 1. She had practiced playing her song more than 30 times that week. When she closed her eyes at night, the music played 2 in her head.

    Now that the day finally arrived, Deisha was not 3 she was ready. She smoothed her hair and picked a piece of lint (绒布)for the new dress that her mother had bought for her. She 4 that her hands were shaking. How could she play the notes of the song if her hands were shaking? She tried to 5 but her hands only shook more.

    Dcisha's piano teacher, Ms. Neal, leaned down to speak to her. "I have something for you, " she said, pressing a smooth black stone into Deisha's hand. "It's a 6 stone. There's no other one like in the world. You've practiced so much, you need 7 else. " The stage lights reflected off the polished 8."Thank you, " Deisha said.

    9 Deisha's name was called, she rubbed the stone, stepped onto the stage, and played better than the others in the competition. After her performance, she noticed that Ms. Neal had a whole bag of black stones.

    "Why did you say this one was so special?" she asked 10.

    Her teacher responded, " Because, like your talent, it belongs only to you. "

    A popular video on the Internet shows the touching relationship between a penguin and the Brazilian man who saved him from certain death.

    Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, was from an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He found the tiny penguin struggling(挣扎)on rocks in 2011.

    The helpless penguin was in hunger and covered in oil. Mr de Souza took him in and nursed him back to health. He named the South American Magellanic penguin Dindim. It took him a week just to clean the sticky black things from the bird's fathers(羽毛). When Dindim was well again, Mr de Souza sent him back into the sea, never expecting to see his new friend again.

    He was shocked when just a few months later, the penguin returned to the island. Dindim found Mr de Souza and returned home with him. Now. Dindim spends eight months of the year with Mr de Souza, and spends the rest of his time breeding(繁殖)off the coast of Argentina and Chile. The flightless bird probably swims around 5000 miles every time he returns to Mr de Souza.

    He said he fed Dindim a daily diet offish to make him strong, and then took him back to the sea to let him go. "But he wouldnl leave, he stayed with me. Then just after he changed his coat with new feathers, he disappeared, " recalled Mr de Souza. "Everyone said he wouldn't return but he has been coming back to visit me for the past four years. "

    Biologist Joao Paulo Krajewski interviewed Mr de Souza for Globo TV. He said, "I have never seen anything like this before. I think the penguin believes Mr de Souza is a part of his family and probably a penguin as well, When he sees him, he wags his tail like a dog and honks with happiness. "

    If only one person deserves(值得)the name of the greatest English winter of all time, that person should be William Shakespeare. His popular famous phrases, like "to be or not to be, that is a question , and his stories such as the tragedy (悲剧)of Romeo and Juliet are almost known in every comer of the world.

    William Shakespeare was born in a small town in England, in 1564. In his youth, he moved to London and began to work as a play writer. Sometimes he played the role as an actor and poet. By 1594, he had become a key play writer of a popular acting company in the city.

    Whether comedy or tragedy, Shakespeare's plays catch people's hearts with complicated (复杂的) characters and stories that reflect truths about human nature.

    His comedies make fun of human weakness and always have a happy ending. In A Midsummer Night's Dream、goddesses play magical tricks on people lost in the woods. But his tragedies can be very dark. Macbeth is a story about a Scottish man who becomes king by killing all his enemies. Hamlet is about the prince of Denmark who takes revenge(复仇)after he knows it is his uncle that kills his father. But he loses his life in the end.

    Shakespeare's work also has a big influence on the English language. He is a master of words. He coined about 1,700 new English words, including everyday ones like "lonely", "hurry" and "critical", according to the New York Post. Of course, Shakespeare wrote 400 years ago and his English was very different from that of today. But it doesn't influence his popularity. His plays have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than any other play writer. There are over 400 films and TV plays adapted (改编)from his work.

Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all time.

    Are you interested in science? How do you think scientists usually make new discoveries? The world produces millions of Ions of plastic wastes every year. What do you think the best way to deal with plastic pollution is? Why?

    Caterpillars(毛虫)are often used as food for fishing. However, they are now set to join the war on plastic wastes.

    Fcderical Bcrtocchini is a scientist with the Spanish National Research Council. When she's not working in her lab, Bcrtocchini keeps bees. One day, when she looked at her beehives(蜂箱),she found lots of caterpillars which were called waxworms(蜡虫). They are often used to feed fish. In the wild, however, they live in beehives, feeding on the wax that bees use to build their houses. Bcrtocchini picked out the caterpillars and put them in a plastic bag. Surprisingly, when she returned to the bag after cleaning out the hives, she (bund it fill! of holes. The worms had eaten their way out.

    Bcrtocchini doesn't study plastic. However, you can't keep a good scientist away from an interesting question: Were the waxworms digesting(消化)the plastic?

    Bertocchini got in touch with Paolo Bombeli and Christopher Howe at the university of Cambridge. According to their paper, some chemicals within the insects can really break down plastic.

    Other scientists have also discovered plastic-eating species(物种). In 2016, for example, a Japanese team found a bacterium(细菌). The bacterium has to spend more than six months eating a layer (层)of plastic bag. However, Bertocchini and her partners discovered that it took a waxworm about 12 hours to eat a layer of plastic bag.

    Butthe scientists reminded that it would be at least several years before they set free waxworms into the environment. They want to know if the waxworms are using the plastic as a food, or just they want to run away. If they just want to run away they are going to get fed very soon. But if they want to eat it as food, it's a completely different game.

    "It's certainly not going to be the case that within six months we've solved the world's plastic problem, said Howe. "I wouldn't want people to think that within a few months, they can start throwing away plastic bags without worrying about it. "

    Once, there was a famine (饥荒) in the town. rich baker sent for twenty of the poorest children and said to (they). "In this basket there is a loaf (—条面包) for each of you. lake it and come back every day for more. "

    The hungry children gathered eagerly about the basket, and fought over the bread each wanted the largest loaf. At last they went away without even (thank) the good baker.

    Gretchen, a poorly dressed little girl, did not fight with the other children, but stood (quiet)in the distance. When the badly behaved children had left, Gretchen took the smallest loaf which (leave) in the basket. She kissed the baker's hand and went home.

    The next day the children were as badly behaved before. Gretchen got a loaf almost half the size of the one she got the first day. she came home, her mother cut the loaf open. Many new, shining pieces of silver fell out of it. Her mother was very worried, and asked Gretchen (give) the silver back to the baker.

    When the little girl gave the rich man her (mother) message, he said, "It was no mistake. I had the silver pieces put into the smallest loaf to reward you. Always be as content (满足的)，peaceable and thankful as you are now. Go home now, and tell your mother that the money is yours to keep. "

要点提示：⒈What made you stressed?

⒉How did you deal with the stress?

⒊What have you learned from the experience?

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