江苏省泰州市姜堰区2020届九年级英语第二次学情调查卷

— Wow, so many different _______ − horses, sheep, flowers...

— Oh, _______. Its music and story are both attractive.

Even the teenagers can _______ a chance to make their voices _______.

— You've got the point. Her beauty is _______ words and she succeeded

_______ hard work.

— Maybe not. But _______.

— Yes. Guess what? She _______ to be a friend of my sister's.

— He has devoted all his life to fighting against serious diseases.

—_______ your father comes back.

— Don't worry, I won't.

    Robby was 11 years old when his mother (a single mom) sent him to have his first piano lesson. I prefer that students 1 at an earlier age, but Robby said that it had always been his mother's dream to hear him play the piano. So I took him on 2 a student.

    Although Robby tried very hard, he didn't have a basic 3 of music. However, he continued and at the end of each weekly lesson, he'd always say: "My mom's going to 4 me play someday." But it seemed  5. He didn't have a gift for music.

    One day Robby stopped coming to our 6. He told me that his mom had been  7 and unable to take him to piano lessons, but he was still practicing.

    He asked if he could take part in my concert and I 8.The night of the concert came. The high school gym was 9 with parents, friends and relatives. The concert was going well. Then, Robby came up 10. He announced that he had chosen Mozart's Concerto No. 21 in C Major. I didn't11 what I heard next. His 12 danced on the keys…He played so well that everyone was on their feet, clapping 13.

    In tears, I 14 onto the stage. "Oh, Robby! How can you do it so wonderfully?" "Miss Condor, remember I told you my mom was sick? Well, actually she had cancer and passed away this morning. And well… she was born 15 so tonight was the first time she ever heard me play. I wanted to make it special."

    When shopping for clothes, my mother and I have always disagreed on what fits me well. To me, if it zips (拉上拉链), it fits. My mom, however, usually says I need a bigger size.

    When I was a teenager, I wanted to dress like my friends, but my body size made it impossible. When my mom told me something didn't suit me, or that I needed a bigger size, all I heard was that my body was wrong.

    To avoid arguments, we stopped going shopping together. This continued until I got engaged (订婚) and needed to find a wedding dress.

    I could have just bought it alone, of course, but my mom is my favorite person to hang out with. The idea of looking for a wedding dress without her seemed as scary as taking her with me.

    And so the day came. As I tried on a simple white dress, I saw tears in my mom's eyes. "You look beautiful," she told me. Nothing could have shocked me more.

    This one didn't zip up at the back and I did actually need a bigger size, but my mother didn't say that. She just told me how beautiful I looked. At that moment, all those arguments we'd had while shopping in the past were laid to rest. We didn't buy a dress that day. We decided to see more, which I would never have predicted. A few weeks and many shopping trips later, we found the perfect dress. And during those few weeks, my mom and I also found the perfect fit for our shopping relationship.

    Has anyone ever told you that eating carrots will help you see in the dark?

This is just one of many incorrect beliefs you may have heard. Below, a newspaper has picked out scientific explanations for three mistakes that people make about their eyes. Let's take a look.

    Can eating carrots improve your eyesight?

    Carrots are rich in vitamin A, which helps the eyes to turn light into information for your brain. This allows people to see in darker places.

However, eating more carrots won't help you see better. A certain amount will help, but a large number of carrots will not give you superhuman eyesight.

    If your parents have bad eyesight, will you have bad eyesight, too?

    Myopia (近视) can be passed from parents to children.

    A study by the American Optometric Association found that if both parents are myopic (近视的), there's a 33 to 60 percent chance that their child will be. For children who have one parent with myopia, the chance is 23 to 40 percent, and it's down to 6 to 15 percent for kids with non-myopic parents.

    So if your eyesight is bad, your children might still have good vision.

    Do color blind people see the world in black and white?

    Color blindness doesn't usually mean that people see the world like an old movie. They usually can't tell certain colors from each other, especially green and red. Another commonly confused (困惑的) pair of colors is yellow and blue.

    Our eyes have cone cells (视锥细胞) that sense different wavelengths (波长) of light. If these cells don't work properly, color blindness happens.

    There are different levels of color blindness. Some people are only color blind in low light. However, in the most serious form of color blindness, everything is shades of gray.

    Shanghai University of Engineering Science has become the first university in China to be covered by a 5G network, the university announced on Tuesday.

Chinese mobile carriers (运营商) are expected to spend 1.2 trillion yuan (US＄176.5 billion) on 5G by 2025, 50 percent more than their total 4G investment (投资), Nomura said yesterday. Carriers including China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, are expected to build over 4.9 million 5G base stations by 2025.

    5G is a "game-changing" chance for carriers as they can explore new business like smart manufacturing (制造业), super clear video and smart driving, instead of just being a "pipeline" for voice and data services.

    China will supply "temporary" 5G licenses in several chosen cities this year. Consumers (消费者) will be able to use the first 5G smart phones and tablet computers in the second half.

    But 5G services will become accessible to common consumers later than expected. More work needs to be done to make the 5G industry fully developed, which won't happen until 2020, said UBS recently. New business projects and organizations, rather than common consumers, will enjoy 5G services at first. The first batch of 5G services will be provided for consumers in about 10 cities only.

— In fact, there are so many around us.

— Well, it's better to take an umbrella with (you) as its weather is changeable.

— Sorry, I together with my parents (get) in the wheat in the field at that time.

— What a wise choice! Now the number of COVID-19 cases continues to grow there.

    Chinese delivery driver, Gao Zhixiao, appeared on the cover of Time magazine in March because of his great sense of duty. Alongside five others, he was picked by the magazine as one of the heroes during the novel coronavirus(新冠肺炎) outbreak.

    After COVID-19 broke out, many restaurants turned to takeout-only services. Millions of people have been staying home to avoid getting infected (感染的). "People choose to order food online or buy fruit and vegetables to cook at home," Gao told Time. As a result, delivery orders dramatically (显著地) increased, placing a huge burden on delivery couriers (派送员).

    Born into a poor family in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Gao started to make a living in Beijing at the age of 16. After the novel coronavirus broke out, Gao thought for a second whether to continue working, but then picked up orders because he thought customers might be in need.

    In order to keep off the danger of person-to-person transmission(传播), Gao must take precautions (预防措施) to avoid spreading viruses during his route around Beijing, including taking a regular health test and spending 20 minutes disinfecting (消毒) his motorcycle and clothes each morning. Besides delivering goods, Gao once warm-heartedly cooked for an elderly customer(顾客) who was living alone at her home.

    It is the commitment of ordinary people like Gao who have made the biggest contributions in the fight against COVID-19.

    Have you heard of the word "hygge"(小确幸)? It's Danish, representing a lifestyle practiced by Danish people.

    There is no English word for the exact meaning of "hygge", according to Oxford Dictionaries. It might be translated to "comfort" in English, but it is more than that.

    Enjoying beautiful music or having a movie night is hygge. Lighting candles or making real tea in china cups－that's hygge too. There's nothing more hygge than sitting around a table with your family or friends, discussing the big and small things in life. Hygge pays attention to making ordinary daily activities special or meaningful, according to the BBC.

    For Danish people, hygge is a way of fighting the cold winter, although it doesn't have to be a winter-only thing. In Denmark, there can be up to 17 hours of darkness per day in winter, and the average temperature is around 0℃, according to the BBC. As a result, people spend more time indoors and relax themselves.

    Now the idea of hygge is traveling abroad and becoming fashionable in some other countries too. In the United Kingdom and the United States, there are more and more hygge-themed cookbooks and lifestyle guides, as well as Danish restaurants, cafes and bars.

    "The rest of the world seems to be slowly waking up to what Danes (丹麦人) have been wise to for ages," Helen Russell, author of The Year of Living Danishly, told the BBC.

    Tributes (致敬; 称赞) have poured in from across China mourning (哀悼) the passing of Stanley Ho Hung-sun.

    The businessman, f for the wealth from his casinos (赌场), passed away on May 26. But Ho's contribution to wider society and his ideas went f beyond the gambling table (赌桌). He was also well-respected for his achievements in many areas, i being one of the first businessmen to invest (投资) in the Chinese mainland when the nation started reform and opening-up in the 1970s. He was also known for his generosity (慷慨) to charities and d money to build schools.

    In N 2019, Ho donated a red bronze horse head statue — a long-lost national cultural relic (遗物) that he paid over 63 million yuan for to m the 20th anniversary of Macao's return to China. In 2007, to mark the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, Ho donated five priceless works of art to the National Museum.

    Speaking at the donation ceremony, Ho said that he was p to see the success of the "one country, two systems" in both the Hong Kong and Macao SARs, and as a Chinese c, he looked forward to the peaceful reunification (再统一) of his country.

    Ho held many titles (头衔) in his l, such as member of the Standing Committee of the 9th, 10th and 11th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. But he o said his favorite title is "patriotic entrepreneur (爱国企业家)".

    The public will remember the great man.

注意： 1）要点齐全，语言通顺。2）词数100左右。

    As we all know that it is very important for everyone to have good eyesight, especially teenagers, but nowadays more and more teenagers wear glasses.