辽宁省鞍山市铁东区2020-2021学年九年级下学期英语3月...

— Yeah, she ________ English in Beijing Foreign Language University for four years.

—Of course. His name is Peng Chao.

A: Hi, Rob and Mark! Are you looking forward to the Christmas holiday?

B&C: Yes, we are.

A: Do you both have plans on Christmas Eve? You're welcome to come to the special program at my church(教堂).

B: A Christmas Eve program? I want to go!

A: Great! Are you busy that night, Mark?

C: well, no. But I don't really go to church.

A: That's OK. A lot of people who don't usually go to church at Christmas.

C: Well, what happens at a Christmas Eve program?

A: Oh, no. Our pastor (牧师) will talk about the meaning of Christmas. Then he will pray for(为……祈祷) everyone.

B: But you might have to sing, Mark.

C: Sing?

A: Not alone!

B: Will there be a play about the Christmas story?

A: Oh, yes.

C: It sure sounds like fun.

It was graduation day at the university where I work. It was a beautiful day quite the first graduation I attended.1a young teacher. On that cold day years ago, as we watched the students walking into the hall, one of my colleagues (同事) said,"2 will be one of the happiest and one of the saddest times of your life. "When I asked him why, he answered," Because the students you have gotten to know have to 3."

As years went by, my confusion (困惑) about my colleague's words disappeared. When It came across naughty (淘气的) students, I had to think again 4. I chose to be a teacher. Of course, it wasn't the money.

Once a former(以前的)computer science student of mine called me, 5 me if I wanted to have a change. He was working at Nintendo Corporation. His pay was much better than mine, 6I have more education and have worked for over ten years. With my programming skills; he said he could get me a better job. I thanked him, but 7 his offer.

A few days before this graduation, while working on final grades, I found a note with a student's homework. In the note, she8 me for being her teacher. She said she had -learned a lot in my class — not only about math, but also about life. As I finished reading, I remembered why I had9a teacher. Now, on this sunny graduation day, as: I10 watched the sea of blue hats and gowns (长袍), I had a deeper sense of satisfaction— I will always be happy that I am a teacher.

Jack and Jill Cover Contest(封面比赛)

When Wolferl (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) was young, he showed great! musical talent. Luckily, his father Leopold, a very good musician, saw it and nurtured his talent.

When Wolferl was just three years old, Leopold was teaching Wolfer's sister Nannerl to play the piano. Wolferl would hang around them and listen to what they were playing. Later, he would come back to the piano and try to play what he had heard. Soon he could do it. By the time Wolferl was four years old, Leopold started to give him his own piano lessons. Little Wolferl could learn a minuet(小步舞曲) by heart during a half-hour lesson!And at the end of his lessons his father would have to send him away, for it seemed Wolferl wanted to continue all day.

Leopold was a fine violinist. He had given Wolferl a small violin, but not given Wolferl any lessons on it. One day two of Leopold's good friends came to visit: One of them had written six new violin trios (三重奏), and wanted Leopold to join them to play the new music. Wolferl got out his violin and asked his father if he could play second fiddle(第二小提琴). Leopold refused him because Wolferl had never learned how to play the violin. He was not happy. Then one of Leopold's friends said, "Let the boy play second fiddle along with me." And wolferl did play so well that Leopold had tears in his eyes!

The River Thames runs straight through the City of London. People have lived beside it for thousands of years. Like the sea, the river is tidal(有潮的). When the tide goes out, the muddy foreshore(泥泞的滩地) can be seen: For as long as people have been living beside this river, they have been throwing things into it such as rubbish, or maybe something valuable. The River Thames holds many secrets.

During the 18th century, many poor people would stand in the river's mud when the tide was out. They would search for hidden treasures. They did not expect to find anything of real value like coins or jewels (珠宝), but simple objects they could sell or trade for food. They were known as mud larks. The job was never easy, because the water could be freezing cold.

Today, people continue to search the foreshore for hidden treasures. It's different from over 200 years ago. All mud larks in the River Thames now need to have a license. Anything they find of historic interest has to be reported to the Museum of London.

Recently, Londoner Martin Bushel was mud larking. He found something that looked like the top of a human skull (头盖骨). He called the police and passed it onto them. When he was walking by the river a few days later, he saw some policemen searching the area. He was worried that he might become involved in a murder case(卷入一起谋杀案). Later he received a phone call telling him that what he had found was really from a human skull. However, it was5, 600 years old and was put on show in the Museum of London.

Cui Bo lives in Heilongjiang Province. In winter, temperatures there can drop to - 30°c. With a heating system(供热系统) in her apartment, the temperature is kept at a comfortable28℃.

"In 1985 when I was eight, winter was long and cold," "Cui says. She and her parents and brother lived in a 48 m2room and the only place they could keep warm was a brick bed(炕)heated by fire.

"Life has become so much better over the past few decades (十年)," Cui says.

 Bai Yang, 33, is from Beijing. She says that when she was a child, the most valuable thing at her home was a 24-inch color TV and it cost her family a lot.

For 67-year-old Li Fu, the change in transport (交通) in the past four decades is the biggest.

"When I was young, riding bicycles was the most common means of transportation. I could not imagine having a car of my own," Li says.

Li now has his own car.

For him, life has become much easier with a car.

Besides, Chinese people have more ways to see and enjoy the world. Liu Yu says that when she was young, traveling abroad sounded impossible.

The past 40 years have meant a lot to China and the Chinese people. Every Chinese person has played their part.

Don't throw away your old phones. You are actually away real gold! Smartphones have many useful metals, gold, silver and copper(铜). People can recycle to make new electronics (电子器件).

But many people don't know this. In Australia alone, there are more than 25 million unused mobile phones around, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The gold in these phones can add up to a value of more than $80 million (542 million yuan). There are about 2 billion smartphone users around the world change their phone once every 11 months on average, In China, people throw out 80 million old phones every year, according to New Express Daily.

However, it's not easy to recycle these metals. Smartphones not only have metals, but also harmful materials. Guiyu, a small town in Shantou, Guangdong, is one of the world's biggest landfills (垃圾填埋厂) for electronic waste, Reuters reported. Many recycling centers in Guiyu break down old electronics by hand and don't think about the it causes. According to a local government report, 81 percent of children in Guiyu are harmed by lead poisoning(铅中毒).

Veena Sahajwalla, a professor at Australia's University of New South Wales, has made a mini factory. If makes smartphone recycling cleaner and. The mini factory is very small and easy to move around. It breaks down phones and automatically (自动地)removes the phone's useful metals. This stops people being poisoned.

Social media, like WeChat and Douyin, is a big part of most people's lives. Recent research found social media users between 10 and 15 years old can be divided into four personality types: geek (极客), Internet celebrity(网红), lurker(潜伏者) and victim (受害者). Each personality type has both good and bad sides. Which one do you fall into?

●Geeks

(A) Geeks are active social media users who care about their privacy(隐私). Most geeks are boys who like gaming and making music and videos. They often post creative works online. Mark Zuckerberg, who created Facebook, is comfortable in (B) his online life, but finds life in the real world to be much more difficult to deal with. This can remind" geeks" to try to avoid depending too much on the Internet.

●Internet celebrities

Internet celebrities like sharing as well, but they are much more visible (可见的) than geeks. They might become well-known for their singing or dancing. But being a teenage Internet celebrity can sometimes cause problems in the real world. They might spend less time studying and more time online.

●Lurkers

Most teenagers probably fall into the third type —" lurkers", or people who are neither too active nor visible. They prefer to "like" and share links(链接), rather than create their own things online. The problem for these teenagers is that they may find it difficult to express themselves. But at least they make sure to protect their privacy.

●Victims

Victims usually have less knowledge to keep themselves safe online. Their personal information can be made public and cause problems for them. (C) To avoid being a victim. Do not share your private information online, like birthday, age, where you live or your vacation plans.

There are not many people around who say they like rats (老鼠), when you see one of them, you may want to run in the opposite direction.

There is one man though who has always enjoyed staying with rats, even when he was a young boy. His name is Bart Weetjens and he comes from Belgium in Europe. As he grew up he learned everything about rats. He knew that they have a very strong sense of smell. He realized that it might be possible to train rats to help solve a problem that troubled some Southeast Asian countries.

Clearing away unexploded bombs and landmines(未爆炸的炸弹和地雷) is a difficult job. Bart began to train rats to look for explosives. Because a rat's sense of smell is so strong, they are able to smell a thing known as TNT that is used in bombs. Besides, because rats are not heavy, if they place their weight on an uri exploded bomb, they will not cause it to explode.

Bart chose African Giant Pouched Rats for the job. They are well known for being calm(镇定的) and smart. Training begins when they are about six weeks old, and it lasts for nine months. Once trained, one rat can search up to 200 m2in 20 minutes, the same area would take a human up to four days. Trained rats are known as Mine Detection Rats, or MDRs, and they have worked successfully in Cambodia since 2015.

They are thinking about how to these old things .

Your smiling faces .

Lucy because nobody said "Hi" to her.

They spent 420 hours on the project.

Although I'm not good at cooking, I to make long noodles for Mom on her birthday.

She was invited, but she didn't .

Li Xueqin's talk shows .

They've on a journey round the world.

It's time for us to protect the environment.

The story mainly tells the poor in the past food and clothes.

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Dear Jack,

Last week we held a discussion on what we should do for our younger schoolmates before we graduate. My classmates have different suggestions.

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I'd like to know your idea. Could you give me some advice? Best wishes!

Yours,

Zhang Ming