浙江省宁波市慈溪市2020-2021学年九年级上学期英语第一...

My parents used to tell me how important school was for me, but I didn't think so. I paid little attention to it.  But one thing let me finally1what my parents meant.

One day, I2a mobile phone store, I saw an advertisement on its door. It was hiring new workers!

"Sir, are you hiring people?" I went 3the shop and asked. "Yes, but you should be the man who we need, "the manager answered. He looked at me for a few4from head to foot. "Do you have a high school diploma（文凭）?"5he, "Or do you have any work experience?"

I felt so ashamed and6that I didn't know what to say, so I just turned around and left.

I could not fall asleep that night, and I thought a lot about my7. "I must go to school or I can't do anything without a good education, "I8to myself silently. I never went back to the store again9I finished my study and got a diploma.

10looked the same when I returned to the store: the same people and the same design.

However, compared with last time, I had more11. The manager told me they needed new 12. So it was a great chance for me.

I13my diploma to the manager. He looked at it and said, "Great, you are in."

    Now I am still working in the same store. With this experience' I always14people to attend school. Education helps you have a bright future. Now I am not worried about my future because I'm still15in my spare time.

The first time I ever really noticed a disabled person, I was studying in the third grade. I saw some disabled people before, but I never really knew or cared about what those persons go through.

When a new student arrived in my third grade class, I thought he would just be a common student, but this student was different. His name was Derek and he had autism（孤独症）.He sometimes had random outbursts（随意的发作） during class and we would stand there, doing nothing because we didn't know why he was doing that. When he sat down at desk, we would try to get away from him. After class, we would play jokes on each other, imitating（模仿） Derek and laughing about it.

Then one day, Derek's mom came to our class and talked with us. She told us that Derek wasn't just having random outbursts—he was trying to communicate. Then she chose a volunteer and filled that person's mouth with soft sweets. When we found the volunteer had great trouble in trying to speak, the mother explained that was Derek was going through every day. We all understand her meaning.

 After this talk, no one tried to make fun of Derek or run away from him. We accepted his outbursts in class and he became one of our friends. Having a class with Derek has taught me to have an open mind to those who are different from us. My experience in having an autistic classmate has provided me with a good lesson.

Now whenever I meet a family with a child who's behaving differently. I always remember what I have learned in my third grade class and go up to him or her.

As a child, one of my favorite things to do was to go to the river and sit on the bank. There I would enjoy the peace and quiet. Watching the river, listening to the chirps（鸟鸣）of the birds and the sound of moving leaves in the tress relaxed me after a hard day at school.

I noticed that the bamboo trees would bend（弯曲） in the wind. However, after the wind had died down they would stand up again.

When I think about the bamboo tree's ability, the word "resilience" comes to mind. This word means the ability to overcome shock, low spirits and other difficult situations quickly.

Have you ever felt like you are about to break suddenly? Have you ever felt like you are at your breaking point? Thankfully, you have survived（幸免）such an experience.During the experience you probably had mixed emotions（情感）. You felt very tired.

Life is a mixture of good times and bad things, happy moments and unhappy moments. The next time you are having a bad time or unhappy moment, bend but don't break. Try your hardest not to let the situation take control of you.

Hope will get you through the unhappy times. With hope for a better tomorrow or a better situation, things may not be as bad as they seem to be. If life gets hard and you are at your breaking point, show resilience. Like the bamboo tree, bend, but don't break!

Big data（数据）is a lot of sets of information that are put together so they can be used by a computer program. The computer program looks for different kinds of answers or patterns in the data. Big data can have different kinds of information from many sources, such as information that comes from schools, social media sites, companies, and governments. One set of data can have people's names and addresses. Another set can have what they like, where they go to school, and how much time they spend on the computer.

Big data can be used in many ways. The government uses it to understand how many people travel on buses or trains. This information is then used to make bus or train systems better. Some schools use big data to understand which children may need extra help in class. The teacher can then give certain students more help or support so those students can succeed in school. Companies use big data, too. It helps them understand who buys their products. For example, one company uses weather data to see when people eat the most ice cream.

Big data can be used for good reasons. Some hospitals use big data to predict if a baby who is born too early will get sick. The hospital can then take extra steps to take care of that baby so he or she does not get sick. Big data can also be used for bad reasons. It can be used to predict which kinds of people are likely to break the law or hurt others, even if they have not done anything wrong.

How can big data be used for good and bad things? It is because the computer programs used to look at big data and understand it are written by people. People think a certain way. Because they think a certain way, they build a model of those ideas. These ideas are then used to look at the data. Sometimes, these ideas are helpful for people or businesses. Other times, bad ideas can cause problems for certain groups of people.

A. Ice Bag Cools the Injury Part

B. Keep Still and Rest

C. Press Hard with the Cloth

D. Lifting the Injured Part

At school lots of students get injured when they are doing sports or playing with each other.

Here are the tips you can do at once after an injury.

   ①    Don't move the injured part of your body. You'd better lie down and rest.

   ②    Get a bag with an ice in it. Keep the ice bag on the injured part of your body for half an hour. Take away the bag for a quarter. Then put it back on for several minutes.

   ③    Get a piece of clean cloth around the body area. Tie the cloth hard enough to hold the ice. Don't press it too hard.

    ④   Put up your injured area which is higher than the level of your heart. If it's a serious injury, call 120 immediately.

Clara: Guess what？I'm going to Chiang Mai in two weeks.

Ben: Wow,like fun! But I believe that April is themonth of the year there.

Clara: Yes, that's true. But there's a water festival there from April 13th to 15th.

Ben: I wonder if it'sto the Water Festival of the Dai people in Yunnan Province.

Clara: Yes, I think so. This is the time of the Thai New Year. People go on the streets to throw water at each other.

Ben: Cool! But why do they do that?

Clara: Because the new year is a time for cleaning andaway bad things. Then you'll have goodin the new year.

Self﹣driving cars

Do you like cars?will the car be like in the future? Maybe we can sit in a car that can drive(it).

About 40 years ago, scientists from the United States(start) to develop self-driving cars. The most famous one(make) by Google in 2012. There are cameras and radars(雷达)on the top of the car. They allow the computer in the car(draw) a 3D map of the environment. Chinese scientists have also(successful) developed a self﹣driving car. The car made a tripChangsha to Wuhan.

Is a self﹣driving car safe? A recent study shows that robots make(safe) drives than humans. If 10% of cars on the street are self﹣driving ones, 1, 000 lives will be saved every year.  If 90% of vehicles（交通工具） are self﹣driving ones, 21, 7000 lives will be saved a year. , a self-driving car is expensive and each costs about ＄100, 000. So it is (possible) to be very popular in the near future.

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Dear Alice,

How is it going? It has been three years since we last saw each other. I think both of us must have changed a lot.

Have you changed a lot? I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours,

Jenny