北师大版初中英语九年级期末检测卷

— Well, they have to choose _______________ and be responsible for their actions.

— It _______________ Bill's. It has his name on it.

    My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk normally, but would never run very well. He had to1his first three years of life in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a problem when you saw him2.

    Children in our neighbourhood always ran around during their3, and Joey would jump and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn't be4to run like the other children. So he didn't know. In the seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross- country5. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the other members. Although the whole team runs, only the top seven6would be chosen to run for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn't know.

    He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day- even when he had a fever. I was7so I went to look for him after school. I8him running all alone. I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept9We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a high fever. So he didn't know.

    Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made t team. He was in seventh grade - the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he couldn't do it… so he didn't know. He just10it.

    Drinking tea is an important part of Chinese culture. It is seen as the national drink in China. The most common types of Chinese tea are as follows.

    Green tea is the oldest and most popular. It has a pale colour and a sharp flavor (口味).It is produced mainly in Anhui and Zhejiang. The most popular is Longjing Tea, which is produced near the West Lake, Hangzhou.

    Black tea is the second most popular type of Chinese tea. It can help treat stomachaches. Dianhong and Yixing are popular sorts of black tea.

    Wulong Tea, also known as blue tea, has the advantages of green and black tea. It has a gentle flavour and can help people lose weight. Tieguanyin Tea in Anhui and Dongding Wulong Tea in Taiwan are two well-known types of it.

    Scented tea(花茶) is created by mixing tea leaves with flowers. It is known by its strong fragrance(芳香), and it can help people feel comfortable after drinking. Jasmine tea is the most popular of this kind.

    Tips of Tea Drinking

    Do you know how to drink tea in a right way? Here are some tips:

    Drink it hot.

    Don't drink too much strong tea.

    The best time to drink tea is between meals.

    Drink tea a couple of hours after taking medicine.

    Green tea is the best choice for office workers.

Do you or someone you know use a mobile phone?

In today's world, many people use a mobile phone especially businessmen and businesswomen. These people are an important part of the business world and help our economies develop. In fact, in some countries even children and the elderly use mobile phones to keep in touch with family and friends.

We know how useful it is to have a mobile phone, but do we know how safe these phones are? Some scientists say that mobile phones could be a risk to our health. So, money is being given to scientific research to find out if mobile phones may be harmful in any way.

What does the future look like? Is a hands-free phone the answer? The idea behind hands-free sets is simple and maybe they are a safer way for people to communicate. The hands-free set has a piece in your ear and a microphone near your mouth which is connected to a wire that goes into your phone. Some scientists think this is a much safer way to use a phone. Some scientists have proved that a mobile phone 10 centimetres from your head is far safer than if the headset is right against your ear. Some reports say that hands-free sets have 95% less radiation exposure, while other reports say that hands-free sets expose you to more radiation.

Governments and the mobile phone industry are researching the effects, including the effects of radio waves on blood pressure and the brain, such as the abilities to concentrate, remember and learn the connections between mobile phone use and brain cancer long-term effects of mobile phone use, looking at health histories of people who have used mobiles since the 1980s

They will be looking at both current mobile phones and the new generation of 4G phones. The results from these studies will help us understand more about the world beyond mobile communications.

Wouldn't it be strange if scientists discovered that mobile phones were too dangerous and we had to stop using them and go back to writing letters and using the normal telephones?

The Wall

    Gary and Gavin were twin brothers who worked in a department store owned by their father. After their father had passed away, they took over the store. Everything went well until the day a twenty-dollar bill disappeared. Gary had left the bill on the cash register(收银台). But when he returned, the money was gone.

    Gary then asked his brother Gavin, "Did you see that twenty-dollar bill on the cash register?" Gavin said that he had not. But Gary did not let it go and kept quarrelling. "Twenty-dollar bills can't get up and walk away by them- selves! Surely you must have seen it." There was anger in Gary's voice. His voice began to rise and anger grew. "I said I didn't see it!" Gavin raised his voice.

    The quarrel divided the young men and they could no longer work together. Later, a wall was built in the centre of the store. For twenty years, they never said a word to each other. One day, a strange man came to the store. He walked in and asked Gary, "How long have you been here?" Gary replied that he'd been there all his life. "Then you are the person I'm looking for, since I must tell you the truth," the customer said emotionally. "Twenty years ago, I was totally broke and hungry. I entered this store from the back door and saw a twenty-dollar bill on the cash register. And I took it. All these years I hadn't been able to forget that. I had to come back and ask for your forgiveness (宽恕)."

    The stranger felt very surprised when seeing tears come to the eyes of the middle-aged man in front of him. "Would you please go next door and tell the same story to the man in the store?" Gary asked. Then something surprised the stranger even more- after hearing his story, the two middle-aged men hugged each other and cried together in front of the wall of the store.

    After twenty years, the wall of anger that set them apart finally came down.

A Colourful World

    Mr Longman and Mr Martin were both badly ill  . Mr Longman was able to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was next to the only window of the room. Mr Martin had to spend all his time lying on his back. So they talked for hours without stopping. .

    And every afternoon when Mr Longman could sit up in his bed, he would talk about all the things that he could see outside the window. Mr Martin believed that his world was made "larger" by the "colourful" outside world. Out of the window it was a park with a lovely lake. Mr Longman told Mr Martin about the beautiful ducks swimming freely on the water, happy children playing around, colourful flowers and big old trees around the lake. , Mr Martin closed his eyes and tried to make the richest pictures for himself in his mind.

    Days and weeks passed. Mr Longman got better. . Then Mr Martin asked the nurse if he could move to the other bed. Happily for him, the nurse said he could. When everything was done, he tried hard to raise himself a bit to see what was outside. , to his surprise, he saw nothing but a wall,

    Mr Martin asked the nurse what made Mr Longman able to see so many wonderful things outside. The nurse answered that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.

    Chinese Culture

    While China is almost the same size as the US in area, it is home to about 1. 3 billion people. It has a special culture with a very long history.

    Chinese food

    Food plays an important role for Chinese families. Different foods have special meanings. The most obvious(明显的) difference is that Chinese people eat their meals with chopsticks. One of the main foods in Chinese culture is rice. Tea is a favourite drink and it is popular in the market.

    Chinese New Year

    Chinese calendar(日历) is called a lunar(阴历的) calendar. It is not the same as the one used in the US. New Year's Day is in late winter. It is also called the Spring Festival. It has a big celebration of letting go of the old and bringing in the new. It has special foods and traditions. For example, sweeping the floor before New Year's

Day sweeps away all the old year's bad luck.

    Chinese zodiac(生肖)

    The Chinese s zodiac, known as Sheng g Xiao, follows a twelve-year cycle(循环)、Each year is named for an animal. These animal signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. For example, the year that began in 2016 was the Year of the Monkey.

    Chinese language

    Chinese is a complex(复杂的) language. Chinese writing developed almost 4,000 years ago and may even be older. Chinese writing has thousands of characters. A character represents(代表) a word and also a meaning. Unlike English, there are no spaces in Chinese writing. Besides Standard Chinese, or Putonghua, Chinese people speak six other forms of the language, and there are many kinds of dialects(方言).

参考词汇: take part in, put on short plays, speech competition, make posters, helpful, save, waste

Dear Jim,

Nice hearing from you. Let me tell you what we often do on World Water Day in our school.

Yours,

Liu Hong