重庆市开州区初中教育集团2021-2022学年九年级下学期英...

— Thanks! My parents gave me as a gift for my_____ birthday.

—Sorry, I don't know_____, either.

Jonathan and Julianah are my good friends in school. One day during lunch time, the three of us were1fish ball noodles in the school dining hall.

Jonathan was eating his noodles noisily. "These noodles are so2!" he said with his mouth full.

Looking at him surprisingly, Julianah and I felt uneasy. Julianah said to Jonathan, "Jonathan, can you please eat3?"

"You should eat slowly," I said. "People will think that you are ill- mannered4you eat like that."

Jonathan laughed and5his head, saying, "I don't care about how others think. I like to eat like this!" Jonathan put a fish ball into his 6while he was talking. Suddenly, he began to cough hard. Putting his hands around his throat, he tried to cry for help.

I7and hugged him very tightly(紧紧地)around his waist from behind. Luckily, the fish ball flew out. However, Jonathan was8coughing. He coughed so hard that tears were running down his face. "See," I told him, "this is9you should have good table manners." Julianah and I were glad that Jonathan was all right.

From that day on, Jonathan10talked with his mouth full and he ate slowly and less noisily. He has learned his lesson.

Look at the amazing photos! They are works from a project "Different Beauty" by Russian photographer Anastasiya. Anastasiya's love for photography came from her childhood. Her great-grandfather was a professional(专业的)photographer, so his love for photography was passed on to Anastasiya. But at first she had no plan to go further into the profession of photography.

For her 20th birthday, Anastasiya's parents gave her a camera. She then used it to record everything around. After a few years, she bought a professional camera. Sometimes she would sit for hours over a flower bed in the park, waiting for a beautiful butterfly to land on a flower.

She is quite interested in matching a person's and an animal's appearance. For example, if she photographs a model with albinism (白化病),she will choose an animal with white fur or skin. Or if she photographs a blue-eyed model, she will go for a blue-eyed animal. This way she trusts that, "If an animal can be so much like a human, then its thoughts and interests should be valued no less than humans'." On the other hand, she continues, "If a person is so much like an animal, they cannot be considered ugly because of any special features of their appearance."

Anastasiya would like to be known worldwide for her work. She says she wants to print a book with her photos, Her goal is to be on the cover of Vogue with one of the girls from the "Different Beauty" project.

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Shanghainese is a dialect(方言)which is completely different from Mandarin(普通话). Shanghai is part of the Yangtze River Delta region. This region is home to some 220 million people. At first, the region was made up of the Wu people, who spoke a family of dialects known as Wu Chinese, with 80 million native speakers. Shanghainese is one of them.

Way bank in 1950, Mandarin, a dialect from Beijing, became China's official language. Then in 1992, Shanghainese was banned from use at school when the government pushed for a Mandarin education system.

Many local children today can understand the language, but they can't speak it well. That's mainly because Shanghainese is passed on only through family and not formal education.

Luckily, there is the only school in Shanghai still teaching the dialect, LTL Mandarin School. The teacher, Alex Wang, says that, the best way to learn Shanghainese is to find some local friends and make them your personal teacher every time you meet up with them.

Since 2005, efforts have been made to protect Shanghainese. They include more TV programs in Shanghainese, more study of the language, and even use Of Shanghainese on some public transport.

One of the people helping pass the language on to today's youth is Wang Yuanchao who writes and records songs in Shanghainese for school children. "I realize that fewer and fewer kids can speak Shanghainese," he said. "So I want to give them more opportunities to sing and act out Shanghainese."

The Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony was a big hit all around the world. Do you still remember "Beijing 8 Minutes" which was performed by Chinese artists at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium during the closing ceremony of 2018 Olympic Winter Games?

The show was directed by Zhang Yimou, a famous Chinese director who was also responsible for the eight-minute summer handover in Athens in 2004 as well as the opening and closing ceremonies in Beijing in 2008 that received considerable international praise.

During the whole performance the dancers and robots both wore LED lights on them that are able to bear with the cold weather at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium without the risks of breaking. The uniforms were also made with graphene(石墨烯材料) to keep the dancers warm.

Performers danced with 24 intelligent robots -- representing Beijing hosting the 24th Winter Olympics. As they showed scenes of sports such as skating and skiing. A number of moving monitors in the middle of the field were also controlled by artificial intelligence (人工智能) .

Zhang said he expected the show to help present his country's image in the new era, "We made every second count during the eight short minutes to show the confident China not only for its 5,000-year-old history, but also the progress the country has made today," said Zhang.

"Beijing 8 Minutes was also supposed to show the Chinese people's welcome to the world using modern technology," added Zhang.

There are always lots of strange stories about protecting your eyes. For example, you might have been told that you'd go blind from reading in the dark, but you could make up for it by eating carrots.

This is just one of the wrong ideas you may have heard of. Below teens has picked out scientific explanations for three mistakes the people often make about eyes. Let's take a look.

Can eating carrots improve your eyesight?

Carrots are rich in Vitamin A, which is important and necessary for your eyes' general health. Vitamin A helps eyes to make light into signals, allowing people to see in low light conditions. However, eating more carrots doesn't help you see better. Some carrots will help, but a large number of carrots will not give you superhuman vision or allow you to get rid of your glasses.

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Myopia(近视) can be passed from parents to children. A study by the American Optometric Association found that if both parents are myopia, there is a 33 to 60 percent chance that the child is. 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-myopia parents. So no matter how bad your parents' eyesight is, you still have a chance having good eyesight.

Is it true that people who are color blind can't see colors?

Color blindness doesn't mean that someone can't see colors at all, like a black and white movie. It means that someone has difficulty telling some colors apart, usually green and red or blue and yellow. Color blindness is usually a condition caused by not having color cells (细胞). If the cells don't respond (反应)in the right way to differences in wavelengths of light, color blindness happens. There are different levels of color blindness. Some people cannot tell the difference between colors in dim (昏暗的) light, while others have difficulty in any light. In the most serious form of color blindness, everything is seen in shades of grey.

A: Hi, Lin Li, Wang Hua's birthday is coming.

B: Yes. How about you?

A: Me, too. I'm just thinking about the gift.

B: Well, she likes writing, Why not get her pens and books?

A: Sounds good,

B: Yeah. By the way, how will you buy the gift?

Will you ask your parents for money?

A: Of course not.

B: You are right; I think we should learn to manage pocket money.

A: That's true.

B: What a nice girl! Learning to save and use money is important to us.

Most of us fear failure(失败). However, without failure, progress would be impossible. In fact, the word success comes from the Latin succedere, meaning "to come after." And what does success usually come after? Failure. It Seems that one cannot exist(存在) without the other.

About failure, the most important lesson we should learn is that every failure, even the worst one, helps us learn to do things differently in the future. "Learning from the past mistakes and making change helped me to reach the top of Everest successfully," says mountaineer Pete Athans, and he has now reached the world's highest peak(山峰) seven times.

Accepting failure is not easy for many, though. We are not willing to tell people that we am failures because our good name depends on success. However, things are slowly changing. The business world already understands the value of negative results. In fact, one of the business world's most famous failures became one of its biggest successes. In the early 1990s, Apple Corporation created the Apple Newton. It was one of Apple's biggest failures. However, Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, believed the product had potential(潜力) and he began to improve it. In time, this led to the creation of the iPhone and the iPad, two of the company's most successful products.

The story of the Apple Newton can teach us another important lesson about failure. There is a lot we can learn by studying mistakes. Perhaps we should all know that failure and success are two sides of the same coin. One truly cannot exist without the other.

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The worker can speak British English Australian English.

of program does your brother prefer?

He is of the school work.

Mr. Green, who is an experienced doctor, writing in his spare time.

One year, a British expedition (探险队) got lost in the sandy ocean of the Sahara Desert. The sun was burning Everyone He quickly out of water. They were so thirsty that they could all soon die. At this time, the leader took a water kettle (壶) and said, "I found a kettle of water in my bag. But before we pass through the desert, nobody is to drink it." Then it was closed and passed on among the members of the team and they could feel the kettle was hearts. The kettle of water motivated (激励) to cross the desert.

, the expedition made it out of the desert. tears of joy, they opened the kettle—but what can't out was only.

Were they saved just by the kettle of sand in the desert? The answer is no. Their strong belief in the hope of survive(生存), which is just like a seed (种子), taken root and grown in their hearts. That is what led them out of the situation in the end. In fact, life has never been a real dead end for anyone. difficulty you face, you will overcom it as long as there is a seed of belief in your heart. Then your life will bloom (开花) and bear much fruit.

1）Who is your "teacher"?

2）What did he/she do?

3）What have you learned from him/her?

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