浙江省舟山市南海实验学校2022-2023学年九年级上学期英...

My family has always been poor, but we love our pets more than everything else. In December, things got even1for our family. In the end, we lost our2and we only had our two German dogs.

It was a cold winter, but3we found a place where our two beautiful dogs could live with us.4, after living there for one week, all of our money was gone and our dog food was5.

We tried to6someone to help. But nobody would give a7. I began to have bad dreams at night. I was scared that our dogs would8without food. I called one last place in town—a small pet supply （用品） store.

There, a young girl answered the phone. I told9about what we were going through.

To my10, this sweet girl told me that she would buy the dog food11us. She didn't even ask us to pay back the money. She12, "I just feel so bad for your dogs and I know how you feel. I just think I have to do13for you. "

Hearing this, I started crying. My14went away. I knew that our dogs would have food, all because of this young girl. She didn't know me, but she still would like to help my dogs.

This young girl,15I don't even know her name, will always be a warm﹣hearted princess to me. She is a warm﹣hearted princess to my dogs as well.

In Sunshine Town, if you want to go to the cinema or theatre, look at the following first.

Dear friends,

I have something to tell you.

We will visit Mount Emei on Sunday, July 29th. It is sunny. Mount Emei is a great mountain in China. There are many places of interest. I'm sure you'll enjoy its beautiful scenery （景色）.

You can take a camera to take photos. You should take the right clothing. But you shouldn't swim in the lake （湖）.

In the morning, we'll be free to visit different places and then we'll have lunch in a fast﹣food restaurant. We'll get back to the hotel at half past five.

Please get together at the hotel gate at 6：10 on Sunday morning. The buses will start at 6：30. It will take us about 45 minutes to get there. Please be on time.

That's all. Thank you.

Have you ever wanted to achieve something really amazing in life?Well, Greg Mortenson wanted to climb a mountain, but he ended up helping thousands of people to have a better life.

Greg's story began with failure. In 1993, he set out to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain. But Greg never made it to the top. After five days, he stumbled（踉跄）into the village of Korphe in northern Pakistan, injured（受伤）and hungry. The kind villagers there looked after him for several days.

Greg saw that the villagers were very poor and hungry, and some of them were ill. Also, the village school didn't have a roof（屋顶）and the children wrote on the ground with sticks. Greg knew he wanted to do something to help. "I'll build you a school, "he told the villagers. "I promise. "

Greg went back home to the USA to raise money for the school. He even lived in the car to save money! Finally he went back to Korphe and built the school. But this was just the beginning of something bigger! Since then, Greg's organization has built around 80 schools and runs many others in Pakistan and other countries, too.

Greg hasn't finished yet. He does many other things to help people in poor countries. He has got many prizes, but it's the smiles of the children he has helped that makes him happy!

Greg has just written a best﹣selling book about his story called Three Cups of Tea. It's an interesting and exciting book which tells us what ordinary（普通的）people can do with courage and determination（决心）!

A good way to pass an exam is to work hard every day in a year. You may fail in an exam if you are lazy for most of the year and then work hard only a few days before the exam. If you want to be good at English, you have to read stories in English and speak English as much as possible. A few days before the exam you should go to bed early. Do not stay up late（熬夜）for the exam. Before you start the exam, read carefully over the question paper, try to understand the exact meaning of each question. When you have finished your exam at last, read over your answers. Correct the mistakes if there are any and be sure that you have not missed anything out.

Once upon a time, there was an emperor in a Western country. He m （娶） a silly wife. She became the prince's stepmother. The prince fell in love with a farmer's daughter, Claudia. But the stepmother didn't like her. So she asked her husband to turn Claudia into a stone by m （魔法）. Then she h （隐藏） it in her silk dress and cheated the prince that Claudia had died.

The prince was so sad that he cried and cried. But a voice r （提醒） him of the god. One night, the moonlight was shining b （明亮地）. He went to meet the god. The god asked him to sit on the ground. Then he told the prince the w （整个的） story with a smile. "You can give your stepmother the gold instead of some useless o （物体）. Then you can find the chance to get close to her and you can catch the 'fox's tail' sooner or later. You look a little bit stupid and weak. U （除非） you are brave enough, I can't lead you to marry Claudia. "

The god e （使激动） him. He decided to be a brave man. He shot his stepmother with a magic stick. As soon as he met Claudia, they got married. The c （夫妻） lived a happy life at last.

It was in autumn. A young woman was ill. She stayed in the hospital alone. She had no children. Her husband died 5 years ago. She felt （alone）. There was a tree outside her room. She  （see） the leaves （叶子） fall down. Day after day, there were fewer and fewer leaves on the tree. The woman was very sad. She didn't want to eat or drink, and she （want）to talk. The doctor asked her （get） up and take a walk. She wouldn't do that. She became worse day by day. She got a strong  （feel） of death. One day she said,  "When the last leaf falls down, I  （die）, too. "

An old artist knew that. He decided（help） this woman. One night, all yellow（leaf） fell down. The artist painted a green and yellow leaf, then put it in the tree. The next morning, the woman looked out of the window and saw the last leaf, she was filled with hopes. She wanted to be alive. She didn't want to fall down like other leaves. From then on, she became  （good） and better and lived a long time.

Don't  （give） up your hope at any time.

George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start to work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father's helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write.

He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher.

On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man﹣George Stephenson.

提示：

1）很久以前，一只老虎在森林里抓到一只狐狸，想吃掉它；

2）狐狸告诉老虎它是被派来做百兽首领的，如果老虎吃了它，后果会很糟糕；

3）老虎不信，就跟在狐狸后面看其他动物是不是真的怕狐狸，结果动物们一看到老虎就都逃走了，老虎以为他们害怕狐狸，所以把狐狸给放了。

要求：

1）包含提示内容, 可以适当发挥, 使全文连贯；

2）词数：80词左右（邮件的开头、结尾已给出, 不计入总词数）。

Dear Sally,

I'm glad that you are interested in traditional Chinese stories. Today I'll tell a story about a tiger and a fox.

What do you think of the tiger and the fox? I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours,

Yang Miao