中考英语九年级全册课文语法填空试题（无答案）

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Hw I Learned t Learn English
Last year, I did nt like my English class. Every class was like a bad dream. The teacher _______(speak) t _____(quick). But I was afraid _____ ask questins because my prnunciatin was very bad. S I just ______(hide) behind my textbk and never said anything.
Then ne day I watched an English mvie ______(call) Ty Stry. I fell in lve______ this exciting and funny mvie! S then I began ______ (watch) ther English mvies as well. ________ I culd nt understand everything the characters said, their bdy language and the expressins _______ their faces helped me t get the meaning. I als realized I culd get the meaning by _______(listen) fr just the key wrds. My prnunciatin als imprved by listening t the interesting cnversatins in English mvies. I _______(discver) that _________(listen) t smething yu are interested in is the secret ____language learning. I als learned useful sentences like “It’s a piece f cake” r “It serves yu right.” I did nt understand these sentences at first. But because I wanted t understand the stry, I lked ______ the wrds ________ a dictinary.
Nw I really enjy my English class. I want t learn new wrds and mre grammar. Then I can have a ______(gd) understanding f English mvies.
P6 2b
Hw Can Yu Becme a Successful Learner?
Everyne is brn ____ the ability _____ learn. But whether _____ nt yu can d this well _________(depend) n yur learning habits. Research shws that successful learners have sme gd habits _________ cmmn.
Creating ______ interest in what they learn
Studies shw that if yu are interested in smething, yur brain is mre active and it is als easier fr yu _______(pay) attentin________ it fr a lng time. Gd learners ften cnnect what they need t learn with smething they are interested in.______example, if they need t learn English and they like music r sprts, they can listen ______ English sngs r watch sprts prgrams ______ English. This way they will nt get ______(bre).
Practicing and learning frm mistakes
Gd learners think ______what they are gd at and what they need t practice mre. Remember, “use it r lse it”! Even if yu learn smething well, yu will frget it unless yu use it. Practice ________(make) perfect. Gd learners are als nt afraid f ______(make) mistakes. Alexander Graham Bell did nt invent the telephne vernight. He succeeded by trying many times and _________(learn) frm his mistakes.
Develping their study skills
It is nt enugh _______(study) hard. Yu have t knw hw t study. Gd learners find ut the best ways_______(learn) well. Fr example, they may take ntes by writing dwn key wrds r _____ drawing mind maps. Gd learners als lk ______ ways t review what they_________(learn). They may d this by reading their ntes every day r by explaining the infrmatin t anther student.
Asking questins
Gd learners ft en ask questins during r after class. They even ask each ther and try t find ut the answers. Knwledge cmes frm ___________(questin). Learning _____(be) a life-lng jurney because every day __________(bring) smething new. Everything that yu learn becmes a part f yu and changes yu, s learn __________(wise) and learn well.
Unit 2 I think that mncakes are delicius!
P13 3a
Full Mn, Full Feelings
Chinese peple have been ________(celebrate) Mid-Autumn Festival and enjying mncakes fr ___________(century). Mncakes have the shape f a full mn ______
mid-autumn night. They carry peple’s __________(wish) t the families they lve and miss.
There are many traditinal flk stries abut this festival. Hwever, mst peple think that the stry f Chang’e is the mst tuching. Chang’e was Hu Yi’s beautiful wife. After Hu Yi _______(sht) dwn the nine suns, a gddess gave him a magic medicine____ thank him. Whever drank this culd live frever, and Hu Yi planned t drink it with Chang’e. Hwever, a bad man, Feng Meng, ______(try) t steal the medicine when Hu Yi was nt hme. Chang’e refused ______(give) it t him and drank it all. She became very light and flew______ t the mn. Hu Yi was s sad______ he called ut her name t the mn every night. One night, he fund that the mn was s bright and rund that he culd see his wife there. He quickly ________(lay) ut her favrite fruits and desserts in the garden. Hw he wished that Chang’e culd cme back!
After this, peple started the traditin f _________(admire) the mn and ________(share) mncakes with their families.
P14 2b
The Spirit f Christmas
Many wuld agree that when we think _____Christmas, we prbably think f gift s, Christmas trees and Santa Claus. But behind all these things _________(lie) the true meaning f Christmas: the imprtance f _______(share) and is perhaps the best example f this.
A Christmas Carl is a famus nvel _________(write) by Charles Dickens. It is abut an ld man named Scrge wh never laughs r _______(smile). He is mean and nly thinks abut _________(he), and desn’t treat thers ______(nice). He just cares abut _____ he can make mre mney. And he hates Christmas. One Christmas Eve, Scrge sees the ghst f Jacb Marley, his dead business partner. Marley used ________(be) just like Scrge, s he ___________(punish) after he died. He warns Scrge t change his ways if he desn’t want t end ______ like him. He als tells Scrge_____ expect three spirits ____ visit him.
That night, three ghsts visit Scrge. First, the Ghst f Christmas Past takes him _____ t his childhd and reminds Scrge _____ his ______(happy) days as a child. Then the secnd spirit, the Ghst f Christmas Present, takes him t see hw thers are ______(spend) Christmas this year. Everyne is happy, even pr peple. The last ne, the Ghst f Christmas Yet t Cme, takes him t the future. He sees that he is _____(die) but nbdy cares. Scrge is s scared that he _______(wake) up _____ his bed and finds ___ it is already the next mrning ______ Christmas Day!
He decides ________(change) his life and ________(prmise) t be a _____(gd) persn. He _______(happy) celebrates Christmas with his relatives. He als gives gifts t peple ____ need. He nw treats everyne _____ kindness and _______(warm), ______(spread) lve and jy everywhere he ges. And that is the true spirit f Christmas!
Unit3 Culd yu please tell me where the restrms are?
UNIT 3
P22 2b
Culd Yu Please
When yu visit a freign cuntry, it is imprtant ______(knw) hw _____(ask) fr help ________(plite) Fr example, “Where are the restrms?” r “Culd yu please tell me where the restrms are?” are similar ________(request) fr directins t a place. Bth are crrect English, but the first ne _______(sund) less plite. That is because it is a very direct questin. It is nt enugh t just ask a questin ________(crrect). We als need t learn hw t be plite by ______(be) less direct — r mre indirect — when we ask _____ help.
In English, as in Chinese, we change the way we speak when we talk with different peple. The __________(express) yu use might depend n _______(wh) yu are speaking t r hw well yu knw them. If yu say ________ yur teacher, “When is the schl trip.’’, this might sund implite. But if yu say, “Excuse me, Mr. West. D yu knw when the schl trip is?’’, this will sund much mre plite. Hwever, it is all right t ask direct questins in sme situatins, like with yur classmates.
Usually plite questins are ________(lng) and include mre language such as “Culd yu please ” r “Can I ask ” It sunds mre plite____ (say), “Peter, culd yu please tell me yur e-mail address?” than “Peter, tell me yur e-mail address.” Smetimes we even need t spend time _________(lead) in t a request. Fr example, with a stranger n the street, we might first say, “Excuse me, I wnder if yu can help me” r “I’m srry _____ (truble) yu, but ...” befre ________(ask) fr help.
It might seem mre difficult _______ (speak) plitely than be direct. Hwever, it is imprtant t learn hw t use prper language. This will als help yu becme ______(gd) at English, r any ther language yu wish ______(speak).
Unit 4 I used t be afraid f the dark.
P27 3a
Frm Shy Girl t Pp Star
1 Fr this mnth’s Yung Wrld magazine, I _________(interview) 19-year-ld Asian pp star Candy Wang. Candy tld me that she used t be really shy and tk up ________(sing) t deal ________ her shyness. As she gt better, she dared ________(sing) in frnt f her class, and then fr the whle schl. Nw she’s nt shy anymre and lves singing in frnt f ________(crwd).
2 I asked Candy hw life was different________ she became famus. She explained that there are many gd things, like ________(be) able t travel and meet new peple all the time. “I didn’t use t ________(ppular) in schl, but nw I get ________(tn) f attentin everywhere I g.” Hwever, t ________(many) attentin can als be a bad thing. “I always have ________(wrry) abut hw I appear ________ thers and I have ________(be) very careful abut what I say r d. And I dn’t have much private time anymre. ________(hang) ut with friends is almst ________(pssible) fr me nw because there are always ________(guard) arund me.”
3 What des Candy have t say t all thse yung peple ________ want t becme famus? “Well,” she begins slwly, “yu have t ________(prepare) t give________ yur nrmal life. Yu can never imagine hw difficult the rad ________(success) is. Many ________(time) I thught abut ________(give) up, but I ________(fight) n. Yu really require a lt f talent and hard wrk ________(succeed). Only a very small number f peple make________ t the tp.”
P30 2b
He Used t Cause a Lt f Truble
Li Wen is a nrmal ________(15岁大的) by ________ wrks hard in schl and gets gd grades. It is hard ________(believe) that he used t be a “prblem child” until a cnversatin ________ his parents influenced his way f ________(think). Li Wen lives in the Sichuan cuntryside. As a small child, he seldm gave his parents any prblems, and they were prud f him. Hwever, ___完成句子______, the by’s life became mre difficult. He had t mve in with his grandmther.
Li Wen began ________(cause) prblems fr himself and his family. He was n lnger ________(interest) in ________(study). He was ft en absent ________ classes, and he failed his examinatins. Finally, his parents made a decisin ________(send) him t a barding schl. Li Wen n lnger lived with his grandmther. He ________(study), ate and slept at the schl, and he hated it. There were s many rules, and he used ________( keep) ________( break) them. One day, he tld his teacher he wanted t leave the schl. __________
The head teacher advised his parents ________(talk) with their sn ________ persn. His parents tk a 40-hur train ride and a five-hur bus ride t g back ________ their hmetwn. T Li Wen’s surprise, their cnversatin changed his life. “It was exactly what I needed,” he said. “My parents helped me t understand hw much they ________(give) me. They als tld me that even thugh they culdn’t be there t take care________ me, they were always ________(think) f me and wuld take pride ________ everything gd that I did.___________. I realized that since my parents mved ________, I’ve been afraid f being alne, and have tried ________(make) my parents pay mre attentin________ me.”
____________. He has been wrking hard and is nw ne f the best students in his class. His parents’ lve has made him feel gd abut himself. “It’s very imprtant fr parents t be there fr their children,” Li Wen says.
Unit5 What are the shirts made f?
P35 3a
The Difficult Search fr American Gds in the US
If yu g t anther cuntry, what kinds f things wuld yu buy? Wuld yu buy a camera ________ Japan, sme beautiful clthes in France, r a watch in Switzerland? N matter ________ yu may buy, yu might prbably think thse prducts ________(make) in thse ________ (cuntry). Hwever, yu culd be wrng. Kang Jian is a 17-year-ld student frm Shanghai. Last year he went t visit his aunt and uncle in San Francisc. He fund ________ interesting that s many prducts in the lcal shps were made in China. “I wanted t buy a ty car fr my cusin, but even thugh mst f the tys had American brands, they were made in China.”
Tys are nt the nly things made in China. “I wanted t buy a pair f basketball shes,” he ________(explain). “But I had t visit five r six stres befre ________(find) a pair made in America!” He realized that Americans can hardly avid ________(buy) prducts made in China. “In fact,” he cntinues, “there are s many things made in China —ftballs, handbags, pet fd, mbile phnes. Even American flags are made in China!” Kang Jian thinks it’s great that China is s gd at ________(make) these everyday things. Hwever, he wishes that in the future China will als get better at making high-technlgy prducts that peple can buy ________ all parts f the wrld.
P38 2b
Beauty in Cmmn Things
________ different part f China has ________(it) wn special frms f traditinal art. These usually try t shw the things that are imprtant in life such as lve, beauty and family. The mst cmmn things, frm paper t clay ________ bamb, are turned ________ bjects f beauty.
Accrding ________ Chinese histry, sky lanterns ________(use) by Zhuge Kngming. He sent them ________ ________ ask fr help when________ truble. Tday, sky lanterns ________(use) at festivals and ther celebratins. They are made ________ bamb and cvered ________ paper. When the lanterns are lit, they slwly rise ________ the air like small ht-air ballns fr all t see. They are seen as bright symbls f ________(happy) and gd wishes.
Paper cutting ________(be) arund fr ver 1,500 years. Paper cutting sunds very easy but it can be difficult ________(d). The paper, usually red, ________(fld) befre it is cut with scissrs. The mst cmmn pictures are flwers, fish, animals, and things abut Chinese histry. During the Spring Festival, they are put ________ windws, drs and walls as symbls f wishes ________ gd luck and a happy new year.
Chinese clay art is famus ________ the clay pieces are s small but they lk very real. The pieces are usually cute children r lively characters frm
a Chinese fairy tale r ________(histry) stry. The pieces are carefully shaped ________ hand frm a very special kind f clay and then allwed t air-dry. After drying, they are fired________ a very high heat. They ________(plish) and painted. Finally, materials such as wd r paper are added ________ make different things. It takes several weeks t cmplete everything. These small pieces f clay art shw the lve that all Chinese peple have fr life and beauty.
九Unit6 3a p43 An Accidental Inventin
Did yu knw that tea, the _________( ppular) drink in the wrld (after water), __________(invent) _____accident? Many peple believe that tea was first _____(drink)abut 5,000 years ag. It is _____(say)that a Chinese ruler _____(call) Shen Nng was _____(ne)t ________(discvery) tea as a drink. One day Shen Nng was biling _______(drink) water ver an pen fire. Sme leaves frm a tea plant _____(fall) int the water and remained there fr sme time. It prduced a nice smell s he tasted the brwn water. It was quite delicius, and s, ne f the wrld’s favrite ______(drink) was invented.
A few _______(thusand) years later, Lu Yu, “the saint f tea,” mentined Shen Nng in his bk Cha Jing. The bk describes hw tea plants _______(grw) and used t make tea. It als discusses where the finest tea leaves were prduced and what kinds f water ______(use).
It is believed that tea _________(bring)t Krea and Japan during the 6th and 7th centuries. In England, tea didn’t appear _____arund 1660, but in _____(little)than 100 years, it________ (becme) the______( natin) drink. The tea trade _____China ___Western cuntries ________(发生)in the 19th century. This helped t spread the ________(ppular) f tea and the tea plant t mre places arund the wrld. Even thugh many peple nw knw abut tea culture, the Chinese are _______dubt the nes wh best understand the nature f tea.
U6 2b P46
D Yu Knw When Basketball Was Invented?
Basketball is a much-lved and active sprt ____is _____(enjy) by many ___fun and exercise. It is ver 100 years ld and is played by mre than 100 millin peple in ver 200 cuntries. It is believed that the first basketball game in histry ____(play) ___December 21, 1891. Then in 1936 in Berlin, it ______(becme) an event at the _____(Olympic).
Basketball was invented by a ______(Canada) dctr _____(name) James Naismith, ____was brn in 1861. When he was a cllege teacher, he ____(ask) t think f a game that culd be played in the winter. Dr. Naismith created a game _______(play)inside n a hard flr. Dr. Naismith divided the men in his class____ tw teams and ____(teach)them___( play) his new game. Players n the _____team _____wrk tgether t get the ball in ____(ther) team’s basket. At the same time, they need t stp the _______(cmpete) team frm ____(get) the ball int their wn basket.
Tday, the ppularity f basketball _____(rise)arund the wrld, _____many yung peple _____(dream) f becming famus players. In China, yu can smetimes see peple _____(play) basketball in parks, schls, and even _____(factry). Basketball has nt nly becme a ppular sprt ____(play), but it has als ______(becme) a ppular sprt t watch. Althugh America’s NBA games are the mst famus, the CBA games are becming mre ppular in China. ____number f freign players,_____ (include) Chinese players, in the NBA has increased. There are als mre and mre freign players in the CBA. Many yung peple lk up t these basketball heres and want t becme like them. These stars ______(curage) yung peple____( wrk) hard t achieve their dreams.
Unit7 3a P51
Mm Knws Best
When I was a tiny baby _____(cry) all night, my mm sang t me and _____(stay) by my side. When I was tired and hungry, she gave me fd and warm arms ____(sleep) in. When I was tw _____(run) _____the field, she made sure I was safe and kept me frm _______(dangerus). When I fell and____(hurt) myself, she gave me a hug and lifted me up.
When I was seven cughing _____(bad), she said n ice-cream fr me. But I talked back ludly, “ I shuld ______(allw) t eat sme! Give it t me nw!” When I was nine watching _____(scared) mvies, she said it’d give me awful dreams. But I shuted back ____(angry), “ I shuld be allwed t watch it! I’m nt a baby!”
When I was a teen ging ut with ____(friend), she said, “Please be back by ten!” But I talked back again-- “I shuld_________( nt tell) what t d! I’ m seventeen nw!”
Nw I’m __adult, _____(think) back t thse times. I cughed fr days after eating that ice-cream And had scary dreams after watching that film. I was late fr schl frm staying ut past ten. I regret_____( talk) back, nt listening t Mm. Mm knws best, and fr me she wanted nly the best!
U7 2b P54
Shuld I Be Allwed t Make My Own Decisins?
Many teenagers have hbbies. But smetimes these can get in the way f their schlwrk, and parents might wrry _____their _____(succeed) at schl. Teenagers ften think they _________(shuld allw) ______(practice) their bbbies as ____(many) as they want. D yu agree?
Liu Yu, a __________(15岁大的)by frm Shandng, is a____( run) star. He is ____his schl team and has always ____(want) t be a prfessinal runner when he ____(grw) up. Hwever, his parents wn’t allw ____(he) _____(train) s much. “Of curse we want t see him achieve his dream,” says Mr. Liu. “And we knw hw much he lves running. My wife and I ______(supprt) every ne f his_____( race). We have______ against running! But we think ur sn needs t think abut ther pssible jbs. He’s getting _____(ld) nw, s he needs t think abut what _______(happen) if he _______(nt end up)____a prfessinal runner.”
Liu Yu desn’t really agree. “Well, I think I shuld be allwed t decide fr myself, ”he says. “My parents have always taught me hw _______(imprtance) it is t wrk hard at schl and enter university. I understand this, but I’m serius _____running. It’s the nly thing I’ve ever ______(want)t d.”
His parents believe that Liu Yu shuld study hard in the evenings ___they dn’t allw him t practice ______(run) at night. “Maybe he thinks it’s t strict r unfair,”says Mrs. Liu. “But we think we’re ding the right thing. He needs t spend mre time ____his hmewrk because it is difficult______( became) a prfessinal _____(sprt) star.”
But Liu Yu still _____(agree). “I knw my parents care abut me. They always talk abut what will happen if I dn’t _______(success). But I will! I’m a quick runner! I think I shuld be allwed t make this_____( chse) myself. Only then ____(I)have a chance t achieve my dream.”
Unit8 3a P59
We live in a small twn and almst everyne _____(knw) each ther. It _____(use) t be very quiet. Nthing much ever happened arund here. Hwever, these days, smething ______(usually) is _____(happen) in ur twn. Vivtr, a teacher at my schl, is really nervus. When he ________(interview) by the twn newspaper, he said, “Every night we hear strange nises utside ur windw. My wife thinks that it _____( be) an animal, but my friends and I think it must be teenagers _____(have) fun. My parents called the plicemen, but they culdn’t find ______(smething) strange. They think it might be the wind. I dn’t think s!”
Victr’s next-dr neighbr Helen is wrried, t. “At first, I thught that it might be a dg, but I culdn’t see a dg r anything else,______. S I guess it ____be a dg. But then, what culd it be?” One wman in the area saw smething _____(run) away, but it was dark s she is nt sure. “ I think it was t big ___(be) a dg,” she said. “Maybe it was a bear r a wlf.”
Everyne in ur twn________(be feel) uneasy, and everyne has his r her wn ideas. There must ____(be) smething ______(visit) the hmes in ur neighbrhd, but what is it? We have ____(nt) idea. Mst peple hpe that this animal r persn will ___(simple) g away, but I d nt think that is ging t happen. The nise-maker is having t much fun _______(creat)fear in the neighbrhd.
U8 2b P62
Stnehenge--Can Anyne Explain Why It Is There?
Stnehenge, a rck circle, is nt nly ne f Britain’s mst famus _____(histry)____(place) but als ne f its _____(great) mysteries. Every year it receives mre than 750,000 visitrs. Peple like t g t this place ______(especial) in June ____they want t see the sun rising n the _______(lng) day f the year.
Fr many years, _______(histry) believed Stnehenge was a temple _____(where) ancient leaders tried t cmmunicate____ the gds. Hwever, histrian Paul Stker thinks this can’t be true because Stnehenge ____(build) s many centuries ag. “The leaders arrived ___England_____ later,” he pints ut.
______(ther) ppular idea is that Stnehenge might be a kind f calender. The large stnes were ____(put) tgether in a certain way. ___midsummer’s mrning, the sun shines _____(direct) int the center f the stnes. Other peple believe the stnes have a ______(medicine) purpse. They think the stnes can prevent ____(ill) and keep peple ______(health). “ As yu walk there , yu can feel the energy frm yur feet mve up yur bdy,” said ne visitr. N ne is sure what Stnehenge is used____, but mst agree that the psitin f the stnes must be fr a special purpse. Sme think it _______be a burial place r a place ____(hnr) ancestrs. Others think it was built _____(celebrate) a victry_____ an enemy.
Stnehenge was built slwly ver a lng perid f time. Mst histrians believe it must be almst 5,000 years ld. One f the greatest mysteries ____(be) hw it ______(build) because the stnes are s big and heavy. In 2001, a grup f English ________(vlunteer) tried t build anther Stnehenge, but they culdn’t. “We dn’t really knw wh _____(build) Stnehenge,” says Paul Stker. “ And perhaps we might never knw, but we ___knw they must have _____(be) hard-wrking---and great planners!”
U9 3a P67 What D Yu Feel Like _______(Watch) Tday？
While sme peple stick ___nly ne kind f mvie, I like t watch different kinds ______(depend) n hw I feel that day. When I’m dwn r tired, I prefer mvies ____ can cheer me up. Cmedies like Men in Black r ________(cartn) like Kungfu Panda have funny dialg and usually have a happy ______(end). The characters may nt be perfect, but they try____ best t slve their prblems. After I watch them, my prblems _______(sudden) seem ____serius and I feel ____better again. _______(laugh) fr tw hurs ____(be) a gd way ____ (relax). I dn’t watch _______(drama) r dcumentaries
when I’m sad r tired. Dramas ____Titanic ____(make) me feel even _____(sad). Dcumentaries like March f the Penguins which prvide plenty f infrmatin abut a certain subject can be interesting, but when I’m tired I dn’t want t think t ______(many). I dn’t mind actin mvies like Spider-Man when I’m t tired t think. I can just shut ___ my brain, sit back and enjy ______(watch) an exciting superher wh always ____(save) the wrld just in time. Once in a while, I like t watch mvies that are scary. They can be fun, but I’m t _____(scary) t watch them _____(lne). I always bring a friend wh isn’t afraid f these kinds f mvies, and it desn’t feel s scary anymre.
Unit9 2bP70 Sad but beautiful
Last night ne f my _____(China) friends ____(take)me t a cncert f Chinese flk music. The piece ______was played ____the erhu especially _____(mve) me. The music was ______(strange) beautiful, but ______the _______(beautiful) I sensed a strng ______(sad) and pain. The piece had a simple name ,Erquan Yingyue (Mn Reflected n _____(tw) Spring), but it was ne f the mst______(mved) pieces f music_____ I’ve ever _____(hear). Later I lked ____the histry f Erquan Yingyue, and I began t understand the sadness in the music.
The music ________(write)by Abing, a flk ______(music) wh was brn in the city f Wuxi in 1893. His mther _____(dead)when he was very yung. Abing’s father ______(teach) him t play many _____(music) instruments ,such as the drums, dizi and erhu , and ___age 17 , Abing ________(knw) _____his music ability , Hwever, after his father died, Abing’s life grew_____(bad). He was very pr, nt nly that, he develped a serius illness and became blind. Fr several years, he had n hme. He lived n the streets and played music ______(make) mney . Even after Abing _________(marry) and had a hme again, he cntinued t sing and play n the streets. He perfrmed in this way fr many years.
Abing’s _______(amaze) ______(music) skills made him very ppular ______his lifetime. ____the end f his life, he ____play ver 600 _____(piece) f music. Many f these were written by Abing_____(he). It is a pity _____nly six pieces f music in ttal were recrded fr the future wrld ______(hear) ,but his _________(ppular) cntinues t this day. Tday, Abing’s Erquan Yingyue is a piece which all the great erhu masters play and praise. It has becme ne f China’s natinal ________(treasure). ____(It) sad ______(beautiful) nt nly paints a picture f Abing’s wn life but als makes peple ____(recall) their ____(deep) wunds frm their wn sad r painful __________(experience).
Unit10 3a P75
Where I'm frm, we're pretty_____ (relax) abut time. If yu tell a friend yu're ging t their huse fr dinner, it's OK if yu arrive a bit ___(late). We _____(value) the time we spend with ur family and friends in ur everyday_____ (life). We ften just drp by ur friends' hmes if we have time. We dn't usually have t make _____(plan)_______ (meet) ur friends. We ften just walk arund the twn center, _____(see) as _______(many) f ur friends as we can!
In Switzerland, it's very imprtant _____(be) n time .We're the capital f clcks and_____( watch), after all! If smene______ (invite) yu t meet him r her ____nn, then yu_________( expect) ____(be there) at nn. If yu're even fifteen minutes _____(late), yur friend may get mad. S I make an effrt _____ (be) n time when I meet my friends. I think it’s implite t keep thers _______(wait). Als, we never visit a friend's huse withut_____ (call) first. We usually plan t d smething ______(interest), r g _______(anywhere) tgether.
Unit10 2b P78
Dear Laura,
Thanks fr yur message. Yes, I’m having a great time n my student ______(change) prgram in _____(French). I was a bit nervus befre I arrived here, but there was n reasn t be. My hst family is really nice. They ___(g) ut f their way t make me ____(feel) at hme. The grandmther knws that I miss Chinese fd a lt. S she ______(actual) learned hw t make Chinese fd! She als has a teenage granddaughter ____my age wh is really kind. She always talks t me ___French t help me practice. Yu wuldn’t believe hw _____(quick) my French has imprved because f that. I'm very cmfrtable _______(speak) French nw. Althugh I still make lts f ______(mistake), it desn't wrry me as it used t. My biggest challenge is ______(learn) hw t behave __the dinner table. As yu can imagine, things are very different ____the way they are at hme. Fr example, yu ________(nt suppse) t put yur bread n yur plate. Yu're suppsed t put it n the table! I thught that was pretty strange at first, but nw I’m used t it. Anther example is that yu’re nt suppsed t eat ______(smething)____ yur hands except bread, nt even fruit. Yu have t cut it up and eat it with a frk. Anther thing is that it is______( plite) t say yu’re full. If yu dn’t want any mre fd, yu shuld just say, “That was delicius.” Als yu’re nt suppsed t put yur elbws n the table. I have t say that I find___difficult _______(remember)everything, but I’m _______(gradual) ______(get) used t it. I dn’t find French custms s strange anymre. I’ll write again sn and tell yu mre abut my life in France. Hpe yu’re having a gd schl year.
Yurs, Lin Yue
Unit 11 Sad mvies make me cry.
P83 3a Hw t Be Happy
A lng time ag, in a rich and peaceful cuntry, there lived an ________(happy) king. He slept ________(bad) and didn’t feel like ________(eat). His face was always pale ________chalk. He ft en cried fr n reasn. This made the queen and his peple ________(wrry).One day, a dctr was called ________ t examine the king. But he fund nthing wrng ________ his bdy. “It’s all ________ his mind. Neither medicine nr rest can help him. What he needs is the shirt f a happy persn t wear. That’ll make him happy.”
The prime minister ________(call) t the palace. But when they explained the king’s situatin ________ him, he said, “Althugh I have a lt f pwer, it desn’t make me happy. I’m always wrried abut ________(lse) my pwer. Many peple ________(try) t take my psitin.”
Then, the king’s banker came t the palace. “Oh, I’m afraid I’m nt happy ________,” he said. I have a lt f wealth, but I’m always wrried abut lsing my mney. Smene tries t steal my mney every day.”
Next, the palace singer came t the king’s rm. But this is ________ he said: “It’s true that I’m famus and everyne lves my sngs. But I’m nt happy because I’m always ________(wrry) abut ________(fllw) by thers. I cannt be free!”
Finally, the king’s tp general ________(tell) t g ut and find a happy man in three ________(day) time.
P86 2b
The Winning Team
Peter kept his eyes ________ the grund and felt a heavy weight n his shulders as he walked hme alne. It was ________(bad) day f his life. His mind wuld nt stp ________(think) abut what happened nly just an hur ag ________ the schl sccer field. Hw culd he ________(miss) scring that gal? He had let his whle team ________. His stupid mistake made him angry. His team lst the game because ________ him. He was really wrried that his cach may kick him ________ the team.
________ sn as he walked ________ the dr, his father asked, “What’s wrng, sn?” Peter’s feelings ________(write) all ver his face. “I lst the game,” Peter ________(reply). Then he went int his rm ________ anther wrd. Ten minutes later, Peter heard his father ________(knck) n his bedrm dr. He pened the dr t let him in.
“Lk, Peter. I dn’t knw what happened. But whatever it was, dn’t be t hard n yurself.”
“I lst the game, Dad. I failed my team. They’ll prbably never let me play again.” “Sccer is abut team effrt. Yu’re nt the nly reasn yur team lst. If yu have a gd team, yu shuld supprt each ther. ________, winning r lsing is nly half the game. The ther half is ________(learn) hw ________(cmmunicate) with yur teammates and learning frm yur mistakes.”
Peter didn’t say anything but what his father said made him think carefully.
The next day, Peter went t sccer practice with curage ________ than fear in his heart.
“Hey, guys,” he said t his teammates. “I’m really srry abut yesterday. We were s clse t ________(win) that game. But I think if we cntinue ________(pull) tgether, we’re ging ________(win) the next ne.”
T his surprise and relief, his teammates all ndded________ agreement.
“Yeah,” they said, “dn’t wrry abut it. It’s never just ne persn’s fault. We shuld think abut hw we can d better next time.”
Peter smiled. It made him feel lucky ________(knw) that he was n a winning team.
Unit 12 Life is full f the unexpected.
P91 3a
Life is full f the unexpected.
In May 2001, I fund a jb ________ New Yrk at the Wrld Trade Center. ________ September 11, 2001, I arrived ________ my building at arund 8:30 a.m. I was abut t g up when I decided ________(get) a cffee first. I went t my favrite cffee place even thugh it was tw blcks east ________ my ffice. As I ________(wait) in line with ther ffice wrkers, I heard a lud sund. Befre I culd jin the thers utside ________(see) what was ging n, the first plane had already hit my ffice building. We ________________(难以置信地看着) the black smke ________(risie) abve the ________(burn) building. I felt lucky ________(be) alive.
Almst 10 years later, I wke ________ at 10:00 a.m. n February 21, 2011 and realized that my alarm never went ________. I jumped ________ f bed and went straight________ the airprt. But by the time I gt t the airprt, my plane t New Zealand already ________(take) ff. “This is the first hliday I________(take) in a year, and I miss my plane. What bad luck!” I thught t myself. The ther planes were full s I had t wait ________l the next day. The next mrning, I heard abut the earthquake in New Zealand the day befre. My bad luck had ________(expect) turned int a gd thing.
P94 2b
April Fl’s Day is a ________(celebrate) that takes place in different cuntries arund the wrld. It ________(happen) n April 1st every year and is a day ________ many peple play all ________(kind) f tricks and jkes ________ each ther.
One April Fl’s Day, a reprter in England annunced that there wuld be n mre spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy ________(stp) grwing spaghetti. Many peple ran ________ their lcal supermarkets ________ buy as much spaghetti as they culd. ________ the time peple realized that the stry was ________ hax, all f the spaghetti ________ the cuntry ________(sale) ut. Anther famus trick in England was when a TV shw reprted the discvery ________ special water. They said this water wuld help peple lse weight and that ne custmer had already lst a lt f weight in just fur mnths. By the end f the day, mre ________ 10,000 peple had phned the TV statin t find ut hw ________(get) this water.
Many April Fl’s jkes may end up ________(be) nt very funny. A famus TV star nce invited his girlfriend ________ his shw n April Fl’s Day. He asked her ________(marry) him. The lady was s happy because she really wanted t get ________(marry). Hwever, when she said “yes”, he replied, “April Fl!” That little jke didn’t have a very happy ________(end). The TV star lst bth his girlfriend ________ his shw.
One f the wrld’s mst famus ________(trick), hwever, happened in Octber ________ than April. In that mnth in 1938, actr Orsn Welles annunced ________ his radi prgram ________ aliens frm Mars had landed ________ the earth. He described where they ________(land) and tld hw they were mving acrss the United States. Welles made it sund s real that hundreds f peple believed the stry, and fear spread ________ the whle cuntry. By the time plice fficers ________(annunce) that the stry was a hax, thusands f peple ________(left) their hmes.
Unit 13 We’re trying t save the earth!
P99 3b
Many ________ (hear) f shark’s fin sup. This famus and expensive dish is ________ (special) ppular in suthern China. But d yu realize that yu________ (kill) a whle shark each time yu enjy a bwl f shark’s fin sup?
When peple catch sharks, they cut ________ their fins and thrw the shark ________ int the cean. Withut a fin, a shark can n lnger swim and slwly ________ (die). This methd is nt nly cruel, but als harmful t the envirnment. Sharks are ________ the tp f the fd chain ________ the cean’s ecsystem. If their numbers drp t lw, it ________ (bring) danger t all cean life. Many believe that sharks can never ________ (endanger) because they are ________ （strng） in their fd chain. But in fact, arund 70 millin sharks ________ (catch) and traded in this industry every year. ________ numbers f sme kinds f sharks ________ (fall) by ver 90 percent in the last 20 t 30 years.
Envirnmental prtectin grups ________ ________ the wrld, such as WildAid and the WWF, ________ (teach) the public abut “finning”. They have even asked gvernments ________ (develp) laws t stp the sale f shark’s fins. S far, n ________ (science) studies ________ (shw) that shark’s fins are gd fr health, s why eat them? Help save the sharks!
P102 2b
Rethink, Reuse, Recycle!
D yu ften thrw________ things yu dn’t need anymre? Have yu ever ________ (think) abut hw these things can ________ (actual) be put t gd use? Nthing is a waste ________ yu have a creative mind.
Yu have prbably never heard f Amy Hayes, but she is a mst unusual wman. She lives ________ a huse in the UK that she built herself ________ f rubbish.
The windws and drs cme frm ld buildings arund her twn that ________ (pull) dwn. The tp f the huse is________ ld bat turned ________ dwn. And the gate in frnt f her huse ________ (make) f rcks and ld glass bttles. Amy ________ (recent) wn a prize frm the Help Save Our Planet Sciety. The president said, “Amy is ________ inspiratin t us all.”
Amy isn’t the nly ne wh is gd at ________ (recycle). Jessica Wng frm Hng Kng uses ld clthes that peple dn’t wear anymre ________ (make) bags. She has been ding this fr a few years nw. She pened a small shp where she sells her bags, and she ________ (set) up a website t sell them nline. She especially likes t use ld jeans t make handbags. Her bags are cute and useful. “I plan ________ (write) a bk abut new ways t use ld clthes,” she said. “I hpe peple can read my bk and enjy it!”
Wang Ta set up a small business in Shanghai fur years ag. He ________ (knw) fr using irn and ther materials frm ld cars t make beautiful art pieces. Sme are large pieces that lk like animals r humans, and sme are ________ (small) pieces yu can put at hme. The mre ppular wrks can even ________ (see) in art shps arund the city. Wang Ta hpes t set up a “metal art” theme park t shw peple the ________ (imprtant) f envirnmental prtectin. Nt nly can the art bring happiness t ________ (ther), but it als shws that even cld, hard irn can be brught back t life ________ a little creativity.
Unit 14 I remember meeting all f yu in Grade 7.
P110 2b
Ladies and gentlemen,
Thank yu fr ________ (cme) tday ________ (attend) the graduatin ceremny ________ N. 3 Junir High Schl. First ________ all, I’d like ________ (cngratulate) all the students wh are here tday. I remember ________ (meet) all f yu when yu ________ (start) Grade 7 at this schl. Yu were all s full ________ energy and thirsty ________ knwledge. And yes, sme f yu were a little difficult ________ (deal) with! But tday I see a rm full f talented yung adults________ are full f hpe ________ the future. Yu ________ (grw) up s much and I’m s prud ________ yu.
Althugh yu’ve all wrked very hard ________ the last three years, ________ (n) f yu culd have succeeded by ________(yu). ________ the way, I’m sure many peple have helped and supprted yu. I’d like yu ________(remember) t thank all f these imprtant peple in yur ________ (life) — yur parents, yur teachers, yur classmates and yur friends. Please cnsider ________ they ________ (d) fr yu and what they mean t yu. Never fail ________ (be) thankful ________ the peple arund yu.
Lastly, the end f junir high schl is the ________ (begin) f a new life. I dn’t need t tell yu that life in senir high schl will ________ (hard) and that yu have many difficult tasks ________ f yu. Yu’ll make mistakes alng the way, but the key is ________ (learn) ________ yur mistakes and never give up. But alng ________ difficulties, there will als be many exciting things ________ (wait) ________ yu. ________ each dr yu pen are chances ________ (learn) new things, and yu have
the ability ________ (make) yur wn chices. Chse ________ (wise) and be respnsible ________ yur decisins and actins. ________ yu have t g yur separate ways nw, I wish that in a few years’ time, yu’ll cme back ________ visit ur schl. As yu set ________ n yur new jurney, yu shuldn’t frget ________ yu came frm. The future is________ (yur).
Gd luck and hpe t see yu again________ smetime!