Two magazines recently listed the best cities to live in. Here are two of the cities listed as “the world’s best.”

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA  The city has comfortable weather all year round (15℃ to 26℃). Housing is not very expensive in San Jose. Also, many of the city’s older neighborhoods are very beautiful and have small hotels and cafés. Beautiful mountains are around the city. Lots of people go sightseeing there every year. But air pollution is a problem in the city center.

HONG KONG, CHINA    This lively city—once a small fishing village—is today an international business center. It is an interesting mix of East and West, old and new. Modern tall buildings are next to small temples (庙宇). Popular nightclubs are close to traditional teahouses. Busy people fill the streets at all hours of the day. But outside the city, there are parks for walking or relaxing. Hong Kong is famous for its wonderful native dishes. There’s also food from Europe, North America, and other parts of Asia. However, this small city has a large population of nearly seven million! That’s why housing is often very expensive. Traffic and air pollution are also a problem.

1.Which of the following is NOT mentioned about San Jose?

A. The weather.         B. The mountains.       C. The air.         D. The traffic.

2.What makes Hong Kong the world’s best according to this passage?

A. The lively city and the wonderful dishes.       

B. The large population and the traffic.

C. The expensive housing.               D. The beautiful temples.

3.The writer thinks housing in Hong Kong is expensive because ________.

A. it is a small fishing village           B. it is a mix of East and West

C. it is a beautiful city                   D. there are too many people in the city

4.What do the two cities have in common?

A. They both have beautiful mountains.      B. They both have a large population.

C. Air pollution is a problem in both.      D. They are both crowded.

5.From the passage, we can know that       .

A. San Jose and Hong Kong are the only two cities of the world’s best

B. San Jose has more natural sights than Hong Kong does

C. the weather in both cities is fine

D. San Jose used to be small fishing village

Every day when I enter the classroom, I will take a look at the wall beside my seat. You will find nothing special about this old wall if you just look at it. But for the students in my class, it is a special wall. Take a good look at it, and you will get to know the real feelings and thoughts of us, the 9^th graders.

In the middle of the wall, there is a big “VICTORY”. It was written in pencil. I guess it must have been written by someone who got a good mark in an exam.

A little higher above the formulas, there is a poem. It only has two sentences. It reads: All those sweet memories have disappeared. Like tears dropping in the heavy rain.

Oh! It must have been written at the end of the last semester in middle school. Classmates had to leave school and good friends had to part. What a sad poem!

If you look at the wall more carefully, you will find many other interesting things, like a crying face, or a happy face, and other patterns(图案). There are still some patterns and letters that I can’t understand, but they all show the feeling of the students who drew them.

For years, the wall has witnessed(目睹) all the things that have happened in the classroom. I don’t know how it will be next year, two years from now, or even ten years from now. But I hope more smiling faces will be drawn on it.

1.There is ____ special on this wall.

A. something    B. anything    C. nothing     D. everything

2.What was the “VICTORY” written in?

A. Chalk    B. Pencil    C. Pen    D. Brush

3.When has the poem been written?

A. At the beginning of the last semester.    B. At the end of the year.

C. At the end of the last semester.         D. At the beginning of the last month.

4.What’s the meaning of the underlined word?

A. 部分    B. 分离    C. 和好    D. 聚集

5.What’s the title of the passage?

A. The Pictures of the Wall         B. The Feelings of the Students

C. The Patterns of the Classroom    D. The Hope of the Writer

借鉴别人的学习秘诀， 是学习的捷径之一。请把下面的学习秘诀和例子对上号。

Secrets of top students

Example One: “If I don’t understand what my teacher is explaining in the science,                        

I ask him to say it again,” says Anna Lee. “also asking more helped a lot.”   

1.____________

Example Two: “When a teacher asks us to do a lot of homework，”says Dave Roman “ I             

will draw up a timetable and plan to do it little by little, so it isn’t so tiring.

2. ___________

Example Three: One student put a vocabulary list on the wall of the bathroom. He

learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth. Another student used the time

to remember biology terms while practicing running.                     

3.____________

Example Four: In high school, Mike played football, painted and was in the band.

“I was so busy that I couldn’t waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything in order.” He says.                                                 4.___________

Example Five: Christi is an excellent student at the university. If her math teacher

asks her to do five problems, she does ten. If the history teacher asks her to read

five pages, she reads ten. “Part of learning is practicing,” she says, “and the

more you practice, the more you learn.”                              

 5.____________

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）。

that  happy  healthy  fun  exercise  fly  hard  swim  listen  many

The summer vacation is over. It’s true that time always   1. fast. During the vacation, the weather was hot and I could not do much work, but I lived   2.  .

    As the afternoon was hot. I did my work in the morning. I used to get up at 6:30 and take a walk in the garden for half an hour. After breakfast, I began reading English and Chinese and did some  3.  in math, 4. took me three hours or  5. . I worked quite   6.  and made good progress.

    I spent the afternoon outside. I went to swim and it was   7. . I would not go home until it was about five or six o’clock. Sometimes a friend of mine would come to see me and we would spend some hours   8. to music.

In this way I spent my vacation slowly. And I not only studied well but also became a good  9. . now I am in good  10. and high spirits

单词拼写(共l0小题，计10分)

1.He has a_________ his dream of becoming the winner in this competition.

2.She took part in helping people in the Wenchuan Earthquake. She would never forget this unusual e         .

3.I like c______ with my friends online very much.

4.In Lily’s paper there are f_____ mistakes than  in Jack’s.

5.I read my essay a_________ in class and everyone can hear me clearly.

6.His speech was boring, but he did not r__________ it.

7.He is good at thinking. I think he can answer the question in a d__________ way.

8.Would you mind not w______ your time?

9.Don’t stay up late, or you will feel s___________ in class during the day.

10.He joined the army(军队) five years ago, so he has been a s___________ for five years.

学校让学生参加义务劳动，以此作为教育学生的一种方法，这件事在学生中引起了强烈的反响。请你把下列不同意见整理成一篇80字左右的书面材料。

注意：短文应包括列举的所有内容，可适当发挥，不要逐字翻译。

参考词汇： argument 争论   do voluntary labor  义务劳动  respect尊重

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My best friend Neil is ________ honest boy. You can believe him.

—Jim! Is this your dictionary?

—No, it isn't. Ask Sally. She is looking for_______.

In China, red represents power ______ it is also the color of strong feelings.

—How is your friend coming?

—I'm not sure. He _______ drive here.