Wang Jiaming from Beijing Chenjinglun High School says he is a lucky boy. He’s happy that he’s sitting the senior high school entrance exam (中考) in 2014 instead of 2016.

On Oct 22, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (北京市教委) announced that, from 2016, the English scores in the senior high school entrance exam will be reduced from 120 to 100. Of the 100 points, the listening ability scores will increase to 50. Meanwhile, the points for Chinese will increase from 120 to 150.

“The change won’t affect me. I feel so lucky because English is my strongest subject,” said Wang.

Why such a change? It places the importance on Chinese in our study, and reduces students’ pressure, said Li Yi, spokesman of the commission.

“The change will also push us to pay attention to the practical usage of English,” said Li. “ Students will be encouraged to learn to understand English menus and read English news on mobile phones.”

There isn’t news that other cities will have the same change. But several places are making changes to English tests in the college entrance exams.

For example, Shandong is considering taking out the listening part of the English exam in its gaokao.

But, “being tested for less points doesn’t mean the subject can be taken lightly.,” Bai Ping wrote in China Daily.

English has long been the world’s most commonly used language. Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji once said: “In a globalizing economy, if you cannot interact with foreighers, how can one be part of the world economy?”

Wang Jiaming said he understood the change. “Chinese, not English, is our mother tongue,” he said. “But still, I think English is both interesting and useful.”

1. In the Beijing senior high school entrance exam of 2016, __________.

A. the English scores will be cut down to 100

B. the English listening ability scores will be lowered

C. the points for Chinese will be reduced by 30 points

D. the points for chemistry will increase y 20 points

2. Wang Jiaming feels lucky because ____________.

A. he doesn’t need to take the important exam

B. the exam changed from 2016 doesn’t affect him

C. he does well in Chinese

D. he is poor in chemistry

3.What is the main purpose of the change?

A. To encourage students to learn how to order meals in English.

B. To make students learn to read English news on mobile phones.

C. To ask students to prepare for the college entrance exam.

D. To make students pay more attention to learning Chinese.

4.What does Bai Ping think of the reforms?

A. They make students spend less time on English.

B. They make it harder to get a high score.

C. Studying English is still important for the students.

D. English is both interesting and useful.

Ever since I was a little child, my parents have told me to be honest because it is the right thing to do. As I got older, I realized something very important. If just once you are deceitful and tell a lie, it will greatly change people’s opinions about you and their way of acting toward you. When you tell a lie, you lose that person’s trust forever or have to work your whole life to get it back.

It is my personal goal to achieve great things in life and honesty(诚实) will sure help me get there. For me right now losing somebody’s trust would be a truly terrible thing. My parents would be stricter on the things they let me do and the places that they used to let me go to. My friends would never again tell me a secret or believe many things I told them. Whatever you do for a living or wherever you live, honesty is something very important.

Honesty gets you much higher in life while telling a lie can make you get into more problems. I can already tell that the great people I have met so far are all honest people.

I hope that I’ll never fall into a situation where I’ll lie. Honesty is just as important to me as my family. Already, I know it is something that will improve my future and my relationship with all people. It is something about myself that I hope never to lose no matter what happens. Honesty will help me no matter whether I’m at school, home or just hanging out with friends. It is something that I hope my children will also have and value.

1.The underlined word “deceitful” in Paragraph 1 probably means “________”.

A. strangeB. luckyC. sadD. dishonest

2.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Being honest is very important and helpful.

B. The writer was taught to be honest when he was young.

C. The writer thinks it doesn’t matter if he tells a lie.

D. To win others’ trust is not easy.

3.What does the writer want to tell us in the passage?

A. Ways to be honest.

B. Honesty is very important for us to achieve our goals.

C. True friendship is based on(以…为基础) others’ trust.

D. Honesty can make us live a happy life.

4.How is the text mainly developed?

A. By making comparisons.(作比较)B. By showing facts.

B．By explaining reasons.D. By giving examples.

用方框中所给单词或词组的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。

1..Would you like to ________your experiences with me?

2..After two _______ holiday, we came back to work

3.They crossed the road in______.

4..All the students are ________ to behave well both at school and at home.

5..Harry keeps doing exercise every day.As a result, he is five kilos ______ than he used to be.

All the ninth-graders are busy with our work. The entrance examination to senior middle school is ___(在…周围) the corner .Most of us may soon start a new _____(时期) of life in a senior middle school of Jinhua City. However, some are taking a different path. For Jiang Li, it’s _____(必要的) to go back to her hometown Dongyang to take the entrance exam because her parents work there.Feeling sorry about leaving her friends, Jiang Li is still optimistic(乐观的) about her future. She is preparing for the best ___(当地的) senior middle school in Dongyang. _______(有希望地) she will go to Beijing University soon. Pan Ming is leaving Jinhua, too. He ­___(选择) to study abroad because he thought foreign schools are more free and flexible(灵活的).He expects he can develop his _____(兴趣) in drama and biology freely there. It’s the ______(第一) time for him to go abroad, so his mother worries that he can’t look after ____(他自己) well. Luckily, he will be able to live with his elder sister in the US. He is ___(计划) to go to a top university in California and become a doctor in the future.

任务型阅读（共5小题，每小题1分，共5分）

根据俚语的英文解释，选择合适的俚语（填序号）填入句子中，使之通顺，达意。

call it quits : stopping doing what one is doing

a chip off the old block: a child who looks like his parent

down and out: living a very poor life

clean up one’s act: change one’s heart and reform, make a fresh start in life

a leg up: coming out on top, having the advantage over

burn someone up: make someone angry

1. You’d better _____ if you want to go to a good senior middle school.

2.All Jeff’s hard work is paying off. He’s ____________on the rest of his competitors.

3. After being in the used car business for 40 years, Simon finally ________.

4.Sarah was _______ after losing her job and her apartment.

请选择以上其中一个你喜爱的俚语造一个句子。

5._____________________________________________________________________

Time is 1. for businessmen;

Time is 2. for doctors;

Time is so 3. to everyone, it will never 4. .

As for me, 5. .

一首 “ Where is the time？” 又一次引发了人们对时间的感慨，作为即将参加中考的你，将怎样充分利用时间，为初中三年画上一个圆满的句号。请从以下几个方面，以“ Treasure every minute”为题，写一篇不少于100词的短文。（文章里不能出现真实校名和人名）

（1）时间的重要性 (2) 你身边浪费时间的现象

（3）你的时间去哪儿了 （4）你将怎样充分利用余下的时间？

Treasure every minute

In the United States, Father's Day falls on ________ third Sunday in ________ June.

A. the; / B. the; a C. /; the D. a; /

It’s a good habit to turn off the unnecessary lights, it can help save .

A. space B. energy C. time D. food

— What can we learn from Lei Feng?

— We should not only think about , we should think about others as well.

A. yourself B. ourselves C. themselves D. yourselves