广东省广州市西关广雅实验学校2021届九年级上学期英语开学考试试卷

    I'm glad it's Sunday again. I can stay in bed as1 as I like, drinking tea and2 those thick newspapers that are brought3 the newsboy through the letterbox at 8:30. In this way, I can catch up with all the things4 I haven't got time to read during my work time.

    When I have read the newspaper, I then prepare 5 bath. The Sunday morning bath is6of the week. There's no need to hurry because there's no bus. 7and my friends are told not to call me up before noon on Sundays, so there is no danger of8 by the telephone.

    How to spend the afternoon after lunch9 always a bit of problem. In summer I can go to the park and sit in a chair watching boys10football, while in winter I sit in front of the fire and fall asleep when11a book, sometimes I turn on the television and sleep through an old film. Then there's the evening ahead of me. Perhaps I'll call on some friends or go to the cinema to choose12 I want to see. Oh there are13many  pleasant ways of passing  Sunday evenings. The only sad thing is that Monday morning is getting14. I like Sunday. It makes me15 back to the work. And now I am looking forward to the next Sunday.

Class 7 was the worst class in Hill Valley High School. The students were 1 behaved and had no interest in their lessons. When a new headmaster came to work at the school, he decided to do something about Class 7. On the second day of school, he walked to Class7's room. He did not need to know 2it was.  He could hear the noise from it. He stood3the  classroom for a few moments and looked inside through the window. He was4about what he saw. Some boys were fighting. Other students were throwing things at one another, No one was doing any work. The headmaster had experienced in badly behaved classes before. He knew what to do. He would go into the classroom, take hold of the biggest boy in the class and, 5him. He took   a deep breath and opened the classroom door.

The students paid no6to him. "Silence" he shouted at the top of his voice. This time the students stopped what they were doing and looked at him. Quickly he walked up to the oldest-looking boy in the room. He was also the noisiest and had been7at the top of his voice all the time. He took hold of him by ear and pulled him to the 8of the class.

"I am going  to punish you as an/a9 to the others", he said. "Now go to my office and wait for me." Then he turned to the class and told them about what they should do in school. When he finished, he said, "Does anyone have any 10?" One of the students put up her hand and said, "Yes, sir, I have. When can we have our teacher back?"

"How many common English words were invented by Shakespeare?"

How long did it take people to find the answer to this question 15 years ago? And now! You can google it and find the answer immediately!

Google is the most popular Internet search engine in the world. It was invented by two students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met in 1993, when they were studying computer science at Stanford University, USA. They dreamed of producing something that could also answer any question in seconds.

Internet search engines at that time were slow and many websites weren't useful. In January 1996, Page and Brin decided to make a better and faster search engine. They thought the results should be based on the most popular websites.

Nobody would give them money for their project, so they used their own money. They also borrowed money from family and friends. Then, in 1998 they were given a cheque for $100,000, and they started their own company. Their first office was in a friend's garage. The company's name is Google, a word which comes from mathematics. A "Google" is a very high number 1 followed by a hundred zeros.The Google search engine was soon used by thousands of people worldwide because it was fast, easy and correct. By 2002 it was the biggest search engine on the Internet. Now, more questions have been answered by Google than any other Internet service, from sport to science, and from music to medicine. Google hopes that in the future all the world's information will be put on the Internet, so that everybody can find everything.

A beautiful actress called Ruby Lin finally got married with Wallace Huo in 2016. Many of her fans felt happy for her.

Born on January 1, 1976, Ruby grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. She is the eldest children of her family. She has one a year younger brother and the other one six years younger. Her father was a businessman, and her mother was a housewife. Her English name was from her mother's love of the jewel. When Lin was seven years old, her parents broke their marriage. She lived with her mother. She graduated from Ri Xin Primary School and Zhong Dian High School. She planned to go to England to study after high school graduation.

However, in her second year of high school, she first got involved in film and TV industry. So she went to have a try. She told herself that if her filming career didn't take off, she could still go back to school. When she received her first experience in front of the camera in 1995, acting as a minor role, she became interested in acting. After filming her first TV commercial, Lin caught the attention of TV and film directors. In 1995, Lin received her first role in a film called School Day. The same year, she also acted as the supporting role in Taiwanese TV dramas. In 1996, Lin went to mainland China for the first time to film. She considered it as a valuable experience and the time that she began to learn about acting. In 1997, Lin became popular as the beloved Princess Ziwei in the series called My Pair Princess.

In 2000, she worked in Hong Kong TVB's production of The Duke of Mount Deer with Dicky Cheung, Shu Qi and other well-known performers. As Lin felt she had achieved all she could in television, she also appeared in three Hong Kong films in 2000. Since 2002, Lin has focused on her career in mainland China and became successful. In 2002, she appeared in the romantic TV series Boy and Girl which was broadcast throughout China by CCTV. With this series, Lin Was selected one of the Top 10 actresses of the year. Of those 10 actresses, she was the only one from Taiwan.

From then on, she became more and more famous. Though her parents didn't agree her to be an actress at first, they finally accepted it for her success and passion.

Perhaps your childhood piano lessons made you never want to play the piano again. Perhaps a piano is too expensive for you to afford. Now, thanks to a program in Sydney called "Play me, I'm yours", people are able to play the piano in public places for free. They share beautiful music, and the program also helps them communicate with each other.

Thirty pianos have been placed in different parts of the city, including in several parks, at a bus stop and on some streets. The pianos have the logo "Play me, I'm yours" on them. People are invited to play music or sing songs with the pianos, no matter what level of ability they have. Lots of people have been attracted to the program and stopped to watch or play the pianos.

"Play me, I'm yours" is a part of the Sydney Festival. It is a project of the British artist, Luke Jerram. He wants to help people in the city connect with each other. He thinks that so many people are sitting in front of computers and busy with their work all hours, and they almost have no chance to enjoy music. So the purpose of the project is to help them relax and make new friends.

The program "Play me, I'm yours" has also reached England and Brazil. It was warmly welcomed there. But its greatest success seems to come at the Sydney Festival. "It's a chance for people to be creative, connect with strangers and just have some fun." Jerram said.

Most of us think the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.In fact, an Italian named Antonio Meucci was officially recognised (认定) as the inventor a few years ago. Who is Meucci and why wasn't he known for his invention at the time?

Antonio Meucci was born in Italy in 1808. He studied engineering and drawing. During his studies, Meucci started to experiment with electricity.

     When two places were connected with wire, people in those places could hear each other talk.

In 1850, Meucci and his wife, Ester, moved to New York. Meucci was worried about his wife, because she had become very ill.To solve this problem, he connected metal cables between his home and his workshop. This way, they could talk to each other conveniently.

Meucci invited a group of people to see his new invention. They listened in amazement as the voice of singer was heard through the wires.

Even worse, Meucci never applied for a patent (专利) on his invention.

Meanwhile, Alexander Graham Bell was working on the same idea and in 1876 the patent for the telephone was given to him.

In 2002 more than a century after Meucei's death, his work was finally regconised by the government.

What's the most important thing in the world? I think it is to be healthy. You can live (with) money, houses, cars or computers, but you won't live a happy life if you are not healthy. Then how can we healthy?

First we must have healthy eating habit. We should eat meat, vegetables, fruit and other food. Don't eat too salt or sugar. We must drink enough water every day. What' more, we'd better eat regularly. Don't eat too much or too little.

Second, taking exercise is also very important. It can help us build a strong body. If you don't like sports you can walk for half an hour after meals.

Third, we should have a good sleep. We'd better go to bed and get up (early).

It will keep us active for a whole day.

Finally, we must stay happy all the time.

a word, keeping healthy is very important. Let's take good care ourselves.

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