广东省韶关市南雄市2021-2022学年九年级下学期英语第一次教学质量监测(开学考试)

Mozart's music is popular all over the world. It's neither too fast nor too slow. It can cheer you up when you are sad and calm you down when you are nervous. 1 power of his music is far beyond our imagination.

Once, a newly born baby Krissy weighed only 5.4 pounds at birth. Doctors all said she had no chance to live long,2 her mother didn't think so. She kept 3 Mozart's music for Krissy and deeply believed it would save her daughter's life. 4, Krissy survived (存活下来). 5 the age of four, the little girl became very interested in music and her parents gave her violin lessons. Soon, Krissy's musical talent 6. She was able to play many musical pieces in just a month. Of course, all of them were Mozart's. Playing music also helped her understand 7 improve herself in all areas of her life. She now has become a famous 8 in America.

Mozart's music is helpful in many other cases. 9 is said that people can learn a new language more easily when they listen to Mozart's music. In France, cows listening to Mozart's music usually 10 more milk.

Why does Mozart's music have such a great power? Listen to it by heart and maybe you'll find out the secret.

One day, a teacher went into her classroom with a glass of water. She wanted to 1 stress management (管理) to her students. She started with "How 2 is this glass of water?"

Some students said it weighed 200 grams, others gave up guessing and 3 said they didn't know.

She smiled and replied, "In fact, the weight of the glass doesn't matter. It 4 how long I hold it. If I hold it for a 5, it's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, I'll have to call an ambulance (救护车). In each situation, it's the same weight, but the 6 I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

She 7, "That's the way it is with stress. If we carry our burdens (负担) all the time, sooner or later, as they become increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on."

"Just like 8 this glass of water, you have to put your stress down for a while and rest before holding it again. 9 we're refreshed, we can carry on with our burdens – holding them more easily each time."

As this teacher said, we shouldn't carry our burdens around all the time. No matter what burdens you're carrying now, put them down for a moment and have a 10. Your mind will thank you for it.

Here is a poster about the high-tech helpers in the fight of COVID-19.

Doctors diagnose (诊断) patients online. Robots help to send food to patients. Drones (无人机) monitor (监控) people in crowds. We are using new ways to fight COVID-19. They can help people avoid contacting with each other. Let's meet these high-tech helpers!

Please check more information on www.high-tech.com.cn.

How do animals recognize (识别) human's faces? This question is at the heart of Chinese American scientist Doris Tsao's research. Tsao was known as one of the winners of 2018 MacArthur Award (麦克阿瑟奖) —one of the highest academic (学术的) honors in the US. Each year, the MacArthur Foundation chooses twenty to thirty talented people and gives money for their work.

Tsao's team does some experiments with monkeys. The scientists found out that there are about 200 nerve cells (神经细胞) in the monkeys' brains. They can help the monkeys to recognize faces. Each cell can recognize a different facial characteristic, such as the shape of our face or the color of our skin. With all of the information, monkeys can build a picture of a person's face in their minds.

Through their study, the scientist showed us how monkeys "see" human faces in their own minds. They showed the monkeys pictures of some different human faces. At the same time, they recorded the activity of every nerve cell in the monkeys' brains. Then, they were able to use computer to study this brain activity and finally find out the faces that the monkeys "saw" in their minds.

Although the study was about monkeys, scientists believe that human beings might recognize faces in a similar way. Police could use this technology in the future. They could recreate the face of a bad guy by recording a witness' (目击证人) brain activity, Tsao told the Daily Mail.

Let's clean up the ocean together! We know it's important to have dreams. However, to make the dreams come true is not an easy thing. A young Dutch man  Bryan enjoys working hard to make his dreams come true.

Bryan was 16, he went diving (潜水) in Greece. He was shocked to see plastic bags than fish in the sea. Bryan made up mind to clean up the ocean. However, everyone told him that there was nothing he could do to plastic bags from going into the ocean. But young man didn't give up. He spent several months studying plastic pollution. Finally, he came up with a science project using floating barriers (漂浮的栅栏) tothe waste. That is to say, instead of using nets and ships to collect the plastic bags, the barriers can make the plastic bags come together the help of natural ocean currents (洋流) and wind. What's more, the collected plastic can be recycled and made into products or oil.

Bryan won prizes for the project, but that was not enough for him. He wanted to make it a reality. In 2013, he set up The Ocean Cleanup. Together with scientists, engineers and volunteers, the young man is working to clean up the ocean. This will help make our world a better place.

We all love food. But when you can't finish your meal, how do you feel? You might think that wasting a little bit of food isn't a big deal. But when a whole school starts to save food in their cafeteria, it will make a big difference.

In the cafeteria at Hengyang No.1 Middle School in Hunan province, new banners are put up. "Who knows that each bowl of rice is the fruit of hard toil? (谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦)". "Refuse to waste food."

This is part of a nationwide campaign called "Clear Your Plate" to cut down on food waste in China. "There used to be 100 kg of food waste every day. But now, there is only 25 kg of food waste every day, as students are encouraged to take just the amount of food they need," said the cafeteria's manager.  

In fact, food waste has long been a big problem around the world. According to a study by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese people wasted 35 million tons of food each year. That is enough to feed the entire country of South Korea for a whole year. The UN says there are 820 million people around the world who live in hunger. By cutting down on food waste, we could help put food on the empty plates of many hungry people.

近来，"光盘行动"悄然流行，这一行动引导崇尚节约，反对浪费的社会风气。请你写一篇短文谈谈你的看法。

内容包括：

1）描述一次你所经历的或你看见的浪费粮食的事件，并说说你当时的感受；

2）作为学生，我们该怎样支持"光盘行动"？（两个建议）

3）呼吁大家节约粮食，杜绝浪费。

作文要求：

1）不能照抄原文；不得在作文中出现学校的真实名称，老师和你以及同学的真实姓名。

2）语句连贯，词数80个左右。作文的开头已经给出，不计入总词数，也不必抄写在答题

卡上。

Nowadays, Clear Your Plate activity is popular.