浙江省新目标版初中英语九年级上学期期末模拟试卷（6）

    One day an Australian farmer Joe saw a bright light in the sky. The light came nearer and nearer and suddenly Joe saw that it was a spaceship. The spaceship landed in a field quickly.

    The door of the spaceship opened and two strange beings climbed out. Joe was afraid of them. He tried to run away. But the spacemen walked towards him, picked him up and carried him into the spaceship. They put wires from a machine onto his head and then they could speak to him in English.

    They asked him questions about the Earth. "We're from Venus（金星）," they said, "but it is getting very hot there. A lot of our people are dying and we haven't much time left. We are trying to find a new home."

    After some time they freed Joe and at last the spaceship took off and could not be seen.

    Joe told his friends about the spacemen, but no one believed his story." You'll believe me one day, "Joe told them." The spacemen will come back..."

    My 14-year-old son, John, and I saw the coat at the same time in a second-hand clothing store. It stood out among big and old coats. It was so beautiful and had an unbelievable price, $ 28. I looked at my son and we both said nothing, but John's eyes shone. Dark, woolen coats were popular with teenage boys, but new ones could cost several hundred dollars. This coat was even better. John tried it on and turned from side to side, eyeing himself in the mirror. It fit him so well.

    John wore the coal to school the next clay. After he came home, I asked. "Did the kids like your coat?"

    "They loved it," he said with a big grin.

    Over the next few weeks, John changed. He was polite, less argumentative, more thoughtful, and much happier. "Good dinner, Mom," he would say every evening. Without a word of complaining, he would carry in wood for the stove. One day when I suggested that he might start on his homework before dinner, John, who always put things off, said, "You're right. I guess I will." When I mentioned this change to one of his teachers, she joked that the coat must have changed him.

    John and I both know we should never judge a person by his clothes. But it is true that when wearing beautiful and suitable clothes, we may try to be better in thought, speech and behavior to match what is on the inside to what is on the outside.

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    Before we go to another country, it is necessary for us to learn something about its customs and history. Take Britain as an example. …

    The golden rule is: Watch the other people. Do as they do.

—No，he doesn't. But he used to (smoke) a lot, now he has given it up.

    There was a little girl named Jane Eyre whose parents had passed away. Jane used to live with her aunt and her aunt's three spoiled(被宠坏的) children. Her cousins always got her into trouble so her aunt did not want to look after her anymore. Soon, Jane was sent to a school far from home.

    On her first day at school, the headmaster, Mr. Brocklehurst introduced Jane to the other pupils. He told them that no one was allowed to talk or sit beside Jane because she was a bad child. He punished her by making her stand in a corner that day. She was very sad and lonely. Nobody dared to disobey(不服从) Mr. Brocklehurst, or they would have to clean the school hall all night. The pupils had no enough food to eat and they were usually hungry. Jane felt very miserable there.

    Ten years later, Jane completed her schooling. She was glad to get away from the school. She worked for a rich man named Mr. Rochester. Jane was asked to look after his young daughter, Adele. Jane liked working in the house. However, Mr. Rochester was a strange man. He was very quiet and always looked sad. Jane felt sorry for him and was kind to him. Jane would spend time talking to him. Soon, little by little, his sadness lifted.