河南省郑州市惠济区星源外国语学校2021-2022学年九年级上学期英语第一次月考试卷

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There were two men who lived next to each other. One of them was a retired teacher and the other was an insurance agent (保险代理人). Both of them had planted many different plants in their gardens. The retired teacher rarely watered his plants and didn't pay a lot of attention to them. But his neighbor was very careful with his plants and watered them often.

The retired teacher's plants were small, but still looked okay, while the insurance agent's plants were much bigger and greener. One night, there was heavy rain and wind. The next morning, both of the neighbors came out to check on their gardens. The insurance agent saw that his plants had been a mess and were totally destroyed. But the retired teacher's plants were not damaged at all but stood firm. The insurance agent was surprised. He went to ask the retired teacher, "We both grew the same plants and I cared for my plants better than you did. How could your plants still be okay?"

The retired teacher smiled and said, "Because you gave your plants too much attention. You made it too easy for them to grow. I gave my plants just a little bit of water, so their roots had to grow deeper to take in more water. That is why my plants survived. "

"What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. "Have you ever said this to someone? If so, you may have ended up becoming friends with this person.

It seems that similarity often helps form friendships. The Greek philosopher (哲学家) Aristotle once said, "Some define (下定义) it 'friendship' as a matter of similarity; they say that we love those who are like ourselves."

Now, there is some science behind this idea. Scientists from University of California said friends have similar brains, Scientific American reported.

The scientists invited 42 university students to take part in an experiment. Each student watched the same set of videos, which included a comedy, a discussion and a soccer match. Meanwhile, scientists study their brains and recorded their brain activity.

According to their study, friends who watched the same video clips reacted in similar ways. Similar parts of their brains lit up while watching the videos, especially parts that are connected with motivation (动力), learning and memory.

However, people who weren't friends had different reactions to the same clips.

Having close friends whose brains read like ours "may be rewarding because it makes one's own values, opinions, and interests strength," lead scientist Carolyn Parkinson told Business Insider.

But brain similarity is not the only thing that can result in friendship. Scientists from the University of Leipzig, Germany, found that friendship is also based on how physically close you are to someone.

They did an experiment with first-year college students who met in class for the first time. In this experiment, students who sat in neighboring seats were more likely to become friends.

Millions of Chinese have been playing a mobile game called Travel Frog recently You need to prepare food and tools for his trips. The frog will send you postcards while he is away.

. Many players have said that the lonely frog is just like them. But playing with the frog helps them forget their loneliness for a short time.

. According to the Guardian, about 40 percent of American adults say they're lonely. And in the UK, about one in five people in the country are "always or often lonely", the Telegraph reported. This might be why the UK government set up the country's first "Minister of Loneliness" in January. The minister's job is to find ways to help UK citizens feel less lonely. The minister's office will provide more money for activities that connect people together.

. When we see pictures of friends having fun or posting selfies (自拍) without us, we may compare their "perfect" lives with our own and feel worse and lonely.

. As UK poet John Donnie once wrote, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent(大陆）, a part of the main. "

A. The game's popularity may have something to do with how lonely people are these days, according to the Xinhua News Agency

B. But we should remember that no one is birth to be lonely

C. You play as the "mother" of a frog who lives alone and enjoys traveling

D. This loneliness problem may be partly because of social media

E. Loneliness seems to be a common problem today

One day Howard had to go to New York for a meeting. He flew to New York and called a taxi. He told the driver the address of the hotel and sat in the back seat.

Then the driver 1to speak to him.

"Congratulations!" he said. "You're my2passenger and this is my first day as a taxi driver, but you don't have to worry. In my old job I had lots of driving3, and I know the city very well. ''

"That's good," said Howard. "I'm sure you'll be a 4driver." "Thank you, " said the driver.

He started 5towards the hotel.

Howard looked at his 6 and noticed that he was early for his meeting. He decided to ask the driver to take him to 7bookstore. He leaned forward and tapped him on his shoulder.

The driver screamed and made the taxi go suddenly 8the road. Then it almost hit a man 9was crossing the street.

Howard was afraid. He 10 at the taxi driver, "Be careful!"

The driver screamed again, 11the taxi went suddenly to the other side of the road and almost hit a truck. The truck driver shook his fist 12.

The taxi driver booked at Howard. Then slowly he began to13.

"It's not funny," said Howard. "You could have killed 14!"

"I'm sorry," said the driver when he stopped laughing. "I thought I was still in my old job. When you tapped me on the shoulder and talked to me, I was really 15！"

"What was your old job?" asked Howard.

"Didn't I tell you?" said the driver. "I used to drive a car that carried coffins to funerals!"

To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor. You must be able to hold the attention and  of your audience(观众). You must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasant voice which is fully under your control. And you must be able to act  you are teaching, in order to make its meaning .

Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he doesn't.  still(静止地) in his class. He stands the whole time when he is  . He walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings.

There are very important differences between the teacher's work and the  . The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by . He has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do  to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

 A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audiences an active part in his play. They ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and they don't understand anything, they say no. The teacher can't learn his part by heart, but must create it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who are good actors in class but are unable to take part in a stage-play because they can't keep strictly to what another has written.

With the fast development of the technology, studying online is popular. Especially the beginning of, a new disease named COVID- broke out (爆发)all over the country. All the students couldn't go to school and had to stay at home to study online, because it has many advantages.

First, online-learning is a flexible way. The traditional way of study is to sit in the classroom, but now we can sit at home  at the coffee shop. It is convenient and efficient to get knowledge.

Second, online-learning can save a lot of money. When we want to take the course, we have to hand in a lot of money, buy books and pay the teachers.

While studying online doesn't need these. We just need to click on the button. How fast it is! We can save money and also get knowledge. Online-learning been an important part of getting knowledge. Online courses are flexible(灵活的), cheap and can save time. these advantages(好处), I believe online-learning will become more popular in the future.

A: Hello, Betty. ?

B: I visited my uncle last summer holiday. He lives in Dalian, a beautiful city.

A: ?

B: I stayed there for a week.  ?

A: No, I haven't. But I am going to spend a holiday there.

B: You'd better go to Dalian in summer. So you can enjoy swimming in the sea.

A: . . I will go there this summer vacation.

B: . ?

A: By plane.