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广东省汕头市龙湖实验中学2019届九年级下学期英语开学考试试卷（含听力音频）
Walking down the city streets, you look up and see a red telephone box. Behind it, on the road, a big red double-decker bus by, carrying citizens and tourists. This is London. And the red bus has been a of the city.
Modern transportation has changed the way we live. One important kind of transport has been the bus. In London, buses play a role than other kinds of transport. They are to go around the city. Red tourist buses have open roofs, which let people many photos as they drive past Big Ben, the Thames, the London Eye, so on.
But how did the bus become special to London culture? Horse-drawn buses have been used in London 1829. By the early 20th century, motor-buses were driving around London. Bus companies used different at that time. The biggest company chose red. In 1933, when London transport was grouped into a single company, they chose most widely used color at that time—red.
And so the color red stayed in London. But it was during the mid-1950s that the red double-decker was born. All of them were built 1954 and 1968. That is why they still look traditional.
use, read, write, Interest, walk |
It was my first day at Grade 8. And the first lesson was {#blank#}1{#/blank#}English. When I was doing nothing, Mr. Li, our new English teacher, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} into the classroom. To my surprise, he held up a book, The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, and asked “Who{#blank#}3{#/blank#}it yet? “. I put my hand up, because Poe was my favorite writer. Mr. Li asked if I really understood what the author tried to say in his book. My reply made him smile, and he asked me{#blank#}4{#/blank#}an essay on that subject. Mr. Li said “You have a gift for writing, Tony.” After that, English classes became a new interest for me. And now I realize how{#blank#}5{#/blank#} English is.
laugh, carefully, want, see, feel like, difficult, meet, practice, mind, bad |
My classmates talked about the winter camp. Everyone was happy except (除……之外) me. I didn't {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to go skiing (滑雪) at all. I wanted to stay at home but my parents asked me to go.
When arriving at the camp our coach (教练) asked us to ski I thought I skied {#blank#}2{#/blank#}
than others but I still didn't do a good job. Ha, Ha! behind me，someone started {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
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The next day I didn't want {#blank#}7{#/blank#} skiing. But my coach chose me to be the first one to ski down the slope (斜坡).This time I {#blank#}8{#/blank#}I was flying and it was wonderful. After that I wasn't afraid anymore. And I didn't {#blank#}9{#/blank#}what other people thought of me. That day my coach said I skied the most beautifully of all.
From this I learned that we should try our best {#blank#}10{#/blank#}every challenge (挑战).
A. vegetables, B. healthy, C. shopping, D. clean, E. spends, F. buy, G. potatoes, H. like I. sell |
Some people like shopping online. They{#blank#}1{#/blank#} clothes, books or computers on it. Like many other clever Chinese, Wu Songzhi is shopping online, too. "My family and I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to eat tomatoes, broccoli, lettuce and{#blank#}3{#/blank#} so I want to buy organic (有机的) ones. Said Wu. “They are{#blank#}4{#/blank#}and I don't have to wash them so many times. Every month, Wu {#blank#}5{#/blank#} about 600 Yuan on organic vegetables and meat on online organic shop. There are many people in Beijing{#blank#}6{#/blank#}like Wu. They are eating and buying organic food. People buy organic food because they want to be more{#blank#}7{#/blank#}. They also want to know about their food.
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