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广东省珠海市香洲区立才学校2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中考试英语试题
Do you know iced tea? Here is a story of it. In 1904, the World's Fair was held in St. Louis, USA, from April 30th to December 1st. Businessmen from around the world brought their 1 to the fair.
Richard was a tea farm owner. He came to the fair to sell his tea. Unluckily, it was too hot that summer so nobody 2 his hot tea. Although Richard tried hard to tell people tea was 3 for the body, no one asked for even a cup. He 4 this problem so much that he was nearly crazy.
One day an 5 came to his mind. Why not make the tea into an iced drink? Then he put lots of ice into the tea and mixed them with sugar. He was 6 to find that the tea had a special flavour. It 7 sweet and cool. Many people came and wanted to buy his drinks. Richard was so happy and 8 all his iced tea at a low price. How smart he was! From then on, Richard's business became better and better, and iced tea became more and more 9 in America.
Richard's success shows us a great truth. Whenever you meet some difficulties, don't give up. Try to deal with it 10 . Maybe you will see a totally different result.
A person who writesmusic is called a composer. Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the greatest composers.
He was born onDecember 16th, 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was a clever child who became a great composerand musician. His father died when he was only eighteen years old. From thattime on he had to provide for (供养) himselfand his two younger brothers. He played the viola (中提琴)in an orchestra. In 1792, Haydn, a famous composer at the time, saw Beethoven'sperformance (表演) and realised that he was a verytalented (有才能的) musician. He asked him to come toVienna with him and study' under him.
Beethoven did, andbecame a great composer. His music was filled with his own emotions (感情) which created (创造) a new style of music atthe time. Later on, Beethoven became deaf and had to compose his music entirelyin his head without even hearing a note of it himself. He died on March 26th, 1827.
Name | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Birth | On {#blank#}1{#/blank#} 16th, 1770 |
Death | On March 26th, 18272 |
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Occupation (职业) | Composer |
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