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浙江省金华市义乌市七校联考2024-2025学年九年级上学期10月月考英语试题
Have you ever unlocked a shared bike? Have you ever ordered a meal online? Have you ever enjoyed watching the short- form videos on the Internet? Well, if no one had invented the cell phone, none of these would have been possible.
Luckily, someone did invent the cell phone. That person is Martin Cooper, and he did that 51 years ago, in 1973.
Cooper used to work for Motorola. In the 1970s, the company was competing with AT&. T, a larger company, to make a cell phone system. Cooper didn't think Motorola's product was good enough. He didn't like AT&T's idea of a car phone, either. The man had a new idea. He wanted to make it possible for people to talk on their phones anywhere.
It took Cooper and his team 90 days to design the world's first cell phone. The product was called Dyna TAC. People could talk on it for 25minutes before its battery（电池）died. The phone's short battery life wasn't a big problem, Cooper once joked. Why? Well, the phone was too heavy（1,100 grams）to hold in hand for more than 25minutes!
On 3 April, 1973, Cooper made the world's first public cell phone call. He called Joel Engel, an AT&T manager. Cooper told Engel, "I'm calling you on a cell phone. It's a real, handheld cell phone." On the other end of the line, there was only silence.
Cell phones have changed a lot since that first call. They're much smaller and can do many more things. Cooper, now 96, is surprised at the progress.
But the man has also kept thinking about life in the future. "Keep learning all your life," he says, "or you'll lose the ability to learn-- that would be terrible!"
{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Jack's favourite sports is basketball. He plays basketball every day after school. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Amy likes greenvery much. Her bag is green, too. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}Sam doesn't like cold weather. Now he's in Haikou, China. He goes swimming every day. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Kate is nowinGuangzhou.She'sa studentofGrade7. She likesplayingbaseball. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Henry is fromEngland.His favourite teacher isMissJiang, his Chinese teacher. | A.My friend likes green , and her bag is like my bag. They're big and green. I often take her bag by mistake(错误地). B. My friend is in a big city in Chin a now. She's in Class 5, Grade 7. She likes playing baseball. C. He is my new friend. His last name is White. His favourite sport is football. We play football after school on Friday. D. My frien d's favourite sport is swimming. The weather h ere in our city is hot in winter. We go swimming every day. E. My friend comes from England. Miss Jiang teaches him Chinese. She's his favourite teacher. F.She is from England. She's not in my class. She's in Class 7, Grade 8. But we're good friends. Our favourite colour is blue. My friend Eric likes playing basketball. I like it, too. We often play basketball after school. |
Our English teacher Mrs. Wang let us do an English research about the Chinese festivals. Here are two groups´ reports about it.
Linda´s Group |
| John's Group | |
The subject we've chosen is the Lantern Festival. We collected much information about the festival by doing some reading in the library. The Lantern Festival has a history of about 2,000 years. It's celebrated on the15th day of the first lunar month. People get together to enjoy beautiful lanterns and play riddle games. Small gifts are usually offered when they get right answers. It's a tradition to eat tangyuan on this special day. As for the next step, we will make our own lanterns and make some English riddles. This will help us understand the meaning of the festival better. | We learned about t the Dragon Boat Festival. To do the research, we searched for infor-mation online and visited a local museum about culture and customs. We've learned a lot about the festival. With a history of about 2,000 years, the Dragon Boat Festival falls on the 5th day of the fifth lunar month. People usually celebrate it by watching boat races. Zongziis eaten to honor（纪念)the great poet Qu Yuan. Next, we plan to learn how to make zongei, and produce an English video to make the festival known by more people around the world. | ||
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