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江西省赣州市上犹县2024-2025学年九年级上学期期中考试英语试题
Improvements in technology often happen overnight. Some gadgets get smaller and faster. Others are replaced by newer things like smartphones. They can do hundreds of things. Here are some old gadgets that people used to use.
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Do you have a landline at home? These are phones that people plug(插入) into their living room walls. Mobile phones didn't use to be so common at that time, so most families had a landline. But landlines only worked at home. What did people do when they were outside and needed to call someone? They looked for a pay phone! Then, most people had their own mobile phones and many homes no longer had landlines.
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People today store plenty of information online, or on SD cards. But in the 1980s and 1990s, people used to use floppy disks(软盘). The first floppy disks were large, expensive, and not very useful — each disk could store just 175 KB of information! Later, floppy disks got smaller and better. But even the best ones could only hold 1.44 MB. You would need three or four disks just for one song, and about 22,000 disks to match the storage(储存空间) available on a 32 GB phone!
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It's easy to take photos today. People often have thousands just on their phones! But photos used to be expensive, and people took fewer of them. To take a photo, you had to buy a roll of film. This allowed you to take about 30 photos. After finishing the roll, you left it at a shop. The shop developed the photos to make them be seen, which you could collect after a few days.
Technology changes all the time, and the gadgets we use today will one day be old. What do you think will be next to disappear?
a. Goodbye Disks
b. Music to My Ears
c. Picture This
d. Call Me
e. Film Development
Mary, 68, a famous Italian engineer, has been a member of Eating Light Club in Guangzhou for a year.
"I used to be too heavy and have sleeping problems, and as a result I had to visit the doctor from time to time. But amazingly my situation has been greatly improved since I joined the Eating Light Club. In the club, light foods are recommended because they are foods that your body finds easy to take in and get nutrition from. I also learned to make some tasty light meals and have really got into it. So when the Free Food Fair came around, I challenged myself to a light dinner recipe（食谱）. Here it is. "
Light Dinner Whole Wheat Pasta | ||
Preparation Time: 1 0 minutes; | Cooking Time: 30 minutes; | Servings: 2 people; |
Preparation: pasta（200g）, cucumber（100g）, chicken breast（100-150g）, broccoli（50g）, garlic（5g）, cheese（20g）, black pepper（3g）. | ||
How to cook Cut the vegetables and get everything ready. Add some water to a soup pot, and let it come to a boil. | ||
√Add the pasta, salt, and a little olive oil and cook for about 15 to 20 minutes. At the same time, heat the olive oil in a pan. √Add garlic and fry it in the pan. When it turns brown, add the chicken breast and cook for 5 minutes. Then add the vegetables and fry for 3 to 4minutes. √Drain the pasta to make sure there is little water left, and then add the fried vegetables and chicken. √Add the mixture of olive oil, salt, and black pepper. √Top it with cheese. | ||
As a student, you may be required to write reviews.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Writer Luisa Plaja offers her suggestions on how to write a good review of a book.
Start with a couple of sentences describing what the book is about. As a common rule, try to avoid writing in detail(细节) about anything that happens from about the middle of the book. If the book is part of a series(系列), it can be useful to talk about this.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Pay attention to your thoughts and feelings about the story and the way it was told. You could try answering a couple of the following questions:
Who was your favourite role, and why?
What was your favourite part of the book, and why?
Did the book make you laugh or cry?
Did the story keep you turning the pages?
Talk about anything you disliked about the book.{#blank#}3{#/blank#} For example: Did you wish the ending wouldn't be magic because you found it surprising? Did you find it difficult to care about a main character, and did you know why? Did the story focus on a topic you aren't interested in?
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Summarise (总结) some of your thoughts on the book by suggesting the type of readers you'd introduce the book to. For example: younger readers, older readers, fans of relationship drama, mystery stories or comedy.
A. Gather together your review. B. Talk about why you think it didn't work for you. C. Do you like writing reviews? D. Discuss what you especially liked about the book. E. Can you complete a review easily? |
Write a title for the text (not more than 5 words). {#blank#}5{#/blank#}
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