题型:完形填空 题类: 难易度:普通
广东省深圳市龙岗区2024-2025学年九年级上学期开学测试英语试卷
It was Saturday morning when I was six years old. Christmas was still three weeks away, but everyone in town was 1 . Santa Claus, the Father Christmas, was coming in our small Irish town.
The main street was full of children. They cheered 2 as the band passed by. Santa followed on a white 3 . He waved to the crowd while shouting, "Ho! Ho! Ho!" But just as he passed me, his beard (胡须)fell off. That was when I knew Santa wasn't real and started to4 . Tears were welling up in my eyes.
The man on the horse was my dad.5 ,1 wasn't surprised. Dad was always the most popular person in our town. He sang in church, acted in the theatre and even 6 on TV
Thirty years later, my dad visited me in New York City. It was his 7 time in the United States, and he felt like a very excited child.Atdinner, he told me a story.
Back in the 1950s, my dad left school at the age of 16 to work in a small 8. One summer, his Uncle Ben came home from the US. He told Dad to go to America with him. But my grandma wasn't 9 with the idea. My dad was the only breadwinner in the family. In the end, he stayed and never left.
At that moment, I understood that Dad was once young. Father Christmas also had dreams. But he10 those dreams for______his family. What would he have become if he had gone to New York? Could he have become a famous singer, actor or dancer?
Sadly, dad just worked in that small factory for 40 years.
Spring Festival(春节) is a big festival in China. Chinese like Spring Festival not because of the new clothes or nice food, but being with their family.
Amy | I'm 13. I'm from Guangdong. I get "oranges" from my grandparents because "orange" in Chinese pinyin sounds "Cheng". "心想事成" in Chinese is the same as "good luck(好运)" in English. It is so fun. |
Tom | I'm 12. I am from Shanxi. Our family always eat nice dumplings(饺子). And I always get a big red bag from my grandparents. This year, my mom buys red socks for me. She says it's for good luck, I'm so happy. |
Lucy | I am 12, too. I'm from Sichuan. My family buy new red clothes on Spring Festival. We eat tangyuan on Spring Festival. It is very nice. I like Spring Festival very much. |
How to write a secret message Do you want to write a message that can only be read by a person? It is a secret message for that person only. The other people can't see the message on the paper. Only that person knows how to make the message appear. Here's an experiment(实验)on how to write such a message. You'll need *half a lemon *a cup *four spoons of water *a cotton swab(棉签) *white paper *a light bulb(电灯泡) What to do 1. Squeeze(挤)some lemon juice into water. Mix the water and juice 2. Put the cotton swab into the mixture(混合物)and make it wet. Use the wet cotton swab to write some words on the paper. 3. Let the paper dry. Show it to someone and ask if he or she can see the words on the paper. 4. Hold the paper close to a light bulb to heat it. Ask him or her again. Let me explain it! Lemon juice has chemicals that have carbon(碳). The chemicals break down easily when they are heated(加热). And the carbon makes them turn into a dark color. |
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