My father woke up early one summer morning when I was fourteen and announced, “Get up, you’re going with me to cut the grass in the garden.”

The idea that my father thought I was old enough to help him in his business made me feel proud and excited. From sunup to sundown, my father, my younger brother and I worked in the large garden. By the end of the day I was too tired to say a word but I felt happy. This was my first time to help my father in his business. I got $6 for my work that day.

One day my father found some leaves I had missed and pulled me aside. “Take away these leaves!” he said. “And don’t make me have to tell you to do it again.” The message was clear. Today I value the importance of doing job well the first time. I will never fail to impress (留下印象) the person I’m working for.

After two years, my father told me and my brother that he felt we were old enough to cut the grass by ourselves. Every Saturday during my last two years of high school, we set off early in the morning with the same wish we had gained while working under our father.

Looking after the garden was neither exciting nor high paying, but that didn’t matter. It taught me that any job was a good job and whatever I was paid was more than I had before.

A newspaper reporter once asked me how someone could possibly live with hard work and low pay. “If you’re only thinking about hard work and money, you probably don’t want to do better than you are doing,” I answered. In every job, from cutting the grass to washing dishes, I’ve learned much. I’ve learned something that helps me in my next job.

If you work hard enough, you can learn from any job you do.

7. The writer ______ from working in the garden.

A. learned to work hard to get money

B. found he could be well paid

C. felt he could impress others by working hard

D. learned any job was good though he might be paid less

8. When the writer finished high school, maybe he was ______ years old.

A. fourteen             B. eighteen             C. twenty           D. twenty-two

9. The writer’s father was ______.

A. very strict but helpful

B. lazy and easy to get angry

C. careful and enjoyed working in the garden

D. funny and hard-working

10. Which is the most important to the writer according to the passage?

A. Finishing work as quickly as possible.

B. Asking no money for your work.

C. Keeping learning from any job you have.

D. Keeping on looking for different jobs.

We often forget that people in other countries eat different things from us．In some countries．for example， rice is a staple food(主食)．In others，such as Britain and America，bread made from wheat is the most important food．In many African countries a kind of corn called maize(玉米)is the most important food．

Most countries have dishes that were first created there．In China such dishes as sweet and sour pork，shark’s fin soup，and flied rice are very common．In Thailand and India people eat 111any different curries．They like their food hot and spicy．In England，a favorite dish is roast beef The Italians eat pasta，which is a kind of noodle made from wheat．French food is very famous everywhere．It is often very rich．

    In recent years fast food—sometimes called‘junk food’—has become very popular all over the world. It was invented in the USA，and the first fast food was the hamburger．Interestingly，a hamburger does not actually contain ham．It’s made from ground beef There are restaurants and takeout places selling hamburgers in most cities of the world．

    The most international food，however，is Chinese．There probably isn’t a city anywhere that does not have at least one Chinese restaurant．This is because there are so many different dishes from so many different parts of China that there is something for everyone，whatever their favorite kind of food．

11．Where is shark’s fin soup a common dish?

A．Britain．         B．The USA．     C．China．         D．India．

12．What kind of dishes are often hot and spicy?

 A．Soups．          B．Curries．      C．Hamburgers．     D．Pastas．

13．Where was junk food invented?

A．Thailand．        B．The USA．    C．Italy．           D．India．

14．What was the first fast food?

A．Ground beef．     B．Noodles．     C．Ham．           D．Hamburgers．

15．Why do many cities have Chinese restaurants?   

A．Because Chinese food has something for everyone．

B．Because Chinese food is very cheap，

C．Because Chinese food is everyone’s favorite．

D．Because there are so many different kinds of Chinese restaurants．

缺詞填空，其中13-15是根據上下文語境根據首字母填單詞（15分）

1.More information can be ________(可獲得的) on the Internet.

2.We all think his ________ (行為) is very strange. We must stop him from doing so.

3.This gift is so expensive that I can’t ________(接受) it.

4.Thank you very much for giving me so many useful__________(建議)．

5.I have________(答復)to my penfriend’s letter．

6．Mr Wang is busy__________(解釋)everything to us．

7．He often__________(吵架)with his parents in the past．

8．__________(原諒)others for their mistakes is a good virtue．

9．Lily told me that she_________(寧愿)to listen to music to relax herself．

10.Do you know who __________ (發(fā)現) America?  

11.The old man is different from others. He doesn’t act ____________ ( 正常 ).

12.Peter has had his bicycle _______________(修理).

13.Did you know that colours can i _______ our moods?

14.Who has p___________my bedroorn pink? My father.

15．Lin Tao is very clever，but he never shows off．He is m_________ ．

翻譯句子（15分）

1．你把包忘記在家里，你真粗心．

2．丹尼爾今天心情不好，不想跟任何人講話．

3．說實話，在下雨天我除呆在家別無選擇．  

4.許多我這個年齡的學生不知如何去處理這些問題．

5.他說那個演講值得一聽．

假設你叫王圓，是第二中學的一名初三學生,你現在遇到了一個困難，不知如何解決，你要寫信告訴劉老師，他是你們學校的青少年工作者，你希望他給你提供一些意見。字數在80詞以上。信的要點如下：

1.你有很多興趣愛好，但你經常很忙，找不到足夠的時間來做想做的事。

2.你不能在學習和興趣愛好兩方面獲得平衡。

3.所以你感到很有壓力，壓力的來源有：

①老師給你的壓力：家庭作業(yè)②父母給你的壓力：對你要求嚴格，想你得高分。③自己給自己的壓力是……（如：想要成為班上最優(yōu)秀的學生）

4. 你想通過多穿白色的衣服來減少壓力，但不是非常有用。

5. 你希望劉老師盡快回信，給你提供意見和幫助。

Dear Mr Liu,

I am a Grade 9 student of No. 2 Secondary School. I have a problem,  

but I don’t know                                                              

John is ______ honest boy. He has­­­­­______ useful book.

A. an; an          B. a; a           C. a; an         D.an; a

— The classroom is    clean     it was yesterday.

— Sorry, I forgot to clean it.

       A. as; as          B. so; as         C. not so; as     D. more; than

______ all the stories, I think the first story is ______ one. 

A. In; the most funny                   B. Of; the most funny 

C. Of; funniest                        D. Of; the funniest

Please read them carefully. ____ you are, ___ mistakes you’ll make.

        A. The more carefully, the fewer          B. The more careful, the less

        C. The more carefully, the less            D. The more careful, the fewer

When I walk_____ the classroom, all the students are listening carefully.

     A. passed         B. to pass         C. past          D. pass