Being safe in your everyday life needs knowledge. you remember the following information，your life will be much safer.

● Always notice the environment around you. You shouldn’t walk alone outside late at night. Make sure where the public phones are. If anything dangerous happens，you can find them easily.

●Your bag should be carried towards the front of your body instead of putting it on your back。When a bus is full of people，it is easy enough for a thief to take away the things in the bag on your back.

●If you are followed by someone you don’t know, cross the street and go to the other way, let the person understand that you know he or she is after you. Next，don’t go home at once. You are safer in the street than you are alone in your home or in a lift.

●If you have to take a bus to a place far away, try to get to the stop a few minutes earlier before the bus leaves. On the bus，don’t sit alone. Sit behind the driver or other people. Don’t sleep.

1.Which of the following is NOT safe when you are out?

A. Go home alone late at night.

B. Make sure where the public phones are.

C. Your bag should be carried towards the front of your body.

D. Always notice the environment around you.

2.When you are followed by someone on your way home，you should ____ to make yourself safe.

A. run home

B. find a lift and go in

C. turn back and walk towards him or her at once

D. cross the street and go to the other way.

3.When you take a bus alone，it’s safe for you______

A. to sit behind the driver or with other people，but not to sleep

B. to talk with the driver

C. to call your friends

D. to get off the bus at once

Stress is everywhere in our everyday life. Not only men have it, but also women and young people.

The most important reasons of stress are: death, diseases, exams, making money, getting married, moving houses, changing jobs, ending friendships and so on.

How do you know whether you have stress or not? Could you give your answers to the following questions?

Stress Test

If your answer "Yes" to more than two of these questions, you are one of those people with stress. So what can you do about it?

Doing relaxing exercises, talking with friends and listening to light music are all usual ways of relieving (減輕) stress. However, doctors now say that there are easier ways-people should laugh and smile more often. When you laugh and smile, your body relaxes. They also say that people, especially men, should   X   more often, because crying is a natural way of relieving stress.

1.Which of the following is NOT the reason of the stress?

A. Taking exams.    B. Changing jobs.

C. Taking medicine to help sleep.     D. Making money.

2.According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A. Women and young people never have stress.

B. Stress is everywhere in our everyday life.

C. People who answer "No" to all of the questions have great stress.

D. People who answer "Yes "to more than two of the questions have no stress.

3."X" in the passage should be the word "      ".

A. cry             B. laugh           C. smile           D. smoke

4.The main idea of the passage is       .

A. about stress and how to relieve your stress

B. that there are many reasons for having stress.

C. that laughing and smiling more can help relieve your stress.

D. that doing the Stress Test is a good way to help you live a better life.

Good writing starts with good ideas. If you write about things that you care about, you will write better. If you write about things that you don’t care about, you’ll be bored and your paper will not have many good ideas.

Once you have a good idea, the next step is organization (組織). Think through your paper before you start. Write an outline. You need to know what your main points are before you start your first paragraph. Use 2-4 main points, one paragraph each.

In your central paragraphs, be concise and specific（簡(jiǎn)潔具體）. Give examples with details, not just general ideas. If you can say the same thing with fewer words, do it! Don’t use big words.

When you finish writing, look at your outline again. Did you really follow it or did it change as you wrote? Many times you find different ideas as you write. Look at your central paragraphs. What are their main ideas now? Are theses ideas in the introduction? I often write the introduction again to fit the paper after I finish writing.

1.What is the 1^st step for a good writing?

A.Think through your paper before you start.

B.Write a good 1^st paragraph.

C.Have a good idea.

D.Look for many examples.

2.What does the word “outline” mean in the 2^nd paragraph?

A. 外形              B. 提綱             C. 中心              D. 總結(jié)

3.What should you do in the central paragraph?

A. Don’t use big words.

B. Give examples with details.

C. Say the same thing with fewer words.

D. A, Band C.

4.What should you do after finishing writing?

A. Look at your outline again.

B. Check the mistakes.

C. Look at your central paragraph again.

D. Both A and C.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have just opened a small restaurant. In order to attract customers, they put a notice in front of the restaurant, which said: “Meals on the house for three days.”

A foreign student who didn’t know much English passed by the restaurant on the second day. It was lunchtime and he felt hungry. “Well, here is a restaurant. I’m going to have something to eat,” he said.

He saw the notice when he walked towards the restaurant. “American people are really strange. They even eat dinners on the house! But how can I get onto the top of the house?” he asked himself.

He looked around and found a ladder（梯子）against a tree nearby. He was very glad. But as he reached the top, he heard someone shouting at him: “Hey, what are you doing up there?” Mr Smith was looking at him angrily. Beside him was a policeman.

“Doesn’t your notice say ‘Meals on the house for three days’? Is it just a joke?” the foreign student answered.

On hearing this, both Mr Smith and the policeman burst into laughter(開(kāi)懷大笑). “Do you know what On The House means?”

Do you know the meaning of On The House?

1.The Smiths have ____________.

A. opened a restaurant      B. built a house

C. climbed onto the top     D. been policemen

2.The student walked past the restaurant ___________.

A. when the Smiths started their business

B. when the Smiths put on the notice

C. when the policeman came to the restaurant

D. when it was time to have lunch

3.The student ____________ so Mr Smith shouted at him.

A. was very hungry

B. knew little about English

C. climbed onto the top of the house

D. took away the ladder

4.“On the house” may mean that the meal _____________.

A. is had on the house     B. is paid on the house

C. is made on the house    D. is free for the customers

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答下面的問(wèn)題。

As you’re using e-mails, remember that sending and getting letters can sometimes bring about serious trouble.

When Jim left the snow-covered streets of London for a holiday in New York, his wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel in New York, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail. But he couldn’t find the piece of paper on which he had written her e-mail address. He tried his best to remember where he had put it, but failed. Unluckily, he made a mistake and sent it to an old woman. Her husband had died a few years ago. When she saw the e-mail, she gave a terrible shout and fell on the floor. Her family rushed into the room and saw the message on the computer.

“Dearest wife, everything is ready for your arrival tomorrow.

Love, Jim.

P.S. it’s hot here.”

1.Where was Jim for his holiday?

2.Why couldn’t Jim write his wife’s e-mail address correctly?

3.Was it hot in London?

完成句子

1.Lily does her best to study English. (否定句)

Lily ________ ________ her best to study English.

2.Sophia never came to see me. (對(duì)劃線部分提問(wèn))

________ ________ did Sophia come to see you?

3.I will believe it after I see it with my own eyes. (同義句)

I _____ believe it ____ I see it with my own eyes.

4.麗娜是我們班上最高的女孩。（完成譯句）

Lina is taller than ________ ________ girl in our class.

口語(yǔ)應(yīng)用

A: 　73

B: Yes, please, I want to buy a pair of sports shoes.

A: 　74

B: Size ten or eleven.

A: OK! What about this pair?

B: Sorry! I don't like black. Have you got any other colors?

A: Other colors? 　75

B: Can I have a look at the brown ones?

A: Yes, please.

B: 　76

A: Forty-six yuan

B:　77

A: How about forty?

B: No, it's still expensive. What about thirty?

A: Thirty? Er…all right. Please take it。

短文填空

To make sure that there was enough   78   for his sister’s wedding meal（婚宴）， Ma missed four school days. He   79   the time carrying water from a lake, 30 miles away from his home. “How I wish I could live   80   a river,” said Ma.

This is the dream of many in northern China.   81   it has the world’s third largest quantity（數(shù)量）of water, China is    82   of the 13 thirstiest(最干旱的) countries.

The areas that are in most need of water are western and northern China, where there is   83  rain. These areas have just six percent of the country’s total water, but that water has to feed one third of Chinese people. Much of the water comes from underground. But using much underground water has made the ground sink（下沉）in some places.

Things are getting   84   worse because people are wasting water. Half of the water that farmers use for crops goes to waste. Factories use more water   85   they need and they put dirty water into rivers and lakes. The less water there is, the more worried people will be. How can we use water in a smart way? It’s a question for you to think about on World Water Day, Mar 22.

提示：假如你叫王平，參加了學(xué)校的“有煩惱向誰(shuí)說(shuō)？”的調(diào)查活動(dòng)（a survey）。

調(diào)查結(jié)果：

1．大多數(shù)向同學(xué)、朋友說(shuō)（理由：年齡相仿，容易交流和理解）

2．一些向老師、家長(zhǎng)說(shuō)（理由：經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富、可以得到幫助）

3．少數(shù)自己獨(dú)立解決（理由：不愿與人交流，難以與人相處）

請(qǐng)你根據(jù)中文提示用英語(yǔ)給某報(bào)社編輯寫(xiě)一封信（信的開(kāi)頭與結(jié)尾已經(jīng)給出），說(shuō)明情況并提出你自己的觀點(diǎn)。字?jǐn)?shù)80詞左右，不必逐句翻譯，可適當(dāng)發(fā)揮。

Dear Editor,

I am a Grade 9 student. Recently we have made a survey — “To whom do you go when in trouble?” Here are the results.

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Wang Ping

--It’s ________ nice day, isn’t it?

--Yes, what      fine weather!