English tutor wanted
Do you like kids? Are you outgoing? Do you have three years' experience（经验）as an English teacher? Do you have free time on Saturdays and Sundays? We need a woman teacher for our daughter. My daughter is twelve and she is not good at English.
For the job, you will:
Teach from 3:00 to 6:00 pm.
Play with our daughter.
Tell her stories in English.
You will work in our house. We live in Beihai Road, Garden District. The pay is $30 each hour.
If you want to know more information, please call Mrs. Yang at 82569876. Mrs. Yang wants for her daughter.
| A．a day | B．a good graduate（毕业生） |
| C．an English tutor（家庭教师） | D．a math tutor |
If you are the tutor, you must teach the daughter for on Saturdays.
| A．a day | B．two hours | C．three hours | D．a whole afternoon |
What is not a part of the job?
| A．Cooking for the kids. | B．Working in the kid's house. |
| C．Being good with the kid. | D．Telling English stories to the kid. |
If you want to be the tutor, you DON'T need to
| A．be beautiful | B．have three years' teaching experience |
| C．have time on weekends | D．be a woman teacher |
Which is NOT true?
| A．The tutor must teach the kid on weekends. |
| B．The kid is not good at English. |
| C．The tutor can speak English. |
| D．The tutor can get $260, if she teaches the kid for two weekends. |
Now some women are spending a weekend at Mother's Camp. There, husbands and children are not allowed. Why would a woman want to take a vacation without her family?
Some women say they need time to be alone.
At Mother's Camp a woman has room to herself. She can sleep, read or watch TV, and no one will bother her. No children will ask, "Mom, what's for dinner?" No husband will say, "Oh, dear, I can't find any clean socks." In fact almost 50% of women in the United States work outside the home. Many of them work full-time and then come home to a second job - taking care of their homes and families. These working women say one of their biggest problems is housework.
In the United States, working wives do about 75% of the housework. Many of their husbands say they want to help. But then they burn the rice or they can't find the pans. They ask so many questions that their wives decide it is easier to do the job themselves.
Some women go to Mother's Camp just to get a break from housework. For two days they don't cook, they don't clean, and they don't look after their children and husbands. What do they do? They enjoy warm, sunny weather, walking, swimming or boating in a clear blue lake and sing songs around the campfire. They relax away from home. They have a really wonderful vacation at Mother's Camp !
| A．Because they have too many friends. |
| B．Because they can't get along well with others. |
| C．Because they are too busy to relax themselves. |
| D．Because they have no time to do some shopping. |
| A．There are no husbands or children. | B．Women spend two days with their families. |
| C．Women can sleep, read or watch TV. | D．Women enjoy walking, swimming or boating. |
| A．Doing chores at home | B．Working outside the house |
| C．When to take a vacation | D．Looking after their children |
| A．almost all the women work outside the home |
| B．husbands do as much housework as their wives at home |
| C．women hate to stay at home with their husbands and children |
| D．working wives do so much housework that they want to get a rest |
| A．How busy working mothers are. |
| B．How to buy special gifts for mothers. |
| C．Mothers relax away from home. |
| D．Spending a vacation with mothers. |
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have just opened a small restaurant. They want people to come to the restaurant to eat, so they put a sign in front of it, 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 sign when he walked towards the restaurant. "American people are really strange. They even eat 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 pleased. But as he got up to 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 sign 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 laughed. "Do you know what '60n the house" means? Look it up in your dictionary."
Do you know the meaning of "on the house"?
| A．a meal | B．a sign | C．a basket | D．some flowers |
| A．lunch | B．breakfast | C．dinner | D．dessert |
| A．against the house | B．in the house | C．against the tree | D．in the tree |
| A．there was someone shouting at him |
| B．the student called the police |
| C．the student took away his ladder |
| D．someone was climbing to the top of his house |
| A．people can't afford the meal |
| B．the restaurant pays for the meal |
| C．the meal is quite delicious |
| D．people eat the meal on the house |
九年级体育中考即将到来，学生Tom, Jenny, Mary, Sally和Jack在体育方面有着各自不同的问题，请为他们选择合适的建议，将序号（A-E）填入第1~5题的空格中。
Do you know how important it is to have breakfast? A study of 2,000 teenagers in the US showed that eating breakfast daily is helpful to young people.
According to the study, teenagers who eat breakfast weigh around 5 pounds less than teenagers who do not. Although they take in more calories (卡路里) in the morning, they are more active during the day because they have more energy. This means they burn more calories than non-breakfast eaters. The breakfast does not even have to be very healthy, as eating anything is better than nothing.
The study also showed that eating breakfast keeps teenagers feeling full for longer, so they will not eat too many snacks (零食) later in the day. This is good news as most popular snacks, like sweets and potato chips, are usually unhealthy and full of calories.
Another big advantage of eating breakfast is that it helps teenagers do better at school.This is because it gives them more energy to keep their attention in class.
What's more, a study in the UK showed that adults (成年人) who eat breakfast daily put on less weight and also perform better at work.
Whatever your age is, take time to have breakfast every day.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means that _________.
| A．teenagers should eat something for breakfast |
| B．breakfast helps teenagers do better at school |
| C．breakfast must be healthy with lots of calories |
| D．the energy makes teenagers active the whole day |
Having breakfast daily makes the teenagers _________.
| A．eat fewer snacks | B．pat on more weight |
| C．relax themselves | D．burn less calories |
The passage is mainly about _________.
| A．the importance of snacks | B．how the adults perform at work |
| C．the advantages of having breakfast | D．losing weight without breakfast |
We can probably read this passage in a (an) _________.
| A．story book | B．health magazine |
| C．movie poster | D．instruction book |
Writing a good story is not an easy task. What’s the secret? Mo Yan, last year’s Nobel Prize winner in literature, believes his success comes from a large amount of reading.
Mo was born into a farming family in a village in Shandong province. He grew up listening to folk stories about gods, spirits and foxes. Those stories later became the inspiration(灵感) for Mo’s writing.
Mo left school at the age of 12 and started to work in the fields.
Although he was tired after his daily hard work, Mo was always hungry for books. However, there were very few in the village. He read his older brother’s textbooks and even dictionaries. He helped others with farm work in exchange for books.
“When I finished reading all the books around, I thought I was the most knowledgeable man in the world,” he told Xinhua.
After Mo left his hometown and joined the army in 1976, he began to read widely, including works by Lu Xun and many other famous writers. He studied from these writers but did not copy them. Instead, he developed his own style. As the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in literature, Mo told a group of reporters in his hometown shortly after he won the award. “I grew up in an environment filled with folk culture. It enters my novels whenever I pick up a pen. This has affected, even decided, my style.”Mo Yan is from .
| A．Shandong | B．Shanxi | C．Jiangsu | D．Guangdong |
Mo Yan developed his own style .
| A．while listening to folk stories about gods, spirits and foxes. |
| B．during his daily hard work in the fields. |
| C．after he studied from many famous writers |
| D．when he won the Nobel Prize in literature |
Which of the following is wrong?
| A．Mo Yan left school when he was very young. |
| B．Mo Yan read many books when he was very young. |
| C．Mo Yan was the most knowledgeable man in the world. |
| D．Mo Yan is the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in literature. |
What can we learn from Mo Yan’s success?
| A．Easier said than done. | B．Rome was not built in a day. |
| C．Well begun, half done. | D．The older, the wiser. |