We had different opinions how to help the children in the poor areas.
A. on B. at
C. of D. with
Forbidden City is one of most famous places in Beijing.
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假如你是张玉，是一名九年级学生，即将面临中考，可是你在英语作文方面有困难。请给某英语报社的编辑写一封电子邮件，请教如何提高英语写作技能。80词左右。信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear editor,
I’m a middle school student of Grade Nine. And I’m working hard for the coming senior high school entrance examination.
Best wishes!
Yours,
Zhang Yu
补全对话（5小题，每小题2分，共10分）
根据下面的对话情景，在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子，使对话的意思连贯、完整。
A: Hi, Mei. 1. .
B: Yes. I have just heard that I had got the chance to go to Switzerland on my student exchange program.
A: Really? How lucky you are!
B: 2. . You know I have to live with my host family. I have never been there before, so I don’t really know what I am supposed to do.
A: 3. . I know something about that. First, don’t be late. In Switzerland, it’s very important to be on time.
B: 4. . I think I’ll have to buy a watch.
A: And you can’t visit other people’s homes without calling them first. If you want to visit your friends, you must call them first.
B: Oh, that’s pretty different from the customs in Colombia where I am from. 5. .
A: Yes, that’s the difference. Good luck!
B: Thank you!
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It was my first day at Grade 6. And the first lesson was boring English. When I was doing nothing, Mr Gough, our new English teacher, 1. into the classroom.
To my 2. , he held up a book, The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe, and asked if anyone had read it. I put my 3. up, because Poe was my favorite writer. Mr Gough asked 4. I really understood what the author tried to say in his book. My reply made him smile, and he asked me to 5. an essay on that subject.
After that, English classes became a new 6. for me. Mr Gough thought that students had to act out a play to understand it. “Don’t just 7. it,” he said.
As time passed, we 8. a real friendship. He encouraged me to be a writer in the future. When I left school, he said to me, “You have a gift, Tony, and one day you’ll come to 9. how useful it is. Make use of it if you want your life to be complete.”。
Years have passed. Now, every time I sit down to write something new, I think of Mr Gough. He was
10. than just an English teacher, because he also taught me useful lessons in life.
Jane comes from Mexico. She is a good student. She likes to keep notes of the new words and expressions she learns in English. 1. She usually writes them in a notebook.
One day, she asked her teacher about them. “ 2.
There are some expressions I don’t understand.”
“Sure. What questions do you have?”
“She’s blue today. What’s the matter? You’re yellow? A little white lie (谎言). White lie? She has a green thumb (拇指). 3. ”
After looking at the notebook, the teacher says, “In English, Jane, blue sometimes means sad. For example, she is blue today; it does not mean that she is wearing a blue coat. 4. Yellow means afraid. She has a green thumb. It means that she is good at growing plants. And a white lie is not a bad lie.”
“ 5. ”
“For example, I give you some cake. You don’t like the cake, but you don’t say that. Instead, you say, ‘No, thanks. I’m not hungry!’ That is a white lie.”
“I see. Thanks a lot.”
根据材料内容，将A-E五个句子填入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整、正确，并将其标号填写在下面题号后的横线上。
A. It means that she is sad.
B. May I ask you some questions?
C. I don’t understand the last one.
D. It is really helpful for her in her study of English.
E. Blue and yellow people with green thumbs?
