As the old Chinese saying goes,“food is very important for people.”Although food has played ___ important part in Chinese culture for years, hunger had been a huge problem in the country until the 1970s.
But there is a very great person ___ helps to solve the problem. The great person is the Chinese scientist Yuan Longping. When he was a child, he____ the people were hungry. And he felt very sad. He wanted to change the condition（状况）. From then on. he studied hard in order to make people have ____ food than before to eat.
When Yuan Longping grew up and worked, he has been doing researches on rice ____ he was at college. He overcame one and another problems. In 1964, he discovered a______ rice plant after hard work. Since then, he has made great progress on hybrid rice （杂交水稻）.So，he ____ “the Father of Hybrid Rice." For the honor（荣誉），he never cares about it. He still works in the filed ____ dawn（黎明）to sunset like a farmer.
Yuan's hybrid rice is helping to solve food problems around the world. Although Yuan is knowledgeable, he understands that even the wisest people ____ still learn new things all the time. His spirit really encourages us ___ hard. So learn from him from now on!
1.A.a B.the C./ D.an
2.A.what B.which C.who D.whose
3.A.see B.saw C.sees D.seen
4.A.more B.many C.much D.the most
5.A.although B.when C.if D.since
6.A.specially B.special C.most special D.more special
7.A.is called B.called C.was called D.calls
8.A.for B.beyond C.thought D.from
9.A.should B.must C.might D.could
10.A.study B.to study C.try D.to try
初中的学生和生活中有许多事情值得回忆。它使你激动，令你动情，让你回味。请以“My Memory”为题写一篇英语短文，说说你的感受。
提示词：What happened? When and where did it happen? How did you feel?
要求：
1.参加提示内容，可适当发挥；
2.语句通顺；意思连续，书写工整；
3.文中不得出现你的任何真实信息（姓名、校名和地名等）；
4.词数不少于70词。
My Memory
根据对话内容，将方框内符合对话情景的句子抄写在对话空白处，使对话恢复完整选项中有两项是多于的。
A: Hi, Mary. Your skirt looks really nice.
B: Thank you. 1.
A. This kind of skirt is now in style.2.
B: Cotton. Very comfortable to wear it.
A: Wow! Why not wear it to school?
B: 3. We must wear school uniforms.
A: I think we should be allowed to wear our own clothes.
B:I agree with you. 4.
A. Great!5.
B: Sorry, I don’t know. It’s not polite to ask how much the gift costs.
A: Forgive me for saying this.
What is it made of?
I think it’s quite pretty.
It’s a birthday gift from my sister.
I wonder if my sister can buy one for me.
By the way, how much did your sister pay for it?
But I can wear it to Lily’s birthday party this Saturday.
We are not allowed to wear our own clothes at school.
Tanghulu, is fruit covered with sugar on a stick, a traditional snack from northern China. It’s also a necessary snack during the Chinese New Year season.Recently, in northern China, people welcome the return of spring by holding the Tanghulu Fair (庙会).
Many Chinese still remember eating Tanghulu when they were young. It is said that the fair has a 500-year-old history. Nowadays, Tanghulu is not only a kind of snack, it is also a sweet memory of our childhood. Every year, a large number of Tanghulu sellers get together to start delicious Tanghulu Competition during the Spring Festival holidays. In the past, this traditional snack only used haws (山楂), but now it also uses grapes, oranges, strawberries and so on. But people like Haw Tanghulu best. They are rich in Vitamin C and E. Do you know how to make Haw Tanghulu? First, wash the large haws clean, dig the seeds (籽) out, and pierce (串) ten haws on a stick. Then they heat the sugar, put the sticks of haws into heated and quickly pull them out. When the sugar on the haws cools down and becomes a candy coat, the Tanghulu is done. Tanghulu is very popular in China, especially in Beijing. It also makes many foreigners want to taste it.
1.Where is Tanghulu from?
It’s from ____________________________________________________________________________________.
2.How do people welcome the return of spring in northern China?
They welcome the return of spring by _____________________________________________________________.
3.Why do the Tanghulu sellers get together during the Spring Festival holiday?
They get together to start _______________________________________________________________________.
4.What kind of Vitamins are rich in Haw Tanghulu?
____________________________________________________________________________________________.
5.What is the passage mainly about?
It is mainly about _____________________________________________________________________________.
完成句子：根据所给汉语意思，用单词或短语完成下列英文句子。
1.我们有大量的时间完成这项工作。
We have ____________________ time to finish the project.
2.尽管有雾，飞机照常起飞。
The plane ____________________ although there was fog.
3.父母应该避让孩子接近火。
Parents should keep their children ____________________ the fire.
4.学生们逐渐习惯了用英语对话。
The students are ____________________ getting used to speaking in English.
5.宇航员是我们的民族英雄，我们仰慕他们。
Astronauts are our ____________________ and we look up to them.
A famous teacher was speaking to the students at our school. He began his lesson by holding up a ￥100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, “Who would like this ￥100 bill?” The students began to put up their hands at once.
Then he said, “I am going to give this ￥100 to one of you, but first, let me do this.” He then made the bill into a ball. Then he said, “Who wants it now?” The hands went back into the air.
“Well,” he said, “What if I do this?” and he dropped it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the dirty, crumpled bill and said, “Who still wants it?” Hands went back into the air.
“My friends,” he said, “you have learned a valuable lesson today. whatever I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not go down in value. It was still worth ￥100!”
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and stepped on by the chances we take and the things that happen to us. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what has happened to you, you will never lose your value: you are always valuable to those people who love you. Your value doesn’t come from what you do or whom you know, but WHO YOU ARE.
You are special and valuable. Don’t ever forget it!
1.Even though it was dirty, the money .
A.still went up in value B.was worth nothing
C.didn’t go down in value D.went down in value
2.What do the underlined words “Hands went back into the air” in the second paragraph refer to?
A.The students dropped the bill.
B.The students put down their hands.
C.The students put their hands behind their backs again.
D.The students put up their hands again.
3.What did the teacher want to tell the students?
A.He wanted to make the bill into a ball.
B.He used to drop a bill on the floor and stepped on it.
C.He wanted to make the students know what value was.
D.He is very rich.
