浙江省杭州市2018-2019学年初中英语九年级上册期中考试模拟试卷（1）

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               2. 公园环境优美、凉爽，还可游泳、野餐等；

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2. 文中不能出现自己的姓名和所在学校的名称。

Cuihu Park is not far from here. It's easy to get there. Just go straight……

    These days it is found that school students hardly have any sports. Is it because they have no 1 in sports? It may not be true. They often say they have 2 more important things to do.

    What are these important things? Exams! They have to 3themselves ready for all kinds of exams and tests in school. So many of them almost4bookworms(书呆子). In the past in the summer holidays, they could do5 they liked, but now they have to 6all their time preparing. So 7 have kept them away from going in for sports.

    Because of the pressure(压力) from 8 parents and teachers, they  9 to work harder and spend most of their time10 books. As for the students themselves, they don't want to11 the lessons because they want to further their studies. So it is necessary to give 12 of their spare time to their studies and 13 up their school sports.

    It's true a good education cannot go without physical training, the14 is true a quick mind hardly goes along with a 15body. Without a strong body, you can never do anything well, how can you make great success in life?

—It says that a famous artist will give us a (speak) tomorrow.

    Reading is the key to school success and, like any other skill, it takes practice. A child learns to walk by practicing until he no longer has to think about how to put one foot in front of the other. An excellent sportsman practices until he can play quickly, correctly and without thinking. Educators call it “automaticity(自动性)”.

    A child learns to read by sounding the letters and finding the meaning of the words. With practice, he stumbles less and less, reading by the phrase(短语). With automaticity, he doesn't have to think about the meaning of words, so he can give all his attention to the meaning of the text.

    It can begin as early as the first grade. In a recent study of children in Illinois schools, Alan Rossman of Northwestern University found that automatic readers in the first grade not only read almost three times as fast as the others, but also got better results in exams.

    According to Rossman, the key to automaticity is the amount(数量) of time a child spends reading, not his IQ. Any child who spends at least 3.5 to 4 hours a week reading books, magazines or newspapers will probably reach automaticity. It can happen if a child turns off TV just one night for reading at home.

    You can test yourself by reading something new that is suitable (适合)for your level. If you read aloud with expression, with a sense of the meaning of the sentences, you probably are an automatic reader. If you read brokenly, one word at a time, without expression or meaning, you need more practice.