浙江省初中英语九年级上学期期中考试模拟试卷（7）

      I have never taken cooking classes. I learned cooking from my mother because she was really interested in teaching me how to cook. The main reason for this was because when my mother got married, she didn't know how to cook anything, not even an egg. My grandmother never allowed her to stay in the kitchen when she was cooking.

My mother did not start to cook until she was twenty-five years old. In the beginning, it was very hard for her. Therefore, she had to take cooking classes to prepare（准备）our meals. After having that experience, she decided to teach me how to cook because she didn't want me to have the same experience.

I remember when I was seven years old, I started to learn cooking from my mother. Sometimes we prepared the meals that my mother already knew how to make, and sometimes we prepared meals from recipes. Thanks to that experience, now I don't need any help to cook a meal. I can cook for myself or for a group of people. It doesn't matter. I will do the same with my children because I don't want them to have the same experience as my mother. If one day I were not to be with them, I would be sure that they could continue their life without me.

    Four years ago when I was a boy of 11, I got into the biggest trouble as a kid. It was a Saturday morning. Both my parents were out, leaving me and my 10－month－old sister home alone. Anyway, my sister was still asleep in her room. In fact I had the house to myself. I decided to do some drawing. Soon I gave up. Nothing was on TV, so I felt bored and touched the candles on the shelf…I had an idea! What would happen if I set fire to some kitchen paper? Well, of course it went on fire, but it wasn't the tiny flame(火苗) I'd expected, and I couldn't blow it out. I threw it on the floor, and then I got my dad's boots(靴子) and stamped it out.

    But there was a huge hole left on the floor. When my mum came home later, she smelt the smoke immediately. She dropped the shopping bag, luckily for me, over the hole. I thought this meant she would never see it. However, after running round the house checking for a fire, she of course picked up the bag and saw the hole. Next I was grounded(关禁闭)  for months. Even worse though, the hole was still there, reminding me of what I did.

The most interesting festivals around the world

提示要点：1）这一节日的时间、意义等；

2）介绍人们通常如何庆祝这一节日(包括饮食风俗、庆祝活动等)；

3）希望大家了解这一节日及中国文化。

参考词汇：the fifth lunar month农历五月poet诗人dragon boat race龙舟赛

    Hello, everyone. Welcome to our school. I'm glad that you are interested in Chinese culture. Now let me tell you something about the Dragon Boat Festival.

    Do you often visit museums? Museums are often filled with interesting and beautiful things, in most museums you can only look at the things there, you can't (touch) them. This is not very interesting for most of us. People want to touch things. They want to use them and play them. That's how we learn things. If we are (interest) in something, we learn about it more (easy). But some museums are quite different from (other). For example, at the Boston (child) Museum, young people can use computers and other modern machines. They can also move and play games there. In this kind of museums, (boy) and girls feel very happy. They can learn a lot at same time.