陕西省西安市第二十三中学2020届九年级上学期英语第一次月考试卷

    Do you want to keep1? Exercise often, please. If you usually go to work2bus, from now on, go by bike or3foot. If you4get up late in the morning and only have lunch and dinner every day, I think you should set the clock to5you up earlier. So you can6morning exercises outside. You should breathe(呼吸)the fresh air and eat a balanced diet. Do you like to eat7, for example, potato chips, hamburgers8hot dogs? I'm sure they're delicious. But I think you should eat9fruit and vegetables. Eating too much junk food is not good10your health.

    Everyone needs friends. We all like to1close to someone.2is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh, and do things with.3, sometimes we need to be alone. We don't always want people4. But we would feel lonely if we never have a friend.

    No two people are5. Friends sometimes don't get on well. That doesn't mean they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make up and become6again.

    Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very7. We miss them very much, but we can call them and write to them. It could be that we could even see them again. And we can 8new friends. It is surprising to find out how much we like new people when we get to know them.

    There's more good news for people who have friends. They live longer than people who don't. Why? It could be that they are9. Being happy helps you stay well. Or it could be just knowing that someone cares. If someone cares about you, you take10care of yourself.

    I can still remember my first day at school. I was only 6 years old at that time. It was a very big room. I sat at the desk near the window, but I couldn't see anything because the window was too high. There was a big map of the world on the wall and an old blackboard. I don't think I was worried or afraid at that time. There was another little boy next to me. He sat there and kept silent at first. Then he began to cry, because he didn't want to stay there.

    More and more students came in, but the boy didn't stop crying. "Mom, I want to go home." He cried again and again. Later, the teacher came in. She went to the little boy, and said something to him. I couldn't hear what she said. Soon the boy stopped crying and began to smile. To this day, I still don't know what the teacher said to the little boy.

    The last Thursday of November is Thanksgiving Day. It is a holiday in the U.S.A. Usually, family members and friends get together for a dinner. People sometimes drive their cars a long way for a family reunion. Many people also take Friday off and make it a long weekend holiday, because most Americans do not work on Saturdays and Sundays.

    Thanksgiving Day began in 1621, when the first English settlers(定居者) reached the New World. They did not have enough food. But the American Indians helped the white men and taught them how to farm.

    In the autumn after the English settlers came to America, they had a good harvest. They were so pleased. They decided to invite their Indian friends to dinner in order to thank them for their help.

    As far as family reunion, Thanksgiving Day is even more important than Christmas or New Year's Eve to most Americans.

    When I was ten, my mother worked all day so I had to take care of my younger brother. At that time my little brother was about four years old and he missed mum all the time.

    One day, after I had given him his dinner, he started crying for mum. He was so young and really needed mum. So I dressed him, put on his shoes, carried him on my back and walked out. Soon he fell asleep. About half an hour later, I found that he had lost a shoe while sleeping. I took him off my back and put him down. I knew we needed to find that shoe, for our mother couldn't afford new shoes. We had to go back to find it, so I told my brother to wait right there. A man heard it and stopped me just before I walked off. He asked me, "You are leaving your brother here to find the shoe? What would you do if he is not here when you return?" I did not know how to answer that question. He continued, "It's OK if you can't find the shoe, but it is not OK to lose your brother." Then he sent us to mum's workplace by taxi.

    My whole life I have depended on the kindness of many strangers, I feel regretful that I cannot find them and say thank you. I do not even remember what the man's face looked like, but he taught me a lesson—people are more important than things.

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