--- Who? Brian? --- Right. He often gives me a ______ when I’m in trouble.
A. reply B. gift C. hand D. reason
What _____ useful book! And _____ book is popular with students.
A. a; a B. an; a C. the; the D. a; the
The underlined part in the word “grades” is pronounced as______.
A./ts/ B. /dz/ C./des/ D. /diz/
九年级学生面临着升学的压力，他们每天有做不完的作业，学校领导为了采取一些有效的措施提高学生的学习效率，让你们调查了解九年级学生的学习状况，你通过调查发现有以下问题：
Problems | Reasons | Strategies |
too much homework not enough exercise little communication among students | 1. 2.--- | 1. 2. |
请你用英语写一篇发言稿，在班会课上分析这些问题和产生的原因，并提出相应提高学生学习的学习实效，和同学共同探讨。
注意：1.发言稿的开头已经为你写好，你只需接着写；
2.所写内容必须包括所给问题和你自己的分析；
3.词数：70个左右。
Hello, boys and girls,
I made a survey about what problems we students of Grade Nine have now.
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单词拼写（10分）
1.Do you enjoy l to music ? --No !
2.More and more people in Hangzhou are wealthy enough to a a car.
3.Quite a few people are looking t the books in that new bookstore.
4.Tom will write to you as soon as he a in Beijing.
5.He couldn’t help c ________ when he heard that piece of sad news.
6.After ten m rest, they went on working in the fields.
7.If you are more careful when you are taking an exam, you will make f mistakes.
8.Never read your son’s p letter. He will get mad at you.
9.I don’t want to make a wrong d and regret it later.
10.December is the t ________ month of a year.
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）
Hangzhouhua (杭州话)：use it or lose it
There are about 6.000 languages in the world and some experts say that as many as half of these languages will disappear(消失) in the next one hundred years. Will Hangzhouhua be one of 1.________? It’s a 2.________ that more people are asking.
In China, Putonghua is the official language. That3.________ it’s the language of government, business and the media (媒体). And it’s also the language that is 4.________ in schools.
Hangzhou is a special city. It used to be the capital of Wu and Yue States in the 10th century during the Five Dynasties period. Now it is modern, fashionable and also beautiful. And Hangzhouhua shows that 5.________ being modern, fashionable and beautiful.
Young people still speak Hangzhouhua but not as 6.________ as their parents and grandparents. They are under more and more pressure to speak Putonghua. So the language is being used 7.________ often in everyday life. Some people want to keep the language from disappearing completely by building museums and having cultural festivals to save it. But a language isn’t a painting 8.________ a book. It’s a living thing and you 9.________ use it or lose it.
If people 10.________ using it in their daily lives, a museum or a festival will not help. It will be lost forever, like the Yangtze River dolphin.
