This brush is used .
A.to writing B. for writing C.as writing
It’s the second time I came to Xiamen. It a lot. (16厦门)
A. was changing B. has changed C. will change
书面表达
升入九年级，很多学生感到压力增大，有的甚至影响了学习。如何变压力为动力，从而促进学习是大家所关心的问题。请根据下表内容对造成压力的原因和后果进行分析并提出你的建议。
Reasons | ◆ have too much homework to do ◆ not make progress ◆ …… |
Results | ◆ be easy to get tired and angry ◆ not concentrate on (专注 ) one’s studies ◆ …… |
suggestions | ◆…… |
注意：
（1） 短文须包括上述所有要点，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
（2） 80词左右，短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数。
At present, a great number of Junior Three students are under too much pressure. Here are the reasons.____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
单词拼写
根据下列句子及所给的首字母，在答题纸上写出个单词的正确、完全形式。
1. Ladies and gentlemen, a_____, please! The plane is put off because of the haze.
2.The news s_____ quickly as soon as the traffic accident happened
3.Sometimes it is h_____ to make a list of everything you have to do. It helps me a lot.
4.–Do you know w_____ volleyball this is?
--Maybe it’s John’s.
5.The soup you made yesterday was too s_____. We were all thirsty after drinking it.
6.John is as strong as a horse, so he s_____ gets ill.
7.Tell the students not to do something dangerous. After all, s_____ is the most important.
8.Yue Fei is one of the most famous national h_____ in Chinese history.
9. –Thank you for helping me.
--It’s my p_____.
10. He r_____ not listening to his teachers carefully in class when he studied English.
语法填空
阅读下面的短文，在空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
Do you chew gum after a meal? _1.__( chew ) gum helps you clean your mouth. But some people spit（吐）chewing gum on the street instead of putting it in the garbage bin. It’s bad _2.___ the gum is sticky（黏的. It’s hard to get it off things.
__3._ ( recent ), a team of British scientists said they had solved the problem. They invented non-stick chewing gum.
In Britain, ￡150 million is _4._ ( spend ) to clean gum from the country’s streets each year. It’s the same in China. On Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square, after the National Day Holiday, __5.__ ( hundred ) of thousands of chewing gum pieces __6.__ ( be ) left on the ground. It usually takes weeks to clean them up.
But the non-stick is ___7._ ( easy ) to clean. It is washed away by the rain and it’s no problem for street cleaners. Even if you get the non-stick gum in your hair, you can wash it out __8.__ shampoo ( 洗发水 ).
“The gum is coated with a thin film of water,” said Professor Cosgrove, the 9.__ ( lead ) of the study. “That’s _10.__ it is not sticky at all.”
完形填空
阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I was in a strange city and I didn’t know the city at all. ___, I could not speak a ____ of the language there. After I spent my first day in the town center, I decided to lose my way on my second day, for I ____ that this was the way of getting to know the strange city.
I ___on a bus, rode on it for several stops, then ____ and walked on. The first two hours ____ pleasantly enough. Then I decided to turn ____my hotel for lunch. After I walked for ____, I decided I had better __the way. But the trouble was that I knew only the word of the name to the street.
I ___to ask a newspaper-seller. He smiled and handed me a ____. I shook my head and ___ the name of the street again and he put the paper into my hands. I ___ give him some money and went on my way. The next person was a policeman. He listened to me carefully, smiled and took me by the arm. There was a strange look in his eyes as he pointed left and right, and left again. I nodded politely and walked on.
About an hour passed and I noticed that the houses were getting ____and I saw green fields on ___ side of me. I had come all the way into the country. Now I had to look for the nearest railway station!
1.A. Besides B. ExceptC. Beside D. But
2.A. sentence B. meaning C. soundD. word
3.A. believed B. understoodC. said D. realized
4.A. rode B. tookC. got D. climbed
5.A. it off B. it downC. down it D. off it
6.A. spent B. pastC. passedD. through
7.A. toB. on toC. back D. back to
8.A. some time B. sometimeC. sometimes D. some times
9.A. to ask B. to ask for C. ask for D. ask
10.A. stood B. stop C. stopped D. standing
11.A. book B. paper C. magazineD. note
12.A. toldB. saidC. talkedD. spoke
13.A. mustB. wantedC. couldD. had to
14.A. more and more B. many and many C. less and less D. fewer and fewer
15.A. either B. both C. all D. neither
