11．　　What's the English word for the Chinese food jiaozi? Perhaps you would say "dumpling". But actually, you can just say "jiaozi". It has been officially (正式地) (1)       to the Oxford English Dictionary. Until now, about 120 (2)       words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, becoming a part of the English language.
　　Why have these words become (3)      ? It may be because of increased interest in learning Chinese. The Confucius Institute (孔子学院), which offers Chinese lessons, has set up 1,073 (4)       in 140 countries and areas, with 2.1 million students. — People's Daily reported.
　　The CFLPA (中国外文局) studied 50 media platforms (媒体平台) in eight English-speaking (5)      , including the US, the UK and India. The report listed the top 100 Chinese (6)       that people in these countries use the most.
　　"Shaolin", a place in China that is (7)       for kung fu, was at the top of the list. Other popular words (8)       "yinyang", "yuan", "gugong", "nihao", "wushu", "qi", "qigong", "renminbi" and "majiang".
　　Some of the hot words, which are increasingly popular with the foreign media, represent the social and cultural change. For example, (9)       Tuhao and Dama are old words, they have got new (10)      . Tuhao used to represent the village landlords (地主) (11)       owned a lot of land and had many servants in the old days, but now it is used to refer to the (12)       who spend money like water or like to show off. That is to say, they have wealth but no taste. Dama (aunt) is a calling to middle-aged (13)      , but now it especially refers to the Chinese women who buy a lot of gold when gold price (14)       recently.
　　Some of the words refer not only to social and (15)       change, but also politics (政治), economics (经济) and technology. These words include zhongguomeng (Chinese Dream), yi dai yi lu (一带一路) and zhifubao (Alipay).

13．　　On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Though the music was great, people were quickly going home for the weekend. In this case, many of them put some money into the hat of the young man.
　　The next day, the young artist came to the gate of the subway station, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground and put some stones on it. Then he began playing. It seemed more pleasant to listen to.
　　Before long, the young violinist was surrounded with people. All people were all attracted by the words on that paper. It said, "Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to get it soon."
　　After about half an hour, a middle-aged man ran there in a hurry and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said, "Yes, it's you. You did come here. I knew that you're an honest man and would certainly come here."
　　The young violinist asked calmly, "Are you Mr. George Sang?" The man nodded. The violinist asked, "Did you lose something?" "Lottery (奖票). It's lottery," said the man.
　　The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sang's name was seen. "Is it?" he asked.
　　Later someone asked the violinist, "At that time you were in need to pay the tuition fee (学费) and you had to play the violin in the subway station every day to make the money. Then why didn't you take the lottery ticket for yourself?"
　　The violinist said, "Although I don't have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty I won't be happy forever."
　　Through our lives, we can get a lot and lose so much. But being honest should always be with us.

14．　　Someday in the future we may not need to have money in our pockets. Is life easier when people don't need to carry any currency at all? Is money heavy to carry? Is it safe to carry money? Maybe in the future each of us will have only one small plastic credit card (信用卡). We will use it to buy all the things we now buy with money. We will not need money to pay for things.
　　Of course we may still have some of the same problems with cards we now have with money. Sometimes we lose money. Maybe we will lose the cards. Maybe someone will take the card. Someone may even make a card that looks like our card. Since we can't buy anything without our cards, the credit card may be no better than currency.
　　Is there something easier to use than credit card? Each of us has a thumbprint (拇指纹). No two thumbprints are the same. Maybe someday the government will keep people's thumbprints with a number. When you want to buy something you will put your thumb on a machine or a computer. Each store or business will have one. Everyone's thumbprint will be in the computers. It will be very difficult to lose our thumbprints! It will be difficult for someone to steal it or to make one like it.

15．　　I think it's hard for a teenager to live in the modern society. For example, how to go to school is a problem I often worry about. (1)       Many parents pick up their children, too. Most of them drive private cars. Of all the cars, Anna's father's car is the best. Anna seems to have a very rich father. She always has beautiful dresses, shoes and bags. (2)       But she has no friends in school. When other students are playing, she never joins them. I don't like her because she is too perfect. It makes me uncomfortable to make friends with her. She seems to have everything.
　　One afternoon, when I went to my father's car. I saw a small thing fall out of Anna's bag. So I called her quickly. (3)      
　　During the dinner, my father asked me, "Why do you look unhappy?"
　　"Today I saw something fall out of Anna's bag, so I called her. (4)       She is so arrogant (自大的)." I said angrily.
　　"Oh, I know that girl. She has no friends and is unhappy because she was born deaf. I am sure that she didn't hear you."
　　(5)       Because she was deaf, she did not talk or play games with anyone at school. She seems to have everything, but in fact she doesn't.
　　Not everyone is perfect, even the perfect man has his weakness.

16．　　Basketball is a much-loved and active sport that is enjoyed by many for fun and exercise. The first basketball game (1)             (play) on December 21, 1891. Then in 1936 in Berlin, it became (2)             event at the Olympics.
　　Basketball was invented by a Canadian doctor (3)             (name) James Naismith. When he was a college teacher, he created a game to be played inside on a hard floor. He divided the men in his class (4)             two teams and taught them to play his new game. Players on the same team must work together (5)             (get) the ball in the other team's basket. At the same time, they need to stop the competing team from getting the ball into (6)             (they) own basket.
　　Today, with many young people dreaming of (7)             (become) famous players, the popularity of basketball has risen around the world. (8)             America's NBA games are the most famous in the world, the CBA games are becoming more popular in China. There are more and more foreign players in the CBA. Many young people look up to these basketball (9)             (hero) and want to become like them. These stars encourage young people to work (10)             (hard) to achieve their dreams.

24．三年的初中生活让你收获满满。校英语报邀你写一篇短文，给即将升入九年级的学弟学妹或他们的父母提一些建议。请你结合自己的学习经历选择其中一个对象，阐述你的观点。

注意：
1. 短文必须包括你所选择一方的所有要点，并适当发挥；
2. 文中不得出现真实的人名和校名；
3. 词数：80 — 100；
4. 短文首句仅供参考，不计入总词数。
　　How time flies! Now (you/your children) are students of Grade 9. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________