1．　　It was nine (1)      a cold winter night. I hurried (2)      home from work on my motorbike.
　　At the last crossing, while I was (3)      for the green light. I saw an old man walking toward me. He stopped me and I felt a little nervous. The old man said (4)      .
　　"Excuse me. Could you please help me?" I looked him up and down. He looked about 70 (5)      old. The old man took out a 10-yuan bill and said to me. "You see the old lady over there?She is selling baked (烤) sweet potatoes. Could you just take the money and buy one from her?" He pointed at (6)      old lady selling something about fifty meters away in the corner.
　　"But (7)      don't you go and buy it?" I was puzzled (迷惑的). The old man continued, "That old lady is my (8)      and it's her first day to sell baked sweet potatoes. Just now I called her. She told me that there was only one sweet potato left and she wouldn't go home (9)       all the sweet potatoes were sold out. But I know she can't stand the cold because her legs hurt. I'm very worried about her.
　　At that time, I understood why the old man asked me to buy his wife's sweet potato. I felt really warm and quickly bought the last one. As I waved goodbye to the old man, I could see him (10)      there with a thankful smile.

2．　　Someone says, "Time is money." But I think time is (1)      than money. Why?Because when money is spent we can get it back. However, when time is (2)      , it will never (3)      .
　　That's (4)      we mustn't waste time.
　　We all know that (5)      is usually limited. Even a second is very important. We should make full use of our time to do (6)      useful.
　　But it is a pity that there are a lot of people, who do not know the importance of time.
　　They spent their limited time smoking, drinking and (7)      . They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own (8)      .
　　In a word, we should save time. We shouldn't (9)      today's work for tomorrow. Remember we have (10)      time to lose.

3．　　Confucius is the greatest teacher in Chinese history. He was born on September 28, 551 BC (公元前) in kingdom of Lu, in today's Shandong Province. When he was young, he and his mother had a hard life. At the age of fifteen, he began to learn music, and he did well in it. Then he went on learning other subjects. When he was thirty, he became a teacher. He started his own school. He believed everyone should have a chance to get education whether they were rich or poor. He had about 3, 000 students and many of them became famous.
　　Chinese Confucius as the greatest thinker and also the greatest teacher. His most important ideas are kindness and god manner. He said young people should take care of the old. People should stop thinking of themselves and work for others. His ideas are around in people's everyday life. Today people can still hear them, and they go far into east and south Asia.

4．A Fake (伪造的) Ten-dollar Note
　　Mrs. Brown lives near a market. Almost every day she goes there to shop after work.
　　She thinks shopping can really bring her pleasure. But today when she just returned home from the market, she wore a long face.
　　"The world is full of dishonest people!" She said angrily: "What's the matter?" asked her husband. Mrs. Brown said that she had received a fake ten-dollar note from the hawker selling noodles and had walked off without noticing it. Her husband then asked her to show him the note.
　　"Oh, I used it to buy some pork!I passed in on to the pork seller. He was so busy with his customers that he didn't even notice it!" replied Mrs. Brown cheerfully.
　　Her husband frowned when he heard it.
　　"That was dishonest of you too!Don't you think the pork seller still will feel upset after he finds out the truth?" he asked her.
　　Mrs. Brown thought for a moment and realized that she was wrong. She went out and returned to the market.

5．　　Most people in Britain live in a small family groups. More than a quarter of houses in Britain have only got one person in them. Some of these are old people but some are people of twenty to thirty who choose to live alone. 35% of houses have two people in them, and another 17% have three people. 15% have four people in them, and the other homes have five or more.
　　The families in Britain are small. It is unusual for parents to have more than two children. When children are about eighteen or nineteen, they leave their parents' home, and they often go to different city. Sometimes they only visit their parents two or three times a year.

6．　　A dictionary is very useful for the people who are learning English. People will use a dictionary for help when they have difficulty in reading a passage or doing English exercises. You will make more progress if you know how to use a dictionary efficiently (有效地). (1)      
　　Choose a suitable (合适的) dictionary. (2)      You can choose a dictionary which is suitable for your English level, needs and interests, For a middle school student in Grade 9, you can choose OXFORD INTERMEDIATE LEARNER'S ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY.
　　Try to guess the meaning of a new word before you use a dictionary. You may have had such an experience when you are reading a passage. There're some new words in it and you have difficult it understanding the full passage. What will you do in this situation? (3)      
　　Learn culture from a dictionary. You don't just learn a new word's pronunciation, meaning, part of speech and other usages. (4)      
　　A dictionary is a good friend for learning English. It's a waste for you not to use a dictionary in your study. But don't think the more you use a dictionary, the better result you can get. (5)      If you can do as I have told you, I think you will improve your English soon.

12．
　　In today's world, not all people know noise is also a kind of pollution and is harmful to humans' health.
　　People who work and live in (1)      conditions go deaf easily. For example, many of the (2)      who print newspapers and books go deaf. Quite a few people living near airports (3)      have hearing loss. Recently, it is reported that many (4)      in America can hear no (5)      than 65-year-old people do, because these young people always listen to loud pop music. Making a loud noise (6)      public is also a kind of pollution. It not only disturbs others but also (7)       great harm to people's hearing. Cars and machines also produce too much noise. Such pollution makes people (8)      uncomfortable and unpleasant, and it can even cause (9)      to become deaf.
　　Nowadays, many counties are (10)      to solve all sorts of environmental problems, including noise pollution.

13．阅读下面短文, 根据短文内容, 完成下列各题．
　　More and more people in China don't like to stay at home during the holidays. They usually go camping for their holidays and live in the woods or parks and do everything for themselves for a few days to relax.
　　When they are camping, they can have a picnic and make all their food themselves. Barbecues (烧烤)are very popular. They bring meat and vegetables and make a fire by themselves. When the fire is ready, they can cook food over it. Besides meat and vegetables. they can also cook many other foods with the fire.
　　Children really like this activity at night. All the family sit around the fire , eat delicious food, and drink hot chocolate. Everyone can sing songs and dance together. Camping is a fun activity for the family to do. Holidays don't have to mean going to visit faraway places. It could be going to the woods or parks near house and camping there.

14．根据下面对话中的情境, 在每个空中填入一个适当的语句, 使对话恢复完整．
A: Hello!This is 120. (1)      
B: This is Jack Smith. Help!Help!Please help me!
A: Yes, sir. (2)      
B: My wife is seriously ill. She is having a heart problem.
A: Now relax, sir. (3)      
B: I'm on No. 521 Xinghua Street.
A: OK. I'll send an ambulance as soon as possible.
B: (4)      
A: For about eight minutes.
B: All right. What should I do while waiting?
A: (5)      
B: OK. Thank you and please hurry.

15．假如你叫李明, 是渭南某校的学生, 你校将迎来一位来自美国的英语教师Jackson．请你根据下面的提示给Jackson发一封电子邮件, 介绍一下渭南一年四季的天气情况．
要求:语言简洁, 70词左右．
要点提示:
1. 渭南位于中国北部;
2. 春天天气多变( changeable), 有时很冷, 有时又很暖和;夏天越来越热, 甚至有时气温超过38℃;秋天气温适宜, 不冷不热( neither cold nor hot);冬天很冷, 有时下雪．