16．　　Shanghai is a nice city. The(1)      here is mild, that is, it is(2)      too hot(3)       too cold. It changes from season to season. Now many tall buildings have been(4)      one after another. But(5)       the same time, the city is full of people. As a result, the traffic is terrible. Traffic jams happen during the(6)      hours. If you want to go to a place(7)      away, the fastest way is neither driving, nor riding a bike. It is often walking! The policeman in Shanghai are very (8)      . Visitors can turn for help if they(9)       their ways or lose something. But when you disobey traffic rules, they will be very(10)      with you. A lot of people in Shanghai speak English. Travelers from English﹣speaking countries feel at home here. You are welcome to Shanghai.

17．　　There are many things we need to know that we do not learn at school. For example, if we want to use our money wisely, we need to shop carefully. We need to know how to compare the prices of the things in different shops. We need to be able to compare the quality of different brands (品牌). We need to know how to make a choice when we shop.
　　Knowing how to make such choices is a"life skill", and we need these skills if we are to live useful and happy lives.
　　Some of these choices are small. For example, will I take an apple for lunch or a pear?Will I go to school by bus or on foot?Will I wear the red T﹣shirt or the blue one to the movies?Other choices are more important. For example, will I eat healthy food for lunch or will I eat junk food because it is tastier?Will I work hard in all my classes or will I only work hard in the classes I enjoy? We make choices like this every day.
　　We have to realize that the choices we make can affect the rest of our lives. Just as importantly, our choices can also affect other people. The next time you decide to waste time in class, play a joke on someone or talk loudly at the movies, think about this:Who else does your choice affect?

18．Dear Mom,
　　Time flies quickly. Two months has gone by since I joined this boarding school. Everything is going well. During my first month here, I was like a fish out of water. I came to realize how many things I should thank you for.
　　On the cold winter days, I have to get up early almost every morning to fetch hot water. I began to feel ashamed that I never said "thank you" every time you prepared hot water for me each morning on winter days before I got up.
　　I am no longer that girl who was often unable to find her books in her bedroom. It used to take me a lot of time to collect all the books for the day's classes. But I have gotten over that bad habit now. And now I know how much time you used to take to collect my books every evening.
　　I have learned to do the laundry on my own now. I came to realize that washing clothes is a boring job, especially on winter days. Sometimes there is no hot water and I have to wash my clothes with cold water by hand.
　　I came to know how grateful(感激的) I should be to have you as my Mom. Thank you, Mom.
Yours,
Silvia

20．　　There once was a boy who loved eating candy. He always asked his father for candy. It (1)      his father worried.
　　The boy's father thought hard about how to stop him from asking for so much candy. There was (2)      very wise man living nearby. The father decided to take the boy to him.
　　The boy (3)       his father went to meet the great man. The father asked the great man to help him. The great man was in difficulty because candy was his (4)      . How could he ask the boy to (5)      up asking for candy?He told the father to bring his son back after one month.
　　During that month, the great man stopped eating candy, and when the boy and his father (6)       after a month, the great man had a talk with the boy. From then on, the boy didn't ask for candy anymore.
　　The boy's father felt (7)      and asked, "Why didn't you ask my son to stop eating candy when we came to you a month (8)      ?" The man answered, " How could I ask him to do that when I loved candy best myself?In the past month (9)       managed(努力完成)to stop eating candy?"
　　A person's actions are much more powerful(强有力的) (10)      just his words. When we ask someone to do something, we must do it ourselves too. We should not ask others to do what we do not do ourselves.

21．　　I was waiting for the plane to my city. There was lots of time before the plane took off. Then I saw a tall man helping a young mother. She was travelling by herself with a baby. She didn't seem to know where she needed to go. The man had two young boys and a lot of things to take himself, so I offered to help the young mother.
　　The young mother showed me her ticket and realized that her plane would take off in ten minutes. She had a large stroller(婴儿车), some Christmas gifts and a box. So I helped her take the box and the gifts when she was pushing the stroller. At this time I realized she trusted me so much. While we were running to the gate(登机口), I looked back sometimes to make sure she was still behind me. When we ran up to the gate, we got to know the gate was still open. I gave the young mother her things and said goodbye.
　　I thought the greatest part of that experience was seeing the happiness on her face and hearing her say "God bless you, young man" to me in poor English. While I was walking back to my own gate on the other side, I couldn't stop smiling.
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22．转眼间, 你已经是一名九年级学生了. 你还记得刚升入初中时的自己是什么样子吗?这两年在你身上发生了哪些变化?本周英语老师给你们布置了一篇题为"My changes"的英语作文, 请你根据下面的要求完成这篇作文.
要求:
1. 写你三个方面的变化, 用上used to结构;
2. 紧扣作文题目、语言表达准确、语意通顺连贯;3. 词数90左右, 开头和结尾已给出, 不计入总词数.
My changes
　　I'm in Grade 9 and I have changed a lot. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
　　These are my changes. What about yours?