1．　　Rashad Conwell has worked as a FedEx driver for eight years. He (1)       the people who live along his regular route (路线) in Tega Cay, South Carolina. He even knows who is usually at home during the day and who is not.
　　On (2)       Tuesday afternoon, as Rashad was working, he saw smoke (3)       from the garden of a house. Knowing this family was usually at home during the day, Rashad stopped his truck and ran to the front door.
　　When a woman opened the door, she thought Rashad was delivering a package (包裹). Instead, to her surprise, "Ma'am, your house is (4)       fire!" Rashad told her. Rashad helped her and her grandchild get out from the house within (5)       time.
　　Randy, (6)       man, working in the neighborhood saw the smoke and went to warn the family as well. He helped John, one of the family members, escape from the room. "It was (7)       hot that I couldn't get away from the fire by myself." John said. "If they hadn't told us to get out, I would have been in great danger. (8)       lucky dog!"
　　Thanks to Rashad and Randy, all of the family (9)      . Although their home was a complete mess, they felt lucky to be (10)      .

2．　　Garbage sorting began on July 1, 2019. In October 2016, the government (1)       our neighborhood to be part of a pilot (试点的) program for garbage sorting. To help the program run smoothly, we (2)       a volunteer team.
　　We began with the usual methods. We posted notices around the neighborhood. We also went door to door, spreading the word. (3)      , they made plenty of mistakes. As a result, we volunteers had to do lots of sorting (4)      . At the same time we went around explaining the rules. We kept talking to those who (5)       to sort their garbage.
　　Six months later we (6)       in changing people's mind. People in my building had begun sorting their garbage. Some even joined us to sort garbage that was sorted (7)      .
　　I think face-to-face talks played an important (8)      . Sometimes, these (9)       led us to unhappiness, but they were much more useful than notices and flyers (小传单). It was interesting to see (10)       happened. I hope everyone knows garbage sorting is good for them.

3．　　The 2022 Winter Olympics also known as Beijing 2022, is planned to take place from February 4 to February 20, 2022. Here is some information on dates, events, tickets, and entry rules for attending this great international event.

For more information about 2022 Olympics, please click here.

4．　　Ants have the ability to find out cancerous cells in humans, a new study has discovered, suggesting they could be used for cancer diagnosis (诊断) in future.
　　Ants can discover the cancerous cells which are different from healthy cells, thanks to their sense of smell, the study also added, ants could turn out to be better at locating (定位) cancerous cells in humans than dogs.
　　To improve their research, the scientists had tests with 36 ants, smelling cells under an experiment with a lower cost and efficient study. First, they exposed (暴露) the ants to the smell of a sample of cancerous human cells, then they were given sugar for a prize. In a second step, the scientists exposed the ants to two different smells. One was a new smell and the second was the smell of the cancerous cells. Finally, the ants followed the cancerous cells directly with the smell they had smelt in the first step. This test shows that ants can tell the differences between the cancerous cells and healthy cells with high talent, capability to learn quickly, points out CNRS in a news.
　　This isn't the first time that scientists have used the animal sense of smell to find cancerous cells. For example, dogs' noses are fit for medical diagnosis and used for the detection of cancer, which can offer the proper medical treatment, the scientists explained. However, training them to do so requires several months to a year.
　　The test could be used in various of other smell tasks, such as finding the differences among the drugs, explosives (炸药), spoiled food, or other diseases.

5．配对阅读．左栏是五个学生的个人情况, 右栏是关于七条谚语及其解释, 请为每个人选择符合其情况的谚语, 并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑．

6．　　On March 21st, 2022, Airline MU5735 took off from the southwestern city of Kunming and left for Guangzhou. About one hour (1)      , it lost contact over the city of Wuzhou and crashed (坠毁) in a mountain. There were 123 passengers (2)       nine crew (机组) members on board.
　　After that, the government sent many teams to save people immediately. They expected to find those (3)       might be alive. People living nearby also volunteered to get together and tried (4)       best to help them. Because there was no road to the mountain, some local people even (5)       their motorbikes to carry the doctors and firemen to the mountain by sparing no effort. (6)      , they got a bad result. All of the people on the plane lost their (7)       in this accident.
　　Knowing this, President Xi instructed that the government must start the activated emergency procedure (应急机制) as (8)       as possible and make their way to save people's lives. They must find out the (9)       soon and stop this kind of accident (10)       happening again. They must make sure the airline and people's safety.

7．　　Freestyle skier Gu Ailing, an 18-year-old girl, became one of the superstars of the event in 2022. Gu was born in 2003 in San Francisco. Her father is American and her mother is Chinese. She started skiing when she was only three years old and became champion of the junior group of the USA Snowboard and Freeski Association at the age of nine. Gu decided to compete for China in the 2022 Winter Olympics in June 2019. She won two golds and one silver in February in the 2022 Winter Olympics at last, which made her well-known to all Chinese people.
　　People say she is talented. But Gu says that talent counts for (占据) "only one percent" of her wins, adding that her hard work is what counts. While going to school in San Francisco, Gu could only practice on weekends. She spent eight hours going to the ski hill and back, doing her homework on the way and making full use of her time at the hill to practice skiing.
　　Gu encouraged more girls in China to try skiing and other extreme sports (极限运动) because she thought this kinds of sports may give them freedom and creativity.

8．书面表达
读了谷爱凌的故事, 你有怎样的收获;假设你是李华, 请你写一篇演讲稿, 号召同学们向谷爱凌学习, 以梦为马, 不负韶华, 努力实现自己的梦想．
内容包括:1. 你对上述文章简要感谢(如:从谷爱凌身上你学到了什么?);
2. 谈谈自己在生活或学习中的类似经历;
3. 呼吁年轻人努力实现自己的梦想．
作文要求:
1. 不能照抄原文;不得在作文中出现学校的真实名称和考生的真实姓名．
2. 语句连贯, 词数80个左右, 作文的开头和结尾已经给出, 不计入总词数．
Dear students,
　　I am Li Hua from Grade Nine. Today, I'm very happy here to share my ideas after reading the passage. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
　　Thank you for your listening!