浙江省宁波市咸祥中学2020-2021学年九年级下学期开学考试英语试题

2020学年第二学期九年级返校考英语试卷 一、完形填空（30分） We are lucky to live in a rich country where we have many things. However, most of us usually__1__ some things. Electricity(电) is one thing that we waste __2___. Lights, TVs, _3__ and other things are often kept on even when no one is using them. We should turn them off when we do not need them. It ___4___ less than a second to do it. Anyway, not wasting electricity saves money, because we do not have to _5__ the electricity we do not use. The second thing that we often waste is water. Fresh water is precious(宝贵的)，_6___it shouldn’t be wasted. It is only a simple matter of turning off a tap. I am sure __7_ can do this easily if he wants to. __8_ big waste is food. My mother _9__ cook so much food that much of it was thrown away. I told her we had wasted so __10___ food. She thought I was right and now cooks ___11___what we can eat. It is not __12____ to waste anything. I find there is a simple __13____of not wasting things. That is to use only what we __