浙江省杭州市国泰艺术学校2018届九年级上学期期中考试英语试题（无答案）

杭州皇同泰教育集团皇国泰外语艺术学校 2017年秋九年级英语期中考试卷 （时间120分钟，满分120分） 第二部分 阅读理解（每小题2分，共计40分） A What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck. If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically(按字母表的顺序) and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=“98,” meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=“96,” while love: 12+15+22+5=“54,” and luck : 12+21+3+11=“47,” a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer(祈祷)? They can’t, either. Then what else? Don’t be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude(态度).Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude: 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100, a full mark. Different attitudes lead to different courses of