英语九年级完型与单词拼写

Save the sharks!

Many have heard of shark fin soup. This famous and expensive dish is especially popular is (south) China. But do you realize that you are (kill) a whole shark each time you enjoy a bowl of shark fin soup?

When people catch sharks, they cut off their fins and throw the sharks back into the ocean. This is not only cruel, but also harmful to the environment. a fin , a shark can no longer swim and slowly (dead). Sharks are at the top of the food chain in the ocean’s ecosystem. If their numbers drop too low, it will bring danger to all ocean life. Many belive that sharks can never be (danger) becausethey are (strong) in their food chain. But in fact, around 70 illion sharks are caught and trade in this industry every year. The numbers of some kinds of sharks have fallen over 90percent in the last 20 to 30 years.

Environmrntai (protect) groups around the world, such as WildAid and the WWF, are teaching the public about “finning”. They have even asked governments to develop laws to stop the sale of shark fins. So far, no scientific

(study) have shown shark fins are good for health, so why eat them? Help save the sharks!

April Fool’s Day is a celebration that (take) place in different countries around the world. It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes each other.

One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped (grow) spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out. In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery special water. They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months. By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station find out how to get this water.

Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny. A famous TV star (one) invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool’s Day. He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy

she really wanted to get married. However, when she said yes, he replied, “April Fool!” That littl e joke didn’t have a very happy ending. The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show

(cancel).

One of the world’s most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than April. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had