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九年级英语阅读理解专项练习
（
1
）
Little Tom down the street calls our
dog
tries to say
hoem for us
to keep! I'll tell you about some of them.
Zip's first present was a
shoe. It was made of green silk.
We didn't know how Zip found the shoe.
But after a moment Mary, my big sister, told me
the shoe had a strange smell. I
nodded(
点头
)and held my nose.
污点
)
off the
shoe. Then he put it at the
door to dry.
writer and Mary
didn't know______.
Zip's first present
was
Zip carried its first present home
owned Zip's first present
Zip's first present was made of
calls
Zip
dog likes keeping things
dog likes playing with shoes
doesn't know the dog's name
can't pronounce the word
made the shoe strange was ______.
colour
smell
size
it was a silk one
word
g things for itself
ng things for other to keep
letting it run about
care of a small
child
can know from the reading that
the dog _____.
A. likes to give
presents to people
been kept in at the
writer's home
brought some trouble
to be called
Key: 1.C
2.D
3.B
4.B
5.C
（
2
）
An old lady in a plane had a
blanket
（
毯子）
over
her head and she did not want to take it off .
The air hostess spoke to her, but the
old lady said,
“
I have never
been in a plane before , and I am
frightened. I am going to keep this
blanket over my head until
we are back
on the ground again !”
Then the captain came. He said, “Madam,
I am the captain of this pla
ne. The
weather is fine,
there are no clouds in
the sky, and everything is going very well. ”But
she continued to hide.
So the captain turned and started to go
back. Then the old lady looked out from under the
blanket with one eye and said, “I am
sorry,
young
man, but
I don’t like planes and I am never
going to fly again. But I’ll say one
thing, ”She continued kindly, “You and your wife
keep your
plane very clean!”
1. An old lady had
_________ .
A. glasses
B.
a blanket over her head
C. a coat
D. a basket
2. A. She didn’t want to ________
.
A. take it off
B.
turn it off
C. get on
D. talk about it
3. _________ spoke to her .
A. The air hostess
B. The man next
to her
C. her husband
D. one of her friends
4. The old lady had never been
_________ before .
A.
abroad
B. home
C. in a plane
D. in hospital
5. The woman didn’t like planes and she
was never going ________ .
A. to fly again
B. to travel
C. to go abroad
D.
to go home
Key:
1
－
5 BAACA
（
3
）
Dick lived in England. One day in
January he said to his wife,
next week
because I've got some work
there.
don't
know
yet.
Dick answered.
send
me
your
address
from
there
in
a
telegram
(
电
报
),
He flew
to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel
in the center of the city. He put
his
things in his room and then he sent his wife a
telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.
In the evening he didn't
have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out
at nine o'clock
and said,
He found a taxi
(
出租车
) and the driver said,
remember the name and address of his
hotel.
hotel
are
my
things
in?
he
said,
what
am
I
going
to
do
tonight?
But
the
driver of the taxi did
not know. So Dick got out and went into a post
office. There he sent his wife
another
telegram, and in it he wrote,
Choose the right answer
1.
Dick flew to New York because ___.
A.
he went there for a holiday
B. he had
work there
C. he went there for
sightseeing (
观光
)
D. his home was there
2. Why
did his wife want a telegram from him?
A. Because she didn't know his address
yet
B. Because she wanted to go to New
York, too
C. Because she might send him
another telegram
D. Because she
couldn't leave her husband by himself in New York
3. Where did Dick stay in New York?
A. In the center of the
city.
B. In a hotel.
C. In a restaurant.
D. At his friend's house.
4. Who would send him the
name and address of his hotel?
A. The manager
(
经理
) of his hotel.
B. The police office.
C. The taxi driver.
D. His wife.
5. Which of the following is not true?
A. Dick stayed at a nice
hotel in the center of the city.
B. Dick didn't work on the first night
of his arrival.
C. Dick
forgot to send his wife a telegram.
D. Dick wanted to go back to his hotel
in a taxi.
Key: 1-5 B A B D
C
（
4
）
Bob and Jim once worked in the same
factory. One day, Bob lent Jim ten dollars, but
then
Jim left his work and went to work
in another town without paying back the money.
Bob didn't see Jim for a
year, and then he knew from another friend that
Jim was in another
town and staying at
a hotel. So he went there to see him late in the
evening.
When
he
got
to
Jim's
room,
he
saw
his
shoes
near
the
door.
he
must
be
in,
he
thought, and knocked again, and said,
True
or False
1. Bob and Jim once worked in
different factories.
2. One
day Jim borrowed ten dollars from Bob.
3. Jim paid back the money to Bob and
went to work in another town later.
4. Bob hadn't seen Jim for a year when
he learned that Jim was in another
town.
Key: 1-4 F T F T
（
5
）
I think the most terrible thing in life
for my little brother is getting up in the
morning. He is
almost sick when my
mother calls,
Herbert
answers,
don't like to go to bed at
night but I don't mind getting up in the morning.
I usually wake up before
my mother
calls me. I jump out of bed and go into the
bathroom to take a shower. I get dressed,
brush my teeth, comb my hair, and get
ready to go downstairs for breakfast as soon as my
mother
calls.
But not
Herbert. He just sleeps. A military band
(
军乐队
) in our bedroom could
not wake him
up. I call him and say,
immediately!
But
he just sleeps. After calling a few more times my
mother has to come upstairs and pull
Herbert out of bed. It's that way every
day with my little brother. Perhaps some day he'll
learn to
get up on time, but I really
don't think so.
True or
False
1. The most terrible thing in
life for my little brother is going to
school.
2. I'm not like my brother because I
like to go to bed early at night and get up early
in the
morning.
3. I usually jump out of bed and go
into the bathroom for a shower before my mother
calls.
4. When mother
calls, Herbert doesn't answer and remains in bed.
5. My mother often has to
go upstairs and pull Herbert out of bed as he
refuses to get up.
6. Sometimes we have
to send for a military band to wake Herbert up.
7. The writer thinks some
day Herbert will learn to get up on time.
Key: 1-7. F T T F T F F
（
6)
In
England,
people
often
talk
about
the
weather
because
they
can
experience
(
经历
)
four
seasons in one day. In
the morning the weather is warm just like in
spring. An hour later black
clouds come
and then it rains hard. The weather gets a little
cold. In the late afternoon the sky will
be sunny, the sun will begin to shine,
and it will be summer at this time of a day.
In England, people can also
have summer in winter, or have winter in summer.
So in winter
they can swim sometimes,
and in summer sometimes they should take warm
clothes.
When
you
go
to
England,
you
will
see
that
some
English
people
usually
take
an
umbrella
(
伞
)or a raincoat
with them in the sunny morning, but you should not
laugh at them.
If you don't
take an umbrella or a raincoat, you will regret
(
后悔
) later in the day.
1. Why do people in England
often talk about the weather?
A. Because they may have four seasons
in one day
B. Because they often have
very good weather
C. Because the
weather is warm just like in spring
D.
Because the sky is sunny all day
2.
From the story we know that when _________come,
there is a heavy rain.
A.
sunshine and snow B. black clouds
C. summer and winter D. spring and
autumn
3.
A.
warm B. cool C. cold D. rainy
4.
In
the
sunny
morning
some
English
people
usually
take
a
raincoat
or
an
umbrella
with
them because ________.
A.
their friends ask them to do so B. it often rains
in England
C. they are going to sell
them D. they are their favourite things
5. The best title
(
标题
)for this passage is
________.
A. Bad Seasons B. Summer or
Winter
C. The Weather in
England D. Strange English People
KEY: ABABC
（
7
）
Mr Brown was going away for a week.
Before he left, he said to his son,
me,
you can tell him that your father has been out for
doing something, and will be back in a week,
then be sure to ask him to sit down for
a cup of tea.
words down on a piece of
paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his
small pocket, took it out
and looked at
it every now and then.
Four
days passed, but no one came to see his father.
The boy thought that there was no man
to come and that the piece of paper was
of no more use for him, so he burnt it that
evening.
The next
afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy
opened it. A man was standing at
the
door and said,
for
the
piece
of
paper.
He
could
not
find
it.
He
suddenly
remembered
he
had
burnt
it,
so
he
shouted,
The man
was very surprised. He asked,
happen?
1. Mr Brown told
his son that _____.
A. he would be away
from home for four days
B.
he would be back in seven days
C. he would be back in a month
D. he liked a cup of tea
2.
Mr Brown wrote the words down on ________.
A. the wall B. the door
C. a piece of paper D. his son's pocket
3. A man came to visit the boy's father
on ________.
A. the second day B. the
third day C. the fourth day D. the fifth day
4. The man was very surprised because
_________.
A. he thought the child's
father was dead
B. the child didn't ask
him to sit down
C. the child gave him a
cup of tea
D. he couldn't
find that piece of paper
5. What was
burnt? ___________.
A. The piece of
paper B. Mr Smith C. The visitor D. The boy
KEY: BCDAA
（
8
）
One of the things to be learnt in a
foreign language is guessing all the time what
kind of thing
to come when listening to
someone talking. People do this all the time in
their own language, so it
is necessary
(
必要的
) to do this in a
foreign language, too. Here are some examples.
1.
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/p>
…
2.
3.
You
can
see
from
the
above
three
examples
that
the
context
(
上下文
)
helps
a
lot
in
understanding
what
is
being
talked
about.
So
very
important
in
understanding
English,
especially (
尤其
)spoken
English.
passage tells us
mainly about _________.
A. the
importance of
B. how to guess what one
is going to talk about
C.
some examples of right guessing
D. how
important it is to guess all the time
the context, we can see maybe the finished answer
in EXAMPLE I is _________.
A.
B.
C.
D.
ly.
3. Maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE
2 is ________.
A.
B.
C.
D.
4. Maybe the finished answer in EXAMPLE
3 is ______.
A.
B.
C.
D.
5.
From
the
passage
we
can
infer
(
推断
)
that
guessing
is
_______in
learning
a
foreign
language.
A. the
only way
B. more important in spoken
English than in written English
C. more important than any other way
D. more important in written English
than in spoken English
KEY: ABADB
（
9
）
Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good
friends. They live next to each other and their
farms are
both at the foot of the
mountain. So they can help each other. But neither
of them likes to use his
head. They're
both poor though they work hard. Most villagers
have built new houses, but they
still
live in the low and broken houses. They never find
out why.
Once Uncle Li went
to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the
town he heard the
apples
in
a
city
were
expensive.
He
told
Uncle
Wang
about
it
as
soon
as
he
went
back.
They
decided
to
carry
some
apples
to
the
city.
They
borrowed
some
money
from
their
friends
and
bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples
in the villages and carried them to the city on a
tractor.
Bad luck! A lot of apples has
already been carried there when they arrived. A
few days later they
had to sell them at
a low price (
价格
)
。
They felt unhappy and returned to their
village.
蒙受
) losses in
business while others always profit
(
盈利
)
a truck next
time!
傻的
) we were
!
1. Uncle Li and Uncle Wang
live in the low and broken houses because
__________.
A. they hope to save money
B. they're both poor
C.
their farms are at the foot of the mountain
D. they're not far from their farms
2. The two farmers carried
the apples to the city to _________.
A.
make a journey
B.
visit some places of interest
C. meet
their friends
D.
make a profit
3. the tow farmers had to
sell their apples at a low price because ________.
A. theirs weren't as good as the
others'
B. theirs were much
less than the others'
C. a lot of
apples had been already carried to the city
D. they forgot to carry them on a truck
4. Uncle Li and Uncle Wang were unhappy
because _________.
A. they had
sustained losses in business
B. they
had lost some money in the city
C.
something was wrong with the tractor
D.
other people profited in the city
5.
Which of the following is true?
A. The two farmers found out why they
were poor.
B. The two
farmers will soon get rich.
C. Neither of the farmers is clever.
D. The two farmers decided
to buy a truck.
KEY: BDCAC
（
10
）
On Christmas
Eve
─
the night before
Christmas Day
─
children all
over Britain put a stocking
at
the
end
of
their
beds
before
they
go
to
sleep.
Their
parents
usually
tell
them
that
Father
Christmas will come
during the night.
Father
Christmas
is
very
kind
and
hearted.
He
gets
to
the
top
of
each
house
and
climbs
down the chimney into
the fireplace. He fills each of the stockings with
Christmas presents.
Of
course, Father Christmas isn't real. In Jim and
Kate's house,
Mr Green. Mr Green
doesn't climb down the chimney. He waits until the
children are asleep. Then
he quietly
goes into their bedrooms and fills their stockings
with small presents. When they were
very young, Mr Green sometimes wore a
red coat. But he doesn't do that now. The children
are no
longer young, and they know who
the end of their beds.
1. Christmas Eve is __________.
A. the night of Christmas Day
B. the evening
of Christmas Day
C. Christmas Day
D.
the night before Christmas Day
2.
Father Christmas often puts presents ________.
A. into children's hats
B.
into children's stockings
C. under
children's beds
D. into children's shoes
3. When the children were very young,
__________.
A. they didn't know who
Father Christmas was
B. they knew that
Father Christmas wasn't real
C. they
thought their father was Father Christmas
D. they knew who put the
presents into their stockings
4. When
the children are older, they __________.
A. know that Father Christmas is real
B. ask their mother to fill their
stockings with presents
C. know that
Father Christmas is really their father
D. know that Father Christmas is really
their friend
5. Father
Christmas comes into the house through the
________.
A. chimney
B. back door
C.
front door
D. window.
KEY:
DBACA
（
11
）
To find out whether
bees
（蜜蜂）
can see colours, the
following experiment is made. A round
table is put in a garden, and on the
table is a piece of blue
cardboard
（硬纸版）
with a drop of
syrup
（糖浆）
on it. After a
short time, bees come to the syrup. The bees then
fly to their hive
（蜂房）
and
give the syrup to other bees in the hive. Then
they return to the feeding-place which they have
found. After a while, the blue
cardboard with the syrup on it is taken away.
Instead of this card, a
blue card is
now put on the left side of the first feeding-
place and a red card to its right. These new
cards have no syrup on them. Very soon
bees arrive again, and fly straight to the blue
card. None
go to the red card.
Picture 1
1. How
many cards do you need to prepare for the
experiment?
A. Two: one
blue and one red
B. Three: two blue and
one red
C. Three: one blue and two red
D. Four: two blue and two red
2. If Picture 1 below shows the table
top during Step 1 of the experiment, which of A,
B, C,
D in Picture 2 shows the table
top during Step 2?
Picture
2
3. During Step 2 of the experiment,
the bees go to ________.
A. the blue
card with syrup on it
B. the new blue
card with no syrup on it
C. the empty
space where the
original
（原先的）
blue card was
D. the new blue card with syrup on it
on the left of the red card
4. The
experiment has
proved
（证明）
that bees
________.
A. cannot see colors
B.
can see colors
C. can not see blue
D. cannot see red
5. Which
of the following is the best title for the
passage?
A. Bees Love Blue
B. Bees Love
Syrup
C. Bees, Color and Syrup
D.
Can Bees See Color?
Keys:
1
－
5 BCBBD
（
12
）
Now satellites are helping to
forecast
（预报）
the weather.
They are in space, and they can
reach
any part of the world. The satellites take
pictures of the
atmosphere
（大气）
, because this
is
where
the
weather
forms
（形成）
.
They
send
these
pictures
to
the
weather
stations.
So
meteorologists
（气象学家）
can see the weather of any part
of the world. From the pictures, the
scientists can often say how the
weather will change.
Today,
nearly
five
hundred
weather
stations
in
sixty
countries
receive
satellite
pictures.
When
they
receive
new
pictures,
the
meteorologists
compare
（比较）
them
with
earlier
ones.
Perhaps they may find
that the clouds have changed during the last few
hours. This may mean that
the weather
on the ground may soon change, too. In their next
weather forecast, the meteorologists
can say this.
So
the
weather
satellites
are
a
great
help
to
the
meteorologists.
Before
satellites
were
invented, the
scientists could forecast the weather for about 24
or 48 hours. Now they can make
good
forecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps,
they may be able to forecast the weather for a
week or more
ahead
（提前）
.
1. Satellites travel _____________.
A. in space
B. in the atmosphere
C. above the ground
D. above space
2.
Why
do
we
use
the
weather
satellites
to
take
pictures
of
the
atmosphere?
Because
__________.
A. the weather
satellites can do it easily
B. clouds
form there
C. the weather forms there
D. the pictures can forecast the
weather
3. Meteorologists forecast the
weather __________.
A. when they have
received satellite pictures
B. after
they have compared new satellite pictures with
earlier ones
C. before they received
satellite pictures
D. during they study
satellite pictures
4. Maybe we’ll soon
be able to forecast the weather for
________.
A. one day
B.
two days
C. five days
D. seven days or even
longer
5. The
main
（主要的）
idea of this
passage is that satellites are now used in
_________.
A. taking pictures of the
atmosphere
B. receiving pictures of the
atmosphere
C. doing other work in many
ways
D. weather forecasting
Keys: 1-5 ACBDD
（
13
）
In
almost
every
big
university
（大学）
in
the
United
States,
football
is
a
favourite
sport.
American football is
different. Players sometimes kick the ball, but
they also throw the ball and
run with
it. They try to take it to the other end of the
field. They have four
chances
（
机会）
to
move
the ball ten
yards
（
码）
. They
can carry it or they can throw it. If they move
the ball ten yards, they
can try to
move it another ten yards. If they move it to the
end of the field, they receive six
points
（点）
.
It is difficult to move the ball.
Eleven men on the other team try to stop the man
with the
ball. If he does not move the
ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball the other
team.
Each university wants its own
team to win. Many thousands of people come to
watch. They
all shout for their
favourite team.
Young men
and women come on the field to help the people
shout more. They dance and
jump while
they shout.
Each team plays
ten or eleven games each season.
The season begins in September and ends
in November. If a team is very good, it may play
another game after the season ends. The
best teams play again on January 1, the first day
of the
New Year. Many people go to see
these games and many others watch them on
TV
.
1. The
passage talks about ___________.
A.
football
B. how to play football
C. American sports
D. American football
2. We
can _______ the football in both American football
and Chinese football.
A.
kick
B. throw
C. run with
D. catch
3. Why is it difficult to move the
ball? Because ___________.
A. ten yards
is a long way
B. many men on the other
team try not to let the ball come near
C. the playing field is very large
D. eleven men have to catch the ball
one by one
4. If they _________, the
teams will play on January 1.
A. receive six points
B.
play eleven games in the season
C. are
the best teams
D. move the ball to the
end of the field
5.
Many
people
come
to
watch
football
and
they
want
their
team
to
win.
Which
of
the
following is not their
act?
A. Jumping
B. Dancing
C.
Crying
D. Shouting
Keys: 1-5 DABCC
（
14
）
“Who has more questions, a
teacher or a student?”About this question a great
learned man
told his student that
nobody does but a teacher.
The student got puzzled. With a smile,
the teacher drew two
circles
（圆）
.
Within
（在……
里面）
the
larger one is my knowledge of things, and within
the smaller one is yours. Out of the
circles is still unknown to both of us.
Since mine is larger, as you can see, the line
that marks out
the circle is longer.
That makes it clear that who has more
chances
（机会）
to face something
still
unknown.
1. The great learned man believed that
________.
A. a teacher has more
questions
B. a student has more
questions
C. both a teacher and a
student have questions
D. everyone,
except a teacher, has more questions
2.
The student thought that ________.
A. a
student’s knowledge is less than his teacher’s
because it comes from the teacher
B. a teacher can not necessarily answer
all the questions his students ask
C.
those who have less knowledge have more questions
D. anyone who learns more has more
questions
3. At the end of the story,
the great learned man
concluded
（推断）
that ________.
A. a student should learn from his
teacher
B. a teacher does not have so
many questions as his student
C. a
student knows more than his teacher
D.
a teacher has more chances to face what he doesn’t
know
4. Which of the
following topics can NOT express the idea of the
story?
A. You Will Never
Learn Enough
B. A Teacher and His
Student
C. There Is No Limit to
Knowledge
D. One Is Never Too Old to
Learn
5. We can often find such an
article in ________.
A. the Palace
Museum
B.
any book
C. a newspaper of magazine
D. An
encyclopedia
（百科全书）
Keys: 1
－
5 ACDBA
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15
）
Snow fell on the mountain. It snowed
and snowed. The snow did not
melt
（
融化）
. It
became
deep and heavy. The snow on the
bottom pressed
（挤压）
together., it became
ice.
The ice was very wide
and thick. It began to move down the mountain. It
was like a river of
ice. It was a
glacier
（冰河）
.
Sometimes the glacier moved only a few
inches
（
英寸）
each day. As it moved, it took rocks
and dirt with it. It changed the land.
In some places, it left hills. In some places,
when the glacier
melted, it made rivers
and lakes.
A million years
ago, there were many big glaciers. Glaciers
covered many parts of the world.
The
glaciers changed the land.
Glaciers are still at work today. A
glacier in the north of Canada is cutting a new
path
（路）
down the
side of a mountain. This glacier will change the
land, too.
1. The snow that
fell on the mountain
A. became snowman
B.
melted
C. became ice
D. turned to rain
2. The word in the story that means a
river of ice is __________.
3. The
story says, “The snow did not melt. It became deep
and heavy”. The word it means
____.
4. Which of the following does this
story lead you to believe?
A. There are not as many glaciers as
there used to be
B. Glaciers do not
change the land as they move over it.
C. Glaciers are found only in warm
places.
5. How fast did the
glacier move? (Which sentence is exactly like the
one in your book?)
A.
Sometimes the glacier moved only once a year.
B. Sometimes the glacier
moved over ten miles each day.
C. Sometimes the glacier moved only a
few inches each day.
6. The
main idea of the whole story is that _______.
A. snow is heavy
B.
the high land never changes
C. glaciers changed the land
Key: 1.C
2.
glacier
3.A
4.C
5.C
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16
）
Long ago, people in
Rome
（罗马）
talked
to one another in
Latin
（拉丁文）
. Pupils in school
learned to read and write in Latin.
Books are in Latin.
Some
Romans
（罗马人）
went
to other parts of the world. They took their
language with
them. Soon Latin was used
in many countries. It became a world language.
People in other countries
did not talk in Latin the same way. In each land,
they changed the
language a little. As
time went by, they made more changes. At last they
did not talk in Latin any
more. New
languages had come from the old one.
People do not talk to one another in
Latin today. But they still use many Latin words.
You
do, too. Street, wall, city, and
salt are some of the Latin words we use. You are a
pupil in school.
Pupil is a Latin word.
It means “little doll”.
1. Latin was used by people in _____.
A. Rome
B. the United States
C.
Greece(
希腊
)
D. Texas
2. The word in the story that means
what people speak and write is ______
3. The story says, “People do not talk
to each other in Latin today. But they still use
many
Latin words,” The word they means
________.
4. Which of the
following does this story lead you to believe?
A. It is not good to change
a language.
B. Pupils in
schools today play with dolls.
C. Not many people can read Latin
today.
5. What happened to Latin when
it was taken to other countries?(which sentence is
exactly
like the one in your book?)
A. In each land, people
talked about each other.
B.
In each land, they changed the language a little
C. In each land, the children had to
speak some Latin.
6. The
main idea of the whole story is that ________.
A. Romans did not like to stay home
B. people in old Rome
talked a lot to each other.
C. Latin changed as it moved from land
to land.
Key: 1. A
2. language
3. people
4. C
5. B
6. C
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17
）
A Leg Walking Right
Here are
some signs + -
x…, the signs
are very different. They mean very different
things.
When you see them, you know
what to do. This sign + means that you will add
some numerals.
This
sign
—
means that you will
take one numeral away from another. You will
subtract
（减去）
.
What will you do when you see x
and
…
?
Our signs are easy to read.
They are easy signs to remember. Look at these two
signs… .The
ancient Egyptians used
these signs. A picture of a leg walking to the
left told them to add some
numerals. A
picture of a leg walking to the right told them to
subtract.
In the 1500s
people used this
printed
（印刷的）
sign
& to add numerals. After a while the
sign began to look like
this
…
.Later, the
sign became +.
How much is
2…2?
1. What do
you do when you see this sign +?
A.
Walk away
B. Write a numeral
C. Read a sign
D.
Add
2. The word in the story that means
to take one numeral away from another is _____.
3. The story says, “Our signs are easy
to read. They are easy signs to remember”. The
word
they means ______.
4.
Which of the following does this story lead to
believe?
A. Egyptians could
not add numerals together
B. All
Egyptians had two left legs.
C. Our signs are not hard to understand
5. What did the sign to add numerals
begin to look like(which sentence is exactly like
the one
in your book)?
A. After a while, the sign began to
look like this… .
B. After a while, the sign began to
look like this +.
C. After a while, the
sign began to look like this &.
6. The
main idea of the whole story is that ______.
A. the signs for adding and subtracting
have changed.
B. People
could not write in the 1500s
C. the old signs were good for
Egyptians but not for us
Key: 1.D act
4.C 5.A 6.A
(18)
Mexico's
neighbours
are
the
United
States
to
the
north
and
Guatemala
and
Belize
to
the
south. Mexico is about one quarter of
the size of the United States. Mexico has more
than ninety
million
people.
The
language
of
Mexico
is
Spanish.
This
makes
Mexico
the
world's
largest
Spanish-speaking country.
Mexico City is the capital and largest
city of Mexico. The city is also very high. It is
7349
feet high (2240 metres). This
makes it one of the highest capital cities in the
world. The population,
of Mexico City
grows bigger every day. About thirty million
people live there. It has more people
than any other city in the world, even
more than Tokyo.
Mexico
also
has
its
specialities.
Many
of
the
foods
we
eat
started
in
Mexico.
Foods
like
beans,
maize,
avocados,
tomatoes,
peanuts,
chili
peppers,
vanilla,
and
chocolate
come
from
Mexico. Mexico is also
famous for its cactus (
仙人掌
)
plants. Mexico has more kinds of cactus
than any other country.
(Words: 161 Minutes: 3 )
1. Mexico is ____the USA.
A. on the south of
B.
on the north of
C. a part
of
D. as large as
2. Mexicans speak______.
A.
English
C. French
B.
Spanish
D.
Latin(
拉丁语
)
3. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Mexico City is the
capital of Mexico.
B. The
population of Mexico City is 30,000,000.
C. Tokyo is one of the
cities with the largest population.
D. Mexico City is the highest city in
the world.
4. Tomatoes were
originally (
最初
) grown in
______.
A. America
B. Spain
C.
Tokyo
D. Mexico
5. The best title
(
题目
) of the passage is ___.
A. Mexico City
B.
Mexico's plants
C. Mexico
D. Mexico's population
[Key] 1. A
2. B
3. D
4. D
5. C
（
19
）
A Trip to the Forest
One day
Bob took two of his friends in-to the mountains.
They put up their tents (
帐篷
)
and
then rode off to a forest to see
how the trees were growing.
In the
afternoon when they were about ten kilometres from
their camp(
营地
), it start-ed
to
snow. More and more snow fell. Soon
Bob could hardly see his hands before his face. He
could
not find the road. Bob knew there
were two roads. One road went to the camp, and the
other went
to his house. But all was
white snow. Everything was the same. How could he
take his friends
back to the camp?
Bob had an idea. The horses! Let the
horses take them back! But what would hap-pen if
the
horses
took
the
road
to
his
house?
That
would
be
a
trip
of
thirty-
five
kilometres
in
such
cold
weather!
It was getting
late. They rode on and on. At last the horses
stopped. Where were they? None
of them
could tell. John looked around. What was that
under the tree? It was one of their tents!
1. John and his two friends went to the
forest to ____.
A. build their camp
B. find their way home
C. enjoy the mountains in
the snow
D. watch the trees
in the forest
2. They could not find
their way back be-cause ____.
A. there
was only one road to their camp
B. they couldn't decide which of the
two roads led to their tents
C. there were no roads in the mountains
at all
D. everything was covered by the
white snow
3. It is clear that they
wanted the horses to take them to ____.
A. John's house
B. the camp
C. the forest
D.
the mountains
4. The horses stopped
because____.
A. it was
getting late
B. they were
tired after running for a long way
C.
they knew that they had got to the camp
D. they had seen John's house
5. The story happened ____.
A. on a cold winter day
B. on a dark snowy evening
C. in a cold camp far from villages
D. at night when nothing
could be seen
[Key] 1. D
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. A
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20
）
Two farmers were on their way home one
evening after a hard day's work. Both were tired.
They happened to look up at the sky and
saw a black cloud overhead.
said
one
farmer,
we
shall
have
rain
and
the
rice
will
grow
well.
The
second
answered,
胡说
), the rain will
only kill the crops
(
庄稼
).
So they began to quarrel
(
争吵
). Just then a third
farmer came along and asked them why
they were quarreling. Both farmers
explained about the black cloud.
there.
Choose the right answer
1. The two farmers were _____.
A. going home B. going to
the field C. going to work D. going to see their
friend
2. The two farmers
_____ on that day.
A. had a
holiday B. didn't work C. worked hard D. wanted to
quarrel with each other
3.
When there are black block clouds in the sky,
_____.
A. it will rain soon
B. it will be fine C. it will get hot D. the sun
is shining brightly
4. The
two farmers fought in words because _____.
A. they were hungry B. it
rained
C. one said the rain
would do good to the crops and the other didn't
think so
D. they both hoped
for rain
5. The third
farmer came with and said to the other two. He
_____.
A. wanted to make
friends with them
B. joined
them in the quarrel
C.
wanted to know why they were quarreling
D. had nothings to do
6. How many farmers said
that the rain would be helpful? _____.
A. None
B. One
C. Two
D.
Three
Keys: ACACCB
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21
）
Ali,who was working a long way from
home wanted to send a letter to his wife,but he
could
neither read nor write, and he
had to work all day,so he could only look for
somebody to write his
letter late
atnight .At last he found the house of a letter
writer whose name was Nasreddin.
Nasreddin was already in is late,he
said. What do you want? I want you to write a
letter
to my wife , said Ali ,
Nasreddin wasnot pleased. He thought for a few
seconds and then said, Has
theletter
got to go far? What does that matter? answered
Ali.
Well, my writing is so strange
that only I can read it, and if I have
to travel a long way to read your letter to your
wife, it will cost
you a lot of money.
Ali went away quickly.
Multiple choice
( ) 1. Ali wanted to____to his wife.
something a letter written
a flower D.
say good-bye
( ) 2. At last he found
the house of_____.
A.a writer B.a
seller old man D.a letter-writer
( )
Ali told what he wanted to do Nasreddin was______.
pleased d d
( ) din said
that his writing was_____.
for anyone
to read e for anyone to read
C. too strange for anyone to write ult
for anyone to read
( ) 5. This story
tells us______.
to ask anybody for
help to trouble others at night
to
ask for help without money to trust others
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An old man
died and left his son a lot of money. But the son
was a foolish young man,and he
quickly
spent all the money, so that soon he had nothing
course ,when that happened, all
his
friends left he was quite poor and alone, he went
to see Nasreddin, who was a kind,
clever old man and often helped people
when they had troubles.
My money has
finished and my friends have gone,said the young
man. What will happen to
me now?
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