杭州市十三中教育集团2019学年第一学期10月测试
九年级英语试题卷
第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节，满分40分) 第一节 (共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项
A Throwing Tomatoes-Spain(西班牙) Spain takes “tomatoes fights” to a whole new level. But the tomatoes are being thrown, not eaten. The festival takes place during the last Wednesday in August. Trucks carry tomatoes into the square. People rush to the tomatoes and throw them into the crowd. Rolling Cheese-England This festival is celebrated on the last Monday in May. It takes place on Cooper's Hill. A large wooden cheese is rolled down Cooper's Hill. The festival is actually a race where people run down the hill after the rolling cheese. The prize is a complete cheese weighing about four kilos. Burning Man-The United States The Burning Man Festival lasts a week. It falls on the first Monday in September in America. The festival takes place in the Black Rock Desert. The best part of the festival is the burning of a large wooden man. Fiery Food and BBQ Festival -New Mexico The Festival is held over three days every March. The food is spicy enough to make your mouth burn and your eyes water. Even the chocolate is covered with pepper. Thousands of kinds pepper are on show. 16. Where will you probably go to enjoy one of the festivals above in May? A. New Mexico B. England C. The United States D. Spain 17. If you don’t like hot food, which festival isn’t for you? A. Rolling Cheese B. Throwing Tomatoes C. Burning Man D. Firey Food and BBQ 18. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. The Burning Man Festival is held in the desert. B. Rolling Cheese Festival lasts more than a week. C. The tomatoes are thrown into crowd to eat in Spain.
D. All of the festivals mentioned above are about food festivals.
B
Jaime, a new immigrant (移民者), was attending his daughters first performance in a school play. His daughter, Carol, was six years old. She was a student at a school. Carol did not have a very big role in the school show. She was playing a rain cloud in a play about the dry weather in California. Carol had one line. Her line was, “I am sad enough to cry about how dry the state is.” Jaime and his wife made sure to arrive early so that they could get a good seat in the hall. They found seats in the row. Before the show began, the headmaster made a speech .It was about how hard the students and teachers worked together to make the play possible. At the end of the speech, the headmaster said, “Let's give the school staff a hand.”
Jaime, whose English was not very good, stood up when the headmaster said this. He knew that when people said “to give a hand” they meant they needed help. Jaime always wanted to help, especially at his daughter’s school. He thought maybe they needed help backstage (后台). Jaime's wife put her arm in front of her husband. “Where are you going?” she asked. “They need a hand,” Jaime answered gently. His wife explained that “to give someone a hand” could also mean “to praise someone.” They don’t need help. They just want us to clap(鼓掌), Jaim’s wife said. Jaime felt a little embarrassed and began clapping along with other students. Jaime thought to himself that someone needed to give the English language a hand. How could one phrase mean different things? He thought the English language needed help. 19. In summer, the weather in California may be________. A. dry and hot B. hot and wet C. windy and wet D. windy and hot. 20. We can learn from the second passage that ______. A. The headmaster didn’t do well in speaking English. B. The headmaster was satisfied with the school staff. C. Jaime and his wife couldn’t find seats to sit down. D. After the show the headmaster made a speech.
21. Jamie thought that “Let’s give the school staff a hand” means ________. A. the school staff want him to help. B. the school staff want to wash hands. C. the school staff need some money. D. the school staff need some help. 22. What did Jamie think of the English language? A. It was easy. B. It was interesting. C. It was strange. D. It was helpful.
C
One-on-one online teaching for children, especially English lessons taught by teachers who are native (当地的) speakers, is becoming greatly popular in China.
On a weekend morning after breakfast in Beijing. Youyou, 7, a first-grade student, clicked(点击) an app on her iPad, greeted her teacher from America, and started her one-on-one English lesson at home. Every week she has two lessons, and each lesson lasts about 20 minutes. She has been studying in this way for almost three months. Her mother said, “She is getting used to this teaching way and learning the knowledge faster.” A recent report shows that online English education for children will have an explosive(爆发性的) growth, as more Chinese parents have realized the importance of learning English. Besides this way, many parents also send their children to study overseas at a young age. Parents born in the 1980s and even the 1990s are more open and willing to try new things than those born in the 1970s or earlier. For example, Li Li, 37 years old, said she finally decided to let her 8-year-old son take one-on-one online English classes because she was busy with her job and had no time to send her son to the offline class. Another online friend said, “I like the way of teaching which makes my son become interested in becoming the language by taking different activities such as conversations, games, singing and drawing.” One-on-one means the full attention from the teacher and children can get effective(有效的) learning. This is also an important reason why parents choose it.
23. Youyou spends about__________on her one-on-one English classes every week. A. 20 minutes B. 40 minutes C. half an hour D. an hour
24. In Paragraph 4, what do the underlined words “this way” refer to? A. Studying English in a foreign country B. Studying English with parents' help C. Online English education. D. Studying English by taking offline lessons 25. The activities to learn a language don't include___________according to passage. A. having conversations with teachers B. playing games C. sing and drawing D. dancing with classmates
26. Which of the following is NOT a reason for choosing one-on-one online lessons? A. The way of online teaching is interesting.
B. Learning online is better than studying abroad.
C. One-on-one lets children get full attention from a teacher. D. Parents have no time to send their children to the offline class
D
What was discovered by accident? The answer is penicillin(青霉素). It kills germs. By killing germs, it saves lives. Suppose you are sick. You go to a doctor. She examines you. She says you have a “staph” infection(葡萄球菌感染). She gives you some medicine. You take it. The medicine knocks out the staph. Soon you are well. Before penicillin, this would not happen. Staph was almost sure death.
Everyone wanted a medicine. Laboratories worked day and night. They grew the staph in small dishes. Then they tried to kill it. Nothing worked.
The laboratory dishes had covers on them. They kept things from falling into dishes. Molds (霉菌) were a big worry. They are always in the air. You can't see them. They’re too small. There are thousands of different molds. Molds can make an experiment fail. That's why dishes are covered.
Dr. Alexander Fleming was working to kill the staph germ. He worked for years. One day he took a cover off a dish. He looked inside. There was a thick growth of staph germ. There was also some mold. Then he saw something strange. Where the mold was, there was no growth of staph. This is what Fleming probably thought. “By accident, I found a mold to kill the dreaded staph.” This is how penicillin was found. But here's the real miracle(奇迹). There are thousands of kinds of molds. But only one kind can kill staph. The mold must have fallen into the dish a few days before. The cover was probably off only a few seconds (秒). In those few seconds the night mold fell into the right dish. Another man might have thrown the dish away. But Fleming was very careful and smart. He understood what the mold did. How lucky the humans were! 27. The underlined “dreaded” in Paragraph 4 means _______. A. famous B. scary C. healthy D. endangered 28. The last paragraph suggests that ______. A. accidents happen to everyone. B. the careful person doesn’t have accidents.
C. the careless person may miss valuable chances. D. lucky is enough when doing scientific experiments. 29. Most of the passage is written by ________. A. telling an unusual story B. showing the results of experiments C. offering some reasons D. giving some advice 30. This passage is mainly about_______.
2019学年杭州市十三中教育集团九年级第一学期10月测试
