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1、 九年級閱讀理解 閱讀理解 1 Lana asked for a job in a TV station. She was asked to meet Mr. Baker, the manager, at 9:00am in his office. Lana was a few minutes late. Mr. Baker wasn’t in the office when she got there. His secretary told her to wait outside the office. “I may not get

2、the job,” Lana said to herself. Just then, Mr. Baker came through the door and hurried into his office. A moment later, the secretary took Lana in. Lana said sorry for being late. Mr. Baker did not seem to mind. He took our her letter for the job and studied it. “You’ve never worked in a TV stati

3、on before, have you?” he asked. Lana felt upset and answered no. Now she was even more sure that she would not get the job. Then Mr. Baker asked her some other questions. To her surprise, he seemed pleased with her. She was even more surprised when he asked her if she could start the work soon. It

4、seemed she had got the job at last. 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容填空，每空一詞。 1. Mr. Baker wanted to ____________Lana at 9:00 in his _________. 2.Lana was late __for____ the interview and thought she might _________ the job. 3.When Mr. Baker asked Lana the _______ question, she felt ___________. 4.After studying her ___

5、___ for the job and asking her some questions, Mr. Baker was______ with her. 5. To Lana’s __________, she _________ the job at last. 2 Trees are useful to man in three very important ways. The first important way is that they provide man with food, wood and other products. Trees provide man and a

6、nimals with food to live on the earth. It’s not easy for man to live on the earth without trees. The second important way is that trees give us shade. On a hot summer day, people are eager to (急于) have a rest under the shade of a tree after they have walked a long way. You can imagine how important

7、 the shade of a tree is to man and animals. The third important way is that trees help to prevent droughts and floods. However, in many parts of the world, man has not realized the third important way. He has cut trees down in large numbers. In the end, he finds that he has lost the best friends he

8、 had. 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容填空，每空一詞。 1.Trees give food to _________ man _________ animals. 2.Trees are _________ and ________ to man. 3.On a ________ summer day, if we sit under the ________ of a tree, we can feel quite cool. 4.In many parts of the world, man has not realized that trees help to prevent _______

9、_ and _______. 5.If we don’t want to lose our best friends—trees, we must stop others from _______ _______ too many of them 3 In the future, machines will be improved and do more and more work for man. Few people have to work for long hours. Man will have mor

10、e time for leisure. How will he use this leisure in the world of tomorrow? Certainly he will still need holidays. In the future, the computer will help people to find the right place. The computer will ask them questions which they will answer by pressing a button. It’ll also show them pictures a

11、nd they will say which ones they like, then the computer will tell them where to find the place they want for holiday. TV will be used more in education. It will also help people to use their leisure time well. There will be more programmes on how to make and how to do things. In the future, peopl

12、e will certainly have to do less work. Machines will take more and more work from man. This means that the rest of the time will be mostly leisure time. Some scientists say that man of the future will be able to get enough pleasure and enjoyment on his own without going anywhere. According to othe

13、r scientists, a man will put on a small cap. The cap will make him see, feel and hear all kinds of enjoyable things. 1.In the future, __________ will do more and more work for man, so man will do _________ work. 2.People will spend more time ___________ ____________ in the future. 3.__________

14、_ ____________ can help us to find the place where we want to spend our holiday. 4.TV will be more useful in ____________ and help people use their ______________ time well. 5.People will live an enjoyable life ______________ going _____________. 4 My sis

15、ter Alli and I have been trying to get people to stop dropping cigarette butts(煙蒂) for seven years. One day, we were walking in our hometown and saw hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground. They made the ground dirty. They made the town look so ugly that we decided to start a group to make p

16、eople stop dropping butts. We called it “No Butts About It!” At first, we drew pictures with“The Earth Is Not Your Ashtray(煙灰缸)” written on them. We put the pictures around our hometown—in parks, by beaches, and along roads. We wanted to make people understand that dropping butts does harm to the

17、 environment. Most smokers don’t think that dropping butts harms the earth. But it does! All rubbish does. Later, we wrote to companies and asked them for money to help us. We used the money to buy ashtrays to give smokers. We wanted smokers to carry the ashtrays with them so they didn’t have to

18、 drop butts. At the moment, we are trying to get cigarette companies to put an ashtray in each pack of cigarettes. Some companies would like to do it. Many people have started to join our group since it began. Today there are 45 other “No Butts About It” groups in America. And there are even gro

19、ups in England, Australia and India! Many newspapers have written about my sister and I over the last seven years. And we have won many prizes for our good work. But we are not interested in prizes. We just want to make the earth a better and cleaner place for animals, plants and people. One da

20、y it will be. 1.It has ________ Alli and the writer seven years to try to _______ people stop dropping cigarette butts. 2.The cigarette butts made the town look so _____ that they decided to start a group _____ “No Butts About It. ” 3.First, they drew pictures and put them around their hometown.

21、 Then they _________ to companies to ask for money. __________ the money they buy ashtrays to give smokers. 4.There are many “ No Butts About It” groups in ___________, __________, Australia and India. 5.They hope that one day the earth will be a __________ and __________ place for animals and p

22、eople. 5 Recently, children’s literature has become more and more popular. In fact, children’s literature has been welcomed by both children and adults. People have tried to find out why adults love children’s literature just like children themselves. But th

23、ere is no final answer. Children’s literature is very different from adults’ literature. Most of it is fantasy（幻想）. That means children can use their imagination（想象力）. They can enjoy the fantasy world. The most important thing is that the world is bright and hopeful. In the fantasy world, dead peop

24、le can be alive again and broken legs can grow once more. Right always beats wrong in the end. Children’s literature can also influence children a lot in education. When they read, their knowledge is increased and children know more about the truth. For a child, understanding the meaning of a word

25、may be greater than learning the word itself. Children’s literature is not only for children. A large number of adults like it, too. Not only young adults, parents and teachers, but also other people of all ages enjoy it. All of them feel happy when they read it. 1. ___________ children _________

26、__ adults love children’s literature. 2. Children’s literature is not ____________ ___________ as adults’ literature. 3. In the fantasy world, _________ people can be alive again and _________ legs can grow once more. 4. Children can get more ________ and know more about the ________ by reading

27、children’s literature. 5. People can ____________ much pleasure ___________ children’s literature. 6 Since the earliest times, trees have always been very useful and important to man who made use of them in many ways. Even today trees continue to serve man in s

28、o many ways. Trees provide man with fruits and buildings in the form of wood. Without trees, it would be impossible to build houses, boats and even bridges. Furniture such as tables, chairs and beds is made of wood. In the tropics(熱帶) where it is very hot all years round, trees protect man from th

29、e terrible heat. They’re also used for preventing good and rich top soil from being washed away during heavy rains which are so common in the tropics. If there were no trees or plants of some kinds to hold back the soil, heavy rains would wash the rich surface soil that is so important and necessar

30、y to agriculture(農(nóng)業(yè)). The result is that the land becomes a desert. There are so many desert areas in the world. A long time ago these desert areas must have been very rich areas, but since our ancestors(祖先) in the past didn’t have enough knowledge about science of nature, they cut down all the tre

31、es in the areas where they lived and never planted new ones. Soon, the rich surface soil was blown away and washed away by strong winds and heavy rains. In the end the land was turned into useless deserts where nothing could grow. We Chinese do not want to see natural disasters, so it’s our duty to

32、 protect the environment. 1. Trees offer __________ and ___________ in the form of wood to men. 2. Trees ___________ men from the terrible heat in the ______________. 3. The rich surface soil is _____________ and ____________ to agriculture. 4. According to the passage, some desert areas were on

33、ce ___________ with good __________. 5. We know that man must do his ____________ to keep the balance of ________________. 7 Recycling is nothing new. Waste paper, cars and many other things have been recycled and again used in many different ways for many years.

34、 It’s only the word that is new. But now that natural materials are becoming more difficult to be found, many countries are looking for other ways of keeping materials. In the USA, a publishing firm(出版社) has brought out several books on pollution and waste in the United States. The books are mad

35、e of recycled paper—the paper that has been used as paper before. In this way, several thousand trees are saved. One clever schoolboy has worked out that if every schoolbook in the USA was recycled, there would be enough paper for fifty packets of peanuts for every child in the world for five years.

36、 Several firms are experimenting to make containers(集裝箱) from a hard plastic which, when the containers are finished, can be used as building materials. If mountains of empty cans all over the world can be changed into building materials, they are not too expensive and there would be a new sourc

37、e of materials. 1. Recycling is to _________ materials for the ___________ time. 2. Since it is _______ to find _______ materials, people are finding ways of making use of the waste materials. 3. Because of using the _____________ paper, large numbers of ___________ are saved. 4. Containers whic

38、h are made of ___________ ____________ are being tried. 5. We hope ___________ ___________ can be used as building materials, too 8 把A-E五個選項(xiàng)填入文中空缺處，使短文內(nèi)容完整，正確。 There is not enough oil in the world now. As time goes by, it becomes less and less, so what are we going to do when it runs out? _____1

39、_____ In the Second World War, some people didn’t use gas made from petroleum(石油) in their cars. _____2_____ The car didn’t go fast, but they ran, so this was better than nothing. However, in the future, we can’t cut down all our trees to make gas. _____3_____ Besides different types of gas, we ca

40、n also use electricity to run our cars, but first we must make the electricity! _____4_____ But we might not always have coal, either. Other countries have big, strong rivers, and they can use the power of water to turn turbines(渦輪機(jī)) and make electricity more easily and cheaply. _____5_____ We put

41、turbines into the mouth of the river. When the tide comes in, the water turns the turbines and then it goes out, it turns them again. Which of these ways will be used to run our cars in the future? A. We need our trees for other things, too. B. They made gas from wood and plants instead. C. We a

42、re also able to get power from the ocean tides. D. Some countries have coal and they make electricity with that. E. Perhaps we will go back to using horses, carriages and bicycles. 9 James was a 29-year-old young man. He had a piece of farm but always thought it

43、was tired to work on it. He would rather lie in bed than look after the crops. _____1____ And he was often hungry in winter and he had to live alone in the old and broken house. Many young men were married and some of them had children. _____2_____ But no girl liked a man like him. They had to tell

44、 him to get much money if he wanted to have a wife. He thought for a long time and at last got an idea. One night he went into a shop while the gatekeeper was sleeping. _____3_____ But he worried that the policeman could look for them in his room. He looked around and hoped to find a mark. Just the

45、n he saw there was a cloud in the sky. ____4____ Several days later no policemen went to his house and he decided to bring them out. But he couldn’t find his place. And he couldn’t find the cloud, either. “_____5_____” James said to himself. “ It was easy for a man to find the coins. But whose arms

46、 were so long that he could take the cloud away?” A. He dug a hole under it and put the coins in it. B. Therefore, there was much grass in the field. C. Perhaps someone has taken the coins away. D. James wanted to find a wife and asked his friends to help him. E. He found some gold coins in a box and took them away.