山东省高密市银鹰文昌中学2013届九年级英语上册 阅读理解专项训练（28） 外研版

1 阅读理解专项训练 阅读理解专项训练 2828 A I will always remember my mother s last few days in this world On February 14th 2000 my class went on a field trip to the beach I had so much fun When we returned to school my teacher told me to go to the headmaster s office When I got into the office I saw a police office Suddenly I realized something was wrong The police office told me what had happened and we went to pick my sister up After that we went to the hospital and waited Time went slowly Finally we got to see our mother It was terrible On the next day the headmaster came and told my two teachers what had happened I was taking a rest that day I knew it had something to do with my mother I kept thinking that she either died or had gotten better How I wished that she had gotten better When my teacher took me outside my sister ran up to me She started crying She s gone Teresa mommy s gone She s dead I couldn t believe it We jumped into the car and drove straight to the hospital Most of my family were there The silence was terrible I knew I had to say goodbye Today when I look back I still miss my mother very much but I know that I will live My mother was a strong mother who had the biggest heart My mother was an angel walking on the earth I will always remember her as living When someone is asked who their hero 英雄 is they usually say someone famous like Michael Jordan or Britney Spears When someone asks me who my hero is I tell them my mother My mother lives every day That is what makes her a true hero 1 What did the headmaster tell the two teachers on the next day A Her mother had been very ill B Her mother had been dead C Her mother had gotten better D Her sister came to see her B It was reported today that in China 56 of people who write blogs 博客 do so as a personal diary and 83 use their blogs for sending messages to friends It was also found that there is a strong East West difference In places like the US blogs that offer information on news attract more readers but in China blogs are more likely to be about sharing personal feelings It seems that bloggers can be divided into three types IT 信息技术 bloggers bloggers who record their ordinary feelings and media 媒体 bloggers When blogging first started the IT people had the technological advantage and they took the chance to put their thoughts on the web Some of these IT people now have had over a million people read their blogs The next wave of bloggers did not have any training as writers or in IT and wrote about 2 normal daily life Media bloggers however are trained writers such as journalists and editors When the many media bloggers showed up the everyday bloggers lost most of their readers Media bloggers have the advantage of knowing how to communicate well through the written words However the normal bloggers are still out there and increasing in number It seems that blogging is the new way to express your feelings People feel like the world is listening to or rather reading their problems even if they are not 5 From the passage we know that A 56 of the Chinese write blogs B people in US like to read blogs for news C the Chinese share feelings with each other mainly through blogs D the way that Chinese use blogs is not different from the West C Most musicians agree that the best violins were first made in Italy They were made in Cremona Italy about 200 years ago These violins sound better than any others They even sound better than violins made today Violin makers and scientists try to make instruments like the old Italian violins But they aren t the same Musicians still prefer the old ones No one really knows why these old Italian violins are so special but many people think they have an answer Some people think it is the age of the violins They say that today s violins will also sound wonderful someday But there is a problem here Not all old violins sound wonderful Only those from Cremona are special So age cannot be the answer There must be something different about Cremona or those Italian violin makers Other people think the secret to those violins is the wood The wood of the violin is very important It must be from certain kinds of trees It must not be too young or too old Perhaps the violin makers of Cremonas knew something special about wood for violins But the kind of wood may not be so important It may be more important to cut the wood in a special way Wood for a violin must be cut very carefully It has to be the right size and shape The smallest difference will change the sound of the violin Musicians sometimes think that this was the secret of the Italians Maybe they understood more than we do about how to cut the wood Size and shape may not be the answer either Scientists measured these old violins very carefully They can make new ones that are exactly the same size and shape But the new violins still do not sound as good as the old one Some scientists think the secret may be the varnish which covers the wood of the violin and makes it look shiny It also helps the sound of the instrument No one knows what the Italian violin makers used in their varnish 漆 So no one can make the same varnish today 3 There may never be other violins like the violins of Cremona Their secret may be lost forever Young musicians today hope this is not true They need fine violins But there aren t very many of the old violins left Also the old violins are very expensive Recently a famous old Italian violin was sold for about US 300 000 8 This passage is about A making violinsB musical instruments C scientific ideasD the old Italian violins D Miss White was a smiling young and beautiful lady She was the new teacher of Steve s class At the first sight of the young teacher Steve found that she was different from other teachers She was very kind and liked to smile to her students Steve was a naughty boy and all his classmates and his former teacher didn t like him at all After knowing his story Miss White had a talk with Steve She gave him a lot of encouragement and said she believed that he must be a great person in the future What the teacher said gave Steve much confidence because he had never been attention before So he decided to study hard from then on The following Monday Steve arrived at school on time and got ready for the weekly test Miss White came in and immediately gave a quiz 测试 on the weekend homework Steve was the first to hand in his paper He worked out all the questions because he made a lot of effort on his study those days With a look of surprise Miss White took his paper and began to look it over Steve walked back to his desk his heart beat very fast Miss White s face was in total shock She looked up at Steve then down then up Suddenly her face broke into a smile The smart boy had just passed the test But before this time he was always in trouble with teachers and never did his homework From that moment Steve discovered that not only could he learn but he was good at it Steve became more excellent And he continued this c