2020年牛津译林版九年级下英语第二次模拟考试专题练习—阅读表达C卷

2020年牛津译林版九年级下英语第二次模拟考试专题练习阅读表达C卷姓名:_ 班级:_ 成绩:_一、回答问题Ask any group of teenagers in the UK what they most like to eat, and foods like pizzas, pasta, burgers and chips are always mentioned. Many young people would probably also list the local fast-food restaurant as their favorite place.But what teenagers like to eat is not necessarily what they should eat. For a growing body, eating foods with plenty of calcium（钙），such as milk, yoghurt and cheese, is important because calcium is essential for the development of healthy, strong bones （骨头）.Similarly, foods that are rich in iron （铁）are good for developing bodies, so its good for them to eat red meat, bread and green vegetables.Lifestyle habits can be developed during our teenage years, so it is greatly important that young people are educated about what foods are good. In 2005, in order to change eating habits and open teenagers minds to new tastes, a cook named Jamie Oliver started a “Feed Me Better” project. He worked with teachers and cooks in a number of schools across the UK to provide more healthy school meals. Although some teenagers and parents refused to have a try at first, the project was generally a huge success. The newspapers wrote articles about him and a TV program showed his visits to the schools.No on expects to end the teenage love with fast and junk food, but, hopefully, if projects like “Feed Me Better” continue to give out the right messages, more young people will understand the importance of eating healthily.1 . What problem do teenagers in the UK have?_2 . Why are milk and bread healthy foods?_3 . Why is it important to educate people during their teenage years?_4 . Did Jamie Oliver improve school dinners successfully?_5 . In order to help teenagers, what does the writer expect people to do?_Police in Qingdao, Shandong province, confirmed on Monday that 8-year-old twin girls who traveled from Beijing had been found drowned. The twinsPei Yuanjin and Pei Yuantong, according to reportshad come to the coastal city with their mother, surnamed Sun, for a holiday.A rescue team found the body of the elder twin around 11:30 am and the other at 3:45 pm in waters near the place the girls were reported missing.The mother said she lost sight of the girls on a beach in the citys Huangdao district around 3 pm on Sunday as they were having fun digging in the sand just meters away from her. They were wearing swimming suits and had bare feet.The mother said she would check her mobile phone from time to time as the girls were playing, but she looked up at some point and found that the girls were missing. After almost an hour of searching, she called the police.The twins deaths drew wide concern on social media, with many comments warning of possible dangers. Some social media users, who seemed familiar with tidal currents in Qingdao, said the sea often ebbs at the time the twins vanished, and people can be carried off easily by the current.阅读短文，回答问题6 . What are the names of the twins?_7 . What were the twins doing on the beach?_阅读下文并回答问题。Once upon a time there was a king living in a palace. One day he called out a group or men and said, “Go and find the person who knows about the secret of work.”So the men left the palace and traveled around the country. First, they saw a woodcutter who was cutting down trees. They went to him and asked, “Do you like this job, sir?”The woodcutter replied, “No, I was made to do this job by my parents.” The men sat goodbye to the woodcutter and walked away.While traveling further, the men saw a laundryman (洗衣工). They decided to talk to him. One of them asked, “Hello, sir! Do you like this job?”The man said, “No, I dont. I do this just to make a living.”Then they kept traveling until they saw a small school. A man was teaching there. They went inside and asked the teacher the same question.The teacher replied, “I love this job. It makes me happy to teach so many poor children.”The men considered the teacher to be the person who knew about the secret of work. So they brought him to the king.The king learned of the teachers words and thanked him for knowing the secret of work. He then built a big new school for the teacher and the children.8 . What kind of person did the king want to find?_9 . Did the woodcutter like his job? _10 . Who did the men meet during the travelling? _11 . What do you think is the secret of work? Why? (字数30词左右。) _Now people can learn a lot through reading, listening to the radio, using the Internet. But I think most people learn through watching TV. Watching TV is still one of the most important activities of the day for most people.whats going on in the other countries? How do people live in places far away? Where is a good sports game? Whats life like in the deepest(深)place of the sea?Please turn on the TV and then watch, and you can get the answers to all the questions. With TV we can learn better, faster and more easily just because we can hear and watch. TV brings the outside closer to peoples homes. We learn newer and better ways of doing something on TV. We say the world is smaller than before because of TV, although the other means(手段)of information can，too.阅读短文，回答下列问题。12 . How do most people still like watching TV now?_13 . How can we know the deepest place of the sea from the passage?_14 . What can we learn on TV?_15 . Why do we say the world is smaller and smaller?_16 . How many means of information does the passage tell us?_阅读短文，按要求回答问题。Do you know the feeling of yawning(打哈欠)? Its impossible to say no. You just need to yawn. But why does it happen?In the past, people thought about yawning a lot. As far back as 400 BC, Hippocrates thought yawning took bad air out before a fever. In the 17th and 18th centuries, doctors believed yawning increased oxygen in the blood, blood pressure and blood flow itself. More recently, more people agree that yawning cools down the brain, so when the temperature of the brain itself increases, yawning increases.What we do know is that yawning happens in just about every kind of plants and animals. It happens when an animal is tired. Yawning can also take place during times of social conflict(冲突) and stress. And that wide-open mouth can be contagious(感染的), especially in social animals such as humans and wolves. Watching someone yawn even reading about yawns can lead you to yawn yourself. Why? Research on humans tells us that people who are more empathetic(有同情心的) may be more likely to get contagious yawning.Is yawning contagious for dogs, too? In 2013, scientists from the University of Tokyo once again tested contagious yawning in dogs. This time they found that dogs are more likely to yawn in reply to a familiar person. They concluded that dogs can “catch” a yawn from humans and that yawning is a social rather than a stress-based behavior.Another finding shows some dogs find human yawning stressful and others do not. More research is needed to study this aspect of the human-dog relationship.Although we are still not sure of the real reason for yawning, when it comes to whether yawning is contagious between humans and dogs, you can collect evidence on your own. Try an experiment at home: Yawn and see if your pet yawns back.17 . Did people think a lot about yawning in the past?18 . Who believed yawning increased oxygen in the blood？19 . What might you do if you watch someone yawn according to the passage？20 . There are several conditions under which people may yawn in the passage. Please list TWO of them.（每条不超过7个单词）21 . Where may the scientists who tested contagious yawning in dogs come from？Black FridayThanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The day after it has been known as Black Friday. It is the start of the holiday shopping season, and it has been the busiest shopping day of the year in the US since 2005.Most stores offer big sales on Black Friday. They open their doors quite early in the morning. They try to attract shoppers with big discounts (打折). Some items (商品)like TVs and cloths are much cheaper than usual. Stores may even lose money on these items. They hope that shoppers will buy gifts for other people while they are in the store.Black Friday is a great time to go shopping. However, there are problem. The biggest one is that there are not enough low-priced items. Each store may only have a few. These items are in great need, so people stand in long lines to get them. They may wait three to four hours before a store opens. They may be hoping to get a low price on a TV or computer, but not everybody can get one. Some people leave, disappointed.The situation makes people worried. Some Black Friday events have been crazy. There have been fights over toys among shoppers. Some workers have even been hurt by large crowds. But most Black Friday events are safe and fun. Still, if you plan to go, you will expect large crowds and a bit of pushing.So where does the name “Black Friday” come from? It was first used in Philadelphia in the 1950s. The police called this day Black Friday because of the heavy traffic it caused. In the 1960s, stores tried to rename the day “Big Friday”. It did not stick. The name “Black Friday” continued to spread across the country. It seems that it is here to stay.Now people all over the country take part in Black Friday events. It is even spreading to other parts of the world. Stores have held Black Friday events in the UK, Australia, and Brazil since 2012. In Mexico, stores offer a weekend of discounts every year. They call it “El Buen Fin”, which means “the good weekend” in Spanish. I guess people everywhere like to buy things on sale.22 . Is Black Friday the start of the holiday shopping season?23 . What is the biggest problem with Black Friday?24 . How long may people have to wait before a store opens?25 . Where was the name “Black Friday” first used in the 1950s?26 . Why do people like going shopping on Black Friday?Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）A different kind of alarm clockWhen Matty Sallin, 24, was studying art and technology at New York University, he got an interesting task for the final exam: Create something for the ordinary family. He decided to create an alarm clock.“To get up in time, many people have to use an alarm clock every morning. But the sound of the clock is extremely noisy and unpleasant,” he says. So before he started to design the new clock; he asked different people what theyd like to wake up to in the morning, and lots of them said, “The smell of bacon（培根）.”So Sallin and his two classmates invented a new kind of alarm clock: a wooden box with a pig face and a digital clock that uses the smell of cooking bacon to wake people up. He explains, “Theres no danger of burning, because I built it carefully. It uses special light bulbs（灯泡） instead of fire for cooking and turns off automatically after ten minutes.” Just a few easy steps are required to set the “alarm”.“What you do is to put a few pieces of bacon meat inside the box the night before, then you set the alarm,” says Sallin. “If you set the alarm for 8: 00, it will turn on at 7:50 and slow cook for ten minutes under the bulbs. Then the bulbs turn off and a fan blows the smell out through the nose of the pig.”“So the pleasant smell of bacon will wake you up. There will be no more noisy alarms,” says Sallin. “Then you can open the door on the side and pull the bacon out and eat it.”When Sallin was a kid, he spent a lot of time making drawings of inventions. “I wanted to make a lift in my back yard and a special tree house,” he says. “But I never really thought Id become an inventor！”Sallin got an A for his alarm clock and went on to invent other thing, but people continue to email him every day asking where they can buy his alarm clock. If he decides to produce and sell his special alarm clock, maybe he can build a successful business out of it.27 . What was Matty Sallin？_28 . How many people worked together on the new alarm clock？_29 . How long did it take to cook the bacon？_30 . Why are light bulbs used for cooking bacon instead of fire？_31 . Whats special about Sallins alarm clock？_ wakes people up instead of the loud alarm.32 . What do you think of the new alarm clock？_任务型阅读。阅读下文并回答问题。Going to work by car is getting more and more expensive today because petrol (汽油) price is getting higher and higher. People are looking for a cheaper way of transportation and they find out that it is a good choice to ride a bike to work. More and more people return to bikes.Children often go to school by bike. But now more and more people are going to work by bike, too. The bike is easy to use, says Molly, and it is also very cheap.Mr Brown goes to his hospital by bike every day. He says, A bike doesnt cost so much money, and most families can have two or more bikes. Riding a bike is good for our health. Today most people get fat because they dont get enough exercise. So I tell all my patients（病人）to buy bikes. Besides, in big cities its usually quicker to travel by bike than by bus or car. Car drivers can do nothing but get angry（愤怒） when traffic is busy.33 . Why is going to work by car getting more and more expensive?_34 . What does Molly think of the bike?_35 . In big cities, is it quicker to travel by bus or car than by bike?_36 . It is a good choice to ride a bike to work , isnt it?_二、多任务混合问题阅读下列短文，按要求完成问题。Now a lot of families keep pets（宠物） in their houses. Most pets are small animals, such as cats, dogs, fish, snakes, birds and so on.Dogs are the favorite pets. The second favorites are cats and the third favorites are birds. These small animals are very cute and friendly. People usually have them as their family members. They look after them very well, they let them wear beautiful clothes and their pets have nice names. They also give their pets nice food . They buy food for their pets in pet shops. They keep them clean every day.Pets are all very happy. Many pets have their houses and beds. They often go out to relax and take a walk with people in the park in the morning.Some children like pets because they need a friend to play with at home. Many old people dont live with their children, and they keep pets at home just because they often feel lonely（孤独的）. They have them as their children and they love them