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

1、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（ 1）meet thomas wilson. thomas is famous all over the world. he holds the world record for sleeping in(睡 ). one weekend, thomas slept in for two days, three hours and fourteen minutes. it was unbelievable. no one in history had ever slept in for so long before.thomas was ve

2、ry proud of his world record. his friends were proud of him, too. whenever thomas walked down the street, people always came up to him and shook his hand. thomas was a star.the only person who wasn t ofproudthomas s world record was his father. dad didn t likeit when thomas slept in. he complained t

3、hat whenever thomas slept in, the lawns didn get mowed. he was worried about how high the grass was getting. every weekend, it seemed to gethigher and high er.“ it s like a jungle there.抱”怨dad)tomoaned(thomas one day. but thomaswasn t worried about the grass getting higher. he had more important thi

4、ngs on his mindlikesleeping in.one morning, thomas was woken from a deep sleep by a loud roaring noise. it sounded likea wild animal pacing about under his bedroom window.thomas rushed over to the windowand pulled the curtains back. his eyes bulged likebasketballs.“ what on earth？” he gasped. there,

5、 in the middle of the backyard, was a lion!“ awesome! ” cried thomas. suddenly, a giraffe poked its head through the window. it munchedthe leaves from a plant sitting by thomas s bed. next, an elephant walked past the swimming pooland squirted( 出 ) water all over dad s car!“ cool! ” cheered thomas.“

6、 now i don t have to wdad s car today. 自”(新理念英 )1. what is thomas famous for?2. how long did thomas sleep in one weekend?3.was thomas s father proud of his son s world record?4.why did thomas say he didn t have to wash dad s car?(no more than ten words)5.what do you think of thomas s world record fo

7、r sleeping in?(no more than three words)（2）a mouse was surprised to discover that the farmer and his wife had a mousetrap(老鼠 )inthe house. it felt so frightened that it ran to warn everyone, there is a mousetrap in the house!and wanted to get some help from them. the hen raised its head and said, mr

8、mouse, thismousetrap is only for you. i wont be worried about it. the mouse turned to the pig. i am sorry,mr mouse, but the mousetrap has nothing to do with me either! the pig said. then the mouseturned to the cow. it sounds like you have a problem, not me, the cow said. the mouse returned第 1页to the

9、 house with head down and it was very sad.that night the farmers wife heard aloud sound and she rushed to see what was caught. in thedarkness she could not see that it was a snake. the snake bit(咬 )the farmers wife. the wife caughta bad fever and the farmer thought the best way to treat a fever was

10、chicken soup. so the farmerkilled the hen for the soup. the wife got worse and her friends came to visit her. the farmer had tokill the pig to feed them. but the wife didnt get better and died. her friends came and the farmerhad to kill the cow to feed all of them.1. how did the mouse feel when it d

11、iscovered the mousetrap?2. why was the mouse very sad?3.will you help the mouse if it comes to you? why or why not?（ 3）ever feel like no one really understands you well?“pepper ”could be about tochange all that. pepper is the first robot to read human feelings. using its emotion recognitionfunctions

12、( 情感识别功能), pepper can react to people when it is near them makingjokes,dancing and even singing in japanese.the man-like robot looks like a small girl. it is four-feet tall with a tablet computer脑）set to its chest. it has human-like hands, a girl-like body and baby-like（平板电voice. it was shown to cur

13、ious people in tokyo stores on friday by softbank, a japanese robotics company.pepper can examine facial expressions(面部表情 )， human voice and signs, then make an answer. pepper is designed to be a family robot, but it isn tlike rosie who can do housework on the cartoon. pepper is used at the home or

14、the store, where we provide fun and entertainment.pepper gets power from love inside a family. not only is he making jokes, making them laugh, it can also help people when they are in trouble. in a natural accident, it canhelp make those people who are sad or lonely feel relaxed, encourage them or m

15、ake them laugh. pepper goes on sale in japan for around $2,000 in february 2019. for now, several peppersare at softbank stores in tokyo for people to visit. the creators say beforeselling peppers, they want the robots to store more knowledge, to do better in getting along with human.1. what kind of

16、 robot is pepper?2. how can pepper help humans in a natural accident?3. which robot do you want to have, pepper or rosie? why?（ 4）第 2 页more and more people have phones today. phone calls and messages help us easily keep intouch with others. it means that we seldom write letters now, but a tv show-le

17、tters alive(见字如面 ), is bringing back this old habit.letters alive got its idea from a uk program with a similar name. both shows invite famousactors and actresses, but ther e are no funny jokes or different competitions. instead, it s just onperson walking up to a microphone and reading a letter.the

18、 letters were written by people from different times in history. for example, in one episode(一集 ) they read a letter written by famous writer xiao hong to her younger brother in 1941. the letter shows that xiao hong missed her brother so much and had great hopes for hisfuture.since its first episode

19、 on dec 5, 2019, letters alivehas been widely welcomed. manyaudience members said that it has provided a breath of fresh air to today s tv shows.apart from letters alive, some other cultural tv shows have also been well received by chinese audiences. they include chinese poetry conference ( 中国诗词大会 )

20、, a classical chinese poetry competition, and readers( 朗读者 ), a program that invites people to read poems and articles they like or wrote.“ this means that our audiences are not only looking for entertainment like gossip( 八卦 ) andeye-catching games,” reported china youth daily.“ culturalandtrue valu

21、esfeelings are the keysto winning praise.”回答下面5 个问题，每题答案不超过5 个词 。 1. what does the old habit mean in the first paragraph?2. who does the show invite to read letters?3. when was the first episode of letters alive broadcast?4. what do many audience members think lett ers alive provide to today s tv sh

22、ows?5. what are important to be popular?（ 5）these days shared bikes are becoming the center of attention in my we chat friend circle. many of my friends are sharing photos of themselves riding bikes, especially during the weekend in natural parks, and i can see people logging in ( 登录 ) and out of sh

23、ared bike apps.i mvery happy that there are shared bikes on the road. they have saved us a lot of time during special situations, and on beautiful, clear days, people enjoy riding them outside the city.i tried shared bikes last week, and i didn t like them very much. i think the first shared bikes w

24、ithout baskets are designed for athletes. they are very hard to ride, and the seats are not comfortable. it makes me wonder whether people really like riding shared bikes or are just sayingthis to agree with others.a friend secretly told me she tried the bikes to fit in. she doesn liket bikes and fi

25、nds beijing s roads too hard for bike riding. but recently, the only way to hang out with her friends is riding out of town together. to join in social activities, she had to pick up bike riding again.another friend admitted that he started talking about and sharing photos on shared bikes to第 3页appe

26、ar modern and fashionable to friends. he started paying attention when shared bikes first came into use.these views will give me something new to think about when i ride these bikes again.回答下面五个问题，每题答案不超过六个词。1.where are shared bikes put?2.who does the writer think the first shared bikes are made for

27、?3. how does one of his friends hang out with his friends?4. when does his another friend begin paying attention to shared bikes?5. what did the writer think of shared bikes at the beginning?（6）monarch butterflies from eastern canada make the most amazing journey in the insectworld. each year, this

28、butterfly travels about 3000 miles to its winter home in central mexico(墨西哥 ). how can it fly so far and why does it make this long and dangerous trip. scientists stilldon t have an answer.for many years, people in mexico wondered where the orange-and-black butterflies camefrom every winter. then, i

29、n 1937, a scientist started to follow and study the butterflies.for thenext 20 years, he discovered that one butterfly started its journey in canada. four months later, it arrived in mexico.the length of the butterflies trip is only one partysteryofthe. anotherm amazing thing isthat the butterflies

30、always return to the same area in central mexico.how do the butterflies find their way back to the same place. this is an interesting question because only every fourth generation ( 代) makes the trip south. in other words, the butterfly that travels to mexico this year is the great-great-grandchild

31、of the butterfly that traveled there last year.each year, four generations of a monarch butterfly family are born. each generations of thefamily has a very different life. the first generation is born in the south in late april. it slowlymoves north, reproduces(繁衍 ) , and then die. each of these gen

32、erations of butterflieslives forgenerations are born, reproduces, and die. each of these generations of butterflies lives for only two or five weeks. in the autumn, the fourth generation of butterflies is born. this generation has a much longer life. it lives for about eight months. this generation

33、of butterflies makes the amazingjourney back to the winter there, and in the spring they reproduce and then die. theiroffspringwill be the first generation of the next circle of life.today, people are stillstudyingthe monarchbutterfly.buttheyare not clear abouteverything.1.how long did it take the s

34、cientist to find out the monarch butterflies came from canada?_.2. which generation of monarch butterflies travel back to central mexico?_3. does each generation of the family have the same life?_第 4页4. try to translate the wordoffspring “into” chinese according to the passage._5.the best title of t

35、he passage can be _.a. family of monarch butterfliesb. mystery of monarch butterfliesc. monarch butterflies birthplaced.monarch butterflies winter home（7）we cannot remember clearly since when we have started to take our mobiles to a dinner table.this happens a lot, especially when we eat out. once a

36、 dish comes, instead of lifting ourchopsticks, we take out our mobiles and click. later, we post the photos onto microblog orwechat,“ waiting to be liked” . then we check our mobiles from time to time during the meal tosee whether we get“ liked” or not. we just cannot leave our mobiles for only a me

37、al.does that sound familiar to you? do you do that often? if not, how do you feel when othersdo that when having dinner with you?a recent study shows what we are used to doing is not so good. spending time taking photosof food makes the food less satisfying. to test this, some researchers did an exp

38、eriment. (somepeople, before, were, take, asked, could, to, photos, enjoy food, they). it proved that the morephotos they took, the less delicious the food seemed to them. so, why not stop taking photos andjust enjoy the food in front of you?besides the scientific result, there are also some other b

39、ad influences of taking photos of foodbefore meals. after posting the photos onto the internet, one will involuntarily (不自觉地 ) checkhis mobile many times.“ does everyone like my photos? i hope a lot of people like them!”seems that your mobile secretly calls your name all the time, even when you are

40、with real people.so, next time you go out to have dinner with your family or friends, how about not taking photos of food? let the food be delicious as it is and share your life with people around you. trust me. it will be a wonderful time.1. what happens a lot at the dinner table nowadays?2. what d

41、oes the recent study tell us about taking photos of food?3. 将文中括号内的单词连成一个句子，使短文意思通顺、完整。4. what does the fourth paragraph mainly talk about?5. what does the writer advise us to do while we re having dinner with others?（ 8）the history of living in spacespace travel is nothing new. the first spacecraft

42、 with a human on board blasted into space in 1961. since then, people have not only been travelling to space, but many of them have also lived there for extended periods. $foodall the meals on space stations are put together on earth and sent to the space station, along with the astronauts, by space

43、 shuttle. because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to第 5页three months), a lot of it has to be preserved by dehydration or canning.the space station does not have a freezer to preserve food, but it does have a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables fresh.astronauts also eat many other f

44、oods such as cereals, cereal bars, nuts and dried fruit that do not need any special preparation.eatingastronauts have a set timetable each day. this tells them when to do everything, including when to have their meals. at meal preparation time, they start getting their food ready, which often inclu

45、des adding water to re-hydrate the dehydrated foods.without the help of gravity, sitting down to eat can be tricky. astronauts sometimes have to strap themselves and their food into place. because of lack of gravity, astronauts cannot use ground salt and pepper, and all drinks must be taken from bot

46、tles. they also have to be careful that crumbs do not flyoff and get stuck in vents and instrument panels（.选自九年级下册新理念英语阅读）1. what does the space station have to keep fruit and vegetables fresh? (fewer than 7 words)2. how do people send the food to the space station ?3. what tells astronauts when to

47、do everything about eating?4. astronauts can use ground salt and pepper, can t they?5. why should astronauts be extremely careful while they re eating ?（ 9）the venice historical regattaevery year, on the first sunday of september, the historical regatta takes place in venice. it has been one of the

48、most important festivals in venice since 1315. in the beginning, the event was organized to celebrate the return of catherine carnaro, the queen of cyprus. today, it is a celebration of joy and friendship.the historical regatta is made up of two parts : a parade and a rowing boat competition. the ce

49、lebration starts with a parade of boats on water. the boats in the parade are colourful, and many of them have golden painting on both sides. people on these ancient-style boats wear clothes from the sixteenth century. wafter the parade, there is a competition on the grand canal. it is watched by th

50、ousands of people. the regatta is the most important event for every rower. for them, winning on that day means to become part of the history of this sport and of venice. so rowers all over venice look forward to joining in and winning this competition.traditionally, the 1st place winner was awarded

51、 a red flag, while the 2nd, 3rd and 4th place winners received white, green and blue flags. some other awards were given along with the flags. one of them was a little living pig. but since some animal protection organizations object to this, the pig award has been cancelled.when the regatta is fini

52、shed, the city is full of people celebrating among all the noise.there are exciting performances in the important squares of venice.第 6页1. when does the historical regatta take place every year?2. what is the historical regatta made up of? (in no more than seven words)3. how many people is the compe

53、tition on the grand canal watched by? (in no more than three words)4. what was the 1st place winner awarded? (in no more than three words)5. why has the pig award been cancelled?（ 10）blood donation, is a wonderful thing to do. it is an easy and direct way to help social work. ithelps those people in

54、 need of blood. $来 &you are able to give or donate blood every three or four months. blood donation is not a bigproblem, but you need to keep a few points in mind.before donating blood, you should have a healthy diet. do not go for it on an empty stomach.after having a balanced diet, you will feel strong and comfortable to donate blood. then you willnot feel sick or weak.for a good blood flo w in your body, you d better drink at least 6 glasses of water every day.completely avoid taking alcohol ( 酒 ) and smoking a day before and after giving blood.when you are going for blo