课后强化训练15 九年级 Units 5—6
一、阅读理解
第一节：阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
I hired a man to help me repair an old farmhou. His first day on the job made him mad—a flat tire(轮胎) made him lo an hour of work, he cut his finger with a knife and his old truck refud to start. While I drove him home, he sat in silence.
On arriving, he invited me to meet his family. As we walked towards the front door, he stopped at a small tree and touched the tips of the branches with both hands. When opening the door, his face was full of smiles and he hugged his two children and gave his wife a kiss.
Afterwards, he walked with me to the car. We pasd the tree. I was so curious that I asked him about what I had en earlier.“Oh，that’s my trouble tree，” he replied, “I know I can’t help having troubles on the job, but one thing is for sure. Tho troubles don’t belong to my
children and wife. So I hang them in the tree every night and ask God to take care of them. Then in the morning, I pick them up again.”
“The funny thing is，” he smiles, “when I come out to pick them up in the morning, there aren’t as many as tho hung up the night before.”
(D)1.What didn’t happen on the man’s first day of repairing the old farmhou?
A. One of his tires had no air.
B. His finger was cut by a knife.
C. He couldn’t start his old truck.
D. He arrived an hour earlier.
(C)2.What does the underlined word “them” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. The man’s children and wife.
B. The man’s children.
C. The troubles on his job.
D. The trees.
(A)3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The man invited the writer to meet his family.
B. Seeing his children and wife, the man was very sad.
C. Once the man met troubles on his job, he hung them in the tree and never took them again.
D. What the man did was very funny.
黑色星期五的由来(D)4.What do you think of the man?
A. He liked planting trees.
灯笼怎么画B. He was always late for work.
C. He always worried about his job.
D. He loved his family very much and never brought troubles to them.
【解析】文章大意：本文是一篇记叙文。主要讲了一个男子不把工作中的烦恼带进家中来打扰妻儿的故事。
1．由第一段内容可知，只有D项文中没有提及。故选D。
2．结合上下文可知，them指代上一句的主语“Tho troubles”，即这个人在工作中遇到的麻烦。故C项正确。
3计算机基础．根据第二段第一句“On arriving，he invited me to meet his family.”可知，一到他家，他就邀请“我”和他的家人见面。故A项正确。
4．根据第三段倒数三句可知，那位男士很爱他的家人，不想让自己工作中的烦恼影响到家人。故D项正确。
第二节：根据所提供的信息， 完成信息卡。
Do You Put off What Should Be Done Today Until Tomorrow —Readers’ Tales About Timewasting |
Readers nt us hundreds of emails after we put Dr. Rowan Pelling’s article Can You Manage Your Time Well on our website.乙肝早期症状 |
I started decorating the bathroom in 2006 when I moved into this hou. The tins of paint are still lying there nine years later. I still haven’t decided what color paint I’m going to u. It really troubles me a lot. —by Caroline, New York |
I’m still getting round to putting away the Christmas tree ud last December and it’s now September. In June, I decided I might as well leave it becau it would be Christmas soon. Anyway, what’s wrong with having a Christmas tree throughout the year? —by Polly, London When I was traveling in Britain with my family, I bought a book called 52 Steps to Prevent TimeWasting. But I was so busy with my work that I could never find time to read even one word of it. Ten years has pasd since then, and I can’t remember where it is now. —by Craig, Toronto I’m a furniture businessman. I once sold a t of British furniture to a customer from Japan, but I didn’t nd him the furniture on time, which made me very embarrasd. Instead, I told him that I couldn’t find a right shipping company to nd him the furniture.部中 —Ted Roland, Sydney |
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Information Card |
The name of Dr. Rowan Pelling’s article | 5.Can_You_Manage_Your_Time_Well |
The year of Caroline moved into this hou | 6.2006 |
The thing Polly wanted to put away | 7.The_Christmas_tree_ud_last_December |
The city Craig comes from | 8.Toronto |
Ted Roland’s job 杀人如麻的意思 | 眼睛怎么写9.A_furniture_businessman |
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二、完形填空
A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful __10__， and knowing her husband could __11__ it, she told him that was all s
he wanted. On the morning of the birthday, her husband told her how __12__ he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He gave her a beautiful gift package. She opened it and __13__ a book. __14__， she raid her voice and said to her husband, “With all your money, you gave me a book？” She was so __15__ that she left him.
Many years pasd and the lady was very __16__ in business. She owned two large companies. She __17__ her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to __18__ him. But before she could, she __19__ a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his posssions(财产) to her. She needed to come back and take care of things.
When she arrived at his hou, sadness __20__ her heart. She saw the __21__ new book, just as she had left it years before. With tears in her eyes, she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring __22__ from the book to the floor and a card could be en. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in tho days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words “LOVE YOU ALWAYS”．
__23__中学生 your gift is not packed in the way you want it, it’s becau it is better packaged in the way it is! Always appreciate little things: they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be en or even touched for they must be felt with the __24__．
(B)10. A. watch B. ring
C. handbag D. box
(A)11. A. afford B. like
C. guess D. lo
(A)12. A. proud B. kind
