2020-2021学年杭州市上城区九年级第一学期英语
期末教学质量检测
第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
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Short Story Competition
※ We want your writing!
Think you can write a winning story? Enter the 17th Annual Newtown Library Short Story Competition for your chance to win $1,000. The three winning entries(作品) will also be published in the Newtown Times.
※ Prizes
1st Place: A check for $l,000 and publication in the Newtown Times.
2nd Place: Publication in the Newtown and $300 in book tokens(书券).
3rd Place: P ublication in the Newtown Times and $150 in book tokens.
※ How to Enter
Send your enter by post to the Newtown Public Library, 45 High Street, Newtown, or come by and hand it in person.
You can enter as many stories as you like!
通道线·lea type your entry on white A4 paper. U Times New Roman font, size 12.
Handwritten entries will not be accepted.
·The words for each story is no more than 2,000 words.
·Plea also include your full name and contact information on the first page.彩虹蛋糕图片
Your entry must be your own work and unpublished at the time of submission. We look forward to reading your work!
16. You can enter the competition by _______.
A. mailing your stories
B. handing out your stories
C. reading Newtown Times
D. calling the public library
17. The stories for the competition must be _______.
A. handwritten in Size 12
B. over 2,000 words
C. typed on red paper
D. written on your own
18. What kind of passage is it?
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A. A letter.
B. A story.
C. A poster.
D. A novel.
B
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Recently the French government pasd a law in order to change the face of France’s cities. The law states that the roofs(屋顶) of all new buildings in the downtown(闹市区) of cities must be covered in part with either plants or solar panels(太阳能板).
So, why are the so-called rooftop gardens uful? First of all, they will help cut the amount of energy which is needed for heating and cooling the buildings in summer and winter. The plants on green roofs will also help produce pleasant air, thus cleaning the polluted city air. The soil ud to grow the plants will also help hold rainwater. This will make problems such as the flooding(洪水) less possible. In addition, the rooftop gardens will give birds a place to nest. And of cour they will create new community areas in cities where space is limited.
French environmentalists(环境学家) wanted the law to state that plants should completely cover the roofs of all new buildings in France. However, as a first step, the government decided to limit the law’s power so that only the buildings in the downtown would be changed. The government also suggested giving business the choice. That’s to say, they could choo to fit solar panels on to their roofs to get their own power or just grow plants.
France is now one of many countries, including Germany, Australia and Canada, that u green roofs in cities to lower their bad effect on the environment.
19.The government in France pasd the law to .
A.change the appearance of France’s cities
D.stop business producing polluted air
20.The writer organizes Paragraph 2 by asking a question and .
A.using numbers
C.listing reasons
D.giving an example
21.What does the underlined word “they” in the third paragraph refer to?
A. Local people in cities.
B. French environmentalists.
C. The French government.
D. Business in the downtown.
22. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Business in France have to grow plants on to their roofs.
B. The green roofs which have plants will help clan the city air.
C. Many countries including Canada u green roofs everywhere.
D. The business will get power totally on their own in the future.
C
Taking a walk every day is good for your health. But there’s one simple mistake that could be putting your life at risk.
Almost 137,000 pedestrians went to hospital with car accident-related injuries in 2017, and 5,977 died in such accidents, according to the CDC (Center for Dia Control). In other words, one pedestrian died becau of accidents every 88 minutes.
事故调查报告Luckily, there are some steps you can take to stay safe on foot. First, always u a sidewalk if there is one available, but if not, you’re suppod to go toward the traffic. “It’s best to walk in the direction of oncoming traffic,” walking expert Judy Heller says, “Walkers need to look out for the traffic, and always follow the walking rules of the road.”
Simply walking against traffic instead of with it cut the risk of getting hit by a car by an average of 77 percent. Why such a big difference? Well, if you walk the same direction as you would drive, the cars clost to you are coming from behind. That means you’d need to expect the driver to e you and react if they’re coming up too clo. If the driver is not careful enough, you could end up injured — or wor. On the other hand, when you’re walking against traffic, you can e the cars coming toward you. Facing the traffic lets you e danger coming and get out of the way if necessary, and you aren’t putting your life in the hands of every driver who pass.
Next time you go for a walk or run, face traffic to get the most happiness from your daily walk.
23. What does the underlined word “pedestrians” in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?
A.Walkers.
B. Doctors.
C. Policemen.
D. Drivers.
24. Paragraph 4 mainly tells us _______.
A. where the traffic accidents usually happen
B. why walking against traffic helps us stay safe
C. what steps we should take to stay safe on the roads
D. how we can avoid accidents when driving on the road
25. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Taking a walk is surely not good for your health.
B. We should expect the drivers on the road to keep us safe.
C. As long as we walk against the traffic, we can avoid accidents.
D. About 6,000 pedestrians died in 2017 becau of car accidents.
26. The purpo of this passage is to _______.
A. ask us not to take a walk on the road
B. share us ways to avoid getting hit by cars
C. tell us the danger of careless driving
D. show us the number of traffic accidents
D
Nowadays, many music fans listen to songs not from records or CDs but directly from the internet. This is called streaming(流), and it allows people to listen to what ems like countless songs. But how exactly it works?
The largest music-streaming website, Spotify, began in Sweden in 2008. It spread to other countries as some big music companies agreed to let Spotify urs stream their songs. In return, Spotify gives the companies some money.
Spotify urs have a lot of ways to choo what songs they listen to. They can arch for songs by artist or title. Many streaming rvices allow people to sign up for free accounts(账号). however free accounts are usually limited in some way. For example, you might not be able to listen to every songs you choo. Or you have to listen to advertiments.To avoid the, urs can pay for a subs
cription(订阅).
Streaming music over the Internet also requires a lot of data. This means that if a ur has a slow connection, their music might pau, skip ahead or stop completely. In order to solve this problem, Spotify us different ways to avoid overworking its rvers (服务器). It stores some information on the ur computer. And it sometimes nds songs from the computers of their urs rather than from rvers.
There are some disadvantages to music-streaming rvices. For one thing, people are only renting music, not buying it. This means if they stop their subscription to the rvice, they cannot listen to music on the website. Also artists generally don’t get much money from steaming rvices. If urs want to support their favorite artists, they’re better off just buying CDs. ▲, streaming makes it easier to discover new music and enjoy a wide kind of songs.
Streaming is convenient and inexpensive, and it offers a huge choice for songs. It is likely to develop new rvices for urs to enjoy in the near future.
27.According to the passage, streaming is .
A. listening to songs from records and CDs
C. listening to songs with other music fans
D. enjoying music while boating on the river二类账户
28.Which of the following phra can be put into “ ▲”
A. On the other hand.
B. In a word
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D.That is to say
29.What can we learn about Spotify from the passage?
A. Anyone can listen to any song they like on it.
B. All the songs from it are stored in urs’ rvers.
C. It hasn’t found ways to stop overworking its rvers.
D. Urs can pay some money to avoid listening to ads.
30.What does the author think of streaming music?
A. He can’t stand the bad sides of it.
B. He guess it has a nice future.
C. He doesn’t mind its development.
D. He thinks it is a waste of money.
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The science behind giving good gifts
Rearch shows that giving a bad gift hurt your relationships. So how can you be sure you pick something your receiver will love? Psychologists may have the answer.
31.________
Traditionally the value of a gift shows the importance of a relationship. How much does a giver expect to spend on the gift? It depends on how well they know each other and if they are friends or not. Choo a right one among veral choices.
32.________
So why not choo an expensive and special gift to make the receiver happy? One study found that the more expensive a gift was, the more givers expected receivers to value it. But receivers didn’t think so. In fact, they didn’t connect the price with the value.
33.________
When givers give gifts, they hope to e the smile on the receiver’s face right in that moment. But what receivers care about is how much value they’re going to get from that over a longer time period. A receiver may actually love it, since it’s a gift that can be enjoyed often over time.
34.________
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