丰台区2010年初三毕业及统一练习
八、阅读与表达（共10分，每小题2分）
Today is the Earth Day. Our reporter Nick Ford interviewed several people in the street. This is what they told him:
9:24 Miss Mayfield, a young teacher
I try to tell my students the importance of our relations with wild animals. I take them to zoos and forests, and I avoid using materials that come from wild animals, for example, ivory, which comes from elephants. I don’t wear things made of fur, and I even avoid buying leather shoes. Wool is okay, though－the sheep don’t get hurt!
10:03 Mr. Perdue, a businessman
I don’t use my car for short journeys. I walk or go by bike. It’s good for my health, and it doesn’t pollute the air.
10:30 Tom Pitt, a 14-year-old student
I only buy writing paper and notebooks made form recycled paper. And when I buy something made of wood, like a wooden table, I’ll make sure that the wood comes from a forest where they plant new trees. 11:01 Mr. White, an artist
I’m an artist, and I enjoy recycled art. They are things made out of rubbish－like this model plane made from old containers. In fact, I hate throwing things away. I even keep my old woolen clothes and cotton handkerchiefs and use them for cleaning.
11:35 Ms. Nelson, a policeman
I’m careful not to waste electricity. For example, I always turn the lights off when I leave a room. And I don’t have the TV on when I’m not watching it.
12:00 Mr. Parks, a doctor
I take my empty bottles, jars, and anything else made of glass to the recycling center every week. I try not to buy plastic bottles because you can’t recycle most kinds of plastic. 65. Is Miss Mayfield a young teacher?
__________________________________________________________________ 66. Who doesn’t use a car for short journeys?
__________________________________________________________________ 67. Where does Mr. Parks go every week?
__________________________________________________________________ 68. What is recycled art?
___________________________________________________________________ 69. What are these people trying to do?
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九、完成句子。（共10分，每小题2分）
70.明天是母亲节。我们去给她买个礼物吧！
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. _____________go and buy a present for her. 71.吃含有苏丹红1号的食物是不安全的。
________________ to eat food with Sudan I .
72.这位穷困的女孩非常幸运，她通过希望工程得到了许多书。
The poor girl was ____________________she received many books from Project Hope 73.最近，科学家们正忙着撰写有关甲型H1N1流感的研究报告。
Scientists_______________________ the report on H1N1 Flu these days. 74.我认为现在还不是我们放松的时候。我们仍然有许多要做的事情。 I_________________________________. We still have a lot to do.
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北京市朝阳区九年级综合练习（一）
八、阅读与表达 (共10分，每小题2分)
阅读短文, 根据其内容回答问题。
Happiness is U-shaped, for we are happier at the start and end of our lives but hit a slump（低潮） when we are middle-aged, scientists from England and America say. They have studied the information on the mental (心理的) health of two million people from 80 countries.
In England, the probability of low spirits for men and women reaches the highest point at around 44 years of age. In America, though, there is a big difference between men and women. Among women, unhappiness reaches the highest point at around the age of 40, but among men, it is about 50.
But the U-shape of happiness is unchanging around the world, and the mid-life sadness happens regardless of marital status (婚姻状况), changes in job or pay. It happens to men and women, to single and married people, to rich and poor, and to those with and without children.
One possibility may be that people realize many of their dreams won’t come true at middle age. The researchers said another reason could be that seeing their middle-aged friends die one by one, people begin to value their own remaining years and their love of the nature and long for peaceful and free life once more. But the good news is that if people make it to aged 70 and are still physically fit, they are on average (平均) as happy as a 20-year-old person. For the average people in the modern world, the fall in mental health and happiness doesn’t come on suddenly in a single year. Only in their fifties do people get out of this low period. 65. Do people feel happy at the start and end of their lives?
___________________________________________________________________ 66. Where are the scientists in the passage from?
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67. When does the unhappiness reach the highest point among men in America, at the age of 40 or about 50? ___________________________________________________________________ 68. What is the good news for a 70-year-old healthy man?
___________________________________________________________________ 69. How will a teenager feel in his future life according to the passage?
___________________________________________________________________ 九、完成句子（共10分，每小题2分）
根据中文意思完成句子。 70. 让我们做早操吧。
______________________ morning exercises. 71. 这个教室太小，容纳不下这么多学生。
The classroom is _____________________ hold so many students. 72. 请你打开窗户好吗？
_______________________ the window? 73. 2010年世博会直到10月31号才闭幕。
The World Exposition 2010 ______________________ October 31st. 74. 读书不仅能帮助我们获取知识而且能使我们聪明。 Reading books _________________________.
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昌平2009-2010学年第二学期初三第一次模拟考试试题
八、阅读与表达 （共10分，每小题2分）
阅读短文，根据其内容回答问题。
A rabbit is running into a hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see his tail moving up and down, they run too. They know that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee finds some food, it goes back to his home. It can’t tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
But human beings have something that no animals have---a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information, to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things what have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals have the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how the first men learned to make words. Somehow they learned to make them. As countries went by, they made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for example, contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we don’t know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we meet a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the most useful book.
65. Do animals use special languages for communication?
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66. How does the bee tell other bees where the food is, by speaking or dancing in the air? ___________________________________________________________________
67. What are the examples to explain the wonderful power of human being's language according to the writer? ___________________________________________________________________ 68. Who can remind themselves of the things what have happened?
___________________________________________________________________ 69. How to make our vocabulary larger?
___________________________________________________________________ 九、完成句子 （共10分，每小题2分） 根据中文意思完成句子
70. 我为你比赛获胜而高兴。
__________ you have wom the game. 71．直到做完作业，妈妈才让我看电视.
My mother _________________________________________ I finished my homework. 72. 工人们将用两个月时间建造这座大桥。
_____________ the workers two months __________the bridge. 73. 他们正忙着为植树作准备。
They ______________________ planting trees. 74. 刚才玛丽和我都没看见他上网。
_______ Mary _____ I _________________on line
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崇文区2009-2010学年度第二学期初三统一练习（一）
八、阅读与表达（共10分，每小题2分）
阅读短文，根据其内容回答问题。
Who was Leonardo da Vinci? You may answer without thinking: “He is the painter of the Mona Lisa.” What else do you know about him? Da Vinci was more than just a great artist in history. He’s also famous as a scientist and an inventor.
Recently, the Grand Rapids Public Museum in the US had an exhibition to introduce this great talent. In one of the shows, named “Leonardo da Vinci’s Machines in Motion”, visitors could see and touch 30 full-size machines built according to his sketches– including a crane (起重机) and a robot!
Leonardo da Vinci was born to a rich family in Florence, Italy, in 1452. From childhood, Leonardo was given a good education and he showed talent at painting. By the age of 26, da Vinci had already become a famous painter.
However, he showed that he had multiple talents in 1482 when he began to work for the Duke of Milan as a chief engineer. In the duke’s military factories, da Vinci developed an interest in war weapons.
He designed many important machines, including helicopters and parachutes. He also drew and wrote about an armored car, which could carry eight men inside and allow them to fire weapons through holes in its walls. Da Vinci’s idea led to the modern tank. Though da Vinci never built many of the inventions he designed, some of the things he imagined in the late 1400s are in use today.
As a scientist, da Vinci was interested in the human body. He spent a whole year cutting up dead bodies in hospitals to learn about human anatomy (解剖). He made more than 200 drawings of bodies.
Amazingly, da Vinci wrote backward, so the easiest way to read his notes was to hold them up to a mirror! 65. Was the Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci?
___________________________________________________________________ 66. When was Leonardo da Vinci born?
___________________________________________________________________ 67. What did Leonardo da Vinci design?
___________________________________________________________________ 68. Why did Leonardo da Vinci cut up dead bodies in hospitals?
___________________________________________________________________ 69. What was Leonardo da Vinci according to the passage?
___________________________________________________________________ 九、根据中文意思完成句子（共10分，每小题2分）
70. 放学后咱们一起去游泳吧！ __________together after school. 71．我一到上海就给你打电话。
I’ll call you ___________ I arrive in Shanghai. 72. 妈妈在厨房里忙着做饭。
Mom____________ in the citchen.
73．天要下雨了，你出去时最好带上雨伞。
It’s going to rain. __________take an umbrella with you when you go out. 74．她对音乐太感兴趣了,让她停止练琴是不可能的。 She is ____________ the piano.
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北京市宣武区2009—2010学年度第二学期第一次质量检测
八、阅读短文，根据其内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2 分）
Many everyday American expressions are based on colors．Red is a hot color．Americans often use it to express heat．They may say they are red hot about something unfair．When they are red hot，they are very angry about something．
People sometimes say they are in the pink when they are in good health．The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the 20th century．It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color that shows that they are in good health． Blue is a cool color．The traditional blues music in the United States is the opposite of red hot music．Blues is slow and sad．Someone who is blue is very sad．
The color green is natural for trees and grass．But it is an unnatural color for humans．A person who has a sick feeling stomach may say she feels a little green．A passenger on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves may look very green．Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has，like a fast new car．That person may say he is green with envy（妒忌）．Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks．Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the backside of the paper money．
People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day．The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day．Blackouts were coming during World War II．Officials would order all lights in a city turned off to make it difficult for enemy planes to find a target in the dark of night．
65. Is red a hot color?
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66. When do people say they are in the pink?
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67. What color will people use when they feel sick, upset or envy someone else?
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68. What’s the real meaning of the underlined phrase “red hot music” in English?
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69. What is the main idea of the passage?
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九、完成句子（共10分，每小题2分）
根据中文意思完成句子。 70. 对不起，我上课迟到了。
I’m sorry I’m ______ class.
71. 老师经常告诉我们不要在阳光下看书。
The teacher often ______ in the sun.
72. 我恐怕吵醒爸爸，把电视音量调低了。
_____ waking my father up, so I turned down the TV. 73. 为了赶上其他运动员，她将会继续努力训练。
________other players.
74. 这个新的英语教学节目不仅能帮助学生尽可能多的了解美国，而且也能提高他们的英语。
This new English teaching program __________.
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