北京市朝阳区近五年九年级英语期末真题汇编-阅读理解带答案
北京市朝阳区
近五年九年级英语期末真题汇编-阅读理解
北京市朝阳区2019-2020学年第一学期初中九年级期末检测英语试卷
阅读理解(共36分)
三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。(共26分，每小题2分)
A
A group of American students will come to Lingling's school next Saturday. Lingling is going to introduce Chinese culture to them. She wants to talk about the following things.
21. The Chinese tea drinking culture started from __________.
A. the Tang Dynasty
B. the Song Dynasty
method英语怎么读C. the Ming Dynasty
D. the Qing Dynasty
22. A whole fish is a symbol of __________ in China.
A. hopefulness
B. happiness
C. richness
D. kindness
23. The year 2020 is the year of the __________.
A. pig
B. rat
C. snake
D. monkey
B
One Bite at a Time
One summer day when I was heading for the teaching building, I met Philip, one of my colleagues (同事), who worked in the same office with me. Beside him stood another young man. Philip introduced me to the young man, named Stephen. He told me that Stephen would take one of my classes Introduction to American History. Stephen asked if my class was going to be hard. I felt he was worried about failing before the opening day of classes. We talked about what the class would cover and I saw Stephen's eyes getting big with fear.
Then I remembered a classical dialogue:
Question: "How do you eat an elephant?"
Answer: "One bite at a time. "
I told him to deal with his work that way-to do all his assignment (作业) and to hand them in on time. I added that most successful students I knew made a timetable in order to plan their study well.
As time went on, I learned more of Stephen's story. He had difficulty in study when he was in the middle school. Family members, including his mother, kept telling him that he was a failure. He told me that before coming to our college no one had believed he had much potential (潜力).
Stephen didn't become an "A" student. Still, he managed to pass most of his courses by being in class every day, turning in all of his assignment on time and breaking down his studying into bite-sized parts. By passing course after course he began to build up bit of self-respect.
Every time I saw him, he would brighten up and say, "One bite at a time. " He told his friends that he was succeeding when he was supposed to be failing. His secret, he said, was that he was practising what I taught him before classes ever started: "Take it one bite at a time. "
24. What is the relationship between the writer and Stephen?
A. Father and son.
B. Teacher and student.
C. Classmates.
D. Colleagues.
25. To plan their study well, most successful students _________.
A. made a timetable
B. chose many courses
C. asked teachers questions
D. took notes carefully
26. Stephen's story mainly tells us that _________.
A. it is hard to pass courses in college
B. we all need good luck to make a success
C. bad things can turn out to be good sometimes
D. taking one bite at a time can help students succeed
C
Before I studied psychology (心理学), I used to think that funny things make people laugh. While I was right about that, I discovered that there are lots of other psychological factors (因素) that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs a
t a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh－and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be. If your joke supports the opinions of a person, he will laugh more.
I was attending a talk show in Egypt, and when the man started to make fun of the way pedestrians (行人) cross the streets, everyone laughed their hearts out. The main reason those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed the streets carelessly. The joke wasn't only funny, it also made people feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got.
The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more the person will like it. For example, if you are jealous (嫉妒) of a friend, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then most probably you will laugh at it louder than if you weren't jealous of him.
In short, we don't laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage making fun of anyone or belittling (贬低) someone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke supports a person's emotions in any possible way, he will certainly like it a lot. You can do this in a better way by supporting their opinions without making fun of anyone in a funny way to make them laugh.
27. Before studying psychology, the writer thought ___________.
A. only good jokes made people laugh
B. many factors led to people laughing
C. funny things could make people laugh
D. laughing could make people healthy
28. Why did people laugh loud at the pedestrians in Paragraph 2?