九年级英语 时文阅读竞赛（无答案） 人教新目标版[word版].doc

1、=【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = 英 语 时 文 阅 读 竞 赛 A. B. C. D. E. 总 分 F. G. H. I. J. （请注意：本次竞赛共十篇文章，限时 60 分钟。在第 8 页有简易词典可提供帮助。） ( A ) Dear Kimiko, I can t wait until you get here! I am meeting you at the airport at 1:00 on Friday. From there we are going right home, so you can meet my family. After you rest for a few

2、 minutes, we are all going to dinner at a Japanese restaurant. We want you to feel comfortable on your first day in New York. After dinner, we ll probably go to a movie. Saturday we can sleep late if you want to. In the afternoon, we can take a boat ride around New York, so you can see what it looks

3、 like. Later we are visiting a couple of museums, Jerry and Tania want to have dinner with us Saturday night. We ll probably meet them at an Italian restaurant on 56th Street. I m sorry you have to go to Washington so soon, I am going to the airport with you on Monday morning to say good-bye. Have a

4、 safe trip, Maria 判断下列陈述是否和以上电子邮件内容相符：（相符的写 T, 不相符的写 F） (10%) ( ) 1. Kimiko is going to New York by plane. ( ) 2. Maria will take Kimiko to a French restaurant on her first day in New York. ( ) 3. Maria and Kimiko are visiting the museums on Saturday night. ( ) 4. Kimiko is going to leave New York o

5、n Monday morning. ( ) 5. Maria feels sorry because she is too busy to go to the airport with Kimiko to say goodbye. ( B ) Johnny Smith was a good math student at a high school. He showed great interest in his computer. He came home early every day. Then he worked with it till midnight. But Johnny wa

6、s not a good English student, not good a bit. He got an F in his English class. One day after school, Johnny joined his computer to the computer in his high school office. The school office computer had the grades of all the students. He found his English grade. Ah F! Johnny changed his English grad

7、e from F to A. Johnny s parents looked at his report card. They were very pleased with the result. “ An A in English!” said Johnny s Dad. “ My son is really a smart boy!” Johnny is a hacker. Hackers know how to take information from other computers and put new information in them. Using a modem, the

8、y join their computers to other computers secretly. School headmasters and teachers are worried about hackers. So are the police, for some people even take money from bank computer accounts and put =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = it into their own ones. And they never have to leave home to do it! They are called h

9、ackers. 根据短文内容判断正误： (10%) ( ) 1. Johnny Smith did well in both math and English. ( ) 2. Johnny Smith loved computers. ( ) 3. When Johnny s parents saw the report card, they didn t believe the result. ( ) 4. School headmasters, teachers and police are worried about hackers. ( ) 5. Hackers can take mo

10、ney from bank computer accounts without leaving home. ( C ) The day was like any other day in his life. After school Bill walked past the shop on the street corner. He stopped to look at the front row of shoes, and he felt sorry for himself. He really wanted to have a new pair for his birthday. He s

11、adly walked away and thought of what to tell his mother. He knew she would give him anything if she could. But he also knew very well she had little money. He decided not to go home at once, because he looked worried and he didn t want to make his mother worry about it. So he went to the park and th

12、ere he sat on the grass. Then he saw a girl in a wheel chair. He found that the girl moved the wheels with her hands. Bill looked at her carefully and was surprised to see that the girl had no feet. He looked down at his won feet. “ It is much better to be without shoes than without feet.” He though

13、t. It was not right for him to feel so sorry and sad. He went away and smiled, thinking he was more lucky in life. 根据短文内容选择最佳答案： (10%) ( ) 1. Bill was sorry that _. A. the shoes in the shop were too large for him B. he forgot to bring any money with him C. he couldn t get a new pair of shoes D. he h

14、ad to work hard every day ( ) 2. Which of the following is True ? A. Bill s mother had much money. B. Bill s mother often bought presents for Bill s birthday. C. Bill s mother didn t love him so she never bought him anything. D. Bill had a poor family. ( ) 3. Why didn t Bill go home at once? A. Beca

15、use his mother was at work. B. Because his mother wouldn t give him any money. C. Because he was tired and he wanted to have a rest on the grass. D. Because he didn t want to give his mother any trouble. ( ) 4. In the park, Bill found the girl _. =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = A. without hands B. without feet C.

16、walking sadly D. sitting on the grass ( ) 5. At last Bill _. A. decided to buy a new pair of shoes B. left the park sadly C. thought he was more lucky than the girl in the wheel chair D. didn t know what to do with his old shoes ( D ) 选择方框里的单词完成短文： (10%) Now some women are spending a weekend at Moth

17、er s Camp. There, husbands and children are not allowed. Why would a woman want to take a vacation without her _? Some women say they need time to be _. At Mother s Camp a woman has room to herself. She can _, read or watch TV, and no one will bother her. No _ will ask, “ Mom, what s for dinner?” No

18、 husband will say, “ Oh, dear, I can t find any clean socks.” In fact almost 50% of women in the United States work _the home. Many of them work full-time and then come home to a second job taking care of their homes and families. These working women say one of their biggest _is housework. In the Un

19、ited States, working wives do about 75% of the housework. Many of their _say they want to help. But then they burn the rice or they can t find the pans. They asked so many questions that their wives decide it is _ to do the job themselves. Some women go to Mother s Camp just to get a rest from house

20、work. For two days they don t _, they don t clean, they don t look after their children and husbands. What do they do? They enjoy warm, sunny weather, walking, _ or boating in a clear blue lake and sing songs around the campfire. They relax away from home. They have a really great vacation at Mother

21、 s Camp! ( E ) Yesterday and Today Life in the twenty-first century will be different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place, but what will the changes be? The population is growing fast. There will be many people in world and most of them will live longer than people liv

22、e now. Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then. People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for easier problems children husbands alone

23、 sleep cook swimming family outside =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = A. Dont risk losing everything at once B. A person is the happiest with his or her family and friends C. You must accept disappointment along with success D. Doing something many times improves ones skill at it E. Dont hurt someone who takes care

24、of you. F. The most difficult part of doing something is getting started sports, watching TV and travel. Traveling will be much cheaper and easier. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays. There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one