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浙江省杭州市高桥初中教育集团2020届九年级上学期英语第二次质量检测试卷(含听力音频)

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    Many people know that rubbish is a big problem on planet Earth. What many people don't know is that junk has become a problem in outer space too.

    According to BBC News, there are more than 22,000 pieces of space junk floating around the earth. And these are just the things that we can see from the surface of the earth by telescopes (望远镜). There are also millions of smaller pieces of junk that we can't see.

    Objects, like bits of old space rockets or satellites, move around the planet at very high speeds, so fast that even a very small piece can break important satellites or become dangerous to astronauts. If the smallest piece of junk crashed into a spaceship, it could damage it.

    To make things worse, when two objects in space crash, they break into many smaller pieces. For example, when a U.S. satellite hit an old Russian rocket in 2009, it broke into more than 2,000 pieces, increasing the amount of space junk.

    To reduce additional space junk, countries have agreed that all new space tools can only stay in space for 25 years at most. Each tool must be built to fall safely into the earth's atmosphere after that time. In the upper parts of the atmosphere, it will burn up.

    Many scientists are also suggesting different ways to clean up space junk. In England scientists are testing a metal net that can be fired into space junk. The net catches the junk and then pulls it into the earth's atmosphere to burn up. The Germans are building robots that can collect pieces of space junk and bring them back to Earth to be safely destroyed.

    "The problem is becoming more challenging because we're sending more objects into space to help people use their mobile phones and computers," says Marco Castronuovo, an Italian space researcher.

    "The time to act is now. The longer we leave the problem, the bigger it will become," he says.

(1)、Why is space junk considered a problem?
A、It burns up after it re-enters the atmosphere. B、It often stops the view of telescopes on Earth. C、It could force new space tools to travel at slower speeds. D、It may crash into other space tools causing damage or death.
(2)、Countries want future space tools to be able to fall back into the earth's atmosphere so that           .
A、the tools can be reused later B、the tools don't become space junk C、the earth's atmosphere can stay clean D、the effects of space flight can be studied
(3)、How do the Germans plan to deal with space junk?
A、Catch it with nets. B、Use robots to collect it. C、Burn it in the earth's atmosphere. D、Send it further away from the earth.
(4)、In which section of the newspaper would you probably read this article?
A、Environment. B、Local News. C、Education. D、Fashion.
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    ChaiJing, who worked for China Central Television (CCTV) from 2001 to 2013 as a TV reporter made a documentary(纪录片) named under the Dome (穹顶之下)to educate the public about smog. It is released(发行)online on March 1st, 2015.

    In the opening of the documentary, Chai tells the story of her daughter with a begin tumor (良性肿瘤)before her birth. “ I couldn't help worrying while seeing the polluted sky in Beijing,” she says. She only took her daughter outside when the air in Beijing was good. The rest of the time she had to keep her at home like a “prisoner(囚犯)”. And there were175 polluted days in 2014 in Beijing.

    In the  documentary, Chai had an interview with a six-year-old girl, WangHuiqin, who live in Shanxi Province, a heavily polluted area in China. The girl told Chai that she had never seen stars, blue skies or white clouds in her village.

    Chai also went to London and Los Angeles, which had both suffered air pollution in the past, to learn how they had improved their environment.

    Chai spent one year making this 103-minute film, which cost her over 1 million yuan. In the documentary, Chai tries to answer three questions. They are “ What is smog”, “ Where does it come from?” and “What should people do?” And she calls on everyone to get into the fight against smog.

The documentary Under the Dome

Producer

Chai Jing, who used to be a TV {#blank#}1{#/blank#} 

Release date

On March 1st, 2015

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cost

Over 1 million yuan

purpose

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contents

What is smog? Where does it come from? What should people do?

Details

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    In nature,you may see many insects and animals of different colors.Have you ever wondered why?

Locusts(蝗虫)are super delicious food for birds,but it is not always an easy job for birds to catch them.It is neither because locusts are good jumpers or runners nor because they are smarter than their enemies.The reason is that the colors of locusts change with the colors of crops(农作物).When crops are young,locusts look green.But when autumn comes,locusts change to the yellow and brown color as crops do.

    Brown bears,tigers and other animals move quietly through forests.They can't be seen easily by their enemies.This is because they have colors similar to the trees.For the same reason.polar bears that live on a land of snow and ice are white.Butterflies and bees living among the flowers are colorful like flowers.Soil insects are mostly dark—colored and they live under the soil in a dark and wet environment.However,insects with colors different from plants can easily be found and eaten by others.So in order to survive , they have to hide themselves in the daytime and appear only at night.

    Have you ever noticed some even stranger acts? The ink fish in the sea can send out some very black ink when it faces danger.As the ink spreads over.its enemies will not find themselves suddenly in a dark world.At the same time the ink fish immediately swims away.That is how it keeps itself save though it is not strong at all.

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