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江西省南昌市南昌县2022-2023学年九年级一模英语试题

 阅读理解

①What did people do to communicate in ancient times? Here are some very interesting answer s to this question.

②Alphorns(阿尔卑斯长号角) were once used to communicate in the mountains in Switzerland. They are very long and they are very heavy, too. So, alpharns are hard work to blow. Then why use them? Well,they make a loud sound which travels much further than the human voice. Herdsmen(牧民) used them to call cows in the distance for milking. At sunset, alpharns were also used to send a message down to villagers that all was well. These days, they're mostly used as musical instruments.

③The people ofLa Gomera, an island in Europe, have their own special way of sending messages from mountain to mountain. They use a whistled(口哨的) language called el silbo, which comes from their language . Spanish. Whistling can be heard within five kilometers, which means it can be used across much greater distances than shouting. El silbo can be used for all kinds of messages, including greetings and announcements. El si lbo is used a lot less than it used to be, but primary school students in La Gomera have to leave it.

④Did you know it's also possible to send messages without making a noise? This is called visual communication, and it includes the use of flags and even smoke. Long ago, soldiers along the Great Wall of China used smoke as a warning. If they noticed the enemy from their signal(信号) tower, they li t a smoky fire. When soldiers in other towers saw the smoke signal, they lit fires too. In this way, messages about the enemy's arrival could travel as far as 800 km in just a few hours.

(1)、What are alpharns mostly used for today?
A、Communicating in the mountains B、Calling cows for milking. C、Sending messages down to villages. D、Playing a kind of music.
(2)、Why do the people of La Gomera use el si lbo to communicate?
A、Because it can send messages to animals. B、Because it is different from their language. C、Because it can be heard at a great distance. D、Because it is a subject for young students.
(3)、How did soldiers along the Great Wall get warning message s between towers?
A、By listening. B、By whistling. C、By shouting. D、By watching.
(4)、Which of the following best shows the structure of the text?(P=Paragraph)
A、 B、 C、 D、
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    Maybe a lot of thin people will be worried about their health if the inside fat matters.

    Some doctors now think that the inside fat around important organs like the heart or liver could be as dangerous as the outside fat which can be noticed more easily.

    "Being thin doesn't surely mean you are not fat," said Dr Jimmy Bell at Imperial College. Since 1994, Bell and his team have tested nearly 800 people with MRI to create "fat maps" showing where people store fat.

    According to the result, people who keep their weight through the food they usually eat rather than exercise are likely to have major deposits (堆积物) of inside fat, even if they are thin.

   Even people with normal Body Mass Index (体重指数) scores can have surprising levels of fat deposits inside. Of the women, as many as 45 per cent of those with normal BMI scores (20 to 25) actually had too high levels of inside fat. Men were nearly 60 per cent.

    According to Bell, people who are fat on the inside are actually on the edge of being fat. They eat too many fatty and sugary foods, but they are not eating enough to be fat. Scientists believe we naturally store fat around the stomach first, but at some point, the body may start storing it elsewhere.

    Doctors are unsure about the exact dangers of inside fat, but some think it has something to do with heart disease and diabetes (糖尿病). They want to prove that inside fat does harm to the body's communication systems.

    The good news is that inside fat can be easily burned off through exercise or even by improving your eating habits. "If you want to be healthy, there is no other way. Exercise has to be an important part of your lifestyle," Bell said.

 阅读理解

Every month, Zhang Lingling holds a party with her friends in a KTV room. At the party, all the people wear hanfu—a type of dress worn by the ancient Han people—and sing songs that are accompanied (伴奏) by traditional instruments or inspired by ancient poems.

"I'm really interested in clothes and songs based on traditional culture. I'm not buying the items just because they are Chinese—they just satisfy my aesthetic (审美的) needs," she told China Daily.

Like Zhang, there are many young people who have a passion for traditional Chinese culture. Looking for the reason behind this fascination with traditional culture, a professor Ji Fangfang said it's because traditional culture is the best way for young people to distinguish (区分) their national identity. They want to tell the world who they are. 

"Younger people know the world well through the Internet, and they need to express their uniqueness," Ji said.

While some prefer inheriting (传承) traditional Chinese culture, others are putting twists on it. Pop culture designer Yu Yang is one of them. When he made a series of products featuring the ancient God of Fortune, the god wore fashionable Chinese shoes and a cap, and had a microphone in his hand. "Pop culture is a universal language. I hoped more people would accept and love my work and know Chinese culture through my art pieces," he said in an interview.

 Read the passage and choose the best answer.

Biomimicry borrows nature's design ideas and applies them to solve human difficulties. Nowadays a lot of companies started to invent in ways that are as elegant as what nature manages to do, and their designers and engineers began to sit with biologists to learn how nature would solve whatever it is they're trying to solve. 

 Some biologists worked with Nike company on apparel(服装)that would keep an athlete cool at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In a hot, dry place like Athens, what kind of organisms have to keep themselves cool and how do they do it? They found an African reed frog——a champion adapter in the heater—to study. 

If a company is making a solar cell , Biomimicry scientists will talk about how a leaf captures energy with their designers. Or if they're looking for some way to create an impact-resistant car, 

Biomimicry scientists will explain how woodpeckers can peck trees all day without harming themselves. 

Companies get the catalog of inspiration from the natural world and create things that sip energy, a city planner, an architect-should take one biology class in school. 

If you take a look at the octopus, you'll notice it moves fluidly and precisely but of course without motors or noisy fans or harmful fuel. The giraffe's vascular system allows it to pump blood up to its head and dip its head without getting dizzy. The humpback whale's flipper has scalloped edges to calm turbulence, and that's being mimicked in a new kind of wind turbine that can rotate in very low wind speeds because of its shape. There's even a new kind of pacemaker based on the heart of the whale. 

One famous biologist once said, 'In nature, failures are fossils. The organisms that are still with us are proven Companies that created a new product inspired by an organism have decided to donate a percentage of their proceeds to conserve the habitats of the organism. 

In ten years, you'll be able to visit ocean parks that have been preserved with the proceeds from a no-heat ceramic recipe based on the abalone's mother-of-pear!

Choose the best answer:

 根据语篇内容,选择最佳答案。

Do you have a good time your family? Whether you do or not, these rules will help you.

1. ____

Most people value some privacy in their lives. If you expect your parents to knock before entering your room, you should do the same to remind them that it is important to do so.

2. Let parents know your plans

Whether your parents set some family rules for you or not, they want to be clear about your plans. If you go outlet them know when you'll comeback and who you're with. Doing this can avoid some parental worries.

3. Help with the housework

Everyone knows that the housework is far from fun, including your parents! But if you choose to help with the housework with or before being asked to do so, you will be in control of your own time, Of course, you are selective about what you do around the house. That means you can choose the housework that you prefer to do and avoid the housework you dislike most.

4. Be polite

There is an expression "a little goes along way" in English. It means that a small polite gesture can have a big influence. Most quarrels (争吵) can be avoided by talking with each other nicely.

5. Apologise

Sometimes, when quarrels happen, we just cant get along well with each other. However, there must besom cone who needs to calm down and apologise, Even if apology is just "I'm the sorry that I fought with you", it will work.

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