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浙江省金华市第四中学2016届九年级上学期英语期中考试试卷(含听力音频)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项 A、B、C、D中选出最佳选项。

D

    Imagine one day, the water taps in your house stop running. You have to buy water from shops. And still there isn't enough for everyone. Your mother has to save the family's shower water to do other things. Would you be able to stand that kind of life?

    Probably not. But that is what kids in Yemen are experiencing. Experts said Yemen is going to be the first country in the world to run out of water. According to a report, the capital, Sana, will run out of drinking water as early as 2025.

    Because of the shortage, the government often cuts the water supply. Hannan, an 18-year-old from Lahej, told the Times: "In a good week we'll have a water supply all week. But then the following week there will be water only for a day or two."

    Hannan said only rich people have enough water to use. They can buy water from the shops or from the water truck. Private companies own the trucks. They travel around the city every day to sell water – at very high prices.

    "A lot of people can't afford it," she said.

    The average person in Yemen uses 100 to 200 cubic meters of water per year. That is far below the international water poverty line (贫困线)of 1,000 cubic meters.

    The government is thinking of making use of seawater. But it will cost a lot and it may not happen soon enough to help the people of Yemen.

(1)、The underlined word "that" in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.
A、buying water from shops B、drinking dirty water C、suffering from water shortage D、washing clothes with used water
(2)、Hannan described _________.
A、what her life is like B、how beautiful Lahej is C、how people use water fully D、how heavy the traffic in Lahej is
(3)、which of the following do you think is the best title for this passage?
A、How to make use of Seawater              B、How to save water C、Yemen is Facing Serious Water shortage      D、How people use Water Fully
(4)、We can infer (推断) from the text that _________.
A、Sana will run out of water in 10 years        B、Hannan is a teenager from a rich family C、the capital of Yemen is developing fast       D、private companies make a lot of money
举一反三
 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:

 仔细阅读下面的材料,根据阅读内容选择正确答案填空。

Recently, a woman shared on the Internet that she had a birthday dinner not long ago. Before booking a table at a restaurant, she sent out a message to her friends and asked them to make an RSVP. On her birthday, the woman and her guests were very happy. However, a man who didn't make the RSVP arrived. Unluckily, there was no seat or meal for him. The man got angry and said the woman was a bad friend. She felt sad.

Many people commented on the story. Most of them said the woman did nothing wrong. The friend should have made an RSVP. So, what is an RSVP? Why is it important?

RSVP is short for the French word"répondez s'il vous plait", which means" please re- ply". RSVPing to an event like a birthday party is important. It can help the host know how many people will come to the event and so he or she can make a successful plan for it. The host needs to buy food and drinks, or sometimes spend money booking a nice place. It must take the host a lot of time and hard work to plan the event. So, making an RSVP can be very helpful.

If you get an invitation asking for an RSVP, please tell your host if you can go to the e- vent or not as soon as possible. It takes your host some time to invite you. You should also spend some time replying.

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