阅读短文，回答问题 Stonehenge is one of the oldest places made by man. It took about 700 years to build the old...

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吉林省长春市外国语学校2017届九年级上学期英语第二次月考试卷

阅读短文，回答问题

Stonehenge is one of the oldest places made by man. It took about 700 years to build the oldest part of it is now believed to be 4,800 years old. It is located in the south of England near a small town called Amesbury in an area which has many other ancient monuments.

Stonehenge consists of several circles. Some of them are made of stone, one is a ditch(沟渠)and one consists of 56 holes in the ground called “Aubrey holes”. Because many of the stones have fallen over or have been moved, it is difficult to see the full shape. The outside circle of stones once had 30 enormous (巨大的) stones, each weighing about 25 tons. On top of them used to be 30 more weighing 7 tons each, so that they made a circle of huge arches (拱形).Inside this was a horseshoe shape of five even bigger arches in which each of the upright (直立的) stones weighed 45 tones. Inside this was a bluestone circle of 60 stones, then a bluestone horseshoe of 19 stones. Finally in the middle was an enormous stone called the altar (祭坛) stones. The bluestone came from some mountains in Wales, 385 kilometers away, and even the other stones came a distance of at least 50 kilometers. Carrying the 80 stones to form the main circles probably took several thousand men several years.

Nobody knows why it was built. It may have been a kind of church; it may have been a meeting place for the people who lived near. Some people say that it was a means of predicting the position of the sun, the moon and the stars. It has also been discovered that Stonehenge is located on some mysterious (神秘的)lines called “ley lines ” that seem to join together ancient buildings and places in England.

阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。

（1）、Where is Stonehenge?

（2）、How long did it take to build Stonehenge?

（3）、What is in the middle?

（4）、Does anyone know for certain(肯定地) why it was built?

（5）、What do you think of Stonehenge?

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Future and Today
It is well known that everyone has his own dream as well as his own future. But do you know what future really is? I have to say that future is now. That is to say we must treasure every minute now. If we want to have a bright future, we should know how important time is and use it well.
There is an old English saying:“Gain time, gain life”Then what's time? Time is something that we can't see or touch, but we can feel it passing by. Time is always with us. When we are at table, time passes; when we play, time goes by unnoticeably. We always say “Time is money”, but time is even more precious(珍贵的) than money, because when money is spent, we can earn it back. But if time is gone away, it will never return. So, some of us even say time is priceless.
We should always remember: future is now. For us students, we should try our best to work hard in order to create a great future of our own. We should make the best use of every hour and be the master of today. We should do everything before us as well as possible. And never put off what can be done today till tomorrow.
As we all know,“Time and tide wait for no man.”If you waste today, you will regret tomorrow. So from now on, work hard. Tomorrow will be better, and your future will be brighter. Remember:“No pains, no gains.”Today's hard work is the cause of tomorrow's harvest.
Title: Future and Today

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{#blank#}3{#/blank#} is priceless.	Time is money, but time is even more {#blank#}4{#/blank#} than money, because when money is spent, we can earn it back. But time will return no more.
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Mr. Wang 正在国外旅行,这是他入住宾馆的房卡,请根据房卡上的信息,选择正确的字母编号完成下列各题。

Mr. Wang lives in {#blank#}1{#/blank#} .
Its phone number is{#blank#}2{#/blank#} .
There are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} buses to the hotel.
The hotel is on{#blank#}4{#/blank#} .
The supermarket is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the hotel.

A．three

B．across from

C.07979- 70078012

D．King Street E. Hotel Eiffel

阅读C篇短文，按要求完成下列各题。

A very important world problem is the growth of population on the earth. The population of the world today is more than 6,500,000,000. That is a great number and we know it quite well. ①The important thing is not how large the population of the world is now, but is the rate(速度) of the growth. It is about 1.63% every year after the number of dead people has been taken away.

To give you some ideas of the birth rate, look at the ②second hand of your watch. Every second, four babies are born in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! ③You can not speak quickly enough to keep up with the rate of the growth of the population. It is growing faster and faster. So it goes on, hour after hour. In one day, people have to find food for about 350,000 mouths more.

This great growth of population will make a big problem by the year 2050 — there will be as many as 7,500,000,000 people on the earth! So this is one of the biggest problems that you are going to meet in your life.

任务型阅读

Hi, everyone. I'm glad to show you around our city.

Now we are standing at Qingnian Square. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} It is the white building over there. And it's on Changqing Street. Next to the bank is a bookstore. Many people go there to buy books. Go along Changqing Street.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}. It is at the end of the street. Then turn left into Hengshan Road, and our school is on the right{#blank#}3{#/blank#}. We sometimes walk along Hengshan Road to go to the swimming pool after class.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Oh, there is a small river outside the city. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} It is great fun.

从A, B, C, D四个选项中选择恰当的句子填入文中空缺处，使内容完整，正确。

A. There is a supermarket on the left of the swimming pool.

B. It's not far from Changqing Park.

C. You will find a beautiful park-Changqing Park。

D. Opposite the square is a bank.

E. We also go there to swim.

任务型阅读，阅读下面短文，并用英语回答问题(请注意每小题后面的词数要求)。

Mr. Beynolds, my teacher, handed us a list of thoughts, and asked us to write a paper on one of those thoughts. I chose the topic “I wonder why things are the way they are.”

I wrote down all the questions that puzzled(困扰) me about life. I realized that many of them were hard to answer, and perhaps others could not be answered at all. When I handed in my paper, I was afraid that I might fail because I did not answer the questions.

The next day, Mr. Reynolds handed me the paper and asked me to read it for the class. The other students became quiet as I began to read my story:

Mum, why are the roses red? Why is the grass green and the sky blue? Why do I have to graduate(毕业)? Why do I have to grow up? Why do I have to be called “Grandma” on day? ...

Dad, why can't I stay out until 12:00? Why do I miss my old friends? Why do I miss being at home? Why do you love me so much? ...

Mum, Dad, why did you have to leave me? I need you.

At the end of my story, I looked at Mr. Reynolds, and I saw a tear slowly coming down his face. Then I realized that life is not built on the answers we receive, but on the questions we asks.

对于电影The Lake ，观众们给出了各自的评论。请仔细阅读影评，从A－E选项中，选出符合各条评论的最佳摘要。

A. Meet the actors and a young star.

B. A nurse returns home.

C. There is one disappointment.

D. It's a nice surprise.

E. Aliens take over.

{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Yasmine Bleeth acts as Jackie Ivers, a Los Angeles nurse who moves back to her hometown, San Vicente, California. She soon notices that her friends and family are acting strangely. She realizes that everyone who goes into the town's lake comes out acting differently.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Jackie figures out what's going on. Aliens live on another planet. It's like Earth, but it's polluted, so the aliens can't live there much longer. They are planning to replace people on Earth, and they enter Earth through the lake. When someone goes into the lake, an alien takes over that person's body.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} The Lake is an entertaining science fiction movie. It's a movie that was made for TV, and it's surprisingly good for a TV movie. There is plenty of action to keep viewers on their seats.

{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Yasmine Bleeth's performance is OK as the nurse and main character of the story. The other actors are also all right. But the best performance of the movie is from Haley Joel Osment. He was only 10 years old at that time. He later became when started in the movie The Sixth Sense with Bruce Wills

{#blank#}5{#/blank#} My only idea is that some of the characters are slow to figure out what's going on. It's disappointing because it makes the characters not very believable. The viewer figures out th truth long before the characters do.

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