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浙江新目标(Go for it)版2018-2019学年初中英语九年级全测试卷(二十)(Units 11-12)(含小段音频)

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    There are many unusual hotels around the world. In Greenland, there is a hotel made out of ice, open between December and April every year. In Turkey, there is a cave hotel with a television, furniture, and a bathroom in each room. And in Bolivia, there is the Salt Palace Hotel.

    Thousands of years ago, the area around the Salt Palace Hotel was a large lake. But over time, all the water disappeared. Today, the area has only two small lakes and two salt deserts.

    The larger of the two deserts, the Uyuni salt desert, is 12, 000 square kilometres. During the day, the desert is bright white because of the salt. There are no roads across the Uyuni desert, so local people must show guests the way to the hotel.

    In the early 1990s, a man named Juan Quesada built the hotel. He cut big blocks of salt from the desert and used the blocks to build it. Everything in the hotel is made out of salt the walls, the roof(屋顶), the tables, the chairs, the beds, and the hotel's bar.

    The sun heats(使变热) the walls and roof during the day. At night the desert is very cold, but the rooms stay warm. The hotel has twelve rooms and a double room costs $ 60 a night.

A sign on the hotel's wall tells guests, "Please don't lick(舔) the walls."

(1)、What is unusual about the Salt Palace Hotel?
A、Its long history. B、The price of the rooms. C、The guests that stay there. D、What it is made of.
(2)、Which sentence about the area around the Salt Palace Hotel is NOT true?
A、It was a lake many years ago. B、It is white during the day. C、There are several roads to the hotel. D、It is more than 10, 000 square kilometres.
(3)、Where did the salt used for the hotel come from?
A、The ground. B、A salt factory. C、Turkey. D、The walls of the hotel.
(4)、What keeps the rooms warm at night?
A、Heat from the walls. B、The desert air. C、The sun. D、The furniture.
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 阅读短文,回答问题

Charles Lyell is a Scottish geologist. He was born into a wealthy family on 14 November 1797. His father, who was a scientist, kept the study well filled with books on every subject, including geology. Lyell was not a hard- working student at school, and he much preferred to have a walk in the New Forest. His first scientific hobby was collecting butterflies and insects, which he continued doing for many years. His observations(观察力) went far beyond those of other boys, and later this talent for collecting led to many important discoveries.

At the age of 19. Lyell entered Exeter College Oxford, where his interest in math and geology was developed. His interest in geology was encouraged by the wonderful lectures of William Buckland who was widely known for his effort to prove Noah's Flood by the studies of fossils. Lyell spent his long vacations travelling and making geological studies.

In 1827, Lyell started a full- time job in geology and began to plan a book which included natural explanations for geological things. He explored in Italy. Poor roads and hotels made his travel very difficult, but in the area around Mount Etna he finally confirmed his guess and got the answer he wanted.

Returning to London, he set to work immediately on his book, Principles of Geology, the first volume of which was published in July 1830. Charles Darwin once mentioned the book and said," Historians in the future will realize that the book has caused a revolution(革命) in the natural science." The book also had some influence on Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

In 1848, Lyell was knighted for his scientific achievements. Lyell became more and more famous and he received many awards in his lifetime.

 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。

A video of a man playing the piano on the street in Shenzhen became very popular online. Wearing work clothes, 57-year-old Yi Qunlin looked nothing like a musician. Many people couldn't believe it when they saw his great show.

Yi comes from a small village in Hunan. He loved music very much when he was young. He took every opportunity (机会) to learn it. At an early age, Yi learned to play the erhu from a group of people outside his home.

A few years later, he saw a piano for the first time when he visited his cousin. He loved it very much, but his family was too poor to buy one for him. So, he often went to his cousin's home just to sit at the piano. Finally, Yi learned to play the piano himself.

Yi arrived in Shenzhen in 2004. He kept teaching himself to play musical instruments (乐器) in his free time. But he didn't have an opportunity to play the piano.

A public (公共的) piano on a street gave Yi a fresh start. One day, when he was taking a walk with his son after work, he saw someone playing the piano on the street. His son asked him to give it a try. He felt a little afraid at first. But when he put his hands on the piano, his confidence (自信) came back. "Thanks to it, I can make my dream come true," Yi said.

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