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黑龙江省哈尔滨市南岗区2020年九年级英语中考二模试卷

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    Personal computers and Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.

    Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but the new technology will also let them communicate more with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.

    Email makes it easy to work at home. I spend most weekends and evenings at home. My working hours aren't much shorter than they once were, but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she'd been born before email became such a practical tool.

    The Internet also makes it easy to share ideas with a group of friends. Say you do something fun—see a great movie perhaps, and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you use a telephone to call each one, you may be tired of telling the story. With email, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and send it to all the friends you think might be interested almost at the same time. They can read your message when they have time and read only as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they say at your convenience.

    Email is also an inexpensive way to communicate with people who live far away. More than a few parents use email to communicate with their children at college every day.

    We just have to, keep in mind that computers and Internet offer another way of communicating. They don't take the place of any of the ways.

(1)、The underlined word "convenience" in the passage means "____________" in Chinese.
A、方便 B、信心 C、自由
(2)、The use of email has made it possible for the writer to_____________.
A、spend more time at the office B、spend much less time working C、have more free time with his child
(3)、According to the writer,what is the advantage of email over the telephone?
A、The user can keep the communication at home. B、The user can communicate with one friend faster than the telephone. C、The user can send messages to a group of people almost at the same time.
(4)、Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A、Email is an expensive way to communicate with people far away. B、Computers and the Internet make communication more convenient. C、Email makes it easier for people to live at home and work at the office.
(5)、Which reason for using Internet is NOT mentioned in this passage?
A、College students can communicate with their parents every day. B、People can help their children with homework online. C、People can share one note with all the friends who might be interested.
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 阅读理解

They've been extinct (灭绝) for more than 65 million years. They left no pictures but libraries were filled with books about them. Yet, they live on in the imaginations of people. Mention the word "dinosaur" to anyone and you're sure to have something to talk about.

We have known about these strange living things for more than 200 years. Their fossil (化石) record was first discovered in 1818. The word "dinosaur" was created in 1842 by a scientist who put two Greek words together.

What we know about dinosaurs comes only through the fossil record they left behind. We can get an idea of how they looked by building their skeletons (骨架) with fossilized bones and teeth. They must have been amazing as they towered high above the other living things of their time. We do know that they lived on land and walked. Some walked on two legs. Others preferred four legs. Some were fast and others were quite slow.

We have a pretty good picture of their size and structure, but not much else is known for certain. For example, what color were they? Nobody knows. Did they cry like lions, or were their voices sweet and musical like birds? Again, how can we know? The fossil record does not speak.

Keep in mind that what we don't know about dinosaurs is far greater than what we do know about them. As with a lot of researches about that era, scientists often have to read between the lines.

 阅读理解

 The greatest wonders of the ancient world art are usually hard to miss. For example, you can't walk past Egypt's pyramids without noticing them. They' re right in your face. But not the Nazca Lines in southern Peru.

 These ancient drawings don't rise before you on huge stones. They' re geoglyphs(地画). They' re seen in the desert sands. There are hundreds of them. Some are so large that the best way to see them is from the window ofa plane. That's how thousands of visitors see them each year.

 Yet these wonders weren't noticed for nearly 1,500 years. A researcher first found some geoglyphs in Nazca(the Nazca Lines) in 1927. But nearly 150 geoglyphs weren't discovered until many years later. It took technology such as drones(无人机) to find them.

 Researchers still have many questions about the geoglyphs. And the answers are unclear. Here's what we do know: The area's pre- Incan Nazca people created the geoglyphs. This was between 500 BCE and 500 CE. How did they make them? By moving away some of the dark rocks that covered the ground. This showed the lighter- colored desert sand below.

 Many of the Nazca Lines show the natural world, like animals and plants. And then there are some that aren't from nature. One example was found in 2019. It's of a strange creature(创造物) with many eyes and mouths. Resenrchers say this shows that the Nazca people may have had a taste for the magical.

 So why were the geoglyphs created in the first place? Researchers think they may have been part of rituals(仪式) for rain and crops. Certain geoglyphs may have shown where the rituals were being held. Others could have led travelers to those places.

 Then again, these are all guesses. Only one thing is clear: The Nazcas found a way to draw lasting lines in the always- changing sands of time.

 阅读短文,回答问题

Why Are Tennis Scores So Strange?

One, two, three . . . Most sports have a pretty easy scoring system (计分系统), but tennis is a bit different. In each game, both players start with zero —called "love". After one person scores (得分), the point becomes 15. The next point is 30, then 40, and the following point wins that game. 

Some wonder why we do the points this way. Why not just "1, 2, 3, game Queen Wen," for example? Unluckily, we don't know much about the beginning of this scoring system. We only know that it was different. In the early days of the sport, the points were 15, 30, 45 not 40. A poem (诗歌) from the 1410s counted the points of a game between King Henry V of England and the French Dauphin (法国王储) as 15, 30, 45. This was easier to understand because every time one scored, it was by 15. 

But why do we give players 15 points when it's actually just a single point?  ★  One popular story says that the numbers have something to do with clocks. People may have felt that the four quarters of a clock were a good way to score the game. But not everyone is happy with that story. Some people point out that people didn't begin to use minute hands until the late 1500. 

You may find it strange to use "love" for a score of zero. Some believe that it came from the French word "L'oeuf" (the egg) - after all, the number zero looks like a duck or goose egg. Others like a more romantic idea about its beginning: Some people play tennis for love even if they don't win anything. 

No matter how strange the scoring system may be, tennis is enjoyed all around the world. Tens of millions play it, with even more watching it on TV or their phones. So, why not pick up your racket (or sit down on your sofa) and enjoy some fun with tennis? 

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