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题型:阅读选择 题类:常考题 难易度:普通

安徽安庆市2016届九年级上学期英语期末考试试卷

阅读下列短文,从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

    We have always been interested in the moon. 2000 years ago people already knew it moved around the earth and where it would be in the sky at different times of the year. At that time, everything about the moon was learned by watching it carefully in the sky.

    When scientists could use telescopes to study the moon more closely, their ideas began to change. They could see the moon was made of rocks. Most scientists thought moon rocks would be different from those on Earth. This was because they believed the moon had once been a planet that had been caught in the earth's gravity (引力) millions of years earlier.

    In 1969 moon rocks were finally brought to the earth and studied. Much to their surprise, scientists found that, except for water, the moon and the earth were made of the same things. Once again new ideas were needed for this new information.

    After years of study, most scientists now think that the moon was once part of Earth. They believe very early in its history, maybe 4 million years ago, something about the size of Mars hit Earth. This sent billions of rocks into space around our planet. These rocks slowly joined together and after many years became the moon.

    However, in the future, even though our ideas about the moon may change again, we will still be interested in it.

(1)、From the passage we know the moon was made of

A、earth B、rocks C、water D、metal
(2)、When did people first bring the moonrocks to the earth?

A、In 1969 B、In 1956 C、In 2006 D、In 1966
(3)、What does the writer want to tell us in the passage?_____________

A、Why people are interested in the moon. B、How ideas about the moon have changed over time. C、Where the moon came from in the past. D、That people have finally learned the truth about the moon.
(4)、Before 1969 most scientists thought the moon was ________.

A、part of the earth billions of years earlier B、older than the earth C、a planet caught by the earth's gravity D、made of the same things as the earth
(5)、From this passage we can learn that ________.

A、scientists in the past were not clever B、the earth was once part of the moon C、new information brings new ideas D、we now know everything about the moon
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 阅读理解

The Chinese language differs from Western languages in that, instead of an alphabet (字母表), it uses characters which stand for ideas, objects or deeds. Chinese words are formed by putting together different characters. In many cases, a single character can also make up a word. As one kind of the most ancient characters, Chinese characters have played an important role in the development of Chinese culture.

   ①    Chinese writing began thousands of years ago. According to an ancient story, a man named Cang Jie invented Chinese writing. One winter day while he was hunting, he saw the footprints of animals in the snow and noticed that the appearance of each one was different. Then he had the idea that he could use different shapes to represent different objects. The first Chinese characters were drawings of physical objects. Some characters have been simplified (简化) and others have been made more difficult over time.

   ②    However, as a whole, the characters have developed from drawings into standard forms. The character for a mountain was at first three mountaintops together. This became one mountaintop and three lines, and over time turned into the character used nowadays.

  ③     Sometimes to express ideas, some characters were made by combining two or more characters together. For example, "休" was made up of the characters for a man and a tree. The character "囚" was formed with a "man" inside a square. Other characters were developed for directions and numbers. It is easy to distinguish (区别) their meanings by looking at them, for example, the characters for "up" and "down", which are opposites of each other.

   ④    Though these kinds of characters indicate meanings, one of their shortcomings is that they do not show how they should be pronounced. Therefore, a method was developed to have one part of a character represent the meaning and the other suggest the pronunciation. Many Chinese characters used today were made this way.

In the 1950s, the Chinese government introduced simplified Chinese characters in the hope to make learning to read and write more understandable to the general population, which would increase literacy (读写能力) across the country. And now they have widespread use in China's mainland.

 配对阅读,左栏是人们不同的活动,右栏是七个不同的节气,请将人们活动和节气进行配对。

Lulu's grandfather is a farmer. She wishes he will have a good harvest. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} 

Tina is looking forwards to the seasons to have watermelons. She can't wait to have her favorite fruit in the coming of the hot weather. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} 

Lingling likes eating qingtuan during these days. She also has a tomb sweeping day with her family at this time of the year. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} 

Daming lives in Guangzhou. On this day, His grandma makes the sweet tangyuan for the whole family. She told him people in the North have dumplings. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} 

Mike lives in Beijing. Every year, when he sees swallows fly back here, he knows that it will be a good time to fly kites. 

{#blank#}5{#/blank#} 

A. Spring Equinox(春分)marks the point when daytime and nighttime equally divide the day. After this day, day time will grow longer than nighttime. 

B. Awakening of Insects( 惊蛰) is an extremely important time for famers and is widely seen as the beginning of the busiest time for agricultural work. 

C. Winter Solstice (冬至) marks the arrival of the coldest season in the year. From then on, the days become longer the nights become shorter. 

D. Major Cold the last solar term in winter. In this period, snow, rain and icy cold weather has a big influence on people's lives. 

E. Pure Brightness is also called Qingming. During this period, the weather is clear and bright, and temperature begin to rise and rainfall increase. 

F. Beginning of summer marks the gradually warmed climate. The sun increased and thunderstorms increased, providing sufficient growth conditions for crops. 

G. Beginning of Autumn reflects the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. It's a big solar term for farmers. It's time to gather crops. 

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