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江苏省扬州市邗江区2017届九年级英语第一次模拟考试试卷

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    Have you ever wondered why birds sing? Maybe you thought that they were just happy. After all, you probably sing or whistle when you are happy.

    Some scientists believe that birds do sing some of the time just because they are happy. However, they sing most of the time for a very different reason. Their singing is actually a warning to other birds to stay out of their territory.

    Do you know what a 'territory' is? A territory is an area that an animal, usually the male, claims as its own. Only he and his family are welcome there. No other families of the same species are welcome. Your yard and house are your territory where only your family and friends are welcome. If a stranger should enter your territory and threaten you, you might shout. Probably this would be enough to frighten him away.

    If so, you have actually scared the stranger away without having to fight him. A bird does the same thing. But he expects an outsider almost any time, especially at nesting(筑巢)season. So he is screaming all the time, whether he can see an outsider or not. This screaming is what we call a bird's song, and it is usually enough to keep an outsider away.

    Birds sing loudest in the spring when they are trying to attract a mate and warn others not to enter the territory of theirs.

    You can see that birds have a language of their own. Most of it has to do with attracting mates and setting up territories.

(1)、Some scientists believe that most of the time bird's singing is actually________.
A、an expression of happiness B、a way of warning C、an expression of anger D、a way of greeting
(2)、What does the underlined word “territory'' mean?
A、A place where families of other species are not accepted B、A place where a bird may shout at the top of its voice C、An area for which birds fight against each other D、An area which a bird considers to be its own
(3)、Why do birds keep on singing at nesting season?
A、Because they want to invite more friends B、Because their singing helps frighten outsiders away C、Because they want to find outsiders around D、Because their singing helps get rid of their fears
(4)、How does the writer explain bird's singing?
A、By comparing birds with human beings B、By reporting experiment results C、By describing birds' daily life D、By telling a bird's story
举一反三

 Monarch butterflies from eastern Canada make the most amazing journey in the insect world. Each year, this butterfly travels about 3000miles to its winter home in central Mexico(墨西哥). How can it fly so far? And why does it make this long and dangerous trip? Scientists still don't have an answer.

 For many years, people in Mexico wondered where the orange-and-black butterflies came from every winter. Then, in 1937, a scientist started to follow and study the butterflies. For the next 20 years, he discovered that one butterfly started its journey in Canada. Four months later, it arrived in Mexico.

 The length of the butterflies find their way back to the same place? Another amazing thing is that the butterflies always return to the same area in central Mexico.

 How do the butterflies find their way back to the same place? This is an interesting question because only every fourth generation(代) makes the trip south. In other words, the butterfly that travels to Mexico this year is the great-great-grandchild of the butterfly that traveled there last year.

 Each year, four generations of a Monarch butterfly family are born. Each generation of the family has a very different life. The first generation is born in the south in late April. It slowly moves north, reproduces(繁衍), and then dies. On the trip north,two more generations are born, reproduce, and die. Each of these generations of butterflies is born. This generation has a much longer life. It lives for about eight months. This generation of butterflies makes the amazing journey back to the winter home of its great-great-grandparents. The butterflies spend the winter there, and in the spring they reproduce and then die. Their offspring will be the first generation of the next circle of life.

 Today, people are still studying the Monarch butterfly. But they are not clear about everything.

请先阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后根据短文内容从下面的七个选项中选择五个还原到文中,使短文意思通顺、结构完整,一空一句。

Today's teens have grown up online. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} They study online. And surely they get their news online. But because they are so comfortable with the Internet, they seldom question news stories online. 

Now William Colglazier, a history teacher at a high school in America, is teaching his students how to think critically (批判性地) about online information and recognize a false news story.

His idea came from a study on people's online reasoning (推理) at Stanford University. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Most middle school students in the study could not tell the difference between an advertisement and a news story, and high school and college students fully trusted the websites ending in ".org".

The good news is that, according to Colglazier, once teens realize they've been cheated, they have a strong will to tell the truth from lies. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Some of the advice that Colglazier offers his students includes moving off the site to find more information about the site, the writer's motivations (动机) and the organization behind the news story. 

{#blank#}4{#/blank#}He hopes more kids would think critically when they read news online. "{#blank#}5{#/blank#}" he said. "If people can't tell real news from fake news, the results can be frightening."

A. They make friends online.

B. The Internet is both beautiful and ugly.

C. As students, we should recognize false news.

D. Colglazier shared some of his courses with other teens in Teen Vogue.

E. They need some advice on how to find answers and how to recognize.

F. The study found that young people have poor ability to tell truth from lies.

G. The study found students have poor ability to reason about the information on the Internet.

 阅读理解

A recent TV series To the Wonder has become China's breakout TV hit of the year. It has also won praise at a film festival abroad. To the Wonderis based on the award-winning novel of Li Juan, My Altay, and is directed by Teng Congcong. It is very poetic and filled with beautiful wisdom. 

The TV drama follows the journey of Li Wenxiu. She once wished to leave Altay, an area in Northern Xinjiang. After failing to realize her dream in the capital of Xinjiang, Li has to move back to her hometown and tries to find a new direction for herself. At first, Li finds it hard to understand her neighbours' traditional way of thinking. Under the influence of her mother Zhang Fengxia, Li starts to see the place and its people in a new light. Later, she comes to understand their lifestyle and respect for nature. 

Fans describe watching the drama as an experience in the wonderland. "It's like breathing in fresh air or lying under the sun," said one fan. "It is a unique drama, very different from the usual Chinese series. A must-watch if you want to discover the beauty of the grassland and life there," another fan said. 

"People enjoy the wonderful view of Altay. But the key to the success of the series lies in its ability to connect with the viewers on a human level," said Teng Congcong. "In the drama, everyone communicates sincerely. Even if I disagree with you, I sincerely respect you. In fact, this is a very important part of human nature—the love for truth, goodness and beauty."

 阅读下面短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

 You don't need money for this vending machine(自动售货机), and it also won't give you any food like chocolates, chips or cola. What you' ll get from the vending machine is a book. First graders at A. M. Kulp Primary School were the first to try out the new machine. It was installed(安装) at the school during the third week of February 2024.

 Alyssa Nedorezov— the librarian, the person who works in the library, has been dreaming of this for about a year. She always wants to help students read. She says when students read both in and out school, it will greatly help with the students' reading and make it easier for them to keep a reading habit. Students like getting anything from a vending machine. Alyssa Nedorezov thinks it is fun for kids to get books there. So they will be really interested in reading and fall in love with it.

 Here's how it works. When students do something good, their teachers give them something called" cat paw". Then they can change their cat paws into the vending machine tokens(代币). The token works in the vending machine, and students can choose any book to take home to read for some time or keep forever.

 What if there is such a machine in your school in the future?

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