题型：阅读选择 题类： 难易度：普通
广东省惠州市小金茂峰学校2024-2025学年九年级上学期期中考试英语试卷
For tens of years, a phone booth (电话亭) stood in the Mojave Desert, about 75 miles southwest of Las Vegas, America. People called it the Mojave Phone Booth. It seemed unusual for a phone booth to stand in the desert (沙漠). The phone booth was said for local miners (矿工) and their families around 1950.
Later one day, Godfrey Daniels, a man from Arizona, America, heard about the phone booth. He had the phone number and decided to call it just to see if anyone would answer. Nobody answered at first. He called the number whenever he was free. After several tries, someone actually answered the phone. Godfrey spoke with a woman. She was a miner working there.
Godfrey put the phone's number on the Internet, and many people began calling it. Godfrey even travelled to visit the phone booth. And he was not the only person to do that. Many people went to the Mojave Desert just to see the phone booth. They often camped out, waiting to answer the special phone. Calls came in from many different states and even different countries. Answering the phone and talking to strangers became an enjoyable activity for them. They shared their own stories and even made friends with each other.
In 2000, the phone booth was removed ( 被拆除) because visitors were causing too much stress (压力) on the environment. Although the phone booth is no longer in the desert, many people still remember it and talk about it.
The Fastest Runner
Italy has many old people. One in four are over 65 years old. Emma Maria Mazzenga is over 90. She is the fastest runner in her age group. She ran 200 meters in S1. 47 seconds. It is a new world record. She has five world records and many European and Italian records. She hopes to go to the world championships (锦标赛) in Sweden next year. ____
The two baby monkeys are new to the London Zoo. They are new to the world. And the most surprising thing is: they are only around 3cm, very small. They are the smallest monkeys in the world, called Pygmy Marmoset. They are only 10-15 cm when they grow up. They can be found in the Amazon. They are easy to die (死) in the wild. So it's very exciting to see this kind of monkey babies in the zoo. The Tallest Rideable Bike
The tallest rideable (可以骑的) bike is 7. 77meters. It was made by Nicolas Barrioz and David Peyrou. Both of them arc from France. Nicolas made a bet (打赌) with one of his best friends to make the tallest rideable bicycle. The two spent around three months preparing for the bike. And they spent almost two years building it. Nicolas and David are now thinking about building the smallest rideable bicycle. |
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