阅读理解 Bananas are the perfect snack. Not only are they sweet and delicious, but they are easy to carry around, so you can take them anywhere. Best of all, bananas provide different things that the...

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浙江省温州市2018-2019学年九年级上学期英语教学质量检测（一）（含听力音频）

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Bananas are the perfect snack. Not only are they sweet and delicious, but they are easy to carry around, so you can take them anywhere. Best of all, bananas provide different things that the human body needs!

Bananas grow best in warm places that get lots of rain. They grow on plants that look like trees.

The banana plant, however, is considered a herb rather than a tree because it doesn't have a strong, woody stem(茎，干). The plants can grow as high as 30 feet. When they reach their full height, flowers grow out from the stem. These flowers produce bananas.

Two or three times each year, the plants produce fruit. The bananas grow together, which seem like "hands". A hand is made up of 10 to 20 bananas. Growers sometimes call bananas "fingers".

Each bunch(丛) of bananas has about 15 hands, and so a whole bunch may have as many as 200 bananas and can weigh more than 100 pounds.

After about three months, the bananas are ready to be picked. At this point, they still aren't the sunny yellow color of bananas. Farmers pick them when they're green. That's how they're shipped to stores. They turn yellow along the way and are ready to be sold.

If you love bananas, you've got a lot of company. Americans have been enjoying bananas since the first shipment arrived in the United States in 1876. Today, American eat more bananas than any other fruit. More bananas are sold than apples and grapes together. Every American eats over 26 pounds of bananas each year!

（1）、The first paragraph mainly talks about _______ .

A、why people like bananas B、how bananas taste C、what bananas are rich in D、where bananas are taken

（2）、What is the correct order in which these happen?

a. The bananas begin to turn yellow. b. A banana plant grows to full height.

c. The flowers produce bananas. d. The bananas are ready to be picked.

A、c-b-a-d B、b-c-d-a C、b-c-a-d D、c-b-d-a

（3）、Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A、The banana plant is a kind of tree. B、Bananas like growing in hot and dry areas. C、The banana plant usually produces fruit two or three times each year. D、The banana plant usually produces fruit once a year.

（4）、Which is the second most popular fruit in America according to the bar chart?

A、Apples. B、Grapes. C、Bananas. D、Oranges.

举一反三

Height is just one of the thousands of features your genes decide. In fact, because you have two parents, your genes provide you a height that usually lands somewhere between the height of each parent. If both your parents are tall, then most probably you will be tall, too, but if you have questions about how tall you're going to be, ask your doctor if he or she can help you find it out.
But genes don't decide everything. For example, eating an unhealthy diet can keep you from growing to your full potential(潜力). Getting plenty of sleep and enough exercise will help you grow to the expected height.
No doubt you're wondering how fast you should grow. It depends. There's no perfect or right answer. Generally speaking, kids grow about 2 inches (6 centimeters) a year between age 3 and the time when they start puberty (when your body starts changing and becoming more grown up).
Your doctor will know how your growth has been going over the years. Two centimeters here and 2 inches there are not nearly as important as the height you're at now, how you've been growing up to this point, and what other changes your body may be going through.
Don't be scared if you seem to have grown a lot in a very short time. Everyone has a growth spurt（高峰）during puberty. The age for starting puberty is about 10 for girls and about 11 for boys. But it can be earlier or later —-between 7 and 13 for girls and 9 and 15 for boys.
You'll usually begin to notice that you're growing faster about a year or so after your body starts to show the first changes of puberty.

Some people like to get up early, but some do not. In fact, it is really good for us to get up early every day. Maybe those who don't like getting up early will not believe this, but it is true. Scientists made a survey(调查) in about one thousand people, and then they found that early rising people had less disease(疾病) than late rising people, and early rising people also look healthier than late rising people, and so on.
So we may know early rising is helpful in more than one way. Firstly, it helps to keep us healthy. We all need fresh(新鲜的) air. And air is the freshest early in the morning. Besides(此外), it is useful to do morning exercises.
Secondly, early rising helps us in our studies. In the morning we learn more quickly and find it easier to understand what we learn.
Thirdly, early rising can give us a plan of our work for the day. We cannot work well without a good plan.
Fourthly, early rising gives us enough time to get ready for our work, such as to wash our hands and faces and eat our breakfast.
Late risers may find it difficult to form(形成) the habit(习惯) of early rising. They have to make an effort(努力) to do so. As the English proverb(谚语) says, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

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This is a home of the future, a "smart home", where technology can do almost everything. Imagine we are in the year 2050, ①the computer wakes Tom up in themorning as usual. In front of him is a to-do list of the important events for the day, and it is provided by the computer too. According to Tom's request, the computer serves a list of possible dishes. All the dishes are nice.

As Tom eats breakfast, the computer reminds him to reply to Lucy. Before Tom finishes his next bite, Lucy's computer receives the message. Then Tom goes to the supermarket. The store's system checks his car when he drives to the pickup area and greets him by name. "Good morning, Tom! Your order is in Case4. Thank you for shopping.'' When Tom removes his order from Case 4, all trades are completed automatically(自动地)over the information superhighway. That is, the money is electronically paid into the bank. Soon after arriving at the office, Tom reads another message from Lucy, telling him that she will go to dinner with him.

The smart home can also do many other things:

◆Find things like keys and mobile phones.

◆② (打开或关闭)machines and lights with your voice.

◆Clean your home from clothes to buildings automatically.

◆Record everything and everyone entering and leaving the house.

◆Take care of each member of the family, young or old.

③With the development of technology, the smart home will come true in the future. It is sure to play an important part in our life.

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What do you think the future will be like? Here are some answers from some students.

Mary: Everyone will have a computer at home. There will also be many machines in the future. Then people will work only two or three days in a week.

Jack: The weather in the future will be very hot. People can't live on the earth. They will have to look for (寻找) another planet to live on.

Linda: I think the life in the future will be nice. There will be a lot of flowers and trees. And cities will look like parks.

Henry: Every family will have a family doctor, so people will be seldom ill (很少生病) They will live to 120 years old.

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The Vine That Ate the South

Kudzu is a fast-growing vine (蔓生植物) that covers a large area in the southern United States. It is so common that one might think it is a native plant, but it is not. Kudzu was brought to the United States from Japan in 1876. Many Americans thought it was beautiful, and they began to plant it. They didn't know it could grow up to a foot a day during the summer months. Nor did they know it would grow up and over anything in its path (路径).

In Japan, kudzu experienced cold winters and a short growing season. But in the United States, it has a very long growing season with warm and wet southern weather. It is fine weather for the vine to grow fast.

In the 1920s, people used the vine to feed farm animals. Ten years later, the government supported to plant kudzu because it kept soil (土壤) from washing away. However, by the 1950s, the government no longer wanted people to plant the vine. Twenty years after that, the government said it was a harmful plant.

The vine grows up trees and buildings, making some beautiful shapes. However, trees die after kudzu covers them because they cannot get enough light. Scientists are looking for ways to kill the vine. They used poisons (毒药)to kill the vine. However, some of the poisons made it grow even better. Scientists also find it difficult to dig up Kudzu. The plant is really tough.

Because kudzu is so hard to kill, some people are making the best of it. So they try to find different uses for the vine. They find the vine can be used to make paper and baskets, it can be used to feed the goats, and it can even be eaten by people. Scientists are studying it in the hope that the vine can be used as a medicine. At the very least, kudzu serves as an example of the unexpected results that can come from non-native plants.

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Mobile Apps are part of our daily life. Here are some of the most popular Apps.

Ctrip is a booking (预定) App for traveling. It can be helpful when you find it hard to buy cheap plane tickets or train tickets. It can also help you book hotels at great prices.

Baby Bus is a good friend for children under three years old. Kids can learn numbers with the help of this App. They can also learn speaking and drawing by it.

For foreigners, Chinese is one of the most difficult languages to learn. Ninchanese can help them learn to read, write and speak Chinese while they're playing games.

Tik Tok allows its users to watch, make and share videos. To make the video, users need to pick the background music from the App's music library first. After that, the App will record for 60 seconds(秒).

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