3.3 Section B 课时练-2020-2021学年九年级英语同步课时练（人教版）

Unit 3 Could you please tell me where the restrooms are? Period 3 Section B 课时练（原题版） 语法填空20+完形填空10+阅读理解10+任务型阅读10+书面表达10=满分60，用时40分钟 1． 语法填空（2×10分）阅读下面的三篇短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。（共10个空；每空1分） Passage 1 Once there lived a rich man 1 wanted to do something for the people of his town. 2 first he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help. In the center of the main road into the town, he placed 3 very large stone. Then he 4 (hide) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow. "Who put this stone in the center of the road?"said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. 5 man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone but not tried to remove 6 . Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone, 7 (say) to himself:"The night 8 (be) very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone." Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his 9 (strong) to move it. How great was his surprise at last! 10 the stone, he found a bag of money. Passage 2 Do you know Australia? Australia is the 11 (large) island in the world. It is a little smaller than China. It is in the south of the earth. Australia is big, but its population is not large. The population of Australia is nearly as large as 12 of Shanghai. The government 13 (make) enough laws to fight pollution. The cities in Australia have got little air or water pollution. The sky is blue and the water is clean. You can clearly see fish swimming in the rivers. Plants grow very 14 (good). Last month we visited Perth, the biggest city in the States of Western Australia, and went to a wild flowers’ exhibition. There we saw a large number of wild flowers we had never seen before. We had a wonderful time. Pe