山东省德州市第九中学2020-2021学年九年级上学期开学考试英语试题（无答案）

2020--2021学年第一学期九年级英语开学考试 (满分120分) 一、阅读理解 （每题2.5分，共计50分） A Emily's Blog Shut Up Zoos, Not Animals! You may think that visiting zoos is harmless fun, but you're wrong because zoos are just prisons (监狱) for animals. The difference is that prisoners get out after a few years! Animals in cages look bored and are boring to look at. After all, we all know what an elephant looks like；we've seen them on TV. So why make animals suffer（痛苦） by shutting them up for our fun？Shut up the zoos instead! Posted by：Emily on April 19, at 18：12 Comments（评论） I partly agree. But some zoos aren't there for our fun. I've just got back from Jersey Zoo. It saves rare(珍稀的) animals and breeds them. Then it returns the babies to the wild. Not all zoos are the same, you know. Posted by：Angela on April 21, at 18：17 Quite agree! Every time I go to the zoo, I never look into the poor animals' eyes! Kept in the small and smelly cages, they look so lonely and sad. Hope one day they will return to nature, where they ca