浙江省杭州市余杭区2022-2023学年九年级上学期期末英语试卷

浙江省杭州市余杭区2022-2023学年九年级上学期期末英语试卷(解析版) 一.阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。 1.(6分)For the past 20 years,the Touching China Award has honored people across the country every year.They are people who warm our hearts with their actions.Let's look at three of them.They all have something in common:they make a great difference to the country in their own way. Name:Yang Zhenning Age:100 Job:physicist Chosen for: making great contributions (贡献) to physics. Main events: In 1957,he and another Chinese student,Tsung﹣dao Lee,came up with a physics theory together.Months later,the two won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their theory.Their achievement proved that Chinese scientists could be on the global frontier (前沿). Then,in 1971,Yang finally got the chance to return to China for a visit.Later,Yang sold a house in the US,giving away the money to Tsinghua University.In 2003,Yang returned to China and also taught at Tsinghua. Name:Janis Chan Age:40 Job:reporter and TV host Chosen for: making a documentary to break bias (偏见) about China. Main events: In 2021,Chan hosted a show called No Poverty Land.The show records how people in poor areas of China get rid of poverty.In the documentary,Chan spends three months reaching many poor villages in China.Chan not only talked with locals but also experienced their lives.She wanted to show the changes in these areas.In the end,the show was popular all over the world.Chan said she wanted to produce more shows to get more people to know China better. Name:Su Bingtian Age:32 Job:sprinter Chosen for: challenging himself and breaking limits (极限) Main events: On Aug 1 of that year,Su set a new record of 9.83 seconds in the Tokyo Olympics Men's 100 m semifinals (半决赛),making him the first Chinese runner to enter the final in the event.For a long time,there was an idea that Asian people were not physically built to succeed in sprinting.Su's success broke this idea and inspired many people. (1)How old was Yang Zhenning when he taught at Tsinghua? A.