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2023年春季九年级中考终极预测英语
本试卷分为试题卷和答题卡两部分。满分120分,考试时间100分钟。
注意事项:
1.答题前考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号用0.5毫米的黑色墨迹签字笔填写在答题卡上,并
认真核对条形码上的姓名、准考证号、考点、考场号。
2.选择题答案使用2B铅笔填涂在答题卡对应题目标号的位置上,非选择题答案使用0.5毫米的
黑色墨迹签字笔书写在答题卡的对应框内。超出答题区域书写的答案无效:在草稿纸、试题卷
上答题无效。
3.考试结束后,将答题卡交回。
第I卷(选择题,共70分)
第一部分:读(共两节,满分70分)
第一节:阅读理解共20小题,每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该
项涂黑。·
With the days getting colder,you may want to turn into a bear and sleep through the whole winter.Actually.
scientists are looking for ways to let humans hibemate(冬眠),tool
During hibernation,an animal's heart beats and breathing slow down.They can save energy when there's little
food in the winter months.
Japanese researchers have found the secret behind hibernation-—the“Q neurons(t神经元)”These neurons in
animals'brains can put them into a hibemnation condition.The researchers also did surgeries (F)after turning
on the mice's"Q neurons".It turned out that the surgeries caused less damage to the mice during their hibernation.
According to the team,humans'"Q neurons"cannot be turned on and off as easily as the mice's.But they are
confident in copying the mice's hibernation in humans.That means we could let people in surgery"hibernate".
causing less damage to their bodies.
In recent years more scientists are getting to know the advantages of hibernation.For example,US scientist
Katherine Grabek found that when the monkey hibernates,it cleans out harmful brain parts that are related to
Alzheimer's(老年痴呆)in humans.They hope to design medicine for humans based on this finding.
Some studies in bats and rabbits showed that,during hibernation,their bodies age more slowly.This also
provides new ideas for making humans live longer in the future,according to Rachel Howard,a leading reporter in
New Scientist magazine
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Such promising findings may help solve health problems that have troubled humans for centuries.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1.What is paragraph 2 mainly about?
A.Why animals hibernate
B.What hibernation is.
C.Where