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2023-2024学年初中英语九年级单元过关检测
Unit 10 阅读组合
(人教新目标,含答案)
一、完形填空
(一)
British people are famous for apologizing (道歉) in almost every situation. Whether they are apologizing for asking a question, for the bad weather 1 sneezing (打喷嚏), they are probably the number one nation for apologies.
British people take pride in 2 because of their polite manners towards one another in public. As a result, they often use the word “sorry”—even when they don't really 3 it! Usually, if they want to ask a stranger for the time, they will 4 by saying “Sorry to trouble you.” If they’re five minutes late 5 an appointment (约会), they will generally 6 the person by saying “Sorry, I’m late!”
7 do British people use “sorry” so much? Well, in the British custom, saying “sorry” is a manner to be polite, 8 to people whom they don’t know very well. It’s also a very smart way to get what they want. In recent research, an actor got close to 9 strangers on a rainy day to ask if he could use their mobile phones. When he walked to one group of strangers and asked them without apologizing first, he was only 9 percent successful in 10 their phones. However, when he apologized to another group of strangers about the bad weather before asking, he was 47 percent successful.
( )1.A.but B.and C.unless D.or
( )2.A.themselves B.yourselves C.ourselves D.himself
( )3.A.prefer B.mean C.bow D.imagine
( )4.A.stop B.leave C.knock D.start
( )5.A.before B.for C.of D.from
( )6.A.kiss B.answer C.ask D.greet
( )7.A.When B.Why C.How D.What
( )8.A.especially B.possibly C.suddenly D.hardly
( )9.A.mad B.strange C.relaxed D.different
( )10.A.buying B.valuing C.borrowing D.lending
(二)
Around the world, people have different ideas about what good manners are. When you go to restaurants in different parts of the world, it’s 11 to know the right and wrong things to do. For example, in China it’s OK to 12 a lot of noise in