专题07 阅读理解之说明文20篇（期末真题+名校模拟） -2023-2024学年九年级英语上学期期末复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（牛津译林版）

2023-2024学年九年级英语上学期期末复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（牛津译林版） 专题07 阅读理解之说明文20篇 期末真题+名校模拟 （2022上·江苏·九年级统考期末） 1．Which page is the idiom “Fish out of water” on? A．Page4. B．Page 5. C．Page 28. D．Page 78. 2．What do we know about the dictionary? A．Only the “Meaning” part can help us understand. B．The right pronunciation of each idiom is shown. C．The dictionary gives two examples for each idiom. D．The “Origin” part tells us how the idioms came into use. 3．Which of the following idioms is properly used? A．My daughter has been the apple of my eye since she was born. B．I always burn the midnight oil because I like to go to sleep early. C．You’d better listen carefully in class, The teacher is all ears! D．Sandy is like a fish out of water since she knows the school so well. （2022上·江苏苏州·九年级统考期末）What do you think of when you see the word “actor”? Actors, many people would say, are the people who perform up on a stage (在舞台上表演), on television or in films. They are all about being seen. However, there is a group of actors who are never seen. They are only heard and hardly seen. Meet loopers. Their job is to record what people in the background of a scene could be saying. The work begins only after the show or film has been shot and edited (编辑). One recent Sunday, on a sound stage at Fox Studios in Los Angeles, seven loopers were recording dialogues for a TV show. They were working on a restaurant scene, speaking lines (台词) that people at background tables might speak. As they recorded, the loopers stood in a circle under two overhead microphones (话筒). A scene was played silently on a big screen. At exactly the right moment, they started to walk around and talk. Later, the dialogues would be mixed into the scene they were watching. David Betancount, a mixer explained why looping was necessary. “The dialogues appear meaningless, but they improve the experience of what you are watching,” he said. “A show without these dialogues just feels dead.” To fill in the background sounds, loopers watch the movie or s