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期末题型组合练 阅读理解 语法填空 短文改错 2023-2024学年 牛津上海版(试用本)九年级英语上学期
一、阅读理解
阅读下面图表,从各题所给的三个答案中选择最佳答案。
Many students have already had clear ideas about what jobs they would like to have in the future. To find out how different their choices are, we made a survey in Green High School. The following diagram shows the results of the survey.
1.About 10% of the girls would like to be ________ in the future.
A.bank clerks B.reporters C.scientists
2.What does the diagram show us?
A.Boys’ abilities of jobs are the same as girls’.
B.Girls’ abilities of jobs are different from boys’.
C.Boys’ choices of jobs are different from girls’.
An old man arrived in New York by plane. He came a long way—from eighty miles outside White Horse, Canada. He left the desolate* place for a good reason: to collect his prize. Several days earlier, he had received a colorful document which wrote:
Mr. Peter Finch
Rural Delivery, 33Y
White Horse, Canada
You, Mr. Finch, have won $1,000,000 US dollars
from The American Magazine Company.
A more skeptical* person would have read the small print, but Mr. Finch wasn’t a skeptic. Junk* mail wasn’t junk for him. Since he had no relatives or friends, junk mail was as close to a warm greeting.
Before his journey, Mr. Finch had shown his prize document to the villagers. Everyone was amazed.
He took a taxi from the airport to The American Magazine Company and was led to the receptionist, Betsy Anderson.
“I won the big prize,” Mr. Finch said proudly.
Betsy greeted him. Since they’d already identified all the real winners, obviously Mr. Finch was a loser. But she pretended to carefully check the document.
“I’m afraid you didn’t win, Mr. Finch. I’ve checked the numbers,” Betsy said, “I’m very sorry.”
“But it says that I’ve won,” Mr. Finch replied.
“It’s in the small print. It says that you may have been a winner,” Betsy said.
Mr. Finch didn’t believe it and refused to leave. Betsy had to call the Chairman to come. Mr. Finch told him about how he knew he must have won, and ho