期末Unit8阅读专练2023-2024学年人教版九年级英语全册

人教版九年级全一册Unit8阅读专练 阅读理解 A 读下面的文章,然后回答文章后的问题。请在1~5小题后的横线上写上答案。 In Western countries, people usually use a star sign to describe a person's character and say what will happen in the future. A person's star sign is connected to his or her birth date. Some people believe this sign can tell us about a person's character. For example, some people think that a person born under the sign of Aries (between March 21 and April20) is adventurous. A person born under Cancer (between June 22 and July 22) is kind and home-loving. In many countries in Asia, people believe there are twelve animal signs. People use the animal signs to describe character and foretell future events. A person's animal sign is connected to his or her birth year. Every animal has a different type of character. People born in the year of Rat are friendly, but careful. Those born in the year of the Monkey are smart and good at making money. Many people believe that the Rat and the Monkey are a good match. In Asian, a person's blood type is also used to describe character. People with the blood type A are calm and serious, but they can be selfish. Type Bs are independent but can be lazy. Type ABs are honest, and type Os are loving and talkative. 1. What do people usually use star signs to do in Western countries? 2. The underlined word“foretell”means“__” in Chinese. 3. According to the passage, what's the character of people with the blood type B? 4. How many ways are mentioned to describe a person's character? 5. What is a person's animal sign connected to? B 读下面的文章,然后回答文章后面的问题,正确的答案写T,错误的答案写F。请在6~10 小题的括号内答题。 Benjamin Franklin founded America's first lending library in 1731 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But the public libraries became more and more popular in the late 1800s. Businessman Andrew Carnegie donated millions of dollars to help build free public libraries across the country. Carnegie believed that libraries could be helpful for American's young and old. He knew that the more libraries there we