精品解析：四川省绵阳市安州区2023-2024学年九年级上学期期末英语试题

保密★启用前[ 考试时间:2024年1月19日8:00---9:40] 2023-- 2024学年度涪城区学校九年级教育质量监测 英 语 试 题 本试卷满分100分, 监测时间100分钟, 注意事项: 1.答题前学生务必将自己的姓名、监测号用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、监测号、监测点、监测场号. 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.监测结束后, 将答题卡交回. 一. 阅读理解（共20分） People are playing video games everywhere these days, whether they’re riding a bus or sitting in a restaurant. Some of them enjoy these games so much that they can’t put them down. But is this a healthy habit? The World Health Organization (WHO) doesn’t think so. It considered “gaming disorder (障碍)” as a mental disorder in its International Classification of Diseases. “Gaming disorder” means the lasting or repeating video-gaming behavior, whether online or offline. Of course, not everyone who plays video games has this disorder. It has three main characteristics (特征). The first sign is when the player loses control over his or her gaming habits. The second is when playing games becomes more important than other activities for the player. The third is when the condition leads to serious problems in the player’s personal and family life. Many experts have welcomed the decision, saying that it puts the condition on the map as something to take seriously. It is believed that new services to treat this disorder will appear following the WHO classification. In fact, some countries are already working to solve this problem. South Korea has introduced a law preventing children under 16 from playing online games between midnight and 6 a. m. And children under 12 have to be watched by their parents while using the Internet. Chinese tech company Tencent is also setting limits on the amount of time that teenagers can play its games. Children between 12 and 18 years old can only play two hours per day. 1. A player may have “gaming disorder” if he or she ________. A. has mental problems B. can’t stop playing video games C. prefers offline games to online ones 2. What does “the decisio