Unit 9 单元拓展阅读训练 2023—2024学年 牛津上海版（试用本） 英语七年级下册

Unit 9 单元拓展阅读训练 2023—2024学年 牛津上海版（试用本） 英语七年级下册 一、阅读理解 Junk e-mail (垃圾邮件) A new UK study shows that around the world, junk e-mail uses 33 billion kilowatt hours (kwh,度) each year. That is enough energy to power 2.4 million homes. E-mail users spend nearly 80 percent of their energy in deleting (删除) junk e-mail and looking for useful e-mails. Biking to work A few months ago, France starts to pay people to bike to work. About 20 companies (公司) join it. They pay their workers 0.25 euros (2 yuan) every kilometer if they bike to work. Several other European countries, such as Germany and the UK, have nearly the same project. They ask people to bike to stay healthy, save (节约) energy and reduce (减少) air pollution. Football schools China is to build 20, 000 football schools around the country in three years. It is to fight obesity(肥胖) and make China’s national football team better. All students at these football schools will have one football class each day. They will also have football matches. 1．The junk e-mails uses billion kilowatt hours a year. A．24 B．33 C．80 D．20 2．Why is China going to build 20, 000 football schools? A．To have football matches. B．To fight obesity. C．To make China’s basketball team better. D．To have football classes each day. 3．Where does this article come from? A．A newspaper. B．A story book. C．A fashion (时尚) magazine. D．A book about history. Weekends are important for us. We can relax ourselves. Do you know what Americans in the early twentieth century (1900～1925) did on weekends? What do you do on weekends now? In the early twentieth century, people spent lots of time at home on weekends. Then, new inventions changed the weekends. *People used electric streetcars to travel in the cities. On weekends, they rode the streetcars to the parks. Young people liked roller coasters. *The first movie only lasted one minute. In the 1920s, movie theaters sold millions of tickets each week! In 1927, movies finally had sound. Sometimes people stayed at h