期中题型专练--阅读理解- 2023-2024学年人教版九年级英语下学期

期中题型专练--阅读理解- 2023-2024学年九年级英语下册 人教新目标Go For It! Think about what you like to wear on the weekend. There’s a good chance that you like to put on a pair of blue jeans. At any moment, about half of the world’s population is wearing jeans. But according to a new study, our love for jeans may be bad for Earth. The cloth used to make jeans might be putting some sea animals in danger. Every time we wash our jeans, small bits of it will flow out of our washing machines and into the world’s rivers, lakes and sea. You might wonder: isn’t the cloth made of something natural? How can it become a danger to nature? Well, when making jeans, the cloth is treated with many types of man-made chemicals. Scientists aren’t yet sure how the chemicals in the cloth might harm animals. In the study, the scientists also washed jeans to see how many bits of the cloth on average (平均) each pair would drop per wash. The answer was worrying: about 50,000. Not all of them make their way into the environment. Wastewater treatment plants hold back 83 to 99 percent of them. This may sound pretty good. However, one percent of 50,000 are still 500 per wash. Now think about the number of jeans around the world and the times each of them gets washed. As a result, a large amount of the cloth still gets into the environment. Does this mean we shouldn’t wear jeans? Probably not. “We need to buy fewer clothes and only wash them when we truly need to do it,” says Sam Athey, one of the scientists. “You don’t need to wash your jeans after having worn them only a few times.” 1．What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A．The cloth. B．Something natural. C．A danger. D．Nature. 2．How does the writer make us readers believe our love for jeans is bad for Earth in Paragraph 3? A．By giving examples. B．By listing numbers. C．By making comparison. D．By asking questions. 3．What suggestion does Sam give about wearing jeans? A．We should not wear jeans. B．We should not buy jeans. C．We should wash jeans le