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九年级下册Units 3~4
一、 根据对话内容,从方框内选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
A: Hello, Sam. What are you doing?
B: 1.
A: Mars? May I ask you some questions about it?
B: Certainly. Go ahead.
A: 2.
B: Of course. It goes around the Sun at an average distance of about 228 million kilometres.
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A: 3.
B: It looks like a ball.
A: How about the temperature on Mars?
B: 4.
A: Is there any water or air on Mars?
B: Maybe. Now many scientists are studying and trying to find more “secrets” of it.
A: 5. Thanks for telling me so much.
B: You’re welcome.
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A. What does it look like?
B. You know a lot about Mars.
C. I’m reading a book about Mars.
D. Is Mars in the solar system?
E. It’s very cold in winter and warm in summer.
二、 完形填空。
Karl Marx was born in Germany on May 5th, 1818. 1 he was a child, he studied hard. He later lived in Belgium, England and some other 2 .
His mother tongue was German and at school he 3 French and English, but he felt his English was poor. So he 4 up his mind to improve his English. He began to work hard 5 it. He made so much progress 6 he could soon read English newspapers and write English articles.
However, there were 7 things that he thought were too difficult for him—the grammar and some of the idioms. He often encouraged himself by saying, “ 8 I keep on trying, I’ll make even greater progress.” At the same time, his close friend, Engels, often wrote to 9 him for his hard work in learning English.
In one of Marx’s books, he gave people who were learning a foreign language some 10 on how to learn it well. He said a foreign language was necessary for a person to have a 11 future. He said a person should
translate every word he heard into the foreign language he was learning. If he could do this, it would be 12 for him to use the language freely.
In April 1841, he 13 his doctor’s degree. After that, he began to write articles for a newspaper. He wrote about the housing problems of poor people and their hard life. 1