湖南省长沙市华益中学2023-2024学年九年级下学期第一次月考英语试卷

华益—2023-2024-2学年度初三下第一次月考卷 第二部分 阅读（共三节，计30分） 第一节 （共11小题，每小题2分，满分22分） 阅读下列材料，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Welcome to Old Town. To make you better understand this special small town, we have four programs for you. Program 1 Going back to the past: Spend a day in an old house. Have a cup of tea under old trees. Enjoy food and toys from Grandma’s time. Program 2 Buying old things: Shop at second-hard stores. Visit the weekend market. Buy an old time party dress. Program 3 Learning from the past: Visit the history museum. Meet the town’s old people See the movie Good Old Times. Program 4 Looking to the future: Visit old farms with new machines. Dance with the teenagers of Old Town. Watch the video program A Modern Life in Old Town. service@oldtownprograms.com ( ) 21. If Candy wants to spend a day in an old house, she will be interested in . A. Program 1 B. Program 2 C. Program 3 ( ) 22. Who will most probably talk with the visitors in Program 3? A. Tom, 10 years old, who enjoys climbing the old trees of Old Town. B. Aunt Susan who has visited her married daughter in Old Town three times. C. Mr. Green who has lived in Old Town for more than sixty years. ( ) 23. The purpose of the material is to . A. call on people to protect Old Town. B. make people better know Old Town C. develop more programs in Old Town B Using two fans he found at a market, the 15-year-old Hussam AI-Attar has made electricity to light up his family’s tent. He and his family have been living in the tent since the start of Israel’s attack (袭击) on Gaza (加沙). Because of his talent, his neighbors in the tent camp called him “Gaza’s Newton”. “Newton was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell on his head. And we here are living in darkness and tragedy (悲剧), and rockets are falling on us, so I thought of creating light, and did so,” AI-Attar said to Reuters. The AI-Attar family have connected their tent to the side of a house,