Unit 11-2023-2024九年级下册英语阅读（人教版）

> Page Passage 1 阅读短文， 根据短文内容选择一个最佳答案。 When I was a little girl, my father loved to play catch with me. I wasn蒺t very good at it ， but we would play anyway. He was always telling me “ keep your eyes on the ball ” as I would not be able to catch even the easiest of throws. As I got older, we didn蒺t play catch as much. If I had a problem and would go to my father to ask for his advice, he would try to joke with me and say “ keep your eyes on the ball ” . We would both laugh because usually that advice did not apply to the problem, but he would try to make me smile. My father became ill in 1995 when I was 23. There were no more conversations, as he suffered from a stroke. He could not speak. He could only mouth words, which were sometimes hard to understand. I seemed to be pretty good at reading his lips after a while, even better than the nurses who were caring for him. During one of our last conversations, I was telling him about a problem I was having with my then boyfriend. Once again, I could read his lips, “ Keep your eyes on the ball. ” We both smiled. That was the last time I saw my father before he passed away. Sometimes, all these years later, when I get in a stressful situation I just tell myself “ keep your eyes on the ball ” . Unit11 Unit11 it 101 > Page Newwords catch n. 接球 apply to 适用于 suffer from a stroke 受到中风的折磨 read one蒺s lips 读懂唇语 pass away 离开 （“死” 的委婉说法） stressful situation 有 压力的情况 （ ） 1. What did the girl and her father often do when she was a child? A. They played jokes. B. They played catch. C. They read books. D. They smiled and laughed. （ ） 2. Why would her father say “ keep your eyes on the ball ” when she had pro鄄 blems? A. Because he liked all kinds of ball games. B. Because he was good at solving the problems. C. Because he wanted to make a joke. D. Because he wanted to make his daughter smile and encouraged her to solve her problems by herself. （ ） 3. What蒺s the meaning of “ mouth ” in the third paragraph? A. 嘴巴 B. （需要赡养的） 人 C. 大声说话