Week 11 高阶阅读能力训练 2024-2025学年人教版英语九年级全册

Week 11 高阶阅读能力训练 重庆市四川外国语大学附属外国语学校 2024-2025学年人教版英语九年级全册 A What season is it in October? If you ask people from the UK, they will tell you it's“autumn”. But if you go to the US, you will find that people use both“autumn” and“fall”. Why does this season have two names in English? According to Dictionary.com,both words have been around for a long time,but neither of them was the first to describe this season. During this season, crops (庄稼) would become ripe and farmers would have a big harvest(丰收). So in Old English, this season was simply called“harvest”. Then, in the 1600s, more people left their farms and moved to cities. With fewer people farming, the word“harvest” became less useful. English speakers needed a different name for the season. They knew leaves fell from trees during the season, so people started calling it“the fall of the leaf”, or“fall” for short. But at the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word“autompne” and the Latin“autumnus”, came to England. It gradually took the place of“fall” as the word for this season. At the same time, British people were making their first trips to North America. They brought both the words“fall” and“autumn” with them. That's why today's Americans have two names for one season. 1. What do people call the season after summer in UK now? A. Autompne. B. Fall. C. Autumn. D. Harvest. 2. Now people seldom call the season“harvest” because . A. it has been used for too long B. not so many people work as farmers C. it is not the first name for the season D. few people know about the meaning of it. 3. The passage is written is a/ an way. A. objective(客观的) B. subjective(主观的) C. exaggerated(夸张的) D. radical(激进的) 4. What does the passage want to tell people? A. The importance of harvest. B. The reason why the season has two names. C. The activities that people do in fall. D. The culture differences between England and America. B Do you ever wish that you had a genie(精灵) like Aladdin has? It could make your three wishes come true. Now Aladdin and his genie have been back on the big screen. Disney's live-action movie Aladdin came out in Chinese mainland theaters on May 24. It's a remake of the1992 animated (动 画 的 ) movie of the same name. Well-known U. S. actor Will Smith plays Genie in the film. Don't know much about Aladdin? Maybe you should turn to the book One Thousand and One Nights. But in the new movie, you' re sure to find something different! A highlight (亮点) of the new movie is that Princess Jasmine is a much stronger character than movies in the past as well as the old story. In the 1992 movie, she can only become queen if she gets married. In the end, she and Aladdin rule the kingdom together and sing the song A Whole New World. However, in the new movie, she does more for her kingdom. She shows that she is a leader. And she gets her own solo song called Speechless. “Enough is enough. I have a choice here and I'm gonna stand up for what I believe in,” she sings in the song. 5. According to the lyrics(歌词), what may the song Speechless suggest? A. Jasmine has to get married to become the queen. B. A new queen will rule the country instead of Jasmine. C. Aladdin is going to stand up with Jasmine. D. Jasmine can make a decision as a leader. 6. What do you think of Princess Jasmine in the new movie? A. Brave and confident.. B. Outgoing and respectful. C. Strict and hard-working. D. Easy-going and persistent. 7. What lies behind the changes between the 1992 movie and the newer one? A. The character Jasmine has become stronger. B. Aladdin is quite different from the early story. C. Women have played a more important role than before. D. Anyone can become the ruler if he does his best. 8. The following part(▲) is missing and should be put . (▲) The old Aladdin story is based on a folk tale called Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp. The tale is from the book One Thousand and One Nights. It is about a poor boy named Aladdin. He falls in love with Princess Jasmine. They try to save the kingdom from a bad guy. A. after Para.1 B. after Para.2 C. after Para.3 D. after Para.4 C A 10-year-old girl is on the way home after school. All at once, an object (物体) thrown from a building by an 8-year-old boy falls on her head. Sounds terrible, doesn't it? Sadly, this actually happened in Nanjing in June. The girl was sent to the hospital. Similar things have happened in other parts of China. Such heartbreaking cases raised public worry about the risk of being hurt by falling objects. Lawyers and experts are expecting to see more specific laws to deal with such cases. Under China's Tort Liability Law(《侵权责任法》), people who throw objects that hurt people should pay for the medical care. But in many cases, it's hard to find out who is responsible (有责任的). This makes the situation more difficult because all of those who live in the building could be responsible. People have turned to video cameras as a quick fix. Some areas in Nanjing have used cameras to spot objects falling from high-rise buildings. The cameras can only see the outside of the building. There have been other suggestions as well. There should be more quality checks for windows and more efforts to remind people of the risk of falling objects. P. S. Even a small object can cause serious injuries when dropped from a great height. For example, an empty pop-top can(易拉罐) dropped from the 25th floor can kill a person. Take a look above and see which heights can even kill a person. 9. What is used by the writer to lead into the topic? A. An advertisement. B. An opinion. C. An example. D. A piece of advice. 10. According to the law, who must be responsible if a passer-by is hurt by an empty bottle falling from a window on the 13th floor? A. The person who threw the bottle out. B. All the people living in the building. C. The neighbors who didn't warn the passer-by. D. People who refuse to use video cameras. 11. What does“quick fix” refer to in Para.5? A. A quick way to find the position(位置) of something. B. A quick way to explain this difficult situation. C. A better understanding of this situation. D. An easier solution to solve this problem. 12. The structure of the passage is . A.①//②③//④⑤⑥ B.①②//③④⑤//⑥ C.①//②③④⑤//⑥D.①②//③④//⑤⑥ D You are walking alone down the street. Suddenly, you hear footsteps (脚步声). Is someone following you? How do you know the footsteps are someone else's and not your own? You can tell because your brain has the ability to ignore (忽略) certain sounds, according to a study from New York University in the US. Because of this, we often ignore our own footsteps. But we may easily hear others' footsteps. Scientists tested this on mice. They found that when mice became familiar with the sound of their own footsteps, they developed a“sensory filter(感觉过滤器)”, according to David Schneider, one of the lead authors of the study. This allowed the mice to ignore the sounds of their own footsteps. They could more easily notice the sounds of their environment. “For mice, this is really important,” Schneider told Science Daily. “They need to listen for (留心听)a cat getting close to them, even when they' re walking and making noise.” Our brains don't just ignore our footsteps. We also ignore some other sounds that we make ourselves, including the sound of eating, breathing heavily and typing on a keyboard. ▲ . For example, we are quick to notice the sound of a baby crying. So we can rush to make sure they are okay and keep them alive. The same idea applies to humans screaming. When we hear this sound, we can quickly go to help the screaming person. 13. The test on mice was done in order to know . A. whether mice could hear other mice's footsteps B. why they could notice the sounds of themselves C. how they listen for other sounds of their environment D. what they may hear while the cat is coming closer 14. Which of the following can be put into ▲ ? A. Being able to ignore these unimportant noises lets us focus on more important and dangerous ones B. Some of the sounds will not be noticed unless something unexpected happens C. People are not likely to focus on the sounds of their environment D. Only in this way can we hear the sounds of the environment more easily 15. What may you ignore while you are washing your face alone at home? A. A video call from your friend. B. A quick knock at the door. C. Someone walking outside the bathroom. D. The running water while the tap is on. 16. What can you infer from the passage? A. The unexpected sounds will influence people's hearing. B. People cannot hear the sound which is made by themselves. C. Our brains can choose what they do or do not want to hear. D. Nobody can tell how important it is when there is a noise from others. 1 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$