【期中真题】（全国通用）2023-2024学年九年级英语上册 期中真题分类专题汇编 专题10 阅读回答问题.zip

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（2021秋·广东中山·九年级中山市坦洲实验中学校考期中）请阅读下面一篇有关个人变化的文章，根据文中的信息，回答所提的问题。

When I was little, I used to be afraid of the dark. I always thought that there was a ghost in my closet(壁橱). Houses often made strange noises at night. Sometimes I could feel eyes watching me and I was afraid to move. I thought that if I didn’t move, “they” wouldn’t get me. Usually when this happened, I wanted to go to the bathroom. So before going there I would be huddling(缩作一团) under my quilt, trying to build up the courage for scary night-time trip to the bathroom.

My fear of the dark left me when I was in my early teens. I had a dream. In my dream, I saw this ghost. He was right in front of me. I somehow found the courage. I was so angry with him that I beat him. This dream was so exciting that I can still remember it. After this dream, my fear of the dark was gone. I’m not afraid of the dark or anything else anymore.

Has anyone else had a dream like this that helped him or her?

1．What did the writer think was in the closet?

2．Why did the writer not move?

3．Where did the writer usually want to go when he felt eyes watching him and he was afraid to move?

4．When did the writer get over his fear of the dark?

5．What helped the writer overcome his fear of the dark?

（2022春·湖南株洲·九年级统考期中）You may have heard of Robin Li. After all, Robin Li is considered as “the man who competed against Google and won”, thanks to his creation of Baidu, China’s largest search engine in China.

Born in 1968, Li was the 4th of 5 children born to factory workers in Yangquan of Shanxi Province in China. Back then, Yangquan was an underdeveloped city that did not offer much to its people. Like most of the kids in the neighborhood, Li spent his childhood in hardships.

His mother, however, encouraged him to stay hopeful for a better tomorrow. He grew up remembering his mother’s words, “If you want a better life in the future, you will have to study hard and make sure you get into the best college.”

Li never forgot his mother’s words and studied hard. He cleared the entrance of Peking University and completed Bachelor of Science Degree in library information management. He later completed a postgraduate (研究生) course for computer science with a Master’s Degree at the University of Buffalo, the State University of New York.

In 1999, Li and his wife Melissa went for an activity at Stanford University. After that Melissa asked her husband that she would like to see him as a founder (创始人) of an Internet company. Bearing a dream of changing people’s life with science and technology and encouraged by Melissa, Robin Li returned to China and founded Baidu at the end of 1999. After years of efforts, Baidu has become the most popular Chinese website in China, the largest Chinese search engine and the largest Chinese website.

Therefore, it is truly said that behind every successful man there stands a woman. For Robin, there stand two behind him.

6．How about Robin’s life in his childhood?

7．Where did Robin get his Master’s Degree?

8．What did Robin’s wife want him to do?

9．When did Robin Li found Baidu?

10．Who played an important role in Robin Li’s life?

（2022春·湖南长沙·九年级长沙市南雅中学校联考期中）阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。

    During the Jin Dynasty（265—420）, there was a child named Che Yin. He was intelligent and loved reading. He grew up in a poor family and couldn’t afford lamp oil to study at night.

    One night, he saw fireflies（萤火虫）outside his house and came up with an idea. He caught some fireflies in a cloth bag and hung the bag up as a lamp. It was said that he spent all of his summer nights reading like this.

    Another child named Sun Kang who lived during the same period also loved reading. One night during winter, Sun used up all of his lamp oil and couldn’t study at night. When he suddenly woke up at midnight, he saw the snow reflecting the moonlight outside his house. His first thought was “Oh, I can use the reflected light to read!” He took out his books and read, even though he was freezing cold.

    Both of the two kids later became successful government officials. People were touched by their hardworking spirit and their stories inspired the Chinese idiom “nangying yingxue（囊萤映雪）”, or “to read by the light of bagged fireflies or the reflected light of snow”.

    In the past, people had a harder time studying than we do now. They had to copy books by hand because books were valuable back then. For poor families, paper and writing brushes were too expensive to afford. Students even had to travel over mountains and rivers in order to find a good teacher. However, these difficult situations did not stop young minds from pursuing（追求）knowledge.

11．What did Che Yin enjoy doing when he was a kid?

12．How could Che Yin read during summer nights even though he couldn’t afford lamp oil?

13．When did Sun Kang live?

14．Did Che and Sun achieve success when they grew up?

15．What have you learned from Che Yin’s and Sun Kang’s stories?

（2022春·湖南衡阳·九年级衡阳市实验中学校考期中）阅读下面的短文，并根据短文内容回答所提问题。

Do you often put off doing something that you should be doing? It’s a bad habit called procrastination（拖延症）. Most of the tasks that you procrastinate on aren’t actually difficult to do—you have the skills to complete them—you just don’t want to start them for one reason or another.

2-Minute Rule is a method of dealing with the problem and the goal is to make it easier for you to get, started on the things you should be doing. It includes two parts. Part One comes from David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done. It’s surprising how many things we put off that we could get done in two minutes or less, for example, taking out the litter, cleaning up your desk and sending an email. If a task takes less than two minutes to complete, then follow the rule and do it right now.

Can all of your goals be achieved in less than two minutes? Of course not. But, every goal can be started in 2 minutes or less. And that’s the purpose behind the rule’s second part. Once you start doing something, it’s easier to continue doing it. The most important part of any new habit is getting started—not just the first time, but each time. I love the 2-Minute Rule because it accepts the idea that all good things happen once you get started.

Want to become a better writer? Just write one sentence（2-Minute Rule）, and you’ll be likely to find yourself writing for an hour.

Want to make reading a habit? Just read the first page of a new book（2-Minute Rule）, and before you know it, you’ve read the first ten pages.

Use next 120 seconds to get one thing done. Go!

16．What can 2-Minute Rule help us to do?（No more than 10 words）

17．What does the writer think is the most important part of a new habit?（No more than 10 words）

18．Can all of your goals be achieved in less than two minutes?

19．What do the two examples at the end of the passage try to tell us?（No more than 10 words）

20．What have you learned from the passage?（No more than 20 words）

（2022春·江苏南通·九年级校联考期中）请认真阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容回答问题。

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the creators of Google, want to change your world. Their goal is to make a search engine that always gives you the right information. “It’s a huge goal, Page says, and it’s a long way off.” But Page and Brin are ready for it.

“Imagine if you had a librarian who had the knowledge of Google but could also answer immediately with that knowledge,” says Page. “That would really change the world.”

Both Page and Brin come from math and computer science backgrounds. Page’s father and mother were both computer scientists. So Page’s love for computers started early. He remembers surprising his teachers when he turned in a typed homework paper in primary school.         

Brin’s father was a math teacher and Brin’s parents moved to the U.S. from Russia in 1979. Brin says they moved to the U.S. to have more chances. Judging from their son’s success, their move certainly was a great decision!

Page and Brin were students at Stanford University when they first had the idea of creating their now-famous Google search engine. They began the project in Page’s dorm room(宿舍). Brin says he knew Google would be great when he found that he used it all the time.

After collecting money from friends and family, they put Google on the market in 1998. At first, they did 10,000 searches daily. Today they do over 200 million searches—more than 50 percent of all Internet searches.

Both men have surprisingly simple lifestyles. They don’t live in large houses or own expensive cars. Page and Brin also work very hard. They say that setting up a restaurant at their company  was one of their best ideas. Why? Because they work such long hours that they end up eating most of their meals there! Page and Brin strongly believe that search engines can greatly improve people’s lives.

21．What is Google?

22．What made Page’s love for computers start more early than other children?

23．Why did Brin’s parents decide to move to the U.S. in 1979?

24．Where did two creators of Google start their project?

25．What do you think is the most important thing to Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s success?

（2022春·内蒙古通辽·九年级校联考期中）When William Erasmus Darvin was born in December 1839, his father Charles Darwin began to carefully record observations of his firstborn in a notebook. Now housed at Cambridge University Library, it reads more like a research paper.

Today we know a good deal about Darwin’s theories. We know far less about how his private life—particularly his family—contributed to his work. But his notebook shows another side of the founding father of evolution: Darwin as a family man.

Darwin’s son William was born a year after the scientist first met London Zoo’s first orangutan(猩猩), Jenny. “The orangutan for Darwin was like a window into the origins of mankind,” says John van Wyhe, director of Darwin Online.

At this time, Darwin was already forming ideas about where humans came from, but he had never met one of our close ape(猿) relatives to test these theories. His meeting with Jenny helped build up his idea that we shared a common ancestor(祖先) with apes. He was already looking for a “real relationship between humans and apes”, says van Wyhe. When he saw Jenny’s facial expressions and noticed her social behavior, he knew his ideas were right.

What stood out to him was how human-like some of her behavior was, which he wrote about in a letter to his sister Susan: “The keeper showed her an apple, but would not give it to her, whereupon she threw herself on her back, kicked and cried, just like a naughty child.”

When his son was born soon after, it meant that he could see first-hand how a human child developed, and consider the relationship between humans and animals. “The notebook shows Darwin as a good-humoured though curious father who is playing with his young baby like he is another ape,” says van Wyhe.

His observations about both his family and Jenny the ape went on to influence his 1871 book. The Descen of Man and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, published in 1872.

根据短文内容，请用完整句子回答下列问题。

26．What did Darwin do after his first child was born?

27．What idea did Darwin hold before meeting Jenny?

28．What did Darwin think of ape, Jenny?

29．What does the text mainly want to tell us?

30．What can you learn from Darwin?

（2022春·湖南长沙·九年级校联考期中）Do you know the 24 solar terms(节气) of China? It starts from Beginning of Spring and ends with the Greater Cold, moving in cycles. It is still useful today to guide people’s lives through special foods, cultural ceremonies and even healthy living tips. Here is an introduction about 3 of them.

Grain Buds(小满)

It’s the 8th solar term of a year. It begins on May 21 this year, and ends on June 4. It means that the seeds(种子) from the grain(谷物) are becoming full. Summer harvest is about to begin. A saying about rain during this time mentions, “A heavy rainfall makes the river full.” This is a good time to enjoy fish.

Frost’s Descent(霜降)

It’s the 18th solar term of the year, during which time the weather becomes much colder than before and frost begins to appear. The apple is the most popular fruit during Frost’s Descent. There is a saying about apples’ advantages in China, “Eat an apple after meals, even old men can be as strong as young men.”

Minor Cold(小寒)

It’s the 23rd one. It marks the start of the coldest days of the year and people always start preparing for New Year. People need to eat food that has more yang energy to stop cold from harming their bodies. Another important traditional food for Minor Cold is Laba porridge(腊八粥).

31．How do the solar terms guide people’s lives?

32．How many days does “Grain Buds” last this year?

33．Is fish a special dish for Frost’s Descent?

34．What is before “Greater Cold”?

35．Why do people eat foods with more yang energy?

（2022春·湖南长沙·九年级长沙市开福区青竹湖湘一外国语学校校考期中）As the largest country in the world, Russia is a perfect travel place to enjoy delicious food, interesting culture and beautiful buildings. Are you thinking about travelling to the country? If so, there is something you need to know before you go.

Do you know the world’s longest passenger carrying railway line is in Russia? The Trans-Siberian Railway (西伯利亚大铁路) runs from Moscow (莫斯科) to Vladivostok(海参崴), a total of over 9289 kilometers. If you want to travel around Russia by train in a pretty relaxing way, it makes it easy to do so.

If you are someone that loves literature (文学), you probably know that Russia is home to some of the best and most famous writers, such as Leo Tolstoy and Alexander Pushkin. Many great writers have a museum specially built for them. Most can be found in Moscow. Whether you’re a fan of their works or you don’t know who they’re, you can learn something new about them and Russian literature by visiting their museums.

Another one of the most surprising facts about Russia is that it has 12 active volcanoes (活火山). If you love nature you should visit Kamchatka, one of the most visited among them. Besides the active volcano this area has over 1,000 different kinds of plants. It’s also home to brown bears, sheep and wolves.

What’s more, folk dancing is an important part of Russian history and culture. One of the most famous Russian dances is Khorovod. With people moving around in a circle hand in hand, they enjoy themselves in the dancing. Russians perform folk dances at festivals. If you get the chance to travel to Russia, be sure to attend a Russian folk-dance performance to learn more about the culture and traditions of Russia.

36．Why is Russia a perfect place to travel?

37．Is it difficult for visitors to enjoy the train ride around Russia?

38．To know more about Leo Tolstoy, where can a literature lover go in Moscow?

39．What is Kamchatka?

40．How do Russian people perform Khorovod?

（2022春·江苏淮安·九年级统考期中）

On Oct 23, 2021, 49-year-old Wang Yong was handing out leaflets(宣传单) on Nanbin Road in Chongqing. Wang Yong works in a pet hospital. He was wearing a cartoon bear costurme(服装) at that time, and the leaflets were about his pet hospital.

Suddenly, Wang Yong saw a middle-aged man fall down. The man had a cardiac arrest(心脏骤停). Wang called 120, took off his costurme and performed CPR right away. Luckily, the man was awake two minutes later.

“I must save him,” said Wang. “The best time to save a cardiac-arrest patient is within four minutes.” How did he know that?

In 2019, a famous actor died suddenly because of cardiac arrest while he was working. Wang watched the news on his phone and he was worried about his mother. She has a heart condition. He decided to learn to save people who have a cardiac arrest. And he became a Red Cross volunteer later. “As a Red Cross volunteer, I just did what I should do. I advise more people to learn to perform CPR,” Wang said.

根据上面短文的内容，回答问题。（每题答案不超过六个单词）

41．Where does Wang Yong work?

42．What was Wang Yong doing when the man fell down?

43．Who saved the man?

44．Why was Wang Yong worried about his mother?

45．What did Wang Yong advise people to do?

（2023春·全国·九年级期中）Marco Polo was born in Italy in 1254. When he was 17, he travelled across Europe and Asia along the Silk Road with his father, who wanted to do trade with the Chinese. Finally they arrived in Beijing. They were guests at the Emperor’s Palace. Although Marco was young, he was very clever and could speak four languages. The Emperor was impressed by him and they became friends. He asked Marco to serve in his court and sent him to do many important tasks across the country.

Marco was amazed by how beautiful and powerful China was. He was impressed by Beijing and the Emperor’s Palace, especially the Summer Palace which he described as “The greatest palace that ever was ... The walls were covered in gold and silver and the hall was so large that it could easily seat 6,000 people for dinner”.

There were inventions and developments in China which couldn’t be found in Europe at that time. Marco was surprised to see Chinese people using paper money in the markets. In Europe, people paid for goods with gold or silver! He was also puzzled by the black stones people used to burn to produce heat. The black stones were coal, but Marco had never seen coal before!

After 17 years of service to the Emperor, Marco returned to Italy. He was then a very wealthy man. A writer wrote down all the stories that Marco had told him in a book called The Travels of Marco Polo, which became one of the best-selling books in Europe.

Although people enjoyed reading the book, many of them thought that Marco’s stories about China were too fantastic to be true. But Marco always stood by his tales. Just before he died, aged 70, Marco was asked the question, “Was it all true?” And this was his answer, “I have only told a half of what I saw!”

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

46．Why did Marco Polo and his father travel to China?

47．What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?

48．Marco Polo saw that there were inventions and developments in China which couldn’t be found in Europe at that time. Give TWO examples.

49．Was Marco Polo the writer of the book The Travels of Marco Polo?

50．What does the last sentence “I have only told a half of what I saw!” mean?