I’m seventeen. I worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Los Angeles. People came to the counter (柜台) and I put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. It was hard work.
While working, I wore a plate with my name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, “Mr. Castle, how are you?” We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, “It was nice talking to you, Brett.” I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh, no. He didn’t remember me at all, he just read the name plate. I wish I had put “Irving” down on my name plate. If he’d have said, “Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?” I’d have been ready for him. There’s nothing personal here.
The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was: you couldn’t accept tips(小费). Okay, I’m outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction(反应)is to take a quarter and give it to me. I’d say, “I’m sorry, I can’t.” They’d get angry. When you give someone a tip, you’re sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say, “Oh, thanks a lot.” When you say, “I’m sorry, I can’t.” they feel a little put down. They say, “No one will know.” And they put it in your pocket. You say, “I really can’t.” It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store’s belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady actually put a tip in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I was puzzled and didn’t know what to do. Should I d have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something?
I decided that one year had been enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.
1.. From the second paragraph, we can infer (推断) that ________.
A. the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job
B. people can easily start talking with a name plate
C. Mr. Castle mistook Irving for Brett
D. Irving was the writer’s real name
2.. The box boy refused to accept tips because ________.
A. customers only gave small tips to
B. some customers had strange ideas about tipping
C. he didn’t want to fight with the customers
D. the store didn’t allow the box boys to take tips
3.. The underlined phrase “put down” in the third paragraph probably means ________.
A. relaxed B. upset
C. bored D. surprised
4.What can be the best title for this text?
A. How I Could Find a Job
B. How I Got along with Customers
C. Why I Gave up My Job
D. Why I couldn’t Take Tips
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I’m seventeen. I worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Los Angeles. People came to the counter (柜台) and I put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. It was hard work.
While working, I wore a plate with my name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, “Mr. Castle, how are you?” We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, “It was nice talking to you, Brett.” I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh, no. He didn’t remember me at all, he just read the name plate. I wish I had put “Irving” down on my name plate. If he’d have said, “Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?” I’d have been ready for him. There’s nothing personal here.
The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was: you couldn’t accept tips(小费). Okay, I’m outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction(反应)is to take a quarter and give it to me. I’d say, “I’m sorry, I can’t.” They’d get angry. When you give someone a tip, you’re sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say, “Oh, thanks a lot.” When you say, “I’m sorry, I can’t.” they feel a little put down. They say, “No one will know.” And they put it in your pocket. You say, “I really can’t.” It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store’s belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady actually put a tip in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I was puzzled and didn’t know what to do. Should I d have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something?
I decided that one year had been enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.
1.. From the second paragraph, we can infer (推断) that ________.
A. the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job
B. people can easily start talking with a name plate
C. Mr. Castle mistook Irving for Brett
D. Irving was the writer’s real name
2.. The box boy refused to accept tips because ________.
A. customers only gave small tips to
B. some customers had strange ideas about tipping
C. he didn’t want to fight with the customers
D. the store didn’t allow the box boys to take tips
3.. The underlined phrase “put down” in the third paragraph probably means ________.
A. relaxed B. upset
C. bored D. surprised
4.What can be the best title for this text?
A. How I Could Find a Job
B. How I Got along with Customers
C. Why I Gave up My Job
D. Why I couldn’t Take Tips
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A box boy at a supermarket was hard work. People came to the counter(柜台) and you put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. I had worked as a box boy in a supermarket in central Los Angles for ten months when I was seventeen.
While working, I wear a plate(标牌) with my name on it. One day I met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, “Mr. Castle, how are you?” We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, “It was nice talking to you, Brett.” I felt great that he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh no. He didn’t remember me at all. He just read the name plate. I wish I had put “Irving” down on my name plate. If he’d have said, “Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?” I’d have been ready for him. There’s nothing personal here.
The manager often shouted orders. One of these was: You couldn’t accept tips(小费). Okay, I’m outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction(反应) is to take a quarter and give it to me. I’d say, “I’m sorry, I can’t.” They’d get angry. When you give someone a tip, you mean being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hands and you expect them to say, “Oh, thanks a lot.” When you say “I’m sorry, I can’t”, they feel a little put down. They say, “No one will know.” And they put it in your pocket. You say“I really can’t.”. It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person to prevent him from tipping you. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady in fact put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.
I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive. I guess I had money and could afford to hate it and give it up.
1.What can be the best title for this text?
A. How Hard Life is for Box Boys B. Getting along with Customers
C. Why I Gave up My Job D. The Art of Taking Tips
2.From the second paragraph, we can infer that ________.
A. the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job
B. with a name plate, people can easily start talking
C. Mr. Castle mistook Irving for Brett
D. Irving was the writer’s real name
3.Which is the correct order of the following sentences?
a.Mr. Castle called the boy name.
b.The boy got to know Mr. Castle.
c.The boy realized Mr. Castle forgot him.
d.The boy began to work in this supermarket.
e.The boy met Mr. Castle and had a talk.
A. a-d-c-b-e B. c-a-b-e-d C. b-d-e-a-c D. d-b-a-e-c
九年级英语阅读理解极难题查看答案及解析
听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1.Where are the boy and his mother?
A. At home. B. In a supermarket. C. In the Animal World.
2.Why is the boy in a hurry?
A. Because he is going to the Animal World.
B. Because his favorite program has been on for twenty minutes.
C. Because he doesn’t want to miss the program Animal World.
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At Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, Arizona in the United States, four poor Mexican boys worked together on a strange electric machine. They were encouraged by their teacher Allan Cameron to build the machine. It only cost them $800 to build it. They used pipes(管子), cameras, computer parts, and whatever they could find. All the other students wondered what it was. The machine was like a very small submarine(潜艇). It could move around in a swimming pool. The boys could control(控制) its movement from outside the pool.
Carl Hayden High School had been invited to a competition of high schools and universities. The schools were from the United States and Canada. The school that could build the best machine would be the winner. Many students came from schools that gave them lots of money and support. The Carl Hayden boys had hardly any support and very little money.
Students from eleven schools traveled with their machines to the University of California, including students from the famous university, MIT. When students saw the machine made by the Carl Hayden boys, some of them laughed. Its name was “Stinky” because it had a very strong smell. But when the competition started, they saw that “stinky” was no joke. It did better than all the other machines, including the ones from MIT, and it took first place in the competition.
Since then, the boys from Carl Hayden High School have become famous. People have even offered them money for college, and a movie producer has asked them if it is OK to make a movie to tell their story.
1.According to the passage, the four Carl Hayden boys__________.
A. were from rich families
B. got a lot of money from their school
C. did better than other competition teams
D. were helped by their teacher to build the machine
2.Which of the following about the competition is TRUE?
A. It was held by MIT.
B. 11 high schools took part in it.
C. The winner of it must build the best machine.
D. Competing schools were from the United States.
3.What’s the underlined word “they” refers to in Paragraph 3?
A. The other machine
B. The Carl Hayden boys
C. The students from MIT
D. The students who laugh at “stinky”
4.What would be the best title(标题) of the passage?
A. A special machine
B. A high school beat MIT
C. A competition for teens
D. Smart students in the US
九年级英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Boys and girls, work hard. I m sure your parents will ______ you in the future.
A. be famous as B. be proud of C. keep in touch
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Boys and girls, work hard. I'm sure your parents will________you in the future.
A.be famous as B.be proud of C.keep in touch D.get angry with
九年级英语单选题中等难度题查看答案及解析
1.The boy was born in a poor family. For this r_______, he began to work in the factory at an early age.
2.Everyone should keep q________in the library.
3.You look handsome today. Your shoes m_________your trousers.
4.Most panders can live longer in zoos than in the w___________.
5.You'd better f_________your pet dog. It looks hungry.
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Boys and girls, you are in the examination room at this moment. As long as we fight on with the ______and efforts, the result will finally end in success.
A.wisedom B.wise C.wisdom
九年级英语单选题中等难度题查看答案及解析
What can you make with pieces of paper? Look at Chen Yiyan's work! The 14-year-old boy in Hangzhou Foreign Language School has an amazing talent for paper-folding. He has folded a “fantasy world" with his hands.
Chen wasn't born with this talent. When he was a fourth-grader, he found his brother's paper-folding book. It got him interested in it. Following the 50 steps shown in the book, he made
his first work--a paper elephant within two hours. Since then, he has read many books about paper-folding and practised folding paper in his spare time. So far, his fantasy world has many members, such as monsters and robots. He made his favorite work last year. It was a paper dragon that had almost 2,000 steps.
Chen used to fold paper himself until he met Li Changnan, an eighth-grader in his school who also loved folding paper. They set up a paper-folding club last year. To their joy, their school sponsored it. With the encouragement and the money provided, they had a paper-folding class every Wednesday afternoon. The club soon attracted a lot of students. Now it has more than 20 members. They showed their works and taught other students how to fold paper. On February 14th this year, the club also held a speech for the kids in Wenzhou Children's Library.
It is really exciting to develop my hobby and share it with others at the same time, " said
Chen, "I hope more and more people get to know paper-folding and love the art
1.What made Chen Yiyan interested in paper-folding?
A. A paper-folding club
B. Meeting Li Changnan.
C. Wenzhou Children's Library
D. His brother's paper-folding book
2.Which work did Chen Yiyan like best?
A. A paper monster.
B. A paper elephant.
C. A paper dragon.
D. A paper robot.
3.What does the underlined word "sponsored” mean?
A. Supported.
B. Prevented.
C. Refused.
D. Introduced.
4.Which of the following activities did the chub hold?
①holding competitions
②showing their works
③giving a speech
④reading books in the library
⑤teaching how to fold paper
⑥having paper-folding classes
A. ①②⑤⑥
B. ①③④⑤
C. ②③⑤⑥
D. ②③④⑥
5.Why did Chen Yiyan put so much effort into paper-folding?
A. To develop paper-folding art.
B. To build his own fantasy world.
C. To admire more paper-folding lovers.
D. To make himself famous in the school.
九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析
V. 任务型阅读
Many years ago, a young girl worked as a cleaner at the tailor’s in New York. When at work, she often saw the ladies drive cars to the shop to try on beautiful clothes. They dressed and behaved very well. So the girl thought, “This is the real life for a lady!” After thinking about this, a strong wish came up from her heart. She also wanted to a boss, and became a member of them.
Since then, every day before she started work, she would smile to the mirror so happily, so gently, and so confidently. Although in her working clothes, she imagined herself to be a lady wearing beautiful clothes. She dealt with people politely, naturally and gracefully. So the customers were very satisfied with her. She worked actively as if the shop was her own. As a result, she won the deep trust of her boss.
Before long, she won high praise from her customers. They said, “ She is the most intelligent girl with very good temperament”
“She is very excellent.” The boss also said.
After another period of time, the boss handed over the tailor shop to the girl for management.
As time went by, the girl got a very great name--- “Annette”. Then “Costume Designer Annette” and finally “Famous Designer Mrs. Annette”.
1.Did her wish come true in the end?
__________________________
2.How did she deal with her customers?
__________________________________
3.Why did she win the trust of her boss?
______________________________________
4.What will you do if you want to be successful? Why?
___________________________________
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