Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
“Chairs”
February 11--May 8, 2017
Italian furniture expert Fausto Calderai and Indian photographer Dayanita Singh present an exhibition of chairs from the museum’s collection and “chair photographs” from around the world presented in a Venetian-style hall housing world-famous masterpieces.
For more information: www.gardnermuseum.org
New York
The Noguchi Museum
“Noguchi and Graham”
December 1, 2016--May 1, 2017
Noguchi’s long-term collaboration with dancer Martha Graham is regarded by many as a high point in the history of both modern dance and art. The exhibition highlights nine of the sets created through this collaboration.
For more information: www.noguchi.org
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
“In Full View: American Painting(1720--2017)”
January 11--April 10, 2017
Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy has been home to America’s artists for 200 years. The Academy collects and exhibits the works of famous American artists, and is well-known for training fine artists. It is the largest exhibition of Academy’s distinguished American collection in the institution’s history.
For more information: www.pafA.org
Seattle
Seattle Museum of Glass
“Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection”
November 7, 2017
This exhibition includes over 200 pieces of beautiful glass from Murano, the island of glassblowers near Venice, Italy. Watch live glass-blowing shows in the Hot Shop and see other modern glass exhibitions.
For more information: www.museumofglass.org
1.Which of the following websites offers information about the furniture show?
A. www. pafA. org B. www. museumofglass.org
C. www. noguchi.org D. www. gardnermuseum.org
2.We learn from the text that Martha Graham is _____.
A. a dancer B. a glassblower
C. a painter D. a photographer
3.If you want to know the history of American painting, you may visit _____.
A. the Noguchi Museum B. Seattle Museum of Glass
C. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum D. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
4.If you want to watch live glass-blowing shows, you can go to _____.
A. Philadelphia B. Boston C. Seattle D. New York
5.We can go to the museums of the 4 cities above except ______.
A. February 15, 2017 B. May 10, 2017
C. December 10, 2016 D. April 8, 2017
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题
Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
“Chairs”
February 11--May 8, 2017
Italian furniture expert Fausto Calderai and Indian photographer Dayanita Singh present an exhibition of chairs from the museum’s collection and “chair photographs” from around the world presented in a Venetian-style hall housing world-famous masterpieces.
For more information: www.gardnermuseum.org
New York
The Noguchi Museum
“Noguchi and Graham”
December 1, 2016--May 1, 2017
Noguchi’s long-term collaboration with dancer Martha Graham is regarded by many as a high point in the history of both modern dance and art. The exhibition highlights nine of the sets created through this collaboration.
For more information: www.noguchi.org
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
“In Full View: American Painting(1720--2017)”
January 11--April 10, 2017
Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy has been home to America’s artists for 200 years. The Academy collects and exhibits the works of famous American artists, and is well-known for training fine artists. It is the largest exhibition of Academy’s distinguished American collection in the institution’s history.
For more information: www.pafA.org
Seattle
Seattle Museum of Glass
“Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection”
November 7, 2017
This exhibition includes over 200 pieces of beautiful glass from Murano, the island of glassblowers near Venice, Italy. Watch live glass-blowing shows in the Hot Shop and see other modern glass exhibitions.
For more information: www.museumofglass.org
1.Which of the following websites offers information about the furniture show?
A. www. pafA. org B. www. museumofglass.org
C. www. noguchi.org D. www. gardnermuseum.org
2.We learn from the text that Martha Graham is _____.
A. a dancer B. a glassblower
C. a painter D. a photographer
3.If you want to know the history of American painting, you may visit _____.
A. the Noguchi Museum B. Seattle Museum of Glass
C. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum D. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
4.If you want to watch live glass-blowing shows, you can go to _____.
A. Philadelphia B. Boston C. Seattle D. New York
5.We can go to the museums of the 4 cities above except ______.
A. February 15, 2017 B. May 10, 2017
C. December 10, 2016 D. April 8, 2017
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
The Palace Museum held "Lantern Festival night" on February 19th to the public and the tickets were ________ quickly on that day.
A.sold out B.put off C.turned down D.left for
九年级英语单选题中等难度题查看答案及解析
阅读表达。
Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born on February 11th in 1847 at Milan, Ohio and died on October 18, 1931. When he was a child he was always trying out new ideas.
One day when he was five years old, his father saw him sitting on some eggs. He asked him why he was doing that. Tom did not answer. Instead, he asked his father: “Hens are able to have chicks. Why can’t I?”
Young Tom was in school for only three months. During those three months he asked a lot of questions. Most of these questions were not about his lessons. His teacher did not understand him. The boy had so many strange questions. The teacher could not answer all of them. So he wanted to send Tom away from school. He told Tom’s mother that Tom was not clever, and he asked her to take the boy out of school.
So Tom’s mother took him out of school, and taught him herself. She taught him to read and write, and she found him a very good student. He learnt very fast. Even before he was ten he became very interested in science. He grew vegetables in his garden and sold them. With the money he set up a chemical laboratory in his home in 1857.
Thomas Edison had 1,368 inventions during his lifetime.
His first patented invention was an electrical recorder in 1868.
1876—1877, invented the phonograph (留声机).
1891, invented the camera.
1897, invented the first electric lamp.
1900—1910, invented the storage battery.
根据短文内容,回答下列问题。
1.Did Tom’s teacher like him? Why?
____________________________________________
2.Who taught Tom to read and write out of school?
_____________________________________________
3.When did Tom become interested in science?
_____________________________________________
4.How did he build his science lab?
_____________________________________________
5.What were invented by Tom?
_____________________________________________
九年级英语回答问题困难题查看答案及解析
It was 11:50 pm on 6 February, 2018. The ground was shaking and an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 was hitting Taiwan. Seventeen people were dead, two hundred eighty-five people got hurt, and an entire hotel fell down and lay on a street in the city of Hualien.The government said that at least seven buildings had partly collapsed or been left at dangerous angles, and the city's hospital was also damaged. Rescuers gathered around the buildings and shone flashlights into the windows. They had spent 106 hours after the earthqucake until they found they were not able to get the last two people out. The last two bodies are the grandparents of a Chinese family of five who were all killed in the hotel at the lower floors of the 12-story Yun Men Tsui Ti building. Fourteen of the seventeen people who died in the earthquake were trapped in that building.
The earthquake was followed by more than one hundred small earthquakes, with the largest one of magnitude 5.7 on 7 February at 23:21, 19 km northeast of Hualien city. No one was killed in those quakes.
earthquake/quake 地震; magnitude震級; collapse倒塌; angle 角度;rescue 救援;rescuer救援人員;trap堵塞;落入陷阱
1.How long had it taken to rescue these trapped persons after the earthquake?
A. 10 days
B. only 72 hours
C. 168 hours
D. 106 hours
2.Which floor of the Yun Men Tsui Ti building might the Chinese family stay on ?
A. 12
B. 2
C. 9
D. 11
3.Which is true according to this article?
A. The last two dead bodies are from a Chinese family of 5 in which there are three people alive.
B. Luckily, the hospital in Hualien city is not damaged, and people can go there for help.
C. Two hundred eighty-five people got hurt because of the earthquake.
D. Rescuers had kept searching until they got all the people and bodies out.
4.What is Not true about the rescuing?
A. Rescuers shone flashlights into the windows to check if there would be anyone that they could help.
B. Many buildings in Hualien fell down on Feb. 6, 2018.
C. The biggest earthquake in Feb in Taiwan is up to magnitude 6.4.
D. Fourteen people were dead in the quakes after the earthquake on Feb 6, 2018.
5.What date did the rescue end on ?
A. Feb. 7.
B. Feb. 11.
C. Feb. 8.
D. Feb. 19.
九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析
February4,2017 must be an important day for Yao Ming.His No.11 jersey(球衣)was officially retired(退休)on that day.It means no players in Houston Rockets will wear the number in any future basketball competition.Retiring a jersey is a special way to praise a player’s performance.It has been a great honor for Yao Ming,one of the China’s best-known athletes.
Yao Ming,who was born in Shanghai in 1980,started playing for Shanghai Sharks as a teenager.In2002,Yao was chosen to play for Houston Rockets of the NBA.So he went to the United States and made his career(事业)take off until he retired in 2011. He was chosen to start for the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star Game eight times. After the retirement,Yao Ming was also elected(选举)to the Hall of Fame.
Dary1 Morey.the Rocket general manager,thinks highly of Yao Ming.“Yao had a sense of humor, a great attitude and sense of responsibility.I hope we can continue his culture in the NBA.”
In 2011,the foot and leg disease made him put an end to his basketball career.When Yao decided to end his career as a basketball player,he said,“I’ve been thinking about my future over and over again.It’s miserable that I can’t go on playing basketball ,but one door is closing and another is opening.”
Yao was right.Life is full of surprises.He was chosen an the chairman of Chinese Basketball Association(CBA).We all believe Yao Ming will make greater achievement in the future.
1.Which of the following is True about Dary1 Morey?
A. He is Yao Ming’s coach in the Rocket.
B. He speaks highly of Yao Ming.
C. He plays basketball with Yao Ming in the NBA,too.
D. He is a big fan of NBA.
2.The underlined world“miserable”means .
A. wonderful B. peaceful C. painful D. thankful
3.Yao Ming retired at the age of .
A. 29 B. 31 C. 33 D. 35
九年级英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
根据短文内容和汉语提示,写出短文空白处各单词的正确形式,每空限填一词。
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847. When he was a child, he always had a lot of questions and started asking questions about _____1.________ (如何)things worked. So his teachers didn’t like him. They thought he was kind of ____2.________(笨的) and many people didn’t understand him, either. He was only in school for three months. His mother _____3._____(教)him at home. His parents _____4._____(注意) he loved to read. They introduced him to the ____5.______(图书馆). He read many books there. The books _____6.______(使…感兴趣) him very much. ________7.____ (在)the help of his parents, he also built his lab by _______8.______(他自己). He ______9.____ (发明) more than one thousand things, ______10.______(包括) the first silent film, the light bulb, the record player and so on. He died on October 18,1931 at the age of 84.
九年级英语单词拼写简单题查看答案及解析
Chris Gardner Net Worth (净身家): Over US $60 million He is the owner of a stock (股票) business in Chicago. His family was poor when he was a child. He built the business with his own hands. At the same time, he also did a good job as a father. | |
Oprah Winfrey Net Worth: Over US $3.1billion (十亿) She is the queen of American television. Her childhood was painful. At 13, she ran away from her mother and lived with her father. Under the strict teaching of her father, she got a full scholarship (奖学金) to college. When she finished college, she got a job at a radio station. Then she worked very hard and became successful. | |
Mark Zuckerberg Net Worth: $56.4 Billion He was born into a well-to-do and well-educated family in New York. He showed an early interest in the world of computers. He is an American computer scientist, but best known for creating the social networking website, Facebook. He is the youngest billionaire. He is also famous for giving away 99% of the Facebook shares to charity in his lifetime. |
1.You can get inspiration (鼓舞人心的人或事) from these three people because they are_______.
A. young and beautiful B. rich and lucky
C. positive and encouraging D. popular and clever
2.Chris Gardner is a businessman and_________.
A. is the richest of the three people B. is kind to children
C. runs a famous networking website D. was born into a rich family
3.Mark Zuckerberg is famous because of________.
A. his well-to-do and well-educated family
B. his early interest in the world of computers
C. his full scholarship to college
D. his creating the website Facebook and his contribution to the charity
4.According to the passage, which statement is TURE?
A. Chris Gardner had a painful childhood.
B. It is OK to be poor and it is easy to be rich.
C. Everyone has a chance to challenge his/her life.
D. Oprah Winfrey has lived with her father since she was born.
5.In which part of a newspaper can you see this passage?
A. Inspirational stories. B. Science fiction. C. Sports news. D. Education.
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
Chris Gardner Net Worth(净身家):Over US $60 million He is the owner of a stock(股票)business in Chicago. His family was poor when he was a child. He built the business with his own hands. At the same time, he also did a good job as a father. | |
Oprah Winfrey Net Worth: Over US $3.1 billion(十亿) She is the queen of American television. Her childhood was painful. At 13, she ran away from her mother and lived with her father. Under the strict teaching of her father, she got a full scholarship(奖学金)to college. When she finished college, she got a job at a radio station. Then she worked very hard and became successful. | |
Mark Zuckerberg Net Worth: $56.4 Billion He was born into a well-to-do and well-educated family in New York. He showed an early interest in the world of computers. He is an American computer scientist, but best known for creating the social networking website, Facebook. He is the youngest billionaire. He is also famous for giving away 99% of the Facebook shares to charity in his lifetime. |
1.According to the passage, we can know that they are all _______________.
A.young and beautiful B.rich and curious
C.successful and encouraging D.popular and strict
2.Chris Gardner is a businessman and _________________________.
A.is the richest of the three people B.is a good father
C.runs a famous networking website D.was born into a rich family
3.Mark Zuckerberg is famous because of _________________________.
A.his well-to-do and well-educated family
B.his early interest in the world of computers
C.his full scholarship to college
D.his creating the website Facebook and his contribution to the charity
4.According to the passage, which statement is TURE?
A.Chris Gardner had a painful childhood.
B.It is OK to be poor and it is easy to be rich.
C.Everyone has a chance to challenge his/her life.
D.Oprah Winfrey has lived with her father since she was born
5.Where can we probably read this passage?
A.In a newspaper. B.In a science book. C.In a storybook. D.In a diary.
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
Summer Programs at Museums
The Postal Museum Date July 17-23 Age 11-13 Would you like to join us this summer vacation You can create a stamp with your own design, write and mail a postcard, and learn about the history of stamps. Tel 965-0400 |
The Air and Space Museum Date July 29-30 Age 8-11 If you enjoy programs about air and space, please come here. It’s a good place to make and fly your own paper airplane, watch an IMAX movie, and climb into a real airplane. Tel 654-0930 |
The Science Museum Date August 7-20 Age 9-12 You can experience video arts and computer technology, play VR games to explore(探索) a future city, and ask the robots questions about science. It will be wonderful! Have fun! Tel 357-3030 |
The Building Museum Date August 21-27 Age 13-15 Want to enjoy design challenges? Come and join us. You can also go on field trips to some famous buildings, and build small houses with soft blocks. All the programs are free. Tel:272-0560 |
1.When can you join in the programs at the Postal Museum?
A. From July 17 to 23. B. From July 29 to 30.
C. From August 7 to 20. D. From August 21 to 27.
2.Which number can you phone if you are interested in the program about video arts?
A. 965-0400. B. 654-0930.
C. 357-3030. D. 272-0560.
3.A 15-year-old student can take part in the programs at .
A. the Building Museum B. the Postal Museum
C. the Air and Space Museum D. the Science Museum
4.In the Air and Space Museum, you can .
A. create a stamp B. build a house
C. make a paper airplane D. explore a future city
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
1.When can we visit Art Museum?
A. 11:00 am-7:00 pm every day
B. 8:00 am – 6:00 pm on weekdays
C. 8:00 am – 9:30 am every Sunday.
D. 8:00 am – 6:00 pm on weekends.
2. Where can we go if we want to learn music?
A. 25 Jiefang Road. B. 95 the Fifth Avenue.
C. 120 Xinjin Street. D. Thermopolis Town.
3. If you and your parents visit National Park, how much should you pay?
A. $ 15 B. $ 30 C. $38 D. $45
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析