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阅读表达 阅读短文，回答问题
How do we know what’s right or wrong in English? Languages such as French and Spanish each has an official(官方的) organization that tells you what’s correct. But there is nothing like that in English. So what can we do?
There is, of course, Standard English. This is the kind of English you read in newspapers or in formal letters. It is also the English you learn at school or in textbooks.
However, Standard English is not official English. And unbelievably, linguists（语言学家） think Standard English is on the same level as all other types of English such as Cockney English, Yorkshire English, South African English, Australian English, Singaporean English… And according to linguists, there is no such thing as Standard Spoken English.
English is changing all the time. Every year, new words appear and others disappear. Words change too. For example, for many years, the Latin word “agendum” was the accepted singular form and “agenda” was the plural form. However, these days, very few people use the Latin-sounding“agendum”, with “agenda” being the accepted singular form, and “agendas” the plural.
Newspapers each has their own style when they write certain things. For example，The Guardian puts dates like “21 July 2011”(with the day first, followed by the month and no commas). However, the news agency Reuters writes them like this “July 21, 2011”(with the month first, and a comma(逗号) between the day and the year). Other newspapers have different ways of doing it too. So, as you can see, there’s no one “correct” way ----there’s a variety of ways and each one is acceptable.
Next time someone tells you that something is wrong, tell them that it isn’t wrong, It is just English.
(Each answer should be no more than four words)
1.According to passage two, how many ways can you read or learn Standard English?
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2.What is the plural form of the Latin word “agendum” in the past?
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3. How does the news agency Reuters write “2016年1月20日”?
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4.According to passage one, what languages have official organizations that tell you what is correct?
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5. According to passage three, how many types of English are mentioned except Standard
English?
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九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
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SUMMER SKIN CARE
—RIGHT OR WRONG?
In summer everybody needs to be careful with the sun. Do you know how to spend time in the sun without burning or damaging your skin? Read the ten rules below. Some of them are RIGHT and the others are WRONG.
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Always wear a baseball cap. It protects you from the sun and looks cool, too.
WRONG You need to wear a hat, but choose your hat carefully. Baseball caps protect your eyes, but they don't protect your ears or your neck. Use a proper sun hat.
You need to use sun cream even on a cloudy day in summer
RIGHT The sun can damage your skin even on a cloudy day
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7
Use sun cream. You need to put it on at least twenty minutes before you go out.
RIGHT Sun cream starts to work twenty minutes after you put it on.
On a hot sunny day, wear light-colored clothes -- white or yellow are best.
WRONG Light-colored clothes don't protect you from the sun. The best solution is to wear dark-colored clothes.
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8
Put sun cream around your eyes and on your eyelids to protect them from the sun.
WRONG Sun cream hurts the eyes. Wear sunglasses instead.
You need to spend time in the sun for healthy skin.
RIGHT You need to spend time in the sun to get enough vitamin D for healthy skin and bones (骨頭), but don't forget to use sun cream. Without sun cream you have a bigger risk of skin cancer.
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9
You only need a little sun cream. Too much sun cream is bad for your skin.
WRONG You need to use a lot of sun cream. The sun dries out your skin. Sun cream moisturizes (滋潤) and protects it.
You need to spend a lot of money to get a good sun cream.
WRONG There are many different kinds of sun cream. Find the one that is best for you. Expensive ones are not always better than cheap ones. Use a sun cream labeled (標明) SPF30+ and it should give you the same protection as one that is more expensive.
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10
Put more sun cream on every two hours.
RIGHT You need to put sun cream on often, especially when you're swimming.
In summer, people with dark skin can also get burnt.
RIGHT People with fair skin and blonde or red hair need to be extra careful and use a high factor sun cream. People with fair skin, but they do need to protect their skin from the sun, too.
1.What are the right clothes to protect your skin from the sun?
A.A baseball hat and light-colored clothes.
B. A baseball hat and dark-colored clothes.
C. A sun hat and light-colored clothes.
D. A sun hat and dark-colored clothes.
2.Where shouldn't you put sun cream on your body?
A. On your ears and neck.
B. Around your eyes and eyelids.
C. On dry skin.
D. On darker skin.
3.What is the right way to use sun cream?
A. Use a little and often
B. Use a lot, two or three times a day.
C. Use a lot every two hours.
D. Use a little every two hours.
4.Why is it important to spend time in the sun?
A. You can drink more water.
B. It improves dry skin.
C. It's a chance to wear cool sunglasses.
D. It helps keep your skin and bones healthy.
5.According to the text which of the following is true about sun cream?
A. Sun cream is usually very expensive.
B. Black people don't need sun cream.
C. Sun cream reduces the risk of skin cancer.
D. Sun cream starts to work immediately.
九年级英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
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阅读短文，回答问题。
Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people moved from one place to another. They moved over the land, hunting animals for food.
No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to move any more.
They could stay in one place and grow food there. People began to live near each other, so the first villages appeared. Many people came to work in the villages, and these villages became larger and larger.
Later people had machines. Life in the villages changed again. People built factories. More and more people lived near the factories, so the villages grew into cities. Some of them grew very big.
Today, it's strange that some people are moving back to small villages. Can you tell me why?
1.How many people were there in the world long long ago?
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2.What did the villages grow into after people built factories?
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3.Why did people move from place to place long long ago?
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4.Who knows when people learned about growing food?
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5.Why are some people moving back to small villages?
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九年级英语回答问题中等难度题查看答案及解析
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阅读下面短文，根据短文内容回答1～4题，并按要求完成第5题。
Do you know what are the world's tallest animals?
How do they sleep and drink?
You may think it's difficult for them to sleep, but they have no such problems because giraffes don't often stop for a snooze(打盹). As they are so tall-males can grow up to 18 feet, giraffes actually have the shortest sleep requirement of all mammals(哺乳动物) ,with an average(平均 ) of half an hour a day. When they sleep, they seldom lie down and sleep for minutes at a time, since it's difficult for them to get up again and it's dangerous in the wild. But the giraffe in the zoo sleeps around 4. 6 hours per day, mostly at night. It usually sleeps lying down
Drinking water may cause problems for the animals because their long necks are too short to reach the ground. To drink they must spread their legs in an uncomfortable position, which makes them easily hunted by other animals like Africa's big cats. As a result, they get most of their water from the plants that they eat. They only need to drink water every few days.
1.How long do giraffes living in the wild sleep every day?
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2.How does the giraffe in the zoo usually sleep?
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3.What must giraffes do to drink water?
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4.What's the main idea of the passage?
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5.请将画线句子翻译成汉语。
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九年级英语回答问题中等难度题查看答案及解析
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根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。每空限填一词。
How do we know the time? A clock, a watch or a cell phone can help us. However many years ago there were no clocks and knowing the time was not so easy. Over the centuries people have developed different w1.of telling the time.
About 5,500 years ago, the Egyptians i2.the sun clock. This was a tall stone structure. Its shadow (影子)showed the movement of the s3.they were able to determine（测定）midday.
About 3,500 years ago,the Egyptians made a sundial. It was smaller than the sun clock and could measure (测量)the time for half a day. On c4.days or at night it was impossible to tell the time with a sun clock or a sundial.
Water clocks were the f5.clocks not to use the sun. The idea is simple. Water flows（流动） from one container（容器）to another. When the water reaches a certain l 6. it moves a lever (控制杆)and this shows the hours. The Egyptians used water clocks about 3,400 years ago. These clocks were popular in the Middle East and China but they f7.
o keep accurate（精确的）time.
In the 13th century. the mechanical clock was invented. This was more accurate, b8.was expensive to make. Over the next few centuries it was developed. For example, springs(发条)were added around 1500. This i9.accuracy and allowed clocks to be smaller.
In 1927, the first quartz clock was developed. Clocks became cheaper to build and own. People began depending on them more and more to run businesses, markets and so on.
More recently, in1956, came the digital clock. And nowadays satellites（人造卫星）send our cell phones the time to the exact second. There has been a lot of progress in timekeeping but some things never c10.. Man of us still have trouble getting out of bed on time and not missing appointments.
九年级英语单词填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
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阅读下面短文，并按要求回答下列各题。
What will our world be like in 2020? Maybe no one knows. Because we never know what will happen in the future. But it’s very interesting to make some predictions. Here are some exciting predictions.
Languages
English should still be the most popular language, but Chinese should be the second. Now, many foreign people are studying Chinese A their second language.
Water
①Water will become as expensive as oil because many rivers will disappear. We will have to save water and pay more for clean water.
Education and Science
Students won’t go to school. They will stay at home and study online. Students from all over the world may study together on the Internet. We may eat more genetically (转基因) modified food. And more robots will be around us. ②Lots of danger housework will be done by them.
Living
People will live and work under the sea. Perhaps there will be big towns, factories and farms under the sea, too. Everyone will carry a pocket computer. The computer will give people the answers to all their problems. Everyone will have telephones in the pockets, too, and they will be able to talk to their friends all over the world.
1.题判断正误（“T”表示正确，“F”表示错误）；2.题完成句子；3.题将文中画线句子译成汉语；4.题改正文中画线句子中的错误；5.题简略回答问题。
1.The passage is mainly talking about education and science.
2.Now, many foreign people are studying Chinese ________ their second language.
3.请将文中①处句子译成汉语。
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4.请将文中②处划线句中的一个单词的错误用法找出，并改正在横线上。
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5.What is the passage mainly talking about?
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九年级英语多任务混合问题困难题查看答案及解析
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阅读理解，阅读下面三篇短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
1.What can you know from Sign (1)?
A. We can't smoke or go boating here．
B. We can’t skate or smoke here．
C. We can't wash clothes here．
D. We can do the shopping here
2.From Sign (2) we know we can________here．
A. play computer games
B. stay overnight here
C. have something to eat
D. have a good sleep
3.Sign (3) means you can________here．
A. have breakfast at 8：00 on Saturday
B. have dinner at l0：00 P.M. on Monday
C. have dinner every day
D. have something at 10：30 P.M. on Tuesday
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Do you know how a young dog or cat gets to know a new home? The animal uses its nose. Right away it smells its new places. Then it makes wider and wider circles, smelling all the time. Before long it can find its way home very well, even in the dark. It simply follows something it knows well.
Stories happen about animals who found their way across land they had never smelled before. Take the case of Smoky, a small white cat. Smoky had some funny red hair around its right ear. One day Smoky and his owner began a long journey. They were moving from Oklahoma to Tennessee. When they were just eighteen miles from their Oklahoma home, Smoky jumped out of the car. Then he found his way back to the old house. There he wandered around outside for many days. Finally he disappeared.
A year later Smoky meowed at the door of a house in Tennessee. A man opened the door. “Is that you, Smoky?” he said in surprise. At first he couldn’t believe it. Then he saw the red hair around its right ear. It was Smoky!
1.What is the first thing a pet does in a new place?
A. It smells the new place. B. It finds its way in the dark
C. It follows something it knows.
2.Put these events in the right order that they happened.
①Smoky got to Tennessee. ②Smoky jumped out of the car. ③Smoky went to his old house.
A. ③①② B. ②③① C. ①③②
3.The underlined word “wandered” in the passage means _________.
A. 思考 B. 围绕 C. 游荡
4.How long did Smoky take to get to the house in Tennessee?
A. A year. B. A month. C. A week.
5.What is the best title of the passage?
A. An Excellent Memory B. A Surprising Journey C. A Humorous Cat
九年级英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
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— She looks upset. Do you know ________?
—Sorry. I don't know, either.
A.what's wrong with her B.how is she feeling
C.what the matter is D.what 's he thinking of
九年级英语单选题简单题查看答案及解析
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阅读表达 阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题
What is a hurricane?
You may already know that hurricanes are storms that can cause devastating(毁灭性的)waves，wind，and rain．They happen during“Hurricane Season，”which is from June 1st until November 30th in the Atlantic Ocean and from May 15th until November 30th in the Pacific Ocean.
Categories(类别)of Hurricanes
There are five categories of hurricanes, which are based on wind speeds. The categories help people know how much damage(危害)a hurricane may cause because the greater the wind speed，the more dangerous the storm is．For example，a Category 5 hurricane has winds over 155 miles per hour，which are strong enough to destroy the buildings along the shorelines completely．
Hurricane Dangers
When a hurricane happens together with heavy rainfall，there can be a devastating flood．The centre of a hurricane is called the eye．While most of a hurricane has dangerously strong winds，the eye is actually(事实上)a calm area in the storm．When the eye of a hurricane passes over land，people might think that it’s over，but before long the wind and rain increase again as the second part of the hurricane moves through．
Hurricane Safety Tips
There is no way to stop a hurricane or make it change direction，so if you ever find yourself in the path of a hurricane，be sure to remember the following safety tips．
•Be sure you have a radio，batteries，fresh drinking water，and enough food．
•Tell neighbours，friends，and family members your emergency plans．Tell them where you’ll go if you need to leave your home．
•If you live near the ocean，leave your home and travel to a safe place．You could stay with a friend or a family member，in a hotel or in an emergency shelter area．
•Stay inside during the storm．You could be seriously injured(受伤)if you go outside．
根据短文回答问题,不超过八个单词
1.When is Hurricane Season in the Atlantic Ocean?
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2.What are categories of hurricanes based on?
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3.What is called the eye?
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4.How many hurricane safety tips are mentioned(提到) in the passage?
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5.What should you do most probably if a hurricane happens?（自拟一句话作答）
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九年级英语回答问题困难题查看答案及解析