It's very early in the morning and I'm sitting outside. It's also very cold and dark. With me is Jim Nightingale, and he is the reason I'm up so early. He passes me a hot cup of coffee. "Not long to wait now," he says. I hope he's right.
After a few minutes there is a very weak light in the east, and then I hear a bird singing. It sings very loud and very clear. "That's the robin(知更鸟)," says Jim. A few more birds start singing with the robin and Jim knows the names of them too. Half an hour later, there are more and more birds singing, and it's very loud! Suddenly, all around us the air is full of the sound of birdsong. This is the dawn chorus(晨鸣), and it's beautiful.
"Wow, this is amazing!" I tell Jim, who is smiling. "Is there a dawn chorus every morning?"
"Birds can sing any time of the year but the best time is the end of winter and during the spring. This is when the birds sing most."
"Really? So, why do they sing?" I ask.
"Well, there are two reasons," explains Jim. "Most of the songbirds who sing are males. They want to find a female(雌性)so they sing to show how strong they are. The females listen and choose the best singer! The birds also sing to tell other males to go away. They need their own area; they don't like sharing with another male."
I listen to the birds; the songs seem too much to me. "Do the birds sing a special song in the morning?"
"That's a good question," replied Jim. "The successful birds have many kinds of calls and songs. Sometimes they copy the songs of other birds. This makes it sound like there are many birds in that place already and other males stay away. Also the female likes songs with different notes. Some birds, for example the European wren, have songs that contain over 700 different notes per minute!"
So, how does Jim know so much about birds? Well, he works as a volunteer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He is trying to help the birds live in the modern world. "More and more of the birds' habitat disappears every year. The sparrow, for example, was a very common bird in the UK, now it's in danger."
By now the sun is up and the birds are quiet. It's light so they can start looking for food, they need a big breakfast after all that singing.
1.Why does the writer get up early in the morning?
A. To visit her friend. B. To drink hot coffee.
C. To see different birds. D. To hear birds sing.
2.A bird sings early in the morning mainly_______.
A. to call a female's attention B. to fight with other males
C. to find a place to live in D. to start looking for food
3. According to the text, which of the following statements is true?
A. At first the writer is happy to be up so early in the morning.
B. Male birds have their own ways of fooling other birds.
C. It's easier for the birds to find food early in the morning.
D. Jim has a job with the Royal Society for the Proteciton of Birds.
4.The text is mainly about_______.
A. the robin's songs B. the birds' habitat
C. why birds sing D. how to protect birds
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题
It's very early in the morning and I'm sitting outside. It's also very cold and dark. With me is Jim Nightingale, and he is the reason I'm up so early. He passes me a hot cup of coffee. "Not long to wait now," he says. I hope he's right.
After a few minutes there is a very weak light in the east, and then I hear a bird singing. It sings very loud and very clear. "That's the robin(知更鸟)," says Jim. A few more birds start singing with the robin and Jim knows the names of them too. Half an hour later, there are more and more birds singing, and it's very loud! Suddenly, all around us the air is full of the sound of birdsong. This is the dawn chorus(晨鸣), and it's beautiful.
"Wow, this is amazing!" I tell Jim, who is smiling. "Is there a dawn chorus every morning?"
"Birds can sing any time of the year but the best time is the end of winter and during the spring. This is when the birds sing most."
"Really? So, why do they sing?" I ask.
"Well, there are two reasons," explains Jim. "Most of the songbirds who sing are males. They want to find a female(雌性)so they sing to show how strong they are. The females listen and choose the best singer! The birds also sing to tell other males to go away. They need their own area; they don't like sharing with another male."
I listen to the birds; the songs seem too much to me. "Do the birds sing a special song in the morning?"
"That's a good question," replied Jim. "The successful birds have many kinds of calls and songs. Sometimes they copy the songs of other birds. This makes it sound like there are many birds in that place already and other males stay away. Also the female likes songs with different notes. Some birds, for example the European wren, have songs that contain over 700 different notes per minute!"
So, how does Jim know so much about birds? Well, he works as a volunteer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He is trying to help the birds live in the modern world. "More and more of the birds' habitat disappears every year. The sparrow, for example, was a very common bird in the UK, now it's in danger."
By now the sun is up and the birds are quiet. It's light so they can start looking for food, they need a big breakfast after all that singing.
1.Why does the writer get up early in the morning?
A. To visit her friend. B. To drink hot coffee.
C. To see different birds. D. To hear birds sing.
2.A bird sings early in the morning mainly_______.
A. to call a female's attention B. to fight with other males
C. to find a place to live in D. to start looking for food
3. According to the text, which of the following statements is true?
A. At first the writer is happy to be up so early in the morning.
B. Male birds have their own ways of fooling other birds.
C. It's easier for the birds to find food early in the morning.
D. Jim has a job with the Royal Society for the Proteciton of Birds.
4.The text is mainly about_______.
A. the robin's songs B. the birds' habitat
C. why birds sing D. how to protect birds
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
It’s early in the morning and the alarm clock has already rung several times. You have to drag yourself out of bed and rush to school. As a school student, this is probably a common experience for you. But thanks to new rules, many students in Zhejiang and Heilongjiang provinces can now stay in bed longer than before. On Feb 23th, the Zhejiang Department of Education published a new guideline that asks primary schools to start school later. According to the guideline, start times could vary among different grades and seasons, with students in Grade 1 and 2 starting no earlier than 8:30a.m. A similar guideline was announced by the education department in Heilongjiang province on Feb 24th. Since the new term began in March, students from all primary and junior high schools have been required to arrive at school no earlier than 8 a.m. And senior high school students are now required to arrive at school no earlier than 7:30a.m. These changes are aimed at making sure students get adequate sleep and enough time for breakfast.
According to a 2016 study, only 54.1 percent of students in Grade 4 slept 9 hours or more a night, while the required sleep time for primary students is 10 hours. These changes have received much praise. “I definitely welcome the move, since this will ensure my son has enough time for breakfast, which is important for his health and growth,” a mother from Hangzhou told China Daily. Pushing back school times isn’t unique to China. In the United States, schools in at least 21 states began to start school later in 2017. According to a 2015 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US, later school start times could help improve students’ health and study performance. Just as Mary Carskadon, a sleep expert from Brown University, US, told The Atlantic, “Everybody learns better when they’re awake.”
1.Which province required students to arrive at school no earlier than 8 o’clock?
A. Heilongjiang B. Hubei C. Zhejiang D. Chongqing
2.How long does a primary student need to sleep every day?
A. 8 B. 9 C. 10 D. 11
3.What does the underlined word “adequate” mean?
A. 多余的 B. 灵活的 C. 充足的 D. 困倦的
4.Which of the following is not true?
A. Some schools in the United States began to start school later in 2017.
B. Later school start times could help improve students’ wealth and study performance.
C. Starting school later has received much praise.
D. Everyone learns better when they’re awake.
5.What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. It’s important for students to keep healthy.
B. Students should get up early to go to school.
C. Students should have enough time to have breakfast.
D. It’s good for students to start school later.
九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析
I get up very early in the morning. I turn on the light and take out a physics book. Then I start ___ quietly.
I work so hard because I have a great _____ One day, I would be the first Chinese person to win the Nobel Prize(诺贝尔奖)in Physics.
When I was eight, I became interested in physics.
I first had physics ______in Junior 2. In class, I knew that there had never been a Nobel Prize winner of physics from China. That made me sad, so I decided to change _____. I began to work very hard.
Later on, I found physics lessons at school too easy for me. I wanted to learn more,so I made a reading plan and started to find answers to more _____ problems.
Now I am a _____ student in physics. And I am _____ to be close to my dream after a few years' hard _____. Of course, sometimes being so interested in physics gives me trouble. My classmates always laugh at me when they are talking about fashion or stars, because I know _____ about them.
"Well, that doesn't matter too much," I tell myself. "They don't know much ______ physics or the universe(宇宙), butI won't laugh at them."
1.A. writing B. reading C. thinking D. listening
2.A. dream B. spirit C. prize D. interest
3.A. lessons B. items(项目) C. subjects D. classroom
4.A. them B. me C. it D. him
5.A. hard B. difficult C. easy D. small
6.A. high B. top C. bad D. poor
7.A. happy B. hard-working C. surprised D. sad
8.A. life B. job C. work D. class
9.A. anything B. nothing C. everything D. something
10.A. in B. on C. of D. about
九年级英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
While walking outside one morning, I saw the most beautiful thing. It was early, and I was walking on dewy(带露水的)grass down to the office. Suddenly a flash came out straight from the ground, about 15 feet in front of me, and shot up into the sky. I stopped. ① What could make such a bright light? Could it be a diamond(钻石)?I waited to see if it would repeat, but it didn't.
I walked slowly toward it, but saw nothing. I looked down at the grass, searching for gold or some kind of metal - again, nothing. ② Suddenly, I saw it. The rising sun hit the grass' dewdrop(露珠)at the perfect way, sending great light into the sky. It was as if I had just discovered a tiny new world and it was just the unseen world that was giving me a heads-up, "Hello, look at what's around you," it said. I've never forgotten that moment.
So next time you're out, take some time to notice nature, whose beauty most of us never even see. Look at the beautiful colors and different small flowers that cover playing fields—we walk all over them without a second look. ③ Watch a bee dancing, or tiny ants going on their way, or birds singing in the sky. All of these natural living things are amazing—if only we took the time to notice them.
Have an eye for nature, and you'll find a new secret each day to keep in your heart. ④__ It's one of the most wonderful things I've ever done.
1.Why did the writer stop walking to the office at first?
A.Because he saw a bright light. B.Because he saw a diamond.
C.Because he saw a new world. D.Because he saw a dewdrop.
2.In which place can we put this sentence "I dropped down to my knees for a closer look."?
A.① B.② C.③ D.④
3.What's the purpose(目的)of the passage?
A.To warn us not to grow such kind of grass. B.To describe the writer's wonderful life.
C.To express the writer's love to a dewdrop. D.To encourage us to admire the nature.
4.Which might be the best title of the passage?
A.A Dewdrop B.My Secret C.Quick Moments D.The Grass
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
While walking outside one morning I saw the most beautiful thing.
It was early, and I was walking on dewy(带露水的) grass down to the office. Suddenly a flash came out straight from the ground, about 15 feet in front of me, and shot up into the sky. I stopped. ① What could make such a bright light? Could it be a diamond(钻石)?I waited to see if it would repeat, but it didn’t.
I walked slowly toward it, but saw nothing. I looked down at the grass, searching for gold or some kind of metal- again, nothing. ② Suddenly, I saw it. The rising sun hit the grass dewdrop at the perfect way, sending great light into the sky. It was as if I had just discovered a tiny new world and it was just the unseen world that was giving me a heads-up, “Hello, look at what’s around you, ” it said. I’ve never forgotten that moment.
So next time you’re out, take some time to notice nature, whose beauty most of us never even see. Look at the beautiful colors and different small flowers that cover playing fields---we walk all over them without a second look. ③Watch a bee dancing, or tiny ants going on their way, or birds singing in the sky. All of these natural living things are amazing-- if only we took the time to notice them.
Have an eye for nature, and you’ll find a new secret each day to keep in your heart. ④It’s one of the most wonderful things I’ve ever done.
1.The writer stop walking to the office at first because he saw __________.
A.bright light B.diamond C.new world D.dewdrop
2.Where can we put this sentence “ dropped down to my knees for closer look”?
A.① B.② C.③ D.④
3.The underlined word “heads-up” in Paragraph 3 means _________ in Chinese.
A.休息 B.愿望 C.提醒 D.怀疑
4.What’s the purpose of the passage?
A.To warn us not to grow such kind of grass. B.To describe the writer’s wonderful life.
C.To express the writer’s love to a dewdrop. D.To encourage us to admire the nature.
5.Which might be the best title of the passage?
A.A Dewdrop B.My Secret C.Quick Moments. D.The Grass.
九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析
It's Saturday morning and Tony's sitting at the kitchen table, staring(凝视)into space and playing with a piece of bread. He's not even hungry. Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do and there's just one reason: the Internet is down and Tony has nothing to do.
When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling great. He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other—a great weekend. But that was before he turned on his computer and wasn’t able to go online. No Internet changed everything.
Just as Tony is wondering how he can possibly have a normal(平常的)weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the kitchen. "Is everything OK?" she asks. "No, mum, everything is definitely(的确)not OK," her sad son replies. "I can't go online and I have homework to finish." His mum laughs, "The word program is still working, so what's the problem?"
What's the problem? Tony can't believe his own mother isn’t able to see how serious the problem really is. To start with, he still needs to do research for his homework. He knows his mum will tell him to go to the library but he hates the library. It's so dark and uncomfortable. And forget homework—what about the rest of his weekend! Every weekend, he goes online to email friends. Then he reads the news to catch up on what's happening in the world. He plays a few online games and finishes the weekend off with an online chess game with his cousin Helen. The wonderful weekend-online! Now it's Saturday morning and he's not going to have access to(进入)the Internet for two whole days.
1.Tony stared into space and played with a piece of bread __________.
A. because he was hungry
B. because he was hungry
C. because he was alone at home
D. because the Internet was down
2.When he found he couldn’t surf the Internet, Tony felt __________.
A. great B. excited
C. sad D. relaxed
3.Tony’s mother may ask him to__________.
A.go to the library for work B. get the Internet fixed
C.play his friends outside D. play chess with his cousin
4.The writer just wants to show us __________ with the story.
A. how to surf the Internet
B. what to do on the Internet
C. how the Internet influences teenagers’ life
D. why teenagers should go online
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
It's Saturday morning and Tony's sitting at the kitchen table, staring(凝视)into space and playing with a piece of bread. He's not even hungry. Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do and there's just one reason: the Internet is down and Tony has nothing to do.
When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling great. He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other—a great weekend. But that was before he turned on his computer and wasn’t able to go online. No Internet changed everything.
Just as Tony is wondering how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the kitchen. “Is everything OK?” she asks. “No, mum, everything is not OK,” her sad son replies. “I can't go online and I have homework to finish.” His mum laughs, “The word program is still working, so what's the problem?”
What's the problem? Tony can't believe his own mother isn’t able to see how serious the problem really is. To start with, he still needs to do research for his homework. He knows his mum will tell him to go to the library but he hates the library. It's so dark and uncomfortable. And forget homework—what about the rest of his weekend! Every weekend, he goes online to email friends. Then he reads the news to catch up on what's happening in the world. He plays a few online games and finishes the weekend off with an online chess game with his cousin Helen. The wonderful weekend-online! Now it's Saturday morning and he's not going to have access to(进入)the Internet for two whole days.
1.Tony stared into space and played with a piece of bread __________.
A. because the Internet was down
B. because he likes eating bread
C. because he was alone at home
D. because he was hungry
2.When he found he couldn’t surf the Internet, Tony felt __________.
A. great B. sad
C. excited D. relaxed
3.Tony’s mother may ask him to__________.
A. play his friends outside
B. get the Internet fixed
C. go to the library for work
D. play chess with his cousin
4.The writer just wants to show us __________ with the story.
A. how the Internet influences teenagers’ life
B. what to do on the Internet
C. how to surf the Internet
D. why teenagers should go online
九年级英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
It's Saturday morning and Tony's sitting at the kitchen table, staring(凝视)into space and playing with a piece of bread. He's not even hungry. Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do and there's just one reason: the Internet is down and Tony has nothing to do.
When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling great. He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other—a great weekend. But that was before he turned on his computer and wasn’t able to go online. No Internet changed everything.
Just as Tony is wondering how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the kitchen. “Is everything OK?” she asks. “No, mum, everything is not OK,” her sad son replies. “I can't go online and I have homework to finish.” His mum laughs, “The word program is still working, so what's the problem?”
What's the problem? Tony can't believe his own mother isn’t able to see how serious the problem really is. To start with, he still needs to do research for his homework. He knows his mum will tell him to go to the library but he hates the library. It's so dark and uncomfortable. And forget homework—what about the rest of his weekend! Every weekend, he goes online to email friends. Then he reads the news to catch up on what's happening in the world. He plays a few online games and finishes the weekend off with an online chess game with his cousin Helen. The wonderful weekend-online! Now it's Saturday morning and he's not going to have access to(进入)the Internet for two whole days.
1.Tony stared into space and played with a piece of bread __________.
A. because he was hungry
B. because he was hungry
C. because he was alone at home
D. because the Internet was down
2.When he found he couldn’t surf the Internet,Tony felt __________.
A.great B. excited C. sad D. relaxed
3.Tony’s mother may ask him to__________.
A.go to the library for work
B. get the Internet fixed
C.play his friends outside
D. play chess with his cousin
4.The writer just wants to show us __________ with the story.
A. how to surf the Internet
B. what to do on the Internet
C. how the Internet influences teenagers’ life
D. why teenagers should go online
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
It’s Saturday morning. Tony’s sitting at the kitchen table, staring into space and playing with a piece of bread. He’s not even 16 . Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do because the Internet is down.
When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling ________ 17 . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other great weekend. But that was 18 ________he turned on his computer and 19 he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.
Every weekend, Tony will go online to email friends, read the news to
20 what’s happening in the world and play a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to kill time. The perfect weekend-online.
Just as Tony is21 ________how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the 22 “Cheer up, Tony. Don’t think about the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no answer but sighs. “Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony’s mum 23 ________ .
“Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the corner. We can meet and play chess face to face for a 24 ________. Maybe this weekend won’t be so bad.” Tony 25 , as he walks to the phone. There is life beyond the Internet after all (毕竟).
1. A. hungry B. tired C. busy D. thirsty
2.A. excited B. bored C. tired D. surprised
3.A. after B. before C. until D. when
4.A. thought B. guessed C. decided D. found
5.A. write B. draw C. listen D. get
6.A. improving B. wondering C. checking D. doing
7.A. bathroom B. bedroom C. kitchen D. study
8.A. requires B. answeres C. invites D. suggests
9.A. chat B. time C. lesson D. change
10.A. continues B. worries C. smiles D. reports
九年级英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I get up early ____ the morning, but ___ Sunday morning I get up very late.
A.on; in | B.in; on | C.in; in | D.on; on |
九年级英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析