Bananas, always the fashion victims of the produce section, are wearing another new label this spring．Bananas with “Fair Trade Certified” stickers have been available in the United States since October．They represent the new front of an international effort to help first-world consumers improve the living standards of the third-world farmers who grow much of their food．
By expanding its reach to the produce section, Fair Trade is now trying to reach the American supermarket shopper．Fair Trade deals directly with farmer cooperatives (合作社)．It helps organize, avoiding brokers (代理人) and middlemen．It guarantees higher prices for the farmers' goods and helps them set up schools and health clinics．
The Fair Trade movement took root in Europe in the 1990's as a way of supporting coffee farmers as prices were collapsing．Since Fair Trade began, more than a million coffee growers and other farmers have joined cooperatives that sell their products through Fair Trade channels instead of directly to a commercial producer．
Not everyone is greeting the Fair Trade label with open arms．Several American coffee importers recently pulled out of Fair Trade, saying TransFair's “corporate friendly” policies that allow large companies to use the Fair Trade logo in their marketing even if only a small amount of the company's overall purchases are Fair Trade certified．
Edmund LaMacchia, the national produce coordinator(协调员) for Whole Foods, said Fair Trade is only one of many consumer choices．“Whole Foods has its own team of inspectors and has no plans to carry Fair Trade products”, Mr．LaMacchia said．“Our standards are higher than Fair Trade's, actually．” Fair Trade is only one of several labels your bananas might be wearing this year．Another is that of the Rainforest Alliance, which certifies the use of sustainable(可持续发展) agriculture methods．
So far, though, Fair Trade is the biggest．A Fair Trade label by itself does not guarantee an organic product, but most Fair Trade bananas are also organic, Ms．Bourque said, because pesticides are usually too costly for the small farmers who grow them．If the bananas are organic, they will be labeled as such, and will probably be wearing a sticker to prove it．
1.Why are bananas wearing “Fair Trade Certified” stickers?
A. It represents an international effort to help the third-world farmers．
B. It means bananas have got a new label．
C. It means bananas with these stickers are available in the United States．
D. It means bananas are the fashion victims of the produce section．
2.What does Fair Trade do?
A. It appoints brokers and middlemen to deal with farmer cooperatives．
B. It brings down the price of farmers' goods．
C. It sets up schools and health clinics for American farmers．
D. It helps farmers sell their products for a higher profit．
3.What was the original purpose of the Fair trade movement?
A) To cooperate with coffee growers and other farmers.
B) To help coffee farmers as prices were collapsing.
C) To prevent farmers from selling their products to commercial producers.
D) To sell products through coffee growers and other farmers.
4.What can we infer from this passage?
A. American coffee importers will never buy their products through Fair Trade channels．
B. Fair Trade is the only label that bananas might be wearing this year．
C. Not every consumer considers Fair Trade products the only choice．
D. Whole Foods and the Rainforest Alliance are more influential than Fair Trade．
5.What is the best title for this passage?
A. Consumers Face More Choices
B. Fair Trade － the Best Sticker
C. The Fair Trade Movement
D. Helping the Third World：One Banana at a Time
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题
Bananas, always the fashion victims of the produce section, are wearing another new label this spring．Bananas with “Fair Trade Certified” stickers have been available in the United States since October．They represent the new front of an international effort to help first-world consumers improve the living standards of the third-world farmers who grow much of their food．
By expanding its reach to the produce section, Fair Trade is now trying to reach the American supermarket shopper．Fair Trade deals directly with farmer cooperatives (合作社)．It helps organize, avoiding brokers (代理人) and middlemen．It guarantees higher prices for the farmers' goods and helps them set up schools and health clinics．
The Fair Trade movement took root in Europe in the 1990's as a way of supporting coffee farmers as prices were collapsing．Since Fair Trade began, more than a million coffee growers and other farmers have joined cooperatives that sell their products through Fair Trade channels instead of directly to a commercial producer．
Not everyone is greeting the Fair Trade label with open arms．Several American coffee importers recently pulled out of Fair Trade, saying TransFair's “corporate friendly” policies that allow large companies to use the Fair Trade logo in their marketing even if only a small amount of the company's overall purchases are Fair Trade certified．
Edmund LaMacchia, the national produce coordinator(协调员) for Whole Foods, said Fair Trade is only one of many consumer choices．“Whole Foods has its own team of inspectors and has no plans to carry Fair Trade products”, Mr．LaMacchia said．“Our standards are higher than Fair Trade's, actually．” Fair Trade is only one of several labels your bananas might be wearing this year．Another is that of the Rainforest Alliance, which certifies the use of sustainable(可持续发展) agriculture methods．
So far, though, Fair Trade is the biggest．A Fair Trade label by itself does not guarantee an organic product, but most Fair Trade bananas are also organic, Ms．Bourque said, because pesticides are usually too costly for the small farmers who grow them．If the bananas are organic, they will be labeled as such, and will probably be wearing a sticker to prove it．
1.Why are bananas wearing “Fair Trade Certified” stickers?
A. It represents an international effort to help the third-world farmers．
B. It means bananas have got a new label．
C. It means bananas with these stickers are available in the United States．
D. It means bananas are the fashion victims of the produce section．
2.What does Fair Trade do?
A. It appoints brokers and middlemen to deal with farmer cooperatives．
B. It brings down the price of farmers' goods．
C. It sets up schools and health clinics for American farmers．
D. It helps farmers sell their products for a higher profit．
3.What was the original purpose of the Fair trade movement?
A) To cooperate with coffee growers and other farmers.
B) To help coffee farmers as prices were collapsing.
C) To prevent farmers from selling their products to commercial producers.
D) To sell products through coffee growers and other farmers.
4.What can we infer from this passage?
A. American coffee importers will never buy their products through Fair Trade channels．
B. Fair Trade is the only label that bananas might be wearing this year．
C. Not every consumer considers Fair Trade products the only choice．
D. Whole Foods and the Rainforest Alliance are more influential than Fair Trade．
5.What is the best title for this passage?
A. Consumers Face More Choices
B. Fair Trade － the Best Sticker
C. The Fair Trade Movement
D. Helping the Third World：One Banana at a Time
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Rome, Paris and New York are the world's top fashion cities, all of which have produced some of the top trends, form high-low skirts to the hottest new shoes. However, have you ever wondered the negative(消极的)ideas that they've brought
In April 2016, the Advertising Standard Authority(ASA) in Britain stopped an ad from Gucci that has models dancing around and having fun, because the models in the ad were all quite thin. (Gucci, a famous brand(品牌)in the fashion industry and the company in question, said, "It was a personal idea as to whether a model looked unhealthily thin." It isn't new to us. The ASA stopped an ad in the year 2015 for the same reason. In France, it has been ruled that models are to provide a doctor's note which could prove that they are at a healthy weight.
This brings up the question of weight, a hot topic for some people. What is the healthy weight for models? While I couldn't find an exact number, I did find this. According to ABC News, "Twenty years ago, the average(平均)fashion model weighed 8 percent less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23 percent less." This is worrying. When has it ever been okay for anyone, models included, to weigh less than the average?
People may think that being at an unhealthy weight will help him have the advantages that the models do. This provides a standard of beauty, and therefore people who want to achieve those things may try to do this through unhealthy ways. People may also think that they are overweight, compared to the images(形象)of models' thin bodies. They see something wrong with their bodies, whether they are overweight or not. This may make people feel bad, unconfident about their bodies. Sometimes people may have eating problems.
I'm not blaming(指责)the fashion industry. It's not their fault(错误)that many people look up to the models and expect to live a life like their. I am glad that the ASA is raising its voices when discussing the growing problem of body image in the fashion industry. By stopping the photos and videos, speaking out against them and pushing for doctors' notes from the videos, it's pushing for the idea that the traditional fashion industry's body image standard should be changed and something more needy to be questioned.
1.What does Gucci mean by what it says?
A. Gucci has the right to choose models they like.
B. Gucci has lost a lot of money.
C. Gucci feels sorry for not choosing the right models.
D. Gucci shouldn't be blamed as there're no exact weight standards.
2.The numbers mentioned in Paragraph 3 show that .
A. people don't know why models weigh less
B. many women are eating less to become thinner
C. weight problems of the models are more serious
D. being too thin causes health problems to models
3.What does the fourth paragraph mainly talk about?
A. The advantages of having a thin figure.
B. The bad influence of models' thin images.
C. The methods for having a good image.
D. People's thoughts towards models' images.
4.What's the possible purpose of the ASA′s measures(措施)?
A. To improve the working conditions models are traced with.
B. To set new standard of model's body image
C. To make people have a proper idea of body image.
D. To keep us the good tradition in the fashion industry.
九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析
The Red Cross is always the first help to victims when a disaster happens.
A. provide B. providing C. to provide D. to providing
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Fashion always keeps at least one eye on the future. Now scientists are lending a hand, developing tomorrow’s super-powered（超能）clothing such as coats that can recharge（再充电） your MP3 player and make you stronger.
For example, electronics could get recharged in the future simply by plugging（插上插座） them into your outer wear, because Australian researchers are designing clothing that can collect energy from a person. The coats would include small things that change vibration energy（动能）from a person’s movements into electricity. High-tech fabrics（纤维品）would carry this energy to batteries（电池）.
“It will look like an ordinary（common）coat but have super energy,” said Adam Best, an Australian head research scientist. “This kind of technology has important uses for soldiers in the field and could mean they no longer need to carry heavy batteries,’’ Best added. “Above all, they’d be wearing the battery, not carrying it.” Besides helping soldiers, these coats could also have common uses for common people, such as powering radios, mobile phones, MP3 players or medical things. Solar-powered handbags could do the same thing.
Thanks to self-cleaning fabrics developed by scientists working for the U. S. Air Force, underwear and sports clothing could go weeks without washing. The general idea of clothes that never get dirty can be found in the 1951 film The Man in the White Suit. The new technology helps keep off water, oil and bacteria（细菌）.
High-tech fabrics could also help serve as protection. For example, future fabrics could lead to soft helmets（头盔）that turn hard in an accident.
Not all the possible fabrics of tomorrow are necessarily high-tech. For example, chicken feathers（羽毛） and other things of the farming industry could get changed into wool-like fabrics or cotton-like ones, helping use fewer fabrics made from oil.
Scientific development is also creating wool that doesn’t become bigger or smaller after washing. And future clothing could help soldiers shoulder heavy bags and help people walk. But not all electronic coats have such uses—some might serve as video game players with high technology and the latest fashion joined together perfectly.
The world of fashion is set to be taken by high-tech clothing that works as you wear!
1.“This kind of technology” means “________”.
A．clothing that makes you stronger
B．self-cleaning clothing
C．clothing that helps people walk
D．self-powered clothing
2.How can high-tech fabrics protect people from danger?
A．We will no more get hurt because of heavy batteries.
B．High-tech fabrics serve as a kind of protection for soldiers.
C．A soft helmet will become strong when you hit into something.
D．Future clothing keeps us away from dirty things and bacteria.
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?
A．You can get electronic energy from your clothes in the future.
B．Self-cleaning coats are developed for American scientists.
C．We will no longer use fabrics made from oil in the future.
D．The future high-tech clothing will be used only for soldiers.
4.What would be the best title of the passage?
A．Fashion Changes with Technology
B．Tomorrow’s High-tech Clothing
C．New Technologies Change the World
D．What We Will Wear in the Future
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
The victim’s parents have offered a(n)______ for any useful information ______to the arrest of the murder.
A. award; lead B. reward; leads
C. award; leads D. reward; lead
九年级英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
根据句意，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
1.She always catch the ______(late) fashion. She has a good taste.
2.You’d better drive carefully for your own_______(safe）.
3.I watched a film ________ (base) on a famous novel yesterday evening.
4.This book is very interesting. It is worth_______ (read) twice.
5.My grandparents refuse to live in the city with us. They prefer to live _______ (peace) in the country.
九年级英语单词拼写中等难度题查看答案及解析
The artist all of her money to charities the victims of Yaan.
A.gave off, to help B.gave up, helping
C.gave away, to help D.gave, helping
九年级英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
They held the charity show to raise some money for the of the flood .
A. witnesses B. victims C. criminals D. clues
九年级英语单选题中等难度题查看答案及解析
The organization is considering _________ some money to victims of the natural disaster.
A. donate B. donating C. to donate D. to donating
九年级英语单选题中等难度题查看答案及解析
----Have you heard of the school bus accident recently?
-----Yes. ________the victims was over 20 and most of them died.
A．A number B．A number of
C．The number of D．The number
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