Ole Bull was a very famous violinist from Norway. He really liked to play the violin. But his father thought that playing the violin was not useful. So his father sent him to university to study. However, playing the violin was his dream. He didn’t want to give up his dream. So he left university before he finished his studies and spent all his time and energy practicing the violin. Unfortunately, his violin teacher was not very good. So when it was time for him to start his concert tour, he still couldn’t play the violin very well.
Therefore, a Milan newspaper critic1 criticized him and said that he was an untrained violinist. The critic said, “If he is gold, he is not ready to shine2 yet.”
When facing this kind of problem, some people may become very angry and some people try to learn from it. Fortunately, Ole Bull belonged to the second group. He went to the newspaper office and found the critic. Instead of being angry, he talked about his mistakes with the man and listened to the man’s advice.
After he met the critic, he gave up the rest of his concerts. Then he went back to practice the violin with the help of good teachers. In the end, he got great success when he was only 26. He also became one of the most famous violinists in the world.
1.Why didn't Ole Bull's father like him to play the piano?
A. Because he thought playing the violin was useless.
B. Because his father thought playing the violin would cost lots of money.
C. Because his father thought he couldn't play the violin well.
D. Because his father thought he couldn't make his dream come true.
2.What does the underlined part "If he is gold, he is not ready to shine yet." mean?
A. Gold always shines no matter where it is.
B. He is an excellent violinist.
C. He doesn't play the violin very well.
D. If he sells gold, he will make a lot of money.
3.What was Ole Bull's attitude towards the critic's article?
A. Angry. B. Excited. C. Modest. D. Worried.
4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Without a good teacher, one can't succeed.
B. The critic's advice helped Ole Bull a lot.
C. Ole Bull got success after many years' hard practice at last.
D. The critic helped Ole Bull find a famous teacher.
5.What can we learn from the passage?
A. Becoming a violinist can make a lot of money.
B. When we meet problems, we should learn to face them.
C. Old Bull was a famous American pianist.
D. You can be famous easily if you play the violin.
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Ole Bull was a very famous violinist from Norway. He really liked to play the violin. But his father thought that playing the violin was not useful. So his father sent him to university to study. However, playing the violin was his dream. He didn’t want to give up his dream. So he left university before he finished his studies and spent all his time and energy practicing the violin. Unfortunately, his violin teacher was not very good. So when it was time for him to start his concert tour, he still couldn’t play the violin very well.
Therefore, a Milan newspaper critic1 criticized him and said that he was an untrained violinist. The critic said, “If he is gold, he is not ready to shine2 yet.”
When facing this kind of problem, some people may become very angry and some people try to learn from it. Fortunately, Ole Bull belonged to the second group. He went to the newspaper office and found the critic. Instead of being angry, he talked about his mistakes with the man and listened to the man’s advice.
After he met the critic, he gave up the rest of his concerts. Then he went back to practice the violin with the help of good teachers. In the end, he got great success when he was only 26. He also became one of the most famous violinists in the world.
1.Why didn't Ole Bull's father like him to play the piano?
A. Because he thought playing the violin was useless.
B. Because his father thought playing the violin would cost lots of money.
C. Because his father thought he couldn't play the violin well.
D. Because his father thought he couldn't make his dream come true.
2.What does the underlined part "If he is gold, he is not ready to shine yet." mean?
A. Gold always shines no matter where it is.
B. He is an excellent violinist.
C. He doesn't play the violin very well.
D. If he sells gold, he will make a lot of money.
3.What was Ole Bull's attitude towards the critic's article?
A. Angry. B. Excited. C. Modest. D. Worried.
4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Without a good teacher, one can't succeed.
B. The critic's advice helped Ole Bull a lot.
C. Ole Bull got success after many years' hard practice at last.
D. The critic helped Ole Bull find a famous teacher.
5.What can we learn from the passage?
A. Becoming a violinist can make a lot of money.
B. When we meet problems, we should learn to face them.
C. Old Bull was a famous American pianist.
D. You can be famous easily if you play the violin.
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
We all know who Benjamin Franklin was. He was a very famous American statesman. He was also the first man to discover electricity. Franklin liked to study and to learn about new things. One day he heard from a friend that something black in colour holds the heat better than something white in colour. Franklin wanted to find out if this was true or not.
There was snow on the ground at the time. So he put two large pieces of cloth over the snow. One piece of cloth was black in colour, the other piece was white. Then he waited until the sun began to shine. After several hours he looked under the pieces of cloth and saw that the snow under the black cloth melted(融化) much faster than the snow under the white cloth. This proved to him that the black cloth held the heat better than the white cloth.
Soon after this, people began to wear white hats and white clothes during the summer because they were cooler.
Judge the following statements True (T) or False (F)
1.Benjamin Franklin was only a scientist.
2.One day a friend of his told him something about the relation(关系) between colour and heat.
3.Something black in colour holds heat better than something white in colour.
4.This story happened in summer.
5.People wear white clothes in summer because they know it is cooler.
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Mark Twain was a great writer. He was from the USA. He was born in 1835. He was also a famous speaker. He was famous for his sense of humour. Many people liked to listen to him talk because he liked to tell some interesting stories to make people laugh all the time.
One day Mark Twain was going to a small town because of his writing. Before he was going to leave, one of his friends said to him that there were always a lot of mosquitoes in the town and told him that he’d better not go there. Mark Twain waved (摇动) his hand and said, “It doesn’t matter. The mosquitoes are no relatives of mine. I don’t think they will come to visit me.”
After he arrived at the town, Mark Twain stayed in a small hotel near the station. He went into his room, but when he was just about to have a rest, quite a few mosquitoes flew about him. The waiters felt very sorry about that. “I’m very sorry, Mr Mark Twain. There are too many mosquitoes in our town.” One of them said to him.
Mark Twain, however, made a joke, saying to the waiter, “The mosquitoes are very clever. They know my room number. They didn’t come into the wrong room.” What he said made all the people present laugh heartily.
But that night Mark Twain slept well. Do you know why? That was because all the waiters in the hotel were driving the mosquitoes away for him during the whole night.
1.That day Mark Twain went to the town _____.
A. to see one of his friends
B. because he wanted to do something there for his writing
C. because he was told there were a lot of mosquitoes there
2.The waiters felt sorry because _____.
A. they did something wrong to Mark Twain
B. their hotel was too small
C. there were quite a few mosquitoes in Mark Twain’s room
3. All the people present laughed heartily because _____.
A Mark Twain made a joke
B. the mosquitoes knew Mark Twain’s room number
C. Mark Twain gave the waiters some nice presents
4.From the story we know _____.
A. no mosquitoes troubled Mark Twain in the night
B. the owner of the hotel told the waiters to look after Mark Twain well at night
C. Mark Twain didn’t have a good rest that night
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Balzac(巴尔扎克) was a great French writer. But he was very poor before he became famous. He lived in a dirty, wet room and was often worried about food. All his friends were very poor and they could not help him.
One night it was very cold. The wind blew and it was snowing heavily. Balzac went to bed early but couldn’t fall asleep. He didn’t get any food before he went to bed. He thought and thought, but he couldn’t have a good idea. At midnight he saw a man climb in through the broken window. The man began to steal something on his bookshelf. Balzac got up quietly and said, “Don’t waste time, my friend! I couldn’t find any money in the daytime. How can you find some in the dark?”
1.Balzac was a ________.
A. worker B. writer C. doctor D. cleaner
2.Balzac lived in a dirty, wet room because ________.
A. he was very poor B. he wanted to live there
C. it was cold D. he was a famous man
3.Why didn’t he ask his friends for some food? Because __________.
A. he had no friends
B. his friends didn’t want to help him
C. all his friends were very poor
D. his friends didn’t like him
4.How was the weather that night? It was ___________
A. rainy B. cloudy C. sunny D. snowy
5.Could the thief find any money? __________
A. Yes, he could. B. No, he couldn’t.
C. Maybe. D. I don’t know.
九年级英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Zak’s grandfather, Stan, was very famous. Why? Because he had a very, very, very long white beard(胡子).
One day Zak asked his grandfather, “When you sleep, do you put your beard over or under the quilt?” “I’m not sure. I never care about that,” said his grandfather, “I’ll look tonight.”
Stan got into bed that night and pulled up the quilt. Then he remembered his grandson’s question. Aha! His beard was under the quilt. But wait. Did that feel right?
He lifted his beard from under the quilt and put it above it. This also didn’t feel right. So he put the beard under the quilt again. But he soon felt it would be better if it were out. The beard went in and out—first under the quilt, then over it, under, over, all night long.
Stan spent a sleepless night. In the morning, he was so tired and unhappy that he cut his long beard right off! Stan’s wife was so happy. She advised Stan to cut that beard off many times, but he never did it. Now a simple question made him do that.
根据上述内容,判断下列句子正误,正确的填 T,错误填 F。
1.Stan was very famous for his long white beard.
2.Stan never cared about Zak, his grandson.
3.At the very beginning, Stan’s beard was under the quilt.
4.That night Stan was sleepless and tired because of the question.
5.Stan listened to his wife’s advice to cut the beard off.
九年级英语阅读判断中等难度题查看答案及解析
I was told that the famous film star_______cancer.His______made us very sad.
A. died from;dead B. died of;die C. died from;dying D. died of;death
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(C).阅读与回答问题。
Zheng He was a famous Chinese explorer. In 1405, he set off from China on the first seven great voyages. This was nearly a century before Christopher Columbus fast set sail on his journey of discovery to America. His travels were so important that they are still studied today.
Zheng He was born in Yunnan in 1371. He rose to become a trusted official of the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor ordered Zheng He to visit and explore the islands outside China. His task was to develop relations and set up trade routes with foreign countries. In a few years, he built a great fleet of ships, the biggest in the world at that time. The ships were known as treasure ships. They were big enough to carry 25,000 people as well as very large number of goods.
From 1405 to 1433, Zheng He went on seven trips and visited South-East Asia, the Middle East and even the east coast of Africa. It seemed that nowhere was too far for him to visit. These voyages allowed China to trade valuable goods like gold, silver and silk. At the end of each voyage. Zheng He returned with many things that were seen in China for the first time, such as a giraffe from Africa. Besides developing trade, the voyages also encouraged the exchange of cultures and technologies. They helped the development of those countries.
Zheng He died in 1433 during his last voyage. However, his voyages were such a huge achievement that people still remember him as a pioneer in opening up cultural contacts between different peoples around the world.
回答下面五个问题,每个问题答案不超过5个词。
1.How old was Zheng He when he began his first voyage?
______________________________________________________________________
2.What did the emperor want Zheng He to set up with foreign countries?
_____________________________________________________________________
3.What were his ships known as at that time?
______________________________________________________________________
4.What was the farthest place that Zheng He visited?
______________________________________________________________________
5.Why were Zheng He's voyages so important in history?
______________________________________________________________________
九年级英语回答问题中等难度题查看答案及解析
Mark Twain was a famous American writer. He loved writing, hunting and fishing very much. One year he went to Maine on vacation and spent three very happy weeks there.
When it was time to get back home, Mark Twain went to the station with his baggage(行李). After putting it on the train, he sat on a comfortable seat. A few minutes later, another man came over and sat next to him. Mark Twain looked at the man and saw that he was unhappy. He thought it would be impolite to say nothing first, and they began to talk. They talked about the weather and then Maine. The stranger said, “We have some beautiful woods(森林) in Maine. I guess you have been there, haven’t you?”
“Yes, I have,” answered Mark Twain. “I’ve just spent three pleasant weeks there. And let me tell you something: although fishing isn’t allowed in Maine this season, I’ve got two hundred pounds of beautiful fish. I like eating fish, so I put them on the ice to take them home. May I know who you are, sir?”
The stranger looked at Mark Twain for several seconds and answered, “I’m a policeman. My job is to catch people who hunt and fish during the wrong seasons. And what do you do?”
Mark Twain answered, “Well, sir, I’m the man who tells the biggest lies(谎言) in America.”
1.Mark Twain spent in Maine for _________.
A. one week B. two weeks C. three weeks
2.Mark Twain went home ________.
A. by bus B. by train C. by plane
3.The man next to Mark Twain was ________.
A. a policeman B. a writer C. a reporter
4.Mark Twain’s vacation in Maine was ________.
A. boring B. tiring C. pleasant
5.Which of the following is true about Maine?
A. It has beautiful woods.
B. Fishing isn’t allowed there.
C. It’s Mark Twain’s hometown.
九年级英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Franz Schubert was a famous musician in the world.But he lived a very hard life and often suffered(遭受)from being hungry.One day he was very hungry and went to a small restaurant,hoping he might meet some friends there.He looked around but found nobody he could borrow any money from.Then his eyes fell on a piece of paper on one of the tables. On it was a little poem.He read the poem.Then he wrote a piece of music for the poem and took his work to the owner of the restaurant.He only received a dish of beef and potato for it.Thirty years after his death,this manuscript(手稿)by Schubert was worth 40,000 francs.It was his famous Berceuse(《摇篮曲》).
1.Schubert went to the restaurant to ________.
A. write a poem for his Berceuse
B. have his dinner together with his friend
C. see if he could find some friends who could lend him some money for a meal
D. write a piece of music for the owner of the restaurant
2.We know the owner of the restaurant ________ from this passage.
A. was also a musician
B. was very kind
C. hated Schubert very much
D. didn't understand music very much
3.The passage didn't tell us ________.
A. how old he was when Schubert died
B. how poor Schubert was
C. why Schubert wrote a piece of music for the little poem
D. where the story happened
4.What's the Chinese meaning of “famous musician”?________.
A. 刻苦的音乐家
B. 勤劳的指挥家
C. 著名的指挥家
D. 著名的音乐家
5.The best title for this passage is ________.
A. Musician and Hunger
B. Franz Schubert and His Berceuse
C. Franz Schubert Died
D. A Great Musician
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
根据句子意思,用所给单词的适当形式填空,或在横线上填入一个合适的词,使短文语义通顺,语法完整。。
Do you know Bruce Lee? He was 1. very famous actor, who also wrote, directed and produced popular films. He was born 2. 1940 in San Francisco and grew up with his family in Hong Kong.
When Lee was a teenager, he learnt to fight 3.(protect)himself. When he was sixteen, he became interested in 4. (learn)more about kung fu. When he was eighteen, Lee 5.(send)back to the United States by his father. There he developed a way of fighting called Jeet Kune Do(跆拳道).
He appeared on American television in a series called The Green Hornet in 1966, but he only became famous in Asia 6. his film The Big Boss was released in 1971. A year 7.(late), his film Fist of Fury was released. The two films broke Hong Kong box-office records. He then went on to make The Way of the Dragon. It was a film 8. was written, directed and starred in by Bruce Lee.
9.(actual), Lee not only created popular martial arts films, but he was also a poet, an author and a philosopher. He read a large number of books and wrote his own books and poetry. His books were published and widely read by his 10.(fan).
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