（石景山一模）阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。Theatre began with the...

（石景山一模）阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。

Theatre began with the ancient Greeks. They used to have shows called "plays", which tell a story by people acting out what happened in it. They had big theatres which were outside, and you could have up to 17.000 people come and watch it. These outside theatres were round in shape, with stone seats going down to the centre, when they had the "stage". The Romans also built theatres, and there are several you can visit in England, Greece, Italy and Turkey.

Greek used to have a person to explain the story to the people who were watching, and the actors used to wear pictures on their faces, some with happy faces, some sad.

There were not any theatres in Europe in the Middle Ages, but groups of actors (or players, as they used to be called) travelled around the country putting on shows and singing songs in the towns and in large private houses. Many large houses from this time have a special area in it where the players would do their shows.

In England between 1558 and 1603, the ruler was Queen Elizabeth I. During this time, theatres would be built outside the city walls because some people thought they were not safe places to be and that people caused troubles there. They were usually round, and people would stand up to see the show. Rich people had seats to sit on. People used to eat and drink during the show. They used to shout out to the actors and sometimes throw food at them.

In Elizabethan times, a theatre group had 12 men and one writer in it. Women were not allowed to be in the show, so young boys used to wear dresses and play the female roles.

Theatre in London today is very popular, even if tickets are very expensive. Many American stars want to perform in London, and in the last few years Kevin Spacey, Nicole Kidman and Kathleen Turner have all acted in plays in London's theatres.

1.Who began theatre?

2.Where did actors put on shows in the Middle Ages in Europe?

3.Why were theatres built outside the city walls in Elizabethan times?

4.How many people did a theatre group have in Elizabethan times?

5.What_ is the passage mainly about?

九年级英语回答问题困难题查看答案及解析

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Canada is the second-largest country in the world, with almost 10 million square kilometres of landmass. Due to(由于) its size, it is divided into four different regions(地区).

The Atlantic Provinces

Fishing is the old industry in this region. Agricultural crops, such as fruit and potatoes, and forests, which produce paper and lumber(木材), form part of the industry. Traditionally depending on fishing and farming, they are developing other natural resources, such as oil and copper.

Central Canada

Ontario and Quebec form the industrial and manufacturing(制造业的) heart of Canada. They produce three quarters of Canada’s goods. More than half of Canada’s population lives in the cities in the southern part of Ontario and Quebec. Most of the people living in Quebec speak French.

The West Coast

The British Columbia Coast is Canada’s western continental coastline(海岸线 ). Europeans settled(定居) in British Columbia in the early 1800s. The railroad built by the government in the late 1800s made moving much easier. Thousands of Chinese came to British Columbia during this period to work on the railroad. British Columbia has the　　　　　　　　　　　　　 most valuable forest industry in Canada.

Salmon(鲑鱼) fishing is not only a popular sport, but also an important part of the industry. Pacific salmon are exported(出口) all over the world.

The North

The Yukon and the Northwest Territories(领土) cover a third of Canada. This huge region has a very small population. Most of the people are natives. There are several native languages, which are equal(平等的) in status(地位) to English and French. During the Gold Rush at the end of the 1800s, thousands of miners(矿工) came to make their fortune(财富). Mining is still an important industry in this region.

1.What’s the old industry in the Atlantic Provinces?

2.What language do most of the people living in Quebec speak?

3.Why did thousands of Chinese go to British Columbia in the late 1800s?

4.What is still an important industry in the North region?

5.What is the passage mainly about?

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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During the Spring Festival, people enjoy not only reuniting（相聚）with their family, but also tasting the delicious food.

Dumplings

With a history of nearly 2,000 years, dumplings are the most popular traditional food in China. They’re indispensable（不可缺少的）on Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner tables, especially in the north. The food is usually made before noon on New Year’s Eve and eaten at midnight. Sometimes, people put coins or nuts inside to make lucky dumplings.

Yuanxiao

The custom of eating yuanxiao was first recorded in the Song Dynasty. At that time, people in Mingzhou-known today as Ningbo-created the food. They made different kinds of fillings, rolled them into balls, and then boiled them in a pot.

Rice cakes

During the Spring Festival, many people eat rice cakes, which symbolizes（象征）the idea that life is improving year by year.

Other traditional Spring Festival food

If you go to Guangxi you can see people enjoy eating zongzi during the Spring Festival. Eight-treasure rice, or babao fan in Chinese, is an indispensable food for people in Shanghai on Chinese New Year’s Eve. It represents reunion, good luck and health.

1.When do people usually make dumplings?

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2.Was the custom of eating yuanxiao first recorded in the Song Dynasty?

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3.What does eating rice cakes symbolize?

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4.Where can we see people enjoy eating zongzi during the Spring festival?

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5.What is the passage mainly about?

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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

Answer the questions　 (根据以下内容回答问题)

A professor began his speech by holding up a glass with some water in it. Then he held it up for all to see, and asked the students, “ How much do you think this glass weighs?”

“50g!””100g!””125g!” the students answered .

“ I really can’t unless I weigh it,” the professor said, “but my next question is: “ what would happen if I held it up like this for a few minutes?”

“Nothing,”the students said .

“Okay. What would happen if I held it up like this for an hour?” the professor asked.

“ Your arm could go numb. You might have serious muscles stress, or paralysis.You would have to go the hospital for sure” another student said. All students laughed.

“ Very good. But during all this, did the weight of the glass change?” the professor asked.

“No,” the student said.

“Then why do we have different results?

The students were puzzled.

“ It does not matter on the weight itself. It depends on how long you hold it.” the professor said: “ it is exactly the same weigh, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes, what you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again.”

The problems in life are like this. If you just think about them for a few minutes, they might not seem so bad. Think about them for a longer time, and they begin to ache. Hold them even longer and they begin to paralyze you. You will not be able to do anything. It’s important to think about challenges in your life, but it’s even more important to“put them down” at the end of the day before you go to sleep.That way, maybe be you will ________________________ the next day.

1.What did the professor do to begin his speech?

2.Did the students know how much this glass weighted?

3.Why were the students puzzled by professor’s question?

Because ______________________________________.

4.How can professor reduce arm ache and the muscle stress?

By ____________________________________________

5.The professor made this speech to help students solve physical problems, didn’t he?

______, ________________.

6.What can be filled in the blank at the end of the speech?

Maybe you will _______________________________.

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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Charter schools in the US operate with public money but without many of the rules that govern traditional public schools. In the United States the rules for charter schools are different from state to state. But in general these schools have greater freedom to decide what and how to teach.

A charter school might have nothing to do with the local public school system. It might be started by teachers, parents, community groups or a profit-making business.

Forty-seven million students go to traditional public schools. And more than a million students go to charter schools.

And now a group of charter schools have formed the Green Charter Schools Network. The idea is to have environment friendly school buildings but also to go further than that.

The schools teach students to give lots of time and attention to the community problems that affect them and the environment. For example, young children grow vegetables in a school garden and learn about healthy eating. Older students help recycle waste from restaurants. And local schools share what they grow in community gardens with people in need.

Jim McGrath is president of the Green Charter Schools Network. He says there are about two hundred “green” charter schools across the United States. And the Green Charter Schools Network holds its first national conference this October in Minnesota. Supporters of green schools say their goal is to let the movement be popular across the country.

1.. Are the rules for charter schools the same in the US?

2.. How many students go to charter schools?

3.. What do students in charter schools often do?

4.. Do teachers teach students to protect the environment or to know the Network?

5.. Why do supporters hope charter schools to be popular across the country?

九年级英语其他题中等难度题查看答案及解析

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Phys ed (physical education) is making a comeback, but with a difference. The new way is to teach skills that are useful beyond gym class, like lifting weights, balancing their diets and building physical endurance（耐力）.

Considering that 15% of American children 6 to 18 are overweight, supporters say more money and thought must be put into phys ed curriculum. In many cases, that may mean not just replacing the old gym-class model with fitness programs but also starting up phys ed programs because school boards（教育委员会）often “cut P.E. completely or decrease（减少）its teachers or the days it is offered,” says Alicia Moag-Stahlberg, the director of Action for Health Kids. The difference in phys ed programs is its short of a national standard.

The wisdom of the new idea has some scientific support. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have showed how successful the fit-for-life model of gym class can be. They observed how 50 overweight children lost more weight when they cycled and skied cross-country than when they played sports. The researchers have also found that teaching group sports like football results in less overall（全体的）movement, partly because the students who are unwilling to do may sit on the bench.

Another problem with simply teaching group sports in gym class is that only a small part of students continue playing them after finishing their high school. The new method teaches skills that translate to adulthood, which means kids are given skills and experiences so they can lead a physically active life in their future.

1.Is the new Phys ed program different from the one before?

2.What does the new P.E. program teach the students?

3.According to the passage, what do some school boards do with P.E?

4.What are the problems with simply teaching group sports?

5.What’s the passage mainly about?

九年级英语其他题简单题查看答案及解析

Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）

The baby is taking photos with his parents, the Duke and Duchess (公爵和公爵夫人) of Cambridge. The pictures were taken by the duchess’ father, Michael Middleton, in the garden of their family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire. Taken earlier this month, they show the royal ,couple, Prince George and their black cocker spaniel (西班牙猎犬), Lupo. Tilly, a golden dog, belonging to the Middleton family, can be seen lying down behind them. The photographs of Prince George, who was born on 22 July, were published by Kensington Palace.

On Monday Prince William, giving his first interview since becoming a father, told CNN:

“He either reminds me of my brother or me when I was younger, I’m not sure, but he*s doing very well at the moment.”

BBC reporter Nicholas Witchell said the new family looks “unselfconscious (自然的), relaxed and happy - much like most couples might look with their first-born baby”. He added: “Of course they’re aware of what’s expected of them. There will be staff - a nanny (保姆) to help in

due course (适时地), but for the moment it’s all rather informal and many might think, refreshing.”

Famous photographer Terry O’Neill said he thought the pictures were “absolutely charming”.

“It reminded me when I first started photography for myself - I just went for the light, and it was really interesting lighting (打灯光). As a matter of fact when I heard about these pictures, I thought ‘Who have they got to do these pictures’ - and the thought crossed my mind they might have asked the Queen because she’s quite a good photographer.”

The cultural and education manager of Magnum Photos, Fiona Rogers, told Radio 4’s Today program the photograph of the couple and Prince George with the family’s dogs was “technically not the most accomplished (技艺高超的) photograph”.

“It’s a photograph that any one of us could have in our family albums,” she said.

1.Who is Tilly?

2.Where were the pictures taken?

3.When was Prince George born?

4.What did Terry O’Neill think of the pictures?

5.What did Fiona Rogers think of the picture?

6.What is this report mainly about?

九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

任务型阅读

根据短文内容按要求完成任务，将答案写在答题卡的相应位置上。

(A) 根据短文内容简要回答下面的问题。

Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood(洪水) ,and quite a few houses were washed away, but Elizabeth's house was high enough to escape it.

Elizabeth helped one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a new house. Elizabeth's friends could not understand her since she already had so many children to support.

"Well," Elizabeth explained to her friends, “at the end of World War II, there was a poor woman in a town in England .Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just like me now .The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won't be able to have much for Christmas. I'm going to get just one present for us all .Now I'll go and get it.’ She came back with a little girl who had no parents .‘Here's our present,’ she said to her own children. The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grew up as their sister. I was that Christmas present."

1.How many children did Elizabeth have?

2.What did Elizabeth do after the flood?

3.Who was the Christmas present?

4.Did Elizabeth have parents at the end of World War Ⅱ?

5.What do you learn from the story?

九年级英语任务型阅读中等难度题查看答案及解析

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Electives(选修课) are always popular with students because they offer the chance to learn something exciting, and they’re a welcome break from regular courses like maths and physics. Here are just a few of the exciting electives lucky teenagers can take in some of China’s middle schools.

Self-defense skills

A school from Chongqing

The school offers a self-defense course — just for girls. Those who attend the lessons have the chance to study basic self-protection skills in a one-on-one practice. They learn how to get away when they need to and defend themselves against attacks. “I feel safer in myself now,” said Zhang Yi, 15, a girl student.

Pottery

A school from Tianjin

The famous pottery scene in a movie called Ghost is a lasting memory for many movie-goers. Young artists at the school love to get their hands dirty creating beautiful pieces. Students learn how to design and make various clay projects. At the end, they have the skills to make their own clay bowls, cups, vases and pots.

Horse riding

A school from Beijing

Equestrians(马术) can look pretty cool, can’t they? Teenagers at this school can now choose a course in riding skills. They’re taught to communicate with their horses and how to use reins. To ride a horse in the proper way, a student must hold the head forward and keep his back straight. Students come away from this elective not only knowing how to ride a horse gracefully, but also physically fitter!

Couplets

A school from Nanjing

How many of you can write a couplet? This old literary(文学的) form is slowly disappearing, but Chinese culture lovers at the school are trying to make it alive. For their elective, teenagers study old couplets and try to rhyme(押韵) their own lines. Many of this year’s students can’t wait for the Spring Festival, when they’ll be able to show off their new skills.

1.Maths and physics are electives in middle schools of China, aren’t they?

___________________________________________

2.How many electives in Chinese middle schools are introduced in the article?

___________________________________________

3.Which elective course is especially designed for girl students?

____________________________________________

4.What kind of art works can students have at the end of the elective “Pottery”?

_____________________________________________

5.What are the common advantages of “Self-defense skills” and “horse riding”?

Both of the electives enable students _____________________________________.

6.Whom will the elective “Couplets” probably attract? Why?

______________________________________________

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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Tanghulu，is fruit covered with sugar on a stick，a traditional snack from northern China．It's also a necessary snack during the Chinese New Year season．Recently，in northern China，people welcome the return of spring by holding the Tanghulu Fair（庙会）．

Many Chinese still remember eating Tanghulu when they were young．It is said that the fair has a 500﹣year﹣old history．Nowadays，Tanghulu is not only a kind of snack，it is also a sweet memory of our childhood．Every year，a large number of Tanghulu sellers get together to start delicious Tanghulu Competition during the Spring Festival holidays．In the past，this traditional snack only used haws（山楂），but now it also uses grapes，oranges，strawberries and so on．But people like Haw Tanghulu best．They are rich in Vitamin（维他命）C and E．Do you know how to make Haw Tanghulu？First，wash the large haws clean，dig the seeds（籽） out，and pierce（串）ten haws on a stick．Then they heat the sugar，put the sticks of haws into heated and quickly pull them out．When the sugar on the haws cools down and becomes a candy coat，the Tanghulu is done．Tanghulu is very popular in China，especially in Beijing．It also makes many foreigners want to taste it．

1.Where is Tanghulu from？

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2.How do people welcome the return of spring in northern China？

__________________________________________

3.What do the Tanghulu sellers get together to do during the Spring Festival holidays every year？

__________________________________________

4.What kind of Vitamin is the Haw Tanghulu rich in？

__________________________________________

5.What is the passage mainly about？

__________________________________________

九年级英语语法填空中等难度题查看答案及解析