To me, the idea of home changes along with my...

To me, the idea of home changes along with my age all the time.

In my childhood, home was a number of calls. It seems that I had more free time than today’s children. I didn’t have to appear in front of my parents right after school. Instead, I often went to play with my classmates who lived in my neighborhood. We played until dinner was ready and our parents called “Come back! Come home for supper.”

Very soon, my childhood was gone. When I grew into a young man from a boy. Home became a place I tried to run away from.

As I read more and more, my world opened up, larger than before. The bed I used to sleep in became too small. And words of care from my parents became meaningless. How I wished I could have a space of my own someday! Later I joined the army and put on my own green uniform. Home was the series of letters I received one after another.

When I got a job, I began to get ‘hurt’, to rise and fall in the sea of people, and to understand that you can’t share all your pains with other people, even with your best friends. So again, another wave of homesickness came over me. When I was badly hurt, I imagined myself flying home on wings. Pushing open the door, I let tears flow down my face. At that moment I felt that as large as the world was, what I needed was only the familiar smell of home and the unchanged view outside the window of my old house

1.What did the writer think of his childhood?

A. sad　　 B. boring　　 C. happy　　 D. awful

2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The writer misses his life in his childhood.

B. The writer lived an unhappy life when he studied at school.

C. The writer didn’t miss parents during his service days in the army.

D. The writer could not share his sadness with other people when he got a job.

3.What might be talked about if the writer continues writing the passage?

A. His job　　 B. Being a parent　　 C. His dream　　 D. His friends

4.What would he do when he was badly hurt?

A. Miss his home　　 B. Feel hungry　　 C. Fight against others　　 D. Go back to his home

5.What is the writer’s idea of home?

A. It is all the same.　　 B. It makes him sad all the time.

C. It is not important.　　 D. It is always changing with the time passing by.

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To me, the concept(概念) of home changes along with my age all the time.

In my childhood, home was a number of calls. It seems that I had more free time than today’s children. I didn’t have to show up in front of my parents right after school, instead I would go to play with my classmates who lived in the neighborhood. We played like mad until dinner was ready and our parents called “Come back! Come home for supper!” Days passed by as I grew up in the company of those calls which are still echoing(回响) in my ears even now.

In a short while, my childhood was gone. When a thin layer of hair(胡须) began to grow around the corners of my mouth, home became a place I tried to run away from.

As I read more and more, my world opened up, larger than before me. The bed I used to sleep in became too small, and words of care from my parents began to sound meaningless. How I wished I could have a space of my own someday! Later I was joined the army and put on the green uniform. During my service days, home was the series of letters I received one after another. My most homesick moments were when I read those letters from my family.

When I got a job, I began to get “hurt”, to rise and fall in a sea of people, and to understand that you can’t share all your pains with other people, even with your best friends. So again, another wave of homesickness came over me. When I was badly hurt, I imagined myself flying home on wings. Pushing open the door, I let tears flow down my face. At that moment I felt that as large as the world was, what I needed was only the familiar smell of home and the unchanged view outside the window of my old house…

……

Although I already have much life experience behind me, I know there is still a long way ahead and my concept of home will go on developing. But already I have come to see that home is where we can find the true meaning of all the busy rush life. What makes the concept different is that sometimes it refers to a person’s home and sometimes to the home of many, many people.

1.What does the underlined word “company” mean in Chinese in Paragraph 2?

A. 公司 B. 陪伴 C. 友情 D. 氛围

2.From the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. He misses his life in his childhood.

B. He lives a happy life when he studies at school.

C. He enjoys himself during his service days in the army.

D. He can share his feelings--happiness and sadness-- with his buddies.

3.What is the best title for the passage?

A.Missing my parents and home

B. His home he tries to run away from

C. A changing concept of home

D. A developing home

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At the age of sixteen, I went on my first volunteer program in West Virginia to repair or build homes for poor families. When we arrived, we discovered that the family we were going to help was living in a trailer（拖车式活动房）that was in poor condition, no bigger than two parking spaces. A group of people had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another appeared.

We soon decided that the only way was to build a new house. It was something unusual because normally our goal was to repair old homes. The family was pleased with their new house that was 20 by 30 feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen.

On Tuesday of that week, I asked the family’s three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, “What do you want for your new room?” Kids in the families we had helped usually wanted toys or posters, so we were surprised when Josh, the oldest boy said, “We just want beds.” The boys had never slept in a bed. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.

On Friday when we saw the truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. They were very excited.

That afternoon, while we were setting up the beds, Eric ran into the house to watch us with wide eyes. As Maggie, a member of our group, put one of the pillows on the bed, Eric asked, “What is that?”

“A pillow,” she replied.

“What do you do with it?” Eric went on asking.

“When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” Maggie answered softly. Tears came to our eyes as she handed Eric the pillow.

“Oh . . . that’s soft,” he said, holding it tightly.

Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems very urgent（急迫的）, my dad always asks, “Do you have a pillow?” We know exactly what he means.

1.Why did the writer’s group build a new house for the family?

A. Because it was their normal work.

B. Because the family asked them to do it.

C. Because the trailer could no longer be repaired.

D. Because they thought it was a perfect gift for the family.

2.What can we learn from the story?

A. The family needed two parking spaces.

B. The boys of the family wanted toys and posters.

C. The family were excited about the beds and bedding.

D. The writer’s group made some furniture for the family.

3.What is the best title for this passage?

A. The Pillow　　　　　　　　　　　 B. A New House

C. The Family　　　　　　　　　　　 D. An Interesting Program

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The teacher came up with an idea to stop the boy from playing computer games  all day

A. thought of        B. went over        C. asked for        D. found out

九年级英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

Nick was __　 _to talk with me last night, so I had no idea about the progress of the project

A. sleepy enough　 　　　　　　 　 B. sleepy too much

C. too sleepy　　　　 　　　　　　 D. very sleepy

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The teacher sent me home with a note for my mother that said I needed to visit the eye doctor because I failed the vision test. The trip home that day was very slow.

My mother said it would all be just fine. "It wouldn’t hurt a bit," she said. But I wasn’t worried about pain-I was worried about looking _______.

The next day, my mother pulled me to the eye doctor’s office. I _______ a set of frames (镜框) and tried to believe my mother when she said they looked really _______ on me. The doctor said the glasses would be ready soon. But I wasn’t ready at all, and I didn’t think I ever would be.

When the glasses arrived, the eye doctor put them on my face and walked me out onto the sidewalk in front of his office. When I looked _______ from my shoes, I found myself in a whole new world – a world filled with _______ pictures, bright colours, and fine detail everywhere I looked. Suddenly I _______ the beautiful outline of red leaves on trees. I could see the details of people’s faces long before they were standing in front of me. I could see my mother _______ as she watched me see the world in a whole new way.

"Glasses aren’t so bad, are they? " Mom asked.

"Not at all, " I thought to myself. On that first day, they were a _______.

The Monday morning came, and I had to _______ the kids in my classroom. And it happened, just like I feared it would be. A mean kid pointed at me in the middle of the maths class and shouted, "Four ________! " But at the same moment, looking through my new glasses, I could see all the way across the room that the kid who had said it had an awfully big nose.

1.A. smart B. old C. funny D. blind

2.A. chose B. made C. fixed D. owned

3.A. silly B. good C. huge D. strange

4.A. around B. back C. down D. up

5.A. pale B. dark C. clever D. rare

6.A. noticed B. recorded C. developed D. imagined

7.A. crying B. worrying C. dreaming D. smiling

8.A. present B. wonder C. beauty D. fashion

9.A. impress B. visit C. face D. avoid

10.A. noses B. eyes C. glasses D. frames

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— _______see the film about Lost in Thailand with me?

— Great idea! It’s said to be_______ film of the year.

A. What about； the funniest　　　　　　　　 B. Why not； the funniest

C. Why don’t you； funnier　　　　　　　　 D. Would you； funnier

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任务型阅读。

I once believed that a friend is a friend all the way. Now I have changed my ideas about friendships.

1. Friends of convenience(便利). They can be the people who live next door or the mothers of our children’s closest friends. Friends of convenience are good indeed. They’ll help us when we need it. They’ll look after our cats when we go on holidays. But we don’t ever get too close or tell too much. Between us, we’ll talk about being overweight but not about being sad or disappointed(失望). However, people still find it necessary to make friends like this.

2. Special-interest friends. These friendships aren’t deeply personal or emotional(感情上的). They lie in some shared interests, so we may have an office friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend.

3. Historical friends. We all have a friend who knew us when…maybe we were back in the second grade of primary school, when our family lived in that two-room flat downtown. He or she was the first, the only friend we told our secrets to.

The years have gone by, and we have gone different ways. But we’re still a personal part of each other’s past. We know how we looked before our teeth were straightened(矫正), and our getting together makes us think of an earlier part of ourselves, which is important and never lost.

4. Cross-generational friends. These are friendships that from across generations(代). I have in my own life a precious(珍贵的) friend, a woman of 65, who is clever, who listens well, and who means not only an ideal mother to me but also the person I’d like to be when I grow up.

Best friends, I believe, totally love and help each other.

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A few years ago, I worked at a church(教堂). Since my son was home schooling, he went with me to the church every day. Most mornings, we’d stop at a local store, and get a chocolate drink for him and a cup of coffee for me.

The clerk(店员) at the store made our lives more enjoyable each day, and so we returned again and again. She had found her own way of enjoying life and her job. I’m not even sure if she realized that her warmth and brightness put a smile upon the face of each customer(顾客).

When a customer brought cakes to the counter, any other clerk could have asked: “Would you like some milk with those cakes?” Instead, she asked: “Would you like a lottery ticket(彩票) with those cakes?”

She might have asked me if I wanted sugar with my coffee. But instead, she asked: “Would you like some batteries(电池) with that coffee?”

Yes, life is what you make of it. This clerk’s method of dealing with what some think is a boring job, and with the customers she met daily, made the hours in her day more enjoyable. In doing that, she also refreshed the lives of others and made them laugh.

Sometimes, if my day at the church had been very tiring, we’d stop at that store before going home. We’d giggle (咯咯笑) as we left the store, the clerk’s words echoing (回响) behind us.

“Would you like some shampoo (洗发香波) with that orange juice?”

1. When did the writer and her son usually stop at the local store?

A. In the morning.　　 　　 B. At noon.

C. In the afternoon.　　　　 D. In the evening

2. Why did the writer and her son return to the store again and again?

A. Because the drinks were delicious there.

B. Because the food was cheap there.

C. Because they felt happy there.　

D. Because there was only one store.

3.What was the clerk like?

A. She was serious.　　 　B. She was lively.

C. She was nervous.　 　 D. She was silly.

4.The clerk at the store may ask the customers, “_________”

A. Would you like some milk with the cakes?　

B. Would you like some bread with the milk?

C. Would you like batteries with the toys?　

D. Would you like pencils with the cake?

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A few years ago, I worked at a church(教堂). Since my son was home schooling, he went with me to the church every day. Most mornings, we’d stop at a local store, and get a chocolate drink for him and a cup of coffee for me.

The clerk(店员) at the store made our lives more enjoyable each day, and so we returned again and again. She had found her own way of enjoying life and her job. I’m not even sure if she realized that her warmth and brightness put a smile upon the face of each customer(顾客).

When a customer brought cakes to the counter, any other clerk could have asked: “Would you like some milk with those cakes?” Instead, she asked: “Would you like a lottery ticket(彩票) with those cakes?”

She might have asked me if I wanted sugar with my coffee. But instead, she asked: “Would you like some batteries(电池) with that coffee?”

Yes, life is what you make of it. This clerk’s method of dealing with what some think is a boring job, and with the customers she met daily, made the hours in her day more enjoyable. In doing that, she also refreshed the lives of others and made them laugh.

Sometimes, if my day at the church had been very tiring, we’d stop at that store before going home. We’d giggle (咯咯笑) as we left the store, the clerk’s words echoing (回响) behind us.

“Would you like some shampoo (洗发香波) with that orange juice?”

1. When did the writer and her son usually stop at the local store?

A. In the morning.　　 　　 B. At noon.

C. In the afternoon.　　　　 D. In the evening

2. Why did the writer and her son return to the store again and again?

A. Because the drinks were delicious there.

B. Because the food was cheap there.

C. Because they felt happy there.　

D. Because there was only one store.

3.What was the clerk like?

A. She was serious.　　 B. She was lively.

C. She was nervous.　 　 D. She was silly.

4.The clerk at the store may ask the customers, “_________”

A. Would you like some milk with the cakes?　

B. Would you like some bread with the milk?

C. Would you like batteries with the toys?　

D. Would you like pencils with the cake?

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