I had learned English for 11 years, but I knew few English idioms (习惯用语). When I went to study in America last year, I had trouble communicating with Americans at times.
One day, I asked my roommate Kevin, “Shall we play soccer tomorrow?” He answered, “Let’s play it by ear.” I was so puzzled. “Ear can play soccer?” He smiled and explained, “It means let’s see. The weather report says tomorrow is rainy.”
Last October, I was waiting for bus in a station. Beside me sat a young man. When he knew I was a Chinese, he asked me about the Great Wall. I told him, “The Great Wall is more than 20,000 kilometers long.” The man said, “You don’t say.” I was surprised, “There must be something wrong with him.” I thought. Later, I knew he meant “Really?”
I was once invited to my classmate’s home. His mother said to me, “Break your ice, please.” I wondered, “Where is the ice?” Later my classmate told me she meant I could make myself relaxed in their home.
From, then on, I realized English idioms had special meanings. It was wrong to them word by word.
1.What did the writer go to America for?
A. He studied in a college B. He spent holidays.
C. He did business in America D. He visited his relatives.
2.“Let’s play it by ear.” means ______ in the passage.
A. “Kevin was good at listening.”
B. “Kevin could play soccer with his ear.”
C. “Kevin refused the writer’s suggestion.”
D. “Whether to play soccer depends on the weather.”
3.From the 3rd paragraph (段落), we can know________.
A. the writer wanted to take a train
B. the young man knew the Great Wall well
C. the young man was the writer’s good friend
D. the young man was surprised to know how long the Great Wall was
4.“Break your ice.” means ______ in the passage.
A. “help yourself ” B. “the ice is too large”
C. “ice can make you cool here” D. “it’s polite to break the ice”
5.What’s the best title (题目) for the passage?
A. The Most Useful Language—English
B. Importance of Knowing English Idioms
C. Differences between Universities in America
D. How to Communicate with Americans
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题
I had learned English for 11 years, but I knew few English idioms (习惯用语). When I went to study in America last year, I had trouble communicating with Americans at times.
One day, I asked my roommate Kevin, “Shall we play soccer tomorrow?” He answered, “Let’s play it by ear.” I was so puzzled. “Ear can play soccer?” He smiled and explained, “It means let’s see. The weather report says tomorrow is rainy.”
Last October, I was waiting for bus in a station. Beside me sat a young man. When he knew I was a Chinese, he asked me about the Great Wall. I told him, “The Great Wall is more than 20,000 kilometers long.” The man said, “You don’t say.” I was surprised, “There must be something wrong with him.” I thought. Later, I knew he meant “Really?”
I was once invited to my classmate’s home. His mother said to me, “Break your ice, please.” I wondered, “Where is the ice?” Later my classmate told me she meant I could make myself relaxed in their home.
From, then on, I realized English idioms had special meanings. It was wrong to them word by word.
1.What did the writer go to America for?
A. He studied in a college B. He spent holidays.
C. He did business in America D. He visited his relatives.
2.“Let’s play it by ear.” means ______ in the passage.
A. “Kevin was good at listening.”
B. “Kevin could play soccer with his ear.”
C. “Kevin refused the writer’s suggestion.”
D. “Whether to play soccer depends on the weather.”
3.From the 3rd paragraph (段落), we can know________.
A. the writer wanted to take a train
B. the young man knew the Great Wall well
C. the young man was the writer’s good friend
D. the young man was surprised to know how long the Great Wall was
4.“Break your ice.” means ______ in the passage.
A. “help yourself ” B. “the ice is too large”
C. “ice can make you cool here” D. “it’s polite to break the ice”
5.What’s the best title (题目) for the passage?
A. The Most Useful Language—English
B. Importance of Knowing English Idioms
C. Differences between Universities in America
D. How to Communicate with Americans
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
I’m Hongmei. I 1. (learn) English for many years, but I don’t find it easy. I went to an English-speaking country on our last vacation, and I could not speak to the people very 2. (good). Our tour guide spoke English for us. Now I know it is important 3. (learn) more English, so I’m having extra 4. (lesson) in my free time. I believe it can help5.(I) improve my English more soon.
九年级英语短文填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I was tired. I had been studying English for 8 years, but my spoken English was terrible. I went to English school every night. I_________different textbooks and learned the grammar rules________ them every day. But during the eight years, I hadn’t got any_________at all!
Being tired of school, I searched the Internet for “Learn English” one night. Then I found a ________English learning system.
Seven days later I started using the system to learn English. My life _______ from then on. I used the system every day. I was________ to find that learning English in this way was so easy and interesting. No boring grammar rules. The articles were interesting and the stories were funny.
Then something amazing happened. One day I ________an American man named James in a coffee shop. Without thinking, I started to________him. My English words came out automatically（无意识地）.It was hard for me to believe it. I could speak English so easily. I didn’t feel any_________or worry. James understood my ideas and feelings. We talked for two hours without____________.Then we exchanged e-mails and Skype IDs. We decided to talk to each other on the Internet every week.
My English has improved greatly now. I think there are many ways of learning English for us to use. You should stop using a way that doesn’t work
and find out what is helpful to you.
1.A. met B. saw C. read D. looked
2.A. by B. in C. for D. about
3.A. message B. mistake C. progress D. challenge
4.A. boring B. common C. disappointing D. perfect
5.A. changed B. started C. solved D. impressed
6.A. afraid B. angry C. crazy D. surprised
7.A. met B. beat C. helped D. forgot
8.A. wait for B. talk with C. laugh at D. think of
9.A. interest B. hobby C. stress D. idea
10.A. saying B. predicting C. stopping D. understanding
九年级英语完型填空困难题查看答案及解析
We many English words in the last few years.
A. learn B. have learned
C. will learn D. learned
九年级英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
I arrived in the UK last weekend to learn English. So far I have already made a few friends and had some traditional English food there. But after having three days of hamburgers, sandwiches and potatoes, I thought none could be more delicious than Chinese food, especially my favorite —huo guo. You can't imagine how excited I was when I got to know that there was going to be a free meal of hotpot to welcome the new students. On the way to the canteen, I seemed to smell huo guo in the air.
To my surprise, when I stepped into the room, I didn't see any sign of huo guo. Where was it?
With many questions in my head, I sat down to have the free meal. After talking with an English girl, I got to know that Chinese huo guo is completely different from hotpot. Chinese huo guo is written in two words-hot pot; and hotpot, one word, is a traditional English dish.
Hotpot is made from mutton and onion. On the top are pieces of potatoes. People put it in the oven all day in a heavy pot on a low heat. It takes very little effort to prepare. You can often see it at parties in the UK because it's easy to prepare for a large number of people and is not expensive.
Hotpot doesn't taste bad. However, I still miss huo guo-hot pot, two words!
1.The writer felt excited when she learnt she would _______.
A. learn English in the UK
B. meet some new friends
C. have hamburgers and potatoes
D. have her favorite food
2. The underlined word "canteen" means a place for people to _______.
A. play sports
B. have parties
C. have food and drink
D. buy books and magazines
3.Hotpot is often prepared for parties because it is_______.
A. very p opular B. quite expensive
C. easy to prepare D. good for health
4.After the free meal, the writer learnt that_______.
A. "hotpot" wasn't "hot pot"
B. hotpot took little time to cook
C. hotpot wasn't traditional in the UK
D. the English girl knew little about hotpot
九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
I arrived in the UK last weekend to learn English. So far I have already made a few friends and had some traditional English food there. But after having three days of hamburgers, sandwiches and potatoes, I thought none could be more delicious than Chinese food, especially my favorite-huoguo. You cannot imagine how excited I was when I got to know that there was going to be a free meal of hotpot to welcome the new students. On the way to the canteen, I seemed to smell huoguo in the air.
To my surprise, when I went into the room, I did not see any sign of huoguo. Where was it?
With many questions in my head, I sat down to have the free meal. After talking with an English girl, I got to know that Chinese huoguo is completely different from hotpot. Chinese huoguo is written in two words——hot pot; and hotpot, one word, is a traditional English dish.
Hotpot is made from mutton and onion. On the top are pieces of potatoes. People put it in the oven all day in a heavy pot on a low heat. It takes very little effort to prepare. You can often see it at parties in the UK because it is easy to prepare for a large number of people and is not expensive.
Hotpot does not taste bad. However, I still miss huoguo—hot pot, two words!
1.The underlined word “canteen” means “_________” in Chinese.
A. 宿舍 B. 餐厅 C. 实验室 D. 体育馆
2.The writer felt excited when she thought she would_________.
A. try traditional English food B. learn English in the UK
C. have her favorite huoguo D. meet some new friends
3.Why is hotpot often prepared for parties? _________.
A. Because it is easy to prepare. B. Because it is very popular.
C. Because it is quite expensive. D. Because it is good for health.
4.What is the writer’s favorite food? _________.
A. Sandwiches B. Mutton C. Hotpot D. Hot pot.
5.After the free meal, the writer learnt that_________.
A. “hotpot” was not “hot pot” B. hotpot took little time to cook
C. hotpot was not traditional in the UK D. the girl knew nothing about hotpot
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
I arrived in the UK last weekend to learn English. So far I have already made a few friends and had some traditional English food there. But after having three days of hamburgers, sandwiches and potatoes, I thought none could be more delicious than Chinese food , especially my favorite—huo guo. You can’t imagine how excited I was when I got to know that there was going to be a free meal of hotpot to welcome the new students. On the way to the canteen, I seemed to smell huo guo in the air.
To my surprise, when I went into the room I didn’t see any of huo guo. Where was it? With many questions in my mind, I sat down to have the free meal. After talking with an English girl, I got to know that Chinese huo guo is completely different from hotpot. Chinese huo guo is written in two words—hot pot, and hotpot, one word, is a traditional English dish.
Hotpot is made from mutton and onion. On the top are pieces of potatoes. People put it in the oven all day in a heavy pot on a low heat. It takes very little effort to prepare. You can often see it at parties in the UK because it’s easy to prepare for a large number of people and is not expensive.
Hotpot doesn’t taste bad. However, I still miss huo guo—hot pot, two words!
1.The writer felt excited when she thought she would________.
A. try traditional English food B. learn English in the UK
C. have her favorite huo guo D. meet some new friends
2.The underline word “canteen” means “_________” in Chinese.
A. 宿舍 B. 餐厅 C. 实验室 D. 体育馆
3.Why is hotpot often prepared for parties?
A. Because it’s easy to prepare. B. Because it’s very popular.
C. Because it’s quite expensive. D. Because it’s good for health.
4.After the free meal, the writer learnt that _________.
A. “hotpot” wasn’t hot pot
B. hotpot took little time to cook
C. hotpot wasn’t traditional in the UK
D. the girl knew little about hotpot
5.What is the writer’s favorite food?
A. Sandwiches B. Mutton C. Hotpot D. Hot pot
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
Learning Colour Words
In the first few years of their lives, children brought up in English-speaking homes successfully master the use of hundreds of words, including those for objects, actions, emotions, and many other aspects of the physical world. However, when it comes to learning colour words, the same children perform very badly. If shown a blue cup and asked about its colour, typical two-year-olds seem as likely to come up with “red” as “blue”.
Cognitive (认知) scientists at Stanford University in California supposed that children's inability at colour-word learning may be directly linked to the way these words are used in English. They are used mostly in pre-nominal position (e. g. “blue cup”), in contrast to post-nominal position (e. g. “The cup is blue. ”). The difficulty children have may simply come down to the challenge of having to make predictions from colour words to the objects they refer to, rather than from the objects to the colour words.
To explore this idea further, the research team recruited (招募) 40 English children aged between 23 and 29 months and carried out a three-period experiment. It included a pre-test, followed by training in the use of colour words, and finally a post-test that was the same to the pre-test. The pre- and post- test materials contained six objects that were unfamiliar to the children. There were three examples of each object in each of three colours-red, yellow and blue. The objects were presented on trays (托盘), and in both tests, the children were asked to pick out objects in response to requests in which the colour word was either a pre-nominal ( “Which is the red one?”) or a post-nominal ( “Which one is red?”).
In the training, the children were introduced to five sets of familiar items (balls, cups, crayons, glasses,and toy bears) in each of the three colours. Half the children were presented with the items one by one and heard them labeled with colour words used pre-nominally, while the other half were introduced to the same items described with a post-nominal colour word. After the training, the children repeated the selection task on the novel items in the post-test. Correct choices on items that were consistent (一致的) across the pre-and post-tests were used to measure children's colour knowledge.
According to the assessment, children's performance was consistent when they were both trained and tested on post-nominal adjectives, and worst when trained on pre-nominal adjectives and tested on post-nominal adjectives. Comparing the pre-and post-test scores across each condition showed a significant decline in performance when children were both pre-and post-tested with questions that placed the colour words pre-nominally.
1.What is the purpose of Paragraph 2?
A.To present a phenomenon. B.To make a contrast.
C.To give a possible explanation. D.To provide an example.
2.What can we learn about the experiment from the passage?
A.The children had to place the pre-and post-test objects onto coloured trays.
B.The children were presented with the same objects in the pre-and post-tests.
C.Pre-nominal questions were less used than post-nominal questions in the training.
D.The researchers aimed to look for consistencies in children's knowledge of word order.
3.The outcome of the experiment shows that ______.
A.children are unable to accurately sort objects by colour.
B.children trained on pre-nominal adjectives perform well.
C.children learn colour words rapidly in post-nominal position.
D.children can make predictions from the objects to the colour words.
九年级英语阅读单选困难题查看答案及解析
I arrived in the UK last weekend to learn English．So far I have already made a few friends and had some traditional English food there．But after having three days of hamburgers，sandwiches and potatoes，I thought none could be more delicious than Chinese food，especially my favorite﹣huo guo．You can't imagine how excited I was when I got to know that there was going to be a free meal of hotpot to welcome the new students．On the way to the canteen，I seemed to smell huo guo in the air．
To my surprise，when I went into the room，I didn't see any sign of huo guo．Where was it？
With many questions in my head，I sat down to have the free meal．After talking with an English girl，I got to know that Chinese huo guo is completely different from hotpot．Chinese huo guo is written in two words﹣hot pot； and hotpot，one word，is a traditional English dish．
Hotpot is made from mutton and onion．On the top are pieces of potatoes．People put it in the oven all day in a heavy pot on a low heat．It takes very little effort to prepare．You can often see it at parties in the UK because it's easy to prepare for a large number of people and is not expensive．
Hotpot doesn't taste bad．However，I still miss huo guo﹣hot pot，two words!
1.The writer felt excited when she thought she would．
A. try traditional English food B. learn English in the UK
C. have her favorite huo guo D. meet some new friends
2.The underlined word"canteen"means"B"in Chinese．
A. 宿舍 B. 餐厅 C. 实验室 D. 体育馆
3.Why is hotpot often prepared for parties？
A. Because it's easy to prepare． B. Because it's very popular．
C. Because it's quite expensive． D. Because it's good for health．
4.After the free meal，the writer learnt that．
A. "hotpot"wasn't"hot pot" B. hotpot took little time to cook
C. hotpot wasn't traditional in the UK D. the girl knew nothing about hotpot
5.What is the writer's favorite food？
A. Sandwiches B. Mutton C. Hotpot D. Hot pot．
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析
Twelve-year-old Leonardo was born in a poor family in Peru. He knew how to read but he had never seen a book in his life. So he asked the new priest (牧师) in his village to give him one. But there was no electricity. So Leonardo borrowed candles from the church and sat up all night reading it.
This made John Medcalf, the priest, really moved (感动的). He also realized that people would love to read if given a chance. But he knew how difficult it was for Leonardo and those in his village to get books. And yet, no one can be taught to read and write without books. To make people in a poor area grow to love books, they have to be with them. So he thought the only way was to bring books to people.
But how could this be done? Mobile libraries or car libraries would be too expensive and difficult to continue in the hilly (多丘陵的) land of Peru. So what other methods could be used?
He got a new idea from the barefoot (赤脚) doctors of China. And that was how the barefoot librarians (图书管理员) first appeared in the villages of northern Peru, almost thirty years ago.
At first, they were teachers of the village schools which these faraway libraries belonged to. But the teachers were not very interested in the job because it meant a lot of hard work. So, the elders in the village took on the job themselves.
Today, there are 600 village libraries across Peru. The barefoot librarians need to walk up to 15 hours a day with bags of books.
1.From the first paragraph, we can know Leonardo _________.
A. had a lot of books
B. bought candles from others
C. enjoyed reading books
D. lived with the priest
2.How do you like the priest John Medcalf?
A. Smart and kind.
B. Poor and impolite.
C. Brave and friendly.
D. Strong and cold.
3.From the passage, we can know that _________.
A. the first church in Peru was set up by John Medcalf
B. car libraries used to be popular in Leonardo’s village
C. teachers were interested in bringing books to villagers
D. the barefoot librarians are important to village libraries
4.What is this passage mainly about?
A. How people read in Peru.
B. How the barefoot librarians started in Peru.
C. How John Medcalf brought books to people.
D. How people collected books in Peru.
九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析