1、=【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = 山东省威海市 2018 届九年级英语上学期期中质量检测试题 第 卷（共 30 分） 一、阅读理解（共五篇短文， 25 小题，计 30 分，其中 A D 每题 1 分， E 每题两分。） A Animals grow up in different ways. Some newborn animals are helpless but their mothers protect them. A newborn kangaroo is very small. It is only a few centimeters long. It closes its eyes
2、 and doesnt have hair. It stays safe in its mothers pouch（育儿袋） for a long time. A newborn monkey can not walk, Its mother carries it everywhere.Other baby animals can walk soon after theyre born. They learn to run with their mothers when danger is near. A bay zebra can run, an hour after it is born.
3、 Some baby animals are born in a place that is safe. Baby wolves are usually born in big holes with little light. Other baby animals are born in the open.A baby elephant is often born on the open land. Animals that drink their mothers milk are called mammals. A mother bears milk is rich. Baby bears
4、have milk for a few months. This is the same with baby zebras. As baby animals grow, they need solid（固体的） food. Baby lions eat what their mother can catch! ( ) 1. According to the passage, many newborn animals need their mothers help because the babies cant _. A. look after themselves B. eat any foo
5、d C. walk by themselves ( ) 2. A newborn monkeys mother carries it everywhere because _. A. it is very small B. it cant walk C. it closes its eyes ( ) 3. Baby wolves are usually born in a(an) _ place. A. open B. bright C. safe ( ) 4. Newborn mammals main food is _. A. mothers milk B. solid food C. s
6、maller animals ( ) 5. How many kinds of baby animals are mentioned in this passage? A. Six B. Seven C. Eight B =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = Ray Charles, a black singer and pianist of the USA. He had won 12 Grammy Awards (格莱美奖 ) and performed at 10,000 concerts around the world. Many musicians called him simply
7、“the Genius” ( 天才 ). Ray Charles was born into a poor family, without a father. When he was 5 years old, his younger brother died, and around the same time, Charles started to lose his sight. By the age of 7 he was completely blind. He had already been learning the piano for a year, and when he went
8、 blind, his mother knew this would be the only way he would make any money in the future. All his life, Charles remembered her saying: “Do it right, or dont do it at all.” Later he went to a school for blind and deaf children. There the teachers also encouraged him to study music. Sadly, while he wa
9、s still at school, his mother died. He left school and in the early 1950s Charles organized a group of players. He sang, played the piano and wrote music. He made many classical CDs wit h famous artists such as Elton John and the Beatles. In 2003 a film of his life Ray was made. The part of Charles
10、was played by a younger actor and musician called Jamie Fox. The film director brought Fox to meet Charles. After they had been playing together for two hours, Charles, then aged 73, jumped up and said: “Hes the one . he can do it.” A year later Charles died aged 74. The film of his life has been as
11、 popular as his songs and means that the memory of Charles music will live on. ( ) 6. What can we learn from Rays childhood story? A. His father died when he was 5 years old. B. He started to learn the piano at the age of 6. C. He was born in a rich musician family. ( ) 7. Ray Charles mother encoura
12、ged him to play music because . A. his father was a musician as well B. because it would help him get used to being blind C. it was a good way for a blind person to get money ( ) 8. Ray Charles went to a school for . A. normal children B. deaf and blind children C. talented children only ( ) 9. Ray
13、Charles thought that Jamie Fox . A. was the right person to play him in the film =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = B. was a good film maker C. was the wrong person to play him in the film ( ) 10. What is the main idea of the last paragraph? A. Becoming a musician. B. Childhood story. C. The film of Rays life. C When
14、 I was a boy my mum used to say I would read the back of a medicine bottle if I didnt have a book in my hand. It was true, and even now that reading habit has been with me. I always have at least one book being read, sometimes I might have two or three. And Im talking about real books, books made ou
15、t of paper, books that you can hold in your hand, to read, at the table, on the subway or my favorite place to read in the bath. But the number of people reading books is dropping. A recent survey tells us that Chinese people only read 4.77 printed books a year on average(平均 ) and in the US, 25 perc
16、ent of the population say they didnt read a book last year! So whats stopping people from reading? The answer of course is the huge influence that technology has had on our life. Why read a book when you can watch a movie or TV play on your smart phones or iPads? For younger people, books may not be
17、 as exciting as online games. With stories you have to work at it, closely follow the turns of the plot(情节 ). There are no shortcuts with a book. You have to turn page after page. But you can still get lost in a book. We all have this thing called imagination. Its much more powerful than any compute
18、r; in fact, its worth remembering that an y online game was first written in words as a story by its writer. Its all about his or her or their imagination. So we need to read if we do not read, it will be hard for us to improve our ability to think widely, to have an imagination. Reading is a proces
19、s in which we need to compare and connect other things we have read and seen in the past. If you do not read, this will not only influence your study, but also your social life in the future. So why not follow me from now on? Run a hot bath, or find a comfortable chair and read a good book for a few
20、 hours there are quite many, for free, in your local library. ( ) 11. Whats the main idea of Paragraph 1? =【 ;精品教育资源文库 】 = A. The writer used to enjoy playing with a medicine bottle. B. The writer has had the reading habit since his childhood. C. The writer often reads books at a table on the subway
21、. ( ) 12. The number of people reading books is dropping because _. A. books are becoming less interesting B. technology has greatly influenced our life C. there arent enough printed books to read ( ) 13. What does the word “shortcuts” in Paragraph 3 most probably mean in Chinese? A. 捷径 B. 理念 C. 缺点
22、( ) 14. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? A. Reading can help to develop our imagination. B. All online games were first written in words. C. Younger people prefer books to online games. ( ) 15. In the last paragraph, the writer mainly suggests that we should _. A. read b
23、ooks in a comfortable chair B. borrow books from the library C. read more books in our life D 借鉴别人的学习方 法，是提高学 习的捷径之一。请仔细阅读第 31-35 题中优秀学生的经验总结，并把他们的学习秘诀和相关例子进行配对。选项中有一项是多余选项。 16._ When a teacher assigns a lot of homework, Domenica Roman draws up a timetable, dividing the assignment into small parts.
24、“Its like eating a steak(牛排 ),” she says. “You chew it one bite at a time.” 17._ One student put a vocabulary list in the bathroom. He learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth. Another student used the time to remember biology terms while practicing running. 18._ In high school, McCray ran track, played football and was in th
