(根据短文内容回答下列问题)

The hardworking blacksmith(铁匠)Jones used to work all day in his shop. The son of Mr. Smith, a rich neighbour, used to come to see the blacksmith every day and for hours and hours he would enjoy himself watching how the blacksmith worked.

“Young man ,why don’t you try your hand to learn to make shoe tacks(铁钉),even if it is only to pass the time?” said the blacksmith. “Who knows, one day, it may be useful to you.”

The lazy boy began to see what he could do. But after a little practice he found that he was becoming very skilled and soon he was making some of the finest tacks.

Old Mr. Smith died and the son lost all his things because of the war .He had to leave home and live in another country. It happened that in this village there were many shoemakers spending a lot of money buying tacks for their shoes and sometimes even when they paid high prices they were not always able to get what they wanted, because in that part of the country there was a great need of tacks for soldiers’ shoes.

Young Mr. Smith remembered that he had learned how to make shoe tacks before, so he had a talk with the shoemakers. He told them that he would make the tacks if they would help him to found that he was making the finest shoe tacks in the village.

“How funny it seems,” he used to say, “Even by making shoe tacks, one can become rich. My business is more useful to me now than all my riches in the past.”

98. What was Jones’ job?

He _____________________________________________________.

99. Young Mr. Smith was Jones’ son, wasn’t he?

_________,______________________________________________.

100. Why did Jones ask young Mr. Smith to learn to make shoe tacks?

Because Jones thought it ____________________________________.

101. Where did young Mr. Smith live after his father died and he lost all his things?

________________________________________________________.

102. What did a lot of shoemakers in the village need?

They ____________________________________________________.

103. What would young Mr. Smith do if they helped him set up his workshop?

________________________________________________________.

104. What do you learn from this story?

________________________________________________________.

答案：

99. He was a blacksmith. 100. No, he wasn't

101. Because Jones thought it might be useful to young Mr. Smith.

102. In a village in another country. /In another country.

103. They needed a lot of shoe tacks. 104. He would make shoe tacks.

(金山区2010学年第二学期九年级质量调研考试)

VII. Reading comprehensions (阅读理解)

A.True or False (判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示)：(7分)

A little boy invited his mother to attend his school's first teacher-parent meeting.The little boy looked upset when she said she would go.This would be the first time that his classmates and teacher met his mother and he was embarrassed (窘迫的)because there was a severe scar (疤痕) that covered nearly the entire right side of her face.The boy never wanted to talk about why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people were impressed by the kindness of his mother with the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed and hid himself from everyone.However , he could hear a conversation between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked , "How did you get the scar on your face?"

The mother replied, "when my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire.Everyone was too afraid to go in because the fire was out of control，so I went in.As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him.I was knocked to be unconscious but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us." She touched the burned side of her face." This scar will be forever, but to this day, I have never regret what I did."

At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes.He held her in his arms and felt a great of the sacrifice that his mother had made for him.He held her hand tightly for the rest of the day.

71.It was the first time for the little boy’s mother to meet her son’s classmates and teachers.

72. The little boy looked embarrassed because of the big scar on his mother’s face.

73. The boy hid himself from everyone, so he didn’t hear the conversation between them.

74. The mother ran into the room that caught on fire in order to place herself over her son.

75. A burning wood fell down and knocked both the mother and her son to be unconscious.

76. The mother had a scar on her face since then, but she felt proud for what she had done.

77. The boy was so thankful to his mother that he held her hand tightly for the rest of the day.

B. Choose the best answer (根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案): (7分)

When you cut your skin, you bleed (流血). If a person loses a lot of blood, he will become ill and may die. Blood is very important. People have always known that. At one time, some people even drank blood to make them strong!

When doctors understand how blood goes around inside the body, they try ways of giving blood to people who need it. They take blood from the healthy people and give it to sick people. This called “blood transfusion”. The blood goes from the arm of the healthy person into the arm of the sick person.

But there are two problems. First, it does not always work. Sometimes people die when they have blood transfusion. Later, doctors find that we do not all have the same kind of blood. There are four groups-O, A, B and AB. We all have blood of one of these groups. They also find that they can give any kind of blood of group AB. But they find that they must give A-blood to A-blood people and B-blood to B-blood people. I have O-group blood as my father and the doctor told me that I could give my blood to anyone else safely. So I did.

There is another problem. To give blood of the right kind, doctors have to find a person of the right blood group. Often they can not find a person in time. If they have a way to keep the blood until someone needs it, they can always have the right kind of blood. At first, they find they can keep it in bottles for fifteen to twenty days. They do this by making it very cold. Then they find how to keep it longer. In the end, they find a way of keeping blood for a very long time.

We call a place where we keep money a “bank”. We call a place where we keep blood a “blood bank”. One day, when you grow up, you may decide to give blood to a ‘blood bank”. In this way you may stop someone from dying. Or perhaps one day you may become ill. You may need blood. The ‘blood bank” will give it to you.

78. At one time people even drank blood because they wanted to ________.

A. become ill B. kill themselves C. make themselves strong D. cut their skin

79. ‘Blood transfusion” means “________ “

A. to know how blood goes around B. to give doctors healthy blood

C .to take blood from the healthy peo ple D. to give healthy blood to a sick person

80. Doctors find that ________

A. we all have the same kind of blood B. everyone has four kinds of blood

C .AB-group blood can be given to everyone D. any kind of blood can be given to people of group

81. Which of the following is true?

A. Doctor can give the writer any kind of blood

B. The writer can give blood to B-group people.

C. The writer has blood of all the four groups.

D. The writer does not have the same kind of blood as his father.

82. People set up the “blood bank’ so that they can ________

A. find people who need it in time.

B. always have the right kinds of blood.

C. make it easier to sell or buy blood.

D. find how to keep it colder and longer.

83. From the last paragraph of the passage, we can learn that________

A. it is good to give blood to a ‘blood bank” when one grows up.

B. we may become ill if we give blood to a ‘blood bank’.

C. many people died because they lost a lot of blood.

D. one day we may get blood from both “money bank” and “blood bank”.

84. The writer does not talk about ________in the passage.

A. how important blood is to us.

B. the four groups of blood

C. where the blood bank is

D. what “blood transfusion” is

答案：

(A) 71. T 72. T 73. F 74. F 75. F 76. T 77. T

(B) 78. C 79. D 80. A 81. B 82. B 83. A 84. C

E. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题): (14 分)

More than 50,000,000 people live in the rainforests of the world and most of them do not hurt the forest they live in. They eat the fruits that grow on the forest trees, but they do not cut them down. They kill some animals to eat, but they do not destroy them. When we cut down the rainforests, we destroy these forest people, too. In 1900, there were 1,000,000 forest people in the Amazon forest. In 1980, there were only 200,000.

The Yanmomami live along the rivers of the rainforest in the north of Brazil. They have lived in the forest for about 10,000 years and they use more than 2,000 different plants for food. But in the later 1950s some strangers came and began looking for gold. They cut down the forest to make roads. They made more than a hundred airports. The Yanimami people lost land and food. Many died because new diseases came to the forest with the strangers. The Yanimami people tried to save their forest, because it was their home. But the people who wanted gold were stronger.

Many forest people try to save their forests. Chico Mendes was famous in Brazil because he wanted to keep the forest for his people. “I want the Amazon forest to help all of us—forest people, Brazil, and all the earth,’ he said. A few months later, in December 1988, people who wanted to cut down the forest killed Chico Mendes.

In Boreno, people were cutting down the forest of the Penan people to sell the wood. The Penan people tried to save their rainforest. They made blockades(堵塞)across the roads into the forest. In 1987 they closed fifteen roads for eight months. No one cut down any trees during that time. In Panama, the Kuna people saved their forest. They made a forest park which tourists pay to visit. The Gavious people of Brazil use the forest, but they protect it as well. They find and sell the Brazil nuts which grow on the forest trees.

99. Most people do not hurt the forests they live in, do they?

100. How many people left the Amazon forest from 1900 to 1980?

101. Why did the strangers come to the forest in the late 1950s?

102. What happened to the Yanimami people when new diseases came with the strangers?

103. Why did Chico Mendes become famous in Brazil?

104. How did the Penan people try to save their rainforest?

105. Whose way of protecting the forest do you prefer, the Kuna people’s or the Gavious people”? Why?

答案：

99. No, they don't 100. 800,000 101. To look for gold.

102. Many Yanomami people died. 103. Because he wanted to keep the forest for his people.

104. By making blockades across the roads into the forest.

105.___________. Because__________(Any suitable answers are accepted)

(静安区2010学年第二学期九年级质量调研考试)

Ⅷ. Reading comprehension(阅读理解):(共56分)

A. True or False (判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用"T"表示，不符合的用"F"表示)：(7分)

I'm Michael Young.

71. Michael Young works as a TV reporter.

72. You can listen to Music Ground once a week.

73. People can listen to the song "Magic River" soon.

74. The song "The Bees" does not change its place this week.

75. Of the five songs listed above, two are new this week.

76. Stupid Machine is now in the radio station with OK Band.

77. Michael Young is talking about popular songs this week.

B. Choose the best answer(根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案)：(7分)

Happiness is important for everyone. Most people want to be happy but few know how to find happiness. Money and success don't bring lasting happiness. Happiness depends on ourselves. In other words, we make our own happiness.

Some people believe that if they are wealthy, they will be able to do anything they want, which means happiness. On the other hand, some people believe that holding a high place in the government is happiness. In this way, you have not only money, but also many other things which can't be bought by money. However, other people believe that having lots of money is not happiness, nor is holding a high place in the government. These people value(重视)their beliefs, or their wisdom, or their healthy. They think these can make them happy.

Here are the ways to help you be happier.

The secret of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life. Too often, we spend so much time thinking about the future, for example, getting into college or getting a good job that we don't enjoy the present. You should enjoy life's simple pleasures, such as reading a good book, listening to your favorite music, or spending time with close friends. People who have close friends usually enjoy happier and healthier lives.