2019-2020年九年级上学期英语期中复习(7)C-篇练习10篇.doc

2019-2020年九年级上学期英语期中复习（7）C 篇练习10篇
Why should we have good table manners（行为）? They make eating more pleasant. None of us, for example, really want to watch another person chew food with his or her mouth open. So here are a few easy rules to get you through any meal without displeasing your table mates.
1. Put your napkin（餐巾） in your lap（大腿前部） as soon as you sit down and leave it beside your plate when you have finished eating.
2. Sit up straight. It will help you digest（消化） your food, and it’s polite.
3. When you are a guest, take a small part of everything that is served. Your parents may not expect you to eat something you don’t like, but others will expect you to take a small part. No one will say anything if you don’t finish it.
4. Use your napkin on your mouth after eating solid food and before drinking liquids.
5. Say “Please” and “Thank you” when asking someone to pass you something. Pass food without delay(延迟) to others.
6. Don’t chew food with your mouth open. This also means not talking with your mouth full.
7. Don’t say that you hate a certain food. Someone worked hard to prepare it and didn’t like hearing this.
8. Don’t wave your eating utensils(用具) around when you are eating or are resting between bites. Put them on your plate.
9. Cut food into small pieces, one piece at a time. Only babies have their food cut up at once—and their parents only do that to save time.
10. Ask to be excused when you are ready to leave the table.
55. When you have finished eating, ______.
A. you should say goodbye to others B. you should put the napkin beside your plate
C. you should say sorry at once D. you can leave the table immediately
56. If you are invited to dinner, ______.
A. you can sit anywhere as you like B. you had better taste every kind of the food
C. you should listen to your parents D. you should eat your favorite food only
57. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Before drinking liquids, you should use your napkin on your mouth.
B. It’s bad manners to hold your bowl or glass in your hand and shake them.
C. You should pass something to others before asking them to pass you what you need.

D. You shouldn’t cut your food into small pieces all at once unless you are a very little child.

55. B 56. B 57. C

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In modern society there is a lot of disagreement about petition. Some value it highly, believing that it is good for social progress. Others say that petition is bad. It sets one person against another. And it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.
I have taught many children who believe that their self-worth depended on how well they did at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death matters. In their single-minded dream of success, the development of many other human qualities（品质） is sadly forgotten.
However, while some seem to be lost in the desire（渴望） to succeed, others take a different attitude. In a culture which values only the winners, they are strongly against petition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who are under petitive pressures（压力） from their parents or society. They are always told to be the top ones, but they think it’s really hard. When I teach these young people, I often find them in a desire to fail. They seem to search for failure（失败） by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try. If I had tried and lost, that would mean a lot. ”
Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true petitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief. They think one’s self-respect depends on how well one does pared with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this fear begins to dissolve (消除) can we discover a new meaning in petition.
54. Why do some people wele petition according to the passage?
A. It pushes society forward.             B. It improves one’s abilities.
C. It develops human qualities.        D. It builds up friendly relationship.
55. The underlined phrase “

the most vocal” in Paragraph 3 means _____.
A. those who try their best to win
B. those who value petition most highly
C. those who depend on others most for success
D. those who are against petition most strongly
56. Which of the following may the writer agree to?
A. Every effort should be paid back.
B. petition should be encouraged.
C. Winning should be a life-and-death matter.
D. Fear of failure should be taken away in petition.
57. What does this passage mainly talk about?
A. petition helps to set up self-respect.
B. petition is bad for social development.
C. Ideas about petition are different among people.
D. Failures are necessary experiences in petition.

54. A 55. D 56. D 57. C

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Not all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Wars and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional (精神上的) hurts. Often they appear again in dreams.
Now American researchers think they are close to developing a drug, which will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce or possibly erase(清除) the effect of painful memories.
In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body producing chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erased.
The research has caused a great deal of argument. Some think it is a bad idea, While others support it.
Supporters say it could lead to drugs that prevent or treat soldiers' troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories.
"Some memories can ruin(毁坏) people's lives . They e back to you when you don't want to have them in a dream. They usually e with very painful emotions," said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at

Harvard Medical School. "This could reduce a lot of that suffering."
But those who are against the research say that changing memories is very dangerous because memories give us our identity (特质). They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past.
"All of us can think of bad experiences in our lives that were terrible at the time but make us who we are. I'm not sure we want to erase those memories, "said Rebecca Dresser, a medical ethicist.
55. Now American researchers are trying to develop a drug to ___________.
A. change people’s bad memories into good ones
B. make people forget what happened in the past
C. help soldiers get away from troubling memories
D. treat people who suffer from terrible memories
56. The drug that have been tested on people can__________.
A. cause the brain to lose memories
B. reduce the effect of bad memories
C. help people improve their memories
D. totally erase the painful memories
57. Rebecca Dresser thinks that _____________ .
A. some memories can ruin people's lives.
B. the drugl can prevent people from sufferings
C. bad memories make us different from others
D. taking the drug will do harm to people's health
55.D 56. B 57. C

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Have you ever received a gift that was so clearly not your taste that you wondered if perhaps it had been handed to you by mistake? Worse, have you ever given a present and watched your friend look as though she had opened the wrong box? Maybe she responded (回应) with a polite “Why, thank you,” but you knew you had missed the mark．Why do presents sometimes do wrong? And what do your choices (good and bad) tell about your personal qualities（品质）?
Choosing the right gift is an art, I believe．It calls for empathy—the ability to put yourself into someone else’s head and heart．We’re all able to do this; in fact, we’re born with a kind of natural empathy．After the earliest period of childhood, however, it needs to be reinforced (加强) by our parents, teachers, friends．When it isn’t, we’re not able to understand other people’s feelings as sharply．This can show in the gifts we select, and so can many other emotional qualities.

Think back to the presents you’ve given over the past year, the time and effort you put into your selection, how much you spent your thoughts while you were shopping, and your feelings when the receiver opened the package．Keep in mind that what you choose shows your inner world．Of course, you may express yourself differently with different friends, relatives, and other people you know.
We live in a society where exchanging presents is an important part of munication．Paying no attention to the tradition won’t make it go away．If you really dislike such a tradition, tell your friends ahead of time.
55．The underlined expression “you had missed the mark” means “you had failed to ”.
A. make her feel better B. keep your friendship
C. receive a present in return D. get the expected effect
56．In the third paragraph, the writer tells us that .
A. attention should be paid to the receivers’ responses
B. one learns from what he did in the past
C. the choice of gifts shows one’s emotional qualities
D. one should spend more time choosing gifts
57．The best possible title for this passage is “ ”.
A. Ways of Choosing Gifts B. An Important Tradition
C. Exchanging Presents D. Message in a Gift

55.D 56.C 57.D

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I have bee very interested in the importance of memory in our lives. Most people know that the brain controls how the body works. The brain also controls what the mind thinks, how we feel, how we work on information, and how we understand things. I am interested in how people remember, what they remember, and how they use and improve their memories.

Memory plays an important role in learning and thinking. People have different abilities to remember. Stress, fatigue, emotional problems, and illness can decrease the ability to remember. General good health contributes to good memory. Practice also improves memory. People gather and remember information in different ways. Some people remember colors or smells or sounds. Other people find it easier to remember spoken words. While still others remember printed words easily.
We have two kinds of memory — long-term memory and short-term memory. Long-term memory is the ability to remember events from the distant past. Long-term memory is often the strongest and lasts throughout a person’s life. One kind of long-term memory is called “screen memory.” This means that many experiences we get are put together in the mind as one memory.
Short-term memory is the ability to remember events in the recent past, for example, the name of someone you met at a party last night. Short-term memory is often challenged by stress, illness, and aging. Many of us have, or have had, grandparents who’re able to remember events from their childhood , but are unable to remember what happened yesterday. Most people can only remember seven items in order. This is why telephone numbers, for example, are seven digits ( digits: 0-9 ) long.
Not all memories are correct, but they all tell us something about the person who is doing the remembering. The memory may tell us what the remembering likes or dislikes, what he or she wishes, and it may also tell us about his or her fears. The study of memory may also provide information about the health or illness of a person. This is a very exciting frontier in biological science. There is still a lot for us to learn.
( ) 1. What does the underlined word “decrease” mean ?
A. improve B. destroy
C. go down to a lower level D. make more effort
( ) 2. Why are the old unable to remember what’s happened recently?
A. Because they don’t want to.
B. Because the events are not in the past.
C. Because the old age affects short-term memory.
D. Because short-term memory lasts a few days.
( ) 3．What can you infer from the fourth paragraph?
A. Nine digits are used for telephone numbers.
B. People can remember more than seven items in order.
C. Telephone numbers will still keep seven digits long.
D Stress affects short-term memory less than illness.
( ) 4. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. We should go on studying memory in the future.
B. Some memories can provide us more information.

C. Memories can tell us something about what one remembers.
D. We can know something else about the person by his memory.
1. C 2. C 3. C 4. B

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Are You Right Handed or Left Handed?
Which hand do you use when you write? About 8 to 15 percent of people are left handed. They often have to use tools that are designed for right-handed people. So it is difficult for left-handers to use most tools. If you are right handed, try this experiment: Take a knife with your left hand and try cutting a potato into pieces. Don’t be surprised if you feel awkward (别扭的).
In the past, people thought it was strange to use the left hand. Young students looked down upon their left-handed classmates. Some children were even punished for using their left hand to write. But these days parents and teachers have accepted that. In almost every school in the world, left-handed students can use their left hand to write.
What causes people to be left handed or right handed? Experts have searched long and hard on this. They concluded (得出结论) that left-handed people are left handed for the same reason that right-handed people are right handed. One out of every ten people just is a left-hander. It’s simply like the color of our eyes—some people have brown eyes, while some others have black eyes.
However, many researchers think that left-handers and right-handers are different in some aspects. Right-handers are more talkative and outgoing than left-handers. Many right-handed people understand spoken words better. For example, after they listen to directions to a supermarket, they can find it easily. Right-handers are good at organizing people, too. They are also better basketball guards. Just ask Yao Ming.
Research shows that left-handers are creative and artistic. Many famous performers, like Jim Carrey and Paul McCartney, are left handed. Many left-handers learn better visually (在视觉方面). In art, both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were left handed. In music, Ludwig van Beethoven was left handed. In science, you find Newton and Einstein. The left-handed people are also really good at tennis and other single sports.
If you prefer one hand, but you ar