1、- 1 -九年级英语任务型阅读专项训练题(1)Roberto ClementeRoberto Clemente was born in 1934 near San Juan, Puerto Rico. His parents did not have much money. But they taught their children to be good and hones. (1)They also taught their children the importance of honour. Clemente had all of these qualities. (2)As a chi
2、ld, Roberto loved baseball. He listened to baseball games on the radio. He played baseball games on the radio. He played baseball with his friends. He also played in high school on a city team. When he graduated from high school in 1953, nice professional teams wanted Clemente to play fro them. The
3、Brooklyn Dodgers offered him $10,000. Clemente said “yes”. Then another team offered him $30,000! Clemente asked his parents for advice. (3)His mother said that he must keep his word. So he signed a contract with the Dodger.1. 将(1)处改为同义句2.将(2)处改为复合句3.将(3)处译成汉语(2)How can a plant kill?People kill. Ani
4、mals kill. Animals and people kill for food, or they kill their enemies. People and animals can move around and find something to kill. They can run away from an enemy. They can kill it if it is necessary.Many kinds of animals eat plants. The plants cannot run away from their enemies. Some plants ma
5、ke poison. (1)If an animal eats part of the plant, it gets sick or dies. Animals learn to stay away from these plants. (2)There are many kinds of plants that make poison. Most of them grow in the desert or in the tropics.Today farmers use many kinds of poison on their farms. Most of these poisons co
6、me from petroleum, but petroleum is expensive. Scientists collect poisonous plants and study them. Maybe farmers can use cheap poison from plants instead of expensive poison from petroleum(石油).1. 将（1）处改为简单句2. 将（2）处译成汉语(3)Scientists are trying to turn deserts into good land again. They want to bring
7、water to the deserts, so people can live and (A) food there . However, more and more land is becoming desert. Why? Scientists think that people are doing bad things to turn good land into desert.(B)地球上的一些地方雨量不足 ，but they still do not become desert. This is because green plants are growing there. Sma
8、ll green plants and grass are very important do dry places. Plants do not let the hot sun make the earth even drier. (C)Plants do not let the wind blow the soil away. When rain falls, plants hold the water. (D)Without plants, land can become desert much more easily. 1. 在（A）的空白处填入一个适当的词语。2. 将划线部分（B）译
9、成英语3. 将划线部分（C）译成汉语4. 将划线部分（D）改写成： Land can become desert much more easily there are plants.(4)Different children like different stories. Very young children usually like stories about animals more than stories about people. They like books with lots of pictures most of all.Older children like storie
10、s about children of their own age. They like them more than stories about adults. They also like fantasies(幻想). These are stories about strange and wonderful places. Some of the best fantasies are movies-Star Wars and Star Trek, for example. (2)This kind of fantasy is called science fiction. It take
11、s place in the future.(3)In different countries some stories are more popular than others. In Egypt and other Arab countries, stories from Arabian Nights are very popular. Some of these stories are quite popular in America, too. However, they are not as popular as American stories, such as Little Wo
12、men or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Do you have a favorite story?1. 将（1）句改为同义句2. 将（2）句改为主动语态3. 将（3）句译成中文(5)(1)An old man visited a new doctor. He was very young. “I dont fell well, doctor,” he said. “Please find out whats wrong with me.”“Take off your clothes and lie on the bed,” the young doc
13、tor said, “Ill examine(检查) you.”The old man took off his clothes and lay down on the bed, and the young doctor examined him. However, (3)he didnt find anything wrong with the old man.He listened to his heart. He looked into his throat(咽喉). He examined every part of him.At last he said, “Im sorry, bu
14、t I cant find anything wrong with you. Youre as healthy as I am.”“Thats very strange,” the old man said, “because I fell really bad.”“Come back tomorrow and see me again if you dont feel better,” the young doctor said. - 2 -“Ill examine you again.”“All right, doctor,” the old man said .Slowly, he st
15、ood up and put on his clothes. Then he walked out of the hospital.A few seconds later, the doctors nurse ran in.“Doctor! Doctor!” she cried . “That man you said was healthy has just died outside the door.”The doctor thought quickly.“Then turn the body around so that people will think he is coming in
16、,” he said.1. 将（1）中的两个简单句合并成一个复合句2. 写出（2）的同义句3. What do you think of the doctor?(6)Mr Shaw wrote a lot of nice novels and the entire world knew him. (1)He didnt like the arrogant(傲慢的) rich men and often laughed at them. So people liked him.Mr Shaw was often asked to all kinds of parties. A lot of im
17、portant men hoped to know him. One day a famous singer asked him to her party. When Mr Shaw came in, all the people stood up except a young man. The singer hurried to meet him and asked him to sit down next to her. The young mans father was one of the richest men in England and he was studying in Pa
18、ris. (2)He thought he knew much more than any other guest in the sitting-room. He talked a lot and tried to show he was a know-all. All the people politely listened to him and nobody would interrupt him. It made Mr Shaw unhappy.“Please listen to me, my friend,” Mr Shaw had to stop him. “I think only
19、 we both know the things in the world!”(3)Hearing this, the young man was happy and asked, “Why?” “Maybe you know all, ”said Mr Shaw, “but you dont know one thing!”“We are all tired of you.” Mr Shaw said with a smile. “Just I know it!”The young mans face turned red and didnt say anything until he le
20、ft.1. 将（1）处的句子改成含原因状语从句的复合句。2. 将（2）处的英文句子译成汉语。3. 将（3）处的句子改为含时间状语从句的复合句。(7)Something was wrong with Mr Hunts eyes and his friends told him to see the doctors in the capital. The train was late that day when he arrived there. He felt hungry and bought some food outside the station. (1)As it was rainin
21、g hard, he couldnt walk to the nearest hotel. He was waiting for a taxi while eating the sandwich and chips.Half an hour later it was his turn and he got on a small taxi. (2)The woman drove so fast that she couldnt stop at the crossing when the traffic lights turned red. Luckily the policeman did no
22、t find it and she hurried off. She went on driving fast and all the cars and buses had to make way for her. But soon it hit a big tree by a narrow street and the driver was hurt.Mr Hunt got off and looked around. There were not any persons or cars and nobody could help him. He had to take her to hos
23、pital by himself. He moved the woman away and was going to drive the taxi. (3)At that moment he found something and asked, “Didnt you find the window was spattered with some mud(溅满了泥水), madam?” “No, I didnt,” said the driver. “Ive left my glasses at home.”1. 将（1）处的句子改为简单句2. 将（2）处的英文句子译成汉语3. 将（3）处的句子
24、改为间接引语(8)I asked children about their TV watching habits in three different groups-from four to six, from seven to twelve and from thirteen to sixteen. The children in the first group watch TV for an average(平均) of two hours in the day and an average of one hour at night. The children in the second
25、group watch it for an average of two and a half hours at night. The children in the 3rd group watch it for an average of one and a half hours at night.Cartoons are the favorite shows of the first group . The favorite shows of the 2nd group are TV plays and the favourite shows of the 3rd group are qu
26、iz programmers.Simon根据调查记录完成表格：Age Average hours of watching TV in the day Average hours of watching TV at night Favousite showsFour to six 1. one Cartoons2. Two and a half 3. Thirteen to sixteen 4. Quiz programmers(9)HOUSE SALE(出售): Comfortable family home with large garden on north side of town. -
27、 3 -Three bedrooms, living room, kitchen, bathroom, pay￥ 280.000 for it.The Browns are looking for a new house. Mr Brown wants to live on the north side of the town near his work. Mrs Brown wants a house with four bedroom. Their children dont care what the house is like but the garden is big enough.
28、DRIVER WANIED for restaurant . Some evening and weekend work. All meals free. Ring 3320178.Jack has always wanted to drive. He thinks its very interesting. The work is hard but he doesnt mind. He has to work in the evening and at weekends but he can get some weekdays off. Its not very well paid, but
29、 he never minds.JOIN OUR FOOTBALL TEAM Boys and girls wanted to play for a local(本地的) football team. Aged 9-13. Meet in Green Park on Friday at 9 p.m.Tom: Theres a new football team starting in the village, mum. Im old enough to play in it. School it over at 3:30. So Id have plenty of time.Mum: Well
30、, Im sure you could do your homework in the evening . But Look, Tom, you havent read the paper carefully. You cant play for this team.1. What do you think of the house?2. What didnt the Browns buy the house in the nd?3. What does “all meals free” mean?4. Why does Jack want to get the job in the rest
31、aurant?(10)Madam C.J. WalkerMadam C.J. Walker was the first African American woman in the United States to make a million dollars. She was horn Sarah Breedlove in 1867 on a farm in delta, Louisiana. Her family was very poor, and her life as very hard. (1)他们住在一幢没有窗户的房子里 . Sarah did not go to school.
32、Every day she worked from morning to night in the cotton fields.When Sarah was seven, her parents died. She went to Mississippi to live with her married sister. Her sisters husband was very mean to her. Sarah wanted to get away, so she got married when she was 14. A few years later, (2)she had a bab
33、y girl named Lelia. When Sarah was only 20, her husband died. She moved to St. Louis, Missouri. For the next 18 years, she worked washing clothes for $1.50 a day. (3)When she was 38, Sarah was worried because her hair was falling out. She tried different things on her hair, but nothing worked. One n
34、ight she had a dream about what to mix up and use for her hair. It worked! Sarah gave it to her friends. It worked for them, too. She went from door to door to sell her new hair product. Then she made other hair care products. Soon she had her own business.1. 将（1）句汉译英2. 将（2）句改为定语从句3. 将（3）句改为同义句(11)O
35、ur environment is fragileit needs taking care of. The problem is that there are over 6 billion people on the earth and they all need houses, fuel(燃料) , food, clothing and water. Our environment can give us all these if we take good care of it.Some countries take more than their share from the enviro
36、nment. The people in these countries want cars, packaged food, big houses, raw materials and many other “extras”. Luckily, only about 50 countries in the world demand(要求) these extras. Our environment gets damaged(遭破坏) even in poorer countries because the people use it just to stay alive. (1)they cu
37、t down trees for firewood and farm the soil heavily to get more food. (2)Their governments try hard to make more money so that they can build more schools and hospitals. All this is often done by letting the industries pollute the water and the air. (3)It costs money to keep the environment clean. I
38、n order to stop the environment from deteriorating(恶化) further and to allow people to live a better life, world conference(会议) was held in Brazil in 1992. Leaders from over 150 countries met together to agree on solutions(解决方法 ) to the worlds ecological(生态的) problems. They asked the governments and
39、people to change wasteful consumption patterns(消费方式) . They also said that rich countries should provide more help for the poor countries so that environmental problems could be dealt with more quickly.1. 将（1）处句子译成汉语2. 将（2）外句子改为简单句3. 写出（3）处的同义句(12)Selma Scarausi looked at her baby daughter and smile
40、d. The baby smiled back. Selma began to cry. “I love my baby very much,” Selma thought. “But is she really my baby?”Selmas baby was born at a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A few days later Selma and the baby came home from the hospital. (1)Friends and relatives were surprised when they saw the - 4
41、-baby. The baby didnt look like her parents. The baby had dark skin and curly hair, but Selma and her husband had light skin and straight hair. “Babies change,” everyone thought . “She will look like her parents when she is older.”But the baby didnt change. When she was nice months old, she still lo
42、oked very different from her parents. Selma and her husband, Paulo, took the baby back to the hospital. (2) “Are you sure this is our baby?” they asked the hospital director. “Of course she is your baby,” the director said. “Immediately after the babies are born, we give them bracelets with numbers.
43、 Your baby was number 51. You left the hospital with baby 51. A mistake is impossible.”“A mistake is possible,” Selma and Paulo thought. “We have another familys baby. And somewhere another family has our baby. But Sao Paulo is a city of seven million people. How can we find our baby?”Selma and Paul
44、o went to the hospital again. A nurse at the hospital told Paulo, “I remember another couple. Their baby didnt look like them. The parents had dark skin, but the baby had very curly hair, but the baby had straight hair.” (3)The nurse gave Paulo the couples address. The next day Selma took her baby t
45、o the couples house. She knocked, and a woman opened the door. The woman took one look at Selmas baby and fainted. Selma helped her into the house. There, in the living room, was a nine-month-old baby. Selma knew that the baby was hers.The hospital made a mistake. Both babies were born at the hospit
46、al on the same day. The hospital gave both babies the number 51.During the next weeks the two families prepared to exchange babies. First they exchanged information about the babies habits. Then they exchanged toys and clothes. Finally, with smiles and tears, they exchanged babies.1. 将（1）处句子改为简单句2.
47、将（2）处句子改为宾语从句3. 将（3）处句子改为被动语态形式(13)(1)The Atlantic Ocean is one of the oceans that separate the Old World from the New. Fro centuries it kept the America from being discovered by the people of Europe.Many wrong ideas about the Atlantic made early sailors unwilling to sail far out into it. One idea w
48、as that it reached out to “the edge of the world. ”Sailors were afraid that they might sail right off the earth. Another idea was that at the equator(赤道) the ocean would be boiling hot.The Atlantic Ocean is only half as big as the Pacific, but it is still very large. It is more than 4,000 miles (6,0
49、00 km) wide where Columbus crossed it. Even at its narrowest it is about 2,000 miles(3,200 km) wide.Two things make the Atlantic Ocean rather unusual. For so large an ocean it has very few islands. Also, it is the worlds saltiest ocean.(2)There is so much water in the Atlantic that it is hard to imagine how much there is. But suppose no more rain fell into it and no more water was brought to it by rivers, (3)it would take the ocean about 4,000 years to dry up. On the average, the water is a little more than two miles
