人教版新目标英语九年级上册期中测试阅读理解专项训练试题及答案

人教版新目标英语九年级上册期中测试阅读理解专项训练试题及答案

A

The bald eagle is not really bald, and it just has white feathers on its head. The name “bald” is from an old English word that means white.

Bald eagles have a long, yellow beak, and big eyes. They have white feathers on their head and brown feathers on the body. Eagles have about 7,000 feathers. Their feet have knife-like talons.

Bald eagles can fly very fast. They can also swim, because they eat fish. Eagles look for food during the day. They have very good eyesight. Eagles can see a small animal from as far as a mile away. They catch their food with their talons. Their food is min fish. They also eat small animals and some birds.

Eagles can live up to 20 to 30 years. Like most animals, they usually live longer if people keep them.

( )1. The world “bald” means ___ in old English, according to the passage.

A. brown

B. white

C. black

D. with no hair

( )2. Eagles have ____.

A. a short yellow beak

B. small but sharp eyes

C. white feathers on the body

D. about 7,000 feathers

( )3. ____ are NOT mentioned as eagles’ food in the passage.

A. Fish

B. Bananas

C. Small animals

D. Birds.

( )4. We can learn that ___ from the passage.

A. eagles catch their food with their talons

B. eagles can’t see an animals a mile away

C. eagles can live longer if people don’t keep them.

D. eagles only eat fish

( )5. What is the best title of the passage?

A. How to Keep Birds.

B. About the Bald Eagle.

C. What Bald Eagles Eat.

D. Bald Eagle’s favorite food.

参考答案：1-5 BDBAB

B

When I was about six years old, I was sure that there were aliens in my bedroom. I was in bed, trying to sleep, when I heard voices near my bed. I screamed for my parents. We looked everywhere but we couldn’t find anything. I tried again. I don’t know how many times my parents came to my bedroom that night, but we finally found that an old radio in my room suddenly began to work. The voices were from it.

Years later, astronauts went into space for the first time. Then I looked out of my bedroom window almost every night, searching for UFOs. I never saw one, but I did see a few shooting stars.

The experience helped create an interest in UFOs and aliens. I even wrote a book, How to

Catch a Flying Saucer, about them. You can find out how to be a ufologist in the book. And it tells you a ufologist’s most important work is to ask questions to know exactly what a person may have seen.

( )1. What does the underlined screamed mean?

A. 欢呼

B. 大笑

C. 尖叫

D. 搜寻

( )2. Where was the sound the writer heard from?

A. An alien.

B. A TV set

C. A computer.

D. A radio.

( )3. What did the writer try to find when he looked out of his bedroom window?

A. UFOs.

B. Aliens.

C. Shooting starts.

D. Some astronauts.

( )4. Who is the writer?

A. A reader of How to catch a Flying Saucer.

B. An astronaut who had seen a UFO before.

C. The writer of How to catch a Flying saucer.

D. A person who saw a UFO when he was young.

( )5. Which of the following could be the title of the passage?

A. The story about the UFO and me.

B. The story of astronauts.

C. The story of aliens.

D. The story of a book about aliens.

参考答案：1-5 CDACA

C

Wonderland is the hometown of minifishers. Because the winter there is cold, they go to warmer places for the winter and go back home the next spring to have their babies. Every year, hundreds of minifishers visit Starland. They stay there with their families for several months. They usually sleep during the daytime and wake up in the evening to look for food. Small fish are their favorite.

Minifishers were first found in Starland one hundred years ago. Now Starland has become their most important stopping place for the winter. But this could change soon because people in Starland are thinking of building factories near the minifishers' winter home. Minifishers are shy and do not easily change the way they live. Can we do something to help these friends from the sky? Though making money is important, people in Starland should know the lives of other animals are important, too. Let's work together to help them.

( )1. What may a minifisher be?

A. A fish

B. A bird

C. A factory worker

D. A food seller

( )2. What do Miniifshers usually do in the daytime?

A. Find food.

B. Sleep.

C. Build their house.

D. Walking around.

( )3. Why do minifishers come to Starland?

A. Their babies are born in Starland.

B. The winter in Starland is warm.

C. They cannot find their way home.

D. They enjoy meeting people in Starland.

( )4. What does the underlined word “this” mean in the second paragraph?

A. The winter home of minifishers will be moved