九年级英语阅读专练试题三

阅读下面四篇材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

APlaying with apps on smart phones is very common among young people. Let’s try some special apps and enjoy them.Butter CameraIn this app, there are many filters(滤镜) that can make your photos more beautiful. But the coolest thing is that it can help you add pretty and artisticcharacters. The characters can be anything you like. They can be your ownwords, famous sayings or even a poem. You can make a photo diary that showsyour feelings.Once in a while, you may feel tired after a busy school day. Why not try thisapp?This is a music app. But the sounds in it all come from nature. There areover100 sounds of nature, such as birdcalls, wind and rain. You can hear allthese sounds. The best thing is that you can create your own music by recordingother sounds you like, for example, the sound of your own laughter.TaoMix 2(自然之声) Beaker(烧杯)Is chemistry your favorite subject? With this app, your smart phone turns into a beaker. You “pour” chemical materials by touching the upper right-handcorner of your smart phone. You “light” a match by swiping(刷) the screenquickly. You can shake the “beaker” to make chemical reactions(反应) go faster.There are 300 chemical reactions in all.31. Jim is a photo-taking fan. He might be interested in _______.A. Butter CameraB. TaoMix 2C. BeakerD. WeChat32. According to the passage, we can _______.A. add sounds of nature to the Butter Camera.B. record the voice of our friends into TaoMix2.C. “pour” chemical materials by swiping the screen.D. “light” a match to make chemical reactions faster.33. The passage is most probably taken from a _______.A. novelB. poemC. story bookD. science magazineBThe camel is one of the strangest and oldest animals living today.Scientists believe that millions of years ago, ancestors of camels lived inNorth America. There was a bridge of land over the Bering Strait that led toAsia. One group of animals moved to Asia. These animals developed intothe camels of today. Another group went to South America. This groupdeveloped into the llama, an animal in the same family as the camel.There are two types of camels, the dromedary and Bactrian. The dromedary has one humpand is found mostly in Arabian countries. The Bactrian camel has two humps and is found in Asian countries. All dromedary camels today are domesticated(驯养). Bactrian camels can still be found in the wild in areas of Mongolia and China. The Bactrian camel is shorter and heavier than the dromedary. Also, the pads on its feet are thicker so that it can walk in colder, rockier places than the dromedary.The camel has many interesting characteristics. For example, unlike most animals, it lifts both feet on one side at the same time when it runs. This causes it to rock from side to side when it runs. Another unusual characteristic is the camel’s ability to eat almost anything if it becomes hungry enough. It might even eat part of a tent or a basket if it cannot find the grass it prefers.Camels are the best pack animals in the world. They can carry things as heavy as 600 pounds 25miles a day. They can also go without water for as long as two weeks in the winter.You might think that a camel stores some food and water in its hump or humps. This is what human beings thought for many years, but it is not true. A camel’s hump is made of fat and muscle. If a camel has to go without food for several days, it can use the fat in its hump for energy. The camel keeps water in its tissues and cells(组织细胞). Its body does not use the water to cool off the way the human body does. That is why a camel’s body temperature can change, by as much as 11℃.34. The dromedary and the Bactrian camels have a lot of differences EXCEPT_________.A. the places they live inB. the things they eatC. the number of humpsD. the appearance they look35. Why does a camel rock from side to side when it runs?A. Because it lifts both feet on one side at the same time.B. Because it carries many heavy things every day.C. Because it has too many things stored in its humps.D. Because its pads on its feet are very thick and short.36. The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 5 refers to “___________” .A. a camel stores some food and water in its humpsB. a camel’s hump is made of fat and muscleC. a camel can use the fat in its hump for energyD. a camel doesn’t use the water to cool off its body37. The purpose of this passage is mainly to ______________.A. talk about the importance of camelsB. advise people to come and play with camelsC. tell some facts about camels to peopleD. teach people how to raise camels at homeCFor most people, graduation is an exciting day, but my graduation day was not.I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had come from across the country to attend the celebration. But just like everyone else in my graduating class, I had watched the economy(经济) turn from bad to worse in my senior year. Almost all of us graduates had degrees, but very uncertain future. I knew I had to find a job immediately because I had to pay my student loans(贷款).I knew my small university town couldn’t offer me any chances, so I drove to SouthCalifornia to find work. But what I thought would take a week changed into two, and then four. Later, I found myself in the exam same situation as I was before.I felt very sad. And the worst was no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t seem to make any progress.So what did I do to cheer me up? I decided to write. Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer ― a little brighter. Something about writing gave me hope. And if you want something badly enough, sometimes a little hope is all you need!I put my dissatisfaction into a children’s book. Beyond the river was the story of an unlucky hero, a little fish, who refused to give up his dream. And that became my first successful book!After that, things slowly began to fall into place. I was offered a second book deal. Then, a few months later, I got an interview with the Walt Disney Company and was hired(雇佣) shortly after.Don’t give up. Even if things look difficult now, don’t give up. If you work hard, give it time and things will always get better. Often our dreams are waiting, just a little further...all we need is ▲ .38. The writer felt _______ on his graduation day.A. pleasedB. satisfiedC. worriedD. surprised39.After graduation, the writer needed to _______.A.find a jobB. write a bookB.continue his study D. get married soon40.The writer wrote Beyond the river because he _______.A.wanted to make himself hopefulB.needed to make money by writingC.hoped his book would come outD.planned to improve his writing skills41. Which of the following is the best for “▲ ” in the last paragraph?A. some good luckB. a little help from othersC. much more knowledgeD. the courage to hold onD①I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my job stand in the way of being a good parent.②I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage promises mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.③So here’s what I want to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not for the next promotion(提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.④Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not for relaxing, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted(理所应当).⑤It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours and our minutes. It’s so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me,something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all:⑥I learned to love the journey, not the destination(目的地). I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.⑦By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion(激情) as it ought to be lived.42. By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the writer really means that people prefer to _________.A. make a living rather than live a real lifeB. study rather than enjoy lifeC. waste a lot in lifeD. forget the most important lessons in life43. What’s the writer’s attitude toward work?A. Do it well to serve others.B. Earn enough money to make life better.C. Try your best to get higher position and payD. Don’t let it influence your real life44. It can be inferred from the passage that _________.A. the writer is a success in personal lifeB. the writer didn’t try her best to work wellC. the writer spent all her time caring for her childrenD. the writer likes traveling very much45. The best title of this passage probably is _________.A. Love your friendsB. Live a real lifeC. Don’t waste timeD. Be a good mother and wife。