九年级英语阅读理解测试题及答案

九年级英语阅读理解测试题及答案Passage 1

If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a

comet (彗星).

A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a

comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it

reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun,

but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.

If a comet isn’t a sta r, what is it then?

Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is

water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock

dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine

melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go

trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form

a long tail.

Many people perhaps have seen a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.

An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take

through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because

he was the one who worked out when it would come back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year

1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to

look at it. You will probably be able to see Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again.

1.A comet is like ________.

A. sun

B. moon

C. sunlight

D. the earth

2.A large part of a comet is ______.

A.water and rock

B. water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron

C. ice, iron and rock dust

D. only a few big pieces of rock

3.Maybe many people _______.

A. haven’t seen any comets

B. have seen all comets

C. have seen a comet at daytime

D. have seen a comet

4.Some comets keep coming back ________.

A. at any time

B. at noon

C. at regular times

D. at

daytime

5.Halley’s Comets came back _____.

A. in 1990

B. in 1980

C. in 1986

D. in 1989

Passage 1

【答案与解析】本文向我们介绍了相关彗星方面的知识。与地球

一样，彗星也是绕太阳旋转的，它本身不发光，靠反射太阳的光而发

亮。短文中还介绍了彗星的成因，它拖着的长尾巴是如何形成的以及

的哈雷彗星名字的由来。

1.D。“Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but…”是判断本题的根据。

2.C。根据“…is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed

with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock.”这句话即能得出答案。

3.D。由第五段的首句“Many people perhap s have seen a comet.”可知。

4.C。“Some comets move out of our sight and never come

back. Others keep coming back at regular times.”一句是答案的

出处。

5.C。哈雷彗星每七十六年才能看到一次。再结合“…the last

time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year

1986.”这句话的意思，即可得到答案。

上面的五个问题我们都能够很容易的在原文找到对应的部分，这

种题实际上是最不容易出错误的，因为只要你找到了对应句，即使有

个别的单词不能理解，也能够答对，下面再来试一文章，看看你的准

确率哦。

Passage 2

A farmer had a cow. He took very good care of this cow

and one day when it was ill, he was very worried. He

telephoned the vet.

“What’s the problem?” The vet asked him when he

arrived.

“My cow's ill,” the farmer said. “I don’t know what's

the matter with her. She’s lying down and won’t eat. She's making a strange noise.”