九年级下英语阅读竞赛

2017年上学期九年级下英语阅读竞赛试题

一，完形填空（1-15每小题1分，16－25每小题１.５分，共３０分）

A阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

The ways to volunteer in the USA

Lots of people are calling for September 11 to become a national day of volunteering. Why not honor the heroes of 9/11 by becoming a hero to someone else?

Volunteering 1 you can opportunity to change lives, including your own. If you`re feeling 2 by the news of a terrible accident, volunteering to help can be a great way to 3 it. If you`d like to support an organization or an idea 4 can`t afford to donate money, you can donate your 5 instead.

Helping others in need is such a (an) 6 part of the American way of life that many high schools ask their students to spend a certain number of hours volunteering in order to graduate. So 7 do you go about it?

Help kids learn and grow. Become a Big Brother or Big Sister, or volunteer 8 an after-school sports program. Special events are great 9 to get to know special-need kids.

Give back over the holidays. Offer Thanksgiving dinner to the 10 , volunteer at your local food bank, or 11 toys to kids.

Play with pets at a local animal shelter. Most shelters depend on volunteers to keep the cats and dogs happy and 12 exercised.

Help the environment. Join a group and help out with river conservation. 13 a local park clean-up day, and you could help out in a park office or an education center. 14 the signs is a great way to help the environment, too.

If you have more than one thing you love, find a way to put the two together. For example, 15 you love kids and are great at arts, visit your local children`s hospital and offer to lead art activities for young patients.

( )1. A.offers B. finds C. takes D. provides

( )2. A. excited B. frustrated C. happy D. sleepy

( )3. A.cause B. give up C. learn D. deal with

( )4. A. or B. since C. but D. because

( )5. A. time B. money C. food D. clothes

( )6. A. small B. hard C. important D. unimportant

( )7. A. when B. how C. what D. where

( )8. A. with B. for C. about D. against

( )9. A. ways B. pride C. results D. advice

( )10. A. thin B. fat C. rich D. homeless

( )11. A. play with B. buy C. give away D. may

( )12. A. fast B. finally C. well D. badly

( )13. A. Take photos of B. Take pride in C. Take care of D. Take part in

( )14. A. Thinking up B. Putting up C. Giving up D. Looking up

( )15. A. if B. though C. until D. unless

B

Do you know the history of bowling（保龄球）? Scientists think that a game like bowling was ___ 1 in Egypt thousands of years ago. Things look like the balls and bowling pins were found buried(埋葬) with a child who __2 around 5,200 B. C.

People who study history know that the game was popular in Germany around 200-300 A.D. It was played in some churches in order to __3__ that they were very good Christians. When people bowled poorly, they had to go to church more ___4__ than the others.

The first bowling place was built inside a very big building and __5__ in England in 1455. Then the game was taken to the United States where most people played it outside just for fun.

During the 1800s, many people in the United States began to bowl for ___6__, so several cities made the game illegal（违法的. And later, a group ____7__ the American Bowling Congress (ABC) began around 1900. The job of this group was to clean up bowling and make it a gentleman’s game again. At that time, the game was mostly played by men. If women played, they ____8__a curtain up so that the men were not able to see them.

Then, in 1916, a woman’s ___9___ named the Women’s International Bowling Congress (WIBC) made a point of showing that the game was fine for ___10___ men and women.

( )16. A. done B. played C. seen D. watched

( )17. A. died B. was dying C. dead D. death

( )18. A. tell B. show C. look D. say

( )19. A. possible B. often C. time D. chance

( )20. A. closed B. built C. opened D. stopped

( )21. A. fun B. pleasure C. money D. health

( )22. A. calling B. calls C. naming D. named

( )23. A. hanged B. hang C. hung D. hunged

( )24. A. party B. group C. class D. kind

( )25.A.between B.both C.all D. whole

二，阅读理解，选择正解的答案（每小题２分，共40分）

A

Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England on 8th January, 1942. He went to school in St Albans—a small city near London. Although he did well, he was never top of his class.

After leaving school, Hawking went first to Oxford University where he studied physics, then he went to Cambridge University where he studied cosmology. As he himself admits (承认), he didn't work hard. He was a very lazy student, and did very little work. However, he still got good marks.

It was at the age of 20 that Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him. He started to bump into things. When he visited his family at Christmas time, his mother was so worried that she made him see a doctor. Hawking was sent to hospital for tests. Finally, the result came back. Hawking had motor neurone disease, an incurable illness which would make him unable to speak, breathe（呼吸）or move without the help of a machine. Doctors said they had no way to help him. He would die before