2019-2020I年上学期山东寿光实验中学初中九年级英语12月月考试卷(无答案)

九年级英语阶段性检测

2019.12

一、阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

A

I was cycling(骑自行车) and saw a person about 250 meters ahead of me. I could tell he was cycling a little slower than me and I decided to try to catch up with him. I had about a kilometer to go on the road before turning off.

I started cycling faster and faster and with every block(街区)，I got just a little bit closer to him. After a few minutes I was only about 100 meters behind him, so I really picked up the pace(速度) and tried my best.

Finally, I caught up with him and passed him. On the inside, I felt so good. I “beat him”, but he didn't even know we were racing.

After I passed him, I found that I had missed my turn, had gone six blocks past it and had to turn around and go all the way back.

Isn’t that what happens in life when we race with others, trying to outdo them or trying to show that we are more successful or more important? We spend our time and energy running after them and we miss out on our own paths.

The problem with unhealthy competition is that it's a never-ending cycle. There will always be somebody ahead of you in one way or another. What you should do is just run your own race and wish others well.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ( )1. What happened to the writer when he passed the man?

A. The man shouted at him.

B. He rode so fast that he fell off his bicycle.

C. He missed his turn.

D. He told the man he was feeling good.

( )2. Which picture has the same meaning as “a never-ending cycle”?

A. B.

C. D.

( )3. What lesson does the story teach us?

A. Competition is important in life.

B. Try to get better grades than others.

C. Follow your own path instead of trying to get ahead of others.

D. There is no need to take part in any race in daily life.

B

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Ant Forest is a feature(功能) in the Alipay mobile payment app. It records users’low- carbon(低碳的) activities- taking a bus to work instead of driving, for example-and gives users "green energy”. When the user's green energy gets high enough, Ant Forest and its partners will plant a real tree for the user.

Ant Forest recently received the 2019 Champions of the Earth award(“地球卫士奖”), the UN’s highest environmental honor(荣誉), for encouraging people to live greener lifestyles and protect the environment.

About half a billion people have used Ant Forest since it came out in August 2016. Ant Forest and its partners have planted about 122 million trees in China's driest areas, including parts of Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai and Shanxi. The trees cover a total area of 112,000 hectares(公顷). This makes Ant Forest China’s largest tree-planting project started by a private(私营的) company.

Executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme Inger Andersen said that Ant Forest shows us how we can use technology to solve environmental problems. Ant Forest has “fundamentally(从根本上) redesigning how we interact(相互影响) with the planet,” said Anderson.

( )4. You can get "green energy" in Ant Forest by ______.

a. taking a bus

b. paying bills

c. walking

d. planting trees

e. opening the app

A. abc

B. bde

C. acd

D. bce

( )5. Ant Forest received the 2019 Champions of the Earth award because _____.

A. it helps people save money

B. it is the first company to plant trees

C. it solved a major environmental problem

D. it encourages people to protect the environment

( )6. What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A. Alibaba has already planted millions of trees.

B. Alibaba only plants trees in poor areas.

C. The trees planted by Alibaba have fully covered China's deserts.

D. More than half of China's population is using Ant Forest.

( )7. What is the main point of the story?