阅读表达It began with one red paper clip (回形针) an...

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It began with one red paper clip (回形针) and ended with a house. Kyle MacDonald, a 26-year-old Canadian, got a three-bedroomed house through 14 trades (交换) that started with a single red paper clip.

Encouraged by Kyle's successful experience, now more and more young people around the world are starting their own trading activities. They set up websites where people can trade things they do not usually use with other people. A website called Peerflix allows people to trade their used DVDs. These traders usually prefer face-to-face tracing, which means they don't have to worry about who is going to pay for the delivery (递送).

Last year, a young girl in Beijing decided to follow the example of Kyle. She started with a paper clip and hoped to get a house in the end. After several trades she now has a piano which is worth more than 10,000 yuan. But she may still have a long way to go.

You may be puzzled about why people are doing this. In fact, everyone in the trade activities gets things that are useful to them. Just as Kyle said, "What's more important to a man dying of thirst in the desert--one million dollars or a glass of water?" Kyle's words probably show why these trades are popular among young people.

1.What did Kyle get in the end through 14 trades?

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2.Where can people trade things they do not usually use?

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3.Why do these traders usually prefer face-to-face trading?

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4.How can the Chinese girl's dream come true?

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5.Why are the trade activities popular among young people?

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九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

It began with a red paper clip and ended with a house. Kyle MacDonald, a 26-year-old Canadian, got a three-bedroom house through 14 trades (交换) that started with a single red paper clip.

Encouraged by Kyle’s successful experience, now more and more young people around the world are starting their own trading activities. They set up websites where people can trade things they don’t usually use with other people. A website called Peerflix allows people to trade their used DVDs. These traders usually prefer face-to-face trading, which means they don’t have to worry about who is going to pay for the delivery (递送).

Last year, a young girl in Beijing decided to follow the example of Kyle. She started with a paper clip and hoped to get a house in the end. After several trades she now has a piano which is more than 10,000 yuan. But she may still have a long way to go.

You may be puzzled about why people are doing this. In fact, everyone in the trade activities gets things that are useful to them. Just as Kyle said, “What’s more important to a man dying of thirst in the desert — one million dollars or a glass of water?” Kyle’s words probably show why these trades are poplar among young people.

4. Where can people trade things they do not usually use according to the passage?

A. On the Internet.     B. In Beijing.          C. In Canada.       D. In the desert.

5. Why are trading activities popular among young people?

A. Because they can make a lot of money by trading with other people.

B. Because the traders can get things that are useful to them.

C. Because young people love trading activities.

D. Because many young people want to get a house.

6. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. If you begin with a paper clip, you will finally get a house by trading.

B. A young girl in Beijing got a house through trading.

C. A glass of water is more important than one million dollars.

D. Many traders like face-to-face trading because they don’t have to pay for the delivery.

九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

A warm story has been taking place on one end of Islington Road.

Glenda and Raphael Savitz met with each other in 2011 in Boston. They fell in love and got married in the fall of 2013. In the summer of 2016, the couple moved to Auburndale, Florida. Three months later, their daughter Samantha was born..

However, within a week, the doctor told them that their newborn baby was deaf. It was a hard blow to the couple.　 What should they do? They had no choice but to help her learn sign language. "We are going to learn it, too. It is important for her growth and development," the mother said.

But they didn't expect it when their neighbors all started to learn sign language. " We were excited that this new baby was coming," said Jill McNeil, one of the neighbors. "But it's frustrating （令人沮丧的）not to be able to say, " Oh, Samantha, I love your pretty pink pants. " To communicate with the cute girl, they had to know her language.　 So these neighbors hired a tutor without letting Glenda and Raphael know.

Go. Like. Want. Eat. Play. Have. Make. These adult-students started with simple words. They then learnt to ask questions in sign language, such as " Who do you live with?" and " Where does your family live?"

Now the American Sign Language has become a second tongue in the neighborhood. These kind neighbors practice it with the girl almost every day.

Growing up in such a warm neighborhood, Samantha is now a happy and energetic（充满活力的）girl. She greets her neighbors every time she sees them. It's an amazing situation, since deaf children can be shy.

Samantha is a lucky girl. She has found real family among all those people next door.

1.Which of the following words CANNOT describe the couple's feeling when they knew that their daughter was deaf?

A.Sad. B.Hopeless. C.Worried. D.Happy.

2.Which of the following is a sign language?

A.A B.B C.C D.D

3.What does the underlined word "hired" mean in the passage?

A.派遣 B.聘用 C.命令 D.指导

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A.The story took place in Boston.

B.None of Samantha's neighbors like her.

C.Samantha's neighbors learnt sign language secretly.

D.A teacher advised Samantha to learn sign language with her neighbors.

5.The writer wants to tell us ______________________.

A.Samantha was very unlucky because she was born deaf

B.Samantha's parents expected people around her to learn deaf language

C.Samantha was a lucky girl because her neighbors tried to help her

D.Samantha was unhappy because she couldn't talk with her neighbors

九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析

— Why is he________?　　　 —Because he saw Nick’s BMW and he wants to have one of his own.

A.red with anger B.white with fear C.green with envy D.blue with sadness

九年级英语单选题困难题查看答案及解析

阅读理解。

Two children stood outside the door with old coats. “Any old papers, Lady?” asked one of them.

I was busy. I wanted to say no, but I saw that their shoes were broken and wet. “Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot tea.” They came in, saying nothing. Their shoes left snow on the floor.

I gave them tea and bread to protect them against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started my housework again.

The silence in the front room surprised me. I looked in.

The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked me in a low voice, “Lady…are you rich?”

Am I rich? Oh, no! I looked at my old things in my room.

The girl put her cup back in its saucer(茶碟) carefully. “Your cups match your saucers.”

They left then, holding their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said thank you. They didn’t need to. They had done more than that. The blue cups and saucers were simple. But they said that they matched. The potatoes and meat before me, a roof over our hands, my husband with a job—these things matched, too.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The prints of their small shoes were still wet on my floor. I let them be. I wanted them there to remind me how rich I was.

1.The writer let the two children in _________.

A. to offer them some warm clothes

B. to serve them tea and food

C. to sell them some old papers

D. to show them how rich she was.

2.We can learn from the passage that_______.

A. the writer was in fact not very rich

B. the children took away many old papers

C. the writer’s husband was out of work

D. the two children were looking for a job

3.It can be inferred(推断) from the passage that _______.

A. it was snowing outside when the story happened

B. the two children thanked the writer and then left

C. the two children were not polite to the writer

D. the writer had a set of new furniture in her house

4.The underlined sentence “I let them be” means　 “_________”.

A. I dislike them　　　　 B. I didn’t want to see them

C. I cleaned the them　　　 D. I left them there

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Any Old Papers?

B. Matching Cups and Saucers

C. Are You Rich?

D. Two Poor Children

九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Of the three paper flowers, the red one is the_________.

A.bad B.worse C.badly D.worst

九年级英语单选题中等难度题查看答案及解析

Paper making began in China and from here it________to North Africa and Europe.

A. repeated　　 B. created

C. carried　　 D. spread

九年级英语单选题中等难度题查看答案及解析

阅读短文，翻译划线部分的句子。

1.One day I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, 2.the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying "You don't say!" I was puzzled, and I thought, "Perhaps this is not a right thing to talk about." So I said to him. "Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?"

"Certainly! Everyone at home will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is wonderful!" "Yes, 3.它是世界奇迹之一。 And people of many countries have come to visit it." As I went on more about it, he stopped me again, "You don't say!"

4.I couldn't help asking, "Why do you ask me not to talk about it?" "Well, I don't ask you to do so," he answered, greatly surprised. "Didn't you say 'You don't say'?" I asked again. Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain, " 'You don't say!' means 'Really?'. Perhaps you know little about English idioms (习语) ."

Wow! 5. 我多么笨啊！ Since then I began to learn more English idioms.

九年级英语翻译中等难度题查看答案及解析

五、任务型阅读-简答

Mr.Reynolds,my teacher,hand us a list of thoughts,and asked us to write a paper on one of those thoughts.I chose the topic"I wonder why things are the way they are．"

I wrote down all the questions that puzzled（困扰）me about life.I realized that many of them were hard to answer,and perhaps others could not be answered at all.When I handed in my paper,I was afraid that I might fail because I did not answer the question.

The next day,Mr.Reynolds handed me the paper and asked me to read it for the class.The other students became quiet as I began to read my story.

Mum,why are the roses red？Why is the grass green and the sky blue？Why do I have to graduate（毕业）？Why do I have to grow up？Why do I have to be called"Grandma",one day？…

Dad,why can't I stay out until 12：00？Why do I miss my old friends？Why do I miss being at home？Why do you love me so much？

Mum,Dad,whydid you have to leave me？I need you.

At the end of my story,I looked at Mr.Reynolds,and I saw at ear slowly coming down his face.Then I realized that life is not built on the answers we receive，but-on the questions we ask.

Why was the writer afraid that she might fail？（不超过10个词）1.

What did the teacher ask the writer to do for the class？（不超过15个词）2.

What did the writer realize at the end of the story？（不超过15个词）3.

九年级英语回答问题中等难度题查看答案及解析

As we know，sky lanterns are covered ________ paper and the red paper cutting is cut ________ scissors.

A. with；with　　 B. with；in　　 C. by；with　　 D. in；by

九年级英语单选题困难题查看答案及解析