发布时间 : 星期六 文章学英语 人教版九年级英语（练习）unit 13 单元测试题更新完毕开始阅读
Ⅰ. 完形填空 (15分)
阅读下面短文，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Turn on the tap (龙头) and there is water. Getting water is so 1___ that you may think that there is an endless supply (供应). But it is not true. 70% of the earth is 2___ by water — we should call 3___ planet “ocean” not “earth”! But most of the water is salt water, leaving only a 4___ percent of fresh drinking water. Some 5___ including Spain, Italy, China and South Africa 6___ buy water from countries such as the US and Australia. Each person in the UK uses about 150 liters (升) of water a day. 7___ , each person in some countries only has 5-10 liters of water a day. We should help save water. Let’s have a look at 8___ you can help: Get your teeth into it. We brush our teeth twice a day and 9___ turning the tap off while we brush we can 10___ 5-10 liters of water. Don’t use the toilet as a wastebasket. Every time you flush (冲) used paper, waste food or other small bits of rubbish, 11___ water is used. Make use of rain. 12___ rainwater in a water butt (桶) in your garden is a great way of collecting and reusing the water to keep plants 13___ in summer. Reuse. 14___ bathwater with your family to reduce 15___ and water use. Or, set yourself a challenge to cut down your shower time by 1 or 2 minutes. ( )1. A. important B. difficult C. easy D. early ( )2. A. reached B. dropped C. knocked D. covered ( )3. A. his B. her C. our D. their
( )4. A. small B. big C. bad D. deep
( )5. A. cities B. countries C. villages D. towns ( )6. A. quickly B. differently C. especially D. actually ( )7. A. Finally B. Anyway C. However D. Instead ( )8. A. when B. how C. why D. where ( )9. A. by B. from C. with D. as
( )10. A. waste B. save C. change D. improve ( )11. A. less B. more C. better D. worse
( )12. A. Producing B. Preventing C. Canceling D. Collecting ( )13. A. healthy B. quiet C. terrible D. slow ( )14. A. Require B. Find C. Share D. Spread ( )15. A. scores B. speed C. costs D. time Ⅱ. 阅读理解 (30分)
阅读下列材料，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。 A
Earth Day Photo Contest Winners
Frog Finder Frog Finder The fourth grader Landon Q. Bailey, 10, from Ohio, took this photo of a frog when he visited a local park with his family. “The pond was so full of algae (海藻) that I thought we wouldn’t see any frogs,” he said. “Suddenly, I found there was a frog
looking right at me.” Busy Bee Nicole Benson, 10, took this photo of a bee on a sunflower in Estes Park, Colorado. “I chose this picture because I love bees, and this was the best picture I had ever taken,” she says. Blue Beauty Nadia Imam, 11, photographed this blue bird last November in San Francisco. “Through the Earth Day activities, people will help protect this beautiful bird’s habitat (栖息地),” she says. Huge Whale Anmol Parande, 13, from Vernon Hills, Illinois, took this photo of a whale while visiting the Bay of Banderas in Mexico. He chose the photo to celebrate the Earth Day. “The Earth Day is the day we choose to respect and thank the earth for what it has given us,” he says.
( )16. Landon Q. Bailey took the picture “Frog Finder”________. A. in a park B. in a zoo C. by a lake D. in a museum ( )17. Nadia Imam is______ years old. A. 10 B. 11 C. 12 D. 13
( )18. Why did Nicole Benson choose the picture “Busy Bee”? A. Because she loves bees.
B. Because this was the only picture she had ever taken.
C. Because she likes eating sunflower seeds (瓜子). D. Because she wants to thank the earth.
( )19. From the material we can learn that________. A. Nadia Imam took her photo last December B. Landon Q. Bailey is a sixth-grade student
C. Anmol Parande chose the picture of a whale to celebrate the Earth Day D. Nicole Benson took her photo in Mexico ( )20. The material is mainly about ________. A. how to take photos of some animals B. how to protect the earth C. four photos that won the contest D. four rules to take part in the contest B
Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines then. There was no modern medicine, either. Life today is better than it used to be, but at the same time, new problems come up. One of the biggest problems is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. We have to talk louder because of noise pollution and it also makes us become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It’s bad for all living things in the world. Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so